Abel's Standing Normals

Close LP
Jabs out with his palm. Similar to cr.LP. Not much use for this move.

Close MP
Hits at the gut and then the face. Hits crouching characters and twice. You can cancel the first hit into specials.

Close HP
A palm uppercut followed by a hard palm punch forward. Hits twice, 1st hit can whiff on crouching characters and can also be canceled into specials. Often used as an AA move to counter cross-ups and as a link from fwd.MK.

Close LK
Hits out with his leg at the shins. Not much use for this move.

Close MK
Hits with the same animation as his fwd.MK. Cannot be dash canceled like the fwd.MK despite the same animation but can be canceled into specials. The fact that it looks like fwd.MK could be used to trick opponents into thinking you did a fwd.MK.

Close HK
Hits with a reverse roundhouse kick. Comes out very quickly with good hitstun but you can't cancel this into specials nor FADC. Up close, comes out as an overhead.

Far Standing LP
Jabs twice in a reverse pattern of his st.HP. Buffed in SSF4, comes out faster. Might be his new fastest normal (3 frames?). Still not much use for this.

Far Standing MP
Hits out with his palm while standing. A decent poke with good damage. Useful to add damage to a cr.LP block string (links with cr.LP).

Far Standing HP
Strikes out with his palm. Range is slightly further than far st.MP and this has higher damage but this move comes out slow and can whiff on crouchers. Not very useful though I've seen it being used vs. Sagat's st.HK to good effect.

Far Standing LK
Abel's best and fastest poke. Comes out very quickly, has great reach and does good damage for a light poke. Abuse.

Far Standing MK
High angled kick (45 degrees upwards). Effective as an AA against some characters. Moves Abel forward, can be used as a throw set-up when whiffed.

Far Standing HK
Hits at the midriff with a low spinning roundhouse. Does good damage and has long reach but has a very long start-up. Effective as a poke but with care. Has a similar start-up animation as his wheel kick which can trick people into thinking you are doing one.