Luke — 对策

It's 14F startup from the air, so the cleanest defense is reacting to the jump itself.

• Anti-air with an invul reversal / SA: An air-invul move beats it cleanly.
• 5HP / 5HK normal anti-airs: Luke's jump HK has an absurd hitbox and tends to beat normal anti-airs. Invul-based anti-air is more reliable.
• Walk-back anti-air: If he shifts to a crossup arc, walk back and anti-air with 5HP / 2HP.

Luke's jump HK is genuinely strong — verify whether your character's regular anti-air actually works against him.

• Right after you throw a fireball, Aerial Flash Knuckle clears the projectile and lands a strike.
• Characters with slow / high-recovery fireballs (Guile, JP, Jamie) need extra care.
• Fix: Tighten your fireball spacing. Don't throw them raw inside Luke's forward-jump range.

• OD is 14F startup, almost identical to the regular version, but damage is +600.
• Damage on jump-in is heavy, so a missed anti-air really hurts.
• On-block punish window matches the regular version (15F land recovery).

• Air-hit gives a non-techable knockdown. Drive Rush wakeup pressure is possible, but it's nothing like the oki off ground Light Flash Knuckle.
• On block, check the 13F-15F landing recovery and punish or throw.

If the Luke leans on empty-jump throws and this move during safe-jumps, committing to your fastest light button immediately eats the safe-jump hit but beats both of those options — keep it in your pocket:

• See the 214HP animation, throw DI.
• HP cancel → Heavy Flash Knuckle is a true block string, so DI rarely whiffs.
• Heavy Flash Knuckle (Hold) is 33F startup; the 22F-33F gap is wide enough to slot DI in.

Luke's answers to your DI bait are 236PP and Heavy Flash Knuckle → SA2 (236236K). The SA2 cancel especially does heavy damage. When Luke has SA2 stocked, drop the DI bait and use a fuzzy back-jump instead.

• Use the 214HP startup gap: 23F (raw) vs 33F (Hold).
• Inputting back-jump in the 23F-33F window blocks the raw version while jumping over the Hold version for a confirmed punish (timing-dependent).

If the fuzzy back-jump is too hard, default to pressing parry — fish for just-parry while buffering Drive Reversal. If you can't Drive Reversal, you end up at +4 for Luke inside throw range (shimmy possible):

Luke can read the fuzzy back-jump and slightly delay the Heavy Flash Knuckle to catch you, in which case you switch back to DI bait — that's the yomi.

A perfect-timing fuzzy back-jump covers everything, but in match conditions it's hard — earliest back-jump is fine. Trading 1000 damage from 214HP hit for 3000 from a back-jump punish is still a clear win.

• 2LP → 2MP → 214HP is the standard burnout string:

• After blocking 214HP the situation is around ±0F — don't fire SA there, parry overrides it
• MP → 214HP has a 1F gap, so that is where SA connects:

Luke can answer your "2HP-read DI buffer" with 236PP (OD Sand Blast), turning your DI bait into a clean punish on you. Drive cost is heavy though, so it's rare in practice — mostly safe to ignore.

The raw Avenger followups are punishable on block.

• No Chaser -16F: 5MP-starter combo for big damage.
• Impaler -22F: 5HP-starter max punish. It's an overhead, so block standing.

OD Avenger followups have very small punish windows:

• OD No Chaser -6F: only fast 4F starters can punish, otherwise no.
• OD Impaler -3F: basically no punish; what comes next is the abare yomi.

Impaler is an overhead, so the default is "block standing" until you confirm a low. Impaler is 13F startup (around 20F if you count the armor frames), giving you a surprising amount of reaction time on wakeup.

No Chaser is a high, blockable crouching. You can also stuff the meaty with stand-tech option-selects.

• Default: block standing on wakeup, switch to crouch if you read a low.
• At range: crouch-block on No Chaser read (Impaler has shorter reach than No Chaser).
• After blocking both: Luke usually goes for throw — backdash / invul / tech yomi.

• Multi-hits break it: armor only soaks one hit, so chained moves cleanly punish.
• Throw: armor doesn't block throws.
• Just block: the followups (-6 / -3 OD) are barely punishable, but if you blocked, Luke's pressure ends.

You almost never see raw OD Avenger at neutral, so this isn't a high-priority concern.

When Avenger comes in after a knockdown, the strength is hard to read visually.

• Raw Avenger → followup is punishable on block.
• OD Avenger → followup is essentially safe.

Read his Drive Gauge — if he's out of OD bars, it's the raw version, and you should commit to the punish.

At light/medium Sand Blast range, the spacing tends to favor Luke. Mashing parry just bleeds your Drive Gauge.

• 0 to mid: Parry → Drive Rush to close the gap.
• Mid range: Neutral jump to whiff over it, then poke after landing.
• Far range: Forward jump. Luke can't make his projectile safe, so jump-ins are easy to land.
• Raw Heavy Sand Blast: 20F startup with long recovery — at Drive Rush range you can punish him outright.

Luke's most common pressure string is "HP → 236P." A tip-hit HP is unpunishable even with the cancel, so Luke players spam this as their go-to safe option.

• See HP, buffer DI: If the cancel comes out, it converts into DI. The block string is tight enough that DI rarely whiffs.
• Some characters can break it with a fireball-invuln OD reversal — clean win if you have one.
• Look for Perfect Parry: At close range, buffer a Drive-Rush attack to maximize reward.

Luke's counters to your DI bait are OD Sand Blast (236PP) and Heavy Flash Knuckle → SA2 (236236K), but both are Drive-heavy and rare.

• OD Sand Blast alone: -2 on block, no real punish window.
• Fatal Shot: -21 on block — full punish if you read it. But it costs 2 Drive bars, so it's rare.

There's a yomi where Luke uses OD Sand Blast to beat your DI bait, but Drive-cost makes it a bad option for him to spam — you can mostly ignore it.

When pinned in the corner, holding forward jump against HP-cancel 236P means the projectile catches you in the air, often giving you a confirmed punish from the air-hit recovery state.

• "HP → ?" in the corner — feel free to mash forward jump.
• If HP just lands clean, crouch block.