Blanka was overpowered that's the only reason mena one... He couldn't win with luke so reverted always back to a op broken character to win... Even japan's top couldn't escape the throw loops in the corner it was to the point of broken but the patch is coming out now for balancing that will fix the broken mechanics.. so will slip back into nothingness, let's see if he wins anything now.. Guarantee he won't
How are you going to play any different vs Blanka? Are you going to do something about blocking Blanka level 2 or just die like these guys did? Mental had nothing to do with it.
@@MKP2W In my very humble opinion, cause these guys would smoke me...I think Punk could probably practice the Luke Blanka matchup specifically, cause he looked completely lost at first but started to get something going a little later, but it wasn't enough. I think Nuckledu definitely, definitely could have won a game or two but even Wong was saying that he was playing nervously and you could see it. He played so defensive even when he had opportunities to apply pressure. Meanwhile nothing about Mena's playstyle changed. He was confident and aggressive throughout.
Yea, I think that's why Broski also manage to hit Menard hard. That dude has mental nerves of steel when fighting best player in the wolrd and can still perform really well.
I feel so bad for punk, the amount of times he’s lost to blankas in bracket. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s seeing blanka in his nightmares right about now
I don't think it's the Blank tbh , but just the nerves. I've seen him easily beat Problem x Blanka and Mena's blanka as well, but when he is about to win he chokes. It's a pattern that happens all the time sadly...
@verdadesfatos-vk2kx that’s literally not true lmao. It doesn’t even make sense anyways. He’s maimed Cammy from the beginning and she wasn’t even in the hacked version of the game
I don't think people are talking enough about that sequence from 10:10 - 10:30. Look at Punk's health at the start of that play. I've never seen a Blanka reset like that before.
This is why Mena wasn’t really sweating the loss at CC; he knows he good enough to make it to the finals and win every single year. He’s definitely top 3 of the best SF players ever!
He choked at the most important tourney, but he's got so much money from two previous CC wins and other tournaments I doubt he cares much about the money
@@kithuryanvinayagaindran9153he got more than enough money to live well in his Country. Even better having a chance next year to get that million. He really cares about winning evo
Mena is top 3 right now. But sorry, not top 3 of all time. That’s the kind of stuff to say when you ignore the past and history of the FGC. he still needs more time to cement his legacy as a goat
Beating so called pro players and making them look like amateurs consistently is what makes Mena a top 3 SF player. Now calling him the goat of SF would be premature at the moment. Why bring up the past when he destroyed them too??? That’s why I can boldly say stuff like this. So I’m not sorry.
I don't remember anyone bullying Mena to be honest, he was upsetting alot of players early on in his career, he's never been a weak player in my view. I think Punk has lost his edge, he was never the same after that defeat in one of the finals a few years back, you can tell that really crushed him, it should have been his year.
Blanka is well, the problem is that there's not much people that play like that with him, that's the reason why they don't see what's coming when you are fighting against him.@@leitungswasser4285
Stop trying to act like Blanka is carrying Mena. Like Blanka all of a sudden is an overpowered character. Accept that Mena is the superior player and you're just a hater. Stop trying to digitally B.J. punk. Have some respect for yourself. Dude got 5-0'd, there's no competitiveness there, that's a wash. punk used the best character in the game, you clown.@@leitungswasser4285
Amo leer los gritos y quejas de los haters hablando de blanka como que es un personaje roto y quitandole todo el credito a Mena, entonces les exorto a todos usar a blanka para que ganen todos los torneos, jajaja, haters sigan llorando y mamando que el toro solo esta calentando. 💪🇩🇴
Tu as raison ! Tout le monde parle de sa Lvl 2 mais c'est difficile à maîtriser et très aléatoire, en fonction de la défense de l'adversaire. La Lvl 2 de JP est bien meilleure, celle d'Ed et de Rashid aussi probablement ! Le match-up contre Guile est très défavorable pour Blanka, tout le monde sait ça. Il a battu Nuckledu parce qu'il connaît parfaitement ce match-up en s'entraînant avec Caba, et surtout parce que c'est Mena. Je doute que Problem X ou Nishikin auraient battu Nuckledu...
@@Mack9077 He choked at the most important tournament of the year, Capcom Cup. He performed way under his level, easily a top 3 player but didn't even make top 8, barely made it out of his pool lol
@@Mack9077 When people lose to Mena they choke, when Mena loses it's a loss and not a choke... right. Fact is he performed way below his level on the most important event of the season, he couldn't play his best when he really had to
I’m seeing a lot of comments about punk choking I don’t think yall really understand. This was an issue in sfv too. No one and I mean no one plays blanka so preparing for him especially at this level of play is extremely hard. Finding anyone to train with especially with menas level on this character is also hard. So it’s near impossible to beat the character. One of punks videos from I believe like 3 years ago he explained just how random this character is. There was really nothing he could’ve done no one has even dedicated this much time to the character so props to mena for even learning to get blanka this good. But do not think for one second punk is trash. This is a hard matchup for pretty much every straight fighter character. It’s just not played enough which gives the user the advantage. Good job to both players 🙏🏿
Except for....1 tiny little bitsy thing...............Mena and Punk are FRIENDS, like he just need to ask Mena to play him ft5 at least 1 time a month if he really wants to LEARN that match....and no not tell me the BS excuse that they not do that....du and Mena play a lot online and Mena is a friendly dude if Punk ask he will give him the practice.....but he never do that....maybe pride or what ever, but that is cost him MONEY so nope he is in this position because he not reach to do more to improve, Mena live now in US is even easier to have sets with him than before when he lived here in DR.
How fucking naive and stupid are you to believe that Punk simply has to ask mena to let him practice against his main so he can beat him in a tourney with money on the line! Wow
@@Kusanagikaiser999You're late. Back when the WW east just started Punk asked him that ON STREAM and Mena invited him, threw a blanka chan then booted him. Mena ain't tryna help someone who he's in big competition with, even if they're friends. He wants Punk to figure it out.
@@Kusanagikaiser999 I don’t think there really close or friends bro more of acquaintances mena mainly sticks with his group of Brazilian players such as caba not saying he doesn’t play other people online but I don’t think him and punk are close like that even you listened to the commentators for most of his matches you can hear them say say that mena actually trained and plays a lot with caba and his Brazilian friends not saying he’s not friendly but stating facts g
Yep, a lot of kids new to fighting game simply don’t understand. Punk is not a “choker”, he doesn’t falter in high stakes situations. He simply got outplayed here against Mena’s Blanka. You guys don’t even know Mena or Punk. Have you even watched KMT24? Mena pretty much beat everyone like Punk including KnuckleDu who also had no answer against a top level Blanka. Mena, Punk, Du and all the other guys are some of the greatest SF players of this era. Same goes for Tokido, Big Bird, Oil King, Angry Bird, Nephew, Leshar, gachikun, iDom, Broski and Bonchan. I think most of you don’t understand how KMT works. It’s single elimination. Mena almost lost to Broski 5-4 in the first of 16 and eliminated him then. Big Bird beat Tokido 5-1 when it’s clear that Tokido would have faired way better had he advanced against Bird. Same for Oil King who got eliminated by Lesham first 16 round. KMT has no losers bracket like EVO. It’s a classic KO system. Exciting, but not accurate. The matchup means everything. Player A always beats Player B. But Player C always beats Player A. And Player B always beats player C. Mena deserved the win. He’s been consistent and is incredible. But the match up is a matter in fighting games. No one has a concrete answer to Mena’s Blanka yet. We still in the first year of SF6. That’s why I know most of you are new to the FGC or following the tourneys. The balance always changes. Other players will surpass Mena in another year and new and old faces will reappear in grand finals. That’s what happens during the cycle of ANY fighting game. Mena is not being carried by Blanka. That’s an excuse fairly new made by players new and salty about their limits. But it is true that it’s hard to lab and prepare against Blanka. Same for Daigo’s Yun back in the day. Poongko’s Seth, Infiltration’s Hakan. It always changes and that’s why it keeps being entertaining. The life of a fighting games goes through it’s own changes and evolution. Punk isn’t washed. Mena isn’t forever unstoppable. The same people throw around terms like “greatest of all time” or “washed” so easily when they are proven wrong every single time. Congrats to Mena. But none of the players career here is even remotely over. Just wait and then you will understand.
MenRD became Shadow Master Sun Jinwo of Solo Leveling . My god he was literealy obliterating everyone in this tournament... like with the likes of Punk who keeps spamming Cammy with those mid-air canon drills.. those were completely shut.
@@bulb9970 It’s funny how you are straight up lying to make a poor attempt at an excuse. You are allowed to have fun in video games. You are allowed to be crap at video games as I’m certain you are. You don’t need to idolize anyone playing better than you. Nobody ever said you couldn’t. But if you act pretentious and mock a pro player as if he is trash and as if you can do better, you do look embarrassing. You the type of kid that watches sports and goes “God, this guy sucks. How did he miss that, he is trash lmao” So yes, you can talk down on players far better than you. But you ain’t immune to criticism and consequential either
Goddamn people it's okay to just say you hate Punk for his antics. But choking? The fuck nuckledu did, then? He was 5-0d as well. Gachikun 5-1? Bruh just watch the other semis with Du not letting that chun li move the entire game, only to get absolutely mauled by Mena. Give the guy his credit, he plays Blanka like no one else. That's it.
Du's 5-0 was different. He knew that Guile can do a lot more about Blanka than either of Punk's characters could, specially with Mena being one of the best Lukes in the world, so you Punk did not get much from the character swap when Mena knows the character inside out. Du put up a really close fight for each of those 5 games, with Mena edging him out with better decisions at key moments. Punk took 1 round then crumbled.
@Unit27 the first part of your comment already described why it's not a choke, then??? If punk couldn't do anything because of match-up and Mena just activating God mode, why would that be a choke? A choke would be if he was favored to win and CHOKED, not that! And the only difference between his and Du's 5-0 is as you said. Guile could do more against Blanka, and almost win A round. That's it. Du was demolished aswell, it was basically a replay of punks, of just getting cornered and being absolutely mauled. Only with guile it took a bit more time to do so. That's all. Saying Punk crumbled like Du was in some kind of "control" is nonsense. Both got the living shit kicked out of
Man seeing how much they've both improved throughout these years is just wild. Mena really had me lost on his movements but really loved it and very impressive and also very tough to beat. Good stuff yall
Mena's Blanka has been beaten, so you can't blame game imbalance. Plus, Mena had a really tough match before he swept Punk. So Punk has nothing to complain about. He just needs to figure the character out. He has to face his demon. It's not like Infiltration's Nash in SF5 when he won EVO. That character was on skates and was pretty unstoppable before he was nurfed.
@@llamabot9889 Bwahaha! This is the most balanced version of SF in many years. My TedTalk was specifically about Punk requesting a nurf of Blanka because he can't beat him. You so desperately wanted to be in the conversation that you just said some random stuff lol. Well, you did it champ. Congrats on insulting someone over the interweb!!! Oh, and Luke has been beaten handily, even when Punk plays as him. So be easy buddy. You can't win'em all.
Mena has always had Punk's number, and Punk knows it. Punk is my favorite SF player, but for all of the skill he has, I think it is clear he needs to work on his mental game to hit the next level. He always gets so close, but can't close. It's not a lack of skill...
I wouldn’t say so at all. Punk used to beat Mena all the time in SFV. It’s not mental game. Punk has proven that he can handle pressure in all his tourney entries over the years. The issue is Mena’s Blanka. No one has a solid answer yet. It’s a rarely picked character and no one labs against him. Why do you think NuckleDu lost in the same manner as Punk 5-0? And Gachikun 5-1? And Broski who wasn’t a runner up like Punk and Du almost beat Mena 5-4 in the first of 16 round. Mena deserved to win, he’s been consistent and hard working. But not knowing the Blanka matchup in SF6 plays a role. Same for Poongko’s Seth or Infiltration’s Hakan back in SSF4. SF6 is still in Year 1 of it’s life span. As in every game in the FGC, there will be new champions old and new faces emerging and leaving. But all these players as Punk, Du, Mena, Bird, gachikun, nephew, iDom, Tokido, Bonchan, are still in their prime. Everything will change. People say Punk washed or Tokido washed since SF5 but they got no idea and are always proven wrong with every year of the shelf life of a SF title. Mena on top now. But Punk and the rest of the best of the best not even nearly done.
@@llamabot9889 Listen, friend; Mena is up there but in a community as contested as SF, saying one player is the best when they lose here and there, but also win, it’s a little too biased. As a Dominican I believe that Mena is one of the great, but not the greatest. If he was the greatest, he would’ve won that tournament in the Middle East, or place 1st at Evo instead of second or he would’ve at least make it top 3 at Capcom Cup. Again, this community it’s extremely contested with good players and it’s very difficult to crown one as the best above all.
After this, punk should respect a little more, he really likes making fun of Mena and look at the result, I mean he didn't win 1. His face says it all😅
