Yeah, a few months ago playing Granblue I hit a long losing streak and the salt wouldn't let me cut my losses. Tanked my win rate to 20%. I'm slowly recovering that win rate and improving in ranked but I also feel like I'm spinning my wheels a lot with it still. That one night looms over me.
I think the best way to beat him is to not let him start up. I’m no pro player, but the one thing Bison lacks is a wake up DP. Work to get a knockdown, drive rush and mix him up. Drive rush throw, drive rush overhead, drive rush low, drive rush neutral jump, drive rush into a standing attack. Stay on him, make him guess and don’t let him start up his offense. If you do he has tons of tools to get to you and it’s not gonna end good for you.
Quite a few matches are exactly this tbh it's probably worth trying to save drive and use reversal to stop any attempts to get in, not use too much on combos but try to keep ending combos with setups to continue pressure, and only spending meter if you know you can get the kill.
Bison is definitely op, i can't deal with with using Akuma, online is all about crouched back fishing for lows and drive rush, plus his jab almost always win on wake up, during missed combos and even at the end of his combos
Some Honda specific advice. Both scissors and p.crusher are airborne moves, if you do sumo headbutt *after* they start, you'll beat both cleanly. Up until a mine lands, damage output is heavily in your favor. Bison players know that, so they'll make landing that mine priority number one. Play defensive at first. Not only does it make reacting to stuff easier, but it will also let you know how patient, or impatient, the Bison player is. If it's the latter focus on checking DR and headbutting scissors. You don't even have to be perfect. In my humble plat 4 world, many Bison players will get frustrated even if you only counter them 3 out of 5 times. Oh, and Bison is still a charge character at the end of the day. And anyone who spends most of the time holding down/back is asking for an Oicho throw.
At the end, the only good strategy against Bison is to not let him do anything to you. It sounds like a joke, but it's the same with Akuma. The problem is that Bison is even more ridiculous in this game. Just don'tlet him get started. Think Bison ST. Same thing.
Great guide, a little bit of patience and taking a look at his more common scenarios he isn’t so bad to deal with. Gotta know the anti-boss strats right?
Air throws are very good at dealing with Bison's aerial shenanigans if your character is blessed enough to have one. If you're cornered jumping back after blocking a knee press very often results in a punish on Bison if he throws another one trying to wear down your drive.
From my testing this only work on quick recovery, on back recovery the separation makes it so that you have to delay the B.HK to reach and then you are getting a trade. If you do get that trade timing, your B.HK will whiff if they don't do anything. There is also zero reason not to back recover here, so i don't think the situation is great for him
Wow I must suck at this game cause I thought bison was kinda toned down from sfv and a bit worse but if ppl struggle this much and he’s got this much going for him idek
If you having problems with this game, don't think of this game as a real fighter but more of a way less challenging pushing button simulator. Mobile games offer more than a challenge than this game ever could.
Hey Mura , you definitely can land meaty hits after light and medium mine .. you just need to cancel your dr into them early and let Bison slide a bit (I tested with back hk , s.hk and st.mp). I don’t know if this is what you meant by “over committing” though. It’s still a useful guide either way , thanks for the upload
Its only on the quick rise, if the opponent does a back recovery the distance is too much. You can get the hit but you likely won't get a follow combo because there will be too much distance. It is in the video
Lol! Love that SFV PTSD flashbacks intro. It really does appear that the PTSD is for real as all of my friends has been feeling and saying the same thing. Great job on giving advance on how to approach Bison and I'm happy to see that you agree with the things I've been complaining about. Crossing fingers for Capcom to nerf bison much before evo starts.
As my man Dhalsim has gotten even more power crept through season two, and the return of our Lord M. Bison... I might just pick up Akuma for my sanity. Top 5 character with low health? As a filthy casual so what.
Kawano has a video dedicated to counter Bison ベガ shadow rise. Summary what to do 1) Air to air react as soon as shadow rise start up (lose to OD shadow rise => OD devil reverse) 2) Use normal to anti air when Bison do regular shadow rise (lose to shadow rise => delay head stomp) 3) Parry the head stomp, then neutral jump air to air (lose to shadow rise => do nothing / Bison escape by retreating in air after head stomp) 4) Parry the head stomp, then drive rush to catch Bison retreating in air after head stomp (lose to shadow rise => do nothing)
