Tough Love Arena/Onion/Matchups
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Noodle
Neutral
- Mix up how you deal with Soup.
- Loop for habits with Whip. Hopkick > RC is a useful preemptive punish on Whip.
- Walk and block them to the corner.
Offense
- Try to keep the corner for as long as possible.
- Sweep Hopkick can be useful for baiting out Frenzy or keeping your turn during pressure.
- Pay attention to what Noodle does after a spaced Sweep.
Defense
- Block Soup oki most of the time if not all the time.
Beef
Neutral
- Use the threat of Sweep as a whiff punish to Heavy Punch to get closer to Beef.
- Empty Hop is a relatively noncommital answer to Lemon as long a Beef doesn’t have meter or if Onion is far enough away.
- Mixup when you try to walk in on Beef, when you try to whiff punish, and when you try to make hard callouts.
Offense
- Keep your offense as varied as possible.
- Stagger pressure is useful for beating out Parry.
Defense
- Be ready to react to Gutpunch > Lemon.
Onion
- It's a mirror match.
Neutral
- Play footsies well
- Don’t use Jump very much if at all.
Offense
- Keep your offense as varied as possible.
- Stagger pressure is useful for beating out Parry.
Defense
- Sweep is a useful counterpoke versus overextensions.
Rice
Neutral
- Walk and block to push Rice to the corner.
- Jump is useful if you can space it right outside of Rice’s 5L range.
Offense
- Be ready to cover Teleport as a read.
- Pay attention to what Rice does after a spaced Sweep.
- Meterless Hopkick is useful for staying in versus Rice.
Defense
- Look for when they try to use frametraps and punish with Parry.
Pork
Neutral
- Use the threat of Sweep as a whiff punish to Heavy Punch to get closer to Pork.
- Mixup when you try to walk in on Pork, when you try to whiff punish, and when you try to make hard callouts.
Offense
- Use tight frame traps to limit Pork’s ability to reliably Chop out of pressure.
Defense
- Be unpredictable when you have to guess.
- Leverage Parry and your walkspeed to get out of block pressure.
Garlic
Neutral
- It’s a Spice ditto, so having good footsies will be important.
- Don’t use Jump very much if at all.
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.
- Sweep is useful for stuffing out most options involving Dash as long as Garlic is spaced out.