ShinjiUrahara
ATL's FINEST Leixia SA Mod
Well um... if this matchup was only about cervy attacking and leixia blocking... you'd be 100% right. But it's not...
- He has some of the best throws in the game. One BE throw or his standard B throw into iGDR/CE can even out most of the damage she'll get from AA/6KK punishes or pokes.
- His 1AB and 3A kill any kind of counter offense and because one's mid and one's low, he can pretty much do this after her SAFE stuff to make them feel unsafe.
- No Cervy would do BBB on block anyway... it's hit confirmable.
- He controls more space than she does except mid range. Even then, when he has meter 4B(BE) fixes that problem.
- aB (pirate's cross) is unpunishable at max range for her. It's also a good interrupt for her frame game.
The pros in the match are her block punishment as you said and her ability to control mid range when she gets there. But that's about it really. At best it'd probably be 4/6 for Lex, but not 5/5 or anywhere near her favor, imo.
When you find a pro cervy just throw them at me and we will settle things there lol
Lol what? Are you really being serious?
A positive/negative advantage cannot only be judged by punishment, and even so, you have to mention how Cervantes can punish her as well. For example, he can punish her 3B with aB for 40dmg which is as much as she gets, if she hits. Furthermore, some of his stuff is pseudo-safe cause Leixia's 6KK won't punish it at midrange.
Seriously, if Leixia has a 7:3 against Cervantes because she can punish so much so "hard", then he has 9:1 against the Pyrrhas or Alpha.
You played great last weekend, I'm not gonna let you get away with that. =P
It is not even close to being even in my opinion, let alone advantageous for her.
That's not it. What you have to look is gameplay Cervy is a very well-rounded character, yes but without effective usage of his main moves stated about he isn't that effective vs Leixia. Playing smart has to be taken into account as well... If the Cervy is aB happy even at mid Leixia can CE punish because its so negative, aB can also be stepped. It's not simply a matter punish but more so of the moves that she can take away from him. He can't really Spam anything without worrying about getting punished... LOL @ 3B it's not hard to play a whole match without even using that move and I only really spam that on grounded opponents.
No matter who the character is if one character can punish almost every good move in another characters arsenal thats an auto bad matchup for char thats getting punished because they cannot abuse their characters best moves. Again, taking moves away from your opponent puts them at a high disadvantage.
This is why Natsu is so tough for Leixia because she can punish almost all of Leixia best moves, so Leixia is forced to play a different game. Same thing here with Cervy, only thing is I can't see what kind of safe game he can play against her.