It’s good in the applications you can set it up for, but the recovery is horrible on it. At the right range the opponent can just react and jump over you and get a full jump in combo for free.
Well I’m kind of late to the party here, but, are you ready to watch the absolute worst Sakura player around?
I always find myself doing this: j.lk > cr.lk x3 or j.lk > cr.lp. For whatever reason I find it hard to land any complicated combo online and I can’t really find a way to properly train (been playing for about a week in a serious manner).
Anyways, what are things I should start fixing asap?
First of all learn the range of your most important normals, and learn how to properly buffer the special moves if possible. Also learn what normals/moves can be use as anti air.
Once you’ve done that read this http://sonichurricane.com/?page_id=1702
Next learn the proper combos, technically j lk into random lights canceled into lp shouoken, isn’t bad, but there are much better combos you can do.
The most obvious ones being cr. lk> crlp> cr.mk xx hp shouoken , and cr.lk > cr.lp > cr. hp xx hp shouoken/ex tatsu
And for punish combos st.hp xx tatsu >cr.hp xx ex tatsu/ hp shouoken or st. hp xx tasu > st.lk ex tatsu/hp shouoken
Once you’ve done all of the above post a new video and ask for critique again.
Hi there, looking for some feedback on these matches, I know some stuff like jumping too much sometimes and some execution errors or misreading my meter -_-, but maybe you guys find some more improvement points.
Some context:
Started SSF4 in the summer for a few weeks, but went to college and came back from a hiatus. More of an MMORPG kind of guy, but street fighter appeals to me for some reason. I really like Jyobin’s style of play, but I know that it shouldn’t be encouraged as it’s a reckless play style- that being said, I want to have my fundamentals down pat before I can start trolling with people. FADC is really hard for me [that’s a matter of practice]
Flaws that I’ve noticed:
I’m DP happy- I find that it gets my out of bad situations [2:02 for example], but it can also makes me open for punishes as I use it too often for the wrong reasons.
I can’t capitalize on anti-air punishes/ punishes due to poor execution. D:
My footsie game seems to be nonexistent.
Set ups and safe jumps are also nonexistent.
Side note: that taunt in game one was totally unintentional but I guess it ticked him off. D:
Stop mashing dp, especially when you can’t even make it safe. Also once you hit a focus, dash cancel it instead of just doing ultra right away, now you miss out on a lot of hits and damage. Learn how to hitconfirm in her special moves, also actually use her moves other than her shouoken. Don’t punish with throw, but learn an easy punish combo. I guess a good thing you do is that you actually anti air and block, which most beginners don’t seem to be doing, but other than that its way too early to give any specific advice.
Stop playing ranked and stop playing against people who don’t know what the f… they are doing.
Your dps never got you out of “bad situations” you did them from half a screen away and there was no reason why the opponents didn’t block.
As the guy before me said, it’s good that you are anti airing, work on your neutral game.
If you want I could add you on PC, depends whether you’re from or near Europe otherwise our connection won’t work.
By dash cancel, do you mean FADC? I’m not quite sure what you mean. I also don’t really know when I should use her tatsu [I only really use it for if I need to get out of a corner]. I’ll work on some BNBs and hit confirming for now though.
Thanks!
EDIT: Added the number of fights and winning rate.
Hi, there. I started the game about a month ago. Would you be so kind and critique my gameplay as well? Helpful advice would be appreciated.
Here are my first online matches (The audio in the first two videos is really off, so I replaced it with other tracks.):
And this is my “A game”:
Most of the time I cannot pull off the Shinku Hadoken or the Haru Ichiban (I’m using the Mad Catz SF IV arcade stick with original parts). I don’t know yet how to cancel the focus attacks, like many players do, and I was not yet able to imitate the combos that you see on YouTube. I couldn’t even complete the challenge mode. I’ve had 349 online matches so far, and a winning rate of 19.77%. Quite often experienced players start a combo, and I don’t know how to get in-between.
Important note: In the third video the latter two matches with Kiberkiller are training matches. (S)He was sparring with me for two hours, and was trying to show me some tactics.
I’m glad that you included captions which showed your thoughts during the matches. I don’t want to sound disrespectful but just know that we all started as beginners at one point, so everything we say is beneficial to improving.
Watching your matches (as well as taking your thought process into account), it’s very clear that you have very little knowledge on how to actually play fighting games. Fighting games is a genre that is not easily accessible to newcomers due to the games and players who play these games becoming more advanced with time. Getting good at fighting games is similar to a hobby since it takes practice and time to improve. It is also worth noting that time can be wasted if you are just playing without actively trying to improve. This is how bad habits and patterns are formed.
Currently, you play very random. What I mean by this is that many of the things you do in a match do not serve any clear purpose and you are “pushing buttons” just for the sake of “pushing buttons”. This includes your jumping, normal attacks, specials, and supers. An example of this: is that you do a lot of dp’s and ex dp’s and the opponent easily blocks them; or that you will press sweep (cr. HK) at nearly every given opportunity you have. There are some things that you do recognize such as knowing that you need to anti air your opponent but your game knowledge doesn’t allow you to do it as properly or consistently as you would like.
I highly recommend you watching this tutorial on how to play Street fighter. When I first got into Street fighter, I was very disappointed that there wasn’t a guide or tutorial included into the game. Information seemed to spread all over the place online and it seemed very hard for somebody to get started on the game. This was the guide I used as well when I first started playing, and even though are many guides available other places. No other guide has the amount of content included in this one. The guide starts from the bare basics and and slowly goes into advanced topics. Do not watch the video in one sitting, take your time with it and absorb the material. It will help a lot that you have been playing the game already so you will have an easier time understanding what is being talked about. I believe a proper understanding of the game is needed before one can truly understand their character. You can use this guide to learn Street fighter while also learning sakura.
Yeah, I noticed that. Otherwise I would be a whole lot better. XD
I see. Thanks.
Yeah, not only that, but even when I see that something is happening, I often am not sure what to do at all. It’s like, oh, he’s going to do that, what do I do now? So, when someone starts a combo, I can just stand there and watch. I also watched some YouTube videos where they use part of the meter to do a hurricane kick, and then follow it up with a hadoken, so I tried to imitate that.
That is very true. The game requires you to know a lot of stuff, but I find it fails to teach you what you need to know - Like cancelling the focus attack. Someone in the forum just told me to check the wiki to learn how to do that. I’ve seen Seth do that a few times in the arcade mode, but wasn’t sure if that was specific to him, or if everyone could do it, or how to do it in the first place. There’s a lot of situations where things are happening, and you don’t know why. That person I was training with that one time told me that there are certain occasions where you can go through “bad fireballs” without taking damage as (s)he called it. That would’ve been nice to know from the start.
Thanks a lot. I am also disappointed that I am C rank already, my gameplay is just bad, and I have the impression that when people see that C that they suddenly think that they are playing against an averagely skilled person. I don’t really think that I’ve made a lot of progress so far. I’ll check the videos out. Looks like something you have to watch several times.
I watched all of them but skipped around. I wasn’t gonna sit through all of the matches and critique your habits and look for specific things you can improve on since it’s clear what skill level you’re at. (I don’t mean that in a negative way, please don’t take it like that).
This includes your match against the other sakura player in which you beat him convincingly, but what I said still applied. You were throwing out random dps and sweeps and you happened to win by luck since he was playing more random than you.
Another example is when you played against a Dan player and I believe you blocked a random ultra and you realized that you could have punished him (which you have a habit of punishing things with a sweep or throw instead of a strong punish combo, but this time you tried to punish with a dp), and you were so late on the punish that he already recovered from the ultra. Your commentary said that you wanted to punish him just to find out he was blocking, but the commentary shows your lack of understanding that you were the one that made the mistake in punishing him.
Did you watch any of the videos I sent you? I have something else to send you which I feel will help you play solid but I don’t want to give you it yet until you built some fundamental foundation. And again I hope I don’t come off as mean, I am posting help in a way I feel is best. Practice and time is something that I really feel is one of the keys to improving.
I did. But though I want to get somewhat better, I don’t approach this particular past-time with the same diligence as my research. I play the game when I find the time after work. You can send me the other videos too, if you like.
One piece of advice, and this is only because you keep on bringing this up:
If you don’t want to come off as mean, and you know that certain figures of speech are likely to be perceived as scurvily, you should either rephrase your statement, or drop whatever sentence alltogether. And despite you already having a rather high proficiency in English, reading more literature will help you acquire the skills needed to avoid the creation of hurtful comments.
I don’t mind directness so much, but if you look at your sentences stylistically, you are essentially saying “You’re shit. Almost everything you do is shit. I’m sorry if you feel insulted, but you’re shit.” You are very well aware of that too, hence the defensive measures. However, I maintain that saying you’re sorry when it’s clear you’re not, and when you’re obviously not apologizing doesn’t help your case at all. It instead makes you look like a giant douche who just wants to showcase your supposed superiority, while highlighting someone else’s flaws under the guise of benevolence. Whether this is the actual case or not is irrelevant in this regard as both you and the recipient know how it comes across.
When it comes to didactical methodology, one requires a high amoung of empathy, as well as a profound knowledge on the respective subject, a big vocabulary, as well competence in explaining alltogether. The phrase “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” as one hears often in the USA does by no means meet up with the reality of what makes a good teacher, and this is what you are attempting to be in this context, a teacher. One that, as of now, lacks proficiency in certain aspects of the craft.