vs Sarah?

Help versus Sarah, I do pretty well but everytime I fight her I keep getting murdered by that stance.

 

Jeffry out-pokes her all day. You need to keep your distance from her and evade around her kick strings.

She is annoying though...Jacky, Sarah and Lion give me the most problems.

 

The thing is with Jeff on Sarah- you only have to guess right 1/3 of the time, if you do enough damage.

Sarah is one of the easier fights for Jeff I think. Jacky and Lion are much tougher.

 

To be honest I have played a lot of Jackys and I don't find him hardly as easy to read. Maybe it's because I have a friend who's played Jacky exclusively for years. Sarah though I'm clueless about again what do you suggest when it comes to the flamingo thing? I don't seem to be able to interrupt it easily.

 

I find that dodging and then getting a MC knee off is enough to decide the match. She has plenty of linear moves so side step.

 

Jeff's pokes are pretty much limited to /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif and /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/d.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif. I'm not sure about your logic here.

 

I haven't fought many Sarahs but I use /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/d.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/g.gif + /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif to interrupt many of opponents continuous attacks.

 

Yeah evade against Fl, but not all the time. She has a few anti SS moves like her catch throws g+k, 3p, and 2g+k, but no one can predict what you will do fully. If you successfully evade a Fl stance attack she is screwed. So force her to mix it up. If you just stand there and hope to interrupt you will be playing into her game. Plus find out what moves leave her in negative frames from FL. It may be better to wait for them then to try and interrupt all the time.

The question I have for Sarah player is how do you fight Lau?? I've been slowly seeing how to handle him, But nothing to reliable. I feel like she is just out matched by him.

 

I meant his long range kicks and lunging strikes like:

/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif
/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/df.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif + /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/g.gif
/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/f.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif + /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif
/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/d.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/k.gif + /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/g.gif

 

P+K,P and 4KP work well against her also. Backdash > 43P hit check games are another good idea.

 

Didn't try p+k,p but 4KP seemed to whiff, I'll probably just have to play her a bit to see how her flow charts go. But thanks for the advice. I'll try it out.

 

Don't abare so much, and you won't get stomach crumpled.

 

What do you mean by "abare" not familiar with the word.

 

abare - see

http://virtuafighter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=vf5:glossary

(from the vf5 link in the upper left hand site menu)

I'd be really curious as to what sarah players LEAST want to see from jeff in response to flamingo. . .

 

Personally I'd say the knee or splash mountain in response to gatling kicks.

EDIT: So I guess this would be a variable Jeffry has to keep in mind because this likely means that he can sidestep flamingo a lil bit more freely, cause gatling kicks is extremely risky if people don't respect flamingo. You can tell when people aren't respecting flamingo when you got stomach crumples over and over and over.

The risk/reward with Sarah vs Jeffry is messed up imo, because Sarah can't even get a floater off his blocked 6K Knee.

EDIT2: And if a floater was possible from the blocked knee, Sarah still wouldn't be able to get as much damage from it as Jeffry would've gotten on the knee hitting instead.

It's like Sarah can keep Jeffry locked down for the longest time, but you better not screw up or it's a wrap. I guess that's just how Sarah is anyway though, don't screw up. Keep it moral. etc.

 

blah sometimes i wish you people spoke english /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

Basically, what it's saying is Sarah can't take a lot of risk vs Jeff, or she risks round-ending punishment. Jeff has a hard time getting out of low-risk Sarah strats.

The problem with the knee/splash is that those are counters that often get stuffed unless Sarah really takes a risk.