Best Players

SesshaZL · January 16, 2013, 11:58pm

In my super biased opinion:
Best Chun, Nuki
Best Gouki, Match
Best Ken, also Nuki
Best Makoto, Boss, altho lately he hasnt been lookin too hot.

Dander · January 17, 2013, 12:31am

Adolfos weaknesses is his inclination to humiliate his opponents. Thats it.

Also he thinks frankie3s is the psn player, not the ffa frankie we all admire. I still want to smoke him out.

NoMoreFunland · January 17, 2013, 1:02am

@mio
I just want to reiterate that Tebbo is not an online player in my experience. In fact for a period he was very anti online/pro arcade (looking at you Dander).

It’s easy to make assumptions about people and pull a clump just because they post on SRK.
XBL/PSN/GGPO all have different scenes with different skill levels and arcade experience.

hold_dat · January 17, 2013, 1:17am

i got 3rd at evo east

on a ps2 pad

im the best

close thread

sidewinder · January 17, 2013, 1:45am

thats was a great Evo East .

IglooBob · January 17, 2013, 4:06am

nah it’s kind of awful

WTF-AKUMA-HAX · January 17, 2013, 4:19am

Forget EastCoast vs WestCoast, how old is that. & USA vs Japan doesn’t happen anymore.

This topic seems to be about “My dad could beat up your dad!” or something.

5Star vs Gootecks, dads Grand Finals. Place your bets now!!!

(so the mexican / jungle no limits gamble players know more?)

[details=Spoiler]like 2pac’s stepdad fathered Mopreme.
Mopreme underdog with his 3rd place dad[/details]

WickedBob · January 17, 2013, 4:26am

You guys are cocky as fuck and your attitude disgusts me. Go to hell with all your bullshit (prejudices, misconceptions…)

And i’m the best player on the world, scrubs, PERIOD.

;-)))))))))))

mio · January 17, 2013, 4:52am

I am willing to admit when I’m wrong, just like how I did for Flare and Billy Kane. If there is proof as to why those other players are better than I believe them to be, then I would be happy to accept it. It doesn’t matter though because theres no productivity or substance to the direction of this discussion… people are just getting their panties in a bunch because of my aggressive and blunt demeanor. I’m just pissing people off and making them hate me because of the way I’m saying what I’m saying, so maybe I’ll try a more rosy and fluffy approach next time. I’m sorry to have offended some of you so badly, please carry on

Ryu24 · January 17, 2013, 5:18am

This is what I don’t like very much. You know very little about JR and Frank, have probably never played either of them, but you speak as if you know exactly what skill level they’re both at. Let me comment on both players since you really have no idea what you’re talking about.

Frank is a 3s legend forever. He was the best during the golden age of American 3s at FFA (back when even nobodies were pretty damn good), and no people werent still playing 2nd impact at that time you assumptive noob. I don’t recall Ed Ma ever “destroying” him but that doesnt negate the influence he left kn socal and american 3s. I played him as recently as a couple months ago and he’s still right there near the level of Pyro and Yi… Which makes no sense because he hasn’t played consistently or against good players for years. The only reason he isn’t at or above their level is because he would always go to FFA when the big boys weren’t there, and he’d play on the American (scrub) cabinets rather than the big boy Japanese cabinet. He wasnt playing seriously, he already had his time and just wanted to go have fun beasting on scrubs. What makes him good is not the game knowledge you speak of (although he can and does do all of those things you mentioned), what makes him good is the raw talent he has for the game. Incredible mixups, execution, reactions and mind games. He doesn’t play super flashy even though he can, he just outplays you and exposes all of your weaknesses. That’s what truly good players do. No shenanigans or tricks, just playing better. He’s still one of the best even to this day.

With JR, I know he’s not a particularly good 3s player, and I think that’s what Ryan was talking about. Ive beaten him several times and im not at a very high level yet. JR isn’t into parrying, new technology or game/character specific combos… The stuff that true 3s fans love. He just wants to demon the entire world. But what makes him one of the best is simply his tournament record. He’s the only American akuma to win as much as he has because he’s just good at street fighter. It’s as simple as that. To this day I think Adolfo is the most talented 3s player I’ve ever played.

What you and dander dont realize is that i admired frank myself for many years starting out. I know the history behind him from all the dr.sub zero podcast
and also from talking to FFA guys who came down to NY. But like i said, i never questioned how good Frank was. We have better players now and thats the whole point ive been trying to make.

how do i know? i view him as Daigo from '04. everyone viewed him as the ‘best’ and certainly if he played again, he’ll still be pretty damn good with his talent. but flash forward to 2013, you really think he holds a candle to matsuken/deshiken? in a lot of ways, they’re both very similar. frank and daigo revolutionized 3s and won many tournaments and are still most well known in the community. but are they stronger than current dedicated players exposed to higher level? i highly doubt it.

WTF-AKUMA-HAX · January 17, 2013, 10:34am

This can go in like 3 topics around here.

SF3LP · January 17, 2013, 11:07am

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Louiscipher · January 18, 2013, 5:20am

Pad warriors for life!

EricGGMusic · January 20, 2013, 7:17pm

I would add some of my friends on this list but nobody cares about Canada =P

Dander · January 20, 2013, 9:46pm

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bkfst_sausage · January 20, 2013, 10:30pm

People still replying to this thread?

NoMoreFunland · January 20, 2013, 10:49pm

Who?

Hope to see some of these friends at the Hamilton Ranbats. Look’n forward to check’n it out soon.

EricGGMusic · January 21, 2013, 8:15am

Samir, Jay YellowS4, and C-Royd for Toronto. Samir easily the best player in Toronto IMO since he can actually go back and forth with Justin Wong

Dander · January 22, 2013, 1:51am

The only important person to come out of Canada is NoMoreFunland

NoMoreFunland · January 22, 2013, 1:55am

@EricGGMusic
At EVO’12 AnurysmX, AdamB and C-Royd randomly showed up in the SoCal room. Those dudes are all pretty good but at one point one of them turned to me after talking about Toronto skill and said Samir is the scary one basically. The other two nodded.
Games against him would be great.