Why Capcom will never let Blanka be top tier again. 

A year later Blanka wins the first major of SF6. This is on you @jmcrofts.

Actually the most powerful thing about this iteration of Blanka is his character portrait

Blanka's character portrait in match is nightmare fuel

I love Blanka but everytime I play against someone as him my opponent just looks miserable and Im sure Capcom knows hes just one of those characters lol

I 100% am that guy that says "Man, I wish my arcade had fighting games when I was younger." Because back in the 90s when I was born, there was a physical altercation over a fighting game so they removed all fighting games in the only arcade on my island.

This didn’t age well. :)

Didnt age well

Blanka will always be top tier in my heart.

I'm from the future and Blanka just won SF 6s first major tourney... fake low tier on everyone's tier lists

Well this didn't age well.

I feel like Capcom is slowly regretting making Blanka a character since they now realize that people actually like this character. Which means they have to make merchandise of Blanka. Blanka-chan confirmed merch? Maybe? But I always found Blanka pretty fun to play. He's not my main, but he's the character that taught me about charging.

i love how happy this dude is. he could be getting totally destroyed and hell just go "yooo sick combo bro" like this dude has the best energy

It never occurred to me until just now that Sagat's character portrait is based on his hilarious victory screen in SF1.

It’s the same with Vega too. He committed crimes in the past and deserves punishment

As a life long casual Blanka main, CVS 2 was such a nice change. I'm just glad the dream happened in such a good game.

I can´t believe I spent almost the whole video without noticing JM Chang in the background there.

I'm still salty

As a heads up, Blanka is very good in Hyper Fighting. His vertical ball hits on the way down in that game and it leads to many bite traps. Plays kinda like a grappler because of that.

And Blanka in this game was even nerfed from it's previous iteration on CvS1. Aside from some tools like the electricity (which make up from the rest) and V-combos that doesn't exist, what he have is waaay better. He is a lv1 character stronger than most lv2 in all aspects. Also, his ball is much safer, at 'low' health on snk groove he got his pretzel electricity super which is ridiculous, and he can easily juggle his lv3 from grab mid screen (60~70% hp loss against some lv1 chars). Oh and he is one of the characters that greatly benefit from the C super bar glitch: [ get your hp/hk blocked by the enemy -> grab him = success ]

Some people STILL say "raiyuu" pants off Ryu and it annoys the shit out of me

Because the community will complain about it like they do with grapplers!

This video aged well.. (sf6 Blanka)

wanna state that if you intend to play a grrappler in this game....don't They are all trash, and can only be made to be passable by roll canceling this game absolutely despises command grabs.

I feel like they've done the same with Claw. He's still atoning for his sins in ST and CvS2

I mean the reason why Blanka is so strong in this game is obvious, just look at his portrait! It's the stuff of nightmares!

His character portrait is also top tier

I have never mained Blanka in any game,, but it just wouldn't be street fighter without him. Ono would be sad 😔

look how the tables have turned

They probably didn't mean for Blanka to be top tier in cvs2 either, it was probably an accident...

its not that i feel i should have been around arcade days but man i sure wish i could have experienced it

People know how to say Blanka and Guile now, some still doesn't know how to Ryu and nobody says Zangief right

This didnt age well.

🌸😹I find it to be of oddity that any ever referred to Guile as “Gillie”.😹🌸

Ohh man, I be so down for one of those history videos about how Justin Wong won Evo with Wolverine, Storm and Akuma.

Blanka as a character archetype is miserable to play against when he's top tier. The strength of a lot of his moves depends on whether the opponent is able to punish them(often to polarizing effect) and when they can't punish a lot of what Blanka does it makes the matchup feel awful for the other character

It took me far too long to realize he put his own head over Chang's body.

16:47 - Kirby from Smash 64 to Melee. Consistent Top 2/Top 3 character in 64, now bottom-tier in Melee. Not only did he get nerfed himself, many of the changes to the game from 64 to Melee also adversely affected him. Pretty much the only character considered worse than him nowadays is Bowser.

Brazil FGC is pretty much a whole country of wrong generation players, since they kept selling the Sega Genesis into the late 00's a lot of young players today grew up with Super Turbo instead of SFIV.

Well this video aged poorly...

The worst part is when you listed Blanka's strengths in CVS2... He's got 90% of that in SF5. Electricity is plus and he's got strong neutral buttons... but the problem is that he really struggles to transition from "strong neutral buttons" to "in your opponent's face so you can electricity them". He's always had this element of "That character that has to try to get away with bullshit to succeed", and while that can steal wins at high level you'll struggle to have a consistent layer one to fall back on to get your opponent to fall for your tricks. Ultimately I think he's one non-metered, hitconfirmable knockdown away from being a mid-tier character in sf5. (Edit) There are also a lot of artificial failsafes on some of his moves that I don't really think are necessary. For example: You can't knock someone down and then use blanka ball for an ambiguous meaty crossup... sure, that's powerful but you don't *really* get anything from landing blanka ball other than a little damage and another knockdown, and it doesn't loop on itself, not even mentioning what the opponent can do to you if they guess right.

it kind of keeps me up at night I called Ryu "roo" and Guile "Glooey." To be fair I was only about 7 or 8 when SF2 came out but it was still pretty silly. I knew a kid who called "M. Bison" "Mr. Bison" and that always bothered me, too

This aged poorly

Yamazaki owns all. That is all.

I think the reason you "power up" when you play a character that jives with you because you go from trying to force situations in which said character is good and instead are naturally looking for those situations in the neutral and are taking less risks and more safe opportunities to get there.

so, this aged like milk didnt it lmao

Vanilla SFIV Blanka was top tier. They just nerfed him up the wazoo in Super.

SF6 MenaRD entered the chat*

Judging from first lines, I assumed we talking Vega. He's been paying for his sins in Super Turbo ever since.

Blanka is top tier in SF2 Hyper Fighting

Blanka is considered chosen ratio+1 in Capcom vs SNK. That's saying something

He's actually pretty good in Hyper Fighting.

CvS2 was such an awesome game! It got as much play with my group of friends as MvC2! We preferred to not play Ratio Match in this game. Too bad SvC Chaos totally sucked compared to this game.

I recomend you Akatsuki Blitzkampf for your next tournament. It's a very sick and beginner friendly game and the universal parry mechanic make the whole thing very hype.

I wish I was around in the Arcade Era. I was born in '91 in a place where there just weren't arcades. So naturally as arcades became less and less in vogue, even bowling alleys and movie theater game selections started shrinking. Even in the 2000s you'd see the occasional tekken tag or SF2 championship edition, maybe MvC2 if the location was particularly based, but that's it.

Same like Lei in tekken, he has most moves of all the casts but he never ever above B tier across franchise... but thats what made him unique.

Something I find disappointing about the FGC is that the content outside of tournaments or actually playing the games is really hurting. Like I got excited because I thought I was gonna watch a 30 minute analysis but it ended up being 5 minutes of interesting discussion and then 25 minutes of 'me playing a fighting game'. I get that they're not the richest games in terms of things to talk about but watching youtubers stomp random kids isn't at all exciting. I personally would like see some more variety and in particular more high level match analysis or character/meta discussions and history of the genre etc. Not trying to be a hater and it's not only this channel. It's been (what I consider) a problem for some time now because if I'm not actively playing the games and there hasn't been a tournament in 3 years (corona) then I'm just not engaging with that community at all, which is kind of a shame IMO.

You said Justin could have just used doom and his team would be better but he needs storm for the team super for her OTG from hailstorm. And he needs Akuma for the wolverine layered guard break incoming, and covers berserker slash super well and gives him 2 chances to open. Akuma also gives storm much better pressure and extensions. You can argue to drop storm for magneto since his super otgs for team super, but storm having float has gotten sooooo much mileage for Justin with his runaway style. I think the team is perfect for Justin honestly. There are maybe some upgrades he could have like strider maybe but I like X-Men Akuma for him lol

21:29 “Gimme that DICKtator!”

Cause nobody likes fighting him even when he sucks!

So.... Top 10 Over-nerfs list when? I remember them doing the same to Sentinel from MvC to UMvC, but that She-Hulk nerf was MASSIVE for no damn reason. I would be interested in see others that got hit that badly.

I hope Blanka is high-tier in CvS3 when it finally does get made. Like, don't make him THIS ridiculous, but keep the tradition going.

just like milk :D

I got talked out of picking up Billy at lunar phase this week via about forty five seconds of heckling when I picked him lol. It felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders and I went back to Mai.

5:49 Yeah, I'm an early 2000's kid, I often wish I was around in the 90's. It would be so cool to play MvC or 3rd strike in an actual arcade.

JM Chang is GENIUS! Your face superimposed on Chang is awesome, lol!

Mained Blanka for years, and I'd stick with him regardless

You won with Zangief with 666 left on the timer

Blanka is also very good in SF2 HF. So that's 2 games where Blanka is actually good.

LOL

Try being a Claw player. Ever since ST, he's been destroyed. Now in SFV, he's a goofy two stance non-charge character. Ruined.

Here's a backstory for Blanka that I just made up: they call him "Blanka" because the first thing he said to his rescuers was "Eu sou branco!" (Pt. "I am white!") when they called him "Green Kid."

16:47 Scorpion in Injustice 1

5:50 I’m a zoomed that plays fighting games and EVERY SINGLE TIME I set foot into a modern arcade like dave and busters or something like that I always say to myself. “Damn these kids are missing out on the real games instead of cheap cash grab machines.” And it’s sad. Luckily I know that there is still arcade machines out there for old arcades so I’ll be hunting!

Mained Blanka in 4 and just restarted playing 5 after a few years. Blanka feels so floaty and his crazy crossup balls don't seem to work anymore and feels terrible generally.

This aged like milk innit?

Jmcrofts: is there any kids that are like "I wish I could be around the arcade days" Me: (intense stare) m e

Man i totally agree. I love blanka but i do not understand why we have to literally, LITERALLY jump through every hoop and barrel to be on par with my main Just bought an authentic ps2 copy and had it delivered last year. I love CVS2 so much

Damn Ken is bottom tier in Alpha 3. That don’t sit right with my spirit

Pro Japanese players hate him. 9/10 Brazilians and Woolie would agree

at 18:50 does vega''s super auto corrects when he was inputting the motion? or is it some weird technique to pull it off?

I played Blanka in USFIV and literally forced world-class tournament players switch from their mains to win. He tends to have rather unbalanced matchups, struggling in some and absolutely crushing others. Blanka vs T Hawk in IV is an example of a matchup he dominates. In contrast, he struggles against Cammy.

Hey jm I think you’re saying Ryu wrong its pronounced Ryu

hopefully street fight 6 will end the low tier streak and bring our boy to the TOP

MMMMMMMmmmm Omoshiroi Yado ka I miss Vice

I miss this game, I wish kofxv used sprite art still. Cvs2 had the best looking SF and KOF character models.

Dude I love videos like this one!

Justin used that team because the team super otg'd and did massive damage.

Oh shit. I was totally a "Gully" kid... That sickens me.

Screw Blanka, you ran Vice on point!! My hero 😀

Ummm I wonder who Menard is playing rn…

Boy did this video not age well. Sf6 he's by far the most broken character in a street fighter game ever seen

Save the rainforest, make Blanka s-tier again.

I'm going to main him and destroy all of you online lol 😆

Raiden looks so much cooler in this game than he did in KOF13, hope that if he makes a return in 15 they'll use this design

Hey bro I absolutely love your videos, they are great. I'm a huge fan of fighting games and your channel is really just a plethora of awesomeness. That being said I just learned about the new feature in Street fighter 6 where they have the real time commentators I totally think you should be included Capcom needs to reach out to you and make you one of those commentators! Your commentating is the absolute best I've heard hands down you are totally the king of fighting game commentary! who else is with me?

He was the first character I was decent at, so I'll always like him. I miss the hyperfight days though - he was a badass in that version, very dangerous.

"I always said Gai-oh, Im not one of the Gi-le kids" Tfw we still pronounce Gi-le in Brasil

When JM spoke about Shuma being more respected, was he talking about MVC2 or 3? Curious to see some stuff of that.

If you decide to do another JMpardy, you should invite Smug and Punk.

I love Blanka and I will hate to not see him in future games, same with the rest of the SF2 roster, with the exception of Ken, I never had a place in my heart for Ken unlike the others because his presence always felt most unnatural imo