VIDA
Focused Grace and Intensity
This is nothing I wanna make a huge deal on. But up here a couple of the offline players like to cross up when they read that my Kitana is gonna attack or even half react, half expect (lengthy to explain) to her dashing in. This was the most aggravating when I did my spaced out, neutral setups (d4 into grab or 2,1. f4,1 into f2,1 blow, or AA if they jump at ur Kitana etc). Even tho it is somewhat possible to react to their reaction of being spaced out, its tricky cause that can give them time to move, or even react to your reaction (lol) and even worse they could jump back which was a very safe choice for them.
So what Ive started doing was when my Kitana is in 2,1 or ff, 2,1 distance, I have her dash in but I SLIGHTLY DELAY the 2,1 so that if they do cross up, fan lift comes out and auto corrects instantly to punish the crossup. If they block, you get another block string and if they jump back Im not too sure of this but I believe the delayed 2,1 will catch them airborne. Even so this opens up more mix ups where jump back can be punished by an af off just the dash in, or even a iSB or another dash in followed by 2~fan into aa combo. In case ur wondering about them trying to crouch poke well by this point they'll be respecting the whiff poke punishes from these spaced out scenarios, even outside of these a poke cant just be thrown out all the time.
Let me know what you guys think about the OS and on her spaced out mixups in general? Also I forgot to test it but does f3 (which can go into full combo) go over d1s in addition to d3s and d4s?
Also if this has been discussed I apologize, I cant keep up with everything that goes on here.
Thank you all in advance.
So what Ive started doing was when my Kitana is in 2,1 or ff, 2,1 distance, I have her dash in but I SLIGHTLY DELAY the 2,1 so that if they do cross up, fan lift comes out and auto corrects instantly to punish the crossup. If they block, you get another block string and if they jump back Im not too sure of this but I believe the delayed 2,1 will catch them airborne. Even so this opens up more mix ups where jump back can be punished by an af off just the dash in, or even a iSB or another dash in followed by 2~fan into aa combo. In case ur wondering about them trying to crouch poke well by this point they'll be respecting the whiff poke punishes from these spaced out scenarios, even outside of these a poke cant just be thrown out all the time.
Let me know what you guys think about the OS and on her spaced out mixups in general? Also I forgot to test it but does f3 (which can go into full combo) go over d1s in addition to d3s and d4s?
Also if this has been discussed I apologize, I cant keep up with everything that goes on here.
Thank you all in advance.