About Ashrah

[Peck]

Instead of the usual pile of Barakka/Johny with Cyrax or Raiden, I have been running into a few Ashra's today.

I play Reiko and Shao and it seems whatever Ashra does, it's never my turn. Online she seems to keep you jailed/in blockstun and can recycle a string with the light(?) projectile/wave and start over again.

Shao has some range, but other than his kicks, Reiko's normals and strings are too stubby and I can't seem to interrupt or counterpoke her strings. Usually she seems to be plus on block, meaning I have to sit there and keep blocking and hope they do the overhead flip so I can punish.

Any tips from Ashra mains on how to deal with this pressure, or other players that have found a way around the seemingly non-stop pressure string?

[Peck]

It's a me problem? ;-)

[Kolumbo]

My advice from the Ashrah side, based on what beats me:

The F2-to-projectile jailing keeps edging her closer to you, and the F2 is a High. I can abuse the hell out of it against some people, but others know how to wait for her to be in range of a D4 or something like that, then go under the F2 - or let her get even closer, and just neutral duck the F2 and open me up for a full combo.

I also suspect you could do a reversal with an armoured special or kameo after blocking the F2, but haven't seen this in practice yet.

[Peck]

Originally posted by Kolumbo:

My advice from the Ashrah side, based on what beats me:

The F2-to-projectile jailing keeps edging her closer to you, and the F2 is a High. I can abuse the hell out of it against some people, but others know how to wait for her to be in range of a D4 or something like that, then go under the F2 - or let her get even closer, and just neutral duck the F2 and open me up for a full combo.

I also suspect you could do a reversal with an armoured special or kameo after blocking the F2, but haven't seen this in practice yet.

Oh so there is a gap/space in there, based on the positioning.
I tried amour special, which did get me out, but with stubby Reiko, once I lose initiative I;m not getting it back. And since they all ran Scorpion for double air juggles, I need the bar to break as well.

Ashrah seems pretty strong to me, good normals and some really fast movement.

[Kolumbo]

Yeah she's my main at the moment and I'm really enjoying it - she's definitely strong. But that F2-projectile sequence is kind of her only real *pressure* - like sure she's safe on basically everything else, but that's *all* she is, and once people realize it they are able to take their turn back almost any time.