I do have XBL, I’m from the US though… Here’s my tag anyway:
alphaferret415
Yeah I’ve learned to plink all because of Sakura. I always knew of the concept and tried it before, but it messed me up more often than not. I try to plink any normal between a tatsu now. Good luck plinking that st.lk though! (you can map the back button to lk and find some wierd way to plink with it if you REALLY want too…)
Callisto, I do buffer the dp before hitting the LK. It’s still pretty hard to get the dp to come out for me. If I have a bar I’ll always EX tatsu and go for a mixup or setup. Without bar… I guess I’m screwed for now haha.
This times a billion, this is basically the state of SF4 for me at the moment. I spent countless hours practicing just this matchup, trying to perfect my spacing and combos, coming up with safe jumps and OSs for as many situations as possible…and none of it matters, because I get destroyed by dive kick > jab**n *> throw > repeat. Literally thrown 6-7 times a round sometimes, and for whatever reason I just cannot tech hers for my life. The one time I really mash out crouch tech, it gets blown up by a random ex dive kick.
I don’t think Cammy is broken per se, but her DK should be the same as twins. If there’s a v.2013, this is all that I ask for.
Don’t be so hard on yourself man.
So many people I know who are like “WOW I dropped one combo/I lost ONE game hence I suck and should never play! -_-”. And when they win or pull off something sick… “It was just a fluke man, I got lucky.”.
Stupid mentality man.
You gotta give yourself credit and yes if you drop the combo that’s your fault but if they aren’t blocking during it or mashing a proper reversal of some sort then that’s their fault and you HAVE to punish them for it otherwise they’ll carry on doing it.
It works on ryu and ken sorta, but it’s not as practical because you have to walk forward for a bit before you do the tatsu. Chances are you’ll get thrown, dpd, or jabbed out. Against bison you do it as fast as possible so it’s way better. Might sorta work on dudley too? I can’t remember, i just know that it’s most practical against bison.
You can do it to Sakura too, I’m not sure if it’s unblockable, maybe crossup? But if most of them are unblockable, it probably is on her too. Found this out yesterday while playing the mirror with a friend lol.
Sakura is my best character and even with her I rarely win. And thanks to me almost never winning with her my brother keeps trying to convince me to play as Ryu or Ken. One day I want to thrash him as Sakura while he uses one of his favs like T-Hawk or Zangief.
Hmmm, I’d say using Ryu is good at first to learn basic fundamentals, spacing, combo timing (though Sakura’s main tatsu combo has a unique timing) and when/which footsies to use for footsies and then its better to use Sakura IMO… you can use Sakura straight up but I feel its WAY easier to learn with Ryu first and then switch over… at least most people have done that (use Ryu then move over to character).
