Alex General Discussion: "At ease, loo-suh!" The Alex SFV Thread

3weeks maximum until the alex flood hits online

Lets just hope his throws dont set him back as far as 3rd strike. Hate to have to deal with the zoning game every throw. It was hard enough with parries.

His body reminds me of Bryan fury from x tekken a bit with the long arms

What do you think his VT could be used for outside of just using it as a damage boost/confirm? Unless it goes full screen and you can do kof Ralf style shenanigans (which are still pretty terrible) i dont see the point of a charged move unblockable. Basically seems like a focus attack that takes all your VT gauge and probably less reward. Weā€™ll have to see how it actually operates to get a good feel for it proper.

Canā€™t wait to get video footage to find out

evo moments

Iā€™m ready to lose a bunch of LP learning to play him in Ranked.

I guess he will have the stomp and the elbow moves based on this. Probably both charge. I imagine elbow will go through fireballs like necalis guiding disc.

I would be happy with this and think itā€™s fair:

-v skill power up to make charged moves safe and lights combo into normals. One off

  • charge elbow being the same as necalis dis guidance. Blows up fireballs but punishable. -6 on block. Damn. Ex pretty good. Safe after v skill power up

  • stomp like bisons in VT. Lands on the ground And 0ish on block.

  • flash chop one version safe on block. One version an invincible reversal. One staggers you with a follow up. All cancelable to super. Ex fast and knockdown.

  • v trigger is fast charge forwards closeline which does 150-200 damage on hit. Can combo into. Can be charged to crumple with some scaling

  • powerbomb. Good range with 80% SPD damage

  • DDT (ranged lunging grab). As good as birdies lk hop. Hmmm prehaps blockable if Ex to be as good as birdies fish dive

  • average walk speed minimum and a good dash

  • his DP jumping anti air grab similar to lauras HP lunge. No better no worse.

  • f+HP, f+MP, jumping MP, mk, CR MP being his main normals as they were in 3s

  • a cross up! Not a light ā€¦ But ok if so

  • bnb combos revolving around - CL mk xx flash chop (safe one). He doesnā€™t need to be combo heavy with everything I just have him

  • jazzy NYC remix which is awesome

  • new York accent and badass. ā€œI donā€™t loseā€, " at ease loser", ā€œweakā€ or the like

  • b+HP stun headbutt

  • stun revolving gameplay but itā€™s OK as he doesnā€™t have crazy crazy combos

The more I look at Alex, the more I hate his haircut. It doesnā€™t make any damn sense. Short hair with long bangs in the front? WTF?

Am I alone in that I really want him to have the Superman? I donā€™t care how bad it was, I want it back.

Iā€™m pretty happy with how he looks, nothing looks weird or out of place.

Just want to try him, Iā€™ve never liked true-grapplers and always preferred the hybrid kind with better neutral and mid-range tools that complement their throws. Hopefully Alex is fun and his alternate colours look sweet, really want the alternate colours to have a purple or blue variant.

I hope he has a SF3 Alt. While I donā€™t hate his new look, I liked his old one better. His pants really bother me.

Iā€™m betting heā€™s lost his chop and him starting off his CA is just an homage to that move. Itā€™s likely that his V-Trigger gives him a new special move much like Karinā€™s V-Trigger does and that move will probably be QCF+P,

He seems to have his power bomb so Hyper Bomb could just be the EX version of his power bomb. It would be nice if he still had the chop so doing EX Power Bomb to a back-turned opponent would give him his five-german-suplexes-in-a-row alternate SA1.

Stungun Headbutt seems to completely gone, though.

I feel as though his V Trigger is somewhat of an homage to stun gun tbh

His triggers sounds like a single move kinda deal, if he could mash 1/2 screen focus attacks thatā€™d be hilariously stupid.
Since they seemed keen to keep him strong at mid-range I really donā€™t think they would get rid of Chop.

Wish they would have detailed his specials a bit more

so when do you expect the trailer. if this was famitsu it would come the day after but im not sure how it is with capcom.

Give me a trailer capcom. I need to hear his voice and his theme. I want to see him in action. No way he only has power bomb and headbutt. I want him to have all his moves from 3s, so many of his moves are so cool when the land. The knee never worked but when it did. Imagine being able to combo from headbutt into elbow into knee. Pls capcom

They said his v trigger will parry one ATTACK, not one HIT, does that mean you could absorb multi hitting moves like Chunā€™s lightning legs?

It would suck if his v trigger was pointless against someone like Fang where pretty much every attack hits more than once. It would make sense for his v trigger to eat one whole attack even if itā€™s multi hit.

The camera angle doesnā€™t necessarily mean anything, itā€™s a promo shot, theyā€™re all like that.