http://shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74038
To anyone who’s gonna be in the area. A3 tournaments get thrown together at random SVGL tournaments, and at both previous NCR tournaments (usually about 12-20 entrants). Even if there wasn’t a tourney, there’s good A3 comp. I’ll probably be there on Saturday the 13th.
Just as a reminder: The more people who are active in the A3 scene, the higher the possibility of A3 being at Evo2k5.
60 legit players seems like a reasonable ammount to me… if you want A3 to be at Evo, you have to show up for these things.
Hello everyone.
Our house has just started playing alpha 3 we went from UMK 3 to KI1 and 2 then MVC 1 and 2 and have spent the last 4 months playing MVC2 hardcore on the DC.
I purchased a Blaze minitwin controller and the first time we sat down for some 2 player arcade styles and it killed controller port 2 
So we decided to play a little alpha 3.
I love it.
There no cheap runaways when you are almost out of health its not a masher by any stretch and it looks nice to boot.
Long story short Im an AKuma Goki fan and would love a nice breakdown of how to cause as much damage as possible with him 
Combos etc I know hes an Xism character but after slowly searching around here I cant find a difinitive Akuma section.
Apologies if there is one a link would be fine.
Alpha 3 for the win !
cheers
Wait until you see v-akuma but is propose you play A-ism to get all his options. Get a hang of his ground normals before going to anything else.
The deal is not purely for dishing the damage, it’s to go for guard crushes and poking.
Is there any writeups on AKUMA available,
Ie gaurd crushes pokes etc etc etc
Link specials after combos and all that.
I took the other guys in the house down 33 games 0 last nite but it was lots of 3 and 4 hit simple combos. and I use the raging demon now and then I dont consider it cheap.
One specific question though.
With a shoto AKUMA for exmaple a missed or blocked dragon uppercut always leaves you open for a sweep theres not way around being swept is there ?
Akuma’s JP DP has a bug which makes it immune to sweeps even after he touches the ground.
And of course there’s the Ken bug which makes him immune to all attacks. There’s a DP involved there, too.
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13001&highlight=akuma
there’s probably more if u try the search function.
I think shotos are about the feel of the moves (like most characters).
You should have fun and try to execute all his moves and incorporate them into your play smoothly. Like one game you have 4 moves: J.rh, jab shoryu, fierce hadoken and low forward. The other game you have the kujin kyaku, low short, st.strong, b+hk. Have fun with your akuma and try to assimilate the proprieties of his moves. There are multiple ways to anti-air, to poke/keep-away, to combo (although damage is prioritary) and custom guard crush strings are quite effective if you know your moves.
what’s up homies…
If ever any of you pass by montreal let me know. We still have an arcade and I can get you lots of comp.
Later
P.S. Can’t believe how huge this thread is.
Hey someone give me some tips on V-Sak vs. V-vega, and A-Sim.
I saw a V-Sak vs. V-Vega vid from A-Cho where Sak just threw fireballs the entire match 
Just asking…anyone with good V-ken custom combos?
Can you please explain the Ken bug in detail for me?^^
Ken becomes invulnerable for the rest of the match. I forgot the details, though (it was somewhere in the middle of the older SFZ3 thread, if you can find it), but IIRC, it was right after a DP.
woo, someone Japanese in this forum
probably only from full screen.
Sure. Lemme check to make sure it’s still on the A-Cho site for ya. If it isn’t, I can always send it your way
EDIT: The vids are down, right now they have new Capcom Fighting Evolution vids. Lemme know when you’re on next time via AIM or something and I’ll make sure you get the A3 ones
i’m gonna need to play you when i visit this christmas. great stuff 