This goes beyond "blocking" it's a very advantageous set up ror Blanka, and even if you lab it for hours like many people here on YT and Twitter said, it's still very beneficial for Blanka offense wise. Mena just wants to keep Blanka as it is and the "go to lab" excuse isn't going to solve the set up completely for those who play against him.

So do you have a worthwhile response to how he should be changed? Or is it just take it away? Anything that's not drive Rush after a little forward should it be removed from the game?

@@rooksdoubleohseven9919 just make more defensive options work against it, for non dp characters level 1 completely whiffs during the ball block string and drive reversal does not work, that any maybe reduce the time level 2 is active

I wonder if the changes to Drive Reversal will be effective?

He's cool now so not that much and one of the most popular SF players uses him. Add to that that not many other people use him and he kinda dodges a lot of potential criticism

@@ensanesane My friend uses him and we all hate him for it I don’t know what you’re talking about

@@ClassicBentobox yes your friend group are the only people that count, naturally

@@ensanesane Look man if I told you that people on the SF6 Facebook page complained you’d just try to say they don’t count either. The complainings not gonna count for you till a top player does it and it’ll be obvious to everyone by then.

@@ClassicBentobox if it was a FB group or discord or something I wouldn't make fun of you because that's not literally one player

Jp has stuff like this too.

season 2: blanka no longer has blanka-chan doll. dhalsim now has dhalsim-chan doll

​@rageofsweets Dhalsim is still paying for his setplay sins from SFV, he was top 5 for literally the entire lifespan in that game

@@jpVari Well yeah, but JP is a new character, seemingly designed with that as a main trait. blanka just do ball Or, well did, until now.

There is no reason to cry, there never will be, it's not about the character, but about who controls it, can you nerf that???

@@BoxNinPlay It LITERALLY is the character, setplays with Blanka like you are watching is LITERALLY all ABOUT the character and NOT the player, the entire POINT of setplay is that it's a consistent setup. It's not about the character when it's with NON setplay characters, but other than that, when you see this stuff, it's literally all about the character.

if blanka does it early enough he recovers in time to block it

Like any other character. Why are people not complaining about zangief then....

I like this sentence.

How dare you enjoy diversity in place style! Everyone should be playing.Ken, Juri, Luke, or anyone else who just low forwards into drive rush. And or does vanilla drive rush and wins.

Christmas In New York from Street Fighter V.

@@AgelessObsession Thanks

This is gonna work in SF6 too, wake up SA1 will get you out of this situation.

Not going to lie, overall I am attracted to polarizing characters. Started with JP, felt like I was getting wins too easily and wasn't learning the game. Switched Manon, felt like I learned more, but also took the polar opposite character. Dug deep into Marissa, had hella fun. Now I'm playing Blanka, and enjoying the multitude of opportunities to maximize in any given situation. Highest character was diamond 5. Not going to act like what I say is based upon high-level gameplay, but I also feel like most m************ are complaining from the same spectrum. Edit: or from a lower, and if I'm willing to admit, I don't do my homework, I know all them cats who ain't risk master either probably didn't do theirs. There's solutions to most of this s***.

Overdrive, the EX version of the move (double punch instead of single punch, or double kick instead of single kick input)

Blanka-chan DOES have damage scaling, but it only the first time it hits, and it doesn't impact the juggle scaling at all. I would agree that the OD version should scale more if you hit them with other moves in between; if it's juggling into itself it's fine, and the meterless and level 1 versions don't allow the same kind of degeneracy.

Amen brother

Gotta be a chun li main if you don't put her on this list don't be shy your character's top 3

You know, that's a lot of characters to consider "broken". Most games of this size are lucky to have 3 broken characters, yet SF6 has 6 by your account... So maybe the game is better balanced than you think, if such a large part of the roster is that close to one another.

Cammy, JP, and Ken aren’t even that bad

@@Reyban26 Wakka wakka

No mention of Rashid, Guile, Juri, or Chun? I mean, all these characters are top tier / top 10.

Air combos too

@@PolyverseCube oh yes, There so much this ridiculously overtuned character can do that it's hard to remember it all

And also, If you want to play defense, he has a safe move that travels around the screen and takes 1 drive bar on Block. But hey, it's all fine

@@gabrielbetas5162 now youre just coping

@@rarecrom Manon Player here, i don't have any reliable way to punish. And trying to Interrupt, you fall to the LP~HP ball mix

Just perfect parry on wake up 🗣

Because the player base of Blanka is low, its an ugly and unpopular character. Popular character like Ken has the highest amount of player base, so people mistakenly think he is the best character when in fact despite the highest player base even in tournament his qualifying to player base ratio is actually quite low, compared to characters like Luke, Juri, Chun Li, Guile and Blanka, which has qualifying rate disproportionately higher than its player base. This is why over time, pros drop Ken's ranking on the tier list and raise those like Chun Li and Blanka alot more. Also, Blanka is objectively broken in some ways, things like SA 2 giving so much utility like high damage, pressure extension upon activation, corner carry, mixups and huge drive meter burn. And Blanka-chan also not having damage scaling which results in his massive combo damage. I'm not saying the character is broken as a whole, but he definitely needs some balance changes. I personally think they should nerf his lvl2 a little, perhaps 2 less total ball activation but increase its duration so he can remain threatening for longer but not do as much damage, corner carry or reset. They should also add a little damage scaling for every Blanka-chan hits, a 5-10% would be good.

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​@@skychaos87 Ok, I get that, there are a lot less Blanka player, but my question is still there. If we can agree that there are more than 10 broken-Blanka players in the World... Why, there are not 2 or 3 more Blanka players getting to the top 6 top 8, finals, in many tournaments? What I think is happening, is that MenaRD got all of them mentally, he has an unorthodox way of playing the character and that is also why he played Birdie, cuz he is also unorthodox. What I think the players should do is to study MenaRD's game better and try to figure him out. They should also shot their mouth and stop the crying, cuz what they want is not to nerf Blanka, they, they want to nerf MenaRD, he is the only Blanka player giving them problems.

@@skychaos87 Also, if you are a pro player, you should not be selecting characters based on their beauty, that's for casuals, if you are a pro, select the character that gives you the best possibilities of winning. Let's see the tournaments with 4 Blanka in the to 8, the way it happens with Juri.

@@yuniordls There are pros that play characters they like not that they are good, iDom a many times SF champion choose to play Manon. And then there are top pro players playing AKI and Lily. Because apart from liking the character design, there's also liking the play style. And if we talk about Guile, there's only really two player that is successful with him, KnuckleDu and Caba but everyone knows Guile is a top tier character. Most people just don't like playing charge characters, especially one like Blanka that has no projectile. Like I said, there needs to be balance not just nerds. If we were to nerf the obnoxious lvl2 like we do with other characters' lvl2, we can also buff Blanka in other areas.

His default in 5 was probably the coolest he's ever looked

Yeah he looks like a happy gorilla in this rather than a mad beast like he used to look like. They have done a 180 on the character and turned him into a loveable simpleton rather than a crazed maniacal beast.

@@Stinkyremy The short version is that they've ruined him.