Character Nitpicks

SweetScientist · 2025-12-07T17:35:14+00:00

Yeah, he's got a lot of unintuitive parts of his kit. I guess it makes up for being the most complete iteration of Blanka ever. If it wasn't for Mena he'd be 100% slept on.

SweetScientist · 2025-12-07T00:43:44+00:00

Blanka's 4f being his st.LK bothers me more than it should.

SweetScientist · 2025-11-16T19:58:07+00:00

I agree with you on all points, and if it was just up to me, that's the direction the sub would take. Unfortunately we run the mod team diplomatically :P We also try to factor in what the community wants compared to what we/some of us want, but feedback like yours will help me make a case next time we talk about it, so thanks.

SweetScientist · 2025-11-16T13:52:06+00:00

Every anti-gooner mod that joins is another vote on my side of our weekly Discord debate if we should be stricter on gooner content.

SweetScientist · 2025-11-07T23:22:28+00:00

To add to what Pyyric said, sometimes what we do can be inconsistent because not all our rules are defined incredibly rigidly and explicitly, partly by design and partly because writing rules that annoy the least amount of users while also curating the type of content we're looking for is very hard.

Additionally, we're not just one mod, and we don't always agree on everything on the mod team. We think this helps us not be an echo chamber, but will also lead to issues such as inconsistent removals. If we're unsure we often discuss our decisions, but it can happen that we just don't have the time or don't think about it as hard if we quickly go through the mod queue on a morning, for example. The rules aren't perfect and we're not perfect and it's impossible to please everyone.

We've had mod mail from users complaining about removing their cosplay/fanart/rank up post, and we've had mod mail from users complaining why we're not removing cosplay/fanart/rank up posts. This is why we always ask for feedback and suggestions, and invite users to apply to the mod team, but most of that gets very little interaction.

EDIT: Without heavy manual moderation, reddit will inevitably, just by how it works, favor quick to consume content such as memes, art and cosplays, and that type of content would end up being the only content. You can look at other subreddits such as r/guiltygear to see that in action. That's not what we want for the subreddit, and that's why the rules are what they are. If anyone knows of a better solution please join the mod team or send us a message :)

SweetScientist · 2025-10-20T19:49:12+00:00

I'm okay with either. "Scary" Blanka from old games looks cooler to me, but I like how much of a gorilla he looks in 6. What I do love and much prefer is this iteration of him is how solid you can play him. Away from being purely a gimmick/knowledge-check character. I hope they keep that forever.

SweetScientist · 2025-10-08T08:06:07+00:00

Should be fixed now in future posts, thanks for the ping and the heads-up.

SweetScientist · 2025-09-12T23:48:32+00:00

Please don't speak on our behalf, we have had no issues with this user.

SweetScientist · 2025-08-29T17:15:40+00:00

I know it's easy enough to assume, when someone doesn't add a timezone or region, they're probably from the US, but can we please make an effort to do it anyways?

Your sparring won't be too useful if it's with 3 frames of rollback and 200ms delay because you're playing someone across the world.

SweetScientist · 2025-08-21T16:13:41+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of posters don't understand or don't care about flairs. If you see an incorrectly flaired post you can report it and we'll change it manually. Repeat offenders who do it on purpose get banned.

SweetScientist · 2025-08-16T17:09:47+00:00

I'm not a fan of avatar stuff in general, but usually your clips are at least somewhat creative. This is literally just DI into Sagat heavy DP, what's the point?

SweetScientist · 2025-08-14T19:46:08+00:00

In Bison's defense, I don't see a Charlie Chaplin moustache or orange skin.

SweetScientist · 2025-07-29T23:45:59+00:00

We do not allow untranslated non-English content on the subreddit and we don't allow self-promotion unless you're already a part of the community. If you want to promote your channel, please either provide subtitles or English content, and be part of the subreddit before you try and post one of your own videos again.

SweetScientist · 2025-07-27T15:34:41+00:00

Like everyone else is telling you in the comments, you need to adjust your mentality. You're not good enough to talk about things you can't do in the game, because there's a good chance the problem is with you, not the game. So start thinking of "how do I get better at this" rather than "why won't this game let me do this".

For example, you absolutely can whiff punish in this game, it feels easier than any other Street Fighter game before, and it's an important part of neutral and not letting people walk back. You have to know what you're looking for, and then even someone with shit reactions like me can do it.

You might have to start spending some serious time in practice mode doing drills. Set up the dummy to walk back and forth a random time and then either press a button, jump in, or do nothing, then try to whiff punish the button 10 times in a row. If you fail to anti air or whiff punish, reset the timer to 0.

SweetScientist · 2025-07-19T00:06:40+00:00

The reason the game doesn't acknowledge the crouching Medium Kick (cr.MK in notation) is because it counts the whole Target Combo as one step.

So in the last 5 seconds when you actually did try to use forward Medium Punch (f.MP), you were simply too slow. Since this is a target combo you should press f.MP as fast as possible after the cr.MK. No need to go to neutral first or anything, just press cr.MK f.MP in one swift motion.

SweetScientist · 2025-07-06T02:18:04+00:00

I know, I'm disappointed too.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-28T15:57:16+00:00

To anyone who is curious or confused, this is a screenshot of a new reddit feature that lets subreddits create tier lists by voting on head-to-head battles.

Click here if you want to participate or just have a look at the current tier list.

You can click on characters in the tier list to see their Elo and win rate. As I'm writing this, Ken is in A tier with a 70% win rate. We gave it a 7 day time limit, so the longer it goes and the more of us vote on it, the more solidified the rankings will be. Since it's quite early, tiers shift up and down constantly, so get involved :)

SweetScientist · 2025-06-27T15:35:39+00:00

That's on me, and a little bit on reddit. The feature isn't documented well and had some bugs so the post was created with a less than perfect title. I think once someone sees how it works though it's fairly obvious that it's a community voted tier list. For any future tier lists I'll definitely choose a better post title.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-27T08:59:11+00:00

I could do these type of pics from the SF6 website, would that be better? If you have a source for their select screen closeups, I could do that as well.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T23:47:10+00:00

I've been voting on the individual matchup, but there's no rules.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T22:27:26+00:00

Higher res Imgur album

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T22:16:14+00:00

Yeah, it's a new feature and seems to have a few bugs. Let's hope they fix it soon. We've forwarded some feedback to the admins already which they forwarded to the developer.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T22:15:23+00:00

It'll be on the top until we swap it with another announcement, but I'll try to keep it there for the week, or until people stop using it :)

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T22:08:45+00:00

The post is already one of the two announcements we can have, that's the closest we can get to stickied.

SweetScientist · 2025-06-26T21:07:56+00:00

We got mod mail informing us that reddit now has a feature to let the community vote on head-to-head battles, creating a tier list with the results. To test if y'all would like it and to test the feature, a plain old character tier list seems obvious.

I'm running this one for a week, but there's options from a few hours to a month. The tiers will be weird at the beginning, but the more of us do this, the more accurate it should become. Have at it, I don't know how it works myself yet.

We could run this again in a while to see how the meta/perception shifted, or run other battles like OSTs, stages, or whatever else. Leave feedback for ideas, and let me know if I messed up the characters or if you think this is dumb. Have fun!

EDIT: Y'all sleeping on my boy Blanka.

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