Akuma General Discussion Thread: "I am the Master of the Fist!"

rofl JR Pikachuakuma fishing for Raging demons online vs silver and normal gold players while playing & JR got absolutely no footsies, no setups, no shimmies, no combos, no AAs and random jump ins all day long
leads him to losing 90% of all his matches with Akuma

gdlk

I plan to play gouki as a sub so I have a few questions and I have never played gouki or any shoto in other games.

-instant overhead ?
-Cross up tatsu ?
-meaty overhead into something ?
-style of playing ?
-buttons for footsies/zoning ?
-other advice ?

Check out Tokido Akuma

He was good in 3S then lost respect for him for boosting in sf4.

Tbh JR is one of the ppl with the most poor sportsmanship I have seen so far in this community, he likes to brag around, dodging good players all the time, teabags beginners, cheating and he even sends
hatemails
long time ago I actually thought he was good at SF until the day Ive actually played his akuma

I beat him 10-2 easily in SF4, he never said GG nor did he upload any of these matches on his channel.
And ye, same here. I lost the respect from him on the day when I saw him cheating his points to 6k PP and he ran away from any good player who challenged him in SF4 yet keeps playing vs 1-2k PP players.
But he does the same in SF3, look up nicaKO, exo and all the strong US SF3 players at fightarcade. JR dodging them all
I even ran into JR twice in SF3 4 years ago and beat him both times.
He is avg at it’s best at SF3.
he does alot of random stuff & gimmicks which won’t work vs good players

Previously, I used to be a fan of JR but all I saw him landing Raging Demons and that’s it. Nothing else.

Anyone been able to find any punishes vs max range sweeps when opponent is in the corner? Mostly aimed towards very long ones like Nash/Karin/Birdie.

For Karin & Nash all I could find was EX Tatsu and for Birdie it’s even worse, the only thing that punishes his max range sweep is CA.

Karin you can use MK Tatsu, LP SRK. Nash I couldn’t find anything. Perhaps VT CA?

When Karin is in the corner herself? I haven’t managed to reach her with lp dp and mk tatsu at all.

Gotta be careful with the 236236+P CA. Can be stuffed by a normal. Did an anti-air 236236+P CA at a jumping Ryu, and the j.HK beat the super. Never had it happen before but it seems that one of the very first frames before the pillar comes out has Akuma hitable. Robbed me of a round but I don’t care as I lose on purpose anyway but could be important for people to know.

Yeah, KKZ is definitely weird. ToolAssisted has it as 8 frames startup and invulnerable from frames 1-11. However, the super can be beaten, so it could be that TA is wrong on that.

Maybe the hitbox for the column doesn’t expand enough until after the invul frames or something along that line.

Ok I stand corrected. LP SRK works. MK Tatsu however doesn’t.

vs Nash and Birdie however the ONLY thing I’ve found to hit was CA (and as Jwong showed earlier last week, raging demon just straight up whiffs)

At first I thought EX Tatsu worked vs Nash/Karin but against the very last few pixels of the hitbox even that one whiffs.

The CA doesn’t hit airborne opponents until after the invincibility, so it can be beaten.

Every character in the game can c.lp Karins sweep on block.

You can always punish karin sweep with st.lk xx m.tatsu

the timing is awkward though.

And if you want to spend the meter into CA, better just cancel the first hit of shoryuken, easy to do if you antecipate a jump over a fireball, or by using the v-trigger activation to freeze the screen.

Not max range Karin sweep. At the very tip, only reversal LP.SRK works; not even reversal MK.Tatsu reaches. As Intuitive2011 said:

So, I posted this in the Raging Demon shortcut’s thread, but it’s not really a shortcut.

You can cancel unsafe moves into Raging Demon, Even on block. It’s crazy. Super gimmicky but also a really tricky gimmick. They block your sweep and want to press a button but lose 400 life instead.

Sorry for the double post but I feel it was in the wrong thread and didn’t get noticed.

I got caught last night after I blocked a sweep. Didn’t know it was possible. Felt like such and idiot. It’s a dirty trick and i plan on using it

also i didnt get to really test it, but VT Hp.SRK was able to beat Karins super. Was mashing for super after Karin activated super for a chip kill, and got SRK instead, best it clean for the KO