Fuzzy Guarding

I realized that there was no straight up forum on Fuzzy Guarding, which is a crime itself considering it plays a big part of the game. I'm probably not the best person to ask about Fuzzy guarding considering I'm not all that good at it myself, but if anyone has questions I can TRY to answer them or someone else can probably correcting me on how I was wrong XP

 

Let's add a forum for each technique in VF! Why haven't we thought of this earlier?! Damn us!

 

I know that there is tutorial videos on it, but there never seems to be enough info on how to do it or clarification. I didn't understand it at first, but this is a website to expand and help each other at this very complicated game. So I took the initiative and made this. Same goes with you Leonard...

 

I did the tutorial in the game on fuzzy guarding (33,G), but I have no idea whether I did it correctly, or the AI just happened to use a mid attack and I just happened to block it.

 

Well set it to he either grabs you or he does a mid attack. If you continuously seem to not get hit by anything then you did it right. It's a lot harder to find out when to do it though. That's what I haven't figured out yet myself.

 

Fuzzy at -2, CD Fuzzy at -5. I'm still struggling to see the importance of fuzzy in FS though, doesn't seem that useful when you have the lazy TE system and tools like .

 

What's Fuzzy if it's not "CD Fuzzy"? @___@

 

Fuzzy Guard is usually done when you are -1 to -3 disadvantage. You tap down for a brief second so you bob up and down. You stay in place.

CD Fuzzy you do when you are at -4 to -6 disadvantage.

 

IS THAT A CHOBITS GIF?

 

People have the wrong idea about fuzzy guarding. It doesn't need to involve throws, or even crouching. One such example of fuzzy guarding can be illustrated by drawing a scenario from Pai's Bokutai. Say that I think that Pai will either use her sweep or her knee. I'd want to time my crouch input to be some time shortly after the execution of the knee. This is because the knee is faster that the sweep. As long as my timing is good, I can guard against both the knee (mid) and sweep (low) without needing to react to the animations. If the knee is guarded, then I won't crouch, even though I've entered the input for a crouch. This is because you cannot switch between standing and crouching during guard stun.

Fuzzy guarding is simply a means by which to avoid damage in a nitaku situation. There may be a better definition than this, though.

 

I was training fuzzy guarding against mid/throw mixups and found that you can option select an attack to hard punish throw attempts for a minor counter hit. I don't know if this is news to anybody but me, but it's awesome stuff.

You do the fuzzy motion and just a little bit after hitting the G to stand up and block a move you do an attack that's 16 frames or less. If you blocked the mid the attack won't come out, if they throw whiff or do nothing you get your attack.

 

Where has this been Dennis?! Where are you finding this stuff man? Can someone translate the blog post that refers to this tech. Here's the link http://blog.livedoor.jp/dora_nekoaki/archives/1537323.html

 

You can block opponent's 14f~17f mid. But the video also points out that you will get hit by p > elbow, and delay attacks.

 

I do recall something along these lines being mentioned a long time ago but it might've just been too far over my head at the time to understand. It's still a very nice tool even with it's weaknesses.

 

Any move less than 15f(need to be confirmed) is able to punish throw whiff, and AK 46P is the best example.

 

I found this technique fascinating enough (an option-select within an option-select!) despite its limited use that I dedicated an entire article to fuzzy guard and its attack option-select on my blog site:

• Tech Guide – Fuzzy Guard and Its Hidden Attack Option-Select (Goh Notes)