Vintagesoul
Noob
B4 is also great for whiff punishing njps with longer ranges (I.e. Raiden)
I mean....the game is basically telling you without screaming it that the character is not one that heavily revolves around jumping and is more about winning on the ground and when you have people on their back. This is the same odd complaint Cage gets where people complain about his air game when you're a character that has a great ground game where they thrive.
Not gonna lie dude, his air punches are actually incredibly useful for 1) the post punchwalk game and 2) the corner game. In both situations it's actually kinda easy to react if you're looking for a jump and u1 or u2 to allow you to punish them for jumping. Granted, you usually have to make a decent read, but they serve the exact purpose I think they were designed for.
His kicks are fine, agreed. I made that comment after a particularly bad set of matches against Sonyas, Cassies, Kotals... It's absurd to me that certain characters like Sonya outrange Goro when it comes to jumping punches. Like how does that even make sense? Kotal I can kinda understand, but the others...
Really? Never seen it happen, usually I'll just get low profiled and punished the moment I land.
The people I usually play against barely get caught by post-PW jump punches. If anything they look out for them and use them against me, so I wouldn't call them that useful. They're a valid option, but at this point neutral crouching has done more for me than jumping.
Im a dummy, I thought you were talking about u1 when you said air punches. Ignore me haha.
Diagonal j1 can do it, but it's iffy as balls.
Diagonal j2 can beat low profiles too, but its frames just suck so bad I don't see a reason to use it.
Yeah for sure man everyone has a lot of work to do here. We had our locals here this past weekend and I played thoughtlessly and as a result my post PW game was off and in turn I played quite poorly. The reversal throw was the one big issue that prevented me from playing the game I wanted to play. The great thing about being cautious and observing post punchwalk is that you can legitimately react to things like crossover jumps quite easily with u1 to punish for 30ish%, or just cmd grab if they're being too respectful. With the idea I posted above I think it should alleviate both the issue of jumping and mashing reversal throw quite well, and with time will become of our most useful strategies.
Hold down, let go of down and tap block as you're coming up. You'll avoid the throw if timed right and be able to block other stuff if necessary.
Scorpion is one of his harder match ups for Tigrar. Ermac is meh, not really too big of a deal imo.
There's absolutely no real downside to using the string. The variation is basically pure chip, footsies, and damage.
To add to what Espio has said I'd encourage the use of DF for both of those matchups myself. Any characters that have teleport somewhat limit the effectiveness of your fireballs, but more importantly ex fang spin is great for swatting jumpers out of the sky.
Well gap between b12 and u2 is 9f, while throw startup is 10f.
Man I had a great set against a KL last night but forgot to record it. I play the guy regularly so I'll be able to get some footage soon for you.