I only got my second consecutive two-and-out yesterday, but mark my words I will challenge you for the crown.
I count like 4 for being 0-2 out of like 9 events I have been at.
I’m kind of mad because prior to this summer, I was playing really solid. A top 8 and a couple top 16s at some 32+ man brackets plus some top 5s in smaller local events, but then its like, nah brah, you don’t get to win.
sigh… gets me is Fie Long and Adon players who spam the hell out of his gay ass hop of a jump and do lk cross ups into his lk>Hk Rising Jaguar. <---- is the easiest and most effed up crazy good/damage combo. And the angle of his effing jumps doesn’t leave C. HP as an option ether. I swear Adon NEEDS to be a lot higher on the tier list. The tier list says the Sak/Adon fight is 5/5… I say thats bull shit.
And oh gawd the Fie Long match up is awful for us… his damn overhead kick is quicker then most of my normals its so stupid. Not to mention his Chicken wing can completely stuff my st. roundhouse from LONG range! its so gay.
k rant over.
what the fuck is up with adon? safe on block focus breaking moves all day, shorter wakeup, great pokes, high damage, weird jump, midtier my ass
I’ve not seen any Sakura play best a good Fei Long player. His pokes are too gdlk.
I’ve been sucking on the SRK stream as of late. Need to up my game.
CS.Fp is a pretty good for situations where someone is trying to cross you up from a very close range and cr.hp won’t work. I don’t see a lot of Sakura players do it though.
Most definitely, close fierce is a godsend for crossups, 3 frame startup, less recovery than c.fierce, head invuln, good damage, and it can hit behind her, I use it whenever possible, and sometimes try it even when its not.
Isn’t Flash thinking about playing Fei, man I’m not really looking foward to playing that if its ready by next week, because when I fight his Viper, I’m getting beat by Flash, now I got to fight Flash + a pretty rough matchup. As Fei pretty much owns the ground game, and can pretty much CW and rekka for free. We basically have to guess to clear the corner. The matchup is definitely less fun than the Viper matchup, and despite having a fucking superstar Fei 30 minutes away, I really don’t get “the point” of that fight.
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Adon isn’t that good against Sak, I personally think it’s 4-6 Sakura. Stay out of Jaguar Kick range (harder than it really is, but my friend does this) and spam c.hp, s.hk. uf.hp will take care of mk.jk, hk.jk even ex.jk and most of Adon’s air-to-air movies. And if you have really good reactions you can shouken a whiffed Jaguar Kick.
For months now I’ve been getting beasted on by his Sakura when I play Adon after, he learned the match-up.
Sakura has the advantage over both Fei and Adon imo
I agree with Fei/Sak match, but not sure about the Adon match-up.
I absolutely hate rank-mode. I know I can play endless, but in the end that feels so meaningless. Anyway: the biggest issue with Rank-mode is that each round is so random: you have to adjust your skills from a high skill Viper to a random shoryuken spamming Ryu scrub. I know I should be able to fight both but once you have fought 4,5,10 lower skilled people it’s very hard (for me) to change my gamestyle vs a skilled opponent.
In SF4 you had set targets and once you reached G1 you could predict for 75% your next fighter would be a challenge (and a Sagat). But at least you were consequently improving your skills. It annoys me each SSF4 session so much I’m at a point where I dont give a fuck about it anymore.
Set your Ranked Search to “Higher Skill Level”. This always gives me someone who I know is skilled in SSFIV.
ugh…how do you guys beat out FA dependent players? jump in while they focus, block high but still get crumpled…this never happens offline >_> when you bait focus, majority of the times saks normal or specials come out to slow to beat out anyone elses focus or they back dash and for some reason recover fast enough to do a dp…wtf. and when i try to focus, it takes forever to recover dash fwd or when i dash back its not far enough AND it takes too long to recover…argh online is a pain
the majority of the time that works. i’ve played 11K ken who only does j.HP->sweep repeat then lp.srk all day. lol
Empty Jump and if they focus when you are jumping, throw. It’s also better if they do wake-up focus, get at a good range to do a c.MK>HP Shou, and rinse-wax-repeat if they keep on focusing. This and throw out more armor-breaking moves. All tatsus break armor, ex-hadou, and all versions of shou can also get through armor by doing multiple hits. IMO, Sak has an easy time against players that are dependent on focus-attacking.
yea, i should have been more clear in what i was saying. just a little nerve racking during the time i posted that.
anyways, thats what i meant with focus baiting. empty jumping>throw, hardly works online for me at the least. safe distance a hit confirm with said combo of mk>dp, works with best ratio but sometimes lag hits within that time frame and gives the advantage to the opposing. armor break moves, i do that alot during the focus baiting but again, lag really hurts my gameplay haha. otherwise what you said about sak being able to easily handle FA players is very much true…just that effing lag
I wished it was that simple… Somehow that doesn’t work for me.
Guile’s Air Throw. Nothing else needs to be said about this.