Vega

[BlewHedgehog]

Hrm... no argument that there are ways to abuse people who choose poor or unreliable methods to counter FBA, but I haven't come to the same conclusion as you after having played against unastrike with my Vega. Every last FBA is responded to with a focus and dash cancel (omitting the ones where I mess up and eat the focus). As far as I know, there is no possible way to punish someone who wants to sit back and charge focus aside from the seemingly monumental task of landing your grab.

Either way, I think a little time in training mode practicing plinks is more than worthwhile for the extra damage it will gain you. This character is no mix-up champion, and while + is a good tick throw set up, it takes a ton of work to KO someone on throw and jab damage. He's not strong enough of a character to leave that much damage undone.

Your Vega is good--I don't think we play him all that differently in terms of aggressiveness--we just use different parts of his arsenal to get there.

We need to get some matches in, Vassi. Where ya been?

[Vassi]

Hrm... no argument that there are ways to abuse people who choose poor or unreliable methods to counter FBA, but I haven't come to the same conclusion as you after having played against unastrike with my Vega. Every last FBA is responded to with a focus and dash cancel (omitting the ones where I mess up and eat the focus). As far as I know, there is no possible way to punish someone who wants to sit back and charge focus aside from the seemingly monumental task of landing your grab.

Either way, I think a little time in training mode practicing plinks is more than worthwhile for the extra damage it will gain you. This character is no mix-up champion, and while + is a good tick throw set up, it takes a ton of work to KO someone on throw and jab damage. He's not strong enough of a character to leave that much damage undone.

Your Vega is good--I don't think we play him all that differently in terms of aggressiveness--we just use different parts of his arsenal to get there.

We need to get some matches in, Vassi. Where ya been?

I guess I still maintain that it's an unnecessary link to master in the precense of other, equally difficult but more rewarding, links. For instance into into EX FBA or my personal favorite of cl. into and EX FBA. In SSF4 they fixed the hitbox on FBA (it really feels that way) such that those two work pretty consistently on all characters. Used to be both of those didn't work consistently on characters like Ryu but I've not had a single problem on Super.

I agree, we need some matches. This weekend is pretty shot for me, though, maybe Sunday or Monday =)