"Critique My Akuma!" Video Blog Thread

Classic Fighting Games Ultra Street Fighter IV
1421

Not to be brute or anything, but stop trying to convince yourself that your setups are godly. You’re assuming that everyone you play is gonna be low-tier scrubs with no reaction time (good Ryus barely use LP SRK anyway that much since trade Ultra is gone). Pick Seth or don’t show up for SSFIV tournaments, for your own sake.

With that said the frame-trapping part wasn’t too bad, but fireball from that range is easily punishable by FADC whatever, and remember that on block anything has a lot less frame advantage.

EDIT: oh, and stop wasting two bars on blocked specials. Just don’t.
EDIT2: I thought Montreal had one of the better Canadian scenes. :clown:

1422

This.

I don’t really know how much a setup which is nullified by crouch tech is worth. Sure you can destroy DP happy players or scrubs who don’t know when to just hold back but…

Also, I think every Ryu who has some familiarity (or simply hit the lab) with the Akuma matchup, knows that you just need a SRK (and, as far as other characters are concerned, a quick reversal with invincibility) to destroy DF resets. He might not be the average Ryu, but I’ve seen Daigo do LP SRK -> Ultra to punish DF resets lots of time. And you got a lot of time to pull that off - yes, I learnt that the hard way lol. Pair this with the aforementioned, and I think you got my point.

Still, if you think that’s a worthy setup, why not just going for st.MP, and get the damage? If you are so good at making people mash things or press stuff, you might as well exploit it.

Btw, DP trade into Ultra should be back in AE.

1423

You say you’re not an Akuma main, but you know exactly what you’re doing. Yet you say something like this to completely discredit that statement. Anything unsafe you do as Akuma pretty much spells out retarded, unless it’s a more complicated part of the mind game like doing a DF throw on a Balrog’s wake up after you’ve conditioned him to block your safe palms. Doing unsafe with Akuma is never “so good.” And if you are playing someone good, it doesn’t matter if you have “something in mind”, they’ll punish all your “random noob-like play.”

1424

I don’t like it. st.mp, cr.mp, cr.mk and st.hp pushes the opponent too far away, leaving little time and not enough range to “trap” them. What good is a reset if you can’t apply pressure? Using any other normal for the reset would completely defeat the purpose of doing the reset in the first place. I might as well go for DP fadc red fireball.

lol I never said my setups were godly. :confused: I’m just saying that’s how I like to play and I play like this because IT WORKS. Yes, much more than you think. And not only on noobs. But it’s ok, you have the right not to believe in the power of reading. :china:

Yeah ok. I usually don’t do that in a real match. I just saw it in a youtube video and thought it was a neat trick.

Will do. :slight_smile:

I’m usually pretty good at frame trapping, making opponent whiff reversals and baiting throws. With Juri at least…

1425

If Marvel wasn’t taking over tournaments across North America I would’ve asked you to show us some footage of these resets in a tournament scenario.

1426

Did anyone see Richard rocking yesterday’s tourney? Didn’t know he was into MvC3… :smiley:

1427

yeah way to go… im probly better then you will ever be reall talk, your overly gassed up, some of my new vids that i havent even uploaded yet will prove how sick i am (",)… dnt think your a badman when really your a bitch boy

1428

u aint got an ounce of courage in your soul, this move is guaranteed to work against moist opponents… loooool

1429

SKG, not only are you not really good with Akuma, but you’re not really bright if you think you can diss guys like Mooiboy and Gamogo who are REAL proactive members of the Akuma forums.

I’ve tried to be nice and give you the benefit of the doubt, but you’re just a grade-a shmuck without an ounce of talent that thinks posting up matches of trash gameplay of ONE round against the scrubiest scrubs that ever scrubbed online makes you great. And then when peeps actually take the time to try and give you some pointers, you piss on them too.

Just go away… Maybe you can bother people on the Ryu forums or something. :razz:

1430

Nah, trolls belong in the Blanka forum.

1431

What do you mean by this exactly? Blocked specials like an SRK or fireball? And what exactly is wrong with this?

Frankly Akuma builds so much meter that spending an occasional two bars for offense isn’t so bad anyways. Besides I use the fact I have two bars all the time to punish crouch techs. I’ll pretend I am about to throw someone and instead do a SRK in their face. If it gets blocked I cancel out of it to make it safe. It is a great trap for punishing tech mashing and even mashing in general since Akuma’s SRK beats out so many reversals in the game.

1432

Maybe I’m just conditioned not to use as much meter since I switched to Ken, but I still would rather use the 2 bars to FADC in case a DP gets blocked rather than just blocking or teleporting.

With that said, I do the trap you mentioned as Ken to fish for CH SRK FADC full Shinryuken. I guess I should stop following my own advice.

1433

Congrats to our own MooiboyRoy for being featured in the latest episode of Funny & Cool Moments in SF4. Nice reaction Demon on a Rog player!

1434

So… What gives dem a fuckin right to slag me off fair enuff i may not be the greatest ther is but im ere to improve… Nd tht dont give them goons tht fink dere so fuckin high and mighty ne reason to dish it out… If u cant take the heat get out the kitchen,oh one more fing stop bein such an ass licker runnin to there defence like a bitch some of us cant spend 24/7 on a frikkin game… RANT OVER

1435

You say you are here to get better, yet you take all of our advice and shit on it. We tell you to work on certain things and then you post up a new vid showing that you haven’t changed any of your techniques or game plans. You arethe epitome of a noob. You are terrible, and despite advice to practice the most basic of fundamentals you tell us to fuck off. They have the right to “slag” you because they are good, if not great players. They know Akuma more than most people on these boards. So when a complete fucking retard tries to tell them that when a lk.Tatsu that hits, sometimes immediately doing an Ultra catches people, they are gonna think you were born with only half a brain, and the half you got only half works (if I lost you, that’s 25%)

Newbs are people who are bad because they are new, but want to improve and try to take advice. Noobs are people who are bad AND will always be bad because they refuse to take advice or change their methods.

1436

Haha. Any underraverage player knows you just need to jump to avoid a raging demon. Only pitiful noobs would try to block it.

If you really want to improve in SSF4. Then I suggest you start by completing Akuma’s Trials.

If that’s done already, then go on youtube and watch some high level matches of great Akuma players. (like Tokido vs Momochi, Gamerbee, Ricky Ortis, Sabin, Marn, Mike Ross, Mago, Aqua, Justin Wong, or Daigo).

Then once you’ve seen what Akuma is really capable of, you should try and learn for yourself. So watch video tutorials of Akuma like these:

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Moreover, watch tutorials about the SSF4 mechanics in general. I suggest you subscribe to Vesper Arcade: [media=youtube]onvtbvgU_Rk&feature=related[/media] He covers pretty much everything from the very basics to very advanced kara canceling and option selects.

Also look at Akuma’s frame data to see what are your best tools. And if you’re really serious about getting better, then you’ll have to look at a lot of other characters frame data to understand your more difficult matchups.

But that’s just the easy part. Next you’re going to have to spend some time in training mode and practice your matchups and what you’ve learned. Train your footsies, reaction and execution, which are probably the most important things in SSF4.

And if all of that is too complicated for you, then you probably should give MvC3 a try! Much easier to win in that game. Just pick that OP character with longest range and mash random buttons and you might beat better players with some luck. :smiley:

1437

How about this. Less ego, more learning.

1438

SKG, stop being so obnoxious and insolent. This was kinda funny at first but it’s getting annoying now. Either it’s a joke worn thin or you really are an ass.

You reap what you sow, people have tried to be nice to you but you respond like an ass as if what they’ve pointed out is wrong so guess what you’re gonna get back? Read the title of this thread again. Tell us what is it for? If you don’t like it, or even understand the point of it, then just go. Go now. You don’t like the heat in this kitchen then get out yourself.

These are the people that invested serious time into working everything out for everybody else so have some respect. If it weren’t for LoyalSol, Gamogo, superlollo, etc this community wouldn’t be what it is. I’ve learnt hell of a lot and even though I haven’t put any videos up myself, I understand the game and my mistakes infinitely better than without it, even if I’m still crap. And if i was to put videos up I would include everything and wouldn’t edit out my losses.

Show some humility, if players better than you tell you that you are doing things wrong then listen.

1439

Do you think I can spend 24/7 on a game? Hell, I sometimes go for weeks withough playing, forget nearly everything I’ve learned and lose big time before getting Half-way decent again (and by half-way decent, I mean total fuckin’ newb level). I’ve played great players like JR, Hondatech, LoyalSol, Faux123 and itzMoneyMarv to name a few. Last week I got into a room against porkloafing (this guy’s Viper’s a BEAST!!!).

Even though I’ve lost against them, I appreciated the time they took to play me and I’ve tried to learn from their play. I would never talk trash like you do, especially not to guys that know this game and know this character inside out. It’s because of them that I went from a timid, full-on turtle Akuma in Vanilla SF4 to a somewhat balanced Akuma in SSF4. If it wasn’t for the advice of guys like LoyalSol, Gamogo, West, Loltima and many others here, I would’ve probably given up playing this game. And that’s without mentioning really solid and really cool players like JoeySoAmazin08 or ClxJames who are all learning like me and take the time to help each other out.

And don’t flatter yourself, these guys don’t need me to defend them (even though I WASN’T defending them). Your ego’s writin’ checks your body won’t be able to cash if you think they’d be intimidated by you.

1440

LOL NO1 likes a smart ass… the reason i mentioned lk.tatsu into U1, even though the success rate is low against veteran players of SF, you would be surprised how many times it has worked against NEWBIES and VET’s alike, so therefore stop using 5% of your peanut brain & think outsiide of the box just for a min… Go On try to understand, Gouki can force opponents into making mistakes LOL its probly unusual for you but you gotta have the balls to take risks once in a while when you see the magiC happen you would be like WHOOOOOAAAA!!!OMG!!!LOL!!

if your two rounds ahead what have you got to lose looool