KING JAIMY
Well-Known Member
I'll just give some advice/pointers:
If you're looking for lows, 1P is a good one. It tracks, crushes mids (!) and gives a good stun on Counter Hit, however it is near useless on Normal Hit.
As for her stun game, you can try to bait counter hits for example by delaying the last punch of 3PPP. Or go with moves that stun on normal hit (8P or 3K) to begin your deadly stun game. I usually open people up with CH 6K (i12) and extend with 6H+K Dragon Stance K. That's puts them in CB state and give a good amount of frame advantage. Also, a lot of people tend to hold mid punch after 8P so I'd say 8P~P is a good stun opener/extender. That being said, you don't need to really play the stun game. Honoka has excellent stun-launch damage which gives a good amount of damage.
I'd say 214P+K is not completely useless. It's pretty good after 6T. On block it gives +1; follow up with BKO P or BKO 4P to get a quick counter hit
I'd say Honoka is a great characters against mashers. If they don't respect her speed (i9 jab, i11 mid) and +8 after 6T, that's a lot of counter hits for you. On defensive opponents however, it's very hard to get in with her. Like you said, her lows are beyond terrible and she's very unsafe which makes it hard to get the stun sometimes.
Also, are you from the Netherlands by any means (judging from your name FreeStepDutch)? If you are, we can take this to a conversation and talk in Dutch with each other about Honoka.
