Street Fighter (SFIV, SSFIV, HDR)

Just how the hell are you meant to beat blanka without being a shoto character? His electricity is so high priority i can't land a hit on him with abel, unless it's an ultra. His spinning ball moves all bounce away if blocked and if you try and chase him he just sweeps you.

I've tried literally every combo he has in the trial modes and they're all ineffective as they all rely on physical attacks, which are dealt with by electricity, and getting close, which all of his special moves make it difficult to do. It just feels like characters like abel are designed to lose to him.

Take for example Cavalino, i fought him as abel and we were surprisingly evenly matched when he was guile, as soon as he switched to blanka it was near perfect round after near perfect round. I also just lost a ranked game to a guy who sat on the ground doing electricity, i couldn't figure out a reliable way around it.
 
told you about the gay electricty :p hes considered one of the most annoying characters to fight since you have to be so careful around him. you need to find out what moves can beat it out (if you even have any) and even then its range specific, usually tip range on some sweeps can hit him out of it. if are lucky might have a jump in that has may hit him out of it.

if you mess up a combo, bad timing or whatever all he has to do his spam electricty and your ****ed. its strong too. i swear this one move makes him gay as hell. you know whats even worse? its that it is pretty much completely safe... it would be fairer if it had massive downtime after it so if they used it wrong, they too would be ****ed... but thats not the case meaning its spammable.

general rule is don't jump vs blanka.

oh yea all the balls he does are completely safe too (actually this may be character dependant) unless hes in the corner. the one ball you can punish is the one which starts off as a flip into an arc (rainbow ball??), that gives you a free level 3 FA. i also think that move has BS properties with its auto cross up shenanigans.

in case you hadn't noticed, i don't like blanka :p
 
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Aye i learnt that very quickly, but even then that leaves abel with two ways of approach, a Marseilles roll, fantastic against shotos but terrible against hand to hand fighters (including blanka) and a medium kick step forward.

The medium kick step worked okish, problem was if he blocked it he would just electrocute me. Electric seemed to have a higher priority than all of my special moves too which left my flip kick out of the question. Fortunately i managed to redeem myself as soon as i worked out my ultra passes through his electricity. After winning a round by doing that he started to play a lot more carefully with his electricity. Still felt lame though. Especially that thing where he rolls up in a ball, whacks you, then flys back to where he started, i figured out no way of countering that at all. In the end i just gave up and let him kill me, i was blocking everything he threw at me but couldn't get any hits in myself, it was only a matter of time before he whittled my health down through block damage.

Funny thing is, i beat a 2500BP sagat player (myself still being just above 1000) 3-0 just before then. Shows how utterly useless Abel is against Blanka (the guy who played blanka had just 300BP, i can envisage his tactics being useless against a fireball character).

Oh well, with that said i really feel like i could become quite good at this game one day. Got several messages of compliment from high level ranked players who i fought before then, some of which i had even beaten :D They all hate my turn around punch into super combo move. If i can master my ultra combo setup i'll be sorted.
 
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if you can, try and push him into a corner... his options will reduce significantly as his balls will be in punishment range when blocked
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
how do people find it hard to get above 1000BP?

since my whole save got reset, i must have only won about 7 or 8 matches in a row and im over 1000bp now..
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I'm a retard at SFIV and even I can get to 1140 :p

jamief said:
Gonna pick this game up after work - is it better on the 360 or PS3?
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PS3 if you're not getting an arcade stick, otherwise get it on the 360.
 
ojste said:
the one ball you can punish is the one which starts off as a flip into an arc (rainbow ball??), that gives you a free level 3 FA. i also think that move has BS properties with its auto cross up shenanigans.
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Then your opponent is doing it wrong as it can be directed once in the air.
 
ojste said:
whats the point in doing it if you have intention of using it to hit? does it recover fast enough for you to punish me out of my FA?
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Mind games (If half my balls hit and half miss you can't use FA with confidence) and yes.

If I do a a H.RB when close, start charging my Ball then land behind you I can ball immediately from landing.

jamief said:
Ta - whats the difference between versions?

(I probably won't get an arcade stick btw)
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360 is slightly better graphically and the online messages icon doesn't block 2P's health bar, and that's about it.

The PS3's better D-Pad far outweighs the very minor graphical difference.
 
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Kreeeee said:
Mind games (If half my balls hit and half miss you can't use FA with confidence) and yes.

If I do a a H.RB when close, start charging my Ball then land behind you I can ball immediately from landing.
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ill have to test it out, im certain if you do one purposefully short though then i can also cancel out of my FA quick enough to negate any damage.
 
Margaret said:
Aside from the controller differences pretty much nothing as you can see, of course the fanboys can apparently see a difference between the two. :D:D:D
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Im no fanboy, and i play SFIV solely on the ps3 but the 360 version definitely looks better. Same goes for fifa 09, the games just look that little bit better.
 
Naan_H said:
Im no fanboy, and i play SFIV solely on the ps3 but the 360 version definitely looks better. Same goes for fifa 09, the games just look that little bit better.
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I didn't notice any difference, that video I linked essentially is what I saw between the two versions, no difference. :D

Or well, to be fair the 360 version was darker, but that was purely because of my TV settings probably as I have changed the PS3 channel settings around quite a bit.
 
Kreeeee said:
360 is slightly better graphically and the online messages icon doesn't block 2P's health bar, and that's about it.

The PS3's better D-Pad far outweighs the very minor graphical difference.
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I thought some website had done analysis and the differences were minimal to say the least - the PS3 just has the thicker black line around characters - Im sure someone linked it in here. Im sure it would be hard to say which ones were better, but there is a difference good/bad its debatable...

EDIT: While I remember Im gonna start trying to use my stick since I havent since owning it really (more the case of getting it out of the box late at night) so hit me up for some games if you want easy victories...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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