just hold the buttons on wake up and you'll get reversal every time.

Unlike normal drive reversal, you can keep the buttons pressed on wake up for wake up DR

If you think that's bad, try SF4 OS that requires 4 BUTTONS (one of which is the taunt button) to OS meaty, grabs and empty attacks. Super useful for vortex characters like Cammy and Rufus. But holy hell playing SF4 on the arcades and you're player one...I didn't know your pinkie can reach that far.

Thanks for tips. I started holding forward, but only tapping the button, which resulted in a random DI too often. I'll try holding both buttons.

The main thing about drive reversal for those characters is that it beats meaty throw. The presence of wake up drive reversal making the opponent want to throw less and opt for something like this option select only buffs wake up perfect parry so their defense is much better overall regardless. And the characters were usually designed without reversal specials for a reason anyway.

You can prevent the DR cancel by holding back when pressing parry.

@@SeaLeafDojo does the oki need to be a certain amount of frames ? I can’t do the option select with Blanka in the corner after a blankachan thrown with +5 frames. Whether I try 5lk,parry,2lp or 2lk,parry,2lp; if they get hit it doesn’t combo, but if I try to do it faster the parry doesnt come out on wake up reversal. Is it strict timing for the parry into second jab?

@@khanhhuynh5451you need enough advantage for your first light to finish recovering, otherwise you’ll get hit

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@@SeaLeafDojo unuderstood, thanks for replying

Total nonsense, your defence is only useless if you never adapt

This OS immediately loses to parry or you can just block the light string and take your turn back. Just because the defensive option doesn’t beat everything doesn’t mean it’s useless, it means it’s balanced :)

Option select is a bit boring in fighting games. I also hate 50/50s, so I'm probably just biased. Both have been around forever in street fighter though.

nah it shows emergent gameplay and how players have managed to use all the various properties and figure out ways around them. having options like these makes it a lot nicer than just braindead 50/50. with no delay tech goodluck

It doesn't defeat the entire purpose of the drive reversal. The drive reversal is meant to mitigate strike/throw pressure. If the attacker is using this option select, that means that they are not throwing as often- which means that the defender can rely less on drive reversal and go back to blocking/delay teching. So, the wheel of options keeps spinning for both players- and crucially, the larger the wheels get, the weaker throw loops become