I’ve always heard slight fei advantage. shrug
When I think bad I think 6.5 or worse really hah.
it’s even is what i think.
also guile does great vs fei. I think chun is eh overall especially as a 2ndary character for blanka.
Heard thar chun us very good vs boxer!
I don’t understand why chun should be a bad char and why nobody plays her!
Chun isn’t a bad character it’s just why have a secondary who loses to your two worst matchups pretty badly?
I told you guys, we all need to play Cammy as a secondary, and she’s not really hard to play, even her basics combos are good enough to lead to real damages and not hard.
EX strike/jump HK, cr.hp, cr.mk xx spiral HK = 2f link and good damages, i use that one most of the time.
Cammy/Ken/Akuma are all really strong choices.
Ken is the best though IMO.
Yeah I’m going to be learning Ken. My friend showed me some stuff with him tonight in the realm of basic footsies and oki. I like him a lot!
Also bleh. I played some long sets with my friend and arguably the best player in our community (a Ryu player) tonight and only one like 3 games out of 25-30 or something. I really can’t take games off the best players here very consistently at all. My problem in Street Fighter is that I am way too nervous when I play. Instead of trusting my own gameplay and trying to play footsies, I still find myself going for gimmicky (stupid) stuff like slides for no reason, hop grabs, and jump ins. I bought a notebook awhile back that I was going to write in, essential information for Blanka (safe jumps, combos, oki stuff, etc) and matchup strategies for each character (or rather the ones that I fight here, our scene is kind of small comparatively). I’ve hit a pretty major plateau lately within Street Fighter and hopefully this will help me get out of it.
If any of you guys have been in similar situations where you just felt you were not getting better, I’d love to here what you did to get out of the rut.
I used a rubberband and snapped my wrist every time I did something stupid and I learned to associate bad play with PAIN.
Also I grinded all of those setups really hard in training mode. Like I would put the dummy on record then do like a fake ingame sequence so I would be in position to do the correct setup and punish and learn to recognize it.
Also Ferris/Pharriz just won an arcade ufo ranbat tonight. 28 players and he stayed in winners the whole way through beating viet 2-1 in grand finals. MAH BOY
I kind of do the same thing as well except in game… A lot of the time if I drop something or throw out a move I know I shouldn’t have, i’ll let them get a free punish combo even if they couldn’t punish or messed up. You mess up, you get damaged, the end.
I gotta agree with Ken being a really good secondary as well, coming from being a Ken player to playing Blanka, he covers you all around pretty well. And I think Blanka players should be able to naturally pick him up as well… Imo their play styles are actually pretty similar, aside from projectile and kara throw.
Btw good stuff to Ferris. Did his matches get recorded/uploaded?
Best way to get out of a rut is to play better players and discuss. If you can’t figure out why you aren’t getting better find someone who’s good who can help.
A lot of times a Rut can be from something in RL that is affecting you. Health, Stress, and other things. It can reduce your response time and focus and you won’t even notice it. RL is incredibly important more so then games and in fighters where it requires 100% focus and response you really need to have that on lockdown.
Everytime I screw up I just take another swig of whatever alcoholic beverage I am enjoying. These days, its Cabernet wines. Lots of alcohol, few carbs, less fat. What’s not to love?
He played awful but he won.
I drink Cabernet a lot Josh P LOL. not when i’m playing sf4 though rofl!.
Holy crap, the only time I DONT drink and get fucked up playing SF is when its a tournament. Then im high on caffeine (im old enough where I need the help for reaction time).
Seriously, how could anyone play this game sober? Really? Come on…be serious now…this is not a game for sober people, I would fall asleep.
yeah especially online haha
After facing about 8 Ryus in 10 Ranked Matches I was ready to fall sleep over my TE…
Yo are you serious about this? haha
What foxisquick is very true. I have been stressed out lately with a lot of grown ass man responsibilities and other stuff preventing me from playing at local gatherings and attending tournaments. I have not really had any time for games. I had to skip a local tournament Saturday because stuff came up at the very last minute, which was unfortunate because I wanted to go. We have another one on this Saturday too but I’m pretty out of practice for it, I have had not had much time to play. Sunday was the first time I’ve played in weeks.
About practice…I would ask how you guys approach practice mode. I do training mode like everyone else, but I’m not someone who really can spend 4 or 5 hours in it. I have other games I like to play in my free time which is limited as of late. Do you guys have a sheet of stuff of stuff you run through, combos/setups, that you practice, sort of like an exercise regime? How much time are you usually spending in there? Right now I probably need to practice the forward throw, lp ball, crossup j.fp setup and hitting with max range slide after focus the most because screwing them up is directly affecting my game.
Just trying to get some outside perspective.
Use the input display if you have a problem with a combo/link, and practice it everyday a little time if you can (20-30 mns), repetition, repetition, repetition… but not too much, if you’re becoming frustrated about a link or an other thing, chill out, pause.
“Freestyle” is not bad, just do anything on training, express yourself, but don’t only do that lol.
You can too simulate a situation on a specific match-up that struggles you with the recorded dummy.
100% It took about a week for me not to need it. Was worth it IMO.
When I go to training mode I run through electricity links, ball links, ultra links, overhead links, then I run drills with safejumps(auto and manually timed), overhead setups, meaty setups, and then I try to do kara throw across the entire screen without messing up once and if I do I have to start over back at the corner. I’ll generally pick a character I’ve lost to recently and make sure my stuff against them is on point running drills of in game situations.Then I work on anything new I’m playing around with. Everything but the last bit takes about 45 minutes total or so.
It’s not about the time you spend in training mode, it’s how smart you use.
Ves, how many reps you do for practicing links?
(edit because I’m lazy and don’t want to make a new post that says: thanks. I was changing my training routine around like every other week and then I just stopped it altogether for a while. Now I can’t decide how many times I want to practice something…)