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.
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 ;_;
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.
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.
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 
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.
My problem with Sakura is I can’t open up my opponent to perform her BnBs and I have a hard time get in on some characters (screw you Sagat :arazz:)
What really grinds my gears is how many times I try lk or cr. lk xx anything and the move simply doesn’t come out (it’s like 60% of the time). I lose a lot of damage because of that. :bluu:
Went to a small local tourney… O thought my sakura was decent if not acceptable and then i went 0-2 got shot on so hard people felt bad and played characters they never use in casuals and i still maybe won 40% at that point. I realized again i have been playing this game for 4 years now and learning frame data punishes and trying really hard to improve my fundamentals, which they have improved but i still suck dick at fighters. Makes me wana go back to my roots and play shooters where im the one shitting on everyone but i cant and will not hold the L. I feel like i will lose sleep until i improve. Knowledge can only get you so far:(
What set me off and made me extremely angry was the mother fucker who won the tournament. Note this was like a 20 person tournament or so, so it was really small. The dude took his money and was like i just wana sayi was trolling you all that character wasnt even my main! I just think to myself shit like this does not happen in competitive shooters where as in my area all the “good”/“decent” players are fucking assholes and cocky ass bitches yet they cant keep up at a big tourney with the big name players who are more humble. I want justice to be served and sakura will be my hammer of justice! I wana shit on the cocky players and then go help players who are not that good help them get better. /rant xD i need to relax lol so much salt after that day
Ok i have not played online in probably over a year because i cant stand the lag after getting shit on at that tourny and my local friends being useless for learning i have taken matters into my own hands and then i lost to a geif who neutral jump headbutt and like the ultra super arcade 2014 scrub i am i tried to hit him and that shot heat all my attempts he dizzied me twice in both rounds by doing that… Beat shoryu beat antiair and it beat air to air… After that match i thought i knew this game well enough maybe didnt have the execution or the fundamentals but i have knowledge. But i have decided i am not only the worst sakura player in the world but the worst street fightet player. 4 years practicing my combos reading info on the met durring work hours (shhh just pretend i dont 
) and trying to play clean smart and respectful. I have gone full circle from point a to point a never actually leaving point a… I am defeated. I feel like i should at least be able to beat some scrubby strats but i get hit by everything. Also doesnt help my non exsistinf confidence that you block stuff but somehow still get hit. Fuck online but i cant improve with my local friends, they dont teach me anything they never give me any tips. When i picked up sakura they were blown away about how good her cr.mk was i gave them info on how to beat it because in turn i will have to learn other aspects of matchup except they never return the favor. Hey buddy, you just beat me 50 times in a row. Can yoi give me any tips i say. Idk i just press buttons and shot happens. They say. Your full of shit and a shit training partner. No more info tech or frame data share for you, you go do your own fucking research.
Yes i do believe i have snapped i cant take this “i wana win at all costs” mentality in casuals im surrounded by. i wana level up i dont just wana remain at the same scrub level im apparently at. God damn it i cant vent enough my sakura is apparently awful and im a terrible player >:( shoudl just stick to my gimmick scrubbuki for online and do dumb random neck breakers and press random buttons because thats online lets get good!!!
Well imma go slam my head into this desk over and over after every embarrassing loss. Wonder how long until i get a concussion.
Maybe they are actually only pressing buttons? lol I don’t know the level of your friends, but its possible they don’t actually know how they beat you, or can’t tell you because they don’t know how to say it in proper English. Also with the new ultra record feature its much easier to upload your matches on youtube now, maybe upload a few and post them in the critique thread in either this forum or the beginner forum.