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ZeroEffect317
[13] Hero
Just curious as to why X vs Talim is even in your opinion. I personally think X has a clear enough advantage to make it a 6:4 for her.
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zeroeffect: Talim has solid and consistent answers to X's spacing unlike many characters. If X can apply her spacing game in a matchup, its very dangerous because she has Step B. Talim has an easy to apply 66A as a whiff punisher for that and it does good damage, and gives a knockdown for her to start her game. She can also bait and punish 3B and 44A+B well. So getting in is not hopeless. You jsut need to strategise to bait these out to punish. So getting in is not a problem, as she has solid options.
Talim can punish a lot of Xianghua's evasive options hard, if she backdashes and then steps ( 4*2_8) at advantage. Many things whiff, like 44B and 1B+K. Thats a free 236B there or 22B attempt, provided she does not do the auto-GI... Im sure she would have some other moves to stuff it.... only AAB or 44A can beat attempts to bait sidestepping. So yes 44B is a thraet, but at high level play, baiting of such moves is a conscious effort... and talim can punish 44B very hard.... she has pretty high damage potential. I am actually of the opinion that talim does slightly more damage than X, but just less range.
I think you have to factor in how movement can be applied to deal with a matchup. I also udnerstand how you see talim isnt as good as X... but Talim has an impressive set of pokes IMO.