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This knowledge will make or break Ken players, not an exaggeration Showing how to deal with 4F and 5F buttons, either by whiff punish or trade from common strings and the confirms available, also Hokuto Rev Blow punish based on that knowledge #cotw_ken #cotw

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I received a question about this, so I used actual match footage to take a closer look at Leshar's neutral game and how he cycles through his reads Basic Neutral Game He walks back and forth while using medium P/K to deal with projectiles, keeping his fingers on light P/K to react to Drive Rushes and forward movement, while also using whiffed light attacks to provoke the opponent into moving He also uses slight backwalk into crouch block to bait whiffs, then whiff punishes with when he sees an opening This seems to be his basic stance in neutral 0:11 He walks while keeping his fingers on then reacts to Ken's Drive Rush with to stop him 0:13 After blocking Ken's he briefly waits, anticipating a sequence such as a slight walk forward into cr.LP/cr.MP, then briefly crouch blocks before backwalking into st.HP 0:17 He baits a whiff with slight backwalk into crouch block, then whiff punishes with 0:18 After walking back and forth, he sees Ken whiff and presses How He Cycles Through Reads ① 0:21 Ken walks back and forth and waits → Leshar throws a Hadoken to see how Ken reacts ② 0:23 Ken steps forward → Leshar backwalks, looking to make Ken whiff or similar buttons → Once Ken gets into range, he waits with crouch block ③ 0:24 Both players crouch block at the tip range of → Leshar walks forward slightly and presses st.LP → Ken reacts to the whiff with → Leshar deals with it by crouch blocking At this point, it looks like he is checking how Ken reacts to slight walk-forward buttons ④ Against the shimmy after Ken's Drive Rush → Leshar uses fuzzy cr.LP → It trades with Ken's delayed ⑤ 0:27 Both players walk forward slightly and block each other's → Leshar uses a slight walk-forward 6HP from farther away → He blocks Ken's retaliatory Similar to ③, it looks like he is checking how Ken reacts to close-range walk-forward buttons, such as whether Ken presses a button when he sees the walk forward, while also checking whether Ken will continue to block when the same approach comes from farther away ⑥ 0:32 Ken Perfect Parries the Hadoken → Leshar Drive Rushes with st.LP → Ken blocks ⑦ 0:34 Ken Drive Rush st.LP → Shimmy → Leshar's fuzzy cr.LP counter hits Since the fuzzy cr.LP worked in ④, it looks like he is using the same option again to see how Ken reacts ⑧ 0:37 Ken blocks → Hadoken → Ken uses a delayed walk-forward → Leshar walks forward and blocks → Punishes with Since the backwalk-to-whiff-punish situation from ② and ③ wasn't happening very often, it looks like he is now adding walk-forward blocking as another option ⑨ 0:41 Two-charge Hadoken → Ken sees the charge and jumps forward → Shoryuken After Ken Perfect Parried the Hadoken in ⑥, Leshar appears to use a two-charge Hadoken to encourage another Parry while still keeping the risk of a jump relatively low ⑩ 0:43 Ken whiffs → at tip range → Leshar slight walk-forward crouch blocks This looks like another option based on the fact that walk-forward blocking had worked in ⑧ ⑪ 0:45 Blocks Jinrai's Light follow-up → Slight walk-forward ⑫ 4:18 Leshar's 6HP gets blocked at close range → Backwalk → Ken's retaliatory throw whiffs → Leshar punishes with a backwalk st.HP Based on situations such as ⑤ and ⑧, it looks like Leshar had determined that Ken wasn't frequently retaliating with an immediate low button, allowing him to add backwalking as another option ⑬ 4:39 After a Punish Counter back throw, Leshar waits → Slight walk-forward st.HP at tip range After confirming in situations such as ⑤ and ⑪ that Ken wasn't backwalking in response to his walk-forward buttons, he chooses slight walk-forward st.HP Conclusion It seems like Leshar cycles through his reads roughly like this 1⃣ Start with a low-risk option ↓ 2⃣ See how the opponent reacts ↓ 3⃣ Try a different option based on that reaction ↓ 4⃣ See how the opponent reacts to that option ↓ 5⃣ Confirm the information again in a later situation ↓ 6⃣ Once he has a clearer idea of the opponent's reactions, add new options based on that information Rather than trying to "make a big read and land a hit," I personally think his approach is closer to "carefully checking the opponent's reactions one by one, then making decisions based on the information he gathers"

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