yea, my highest pp was only 2550… BP, I baarely cracked 5000, just enough to get that shiny B next to my name and it’s been all downhill since then. I’m at like 3000bp now and I just don’t play ranked anymore. Shit, I barely play at home any more at all. I’ve been to the arcade to play super like 3 times in the past month and I’ve won 1 match out of at least 50 games… 
i honestly think that (and not to take away from people’s achievements…i respect each and every one of y’all) one of the factors is when you play. i mean, there are days when i don’t have work that i sit and i bring those PP’s and BP’s pretty high, bottom-feeding on scrub after random scrub…and there are nights where i’ll just run into b+ player after b+ player, each of them bleeding me for more and more of the points i didn’t work so hard to get.
I am for sure the worst here. I know because I have no BP or PP. I have no hands on experience playing other people other than my freinds, and they don’t play fighting games at all.
Let’s put it this way, the most technical thing I can do at this point is EX Shippuka to Diagonal Ultra 2. And L Shou to M Shou. Nothing special going on. XD
Edit: And of course MK to random low attacks to either a L Shou or M Shou.
@sandwichcookie: Wait, aren’t you on my PSN list? Last time we fought, I lost (if I remember correctly).
I used to use her alot but i slacked off. Im garbage with her now. She is still one of my favorite characters though.
I have so many bad habits that I’m fully aware of in my matches but I just can’t stop them
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I cr.hp everything on instinct (I even cr.hp Akuma’s fireball
and Cammy’s delayed divekick completely kills this) And people empty jump me a lot but I still do it. Really need to work on it. -
I need to bait more successfully, the amount of reversals I eat is amazing, I need to start dropping combos on purpose to bait mash.
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I mash crouch tech so much, I do an empty jump and then crouch tech and I end up eating a reversal. I know you can do a delayed crouch tech but I still haven’t looked into how to do that.
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I press cr.lk on wakeup a lot, (crouch tech mixed in).
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I need to get out of laming with Sakura and start RTSDing a bit more but I’m a bit afraid to do so
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I can’t read oppenents well, I’ll fall for the same things twice in a row,
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I need to improve my overall game especially footsies, random cr.mk xx DP is only gonna take me so far.
I think that’s about it, I think it’s a start that I’m aware of these problems lol. Well that’s that off my chest. Needed somewhere to rant without anyone getting hurt 
It is an interesting debate and I want to see where it goes so I’ll move these posts to Sakura GD.
really bad at the game in general. currently working on consistently getting s.hp to cancel into lk tatsu so I can get her BnB going. the problem is that i rush my inputs and end up with c.hp xx lk tatsu over half the time. annoying. need to slow it down and train myself to do it properly
I just reached C+ rank today after about of week of Sak but I don’t feel I’ve earned it at all. I lost a load of matches but when I win 1 it still brings my overall point score up for the day. I can’t seem to get a rhythm going but damn if Sak isn’t fun to play.
This… This is exactly what happened to me. I originally played as Chun, and at one point I wasn’t half bad but the minute I hit B everything went seriously downhill, I couldn’t win a match and that’s what prompted the change in character. The whole reason I joined this forum in the first place is because I’m really enjoying playing Sakura and I’m hoping having some people to talk to will help me get up to that next level when the time comes.
Right now I’m at 11000 bp with sakura and 3400 pp. I lost alot pp playin with cody. My worst habit is getting impatient when i can’t get in and I start to jump in sometime…
Right now I’m at 4092 PP and around 11100 BP with Sakura but I got lucky with a person who kept coming into my lobby for a free 200 PP points
Damn, I can’t get the cr. fierce link after a lk shunpu. I’m at 30~50%. How do you guys practice the link?
Repetition 
I’m probably less accurate than that though. We all have limits, I’m rubbish at “just frame” timing.
on my TV, when both feet land, that’s the cue to plink cr hp… Again that’s for my HDTV, you know to accomdate for lag and stuff. It’ll be different for you
It know this sounds silly but I can usually hit cr.hp a half second after she finishes saying Shunpukyaku. I came up with that maybe 2 months ago and I usually hit the mark everytime. I don’t plink (I use a ps2 controller) but I can usually get the trial 24 combo to come out successfully most of the time. But when doing it on a regular tv it seems like you have to wait a full second or second in a half (I’m still working on it).
I feel like I should be hitting it after 1.5 years. Need more training mode I guess. 
Plink it, I know it feels a bit cheating but it helps.
Chaos, I see you hit DP FADC > st.hp a lot and I haven’t tried hitting that in a real match yet so props for that
Lol. I plink EVERYTHING. That’s why it’s an even bigger fail.
Oh and Thanks and to you too :karate:
I played some offline sessions with some people I met up from my school and I got effing raped (like 4-35 [win/loss] rape). I got owned in the sakura mirror and all other matchups; I really need some matchup information and experience. I need to punish harder and be more consistant with links. Offline is way more fun though 
i guess PSN being down was a blessing and a curse…it was good bc i got to hit up milpitas golfland, sf state and southtown arcade to get some relaly long sessions of AE in, but now that it’s back, i def notice the slowdown and lag even more, even if it’s not that bad. anyway, i got on after work for a about 2 hours, and the first thing i thought to myself was…“this is why i hate online”. not so much because of the lag, but of the crappy play and attitudes that are bred by being anonymous. at the arcade, there are no gimmicks and there’s very little bitch-play…but online…GODAMN it’s infuriating.
anyway, long story short, i lost to a runaway akuma. here was his strategy:
jumpback fireball x 10
regular fireball x 10
demon flip
teleport away
looking back on it, i should have just lamed him out instead of being the aggressor, but i was trying to learn how to counter and punish the runaway akuma style. what did i learn? you can’t. fuck akuma.