Illwill88

Finally found some time to play today. I was already on the brink of Master, so I figured, what better time than now to make the last push to get Jimmy among the Master ranks.
 
In the final match, I played this really solid Ken player who played a great turtling game. It went down to the last round before I closed it out with a DR headbutt, st. short, medium ball>CA3. I had never landed that combo outside of training mode so needless to say, I felt pretty smug about that.
 
 
 
More importantly though, after a long grind, your esteemed fellow forum member is now finally Mast... Uh...? Diamond 5...? 
 
Goddamnit, there's a Diamond 5?!

One thing I will forever hate about fighting games is how 75% of the playerbase will gravitate to a small handful of characters who you will get a shitton or experience against. But then that one time you run into someone more obscure you just constantly get your shit rocked bc you never see them and the couple ppl you do run into are usually terrible. I was fighting a Jamie earlier and he was doing shit I’ve literally never even seen before I never run into him and just fold due to unfamiliarity.
 
Gonna cherish these early days of SF6 where the roster isn’t 40 deep yet so I feel like I can actually learn every matchup.

I've got 500 points to get to Master.
 
Its a world full of lunatics out there though.

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I’m on iPhone (12 mini) w/ Safari and I can see attachments and images fine. Like Reticently said it just takes a few seconds when first opening. The overwhelming majority of the time I’m here it’s on my phone.
 
The issue I have is zooming in on a picture or tilting the phone to scroll in landscape will crash my Megashock tab 95% of the time.

This x2. Being my first charge character I spent and still sometimes do too much time worrying about charge but this aa beats so much stuff. If it doesn’t send them flying too far you can get coward crouch into lift off of it too. Sometimes even on trade you can get something after like slide.  You can also do sa1/sa3 off of it

Capcom:

 
SF Fans:

This x2. Being my first charge character I spent and still sometimes do too much time worrying about charge but this aa beats so much stuff. If it doesn’t send them flying too far you can get coward crouch into lift off of it too. Sometimes even on trade you can get something after like slide.  You can also do sa1/sa3 off of it

Just my 0.02...
 
- st. short x2 > medium ball. Great for punishing everything that's -4 and slower. 
 
Jump attack (mostly j. fierce), st. fierce, wild lift, medium vertical ball or CA1 or 3.  
 
If the jump attack is blocked, cr. jab x2 into medium ball.
 
If cr. jab is blocked too, cancel 2nd cr. jab into short wild hunt or do an overhead.
 
In the corner: DI or jump attack into st. fierce, OD ball, roundhouse vertical ball, OD vertical ball or CA1 (CA3 doesn't work, no juggle properties for some reason).
 
- I bait them and react with my own. 
 
- None, unfortunately.
 
- I don't think Blanka has many bad matchups, he has the tools to handle most things you throw at him. Honda is definitely his worst matchup if you ask me, fat bastard is very effective at out-turtling you.
 
General trick that has won me many matches: AA with st. roundhouse into fierce ball for over 2000 damage.
 
Anyway, this is the stuff that works for me. I'm on the brink of Master, but I can barely find time to play.

Thanks Volta! I'll start putting what you and Will said into practice! I'm excited to play with Blanka. Noticed that SA2 is much easier to use than in SFV - definitely been having fun using it in combos. 
 
I SHALL BE CARRIED!

Everything about his design feels like it’s sponsored by your local school shooter. 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I didn’t really care for him in 5 but as time has gone on I’m curious to see what he’s like in 6.  And I’m hoping he is more boxing focused, we ain’t got balrog or Dudley so it feels like we’re missing that

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

Frame 1 and this shit already weird:
 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

That's what's up! If I don't get Blanka to Master before SF7, I'll eat paper and write with food!!