Yeah, I had a feeling he wasn't playing to Dhasim's strength. I get what he was up to. Tempt an easy target, then do that big fist swing when I jump at him. But after repeating it too much, I found a counter and he didn't change that up too much. As for the fireballs, yeah I'm gonna command dash those from now on. But I hadn't faced a Sim before, so I wanted to observe. I did learn a few things from it, like Ressenha is NOT completely fireball immune, but the legs likely are. Good to know for my first Rashid whenever I meet one of those.
I need to leverage Training Mode more than I do. I badly need to give Karin some teeth in something, just something that can be done on reaction without thinking too hard. It feels to me like the matches where I do well are those where I focus on normals more. I honestly think that with just basic spacing and footsies, and a couple of punishes that really hurt, I could step up my game significantly. Less gimmicky full screen specials, more just walking up and kicking them. I mean between st. MK and cr. HK she has the reach to do that. So why not?
I also learned that Karin's Tenko launcher comes in two flavors which need different timing on their followups. Well THAT explains a lot. I should have known, since she has different voice clips for them. I think the followup of choice is LK scissor kicks, which makes sense. I'd like to find one that works on both the fast and the slower Tenko, just so I don't have to worry about that just yet.
