Blanka (SSFIV)

Introduction To Blanka

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Blanka is often categorized as a gimmick character or a turtle character, however that really isn't the case. He does have solid defensive options and a wide variety of unsafe gimmicks, but they are only part of the equation. In actuality Blanka is a footsie character who has a balanced array of offensive and defensive options.

Strengths

• Very fast jump with a great attacking arc
  
• Great anti-fireball game with slide, coward's crouch, ex horizontal ball, and U2
  
• Great anti-air options
  
• Good footsie normals
  
• Lots of + frames on blocked electricity
  
• 4 frame U1 which allows for meter free combos to ultra and the ability to punish heavily
  
• Builds meter well
  
• Extremely mobile
  
• Lots of ambiguous mixups and gimmicks
  
• Fast focus attack
  
• Unblockables
  

Weaknesses

• Slightly below average stun
  
• Low damage output without a jump in, ultra, or super which hurts his comeback potential
  
• Horiztonal and vertical balls are very punishable on both hit and block
  
• Reversals can easily be option selected against
  
• Very vulnerable to divekick pressure
  
• Hard to break opponents defenses safely
  
• Must use EX meter for invincible reversal
  

Move Analysis

Frame Data

	Block			Super Meter					Frames
Move Name	HL	Damage	Stun	Gain	Cancel Ability	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Guard	On Hit	Notes
Close LP	HL	30	50	20	sp/su	4	2	10	-1	+2
Close MP	HL	80	100	40	su	6	2	10	+2	+5
Close HP	HL	110[90]	200[150]	60	su	7	4	22	-7	-1	Forces stand
Close LK	HL	40	50	20	sp/su	4	3	10	-2	+1
Close MK	HL	40*40	50*50	40*20	su	5	2(3)2	12	0	+3	1st hit cancellable
Close HK	HL	100[80]	200[150]	60	su	7	6	19	-6	-1
Far LP	HL	30	50	20	sp/su	3	2	9	0	+3
Far MP	HL	80	100	40	-	7	4	9	+1	+4
Far HP	HL	120	200	60	su	7	6	20	-5	-2
Far LK	HL	30	50	20	su	5	2	12	-3	0
Far MK	HL	90	100	40	-	5	2	19	-7	-2
Far HK	HL	100[80]	200[150]	60	sp/su	3	6	23	-8	-5
crouch LP	HL	30	50	20	su	4	2	9	0	+3
crouch MP	HL	90	100	40	su	7	4	15	-5	-2
crouch HP	HL	100	200	60	sp/su	8	4	25	-10	-4
crouch LK	L	30	50	20	sp/su	4	3	7	+1	+4
crouch MK	L	70	100	40	su	5	2	11	+1	+4	Low attack
crouch HK	L	90	150	60	-	6	5	21	-7	-	cannot fast recover, opponent gets up 48F after recovery if hit on first active frame
Jump up LP	H	40	50	20	-	5	7	-	-	-
Jump up MP	H	70	100	40	-	6	3	-	-	-
Jump up HP	H	120	200	60	-	4	3	-	-	-
Jump up LK	H	40	50	20	-	4	3	-	-	-
Jump up MK	H	60	100	40	-	5	5	-	-	-
Jump up HK	H	120	200	60	-	7	7	-	-	-
Jump forward LP	H	40	50	20	-	5	7	-	-	-
Jump forward MP	H	70	100	40	-	6	5	-	-	-
Jump forward HP	H	90	200	60	-	5	4	-	-	-
Jump forward LK	H	40	50	20	-	5	5	-	-	-
Jump forward MK	H	60	100	40	-	5	5	-	-	-
Jump forward HK	H	110	200	60	-	7	6	-	-	-
B or F+MP(close)	HL	50*40	50*50	40*20	sp/su	7	2(1)5	12	-3	+2	1st hit cancellable
Overhead	H	50*40	50*50	40*20	-	25	2(1)4	12	-2	+3	Mid attack
DF+HP	L	100	200	60	-	10	19	16	-14	-	cannot fast recover
F+KKK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	-
B+KKK	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	29	-	-
D+PPP	-	-	-	-	sp/su	-	-	53	-	-
D+PPP (???)					sp/su			90
Focus Attack LVL 1	HL	60	100	20	-	20	2	38	-24	-24
Focus attack LVL 2	HL	90	150	40	-	17+11	2	38	-18	-
Focus attack LVL 3	-	150	200	60	-	63	2	39	-	-
Forward Throw	0.9	130	140	40	-	3	2	20	-	-	Hard Knockdown / Opponent gets up 80F after throw recovers
Back throw	0.9	120	120	40	-	3	2	20	-	-
Rolling Attack LP	HL	100	100	30/30	su	6	18	4+2	-24	-15	Armor break, charge 55f
Rolling Attack MP	HL	110	150	30/30	su	6	33	4+2	-24	-15	Armor break, charge 55f
Rolling Attack HP	HL	120	200	30/30	su	6	33	4+3	-24	-15	Armor break, charge 55f
Rolling Attack EX	HL	110	150	-250/0	su	6	33	4+3	-24	-15	Armor break, charge 55f
Backstep Rolling LK	HL	110	200	30/40	-	28	25	6	-	-	charge 55f
Backstep Rolling MK	HL	120	200	30/40	-	28	29	6	-	-	charge 55f
Backstep Rolling HK	HL	130	200	30/40	-	28	33	6	-	-	charge 55f
Backstep Rolling EX	HL	120	200	-250/0	-	28	33	6	-	-	1~22f invincible, 23~27f cannot be thrown, charge 55f
Anti Air Rolling LK	HL	100	200	30/30	-	4	18	40+5	-21	-17	charge 55f
Anti Air Rolling MK	HL	110	200	30/30	-	4	15	42+10	-21	-17	charge 55f
Anti Air Rolling HK	HL	120	200	30/30	-	4	12	46+4	-21	-17	charge 55f
Anti Air Rolling EX	HL	120	200	-250/0	-	4	18	47+10	-21	-17	1~5f invincible, charge 55f
Electricity LP	HL	120	200	20/20	su	5	4x4	9	+5	-
Electricity MP	HL	130	200	20/20	su	7	2x8	9	+8	-
Electricity HP	HL	140	200	20/20	su	10	1x16*2	9	+10	-
Electricity EX	HL	150	200	-250/0	su	10	1x16*2	11	+8	-
Super Combo LP	HL	100x5	0	-1000/0	-	1+4	16*1x14	12	-34	-	1~5f invincible, Pursuit property, charge 55f
Super Combo MP	HL	100x5	0	-1000/0	-	1+4	22*1x14	12	-34	-	1~5f invincible, Pursuit property, charge 55f
Super Combo HP	HL	100x5	0	-1000/0	-	1+4	22*1x14	19	-34	-	1~5f invincible, Pursuit property, charge 55f
Ultra Combo 1	L*H*H*HLx4	0*100x5	0	0/0	-	1+3	2(20)26*1x20	17	-41	-	1~27f invincible, Pursuit property, charge 55f
Ultra Combo 2 KKK		120x2*90x3	0	0/0	-	1+11	2(7)2(33)90	31	-57	-	1~10f invincible
Ultra Combo 2 PPP		30*195[470]	0	0/0	-	1+6	55(10)6	80	-	-	1-6f invincible
	Block			Super Meter					Frames
Move Name	HL	Damage	Stun	Gain	Cancel Ability	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Guard	On Hit	Notes

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