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The official frame data app for android and iphone has the info you want:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dk.SFV&hl=en
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/street-fighter-v-official/id1075853478?mt=8
To explain link combos, let me first talk about cancels and target combos
- cancels is where you cancel out of an animation to start a completely new one. You can for example cancel out of your HRK special attack and into her CA if you input the CA right after inputting the HRK.
target combos are combos that are essentially "baked into" the character already. This means, if you input a string of inputs in a set order, a combo will come out. They function like cancels, where each move is cancelled into the next. Ryu has a target combo called "Jodan Sanrengeki" where the inputs are simply [ st.mp > st.hp > st.hk]. If you land this baby after a heavy jump in kick, you are in for some good damage (SFV Ryu in a nutshell, he's a beast). You already know about Chun-Li's "Yosokyaku" target combo, which are three down+medium kick's stringed together in quick succession while in the air.
Now... Links are more technical than cancels or target combos. Remember the thing I said about cancels letting you cancel out of an animation? Well, links have you link animations. This means that you let the entire animation for that move start and finish before you press the next button. This takes practice, and don't fret if you don't learn that combo in a single evening. Hell, I learned it last week and can do it while sleeping and I STILL mess it up every now and then online. To understand links, you should understand how SFV works in terms of time. SFV runs at 60 frames per second, and the entire game is designed around this. "frame data" is a term you have probably heard before but not really given much thought, but it is really important. Essentially, all moves have animations, and all animations takes a set amount of time to start, last and finish right? Well, since the game runs at 60fps, the moves are designed to last in frames of animation. Every move has Startup frames, Active Frames and Recovery Frames to them, and they indicate how long it takes a move to come out, how long it does damage and how long it takes to recover back to a neutral stance (so you can block or do something else).
Now let's look at each part of that BnB combo I wrote earlier. I have written the frame data as
(startup, active , recovery)[on hit, on guard]:
- crouching light punch (3,2,6)[5,2]
- standing medium punch (5,2,10)[6,3]
- crouching medium kick (6,2,15)[0,-2]
>You can find all the frame data you need (and even data on what can be cancelled into what!) with the official SFV Frame Data app on IOS and Android. I'm sure the other free apps are fine too, but I'm a sucker that buys the stuff that says "official".
Here you can see how long each attack takes to fully finish and how much of an "advantage" it leaves you on hit and on block. By advantage, I mean for how many frames the guy you are hitting is unable to do anything because they are being hit or they are blocking your attack. The crouching light punch hits the guy in the face, and then he is reeling in pain for 5 frames. This is 5 frames of time you can use to do something more before he can do anything. Now look at the frame data for the standing medium punch... It takes 5 frames to come out no? Well... if you hit that button precisely, you can link that into your combo and hit the dude. If you hit with this, you are at 6 frame advantage, which funnily enough is exactly what you need for you crouching medium kick to hit. Notice that the advantage numbers are smaller in the "on block" category... If these numbers are ever negative, the guy you are hitting will have the advantage and be able to hit you before you can do anything.
My post is really really long now, but I hope you have gotten a basic understanding of how links work. Reply in here if you have trouble pulling it off. I have something that will help.