nice thread bro keep it up
September is done, I have something else planned for October, not involving the thread though. I may do this again after that is done.
My goal for this year is to hopefully help a few more beginner improve their game and get into the fighting game scene so I hope this helped someone get a little more confidence and a few more wins.
I wanted to come home and go over all of the post again to be sure I didnāt overlook anything.
Judging in terms of replying directly to the content in the video, and replying with detailed, specific and helpful advice to videos posted
The winner of the Fightstick is Genistar
Thanks to everyone who posted video and everyone who replied, and again to Trouble Brewing and again to iantothemax for the front page mention and the sticky.
Please keep posting if you have video and hopefully a few more people learned that this thread existed this month and will stop in the help out.
although i been playing for awhile. I only really play online since offline gathering is rare where i live. so i still consider my self a beginner.
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now this 2nd match against this bison is clear he had no idea what he was doing but i have such trouble fighting characters like bison.
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i play many other fighting games on my channel. so if you want just watch my channel and give me advice.
here some more updates guys to my previous post. ive been working on my combos and anti airs. still need more work though. i am really trying to get tournament level at this game. ive been practicing a lot and it still feels like im not improving much haha but if anyone wants to practice my heres my psn acount : KrYy_CrIEs
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Zaruka, some pointers:
#1: Your hitconfirms are weak. More time in training mode would be valuable to help you turn your pokes into damage. That was especially painful with Rekkas in the Ken match
#2: You seem to feel a powerful urge to push buttons on your wakeup. Youāll want to be careful with that.
#3: Your anti-airing seems weak, but I donāt know what Fei Longās options are there.
#4: You let Ken walk up and throw you a -lot-. I think he probably scared you with his DPing; Consider maybe backdashing approaches if you donāt feel comfortable sticking out a poke, or just work on your throw teching.
No special advise from the Bison matches though.
I must say that I am impressed that you are not a reckless jumper, you are rooted and therefore can learn the game far quickly than most, here are a few pointers that you need to work on
Anti Air: you need to anti air more
Pressure: Fei is a pressure in your face character, being so far away doesnt make him effective
Bread and butter: you should learn to finish your combos or set up frame traps or tick throws
Max punish: if you have ultra one and someone wiffs a DP let him have it.
if you are going to go for flame kick fadc then try and hit the chicken wing after, practice makes perfect
when a bison tries to headstomp you press crouch hard punch during his decent or at the top of the headstomp arch to make it wiff. then punish with a damaging combo
for random scissors kick just neutral jump and press hard kick when you see his scissors kick flying, or you can walk back and wiff punish the scissors kick with a rekka.
go to the fei forum and read up on the wealth of info there
Iām not exactly an Akuma or SF veteran, but I think I can give a bit of Akuma Specific advice here.
#1) Block strings are good for creating distance if you a tight one like you mentioned, otherwise you can tick throw (which will lead into the vortex) or set up a frame trap (intentionally leaving a pause to catch crouch-techs or coax them into pressing a button). cMP is a really good one for Akuma because on counter hit you can combo into sHK for a big chunk of damage. Also you can block string into focus attack > dash back to really get away.
#2) I too was stuck for a short while trying to figure out what combo to do on a crouching opponent, but then I noticed a little trick Tokido does. he normally combos into EX Hadou to get a knockdown. Something like cLK, cLP, cMP xx EX Hadou or whatever, really. Itās not a UTKD but you can still put an air fireball on screen or something to give yourself an advantage. Which sort of leads into #3
#3) Aside from making SRKs safe and combing into EX Hadou, Akuma has some of the most BOSS EX specials in the game. Particularly, EX Demon Flip and EX Air Fireball. Both are almost āget in for freeā moves. If someone likes to throw fireballs, you can do it on reaction to force a mix up from anywhere on screen. Alternatively, if you hit them with Shaku or out of the air with your own fireball from or something like that from full screen you can do an immediate EX Demon Flip to put yourself right next to them.
EX Air Fireball is such an amazing move. There really arenāt many ways to get around it besides backing off or blocking (or maybe ultra-ing through or something, but thatās a whole 'nother can of worms). There arenāt many ways to stop Akuma from doing it, either. Think of it (in many cases) a way to start totally free, totally safe offense because if they get hit by that fireball, the follow up combo is gonna hurt them bad and put them into the vortex.
Hope that helps.
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There is no ideal blockstring , you have to mix it up to bait or confuse your opponent . Sometime you end the cr.mp with fireball , sometime you do nothing , sometime you even SRK it if you have 2 bar . It varies that much , you donāt need to cr.mp at all if you feel you can kara throw after the cr.lp x2 . It all depends on how you gauge your opponent gameplay .
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If possible , try cr.lp , st.Hp hit confirm at crouching . You can HP SRK if the st.HP hit , or cr.lp , st.HP xx fireball fadc another st.HP xx SRK for more damage with meters . If you donāt feel like risking , just end cr.mp ender with ex tatsu .
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Say you have a super , why not do a safejump buffered with the super upon knockdown ? this is also one of the way in lading super , when you expect them to block or tech .
Grats Genistar!
Thanks a ton to BlackShinobi for offering a stick up for this. Thanks everyone for posting advice. Keep it coming!
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awoo awooooo awooooooooo!!! crique Blanka pls. tips too are welcome
(Another Blanka Player) This is a video of a few recent matches with my Blanka. If you follow the Youtube account youāll find some older ones in amongst the videos of my autistic children. Anyway, Iām hoping to go to the UK SF25th Tournament at the start of December and just wondered if anyone had any tips for my Blanka / could see any obvious big floors in my play style or anything etc. I suspect I need to work on lots of things but knowing what the important things are could really help focus my training before the tournament arrives. Big thanks to anyone who looks & comments.
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EDIT: Hereās a youtube playlist of my other videoās, some of them are pretty old though: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7918957ECC5CC65B&feature=plcp
Things have calmed down for me a little bit, so Iāll try to do some replying tonight I know its been a while for the last couple of videos
I was going to make an account back when you had the contest going, but I couldāt for some reason and when I tried the next day, my computer stopped working! :mad:
Itās been like a month and in that time Iāve changed my main from Evil Ryu to Dee Jay but I donāt think Iāve gotten much better. I already have a video ready for you guy to critique so Iāll see if I can upload it soon.
I was hoping to have this up by Thursday, I was also hoping to upload my matches as one video but I ran into some issues and gave up.
Here are the vids :
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Warning: Audio is bad but it gets better in the last match. Iām really sorry for the bad camera work too 
This is a first to three with a friend on PSN. After watching the matches several times I noticed somethings I need to work on like combos, block-strings and Anti-Airs, but Iām sure you guys can come up with more. Again so sorry for the lac of quality guys, next one well be better.
rate/critique mineā¦ Constructive analysis of my rog (tips/advice plz!) warning:audio kinda suffers b/c i was recording w/ iphone lol
Hi you guys, total newbie here. This is such a helpful thread and I am learning A LOT. Thanks again.
The second Fightstick (Xbox 360 this time) is up for grabs today with the last day to win being December 15th. Everything after post #83 is available for this second contest, which would also be very helpful because some of the videos past post #83 still donāt have replies. All of the other rules from the last time are the same.
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The most helpful response to a video that is posted wins the Fightstick. Genistar won the last Fightstick for anyone who wants to know what the previous winning post looked like. **
Cool, Iāll try to get it up on the front page again.
Thanks a ton again!
Iām going to try to get more people in here while this is going on and see if I canāt broaden the number of games involved. Hopefully there will be a good mix of people posting videos and people posting advice so its not unbalanced on either side.
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