Niceee, congrats!

Seriously you're video have been super helpful! I appreciate it. I didn't even know that his target combo punches into sand blast was a thing before you made how to deal with it video haha

And my Luke is ready to knock yours back down to Gold. Try me.

Thank you!

Thank you! Taking notes is amazing. It‘s hard to memorize everything on your own.

Yeah I switched to almost only doing L Sandblast recently because people are starting to perfect parry my M/H Sandblast. Technically they have to guess between M and H and adjust their timing because of the different startups, but I just play it safe with the L version. Although I can‘t stop doing H sandblast in the corner tho lmao. 2MP is so stupid man lmao. Sometimes it‘s the only move you need to use, it‘s ridiculous.

@@jeako777 yea personally, I would never even use 5HP HP sandblast anymore, it's good at low level, even the average master will parry it, you want to keep their drive gauge going down. At sort of mid range, you can get away with 5HP MP sandblast because LP sandblast can be unsafe when done too close, but yea. 5HP LP sandblast is very important for the character I would say. Again, 5MP is better when you actually 'expect' it to hit... 5HP is more stable because it does guaranteed 1400 on hit, on block it's safe and takes away a ton of drive meter. Also the pushbox thing I mentioned. I'll make a vid to demonstrate what I mean, I've known about this for months and why I do use 5MP but am careful with the move. Yea 2MP is busted for sure. I guess it's to make up for his lack of reach on some of his normals vs other characters. My gripe is how safe it is to just buffer it into DR, it's really dumb.

@@saado99 yeah you‘re right, I should probably stop canceling into H sandblast for good. Players here in 1700 MR aren‘t quite good at dealing with it yet but I don‘t wanna rely on this long term. And yeah there‘s a nice sweetspot range where M sandblast is a true blockstring but also safe on block. Usually around the range where L sandblast is unsafe. I wasn‘t aware that 5MP’s pushbox kicked in so late but now it makes sense when I think about it. It tends to whiff more than you‘d think when you try to space it.

@@jeako777 I feel you, I just got to 1900MR from a grind. I've seen people do lvl3 through it, Ken OD shoryu through the gap, and pretty much always parrying after, sometimes literally perfect parry into a sweep. 5HP is best at max range for sure, I would try to get a feel of that moves range. I hardly even see Japanese Lukes use 5MP, they use 5HP more. And yea, if you have the hitbox info take a look at it. Put the game at 50% speed and look for the greybox on his normals. You'll notice it appears super late for 5MP. It's very important to remember because walking backwards is constantly done in neutral. In addition it also has in general slightly shorter range than 5HP. Not saying don't use it, definitely use it for sure but just be aware of these nuances. It's best used again when you actually expect it to hit, meaning they walkup to it or you expect it to counterhit. Otherwise yea it can whiff easily and you'll notice that in general in gameplay, which is why I'm very careful with that normal.

Thank you! Song is "Nihilistic Moment - Carlos Miyamoto's Theme". I hate how one of the best songs is locked behind the world tour mode lmao

Practice inputting down-forward, down, down-forward + punch. That's a shortcut

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@@jeako777 I would be glad if you can share gameplay videos too. So we can see you applying this tactics actively