Tips on fighting against Paul

[Total_Newb]

I am a noob dragunov player and every time i play against paul i get destroyed. Can someone give me any tips? I try to stay at range 1 but whenever i try to push in to attack i eat a deathfist most of the times. I am at 3rd dan. Any tips on how to fight against him would be helpful.

[pablonesmrtelny]

if you are eating keepout deathfists you might as well eat other more powerful keepout options like df2 or qcb4.

If you have trouble getting in try dash into block - or do a dash forward and then dash backwards. if opponent whiffs something you can punish him. If he does something and you block it you have the initiative and can freely attack.

[pablonesmrtelny]

BTW if you have problems with Pauls Demo man (the low sweep) - it has notoriously bad range and does not track to the Paul's left. So the solution is to backdash a little any time you get too close to Paul without initiative or Sidestep/sidewalk right.

[SivaD]

https://youtu.be/hgdikUFFKVc

[The Man Who Erased His Name]

paul has two stances (forward sway) QCF
in qcf he can do deathfist (2 button) with 1 button he can launch you with elbow(its a high) and 3 button is a (low)counter hit knockdown. his 4 is a default whilerising move.(mid)pretty safe

and his other stance is QCB (back sway) his 4 button is a high counter hit launcher. 2button is a mid pushback hand great on wall-combos. his 1 button is like a hammer fist, that launches on counter(mid) 3button is a low kick that goes into a string (qcb 3,2,1) the last hit is a high -however he got an alternate 3,2,3 mid stomp
-forgot to add qcb,1+2 is a mid launcher also kinda useless. i mean it crushes some moves however

the other "secret" about paul he can do df1(back) that allows him to go into qcb stance.
same with 3,2(back)

hope this info helps you i mean give you more knowledge about his moves