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Discuss the Siegfried match-up here. A guide can be found here, and the string defense guide can be found here.
[MATCH-UP] Siegfried
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Slade
[14] Master
66B is 33K BE punishable on JG. On normal guard up close it's 236B punishable, but it's safer at tip (-19?) so you can't punish it in his force block setups. Still, he can't evade Raphael's 66B at any range if Sieg's 66B gets blocked, so take that guard damage and frame advantage.
Sidestep into 4B is awesome. Prediction B+Ks on SCH B or on reaction to SBH B is even more awesome.
Sidestep into 4B is awesome. Prediction B+Ks on SCH B or on reaction to SBH B is even more awesome.
Mandritti
[09] Warrior
They say Sieg is best when you play with balls to the wall guessing. Big risks, big reward. Weaknesses don't matter if your opponent died to three 3(B)s.
Ironically the only counter is to get up in there and do the same, assuming the Sieg is no slouch wearing you down at range correctly. The annoying part is, if you're playing an unknown, you may not have time to determine if indeed he 'knows what he's doing'. You could lose a round for it. Maybe two.
Do not ever use simplistic shutdown moves, because 2A gets hard countered, of course. However, the 2K applies and severely controls tempo, as we saw from innovators in other lands early on with the game.
If you can throw him, he sucks.
That's all I know. OTOH, if anyone knows reliable ways to snuff stance roulette, then you are basically unapproachable because you can wall up and just arbitrarily 22B him. BB becomes relatively sane against his speed.
Ironically the only counter is to get up in there and do the same, assuming the Sieg is no slouch wearing you down at range correctly. The annoying part is, if you're playing an unknown, you may not have time to determine if indeed he 'knows what he's doing'. You could lose a round for it. Maybe two.
Do not ever use simplistic shutdown moves, because 2A gets hard countered, of course. However, the 2K applies and severely controls tempo, as we saw from innovators in other lands early on with the game.
If you can throw him, he sucks.
That's all I know. OTOH, if anyone knows reliable ways to snuff stance roulette, then you are basically unapproachable because you can wall up and just arbitrarily 22B him. BB becomes relatively sane against his speed.