Lion vs Jacky problems

i could be in a minority here but i find lion very hard to play against decent jacky players. the speed of jacky's lows and mids always seems to take priority over lion's sweeps and cicrulars and interrupts any float starters. he also has allot of range with his kicks that cancels lion's advantage in this area.

jacky is also very proficient at knocking lion out of low p stale-mate situations with his rising uppercut.

any advice on getting the initiative back against jacky?

 

If Jacky is applying elbow pressure a neat thing with Lion is that his low punch can make it difficult to pull of elbow -> back dash tactics. Because of this be sure to low punch as soon as you block the elbow (not his other mid options though).

In the case of his other fast mid strings, try to evade and let him whiff, or evade and OM for some big damage.

His only low that is fairly scary is /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/db.gif/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/p.gif which has excellent range, fairly safe, and pretty fast for those properties. Try to bait it or evade to the right direction if you see it.

Also, try the sabaki sometimes if you find yourself at disadvantage and he's smacking you aruond with his fast kicks.

 

Are you confortable with DTEG ?
I find Jacky to be very hard to fight against if you're DTEG is not sharp.
I'm not an anti jacky expert because the Jackys I fought here are not very experienced players but as with other chars you must not let him get away with:

66+K : if you block it from point blank range you can throw if not, PK him.

6P,K: 44K,KK him if you block that

P+K,K: learn to duck that second kick and punish with 0f throw, KK or 8+P+K.

1+P: if you get hit by this, don't LP back too much as one of Jacky's favorite flowchart is to bacdash into beatknuckle