Aight, but where that release date though Capcom?
Close up design is super ugly but dont care about that, wanna see how he looks in gameplay instead. Also why does nash have the pants alex SHOULD have 
Is it wishful thinking that we’ll get to use V-Skill cancel as a frame trap setup? Kind of like Vega’s stance change cancel.
That’s a cool idea. My concern with this is that his v-skill/old taunt animation might be quite easy to identify from a normal or special move he has. With Vega, you also have the v skill that spins kinda like the equip/un equip claw
True but there’s just something so totally right about the idea of getting St.HP blocked into “Ahh lemme just take a stretch for a sec here SIKE THAT’S THE WRONG NUMBER” crush counter St.HK.
Lol I didn’t know this was a CPT event, let alone a tournament at all lol. I stand corrected. Anytime I see the word ‘Cannes’ followed by anything I just think ‘film-festival’ and keep it pushing lol.
Same shit they’ve been doing for about 5 days. Disagrees with every single comment in the thread regardless of what is in it.
Some people plead for attention in odd ways.
Capcom needs to hurry up and give us date already, I’m beyond ready to start powerbombing fools. I do hope they at least give him a story/trials too.
Side Note: Why is there one dude disliking all the posts in this thread, lol
Demonstrations aka Character tutorial will have Alex included
Story mode not sure if confirmed (but could very well be… it’s not that big, 3 pictures and like 2 fights…)
Trial mode I highly doubt, iirc I read somewhere that the new characters wont have trials upon release
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Im not quite sure how Alex will reliably build V-Meter…
using vskill will buff alex’ next normal (/special…?) but on whiff it’s lost.
Highly doubt the activation will build meter (except if you cant use it anymore once you stored one ‘powerup’)
Any idea how it could/ should work?
vskill, whiff, vskill to build meter seems too strong, but having to make contact to build meter at all seems rather weak.
I hope it just builds meter on the arm crank. Birdie’s works similarly. He can stand full screen and build meter all day. Mika can too but it’s much more of a commitment and doesn’t compliment her style at all to hang back.
Im just really concerned about the “lost on whiff” part.
Using vskill full screen away against ryu for example isnt scary at all. Best case scenario is landing a counterhit jump in… I dont need vskill to CH a fireball with st.hk…
That basically makes vskill a knockdown tool, knock opponent down, use vskill, pressure.
But a meaty is pointless, if they press a button or backdash it’s counterhit anyway abd the grab threat is there too. So what exactly are we supposed to use it for?
Only thing I can imagine right now would be landing a Crush Counter combo on a stunned enemy, if that is even possible…
That’s why I was thinking it would be good if you could use is as a cancel mixup, when pressuring cancel normals into arm crank which puts them in a 3-way: crush counter, power bomb or just block.
let’s just hope you can cancel into it and it’s not too gimmicky (like Kens, were every cancel is minus a billion)
That sounds more like a trigger cancel, pretty sure it’ll just be a passive threat when you don’t feel like meatying a shoto/character w/ meter reversal as gigglz said.
I feel like Knockdown > Armcrank > Power Bomb is going to be more his mode of operation, people see arm crank and they’re gonna wanna block for sure, and you don’t lose the powerup when you use a special move, only when you whiff a normal. I also think that armcrank will build V-meter on its own like birdies V-skill, so it’ll have additional value. (It would be hilarious if that meant Alex could effectively whiff normals to build meter in this game, considering that was a common tactic in 3!)
Also, can we all just appreciate that the official name of his V-skill is “Overhaul”? A barely relevant truck/car pun? Capcom, bringing the stereotypes back to SF! LOL
So…he can force counter hits through his v-skill or something? Does this mean if we force a CH command grab it becomes a hard knockdown or some shit?
Thing is most knockdowns you can just get up quick anyway so the arm crank going to have to be pretty fast. …
They said it was very fast in one of the posts, mentioned doing it on knockdown, but I was thinking about this too… It is possible they meant on hard knockdowns only. Here’s hoping his sweep and Crush Counter are really good.
posts to see if Kidhero disagrees…