Fast highs, i.e., jabs, slow down your opponent:

• If jab gets CH ➔ block
• If jab gets ducked ➔ do a mid

Strings are 2-4 hits. If it ends in a:

• Mid ➔ punishable/steppable
• High ➔ safe but duckable

After you eat a hit / heat smash / wakeup ➔ block

Throws

• Generic throws: 1+3 or 2+4, break with either 1 or 2
• Command throws: 1+2, break with the same input (visually ➔ grabs with both hands)
• Counterhit throws: same concept, but must be broken faster (they make a splash sound)
• You can counter a power crush with a guaranteed throw

Block Punishment

Learn:

1. Standing fast punish (typically 10f)
2. Standing launch punish (typically 15f)
3. Low (WS) fast punish (typically 11f)
4. Low (WS) launch punish (typically 13-15f)

• Power Crushes High are usually safe
• Power Crushes Mid are usually unsafe

• Display Punishment Techniques, High Moves You Can Duck Under, and Throw Commands in settings
• Mark the punishable moves of the opponent (based on their input) and the suggested punish
• Replicate and practice in practice's punishment training mode

Whiff Punishment

Objective Frame Traps

How to defend frame traps:

• Wait it out.
• Punish the second move.
• Disrespect it (for higher level games).

Layers of a frame trap:

1. They mash on the frame trap and we succeed.
2. They block the trapping move.
3. We know that they will block the trapping move:
• Do a mixup (find frame trap variations)
• Do plus frame move again
• Do nothing (block, dash, sidestep)

Mental Frame Traps

1. Find strings that have continuation.
2. Execute just the strings a few times without finishing them.
3. Execute the full string.

You are minus frames on those and are based on opponent reads, so they are risky.