Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone uses the 7th and 8th button on the fightstick as their focus attack instead of pressing medium punch+kick? or perhaps uses them instead of pressing lp+mp+hp for ultra?
I was practicing ryu’s shorukun into FADC into ultra, but focus attack dash cancel by pressing medium punch+medium kick is so damn hard and it seems a lot easier to just use the button right next to hp for it since i can just use my pinky finger to press it.
Using anything more than the 6 button is probably frown-upon i’m sure, since you’re deviating from the rules when it comes to arcade, but I was just wondering if anyone else actually uses the extra 2 buttons? furthermore, are there any pros who use these buttons?
I’m not sure if there are pros (brolylegs, but he’s on controller) who do, but there are several people here who do use those extra buttons. There’s nothing wrong if you can’t hit it normally, but I would still advise you practice FADCing the regular way.
Lots of players use the 7/8 buttons for select plinking. Some decapre players use the top button for MK so they can easily do crMK xx hands. If you use one button for focus and one for throw it makes 4 Button teching much easier and it makes doing Rufus’ back throw parry a cinch.
Hell, Tokido has a completely extra 9th button on his stick that he bound to the UP direction so he can do Akuma’s U2 easily with Up-Up-3K
I think in a recent interview Tokido said he got rid of the UP button because he was hitting it too often by accident. I really hope the select plinking doesn’t make it into SFV as right now there’s really no reason someone couldn’t daisy chain the ‘Select’ button to every action button on their controller and get guaranteed select plinking with every button press at the minor cost of making the stick being mostly useless for every game other than SFIV (obviously what I’ve described is cheating but it’s cheating that’s really hard to detect). As far as OPs query have L1/LB and L2/LT mapped as 3P and 3K respectively.