So I don’t know if this shit has been stated cause I haven’t been in here in awhile but against taller characters like Sagat and Seth(I’m sure other tall characters as well) Viper has an instant overhead to crossup.
Basically just like the instant overhead jumping lk only you stand pointblank as they are waking up and jump at them with a early as possibe HK and it will instant over head them, which can of course them be immediately canceled into MK/HK bk for a crossup or lk bk for non crossup.
Also just some stupid shit that you prolly will never really get the opportunity to do, but does indeed work.
Against Seth if you land a jumping RH to FFF anywhere on screen you can do ex seismo SJC FADC c.mk SJC MK/HK bk reset and get a stun which can then be followed up by another jump in basic FFF combo which kills him from full health.
Seriously I don’t think Viper’s execution is in a different world than other characters at all. I think it’s just a different type of execution than link based execution. I can do all Viper’s SJC FADC combos, FFF, and all her highly technical shit, but consistently doing tight links within combos is a bitch for me, I hate characters that have difficult links, or basic combos that rely on more than 1 link in the combo. Timing execution is just different than fast button pressing execution.
Oh also I don’t know if this has been stated, prolly has but as I’m sure most of you know Vipers far fierce Kara’s into her specials. However what was new to me is her far fierce can actually be FADC’d on whiff for the most pointless use of 2 meters in the game =P.
yea no kidding, even with buddies of mine, they have viper experience
yet half the time they dont notice what im doing, all they see are flashes, "ohhh purty!!"
so if we were to fp fadc, they wont even realize it, probably think we are feinting
Yeah man real talk, you don’t notice the little things that a character does unless you put in the time and use them. I use Ryu and Viper and I notice little things with those characters that I know anybody who doesn’t use them wouldn’t notice.
Basically it’s a meterless combo, so to compare it to Viper’s best meterless damage combo FFF Mp TK you are sacrificing a slightly scaled Mp TK that leaves you in a pretty good position for followup pressure for an untechable KD.
I’m gonna have to agree with Downside on this one though. You sacrifice almost 100 dmg just for the kd. It’s not worth it. After a seismo it’s fine because you don’t sacrifice dmg.
Yeah it’s a really tight link. I just thought it was pretty crazy that it works, that’s all. And I agree with you Digital, that if you get that first fierce to connect, you might as well follow through with the whole combo. And if you don’t have meter for the ex seismo, you could always settle for a knuckle. Not really worth the sacrifice in damage IMO, but I think it’d be funny to pull off in some casuals.
FFS is useless just for the fact that she needs a standing fierce for the non counter hit version to work. As viper players you should all know how inconsistant standing fierce is it just whiffs to often to warrent any real use, also IIRC crouching fierce is faster. Hell standing fierce whiffs on a few whiff animations, tbh if you hit with any fierce your better off going for FFF xx YOU MAD or fierce ex siesmo sjc sweep.