Won my first casual match today. FANG is weird. Is there anyway to avoid his poison without jumping over it? Parrying and blocking both still get you poisoned.
V-Skill poison? No. It's an unblockable projectile that remains intangible until it hits you (it passes through literally everything else, including EX fireballs). Sometimes it's actually better
taking the poison so you can get in on him quickly. The projectile itself doesn't do any hitstun or blockstun whatsoever, so you're free to dash/jump through it at your leisure, and the poison itself isn't really that much damage as it ticks down on its own. The
real danger is getting hit
while you're poisoned because it stacks considerably, something FANG is pretty good at thanks to his range and his weird limbs/movements.
Be careful of his anti-air setups with the poison traps and the
actual poison fireballs (the bouncy ones you can block). That can lead to some sticky situations if you're knocked down like that, and you don't want him to control the pace of the match.
V-Trigger poison cloud is kind of the same way? As long as he's in proximity to you while this is activated, it's auto-poison. Either try and stay as far away from him as possible when he does this and wait it out, or try to set up situations where you're gonna trade favorably.
Also, watch out for the command dash > grab setup. Really, really grimy.
Smooth Criminal