Espio
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Espio hi, thanks for new video vs Kollector.
Could you please make few points for me clear:
1. This and last set I never saw you doing 122KB. 340 damage or d2 if he has meter.
2. You never buffer lunge into JIK. It works on hit and any block. Its 200 damage. Most profitable tool on my level. Maybe mix it with pokes after JIK good idea?
3. After landing D3 you usually go for B31. Why 14f if it jails and you can do 7f 11+..?
4. You do D4 more often then B4, why? B4 has longer reach, 1f faster and 40 more damage. I thought lunge is good against wakeups and has KB, so why not?
5. I like how good spikes work without using them, so nobody jumps on you. But why dont you use it with strings?
6. I like your reactions on throws teching. Unlike me you can easily confirm f21 and 11 into lunge on block or other specials on hit.
7. Who is your main and why baraka compliments it, what matchups you prefer it over? Thanks.
I'm semi-new to playing Baraka full time so I'm not doing everything. I'm playing really basic neutral but I will try to work it into my game, thank you.
Other things to work on. I am still somewhat newish to these really good strats. I've done it in the lab, but not applied it yet.
Standing 1 is supposed to jail but sometimes people beat it out online somehow so I prefer to do a low/mid attack that people can't duck and you can use this to set up one of his best command grabs with Back 3 lunge.
Down 4 is plus one on block which means it's still your turn after it is blocked and you can tick off down 4 into command grab as well. Sweep is always a top button, but that's why I use down 4.
Work in progress, I recently started doing so with spikes as I am growing/learning the character.
Thank you so much, I'm trying my best .
My main is Jade who is a zoner in the Emerald Defender Variation. I prefer Jade against Erron Black and Liu Kang, but I prefer Baraka against Shang Tsung and Scorpion as an example. I think a strong footsie heavy zoner is a good compliment to Baraka's rush down/footsie based poking style for Bone Picker.
I mean this in the most respectful way possible as everyone is entitled to think what they want, but I do not believe anyone is reacting to 17 frame advancing attack versus 12 frame advancing attack. You are adding qualifiers and things like max range, you can be closer than max range and do it too. I have no reason to believe that is true and I haven't heard a compelling argument for it being true. There's too many variables at play for it not to be the case. If you have to guess between block and don't block, that's a 50/50. Command grabs are about conditioning. If you're doing your job correctly nobody is "reacting" to this stuff.I don't believe this is a 50/50 offline. If you're at max range of Blood Lunge and you're mixing up between f44 and Lunge they can absolutely block/neutral crouch that mix up on reaction. I think off them as footsies tools that complement each other. You condition them to look for one, then once they're looking for that you hit them with the other. If they're looking for both you walk up and hit them with other stuff. They're also super good as a sort of pseudo - punish where your opponents whiffs something or does something that's negative but you can't get a real punish. You use f4 if they're trying to press buttons, you use lunge if they want to "wait their turn" and just block. In general this is where I think lunge is really good. This game doesn't have a bunch of crazy back dashes and armored move and endless pressure - there's lots of situations where your best option is just to block and wait for your turn to move and blood lunge is good for making them scared to wait for their turn. Then when they start pressing button when they shouldn't Baraka is really well equipped to blow that up.
I think probably we're mostly talking about the same type of strategy and I'm just being pedantic, but I just take issue with calling it a 50/50, which should be reserved for true, unreactable guessing situations
That's good there's play style variety with the variation. It's not that I never do it, there's just a lot of wake up variables at play so I don't wanna give up ground and the opponent just wakes up and dashes away especially since as Baraka a lot of times I get matched against zoners.@Espio You play Bone Picker exactly opposite from the way I do. Why don't you ever use Blood Lunge on oki?
Protip: After a Blood Lunge knockdown, do backdash into Blood Lunge. Blows up most wake ups, blows up blocking, and blows up people who see you back dash and decide to press buttons
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