Drive reversal is still useless

[Johann Von Floydmann]

Idk maybe in lower ranks it's useful, but in my current rank spending 2 bars to pause the game for a second to tell your opponent "Hey now is your turn to block or jump so you can punish counter him for using DR" makes me question why this even exists.

[ryu600RR]

i'm in diamond and don't even know how to do it lol

[Johann Von Floydmann]

Originally posted by ryu600RR:

i'm in diamond and don't even know how to do it lol

After blocking immediately press forward + HK+HP, when knocked down, do the same but you dont need to block

[ryu600RR]

what's the recovery on block?

[Johann Von Floydmann]

6 frames IIRC used to be 8

[Jimmy Dee]

yeah, it has limited application. i wish there were a better reversal more like in MK. the wakeup reversal is great tho.

[STABURSACNSEE]

unless u play honda or dhalsim who cares

[Purple Monkey]

I don't use it, but I watch pro streams and it gets used all the time.

[Danny DeVito with a Gun]

Its use is gonna depend on the character. It doesn’t mean much to someone that already has an invincible reversal. For characters like Gief, Dhalsim, Marisa who don’t have a true invincible reversal until lvl 2, it’s nice to have.

It being less negative on block than an EX DP is pretty big too. -6 is still punishable for most of the cast but that’s a lot less damage compared to what you can get off an EX DP. It no long being -8 means a lot of heavy starters no longer work either

I think it’s underwhelming and still needs a bit more but the buffs are genuinely good

[Scrub]

It's ridiculously useful in defending drive rush combos. You need to know when it's smarter to spend the two bars rather than take the pressure.

[Valy]

its far from useless, in the areas where its strong its very strong

[Monkey P DOOFY]

Its not useless it just isn't something you throw out like tap drive parry (which is actually punishable now) used to be. Drive reversal used be super punishing if blocked since it was -8; a lot of characters you would get hit with a Heavy move as the starter. Now you have to do a 6 frame or quicker starter which have much harsher combo scaling as a starter.

I think a lot of people might struggle with thinking its a bad mechanic since the reward for landing it is you go back to neutral....and most people even at the higher ranks don't understand or can even extract value from that.