From: cw21219@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Crying Freeman)
Subject: Re: Blanka x Guile
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 06:13:00 GMT

el27166@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (This Space for Rent) writes:

>ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos) writes:

>>Hey people, wake up! There's a misunderstanding here.

>>I was talking about the Classic edition, which the original poster refered to.

>>Blanka has no chance against Guile  *** In the CLASSIC edition. (at least
>>no one argued about that!!!!)

>I'd argue with that.  I always chose Blanka when my opponent was Guile.
>You never have to anticipate a sonic boom.  Just wait for it.  He'll
>throw it eventually.  Then you can get in and do some combos, or bite.

>Against Guile's who never sonic boomed, but only jabbed with an
>occasional forward sweep, you can knock them down with a well timed
>roundhouse.  Then you can jump in as their getting up with a fierce
>claw.  Guile needs to have very good timing in order to get off the
>razor kick.  If he doesn't, he gets caught in a dizzying combo.
>Most Guile's learn that it's safer to block.  In that case, you
>can walk in and bite, roundhouse, whatever.

>It amuses me when I visit other arcades, sometimes.  I'll play Blanka
>to beat whatever character they're playing, and they immediately
>switch to Guile.  It's ironic because I learned to play Blanka solely
>to beat Guile.  Therefore, I have a better chance of beating Guile
>than any other character while using Blanka.  Guile is NOT the Blanka
>killer.  It's the other way around.  Ask some of the UIUC street
>fighters.  Guile stands a better chance in CE because Blanka doesn't
>dizzy you when you make a mistake in CE.  One Blanka combo to dizzy
>you hurts.  Followed by another one, and you've lost the game.

>You can't jump in on Blanka (especially Guile), and you can't tick
>him.  And you certainly can widdle him away with blocked sonic booms
>when he's ahead.  Guile is pathetic when he gets behind on a good
>Blanka.  And a good Blanka can always get back into the game against
>Guile.

>>Blanka x Guile is evenly matched   *** In the Championship Edition

>No,  Blanka still maintains an advantage.  Mainly, he can do the ball
>without fear of taking massive damage.  I used to play Blanka without
>ever doing the ball in classic.  Now, I use it to hit Guile just before
>he starts the sonic boom.  It works great.  Hey, I play Guile, I KNOW
>when you're supposed to do a sonic boom, and when you're not.

>>[I don't have a TCE within 50 miles radius anyway]

>Just wondering, do you play Blanka or Guile?  If you play Guile, then
>you simply don't have decent Blanka competition.  If you play Blanka,
>then either you have unghodly Guiles, or you can improve your game.

>We have pretty decent Guiles here, I guess.  Four fierce combos,
>etc. are commonplace.  They're better than the ones at UIC (X-man's
>university), anyway.  Last year, I crushed many a Guile player
>using Blanka.  Those silly people can't even counter throw.  They
>were even surprised when I could bite out of Guiles jab-jab-throw,
>sheesh!  That's kid's stuff!  Before I went there, they hadn't
>even seen Blanka combos or Guile combos.  Some of them even called
>me 'cheap' because I would throw or redizzy them with Guile combos.
>Well, it's not my fault they never learned to counterthrow or block
>correctly!

>>--- ramos

>Rambling on...
>Ming

>-- 
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I woulda picked Blanka to fight Guile as well, but one thing that gave Guile
an advantage was the backfist... (In classic that is) It is similar to the
Guile keep Zangief away with the roundhouse. As long as Guile didn't screw
up, you could keep Blanka away, often with a perfect... Of course if you
screwed up, it's a different story... I'll admit that YOU personally were
pretty tough to fight as Guile vs. Blanka for me, but Quinn would have a
definite advantage back then as Guile vs. your Blanka (if I remember right..)

In addition, I never really had any trouble with any other Blankas. I could
usually run them over...
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 Kenneth C. Wang	| University Of Illinois Champaign-Urbana	
 			| Internet: c-wang@uiuc.edu			
			| AKA Che-Yuan Wang