lebot
1317
Been on a loosing streak. managed to get my pp to 300+ from 1.5k. FUCK ME!!
Trixdee
1318
I feel like I do absolutely terrible against Ken regardless of player skill level. Every time I see him pop up as my opponent I’m like YAY, time to lose more PP. :’( What makes Ken THAT hard to deal with still after having a lot of matches against him already? sees Ken picked waves byebye to another 40-50 PP YAY!!..errr.not 
soncis
1321
Everytime I play a dhalsim I loose, no other match up cause me so much head ache! I jump over fireball he punish with aa, I focus thourh he slides me and I jump shimpu he grabs when I land >_<
Fml. Stopped playing for 3 days come back and go from 3500 to 3000 bp… And well let’s not talk about my small pp. lol. Started working on linking and now I feel it’s hurting my gameplay. I suck at this game. Lol -___- love sf too much to give up.
Koonetz
1323
My god I’m so shit with sakura lol, I feel like I’ll never ever get B rank, losing to the most random crap ever. Worst part is that I don’t even know how to practice properly, I just practice links and combos, then I head to online to get my ass handed to everybody because I know 0 setups and safejumps. How do you even practice those?
For whatever reason I can’t beat scrubby Ryus (Ghandi style) and don’t even get me started on the barrage of El Fuertes I got today, lost 1000+ points in such a short time ;_;
soncis
1324
took a long break from sakura to play some dudley which I won alot more with now im back with sakura and the low pp .__. but shes also so fun to play
What is an empty jump low, and how do I do it?
My winning rate is 19.77%. after 349 online matches total. I am a C rank player after only a month (I started the game about a month ago). but I think that doesn’t mean anything. Most C players I can’t beat, some just do combos, and don’t know what to do if you block their attacks, then again others don’t know anything and just do one special attack after another independent of what you are doing.
I have to say though, one thing I am starting to get the hang off is crouch HP when people are jumping toward me. And I’ve defeated four other Sakura players in a row. Other than that, I lose quite often.
unwnd
1326
An empty jump low is when you jump at an opponent but instead of attacking with an obvious jump-in attack which must be blocked standing, you do no attack until you hit the ground then do a low hitting attack (e.g. Sakura’s crouching light kick).
This catches a lot of people standing and you can confirm the hit into a combo. e.g. you jump in and hit crouching.lk, then crouching.lp (or two of them depending on your reactions) so you can visually confirm if you have successfully landed the hit and can then extend the combo with maybe cr.hp or cr.mk cancelled into heavy shouoken (which is otherwise an unsafe move but because you confirmed the combo then you are free to finish with heavy shouoken).
Empty jump lows are a pretty powerful tool when mixed with Sakura’s excellent pressure on your opponent’s wakeup and you can keep people guessing which side to block or if they have to block high or low.
That is really helpful, thank you.
shweel
1328
After losing to 3 different Roses within 30 minutes, I realized that I have no clue about a fourth of the matchups and that I have a little idea about an additional fourth. On the bright side I finally started watching my own replays.
I’m the new worst Sakura.
Can’t anti-air.
Can’t avoid command throws.
Can’t consistently Ultra.
Can’t punish correctly.
Can’t stop other people’s rushdowns.
Can’t apply pressure.
How can you not anti air?? As a sakura player you should already be pressing hp all the time it does everything. If ur in any kind of pickle hp will probably get you out of it. Thou will press hp to apply pressure. To jump in. To combo. And to anti air. Fuck it if sakura didnt have dhalsim legs you would be pressing hp to play footsies all the time too.
Im in the same boat i dont really have any fancy mixups i kinda just know when to jump in for super ambiguous sonetimes i use mk sometimes i use hp and shit just happens. I have tried the cr.lk after empty jump only to get thrown out of it 9 out of 10 times. My friends are jab happy and throw happy so i have to adjust to just frame traps since my jump in times are awful. I recently went back to ibuki and i cant even do her kunai vortex at all. I think sakuras j.hp has spoiled me. Just jump and press it and throw all worries out the window lol who cares what side it lands on who cares if they block it.
I’m just straight hot garbage at this game. I get beat by random nonsense all the time because I expect better, which makes me worse all the same.
Dont worry i lose to players who are flat out worse than me only because i expect them to respect me. They just mash and jump like mad men, so you need to adapt and learn to beat that retard style, its the same as learning to beat someone who plays footsies except this person dont give one fuck about you they just wana punch shit in the mouth. Keep playing until you adapt i eventually somewhat figured it out. I still lost to a fuerte that did walk up throw over and over and over i think he presssed an attack once. I kept expecting him to do fierte shinanigams and he didnt i never adapted and forced him to switch it up. I felt like a super duper noob laughed it off told my self my mistake and took a break. Came back with a cool head and focused on adapting and learning.
I got Ultra for PC and started playing again. Still terrible, but at least now I’m terrible for a whole new audience! Strangely I’ve been winning some. I credit the laggy netcode for all my wins.
I think I am the worst Sakura player. Have played 50+ matches and have only 1 win.
But then again I am just terrible at the game in general. Must train harder
Edit: Holy crap, sorry for the necro 
Trixdee
1336
I feel I’m definitely up there among the worst. I’ve practiced so many times and still can’t properly hit confirm either of the basic basic BnBs.
Terrible awful player I am.
