I agree that Luke is not as strong as Ken. Compared to Ken, Luke has two major weaknesses: First, Luke does not have any effective means to avoid the neutral stage. He does not have the dragon lash kick, his drive rush is not as fast as Ken's (Ken has the third(?) fastest drive rush in the game), he cannot drive rush after OD fireball to beat the opponent with massive damage combo, and he do not have so many setup like using the jinrai kick after the 2MK to delete your meter, etc. Second, Luke is more resource-intensive than Ken. Yeah, his 2MP is better than Ken, Ken's light punch corner carry combo do not need to spend any resource, and his heavy DP is still invincible against fireballs. Third, I believe that Luke's key punches and kicks are not as good as Ken's, except for 2MP and 2HP. By the way, 2MP of Ken is very powerful too, compare with Luke, his 2MP has 6 start up frame(same as Luke), 3 active frame(one more frame than Luke) 14 recovery frame and same attack range(5 small grids) as Luke. If Ken 2MP is so great, why Ken players do not abuse it? Because Ken has normals much more better than his already very powerful 2MP. Ken's 5HP and 5MK have a confirmation time of 19 frames, and they have great attack range. 5MK is 10 small grid long, 5HP is around 8 small grid long, both of them has 19F of hit confirm windows, not only that, they can also be used to set traps and mix-ups. 2MK has a 7-frame startup and a range of 10 small grids. His 5HK is 12F start up with 12 small grid attack ranges. Luke is definitely in the top five, but he is not in the same tier as JP and Ken.
If Luke's 2MK, 2LP, 5HP, and 5HK were as powerful as Ken's, I am sure that Luke players would not be so fond of using 2MP today. Who would want to waste resources when you can take your rival into the corner without spending any? Who would want to risk getting inside 5 small grids when you can hit your opponent within 10/12 small grids?
@@JoeyCentral Yeah, sure... Maybe that's why we have 2 Chun Li in the Capcom Cup and zero Blanka until like yesterday, and the one that is recently classified needs to be carried by Luke from time to time.
@@JoeyCentral The fact that they are good players doesn't change the fact how strong Chun Li is. Blanka also has an excellent player, but he almost didn't make it, and here we are, looking at a guide against Blanka. Without a doubt Chun Li is a stronger character, there are tons of content teaching how to use her but practically none teaching how to deal with her, so why not? She is a considerably problematic character to deal with at higher levels, much more than Cammy or Juri.
@@andresouza5751 I think Cammy or Juri is better than Chun Li because of their practicality. An average Juri or average Cammy will beat an average Chun-Li any day of the week. For one Moke or Valmaster you find, there’s thousands of Chun mains like me who consistently drop her combos and inputs and terrible neutral game. So that’s why I don’t consider Chun Li higher than A tier.
Fancy tech: Blanka has a big body hurtbox like Gief, Marisa, and Honda. When these characters are crouching, their hurtbox is wider than normal characters. This means that if you get a punish on a crouching big body, you might have an alternative combo route available. For Blanka specifically, blocking a poorly-spaced slide is an example. I only play Cammy so I only know for her: Instead of your normal meterless punish counter combo of st.HP xx HP Spin Knuckle, cr.LP/st.LP/st.LK xx MK Drill, you can do st.HP xx HP Spin Knuckle, b-MP xx HK xx j, j.MP xx Divekick. This is because HP Spin Knuckle oH usually leaves you +5 but too far away to link your 5f b-MP. But, the wide hurtbox of a crouching big body is fat enough for your b-MP to reach.
out of this whole cast i get the most infuriated losing to Lilly idk why i just do. like i can justify losing to everyone else. but whenever i lose to a lilly i just feel like a big dummy
Don’t feel bad, her initial gameplan is so strong that they had to balance the rest of her kit around it. I’ve even heard that they balanced the entirety of sf6 around condor spire with wind stocks and like 2 other moves
Nah don't feel bad. She's not the best competitively because she's not stable but she has a pretty strong and simple gameplan. She skips the neutral and 50/50 you. Anyone can be killed by that. Un fact I play better again certain top tier than against Lily, Honda etc. I beat most of them : Luke, Juri, Deejay, even JP (not Ken because fuck Ken), but I still lose to sope annoying so called low tier
@@TheOxiongardenskips neutral in what? Platinum? Lmao. Ex spire is definitely reactable with a DP and she cannot throw out non ex or opponent gets a free DI
@@Blackreapxr I guess you the best player in the world. Because HibikiTheBeast won a tournament with her, and did spire in Japan. And ProblemX beat pro player with Lily doing also spire. You guys on the internet are here talking "theory fighter" like you have frame 1 reactions on everything. I assume you also DI everything dragon lash an anti air every single jump. You also dp every Blanka ball or Sumo headbutt, and you never miss a DI back, you also super everything on reaction when burnt out. You DP a 15 frame startup special, playing against a good opponent that mixes his options right ? Gtf outta here. Pro players sometimes get hit by a DI that is 26 frames. Nearly double the startup. And they fail to press one button back. And y'all PNJ on internet act like you DP every 15f startup special. Even freaking Punk blocks Blanka balls because he often do not react. Maybe you're better than him. When we talk about fighting games, any competent player know we talk about mental stack. In a vaccuum anything is reactable when you're looking exclusively for it. What make us miss anti airs or DR checks or DI back is how your opponent mixes up his options. In what region are you ? I'll make you play my friend's basic 1900 MR Lily, not even a pro, see how you DP or DI every Spire, when the dude playing Lily is actually competent.
Hey hey hey whoa whoa whoa what is this what's going on? Blanka needs a buff just block nothing wrong with him im not down playing my character. We haven't had a good blanka since cvs2 c'mon don't give away the goat like that. Damn. Green people can't have anything.
Props on showing tricky Blanka setups, & combos, etc. w/various characters. Thanks for the info. If I can ever get past the Capcom ID link error screen to try online, I'll keep that in mind. Good vid.
Cammy level 3 punishes h ball aswell. Guile level 1 actually can whiff depending on when the h ball connects with guile in his idle animation. The "deepness" of moves like headbutt, ball, varies in this game and leads to some weird "rng"
There are also audio cues you can use. Each strength of Blanka Ball sounds different, so when you what light and medium sound like, you can train yourself to react properly.
Hi there. Master rank Blanka here. Ill give yall the source code. Stop jumping. Stop trying to meaty on wake up. Gague whether hes throwing more punches or kicks in neutral. Punches are for pokes and arent special cancelble so Di away. Oh yeah, and stop jumping at him.
@@junior1388666 Very true actually. I get fucking BODIED by Ryus more than I have any right to be. That character steam rolls me so often on Blanka lol
@@EnCroissant low profiling a DI is incredibly hard with it lol It's extremely tight timing and mostly luck tbh I don't think you can do it on reaction.
I know it's a TERRIBLE MU for Blanka, but as a Blanka player I also really enjoy the tango of fighting a Guile. Feel like I'm going Hulk against every other character on the cast but against Guile I have to be Bruce Banner LOL
I am forced to main blanka atm. He is at the moment the most that suits my playstyle in the roster atm. I had to wait for alex in SFV, so I expect I will have to wait for season 2 or more in Sf6. Though tbh Sf6 is kind of a weak game, drive rush spam is tedious and just too stupid so I dont play that much. One annoying thing about playing blanka and i bet sims get it too, people often refuse to do a run back. I have some good tech into conditioning the player with him though, he is all mind games with RB and BB, plus his leap through after drive rush can really condition the player to mess up the options. It turns drive rush into a 1 in 5 options, overhead, low, throw, grab or leap as well as when you are doing pressure you can condition them in one way ideally overheads so you can easily get his command grab in block strings. Of course more seasoned players will be able to punish this but with blanka chan you can make it a dangerous mix up. Fun to play mind games with him.
Being a Blanka and Gief main since sf2 I never had problems facing him, it is in fact one of my fav matches, but I know how much of a pain he is to deal with, specially for new players. Plus SFVI is without a doubt the best version of the character to date, air blanka ball alone can drive most people mad.
I only ever have issues with dhalsim, blanka and gief never specifically caused me issues. As you said though in 6 he is so great I expect most people have issues with him they never had before because of drive system.
Lily can punish it with somewhat relative ease using s.mp, c.hp, and 2hp if you can get the timing down. s.hp can also work to get crumple, but is a little riskier.
@@battlericky17 You'd be surprised actually. Her dp seems to have a better time than most other fighters against his air versions of blanka ball due the more horizontal trajactory of it making the timing not as strict. She can still outpoke him more often than not as long as you're not reckless. In fact, her s.mk hurtboxes are a bit deceptive due to the leg not having them until the first active frame.
Honestly, i believe blanka is a sleeper top 3. Blanka chan, OD DP wakeup combos in level 2 install, tons of ways to get out of the corner in burnout. He's simply a very very good character
He has a lot of options for sure but he's not as safe or easy to execute as anyone that even realistically contends for top 3. That's why you don't see him place consistently high in tournaments.
Losing to blanka always feels like youve been robbed clean definately one of the most frustrating characters to lose against alongside kimberly.
8:42 Worth mentioning that if you get predictable with your parries, he can ball straight down, walk up, and throw you while you’re in parry recovery.
Saw Moke make that read on Menard in Singapore recently. Straight clairvoyance.
I agree that Luke is not as strong as Ken. Compared to Ken, Luke has two major weaknesses:
First, Luke does not have any effective means to avoid the neutral stage. He does not have the dragon lash kick, his drive rush is not as fast as Ken's (Ken has the third(?) fastest drive rush in the game), he cannot drive rush after OD fireball to beat the opponent with massive damage combo, and he do not have so many setup like using the jinrai kick after the 2MK to delete your meter, etc.
Second, Luke is more resource-intensive than Ken. Yeah, his 2MP is better than Ken, Ken's light punch corner carry combo do not need to spend any resource, and his heavy DP is still invincible against fireballs.
Third, I believe that Luke's key punches and kicks are not as good as Ken's, except for 2MP and 2HP.
By the way, 2MP of Ken is very powerful too, compare with Luke, his 2MP has 6 start up frame(same as Luke), 3 active frame(one more frame than Luke) 14 recovery frame and same attack range(5 small grids) as Luke. If Ken 2MP is so great, why Ken players do not abuse it? Because Ken has normals much more better than his already very powerful 2MP.
Ken's 5HP and 5MK have a confirmation time of 19 frames, and they have great attack range. 5MK is 10 small grid long, 5HP is around 8 small grid long, both of them has 19F of hit confirm windows, not only that, they can also be used to set traps and mix-ups. 2MK has a 7-frame startup and a range of 10 small grids. His 5HK is 12F start up with 12 small grid attack ranges.
Luke is definitely in the top five, but he is not in the same tier as JP and Ken.
If Luke's 2MK, 2LP, 5HP, and 5HK were as powerful as Ken's, I am sure that Luke players would not be so fond of using 2MP today.
Who would want to waste resources when you can take your rival into the corner without spending any?
Who would want to risk getting inside 5 small grids when you can hit your opponent within 10/12 small grids?
Blanka ball makes this matchup way more frustrating than it has any right to be lol
I'm waiting for "solving the Chun Li problem"
That's because there never was a Chun-Li problem lol
@@JoeyCentral Yeah, sure... Maybe that's why we have 2 Chun Li in the Capcom Cup and zero Blanka until like yesterday, and the one that is recently classified needs to be carried by Luke from time to time.
@@andresouza5751They are just good players. It wasnt Chun Li that won it though.
@@JoeyCentral The fact that they are good players doesn't change the fact how strong Chun Li is. Blanka also has an excellent player, but he almost didn't make it, and here we are, looking at a guide against Blanka.
Without a doubt Chun Li is a stronger character, there are tons of content teaching how to use her but practically none teaching how to deal with her, so why not? She is a considerably problematic character to deal with at higher levels, much more than Cammy or Juri.
@@andresouza5751 I think Cammy or Juri is better than Chun Li because of their practicality. An average Juri or average Cammy will beat an average Chun-Li any day of the week. For one Moke or Valmaster you find, there’s thousands of Chun mains like me who consistently drop her combos and inputs and terrible neutral game. So that’s why I don’t consider Chun Li higher than A tier.
Burnout + Blanka lvl 2 = ggs
cheers
Just use Amnesia... LMAO...
Fancy tech:
Blanka has a big body hurtbox like Gief, Marisa, and Honda. When these characters are crouching, their hurtbox is wider than normal characters.
This means that if you get a punish on a crouching big body, you might have an alternative combo route available.
For Blanka specifically, blocking a poorly-spaced slide is an example.
I only play Cammy so I only know for her:
Instead of your normal meterless punish counter combo of st.HP xx HP Spin Knuckle, cr.LP/st.LP/st.LK xx MK Drill, you can do st.HP xx HP Spin Knuckle, b-MP xx HK xx j, j.MP xx Divekick.
This is because HP Spin Knuckle oH usually leaves you +5 but too far away to link your 5f b-MP. But, the wide hurtbox of a crouching big body is fat enough for your b-MP to reach.
out of this whole cast i get the most infuriated losing to Lilly idk why i just do. like i can justify losing to everyone else. but whenever i lose to a lilly i just feel like a big dummy
Don’t feel bad, her initial gameplan is so strong that they had to balance the rest of her kit around it. I’ve even heard that they balanced the entirety of sf6 around condor spire with wind stocks and like 2 other moves
Nah don't feel bad. She's not the best competitively because she's not stable but she has a pretty strong and simple gameplan. She skips the neutral and 50/50 you. Anyone can be killed by that.
Un fact I play better again certain top tier than against Lily, Honda etc. I beat most of them : Luke, Juri, Deejay, even JP (not Ken because fuck Ken), but I still lose to sope annoying so called low tier
@@TheOxiongardenskips neutral in what? Platinum? Lmao.
Ex spire is definitely reactable with a DP and she cannot throw out non ex or opponent gets a free DI
She’s just got a strong gimmick. As soon as you figure it out she’s pretty trash.
@@Blackreapxr I guess you the best player in the world. Because HibikiTheBeast won a tournament with her, and did spire in Japan. And ProblemX beat pro player with Lily doing also spire.
You guys on the internet are here talking "theory fighter" like you have frame 1 reactions on everything. I assume you also DI everything dragon lash an anti air every single jump. You also dp every Blanka ball or Sumo headbutt, and you never miss a DI back, you also super everything on reaction when burnt out. You DP a 15 frame startup special, playing against a good opponent that mixes his options right ? Gtf outta here.
Pro players sometimes get hit by a DI that is 26 frames. Nearly double the startup. And they fail to press one button back. And y'all PNJ on internet act like you DP every 15f startup special. Even freaking Punk blocks Blanka balls because he often do not react. Maybe you're better than him.
When we talk about fighting games, any competent player know we talk about mental stack. In a vaccuum anything is reactable when you're looking exclusively for it. What make us miss anti airs or DR checks or DI back is how your opponent mixes up his options. In what region are you ? I'll make you play my friend's basic 1900 MR Lily, not even a pro, see how you DP or DI every Spire, when the dude playing Lily is actually competent.
You actually can’t beat Blanka. If you see him just give up.
Level 1 with chan is not a safe reversal. You can neutral jump always, and chsn won't hit you.
Its meant as safe on block. But yeah, if you jump you can bait it but i don't like that cause he can just wait and AA you with it anyways or upball
You can jump post animation :)@@MCMuraFGC
Cammy's lvl3 super punishes Blanka ball too. Thanks for the video man.
I need to know how to solve the JP problem
This was done couple of months ago
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Hey hey hey whoa whoa whoa what is this what's going on? Blanka needs a buff just block nothing wrong with him im not down playing my character. We haven't had a good blanka since cvs2 c'mon don't give away the goat like that. Damn. Green people can't have anything.
As a blanka main, i hope you ALL continue to struggle with your INFERIOR REGULAR HUMAN CHARACTERS. *rolls away*
Lol ur delusional
Blanka is the safest character in the game. He’s a scrub character
Losing to blanka always feels like youve been robbed clean definately one of the most frustrating characters to lose against alongside kimberly.
Props on showing tricky Blanka setups, & combos, etc. w/various characters. Thanks for the info.
If I can ever get past the Capcom ID link error screen to try online, I'll keep that in mind. Good vid.
I love this video but maybe you can do one on JP, Guile, or Aki. (Please do one on JP)
i have done similar ones on JP and Guile earlier.
@MCMuraFGC may be a Dhalsim, Dee jay or E.Honda video next then?
Cammy level 3 punishes h ball aswell. Guile level 1 actually can whiff depending on when the h ball connects with guile in his idle animation. The "deepness" of moves like headbutt, ball, varies in this game and leads to some weird "rng"
There are also audio cues you can use. Each strength of Blanka Ball sounds different, so when you what light and medium sound like, you can train yourself to react properly.
Cammy lvl3 punish heavy Blanka ball, but not in burnout
Hi there. Master rank Blanka here. Ill give yall the source code. Stop jumping. Stop trying to meaty on wake up. Gague whether hes throwing more punches or kicks in neutral. Punches are for pokes and arent special cancelble so Di away. Oh yeah, and stop jumping at him.
He's pretty easy to beat in neutral if ur character have solid fireball and uppercut
@@junior1388666 Very true actually. I get fucking BODIED by Ryus more than I have any right to be. That character steam rolls me so often on Blanka lol
very helpful and much needed for a character like Blanka, thank you!
I think they made him OP so that people will play him! He’s like Kano or Styker from MK, an OG without a fandom
Nah, a lot of people like Blanka, they just like to hate on him too
@@MCMuraFGC oh ok, I thought he doesn’t have many fans like Kano or Stryker despite being an OG
@@lordronn472 He doesn't have fans like the Shoto characters, but the people who play Blanka *play Blanka*. Lifelong fans lol
I have no problem with blanka..... Lily and Honda for me
Blanka slide needs to be 4fr start up, juggles when you hit opponent, +3 on block and have 7 active frames
make it armor break too
Eyy you're totally right tho
Doesn't need to break armor, it already low profiles di
@@EnCroissant low profiling a DI is incredibly hard with it lol It's extremely tight timing and mostly luck tbh I don't think you can do it on reaction.
@fbi
why does it always happen, that as soon as I choose a character, an anti character guide appears... :(
No “HEY HEY HEY” , no like and subscribe. 😒
Blanka feel likes one of those characters that gets buffed online with the way his kit is.
4:25
His other way to deal with zoning is coward grouch the projectile and from that he can jump into air RB
I think punishing heavy blanka ball with cammy lv3 will work
Cammy can also punish H Blanka ball using her level 3
Much appreciate for the match up vids
Cant wait for how to beat sim vid
Cammy lvl 3 punishes heavy blanka ball on block!
This is long overdue.
Right on time
Thanks for the help
Guile VS Blanka is one of my favorite matchups the battle of charging and spacing. Plus both have god tier Level 2 supers.
Definitely a tough matchup for Blanka. They have a hard time dealing with patient guile and deejays. His worst matchup is Honda.
I know it's a TERRIBLE MU for Blanka, but as a Blanka player I also really enjoy the tango of fighting a Guile. Feel like I'm going Hulk against every other character on the cast but against Guile I have to be Bruce Banner LOL
@punk 😂
I am forced to main blanka atm. He is at the moment the most that suits my playstyle in the roster atm. I had to wait for alex in SFV, so I expect I will have to wait for season 2 or more in Sf6.
Though tbh Sf6 is kind of a weak game, drive rush spam is tedious and just too stupid so I dont play that much.
One annoying thing about playing blanka and i bet sims get it too, people often refuse to do a run back.
I have some good tech into conditioning the player with him though, he is all mind games with RB and BB, plus his leap through after drive rush can really condition the player to mess up the options. It turns drive rush into a 1 in 5 options, overhead, low, throw, grab or leap as well as when you are doing pressure you can condition them in one way ideally overheads so you can easily get his command grab in block strings. Of course more seasoned players will be able to punish this but with blanka chan you can make it a dangerous mix up.
Fun to play mind games with him.
Being a Blanka and Gief main since sf2 I never had problems facing him, it is in fact one of my fav matches, but I know how much of a pain he is to deal with, specially for new players. Plus SFVI is without a doubt the best version of the character to date, air blanka ball alone can drive most people mad.
I only ever have issues with dhalsim, blanka and gief never specifically caused me issues.
As you said though in 6 he is so great I expect most people have issues with him they never had before because of drive system.
1:30 a few other people can punish it like rashid and aki. As well as drive rush uses from weirdly long reaching heavies like chuns kick heavy
Cammy lvl3 also punishes on block
@@RePlayQ ahhh shit another cammy nonsensical combo punish. I hate her. I have to get SWEATY to beat her players unless they are outright trash
Lily can punish it with somewhat relative ease using s.mp, c.hp, and 2hp if you can get the timing down. s.hp can also work to get crumple, but is a little riskier.
@@killercore007 while youre right, it is also just impossible to lose to lily as blanka unless the lily is working over time lmao
@@battlericky17 You'd be surprised actually. Her dp seems to have a better time than most other fighters against his air versions of blanka ball due the more horizontal trajactory of it making the timing not as strict. She can still outpoke him more often than not as long as you're not reckless. In fact, her s.mk hurtboxes are a bit deceptive due to the leg not having them until the first active frame.
People be like "Dee Jay is OP" and little bud doesn't have the carry low forward like all the top 5
He doesn’t have an overhead or invincible level1. Jus cool overhead doesn’t count since it sucks lol.
@@parli_poo11 jus cool overhead is good because it +1 on block, but the mf is just too slow and predictable
Honestly, i believe blanka is a sleeper top 3. Blanka chan, OD DP wakeup combos in level 2 install, tons of ways to get out of the corner in burnout. He's simply a very very good character
He has a lot of options for sure but he's not as safe or easy to execute as anyone that even realistically contends for top 3. That's why you don't see him place consistently high in tournaments.
a little late for these more important guides lol nobody is playing xD
What are you talking about?
LOL ur so clever bro!! Ecks dee
We're still playing lol. This is not SF5😂