It is a pretty even matchup surprisingly but you have to defend against cross up burnkick and random burnkicks at least occasionally and not get cornered. Think he would have done better with Rufus. None of Justin’s characters beat Viper.
Overabundance of Abel and Seth kind of does the trick of making Elena irrelevant. However, I also question why Xian didn’t go with Elena against Kazunoko and Daigo. I doubt he would have gotten bopped as hard by Yun with her, and against Daigo he just decided to hand him two games by picking Sim instead of following Sako’s footsteps.
Welp, Sim is also available in SFV in case he feels like conceding free games in future tournaments.
That match up is pretty bad for Ken (definitely a hard 4-6) but it’s not a Zangief 4-6 where you’re incredibly limited. When I see something stupid like Ken has no bad match ups, I know they really haven’t played a good Rose.
It’s also at Cannes Winter Clash. Yet people keep posting like it’s going to go poof and disappear for a game that has not even released yet.
Sako doesn’t go for Elena against Daigo’s E.ryu, and it’s not a good idea to play Kazunoko’s yun with Elena either. Elena has some serious bullshit but there are match up where she can’t do much.
You’ve got to admit, this game has a lot of flaws but at this level of competition… it’s a great show. I didn’t find a single match boring to watch, there were crazy stuff pretty much every round.
I don’t play usf4 anymore, I kinda hate to play it even for different reasons but it was really entertaining to watch.
A special mention for Keoma, when I saw him in a couple of european tourny I believed in his chances to go far. I wasn’t disappointed. Good shit to all the competitors.
Now let’s hope SFV will be funnier to play and to watch than it is right now.
Dailydot had an interview with him, he seems like a cool and knowledgeable dude.
Wasn’t afraid to break down his matches and point out his mistakes, even gave a tip on fighting Abel (st fierce becomes pretty questionable and whiffs in unexpected places if you empty jump).