Originally posted by: purbeast0
Can someone please explain to me EXACTLY how to block crossups?
Say I'm on the left side and my opponent is on the right side and they knock me down.
They would try to cross me up on wake switching over to the left side which would put me on the right side.
In SF2, the crossup attack, I would block by holding the LEFT direction, which would be back for me, and then after that is blocked, I would now be on the right side and my opponent on the left side, and now to block his followup attacks, I would have to now hold RIGHT to block the attacks.
However in SF4 this doesn't seem to be the case. Last night I was getting screwed over and over by crossups, both with Chrono and Naustica, and I felt helpless. I did not know if it was due to the network connection or what, but I feel like I'm not blocking crossups correctly on SF4, where as on SF2 they were no problem.
Originally posted by: Dangerer
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Can someone please explain to me EXACTLY how to block crossups?
Say I'm on the left side and my opponent is on the right side and they knock me down.
They would try to cross me up on wake switching over to the left side which would put me on the right side.
In SF2, the crossup attack, I would block by holding the LEFT direction, which would be back for me, and then after that is blocked, I would now be on the right side and my opponent on the left side, and now to block his followup attacks, I would have to now hold RIGHT to block the attacks.
However in SF4 this doesn't seem to be the case. Last night I was getting screwed over and over by crossups, both with Chrono and Naustica, and I felt helpless. I did not know if it was due to the network connection or what, but I feel like I'm not blocking crossups correctly on SF4, where as on SF2 they were no problem.
If you're on player 1 side and he's on player 2 side. During his jump, even if he's still on player 2 side, you want to block as though you were on player 2 side. so just hold right which will make you walk forward. It looks wierd, but you will block. You could try setting the training dummy to just jump fierce kick and then get used to how to block as well. Distance is the key however because once you get used to blocking cross up, sometimes people will jump in and you'll expect a cross up, but they'll land in front of you and land a free combo.
Originally posted by: Chrono
Naustica! I'd like to go against you. Let's do this. You're latex something right? tenchichrono. I won't be able to play until this weekend though. So let me know when you're available. Purbeast, let's have at it again. sandwichcookie, my Sakura is better now, let's have at it again too. Just finished her Hard Trial in Challenge mode. Seems shotos are easier to finish the trials with for me.
Originally posted by: Naustica
purbeast0, you're probably the second best Balrog I've played. Our matches could have gone either way majority of times. There was this one Balrog I played on ranked that zoned everything near perfect and gave me fits. Zangief is a tough matchup for Balrog imo and you've to work twice as hard to win. Gief standing jab and both the punch and kick lariats will stop Balrog rushing punches. EX rushing punch will armor through regular jab though so I try to mix in different lariats to stop that. Gief kick lariat will beat Balrog's crouching kick sweep so that takes away one of Balrog's greatest weapon. I usually try to bait Balrog to throw out the crouching fierce kick by distancing myself after block moves and then kick lariat. Also, Zangief can SPD throw any dashing punch that hits too deep after getting hit. That's a trade I'm willing to take given Gief's superior lifebar.
I don't really worry too much about crossups because people usually try to run away from Zangief and not get near him. Plus he's really hard to crossup because his late crouching punch lariat will beat or trade with most crossup attempts. Lariat has to be done late while crouching though or else Zangief will eat the crossup. I think the best way to avoid the crossup is to mix your fall recovery with quick and normal. The other player has to time the jump for the crossup and if you get up fast, that can mess up the other player jump timing. What I like to do is to get a crossup or two in blocked or not and then once I have the player thinking crossup and blocking, just jump across without doing a move and go for Ultra or Super 720 grab while they're blocking for nonexistent crossup.
Originally posted by: Chrono
Naustica! I'd like to go against you. Let's do this. You're latex something right? tenchichrono. I won't be able to play until this weekend though. So let me know when you're available. Purbeast, let's have at it again. sandwichcookie, my Sakura is better now, let's have at it again too. Just finished her Hard Trial in Challenge mode. Seems shotos are easier to finish the trials with for me.
Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: Chrono
Naustica! I'd like to go against you. Let's do this. You're latex something right? tenchichrono. I won't be able to play until this weekend though. So let me know when you're available. Purbeast, let's have at it again. sandwichcookie, my Sakura is better now, let's have at it again too. Just finished her Hard Trial in Challenge mode. Seems shotos are easier to finish the trials with for me.
thx for the asswhipping! Your skill lvl is >>>>> than mine. It's not even close. I had no idea what to do against your Elf, Gen, or Abel. When I panic, I spam lariats. Against Slim, that's my only strategy.