The Basics
Anti-Air
Chun does not have any one move (like a Shoryuken) that can be used as a general anti-air. She must use specific moves depending on what the opponent uses. Her useful anti-air moves are:
-jump straight up Short
-jump straight up Fierce
-jump straight up RH
-far or close st.Forward
-far st.Fierce
-far st.RH
-cr.Forward (make the opponent land on it)
Her absolute best anti-air is her super, which can be done so that the opponent is grounded and takes all 6 hits, followed by upkicks for massive damage. The timing differs depending on the speed of the opponent's jump. It is very difficult to do against Blanka and Claw, but it is easier on everyone else, especially against Ryu and Ken if they do air hurricane kick (because air hurricane kick has a lot of landing recovery).
For anti-air against a specific move or character, see the Matchups section.
--NKI 20:04, 8 May 2006 (CDT)
Ground Pokes/Footsies
Pokes
Chun's best poke is st.Strong. It can lock down characters with no good reversal, it has excellent range, and it beats a lot of moves cleanly. Very effective to rush down with st.Strongs mixed with throws.
st.Forward is also very effective to use against Shotos, done such that you are just outside of their cr.RH range. If they try to fireball, they will get hit cleanly.
Footsies
Her cr.Forward has good priority, and it's so fast it's practically unpunishable. She can also use her cr.RH to get the knock down, but cr.RH has a considerable amount of lag and should be used with caution.
Super Move Usage
Stored Super
Chun is one of only two characters who can store her super. That is, you can input the [charge back, towards, back, towards] part of the command, then hold towards. The command will remain stored until you hit kick, at which point the super will come out. This is a technique that must be mastered to use Chun effectively.
Notes:
- It is still possible to keep your charge, even if you switch sides. You just need to switch which direction you're holding at the exact right time. This works whether you are the one doing the cross-up or you are the one being crossed-up.
- You can store the super motion even without meter. You can input b, f, b, f (hold), fill the remaining meter (with a fireball, lightning kicks, pokes, etc.) and then press a kick button to do the super.
- If you throw the opponent or get thrown (even if you stay on the same side), you will lose your charge. It is possible to keep your charge while throwing the opponent, but it is tricky. While holding towards with the super charged, hit Strong or Fierce to throw the opponent. Then you must quickly tap back, then return to towards and you will still have the super stored. If you simply held towards the whole time, you would lose your charge.
Using the Super Against Fireballs
Going through fireballs with Chun's super is entirely possible, but it is much harder than going through fireballs with Boxer's super, or Dic's super. The reason is because she has a very short window of invincibility, and after her invincibility her entire hit-box (where she is vulnerable) is behind her. That means that you have to activate the super JUST before the fireball hits you. Any earlier and you will not make it cleanly through.
Against fireball characters, if you have meter, whenever you do a fireball you should always double motion the super on top of it. In other words, you should do her fireball as [charge back, towards+punch, back, hold towards]. If the opponent jumps over your fireball, you can super them for free. If the opponent also threw a fireball to cancel out yours, you can super them for free. Else, walk up until you are just out of range of their longest normal and hold down towards. If they try any moves or try to jump, super. If they try to get fresh and walk towards you, st.Strong (while still holding towards and maintaining your charge).
--NKI 12:04, 9 May 2006 (CDT)
Advanced Strategy
Reversals
Upkicks - All three versions have invincibility at the beginning, but Short has the most. However, the Roundhouse version has the least start-up, just two frames. Use it if you want to prevent safe jumps that land right on top of you.
Spinning Bird Kick - Has more invincibility than upkicks, but it takes a long time to hit, so it's really more useful as a way to avoid the opponent's move, rather than to counter it.
Super - The only thing to watch out for is the opponent baiting your reversal super and jumping over it.
Avoiding Fireballs
Because she has to charge for her fireball, Chun has a problem against non-charge fireball characters. If you don't have time to charge, you have several options to try to avoid the fireballs:
Jump straight up head stomp - When Chun is doing her headstomp, her hitbox becomes thinner, so it's easier for her to jump over slow fireballs. The only downside to this is that you lose valuable charge time, because you need to do the headstomp on your way down, and the joystick needs to be straight down (down/back won't work).
D/F+RH - If you want to get over a fireball and gain a little bit of ground, you can use D/F+RH, but don't use it when you are too close, because it is easily punishable. Be sure to immediately start charge back after you hit RH so that you will have your charge when you land.
Spinning Bird Kick - Because it is invincible in the beginning, you can use SBK to go through fireballs, but it is very punishable and not recommended unless you are about to die from block damage.
Jump back air spinning bird kick - This should only be done in the corner, when your opponent is far enough away that they can not punish. (Air SBK has a lot of recovery when she lands.)
Jump straight up air spinning bird kick - This will give you slightly more meter than doing a fireball, but it is considerably harder, so it is not generally recommended.
Overhead Stomp
To do Chun's instant head stomp, jump at the opponent and immediately hit down+Forward kick. Because it's a jumping attack, it must be blocked high. It's too fast to see the stomp and react to it, so the opponent must guess. You are vulnerable as you're bouncing away, but keep in mind that you can do a move (say, j.Forward) on your way down. The overhead is especially good to use against people who like to reversal Dragon Punch, because her headstomp will beat DP clean.
Corner Awareness
Unfortunately for Chun, if she throws the opponent from point blank range into the corner and the opponent techs, the opponent recovers and lands so fast that Chun gets thrown for free. This is especially bad against Gief and Hawk, because they also get a free super on her.
Unless it will kill (or your opponent is O.Sagat), be sure to throw the opponent OUT of the corner. Also be aware that if you are in the corner charging back, then you go for a throw, you will end up getting a fireball, which might cost you. So be very careful when you're in the corner.
D/F+Roundhouse Shenanigans
Chun's D/F+RH is one of the craziest normals in the game. When done meaty enough, it will hit as a low move (must be duck-blocked), and it can be done as a completely safe meaty against several characters. If the opponent doesn't try to reverse, they will be forced to block it, but if they do reverse properly, they will still lose:
-Guile's Flash Kick will completely whiff (backwards)
-Ryu's DP will be blocked (backwards)
-Zangief's lariat will lose cleanly
-Deejay's upkicks will completely whiff (backwards)
As the opponent is getting up, she can whiff D/F+RH to get to the opposite side of any character, but if she immediately follows it up with a normal, it will be backwards (and will whiff), so it's not very useful.
The move will hit as a cross-up if done as a meaty from point blank range against certain characters. (Keep in mind that if done meaty enough, it is a low hit as well, so the opponent must block with down/towards.)
Which characters can Chun cross up?
Ryu: yes
Ken: yes
Honda: no
Chun: no
Blanka: no
Zangief: no
Guile: yes (see note)
Sim: no
Hawk: yes
Cammy: yes
Fei: yes
DeeJay: yes
Boxer: yes
Claw: no
Sagat: no
Dictator: no
Note: Chun can only cross-up Guile with her D/F+RH in very specific situations where Guile does not have a significant amount of pushback. She can not cross him up after an anti-air jump straight up+RH because Guile is falling away too fast, but she can do it after an air throw, or if a D/F+RH hits and pushes Guile towards Chun, etc.
--NKI 15:39, 20 June 2006 (CDT)
Also, for ALL opponents, immediately after a knockdown, the opponent flies away from you. You are able to jump over them and use a meaty d/f+rh and because of the direction they are travelling, you gain the extra few pixels needed to cross someone up if you jump over them and meaty in the direction they are travelling (if they are a character that normally cannot be crossed up).
Unessential 14:34, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Coming back to this after 10 years more experience, D/F+Roundhouse is something I rarely use anymore. I stopped about 1 or 2 years after I made that edit on the wiki. In the vast majority of situations where you can walk into range for D/F+Roundhouse, you can also walk into ambiguous crossup mk range and do it with safe jump timing. It has the exact same benefits and results (including those wrong way uppercuts) with more benefits:
- Easier control over which side it lands on
- crossup working on all characters without any tricks
- more options for positioning after a block
- can still combo into a knockdown for a loop
- more guaranteed damage after a confirmed hit.
- no commitment to a normal, can hit another button last second.
- wider range (more situations) where you can walk to the correct position on time.
Knowing this, D/F Roundhouse is really only for scramble situations after a trade and you notice you don't have enough frame advantage to get into position for a safe jump crossup. When that happens, and you're in DF/Roundhouse yeah, go for it because it's better than having no safe jump at all. D/F Roundhouse is super over rated and I cringe now when I see chun li's do it when they can go for a safe ambiguous crossup instead.
Unessential (talk) 14:38, 25 April 2024 (EDT)
