Marisa is a heavy hitter in Street Fighter 6. The towering fighter is designed round dispensing huge harm, with some feeling that she offers an excessive amount of harm for her personal good.
One of the largest complaints we hear about Marisa is her capability to “2-touch” the opponent, which normally entails touchdown an enormous combo into her stage 3 tremendous in opposition to a burnt out opponent, then scoring a “assured” stun arrange utilizing Drive Rush into crouching medium punch. Under the appropriate circumstances, this arrange has been recognized to be unavoidable, nevertheless, prime participant Snake Eyez might have cracked the case on how you can truly get out of this horrible position — even when you do not have an excellent stocked.
In Street Fighter 6, Marisa is ready to utterly deplete an opponent’s full well being bar with simply two combos. Now, so as to take action, she typically must be geared up with the appropriate assets, and have the right circumstances in play earlier than she will be able to truly do it.
To begin, she wants to save lots of up and use her stage 3 tremendous in an effort to efficiently 2-touch KO an opponent. On prime of that, she wants most (if not all) of her Drive Gauge as nicely, and the commonest scenario the place she is in a position to do that additionally requires the opponent be burnt out and never have an excellent that acts as an invincible reversal stocked.
If all of these issues line up, you then’ll very seemingly see Marisa gamers use her stun arrange that the group thought was inescapable. The arrange goes like this: Marisa lands an enormous combo into stage 3 tremendous (which robotically corners the opponent), then on the opponent’s get up she Drive Rushes in and hits a meaty crouching medium punch into Drive Impact which, if not correctly countered, leads to a stun of the opponent.
The solely manner we have seen this arrange countered up to now was with using a strike invincible tremendous. Most characters have a stage 1 tremendous that matches this invoice, whereas some want to make use of stage 2 or stage 3 to get the identical end result.
However, when you discovered your self in that scenario with none tremendous stocked or not sufficient to get your invincible one, then Marisa would get what gave the impression to be a assured stun that you may not escape and ended up with you shedding the remainder of your well being bar.
For the primary time, although, we see a brand new manner of escaping this unhealthy scenario courtesy of Snake Eyez. In a recent set of replays that includes Snake Eyez’s Zangief going up in opposition to 801Strider’s Marisa, the highest stage grappler participant demonstrated a superb alternate manner of avoiding the stun.
Essentially, what Snake Eyez is doing right here is purposefully taking the hit from the crouching medium punch — however there is a twist. You see, in Street Fighter 6 there at all times must be a spot in between a traditional and Drive Impact to ensure that the Drive Impact to truly grant the extremely wanted Drive Impact results.
If there is not a spot, the Drive Impact will both merely push the opponent again on block and never wall splat or, if the conventional hits, it should combo with the Drive Impact as an alternative and once more won’t present the anticipated wall splat end result.
Typically with this arrange from Marisa, there’s a tight hole in between the Drive Rush crouching medium punch and the Drive Impact, and due to being a bit additional out when doing this, she can also be normally out of vary to be grabbed. This arrange leaves simply sufficient of a spot that the Drive Impact will nonetheless stun, and blocking, getting hit, leaping, again dashing, primarily every little thing you attempt to do exterior of a correct tremendous will get you tagged by it.
Snake Eyez’s answer, which is so extremely sensible, is to take the hit from the crouching medium punch, however to verify it is a counter hit by making an attempt to hit a button earlier than it lands. When doing so, the added body benefit from the Drive Rush and the counter hit make it in order that there isn’t any longer a spot in between the conventional and the Drive Impact, which ends up in it turning into a real combo.
As we see within the footage under, Marisa’s arrange finally ends up hitting as a 2-hit combo, which sends Zangief flying again, however doesn’t end in a stun. Snake Eyez was capable of escape on this situation, and managed to truly take the spherical as nicely.
The down facet to this counter is that you simply do must take intentional harm for it to work. However, in case you have sufficient well being, you are not a ton of injury from the measly two hits from Marisa. Compare that to the rest of your life bar being drained when you do get shocked, and that is a extremely good commerce off.
Surprisingly, taking harm to keep away from a nasty scenario is not a brand new idea. Most individuals are seemingly accustomed to this concept from again in Street Fighter 5 the place “take the throw” was the higher different to hitting a button when cornered and shedding half of your well being bar.
In Street Fighter 6, loads of professional gamers additionally deliberately take harm after they’re very near burnout in order that they do not block and find yourself shedding that final little bit of Drive Gauge they’ve.
This utility of the idea by Snake Eyez is good, although, and it is a arduous counter to one of many set ups that some individuals have had main points with.
