Lei Fei Arcadia 125

Arcadia 125 Lei Fei notes
Author - Yanaga

Take note of his new fighting arts
The first thing you want to pay attention to is his mid hitting half circular ++. The biggest special feature of this move is that on crouching opponents it gives +14, and Kyo stance is guaranteed. On counter hit it gives a good +9 but nothing is guaranteed. If you focus on Kyo stance + which cannot be avoided by evade cancel, and then mix in stance cancels to hit/throw mixups you will be able to overcome their defence. ++ on guard is +2, which is not fast enough so that the followups won't be stuffed by crouching punch. However, from here if you go to Dokuritsu stance with ++ and then input Dokuritsu + after a small pause, you will be to work this to your advantage. Long ranged crouch punches will be reversed, while shorter ranged crouch punches will whiff, but Dokuritsu stance + will hit them in their recovery. This doesn't just work on courching punches, but also standing punches and elbows, so it's a good technique.

On sideturned ++ brings even more benefits. On crouching hit while sideturned Kyo stance and on counter hit (? minor counter) Kyo stance are unguardable strings. On guard Kyo stance + nullifies evade cancel.

After a sideturned Hai stance + + becomes unguardable. After a successful evade to punish, sideturned on crouch hit into + becomes an unguardable string.

- on sideturned counter hit guarantees Koko stance

Yanaga's thoughts
- Given the ease of breaking throws with overcoming the opponent's guard is difficult. + is essential for defence, but is too slow. At -5 It won't be fast enough to hit their throw in its recovery, and at -8 the opponent can whiff a throw and still evade and jab to hit you in your recovery. In any event, ++ is useful to attack with, and other than that lots of + and +??

 

I wonder if this is possible in Version A too? I don't remember having seen this lately. What i saw was this setup with sideturned counterhit.