エド

Ed — Counter-Guide

Watch out for MK
- When fighting Ed, the key spacing to be aware of is MK range
- Think about whether to whiff-punish MK or to walk in closer and place your own move first
- If you struggle with walk-guard, try rushing in instead
Use crossup jumps often
- Once inside MK range, crossup jumps are very effective
- Ed's anti-air invincible move, 623LP, has a slow startup and generally cannot beat crossups
- Using ambiguous crossup jumps lets you take your offensive turn
Use whiff-bait jumps often
- If you are outside MK range, jumping from a distance to bait Ed's 623LP is highly effective
Apply light attacks on wakeup often
- As an oki option, overlapping a light attack can make Ed's invincible moves safe-jump-proof
- Find your character's 5F-advantage setplay and use light attack overlaps at key moments

Psycho Uppercut

Ed's anti-air invincible move. Startup and damage vary by strength.

All versions have slow startup, making whiff-bait jumps and crossup jumps extremely effective. If you haven't tried these yet, give them a shot.

Special move used to end Ed's combos.

Ed's neutral poke special move.

236LK
- Startup 16F
- Holding it in causes Ed to pull you in on block, giving Ed +4F
- Walking shimmy is not possible after the follow-up
236MK
- Startup 20F
- Holding it causes Ed to pull you in on block, giving Ed +4F
- Walking shimmy is not possible after the follow-up
236HK
- Startup 17F
- Used as an anti-air
236KK
- Startup 25F — enough time to beat Drive Impact if you are ready
  - Difficult without practice, but worth training
- After pulling you in, close-range Ed is +4F

Counter to 236LK and 236MK:

Aim for perfect parry
- After a perfect parry you get +19F, so if distance is far follow up with cancel rush → medium attack
Advanced counter
- While attempting perfect parry, buffer a cancel rush (→→) so that if 236K whiffs you automatically get a rush follow-up
- Difficult to do every time, but worth practicing

---After being pulled in---

Accept the throw (tech throw)
- Ed's situation after a throw is not very good
- Just accept it
Shimmy is not possible
- +4F but walking shimmy cannot be done
Crouching guard → fuzzy back-walk → (varies by character)
- While holding crouching guard, back-walk a few frames after 2MK's startup window ends to punish Ed's throw-tech punish HP

The following are recorded in the video below:

Ed's standard normal with long reach, excellent for placing and poking. He uses this to cancel into various specials and continue pressure.

On hit, Ed is +24F.

Taking a back-roll recovery means Ed's oki (wakeup pressure) does not connect, so back-roll recovery is the stable option.

On a panic counter throw, it is a true 50/50 mix-up so just do your best.

On hit, Ed is +24F.

Taking a back-roll recovery means Ed's oki (wakeup pressure) does not connect, so back-roll recovery is the stable option.

On a panic counter throw, it is a true 50/50 mix-up so just do your best.