I'm having a difficult time with the Ein Vs Christie match-up. I've had a ton of such games against one player who beats me roughly 3 to 1, and I'd really appreciate some insight from other players on what else I should be trying against him. Against lesser Christies I can turtle my way to victory, but this particular opponent has a way of getting in close and staying there.
The first video is the closest game I saved a replay of--I clearly see where I made mistakes and probably could have won this one:
I do manage to beat him every now and then, here's one of the winning matches:
And in all fairness to him, there are also plenty of beatdowns sent my way as shown here:
I'm in experimental mode and testing out different ways to fight back against her, in those videos you'll see some of what both worked and failed spectacularly. A few quick notes:
OH: the offensive hold is quite useful against her, I'm still working on getting the timing just right but there's been plenty of times it's pulled her right out of an attacking string.
Low OH: I need to get better at landing this. I saw in
Tenryuga's Christie video that he kept nailing her in jak using it, and so far I've only managed it once against this particular Christie. Might be worth practicing against her in training mode.
9P: there was a time I thought 9P was doing work against Christie as I had several matches where I was able to crush and launch her using it. As shown in these videos, though, it's way too inconsistent...I wasn't able to land it once here. I should probably stop trying to use it.
Holds: definitely important, they saved my bacon more than once against him. Since I recorded these I've started labbing Christie so I can learn her strings and get better at holding them.
6K strings, 3P punch, 4K, etc: all the usual Ein tools do work well against her. My only issue with them is the whole getting way too predictable, I've been trying to find more mixups but coming up short. I also ran into bad timing several times where I put out a 4K when it was too slow to be effective.
BTW,
JayceeChris sounds like we're in the same situation and I've love to check out the matchup videos you had of Christie, but the links appear dead. I see it was some time ago you uploaded them, I guess it's been too long.