A year later Blanka wins the first major of SF6. This is on you @jmcrofts.

Actually the most powerful thing about this iteration of Blanka is his character portrait

Blanka's character portrait in match is nightmare fuel

I love Blanka but everytime I play against someone as him my opponent just looks miserable and Im sure Capcom knows hes just one of those characters lol

I 100% am that guy that says "Man, I wish my arcade had fighting games when I was younger." Because back in the 90s when I was born, there was a physical altercation over a fighting game so they removed all fighting games in the only arcade on my island.

i love how happy this dude is. he could be getting totally destroyed and hell just go "yooo sick combo bro" like this dude has the best energy

Well this didn't age well.

It never occurred to me until just now that Sagat's character portrait is based on his hilarious victory screen in SF1.

I can´t believe I spent almost the whole video without noticing JM Chang in the background there.

I feel like Capcom is slowly regretting making Blanka a character since they now realize that people actually like this character. Which means they have to make merchandise of Blanka. Blanka-chan confirmed merch? Maybe? But I always found Blanka pretty fun to play. He's not my main, but he's the character that taught me about charging.

As a life long casual Blanka main, CVS 2 was such a nice change. I'm just glad the dream happened in such a good game.

Blanka will always be top tier in my heart.

I'm from the future and Blanka just won SF 6s first major tourney... fake low tier on everyone's tier lists

look how the tables have turned

It’s the same with Vega too. He committed crimes in the past and deserves punishment

As a heads up, Blanka is very good in Hyper Fighting. His vertical ball hits on the way down in that game and it leads to many bite traps. Plays kinda like a grappler because of that.

Ohh man, I be so down for one of those history videos about how Justin Wong won Evo with Wolverine, Storm and Akuma.

And Blanka in this game was even nerfed from it's previous iteration on CvS1. Aside from some tools like the electricity (which make up from the rest) and V-combos that doesn't exist, what he have is waaay better. He is a lv1 character stronger than most lv2 in all aspects. Also, his ball is much safer, at 'low' health on snk groove he got his pretzel electricity super which is ridiculous, and he can easily juggle his lv3 from grab mid screen (60~70% hp loss against some lv1 chars). Oh and he is one of the characters that greatly benefit from the C super bar glitch: [ get your hp/hk blocked by the enemy -> grab him = success ]

I mean the reason why Blanka is so strong in this game is obvious, just look at his portrait! It's the stuff of nightmares!

His character portrait is also top tier

I have never mained Blanka in any game,, but it just wouldn't be street fighter without him. Ono would be sad 😔

This video aged well.. (sf6 Blanka)

I feel like they've done the same with Claw. He's still atoning for his sins in ST and CvS2

Some people STILL say "raiyuu" pants off Ryu and it annoys the shit out of me

It took me far too long to realize he put his own head over Chang's body.

16:47 - Kirby from Smash 64 to Melee. Consistent Top 2/Top 3 character in 64, now bottom-tier in Melee. Not only did he get nerfed himself, many of the changes to the game from 64 to Melee also adversely affected him. Pretty much the only character considered worse than him nowadays is Bowser.

🌸😹I find it to be of oddity that any ever referred to Guile as “Gillie”.😹🌸

I'm still salty

Because the community will complain about it like they do with grapplers!

it kind of keeps me up at night I called Ryu "roo" and Guile "Glooey." To be fair I was only about 7 or 8 when SF2 came out but it was still pretty silly. I knew a kid who called "M. Bison" "Mr. Bison" and that always bothered me, too

its not that i feel i should have been around arcade days but man i sure wish i could have experienced it

I wish I was around in the Arcade Era. I was born in '91 in a place where there just weren't arcades. So naturally as arcades became less and less in vogue, even bowling alleys and movie theater game selections started shrinking. Even in the 2000s you'd see the occasional tekken tag or SF2 championship edition, maybe MvC2 if the location was particularly based, but that's it.

I think the reason you "power up" when you play a character that jives with you because you go from trying to force situations in which said character is good and instead are naturally looking for those situations in the neutral and are taking less risks and more safe opportunities to get there.

5:49 Yeah, I'm an early 2000's kid, I often wish I was around in the 90's. It would be so cool to play MvC or 3rd strike in an actual arcade.

Blanka as a character archetype is miserable to play against when he's top tier. The strength of a lot of his moves depends on whether the opponent is able to punish them(often to polarizing effect) and when they can't punish a lot of what Blanka does it makes the matchup feel awful for the other character

Judging from first lines, I assumed we talking Vega. He's been paying for his sins in Super Turbo ever since.

JM Chang is GENIUS! Your face superimposed on Chang is awesome, lol!

People know how to say Blanka and Guile now, some still doesn't know how to Ryu and nobody says Zangief right

Blanka is considered chosen ratio+1 in Capcom vs SNK. That's saying something

They probably didn't mean for Blanka to be top tier in cvs2 either, it was probably an accident...

Same like Lei in tekken, he has most moves of all the casts but he never ever above B tier across franchise... but thats what made him unique.

The worst part is when you listed Blanka's strengths in CVS2... He's got 90% of that in SF5. Electricity is plus and he's got strong neutral buttons... but the problem is that he really struggles to transition from "strong neutral buttons" to "in your opponent's face so you can electricity them". He's always had this element of "That character that has to try to get away with bullshit to succeed", and while that can steal wins at high level you'll struggle to have a consistent layer one to fall back on to get your opponent to fall for your tricks. Ultimately I think he's one non-metered, hitconfirmable knockdown away from being a mid-tier character in sf5. (Edit) There are also a lot of artificial failsafes on some of his moves that I don't really think are necessary. For example: You can't knock someone down and then use blanka ball for an ambiguous meaty crossup... sure, that's powerful but you don't *really* get anything from landing blanka ball other than a little damage and another knockdown, and it doesn't loop on itself, not even mentioning what the opponent can do to you if they guess right.

Vanilla SFIV Blanka was top tier. They just nerfed him up the wazoo in Super.

I got talked out of picking up Billy at lunar phase this week via about forty five seconds of heckling when I picked him lol. It felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders and I went back to Mai.

This didn’t age well. :)

He was the first character I was decent at, so I'll always like him. I miss the hyperfight days though - he was a badass in that version, very dangerous.

I recomend you Akatsuki Blitzkampf for your next tournament. It's a very sick and beginner friendly game and the universal parry mechanic make the whole thing very hype.

He's actually pretty good in Hyper Fighting.

Hey bro I absolutely love your videos, they are great. I'm a huge fan of fighting games and your channel is really just a plethora of awesomeness. That being said I just learned about the new feature in Street fighter 6 where they have the real time commentators I totally think you should be included Capcom needs to reach out to you and make you one of those commentators! Your commentating is the absolute best I've heard hands down you are totally the king of fighting game commentary! who else is with me?

Yamazaki owns all. That is all.

5:50 I’m a zoomed that plays fighting games and EVERY SINGLE TIME I set foot into a modern arcade like dave and busters or something like that I always say to myself. “Damn these kids are missing out on the real games instead of cheap cash grab machines.” And it’s sad. Luckily I know that there is still arcade machines out there for old arcades so I’ll be hunting!

You said Justin could have just used doom and his team would be better but he needs storm for the team super for her OTG from hailstorm. And he needs Akuma for the wolverine layered guard break incoming, and covers berserker slash super well and gives him 2 chances to open. Akuma also gives storm much better pressure and extensions. You can argue to drop storm for magneto since his super otgs for team super, but storm having float has gotten sooooo much mileage for Justin with his runaway style. I think the team is perfect for Justin honestly. There are maybe some upgrades he could have like strider maybe but I like X-Men Akuma for him lol

I love the block sound effect in CvS. It sounds so powerful.

Jmcrofts: is there any kids that are like "I wish I could be around the arcade days" Me: (intense stare) m e

16:47 Scorpion in Injustice 1

wanna state that if you intend to play a grrappler in this game....don't They are all trash, and can only be made to be passable by roll canceling this game absolutely despises command grabs.

Didnt age well

Dude I love videos like this one!

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Brazil FGC is pretty much a whole country of wrong generation players, since they kept selling the Sega Genesis into the late 00's a lot of young players today grew up with Super Turbo instead of SFIV.

This didnt age well.

21:29 “Gimme that DICKtator!”

Love your presentation on this video brother!

so, this aged like milk didnt it lmao

CvS2 was such an awesome game! It got as much play with my group of friends as MvC2! We preferred to not play Ratio Match in this game. Too bad SvC Chaos totally sucked compared to this game.

So.... Top 10 Over-nerfs list when? I remember them doing the same to Sentinel from MvC to UMvC, but that She-Hulk nerf was MASSIVE for no damn reason. I would be interested in see others that got hit that badly.

I hope Blanka is high-tier in CvS3 when it finally does get made. Like, don't make him THIS ridiculous, but keep the tradition going.

Mained Blanka in 4 and just restarted playing 5 after a few years. Blanka feels so floaty and his crazy crossup balls don't seem to work anymore and feels terrible generally.

at 18:50 does vega''s super auto corrects when he was inputting the motion? or is it some weird technique to pull it off?

Mained Blanka for years, and I'd stick with him regardless

I played Blanka in USFIV and literally forced world-class tournament players switch from their mains to win. He tends to have rather unbalanced matchups, struggling in some and absolutely crushing others. Blanka vs T Hawk in IV is an example of a matchup he dominates. In contrast, he struggles against Cammy.

Blanka is also very good in SF2 HF. So that's 2 games where Blanka is actually good.

Oh shit. I was totally a "Gully" kid... That sickens me.

Man i totally agree. I love blanka but i do not understand why we have to literally, LITERALLY jump through every hoop and barrel to be on par with my main Just bought an authentic ps2 copy and had it delivered last year. I love CVS2 so much

Honestly, I wish I had more of an arcade scene where I was from. The local canobe had an MVC-1 and I believe an X-Men versus Street Fighter cabinet which is why I'm very biased to playing those games. But by the time I got really into fighting games is when the digital age of fighting game started with Super Street Fighter 4 arcade edition. By that point they were pretty much dead. So I guess in that sense, I would be one of those"I was born in the wrong generation for fighting games"

Blanka is top tier in SF2 Hyper Fighting

I like how they paid homage to the Nebuta Festival in the back graphics of the game.

Those Arc Sys jokes were on point lmao

Raiden looks so much cooler in this game than he did in KOF13, hope that if he makes a return in 15 they'll use this design

5:00 I'm so glad that most Americans generally pronounce "Ryu" correctly now. Anyone who thinks "rai-you" needs to understand that neither Japanese (Ryu is a first name) nor Korean (Ryu is a family name) has that syllable structure. It has always been "riu." Trust me. I'm a Ryu.

I miss this game, I wish kofxv used sprite art still. Cvs2 had the best looking SF and KOF character models.

3:50 In portuguese the correct way to pronounce is the second one, so it's probably also the canonical one since he's brazilian

Here's a backstory for Blanka that I just made up: they call him "Blanka" because the first thing he said to his rescuers was "Eu sou branco!" (Pt. "I am white!") when they called him "Green Kid."

I said Rye-you as a kid, as an adult I've since learned Japanese but Rye-you still sounds right to me so I say it.

If you decide to do another JMpardy, you should invite Smug and Punk.

You won with Zangief with 666 left on the timer

"I always said Gai-oh, Im not one of the Gi-le kids" Tfw we still pronounce Gi-le in Brasil

I love CVS2, It's my favorite 2d fighting game of all time. But it might as well be called Blanka vs Sagat 2 Mark of the Millenium.

Blanka looks shell shocked in his artwork

Roll cancelling completely warped the meta of CvS2. Characters like Blanka and Sakura were gods in tha game, because their specials abused the invincibility frames, and were impossible to throw out of them.

Street Fighter 1 Blanka shock and fly spin were op af

Screw Blanka, you ran Vice on point!! My hero 😀

What's weird is the blocking. You can block a fireball if you have say, tough forearms. But they shouldn't be able to block electricity unless they all have rubber suits. Doesn't work like that. 😄

Justin used that team because the team super otg'd and did massive damage.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... wait... Blanka considered low tier in Alpha 3??? That was my game, and aside from Evil Ryu and Shin Akuma, he was the only character we banned from using.

I tried him in SF5. I used to like him in SFA3. On paper he seemed good. I enjoyed my training cession. Then i played in arcade and dropped him after a couple fights. It upsets me caus i like how unique he is. He could be so much better.

I do have a recommendation for a next tournament that being Akatsuki Blitzkampf Ausf.Achse it's a solid game

I love Blanka and I will hate to not see him in future games, same with the rest of the SF2 roster, with the exception of Ken, I never had a place in my heart for Ken unlike the others because his presence always felt most unnatural imo

A young stoned me loved CVS2 Blanka. Online with a EX Groove I made was just too OP. I used to make my name "Just Drop"(You could use a name separate from your XBL name. The trolling was heavy) on XBL back then lol. I still think Blanka was decent in most versions of SF4. I agree that Capcom doesn't want him to be too good. Remember Crossover Rainbow Roll> Ultra getting removed in 4?

The picture of Chang behind jm…….🤣