VF5 Lau Thread

Lau deserves his own thread soI translated Lau section of the VF5Memo website. I couldn't comment on most of the moves because I didn't see enough Lau videos yet.

He seems to have interesting new options and I hope his new play style is as scary as his new look /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif


New Moves:

High
High
Middle
Low? Low P?
High
High

High?
High?
Middle?

While standing Middle
Linear? Opponent falls on his butt on normal hit

Middle
Similar to Shun’s Move. Can start a combo.

Middle
Small jump kick, can start a combo on a counter
Middle
Follow-up to , when hit, opponent falls on his butt. Can be delayed

+ High

+ Middle? Punch?
High P and High K? sabaki. Crumbles on counter or successful sabaki.
Finally a sabaki for Lau! Good news!

++ Guard break?

+ New throw
A knee to the gut. Former + throw is now +
+or Knee to the side

Changes to existing moves

Motion change

Doesn’t float on counter hit anymore
Damn! That was one of my favourite moves!

and got removed

Motion change

Motion change. 2nd K knocks down

While standing got replaced by a new move

changed to +

got replaced by a new move

+ got removed. This command is now for Final Tuned’s + move

+ changed to +
Basically the old palm upper got changed back to it’s former command.

+ changed to ++

+ got removed, it is now for Final Tuned’s move

+ got worse. On counter? Turns opponent sideways

Tiger stance First hit staggers. 2nd hit floats

+ throw changed to +

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

Thanks for this!! One suggestion, change references of "medium" to "middle?"

Lau seems to be more focused as a poking character. He's lost his full-circular sweep, which was a deadly move for a character like Lau, but his poking attacks (punch strings, jump kicks, butt staggers) seem strengthened. Sadly for me personally he seems more boring to play now than before.

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

Edited, thanks for the tip.

Too bad he lost his full circular sweep...
There aren't many videos of him which is strange, after all he's one of the popular characters in Japan...

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread



Choose you poison:
Mid
Low

Lau's while standing now hits opp off the ground due to its low hit detection.

Now + shares the same follow up chains with .

Am I reading it wrong?!?! The and + floats on small counter /versus/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Yes, that means there will be more "Tranz" to do float combo!

Linear attacks are weakened in exchanged for no guarantee counter attack for blocking Lau's moves.

With plenty of throws, guard breaking moves, Lau's "Best defense is offense"!

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

The last part applies to his while standing . It's no longer half circular, and like you said, it's now uncounterable and causes stagger.

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

It looks like the , combo works in both open and closed stance now. , + combo doesn't seem to hit anymore.

 

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Do you know if you can still switch to tiger stance after + ?

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

How awesome is + in VF5? It's like a slow version of Lau's VF2 upknife all over again!

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

you can not go into tiger stance anymore after +.

Don't fear though, it is now one of Lau's most powerful weapons.

You can still do this special high followup from evo/FT, but you have also have to option of doing Lau's upknife followups. Lau has gotten a huge boost in terms of strength from this change.

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

Article - VF5 Combo List Lau
Author Hanabi Lau
Source - Myke
Translation - Noodalls

1. or or or
2. or or
3.
4. +
5. +
6. + +
7. Counter hit + or Sabaki + +
8. Counter hit + or Sabaki +
9. Sabaki + +
10. or +
11. +
12. Wall in front +
13. Any side crumple
14. Any side crumple +

Combo 1 is the basic slam down combo, and works on all characters. Combo 2 does more damage than , and the spinning knockdown means you can go for a small down attack. In open stance for and in closed stance for it will work on Wolf and Jeffrey. Against Wolf when the connects, input the with joystick neutral. Input all as fast as possible and it will be fine. Against Akira in open stance it will work after . Combo 3 will work up to Jacky in either foot stance, and in open stance it does more damage.
Combo 4 will work on characters up to Jacky, and against Akira in closed stance if you omit the it will work. Against other characters 5 is guaranteed. Combo 6 is good at carrying the opponent, and the damage is good, working on Pai, Brad, Lion, and in closed stance Sarah and Vanessa. Combo 7 bascially works in both foot stances for high damage, after the + on light weights and Lion, Blaze and Shun. After a successful sabaki it will work on light weights and Lion. Combo 8 and 9 are for the other characters.
Combo 10 is Lau's signature combo, use it when the first move launches. You can go straight to the string, or confirm a counter hit and change. Against heavy characters go for
Combo 11 uses the wall, and will work after or . If the last of hits them onto the wall, the string will splat them. As they are falling, you can use +to relaunch them and follow up from there. Depending on the angle, you can use the wall again and get .
Combo 13 and 14 are side stun crumple combos. Combo 13 works on all characters. Combo 14 works when Lau is at the opponent's stomach side, against light weights, and is the best damage. Conversely, if you launch them from behind as often happens, the combos won't connect.

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

One quick addition: in the Arcadia VF5 section, there's a picture of Lau's avoiding Kage's elbow!

 

Lau have a guard break??
so whats the best thing to do then? any mixed up??

 

In Japan, I got hit w/ Lau's Break Guard, followed by /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif+/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif, where the /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif+/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif floats.

I'm not the best struggler in the world, so I'm sure this can be avoided, but it really sucked! The animation for this Break Guard is really fast.

 

Cool -- it sounds that /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/b.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/f.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif would work even better than /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif at the very least.

 

I tried that a few times and never hit it on anyone... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif

 

Any struggle if you don't recover fast enough will float with /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif

 

well yeah sounds pretty good to me /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

I never played VF2, but it is like VF3 Lau's upknife and that is friggin' sweet! This is my first day with VF5 and so far I am liking the Lau changes, even though they aren't so drastic.

I never played FT, so these new Tiger stance moves will take a while to get used to as well, but that's why we practice.

 

Re: VF5 Koenken Master Lau Thread

Is the P after 3PK combo JF timing?

 

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You mean /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif+/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif > /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif? Nope.