Alex too few options?

Duralath · April 19, 2008, 1:50am

Go back to Ken, Lenin.

Saisyu_Kusanagi · April 19, 2008, 10:19am

An Alex impersonator, tell me it is a lie, tell me it is not so?:shake:

Duralath · April 19, 2008, 9:48pm

Haha, nah, Lenin played Alex before. But he switched to Ken.

Unlike us, who stuck to Alex.

Dander · April 19, 2008, 11:12pm

but only for tournaments. I pick Alex all the time in Casuals. Everyone was just talking about stepping your game up so I played around with a lot of characters to get a feel for all of the matches and found Ken’s style to suit my straight rush that shit down needs. I liked Alex half of that but you couldn’t do match after they parried and you didn’t have the meter for a super cancel. With Ken I can do all of that bullshit, but either which way I have a sick ass Alex anyway.

System_1 · April 21, 2008, 11:15pm

Being stuck with Alex is fine with me.
Though Ken beatdowns are much more easier to dish out…

Dander · April 21, 2008, 11:40pm

that’s what I’m sayingi!

System_1 · April 21, 2008, 11:50pm

LOL

I remember going to Akon '07 which was last year, and there’s a pretty heavy SF3 presence…so i counted how many times I would see a shippu or blonde boy special, i counted freaking 321 times on day one o.O

Dander · April 22, 2008, 12:04am

I usually count stupid uppercut set ups like a block standing forward into uppercut and so on. I counted 24 at evo. Which is 24 too many.

System_1 · April 22, 2008, 3:57am

24 too many indeed…

DevilJin_01 · April 22, 2008, 5:02am

I like s.forward into uppercut. :sad:

pherai · April 22, 2008, 10:43am

Dander has just been beaten by Akuma’s so much he’s made it his goal to beat the shit out of all of them. No hard feelings man, I’ll be happy to beat any character you choose :lovin:

Dander · April 22, 2008, 8:24pm

I’ve only been consistently beaten by JR Rodriguez… I can’t think of any other akumas…

System_1 · April 23, 2008, 6:26pm

Pherai, gimme the number to that pimp god incorporation, I need to hire a pimp to pimp slap the shit out of akuma o.O

Striderhyru05 · April 24, 2008, 6:06pm

Im trying to learn how to play with alex, but I keep getting the business by quick shoto players.

and with akuma its a barrage of fireballs that has me on defense the entire round.

Saisyu_Kusanagi · April 25, 2008, 5:59am

Duralath:

Quite honestly, you don’t want to use Hyper Bomb because your opponent’s gotta be falling for stupid shit if you’re able to land it on him.

I never said that Alex should be on the defensive. Hell, if Alex can mount an offensive, then I’m all for it, since it’s necessary for Alex to get offensive to beat Akuma. Fuck, if Alex gets offensive, then the Akuma player’s not doing his part to keep the pressure up.

A good Akuma shouldn’t be afraid of Hyper Bomb, though. He should be afraid of getting stopped with hit that links into Alex’s EX moves. Quite honestly, you’re better off doing damage using Alex’s EX moves. And guess what: use an EX move, and you lose Hyper Bomb. Look for Hyper Bomb, and you’re looking for a limited opening instead of having multiple options to do just as much damage against Akuma. Oh, and a smart Akuma won’t give you the opportunity to use Hyper Bomb.

Cookbook recipe for Gouki,
HyperBomb or StunGun, you decide how he dies.
EX-Air Knee smash all Gouki Demon Filp air attacks. After they lose half life they will get the point.
Don’t get scrubed out by Shin-Gouki-Satsu. If you don’t commit you can get hit. Just hold up on the joystick in the black screen and you get out everytime.

Parry all air fireballs as it gives you free meter and ready to go super or EX Air Knee Smash after the parry in case the Gouki player wants to get smart and try to throw you after you parry the fireball.

Sanchez · April 25, 2008, 9:06am

If you’re using EX attacks, why not pick the super with the most stocks?

…

Right.

Once again, why not pick SA2?

pherai · April 25, 2008, 9:21am

Fuck, I hope FFA players aren’t reading this! All my setups are useless :mad:

rageous · April 25, 2008, 11:18am

i think we’re better off not listening to that advice

Sanchez · April 25, 2008, 11:42am

Promote this man!:tup:

rageous · April 26, 2008, 1:36am

I think dashing and patience/defense is more or less the key if you want to beat gouki with alex.

dashing under his jumpins wether it’s airfireballs or demonflips is a good solution in the first place if you want to compromise that part of his gameplay.

actually there’s a lot of things that you can do, eg. ex-chop his airfireballs when they come in low so the second hit might hit gouki.

alex’ st.HP trades with every shoryukenlike attack i think, it should eventually give space to place powerbombs.

I have to say that my mate played a very offensive gouki and spammed cr.MK a lot, therefore i could relatively often land a st.HK since alex moves back a bit and i got out of range. as weird as that kick is^^

yeah, that’s it for now. nevertheless it would be good to know if you and your opponents are equally skilled just to be sure they don’t simply kick your ass cause they throw and space better or whatever. I’m not very good at 3s though.

edit: air2air you should use mk since it beats gouki out of his horrible hurricanekick