Free Step Dodge

Alpha is not as fast as Sarah.

In other news, Alpha has a multitude of reliable high crushes, man. No idea what you're talking about there.

Well alpha is faster. Shut up Brute! Lol let me argue xD

i was about to say alpha is NOT as fast lmaoo

Uh 7k with alpha IS safe. You cant throw punish it.....

How is alpha not as fast as sarah? What am I missing? Sarah has an 8 frame jab?

Yea SR. I asked TN to buff Sarah's jab. Now im about to ask to buff 6p to 9 frames. LOL

Its crazy cuz im seeing wrong stuff in here. Alpha is as fast as sarah and sarah doesnt have strings. Even though alphas strings are mids people still have to respect them meaning you can free cancel and mash random shit all day. As sarah even when im in a stance I can get crushed out of it and have to be smart about what I do when. Her parry got nerfed and isn't as viable as it used to be.

Also alphas 7k is a crushing flip kick thats SAFE. it used to be so safe you could recover and mash luckily they fixed that. Point is alpha has fast strings you can mash. Sarah does not. Speed wise their the same. They both have a 9 frame punch and 11 mid.

Alpha has an 11 frame mid? Which one? I was under the impression her fastest mid was i12

Ah. whoops lol. Im wrong about that. Either way her jab is still 9 frames and has string follow ups lol.

Yeah well I'd take a high-crushing 11 frame mid over a 9 frame jab any day. Sarah still has the speed advantage since her 11 frame mid is not beaten by alpha's jab (meaning no attack alpha has can beat that mid).

Oh, yeah, the BT7K. Wasn't considering that as it's such a gimmick tool, you block that and get to have fun.

My comment was mainly a joke, as I would never consider Ayane's BT 7K a comparable tool to Sarah's 6P, I was just making a mention that she had it.
That said, gimmicks can go a long way in this game when used right.

Wait Brute, I thought Alpha's jab, 6p, 2p were all the same frames as Kasumi's? And wats with her 7k? I heard it got nerfed but now we are saying its safe again. Its like -2 or something?

Yeah, I just didn't think of it because it's so flawed a tool, LOL. Mea culpa.

Alpha's 7k is 12 frames. jab is 9. 6P is actually 13 iirc.

Requiem: Ryu's ongyoin parry should never work on match-start because you see him enter that stance, you approach accordingly. But, he can mask the animation transition with the distracting "FIGHT" logo and get away with it. Ayane could egg a front stance only to pull some similar shit against someone like Leifang,

"Flawed tool?" Yes. But not everyone has the option of flawless tools.

OK, there's "flawed" and "not really worth it, come to think of it". The asterisk on that one, to me, is that bad.

What asterisk?

I had a guy tell me Helenas BT is a terrible tool lol.