How do I escape a frame trap.

Well the first step isn't to change your behavior, it's to elevate your understanding.

Heres a good overview of frame data for you.

Secondly, meterless reversals in this game do not have armor or invincibility frames. If you want to escape a frametrap, you have to meterburn your special move to do an armored reversal. Liu kang has plenty that will shift the momentum in your favor.

Your d1 at 7 frames is a great poke to get out of pressure. When he goes for the plasma cancel, you can poke out if he tries to go into another string. He's not plus enough to stop your fastest poke with one of his slower ones, like B311. Now, if you've poked out of his pressure a few times, eventually he might start checking you with a poke of his own. Backdash this. If you don't have any meter to spend on armored reversals, you have two options. 1, poke in anticipation of him not checking you and wanting to go for a string, or 2, backdash in anticipation of a check poke. Of course an armored reversal will get you out pretty much everytime, you just may find yourself caught without any meter.

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