Tough Love Arena/Beef/Matchups

Beef

Overview

Combos

Strategy / Counterstrategy

Matchups

Full Frame Data

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Noodle

Neutral

• Mix up how you deal with Soup.
• Loop for habits with Whip.
• Walk and block them to the corner.
• Don't Lemon when they have two Soups on the field.

Offense

• Try to keep the corner for as long as possible.
• Look for when they mash so you can land more frame traps.

Defense

• Block Soup oki most of the time.

Beef

• It’s a mirror match.

Neutral

• Be the first to land Lemon on block.
• Play good footsies since it’s a ditto.
• Mix up how you play around Lemon.

Offense

• Look for when they mash so you can land more frame traps.
• Stagger pressure is useful for beating out Flex.

Defense

• Mix up what you do on defense.

Onion

Neutral

• Abuse Heavy Punch to keep Onion out.
• Play to try to whiff punish Hopkick and Jump.
• Use Lemon to bait out committal approaches.

Offense

• Look for when they mash so you can land more frame traps.
• Stagger pressure is useful for beating out Feint.

Defense

• Be fine with taking a couple of throws.
• Don’t mash often.

Rice

Neutral

• Loop for habits with Whip.
• Walk and block them to the corner.

Offense

• Be ready to cover Teleport as a read or pressure with spaced Heavy Punch to cover it.
• Pay attention to what Rice does after Heavy Punch.

Defense

• Mixup when you choose to challenge.

Pork

Neutral

• Play footsies well.
• Bait and punish Chop by staying slightly in range of Heavy Punch or staying out of range of Chop most of the time.

Offense

• Use tight frame traps to your advantage.
• Mixup what you do to open up Pork.

Defense

• Be unpredictable when you have to guess.

Garlic

Neutral

• Abuse Heavy Punch to keep Garlic out.
• Push Garlic to the corner.

Offense

• Stagger pressure can be useful for beating out Backflip as a whole.
• Keep your pressure varied.

Defense

• Be unpredictable to make getting control easier.
• Mixup when you mash and delay mash.