Need a little help with Sarah...

Hey all. I just started using Sarah about a week ago. She's pretty cool and everything but I'm having problems with playing against Lion. Not Lion per se, but a friend of mine who uses him and likes to use his sabaki all day. I eat it a lot. He'll stand and wait for me to attack and sabaki whatever comes his way. Considering that Lion's sabaki works against most kicks, I'm having difficulty working Sarah around this.

 

I have been in that situation, Lion pulling out a billion meteor punches (this is his sabaki right?) Basically, if thats all he does, just wait and abuse the guarenteed grab. You may notice it also parrys a lot of 'from flamingo' moves, dish out a spinning low or mid, problem solved.

 

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Klandestine said:

Hey all. I just started using Sarah about a week ago. She's pretty cool and everything but I'm having problems with playing against Lion. Not Lion per se, but a friend of mine who uses him and likes to use his sabaki all day. I eat it a lot. He'll stand and wait for me to attack and sabaki whatever comes his way. Considering that Lion's sabaki works against most kicks, I'm having difficulty working Sarah around this.

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If you anticipate Lion will do the sabaki, use ++ or ++, though the latter is way more risky. If you're in Flamingo, then use + or + hit throw.

 

Throwing

Anyone have any good strings/moves for Sarah where I can set up a buffered throw afterwards? I know P -> buffered throw will only carry me so far.

 

Re: Throwing

Some nice buffered in combos are
to buffered Throw
Any move (with advantage) into flamingo to buffered Throw
Forward/Backward Crouchdash to buffered Throw

Basically with Sarahs speed its always nice to dash around, crouch or not, and get in the ocassional unexpected throw.