wonder twin powers, ACTIVATE!

form of... a tampon!

oh man, family guy's hilarious...

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i can't believe it took me so long to REALLY realize why akira's such a beast in vf4 series.

if you gain an advantage of more than 2 frames, but don't have a throw guarenteed, like from connecting a punch or blocking a poke from your opponent, you have the basic strike/throw guessing game.

at this point, you can either stick out a quick poke like an elbow if you think the opponent will try to do a throw escape or strike back, or try for a throw if you think they'll just sit and guard.

the opponent of course can get around that by doing an evading double throw escape w/guard.

now, everybody has a huge damaging combo starter at around 16-18 frames(except lau i think)... it's NOT for sticking out when your P hits or the d+P counters. it's for doing when you expect the opponent to evade; you delay your attack and let the opponent evade first, that way their evade will be a failed evade, which isn't fast, and can't allow blocking, plus any attack will track it; in this case, your big damage combo starter.

so you might think with that huge risk, that it's better to try something like a d+P instead when disadvantaged, given that in most cases, the worst scenario is that you eat an elbow and are placed in this situation again or something like that, right?

well, not against akira; if he thinks you're not going for E-DTE-G or G-DTE, but a d+P or another attack, he can just bust out the good ol f,f,f+P; about 20% gone on normal hit, 1/3rd gone on counter. plus, it's safe on block. nobody else gets this option; well, very few; others can do other stuff, but this is so basic, yet so powerful.

so akira basics really boil down to:

1)get advantage
2a)if they E-DTE-G, delay df,df+P or mix up throw
2b)if they fight back to avoid delayed attack, f,f,f+P
3)use b,f+P after a successful evade
4)use FC,b,f+P after blocking a low or after a TR
5)use SPoD(love this move), b,f+P+K, or throw against a rising opponent
6)if you want to attack to beat a throw attempt if disadvantaged, use d+P, df,df+P or SPoD

mix up some df+P+K in there with some FC,f+P:P's and you're set.