How to practice Hit Check

Good stuff, BlueLink! As Krye mentioned, it's difficult to hear you talking over the background music, but you get the idea across.

Does anyone remember the Hit Checking challenges from VF4 Evo? I thought they were the best, and unfortunately there's no easy way to replicate them in VF5FS without some carefully crafted recordings.

The VF4 Evo challenge was basically:

1. Perform your character's launcher.
2. If it launched, then proceed with combo.
3. If guarded, then perform a basic throw escape.

The good thing about this simple exercise was that it tested your ability to successfully Hit Check for either result -- launch or guard -- and then respond accordingly.

In the video BlueLink posted, there's no consequence for having the launcher guarded. One way you could try to introduce some consequence is to append a throw after each guard action. So the recordings would become:

1. Elbow, Guard, Throw
2. Elbow, Elbow, Guard, Throw
3. Elbow, Elbow, Elbow, Guard, Throw

To practice, you would guard the first Elbow, then respond with your elbow and Hit Check as follows:

• If your elbow hits, attack with your launcher, then:
  • If your launcher hits, perform combo
  • Or if your launcher is guarded, perform GTE.
• Or if your elbow is guarded, fuzzy guard (if possible) or GTE.