r/ChunLiPlayers

Ive mained chun li since launch. I have about 170hrs so far and not spent much time with anyone else. Did a few placements with some charge characters. Its the first sf game i have mained chun but always wanted to give her a go. In past street fighters i normally main ken or bison.
Im sitting at diamond 5 after a wild 13 game streak from diamond 1 which i was stuck in for about a month.
Every match i have it seems like im working my ass off for the win. Its almost exhausting. Every time i see who im fighting i roll my eyes and dislike fighting. Theres no-one i feel is a good matchup. Ryu/ ken, geif, jamie, jp, cammy, even rashid. Most of the cast seems to have some bullshit way of scamming their way to master rank with some sort of cheese. Im pretty decent at chun now. I can hit some good combos and use serenity well in training. I watch replays of masters and legends but these diamond players seem reckless and un calculated. I try to use good spacing, work the neutral well with normals and use my anti airs well but everyone i fight has some sort of gimmick getting them through. Im well researched on her and know her strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it goes well and sometimes i get bodied but the higher i go the harder its getting.
Is it just me or is chun hard work. I feel like dropping her sometimes and just picking ryu for an easier time. has anyone got any tips for me?

I don't know if it's been talked about yet, but I just discovered that the change in the medium legs forward movement permits to connect from OD spinning bird kick now.

In the corner, instead of going : OD spinning bird kick + L.Legs + H.Tenshou (3320 damage in this combo), you can go with OD spinning bird kick + M.Legs + M.Tenshou (3268 damage in this combo)

This provides 2000 more drive gauge (from the M.Tenshou buff) with a trade off of only 52 less damage.
I think it might be an interesting route in order to optimize the drive gauge

Hey everyone,

I saw Sage’s dojo video about the recent patch and he was doing corner mk sbk then following up with stance into stance cancel 2lk. He mentioned that there were other options such as stance hp and stance cancel into throw. Are there enough frames to do the throw? I get countered with wake-up 5lp on training, but can do the other 2 options.

I know i post a lot i am really passionate to learn the game & Chun Li in specific, OK i found this odd i played match's & lost some of them because when i was cornering my opponent after MK.SBK i go SS.HP it hit then the Heavy lightning kicks it doesn't connect, i thought it was a execution problem but i noticed while i was training the LP counter hit combo the counter hit option was always on so when i trained this corner pressure combo the SS.HP was always a counter hit when so Heavy lightning kicks connects then turned it off the Heavy lightning kicks don't connect after a normal SS.HP hit, i don't know this feels odd i think it should connect.

Edit: i mean by HK.LK= Heavy lightning kicks, my bad i edited the test but couldn't for the title.