🥋 Learning Alex Matchup Strategies from EndingWalker and Leshar 👊 0:00 — EndingWalker's Matches 🔹 Walk forward with your finger ready on st.LK, looking to whiff punish cr.MP with st.LK 🔹 Bait the opponent into whiffing their sweep when they react to your whiffed st.LK and attempt a whiff punish 🔹 Whiff punish cr.MP and cr.MK with st.LK 🔹 Use walk-up st.LK against Alex's stance to prevent him from entering it freely 🔹 Use walk-up st.LK in neutral, then backdash to whiff punish the opponent's st.HK response 🔹 Interrupt st.MP > Heavy Flash Chop with SA1 while the opponent is in Burnout 🔹 Set up an Alex-specific safe jump after Light Shoryuken 🔹 Look for a Perfect Parry against the charged HP follow-up from Alex's stance 👹 0:22 — Leshar's Matches 🔹 After Alex uses cr.HP into stance, read the HP or charged HP follow-up and interrupt with cr.LP > Heavy Shoryuken 🕐 0:28 — Training Mode: Dealing with Alex's Stance 🔹 For example, using Ryu's 6HK preemptively against Alex's stance can be risky. Although it reaches sooner, it has a high chance of getting caught by a jump from stance 🔹 Walk-up st.LK reaches slightly later than 6HK, but its recovery is shorter, making it easier to recover in time to anti-air with Shoryuken when Alex jumps 🔹 Practice walking forward, using st.LK when you see a whiff or stance, and reacting with Shoryuken when you see a jump 🕐 0:42 — Dealing with Counterattacks 🔹 After your st.LK or Hadoken is blocked, read the opponent's st.HK or charged st.HK response, backdash, and whiff punish 🕐 0:49 — Dealing with Stance Follow-ups 🔹 React to the charged HP follow-up with Perfect Parry 🔹 After Alex uses cr.HP into stance, read the HP or charged HP follow-up, then backdash and whiff punish 🔹 Whiff punish the HP follow-up with st.LK 🔹 Read the HP or charged HP follow-up from cr.HP into stance and interrupt with cr.LP > Heavy Shoryuken 🕐 1:11 — Alex-Specific Safe-Jump Setups 🔹 Set up a safe jump after a high-hit Light or Heavy Shoryuken 🔹 These setups are also possible after routes such as OD Tatsumaki > 6HK > Tatsumaki 🕐 1:26 — Dealing with Heavy Flash Chop in Burnout 🔹 Interrupt st.MP > Heavy Flash Chop with SA1 while the opponent is in Burnout 🔹 If you don't have Super Art gauge, anticipate the sequence and buffer options such as backdash > cr.LP 🔹 You can also intentionally take the hit from st.MP, then interrupt the follow-up Heavy Flash Chop with cr.LP