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- From: mhen@nodisk.webo.dg.com (Mat Hen)
- Subject: Re: Balrog!
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- In-Reply-To: 's message of Friday, 13 Nov 1992 10:21:31 CST
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:05:31
- References: <92318.102131U58505@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- >>>>> On Friday, 13 Nov 1992 10:21:31 CST, <U58505@uicvm.uic.edu> said:
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- > Well I must say, that Balrog has now become one of my real favorites.
- > I've been playing him more than Ryu lately, but that's only because my
- > school has tons of Blanka players. Blech. Just me and this one other
- > guy play Balrog frequently, two Balrogs in a sea of Blankas - it's
- > streetfighter heaven. Anyways, the only reason I learned Balrog was
- > because my anti-Blanka tactics for Ryu didn't seem to be improving at
- > all; perhaps my skill with Ryu when it comes to fighting Blanka has
- > plateaued. Maybe this is as good as I'm gonna get and I'm not gonna
- > get any better. God, I hope not. Well I just want to share the joys
- > and sorrows of being a Balrog player with other Balrog players.
-
- > Fighting against Blanka using Ken sucks. Period. For Ryu, you have
- > to play so patiently; it's almost difficult for me because I like to
- > initiate kick or punch attacks instead of missile attacks. There are
- > Blankas here that will do absolutely nothing until you do something
- > first, we're talking terminal brain death. I'm not kidding, I really
- > believe they'd crouch for the whole damn round if you let them. Well
- > o.k., that's not %100 true - they'll walk up to you a bit and crouch
- > back down again. What really annoyed me the most was that these guys
- > thought they were skilled. Shhhhhyeah, right. For me, the solution
- > to fighting mindless, "zombie" Blankas was to learn Balrog. I thought
- > I'd have to concentrate more on my Honda, but some friends of mine
- > kept insisting that Balrog was the real Blanka killer. So after I
- > ignored their comments for about $20.00 worth of Blanka matches I
- > decided to give Balrog a try.
-
- > My first tries were ugly to say the least. I discovered just how
- > useless Balrog's sliding straight punch and sliding uppercut really
- > were as attacks. I got foot swept most of the time. Granted they're
- > not totally useless and I've developed better judgment on when to use
- > them and when not to use them. They're great when you can catch your
- > opponents just when they are about to missile attack, especially with
- > Ken. I mostly use the sliding punch as a means of fast travel, you
- > can get closer to your opponent with a sliding punch faster than if
- > you just walked up to him. I usually use a strong slide when I want
- > to get my opponent within range of my attacks but I'll be just out of
- > range for HIS attacks. One of my favorite tactics is a strong slide
- > followed by a turnaround punch, a fierce slide brings you in too
- > close and can get your ass foot swept. My Balrog has developed to
- > the point were most Blankas have resolved themselves to losing even
- > before the match begins. Some of them even scatter and go play
- > Mortal Kombat or classic. Really pisses me off since I feel that I
- > haven't crushed enough Blanka players to make up for all the beatings
- > I got when I was a Ken player. They don't even realize that all they
- > have to do is learn how to perform a fireball trap with Ryu and Balrog
- > is basically Ryu fodder. Well they probably realize it (Blanka players
- > can't be that mindless, despite the general consensus); they just
- > don't want to invest the time or money to learn Ryu. I can handle
- > that.
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-
- Some Blanka players think they're hot sh*t when they trash people with
- Blanka's high priority attacks. That really annoys me. Blanka has a
- lot of advantages: 3 high priority jumping attacks(fierce, roundhouse,
- forward), high priority standing attacks(fierce, roundhouse), fast and long
- range ground attacks(crouching roundhouse), fast ball which blanka can
- do many times in a round without worrying getting hit(he doesn't take
- massive damage like he does in Classic). It takes considerable short
- amount of time to learn how to play blanka when compared to the time
- you need to play Ken/Ryu/Guile/Dhalsim/Zangief well. When these
- average blankas are trashed by decent players, they just give up and
- won't even dare to try other characters. One time a Blanka was
- jumping around and trashing people. So I joined with by Guile and
- every time he jumped, I razor-kicked him. IMO, he didn't know how to play
- Blanka at all. He looked at me as if I was playing cheap(just
- razorkicked him when he jumped). He finally gave up and left the
- machine. HaHa!
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