What to do against Asuka?

[yikes]

Just played as Steve against Asuka and she'd sweep my lows, parry or throw my mid/highs, or sometimes just duck them and punish.

[Zagryzaec]

Throw her

[꧁StiGGe༻ღ꧂]

Asuka is a defensive and counter based character. If she cant breath she cant swing. Just go full offensive against her.

[progste]

make her have to come at you and be less predicatable, also don't whiff/mash into her launchers.
Also if you bait the parry you can punish it.

[JudgeJuriMys]

Shes - on all her face buttons including Jab lol -2 there

[Zenkaiboost Kekkei Genkai]

she's super scrubby braindead and annoying i don't think i've ever rematched this character in tekken 7 or 8

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Most of asukas will kill themselves if you just wait for it that is how it worked in tekken 7 however in tekken 8 adding the moronic buffs to the character and game rewarding mindless pressing?
Idk man

[Zenkaiboost Kekkei Genkai]

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

Most of asukas will kill themselves if you just wait for it that is how it worked in tekken 7 however in tekken 8 adding the moronic buffs to the character idk man

no , if you just block they will get in your face and spam their stupid strings that go low and you can't react to and open you up for other bs , she's just scrubby garbage character made for noobs

it requires 10 times the skill to win against her than that skill required for her to win

same thing applies to Alisa and pretty much every other female character

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Originally posted by Legendrake:

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

Most of asukas will kill themselves if you just wait for it that is how it worked in tekken 7 however in tekken 8 adding the moronic buffs to the character idk man

no , if you just block they will get in your face and spam their stupid strings that go low and you can't react to and open you up for other bs , she's just scrubby garbage character made for noobs

it requires 10 times the skill to win against her than that skill required for her to win

same thing applies to Alisa and pretty much every other female character

The thing is when they try to do that they expose themselves to getting wiff punished as they spam and wiff from range 4.00 and then followup with random parry

Alisa on the other hand won't allow you to do that cause her neutral control is god like

[AvidExpert]

Asuka is very weak in T8 and her parry spam is countered by airborne moves i.e. hopkick now.

It has always been a weak MU for Steve though as Asuka can Subaki spam his ass.

I would just mash throws when + frames early on and see if they can adapt to that instead of trying to spam into parry/subaki.

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Asuka is very weak in T8 and her parry spam is countered by airborne moves i.e. hopkick now.

It has always been a weak MU for Steve though as Asuka can Subaki spam his ass.

I would just mash throws when + frames early on and see if they can adapt to that instead of trying to spam parry/subaki.

She got some chunky buffs recently gotta wait and see how it changes the meta

[AvidExpert]

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Asuka is very weak in T8 and her parry spam is countered by airborne moves i.e. hopkick now.

It has always been a weak MU for Steve though as Asuka can Subaki spam his ass.

I would just mash throws when + frames early on and see if they can adapt to that instead of trying to spam parry/subaki.

She got some chunky buffs recently gotta wait and see how it changes the meta

Either way she is a very very horrible MU for Steve, so as weak as she is even in T7 for Steve it's a nightmare to play Vs.

Her, Yoshi and some others are antithesis to Steve.

[Make otgf -9 pls]

Originally posted by D2 = Failed Electric.:

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

She got some chunky buffs recently gotta wait and see how it changes the meta

Either way she is a very very horrible MU for Steve, so as weak as she is even in T7 for Steve it's a nightmare to play Vs.

Her, Yoshi and some others are antithesis to Steve.

Well yeah in this matchup it do be like that

[[RNGR|x|GORO]]

Originally posted by Legendrake:

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

Most of asukas will kill themselves if you just wait for it that is how it worked in tekken 7 however in tekken 8 adding the moronic buffs to the character idk man

no , if you just block they will get in your face and spam their stupid strings that go low and you can't react to and open you up for other bs , she's just scrubby garbage character made for noobs

it requires 10 times the skill to win against her than that skill required for her to win

same thing applies to Alisa and pretty much every other female character

She's really weak in 8 and she got heavily nerfed as well. If you lose against her it's now up to you.

Yeah she got a new + frames move (wr1+2) but that's a high.

In 7 she was super cheesy and since the game itself was defensive, it was tough fighting against her. But in 8 it's the opposite. Ah and now her 1+4,2,d4 and 1,1,4 don't launch into a full combo anymore; they just guarantee an f2 or f3+4 and that's it... And it's still launch punishable on block.

[pablonesmrtelny]

Originally posted by Make otgf -9 pls:

Most of asukas will kill themselves if you just wait for it that is how it worked in tekken 7 however in tekken 8 adding the moronic buffs to the character and game rewarding mindless pressing?
Idk man

Yeah this. She has been really buffed and is very hard to deal with.

A bad asuka will still kill herself if you are somewhat patient and ssr block/duck and backdash mixes but a good asuka.... well get good at guessing and just play your game.

Beware mainly the d1+2 which has a little short range which means backdash to make it whiff (or challange) and hope for the best. wr1+2 from close up will make d1+2 unbackdashable and its a homing high launcher in heat too. So on approach she is kinda busted af.

And of course her defence is S++++ tier. So careful what you are pressing she has i14 ch launcher with fastest lowcrush property in the game, punch sabaki, kick sabaki, low parry launcher, b3, lowcrush launcher, highcrush launcher - you name it. And as a bonus 1+2 break launching throw from FC... but you can't be too passive cuz she will eat you alive so roll the dice and make best offensive decisions you can.

[s0_RoNerY]

Practice in training. Or uninstall. Or bug Harada to nerf her.