Nice akuma but you’d get raped by me hard gay style - add me and find out. Piss to all
Breez3 - I think he’s talking about zoning with normals, basic spacing, footsies rather than relying on fb alone…
LoyalSol - thanks for the tips! If you watch the vids my (few) wins come from heavy “in-your-face” pressure,… otherwise if I let him out it made it MUCH more difficult. I always assumed though that full screen fireball was safe vs Sim,… your thoughts?
Fireballs in general against a neutral sim (IE one that isn’t caught up in an attack) is generally a bad idea if not used in moderation. Between his teleport and HPs he can usually punish a near full screen FB if he sees it coming. So if you are going to use them make sure you aren’t predictable.
Once you get in on Sim you need to pressure him hard, but you took a lot of bad hits early on to get in on him. Sim may not have the strongest inside game, but he still has some tools that hurt. I would even say he has one of the best supers in that it is easily comboed and does a crap ton of damage.
Part of applying pressure is making sure you aren’t taking a lot of hits for it.
I almost view fighting Sim as trying to pick up a girl. If you are too fast and agressive to start then she is going to just run away and punish you for it. So you take it slow and work your way in, but once your in you need to pound her so she never forgets you. :wgrin:
this…is…epic…:lol:
Akuma noob here, need some tips on pretty much everything:
vs Akuma (Im the white one): [media=youtube]P1JxZO43Lew[/media]
vs Bison: [media=youtube]YSseLFfrRJw[/media]
vs Rufus: [media=youtube]bU6b6LBQdYI[/media]
Besides my poor execution, Im having a lot of trouble with zoning and mix-ups after scoring a knockdown, i.e the vortex. Any feedback would be greatly aprecciated.
Thanks in advance!
Recorded some championship matches yesterday.
[media=youtube]jrpl0j7VQh0[/media] (vs ken)
[media=youtube]LK0xZCZX3HA&feature=related[/media] (c.viper)
[media=youtube]ck5ndpd0TbQ&feature=channel[/media] (vs akuma)
[media=youtube]vg2XiuELpzA[/media] (Elf)
Any tips? I’m not that good against viper; I need to learn my match up.
watched the ken and viper vids
you merked the ken, he didnt see too good but you stunned him quick and nice punishes and bnbs
viper was crazy end of lool
good stuff mayne
First of all, your Akuma isn’t as bad as you make it out to be. Everyone is their own worst critic. XD
Second, grats on winning the mirror match. Those are important lol.
I noticed that every time you tried to jump in tatsu on their wake up, you tried to cross them up with the attack. Remember to hit them on the front side with it sometimes too to keep them guessing. People are too comfortable with the cross up tatsu now. A front hit will make them shit liquid if they are expecting the standard cross up.
I also noticed that after a front throw you choose to walk forward instead of the standard dashes for the safe dive kick. If you just know the spacing for the safe dive kick after then all is well. If you didn’t know about the two dash technique read on. I think they call it the exploding heart technique or something. Basically, after you front throw mash out two forward dashes and then cancel the second dash into a Demon Flip. If you did a MK demon, then the dive kick stuffs a lot of wake up options including a lot of DPs. HK will whiff very close to, but over them for mix up potential.
I try to focus my game around getting the front throw and mixing up with the Exploding heart technique safely after.Then you can really open up your options. From the second dash range you can also take one step forward after the second dash and your jump tatsu will cross up. Jump right after the dash and it will hit noticeably on the front side.
Just my two cents. Anyway, thanks for the vids. I look forward to more.
PS: After watching Solid’s videos, I now know how long it takes PS3 to load a match… That is grueling. My heart goes out to you all.
It actually doesn’t take that long to load a match, it’s just that guy didn’t install the update for the game yet lol.
Thank you very much! Ill make sure to work on those strategies. :tup:
Got a fresh batch of matches up on my youtube space: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CAC45DAEEA5C1523
The first match against the… umh… First… Guile… was a bit of a laugh for me, because I messed up all kinds of bnb’s and was generally playing defensive for the most part. I did better in the other match against another Guile. Against Abel, I was lucky, pure and simple. Though I’m generally comfortable playing against Abel, except when he’s played in a balls-to-the-wall rushdown mode, this one got too cocky at the end and thought he was going to run out the clock on me. Dictator’s still a problem for me as I’m not sure which of his moves are punishable and with what. I’ve had a bit of luck sometimes with c. LK, BnB after he does any kind of cisor kick, but the timing’s really gotta be there or you end up eating massive damage if you miss time it. I also have trouble whit his speed (especially online); as you will see at the end of the match, he basically just dashes twice and throws me FTW before I can even react to it.
Someone had mentioned in another thread about the Blanka matchup being difficult. I find that’s one of my best matchups of late. I don’t always win them, but I don’t fear them like I used to. Even the really good Blanka players, I can usually hold my own for a while and make it a decent match.
The mirror match though… I’ve come to hate it now. I can’t seem to help it, but I tend to go in full onl turtle mode when facing another Akuma and mostly end up losing to chip damage or dumb mistakes. Strange, because I used to be pretty decent against a mirror Akuma. What am I doing wrong?
In the Guile match-up, you missed a lot of opportunities to punish with out using Hit confirms. Also, GET UR @SS IN HIS FACE!!! Don’t turtle! Get in his face and vortex! and work on that lp,lp,lp to light tatsu it can really help you a lot.
I can’t believe you’re still finishing 3 hit confirm jabs with a cr. forward x hadoken. Turn all those hit confirms into lk tatsu fierce shoryus.
Yes…Yes…thats what i was saying.
Well I must say mix it up when you 3x lp>c.mk hado with 3x lp c.mk>mk demon flip grab. Also use the vortex but also use the tatsu cross up on guile then a demon flip grab…just mix it up but you were careful so that is also a good thing cause one slip and you health will pay so good patience you showed there. Some Akuma players get inpatient and be aggressive when they should have patience…work on lp>lk tatsu> hp shoryu in training mode. Also use the ari hado fb cross up too…
I’m by no means an Akuma-expert, but I’ll give the Bison-matchup a go, since I’ve played him alot on/offline:
R1.
0:23 - first move teleport, why didn’t you punish it? Throw, bnb, whatever
0:36 - classic Bison, his throw game is good, get used to tech FA-Dash, throw.
0:38 - I suppose you messed up a teleport and did a shaku?
0:48 - MP as punish? Come on 
1:02 - If you suspect headstomp and hear the sound Bison does, you should get out of the way when you can’t afford chipdamage, although you didn’t even blocked the stomp. Dash or simply walk to evade the headstomp, free punish. If he does fakestomp and comes back with flyingattack, srk or try FA to catch him, crumble - bnb.
R2.
1:13 - where’s the follow up on the c.mk? You should always buffer something, at least af FB in this case.
1:38 - Punish, you blocked it!
1:47 - Guess you could have walked up and tried throw or f+mp, at this time I would have analyzed this Bison likes to guard when being pressured. Hell, even a demon might had caught him here. Only thing to watch out for is his ex could get him out of trouble, but he just sits there.
R3.
2:02 - Worst thing you can do from that distance on a Bison that has, obviously, a charge.
2:08 - Damn it kid, 3rd missed punish on a teleport…
2:20 - Have you learned c.mk AA ultra? you should have landed it here.
2:24 - …and here was a possible AA ultra again.
2:27 - You landed a succesful divekick and c.lp on a standing opp, where’s the tatsu?
2:37 - …again. you could have won the match 15 sec ago if you could AA ultra.
2:41 - Bison quickdash- throw, classic. Stick something out, poke lp/mp, or buffer c.mk+lp, lp, be ready for AA ultra. At least the c.mk would have poked him off.
Overall, you did land some small bnb and divekicks, but still missed a couple of lk.tatsu, srk. As said, you need to do a little more pressure imo, because you had the upper hand in this match when you were on the offence and your defence is not up to par. Poke more, try ex-tatsu after landing c.mp/c.mk as it doesn’t seem you use ex for much at all. Cross-up is easy on Bison, do it. Practice AA ultra, you’ll benefit alot in a Bison matchup and it’ll amp your defence 100%. You have plenty executionprobs, some might be nerves or connection, whatever, but don’t get nervous because of a CM-match, relax, forget about bp and winratio.
Yeah, it’s a bad habit I’m STILL trying to kick. Did you see that c.HP, LK tatsu, SRK + HP x FADC backdash I threw in the 2nd match against Guile? 
I’ve been practicing the FADC shaku after BnB in offline practice mode, but always with me on the left, so it’s become muscle reflex to double-tap right after SRK! Same with c. MK x Hado, I’ve been doing that since forever in SF games. It’s not so easy to just throw it away. In my head, it’s always the “safe play”, though I’m slowly turning it around to become c.MP x LK Tatsu in certain situations (none of which were in the videos I uploaded). As for Vortex, I’m still working on it. Sometimes I can get it, but most times I flub and get punished, so I don’t use it as much. I can actually do c.LP, c.LP, c.LK x LK Tatsu and it works great in practice but, sigh, some online matches are just too laggy to get that out consistantly so I tend to mash lp a few times instead which makes it hard to time the cancel into lk tatsu. Though that 2nd match against Guile wasn’t as bad as the first; I did manage to land more than a few lk tatsu SRK combos in that one.
Basically, this is just me throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks and what doesn’t and work out a style that’s right for me. As Zoning Genious mentioned, I tend to play cautiously and work my way in when I have an opening, then back away again when I need to. It’s usually a very dangerous proposition as I sometimes end up throwing away a round just to get a feel for what my opponent does, but winning or losing isn’t really the result I’m looking for. I’m looking for experience that I can convert to confidence in my skills. In order to play aggressively, I need to work on ways of getting my opponent to open up and that’s just something I don’t have at the present which is likely why I’m having some much issues with the Bison or Mirror matches. Playing against LoyalSol and Edge4o7 has helped me somewhat settle down when facing skilled opponents and that’s just the beginning.
What about the Blanka and Abel matches, what did you guys think of that (aside from the fact that I got lucky at the end in both cases)? I’d also like some feedback on the Bison matchup. I know that’s a tough one for most 'Kuma’s, especially if you tend to play defensively like I do, but what’re some of the things I should’ve been looking for in that match to help me turn it around?
Nvmnd!
^ guess you missed my reply just above, on the Bison match
Execution was a combination of connection issues and overthinking on my part in some parts, trying to figure out what moves to punish stuff with instead of just doing what I should do on reaction. I try to always show the connection ratings at the begining of my videos, and even though it said this was a 4 bar connection, it felt more like 2 bars to me. In fact, I’ve had better input delay in some 3 bar matches than I did against this guy.
Still, I think I need to rethink my strategies against Bison and go back to rushing him down like I used to: it’s only recently (after a severe beating by a Bison who countered all my moves in ranked matches) that I’ve gone to a more “safe” defensive style against him. Mainly, his cisor kick is money and mad safe, his stomp can basically tag you anywhere, anytime, the only option is to be able to make him miss and punish (which doesn’t happen too often against good bisons) and his speed makes it hard to do things on reaction. And let’s not forget the insane priority of some of his normals like s. MK or HK.
And that’s pretty much the trouble I have against Dictator.
I need to find someone who plays a decent Bison and practice up though, because it’s clear this matchup is one of my weakest at the moment. Thanks for the input though, I’ll try out some of the things you suggested if I get the chance.
^ if you failed to punish because of a 4 bar connection, you really should stop playing online. At least stop cm-mode and do playermatches, where you can at least kick a “bad” connection, and adjust to the lag within the first match, then have a rematch. I’ve hardly ever missed a teleportpunish, even on a 1-bar connection, and you missed all 3.
“you can see the lp, lk come out” - a throw should’ve come out if you pressed both simultaneously
Also, it seems you never even tried to buffer a c.mk AA ultra, seems more like you freezed up because you didn’t wan’t to lose, and therefore didn’t think and react. You have to be ahead of the game, I would have landed at least one of those demons, bad connection or not, 100% if it was offline. Don’t let yourself get pressured. Definitely rush Bison down, but then again, this Bison wasn’t even pressuring you that hard, no sk-comboes or followups. Being in G1 doesn’t mean you’re figthing better opponents automatically.
Yes, play more Bisons, do it in playermatches online or vs. offline preferable. Record a good match, with no lag, then post again. You’re practicing mistakes, when you try to learn from these matches.