You could “balance it” in all of those odd ways too, sure… I don’t understand all the negative accusations like “lazy Capcom” though but hey, whatever… :tup:
Umm… maybe because the top 8 is made of 8 characters and only 4 had a meterless reversal.
Granted they weren’t winning every tournament (EVO GF was two characters with no reversal after all), but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that every single one of them was in top 8.
How are reversals stronger? In SF5 you can still lose the round easily if you get your DP punished into big damage. CC for 40% on whiff DP isn’t a thing?
I don’t understand what you mean by this? The former example of Rog, he isn’t doing any of that off a reversal, he does that off stomp punishes. From what I recall, he doesn’t even have a reversal?
If it’s really a problem, then remove super cancel from reversal moves. Ryu would still be able to super cancel off a fireball from a well placed c.MK xx HDK during footsies and get great damage. Cammy from c.MK xx SA xx CA.
On the other hand, there is the benefit of the meta changing when characters like Ryu can super cancel off DP. It means you need to think about the match and how you approach it more once they have a full stock and you can’t mindlessly meaty on wakeup without taking an enormous risk. That’s kind of the point to an evolving meta game. Been that way since ST. If Ryu has super, then don’t throw a fireball since that’s an easy reaction for Ryu. The player who took that risk made a mistake and paid for it.
It’s the same for Alpha 3, if they have v-ism, then you need to think about what you do because activation gives them invincibility and a lot of damage for a risky poke, fireball, meaty, or jump in.
Same for CvS2, any number of grooves have a tool that once you have meter for, changes the meta and you need to adapt.
The point is, you need to adapt, and if they have meter and you know they can do that, then you need to think about the risk vs reward.
What the hell do you mean? Ryu’s best DP on block scenario is -24. If that’s not enough positive frames for you, then you should quit fighting games. That’s a free CC for 40% right there.
??? What does invincible DP have to do with wake up timings? If anything, that’s a nerf to DP since you can quick rise and the defender is at less advantage than older games when DP rewarded hard knock downs.
Add more active frames to normals. IMO, this has nothing to do with DP, simply the fact that 2 active frames is garbage in general and makes for a shitty fighting game. There should be more active frames on normals across the board. Regardless of how many active frames you have, invincible DP will still win, it just means the attacker is less likely to whiff and a dropped reversal attempt forces the defender into block state instead of free punish state from whiffed meaty.
Nope. The only one that changes is 2, since spending a meter stocks means you can’t super cancel, which means the meta revolving around the threat of the defender is completely gone and the attacker has full advantage, especially when at a meter advantage and especially since that means they get to build meter as well while the defender doesn’t as they defend.
I feel like that entire post is you not knowing very simp,e streetfighter things… like me not knowing about os dp input earlier.
As an example… you don’t seem to know why blocking a dp is bad. Well as I already told you, you can read the second post on the first page.
In older streetfighter games you could bait a dp into WIFFING. When you bait a dp into wiff it’s a hell of a lot safer because you are further away from the opponent outside their throw range. So they can’t do much about you baiting their dp. They can try to cr.mk or cr.lk you as you are outside throw range… but that doesn’t generally work.
In sf5 however, because of the nature of quickrise, you/most characters will only be in throw range for around 3 frames or so AT MOST. That isn’t enough to back off out of throw range. It’s creates a situation that is extremely binary, which is completely unlike oldschool streetfighter and even sf4 where you could get a hard knockdown and then be chillin inside the opponents throw range as they wakeup, for like 20-30 frames allowing you, the attacker to do stuff like walk up, then walk back, then walk up, then walk back, then walk up… and throw… or walk back and bait the whiffed dp.
You really can’t do this anymore. That makes the reversals much better because it’s much more risky to try and bait them.
And anywho I was specifically speaking to quark about this. I don’t see any reason to converse with you when you don’t even acknowledge the points. There is no reason to argue. Most of your arguments can be summed up as “nuh uh” and I don’t have time for that.
How are those ways odd? What’s odd is removing full invul from DPs when there are much more thoughtful ways to balance them. That is also why they are lazy: instead of actually thinking about how to balance DPs, they just haphazardly remove invul without meter (That and the fact that they don’t make good games anymore)
Forgive me but I keep bringing up Ryu because my perspective is as a Ryu player
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I still feel the punishment for a bad reversal dp is pretty big. A good CC combo gets you v gauge and in most cases pretty high damage. Imo this game heavily favors offensive play, jumping is better, aa’s are worse, dashes are really fast, unreactable safe ex moves and footsies are generally harder to play due to the frame lag. We also have things like gray damage that really contribute to the amount of damage more defensive players take. So there may not be as many safe jump/vortex situations (which I actually wasn’t a fan of in 4) but it honestly doesn’t seem as hard to open people up as it was in 4. The throw tech os doesn’t seem to be nearly as powerful as it was in 4 so teching is actually a lot more risky. Also, in my experience there are characters that are threatening from outside of dp range after a kd. Bison is a good example.
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In the case of Ryu in s2 his offense is lacking so I think having a solid defensive option that lets him keep his super would be a good thing. If they gave him something else then we could take that into account.
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More often than not you’re right about having to block a reversal dp. I also take into account all the points you’ve made in your original post. I still think the punishment of a blocked reversal is pretty sever considering the other player gains v gauge and deals out a CC combo that can in some cases deal up to 60%. You may not have enough advantage to diversify your oki options in most cases mid screen but the options are still heavily in the attackers favor. You can grab, meaty or block. Meaty attacks are a great option because if they don’t reversal you get gray damage into a shimmy mix up or throw due to being forced to go into a throw animation to tech (outside of the jump back os that brings you to the corner). Offense in general is a lot stronger in this game imo even though safe jumps and etc aren’t as dominant in this game outside of CC HKD. You can go to town in the corner though. In the end though it’s a lot more risky to go for a reversal than it is to attack due to the difference in damage potential.
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I get that it can be frustrating to deal with different wake up timings but don’t a lot of characters have patterns that can cover all options? Also since screen positioning is so important back rolls can contribute to cornering yourself which can lead to a really bad situation.
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This imo isn’t just a problem vs reversals, wake up 3 frame jabs can actually be a lot more rewarding in these situations due to ch conversions into combos. I always thought it was very important to have your meaty timing on point in sfv due to how short active frames are. It’s pretty frustrating to score a kd just to get jabbed out of your pressure and have it converted into a combo. Still it’s kind of random hoping that your opponents meaty timing isn’t correct unless you notice they cant time it properly.
Since this is coming from the perspective of a Ryu player I may sound bias. As you mentioned though Ryu is lacking some good tools so maybe it wouldn’t be a big deal if he had more to work with but in the current state of the game that’s not the case. I just thought having a reversal felt fair for the character considering how offensive this game really is compared to other sf games. I just looked at it as a solid defensive option in a heavy offense game. To see V reversals and normal reversals nerfed together was a bit disappointing to me.
As of now reversals are very expensive but do deal a little more damage. Would you think it would be overboard if a metered reversal granted enough advantage for a meaty attack? It is a huge risk considering the penalty you pay, a bar of meter and potentially half your life.
Defensive play is automatically at a disadvantage in SFV due to frame lag. That means whiff punishes, blocking, aa’ing and etc are all harder than in previous games. I would welcome any defensive options we can get.
Your suggestions are just very arbitrary - I prefer clearly defined rules with ideally no exceptions so the game is easy to understand like chess. Calling this move lazy is to me like calling somebody who doesn’t do acrobatic flips and stunts while shooting someone with a pistol a bad killer. Anyways, I’d like to hear more on this discussion between Dime and Quark - feel free to join them - I’d like to just listen for now.
“You shouldn’t be able to pressure me, only I should be able to pressure you! Having to block like everyone else is unfair! Fake news!”
- Shotos
I never suggested you didn’t know about os dp input, I don’t know which post of mine you got that from or what that has to do with a response to me. Instead of being smug, why don’t you point out the “very simple street fighter things” I don’t know, because it seems to me that you avoid discussing simple street fighter things and would rather be smug.
No, explain why a blocked DP at - 24 is good for the person who just had their DP blocked.
“That means to bait you have to actually have to block the opponents reversal and that is risky. The opponent could just grab you since you have to be point blank to make anyone scared, or they could jab and then throw you.”
That’s not a blocked DP. If you didn’t block a DP, then you’re not blocking a DP. Someone throws you instead of doing a DP when you’re trying to bait a DP, that is not blocking DP!
“These are 2 options that you never really had to deal with in the streetfighter series if you played the oki game right.”
You’re wrong about never having to deal with wake up throws when baiting a DP in the hopes to block and punish in older games. You need to play some ST. You get point blank to do anything in that game you could get grabbed. Grabs are 0 frames of start up. They’ll beat close proximity meaty attempts 100% of the time. They have no animation start up so a wake up throw is even more powerful in that game than in SF5. By your logic, why should anyone try to bait a DP when they could get thrown? Why should anyone ever try to meaty in that game? Risk vs reward and you know what? People do it because most humans can’t perfectly execute reversal or throw attempts on wake up 100% of the time.
So you can’t bait a DP to whiff in SFV? Are you claiming SFV doesn’t have a single character who can be outside of both throw and DP range or that no characters have attacks that will cover those short ranges throw and DP covers? Every character has to be point blank to bait a DP? If c.MK or c.LK on characters is outside of throw range, why doesn’t it generally work? Is it because it might get hit by DP? Is this something that can’t be used to train an opponent to whiff a DP?
Does Alpha 3 count as old school SF? Because you get ground and air recovery options in that game, and it still has invincible DP reversals along with other options, throw ranges are better and faster, and yet you can still bait wake up reverals in that game.
What about CvS2?
How are people able to bait wake up options in those games?
So someone quick rises and throws you. Why didn’t you train them that you’ll press buttons? Or take the throw, quick rise, and be on your feet again if it’s such a good optoin to quick rise everything?
Yet it’s far more risky for the defender to use the reversal. How does that compute?? You have a number of options to bait reversal, and since a lot of people don’t throw out reversals because they’re risky you’re probably going to be able to do nearly anything you wait as the attacker.
Open forum, if you want to debate privately then leave and take it to PM with Quark. I’ve also quoted your points specifically several times and counter pointed, but you’re too busy being smug and telling people they don’t know jack shit about street fighter when they don’t agree with everything you write. GGs dude.
Moonchilde dude, you need some vitamins, minerals, fresh air and education about something more than the internet. Make yourself a good breakfast every morning, exercise at least weekly, traverse the land outside of the “moon hours” and that’ll help you get past this “internet arguing stage”…
You are so far off on several occasions here.
For example:
The problem was that they had the option to stick that dragon-punch in there in the first place. No one here is stupid enough to say that it’s a good thing to have something blocked and getting punished - why would you think that???
Please respond in a respectful manner :tup:
Also I should mention that you have some good points, but some others are way, way fuckin’ off… 
Yet you start your post off condescending? I get more than enough exercise, my job requires me to be on my feet all day. I don’t have a cushy sit down job.
You mean like every other street fighter other than SF3? How is it a problem that characters have DP as an option? It wasn’t a problem in those games. Why is it a problem now?
As for the latter, the dude literally wrote blocking DP is a bad thing ^ right there above. I want to know why, as that dictates in order to do the action of blocking a DP you must actually block a DP, which leaves Ryu -24 for light DP and that’s his best case scenario. I’m probably being a little stubborn here since I’m sure he means attempting to bait a DP and failing, in which case I’d still disagree that baiting a DP is riskier than the defending actually doing the DP.
I’m open to ideas and changing my opinion but there hasn’t been a single convincing argument yet as to why invincible DP is a problem in this game, not when the offense is as stong as it is and the punishment of whiffed/blocked DP is as severe as it is. I’d be with you if they were safe on block or had unpunishable recovery or were just straight up OP.
Then you probably get more physical exercise than me! I’ve started to walk to work so I’m gettin’ up there too though… It’s almost 2 kilometers each way 
I regard it as a change of rules, and I would definitely claim that it has indeed been a problem because there have always been top-tier and bottom-tier characters in SF including when it comes to wake-up - personally I think this is a good direction to take, and besides that I think it’s bullshit that at any time the “shoryuken-character” can knock you on your feet while you were pressing your advantage - it’s just total bullshit in my opinion… Rather than working oneself out of a bad situation these characters could simply say “Hey! Shoooooryuken…?? No? (blocked)”… It was just bullshit in my opinion. I did use those shoryus and so did my opponents but now in this new landscape of rules I think it’s a much more civilized game. The most important thing is that it has to have a cost to make a call-out like a shoryuken so you can’t just freely do call-outs the entire time, sort of like poker.
I dunno, I don’t see it as a problem maybe because I’m so used to it. I think it’s a good design decision because it’s meant to keep characters off who otherwise get up in that ass and stay there. Forever. Even since the SF2 days. No one wants to be a shoto in the corner against ST DeeJay. It’s painful and DP is the only answer and even that doesn’t work out so well in your favor because it’s easy to lose the rock paper scissors game. That’s pretty much how I see SF5 now, unless you’re willing to spend the meter to risk getting CC on whiff or block, which is pretty expensive to get a combo busted out on you.
I also suppose a lot of this comes from playing a character with no reversal options in the last 8 or so years. In 4, it was infuriating that I had to almost always respect everyone’s wake up game (especially when they had meter) but no one had to respect mine. Sure, you could argue that the playing field is now balanced, and I definitely agree to an extent, however I feel having a good defense to balance out offense is important, otherwise, it’s all offense. I find it more uncivil, actually, that now you don’t have to respect someone on wake up or during frame traps unlike before, when I had to respect my opponent’s defense and think more rather than get in a groove during advantage and stay there. Had I a reversal back in 4, people would’ve had to respect my wake up a little bit more than they did before. Even if it was just a little bit, it would have gone a long way, because at some point they might have backed off a little bit from just the threat that Vega might reversal and give me enough room to put the counter offense on.
I really wouldn’t care about meterless reversal if v.reversal actually did something.
OTOH, walking to work is good for you, I’ve had to do it quite a few times and it definitely pays off.
They didn’t “haphazardly remove invul”, they remove invul from frame 1 on medium DPs and separated DPs in strike invul and throw invul ones. Have you read the patch notes?
And how is that not haphazardly removing invul exactly?
Yeah walking to work is a slow progress but I’m appreciative of it still =)
I have to agree that say between Cammy and Ryu where Cammy has a lot of offense, it would make sense for Ryu to have a good defense. I think that along with “that defense” there came just the undesired option to throw out these “wildcard reversals” at any point in time. I agree that it’s not exactly an easy issue to balance the rules of the game around but I’m enjoying it a lot now that when I knock-down Akuma or Cammy they will have to spend their meter in order to prevent me from pressing my advantage after my successful knockdown.
Talking doesn’t seem to be getting through to you so maybe video will. In this video i am playing Chun versus various baddies at v94 in california at arcade vanilla streetfighter 4.
Notice in the first match that every time I knock down my opponent I stay just out of range of their wakeup dp and wakeup throw and I still have the option of walkup throw or, make them block a fireball, or make them block a normal such as sweep or cr.mk. I’m able to keep pressure on my opponent without even doing anything a lot of the time.
The ambiguous spacing that I’m able to occupy over and over again on my opponents wakeup in the first match is not available for the most part in sf5.
In those games you can clearly see that were my opponent to try to dp me, he would wiff, at least half the time. He almost never has the ability to just throw me on his wakeup. I’m almost never in a position where I have to block a dp instead of making it wiff. My position here is much stronger in general on knockdown. It’s like how it was in oldschool streetfighter.
In sf5 however that same situation forces me to be point blank in order to be any kind of scary. I can’t be scary from outside point blank range.
No one is saying that blocking a dp isn’t a good situation to be in. I said that having to be in a position where I have to block the dp instead of being able to make it wiff… is the bad position. The position in sf5 is very binary and has no nuance to it at all. That makes it better for reversals because it’s harder to “safely” get in their heads about what they should and shouldn’t do.
Anyways, the video:
Because it’s not random and makes sense?
I haven’t seen people in my local scene being forced to play point blank. When they do, they’re usually abusing a character who has a poor wake up game and no reversal. I also don’t see why you can’t be scary from outside point blank range, since last I checked Chun had decent range on her crouching kicks and can hit confirm off them. I don’t play Chun though so I’m not all that familiar with her, I might be wrong on her range. I don’t see why you’d ever be forced into blocking a DP, that should and would be a choice you make as the attacker since you’re the one at the advantage there.
Birdie can (or used to be able to) be outside of that position and use s.MK to harass with. A jump attempt will get hit by a number of AA options. A reversal attempt will be CC or punished regardless. Vega can harass with light pokes, trying to jump out means air throw or AA. Karin can harass with s.LK and s.MK and AA if they try to jump out. I see a lot of tools that can be used out of those ranges, and mixing it up with doing nothing to bait a DP is possible. IMO, it’s not as likely because again, DP is risky so I don’t see a lot of people use it, even in S1 when characters like Ryu actually had one.
I’ll just throw it out there, that Daigo was thrown five times in a row in the corner in a tournament and that was S1 Ryu with an actual meterless DP. It must be pretty strong for him to never use it once during those 5 successful throw attempts by his opponent?
Anyway, I’m not going to convince you anytime soon, but at least we can have a discussion on our opinions, so let’s be more civil about it ok?
It doesn’t make sense though; the solutions that I mentioned are much better since they give both sides some of what they want: DPs retain full invul, but attackers have many options to deal. The way they did it is just kinda silly tbh