Shadoken
Member
Nah, rush punches are effectively safe in practice.
Safe? Yes. But they are always negative. Meaning it is your turn. Throw in a well timed neutral jump and the rog player would be scared.
Similarly those Safe on block normals can be made to whiff and whiff punished.
Balrogs Neutral game isnt the problem , his ridiculous damage is. And his ridiculous damage of a Random Un-reactable move is whats making him a dumb character right now. Especially since it carries you to the corner , then he does a mixup and kills you.
People don't like getting hit once by a move across the screen or by a pretty safe cc cormal and losing half their life bar which leads into more pressure while the opponent still has vtrigger left for potentially big damage again.
Guile might a better character or as good as urien, balrog and laura but he gives you a lot more chances to figure the person who uses him out and his pressure doesn't make you feel that the match is just a big guessing game although the upside down kick is a little ridiculous to me.
Yea I think this is whats keeping Guile low key right now among the casual player base.
He isnt part of the Get hit once->VT->Mixup->Death crew that URien,Laura,Rog are a part of. But he is just as strong.