Rufus is just a nightmare. You can zone him out for 90% of the round, but he gets in once: BAM, you are dizzy. BAM, you are gone.
Why is he not doing df. mk, the roll thing, when you whiff s. HK? If he is at a full screen, Dhalsim’s zoning work pretty well against him, but the fight doesn’t start in that situation. His jump fierce can hit you even at 3/4 screen distance, and its hard to AA him if he mix up with dive kicks at different heights. He has a lot of stamina, he’s not afraid of being AA’ed sometimes, but if he guess right once, its GG.
I think he can even punish a s. HK whiffed with his c. HP at 3/4 screen if he’s quick, but I’m not sure.
Watch this: [media=youtube]DUiOhg6seJI[/media]
Yes, I didn’t think of the roll past a whiffed s.HK. However, I don’t know what you’re talking about with his jumping fierce hitting at 3/4 range. B+MP and EX upflame are the best AA’s in this matchup. I don’t think c.HP has THAT much range.
And about that Arturo match, he only used s.HK 3 times about. It hit 2/3 times, and the other time he used it too close.
look also this video, also with Sabin:
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In effect He didn’t use s.hk except 2-3 times. Does this normal beat (or at least trade) with all Rufus far jumpin?
Don’t quote me on this one, but I’m pretty sure I’ve had my s.RH stuffed by Rufus’ J.Fierce at a certain angle. Likewise, I KNOW I’ve my s.RH stuffed by Dive Kicks at a certain angle.
I understand why you think this match is easy, but it’s not. I’m sure you’ve played a shitload of Gief players who you beat FREE because they don’t understand Gief’s options against your anti-airs and pokes – the Rufus’ you are beating are most likely in the same boat. Go to the Rufus / matchmaking thread and request a game with someone who knows the Dhalsim match. Shit’ll change your life!
Seriously just play a good Rufus or look at some videos. I don’ understand how you can’t figure this one out.
I posted requesting a good Rufus in the Rufus XBOX Live and PSN thread. However if anyone else has a suggestion of who to play feel free to tell me. I’m on XBOX Live.
vs Rufus: If you only make 1 or 2 mistake you can lose the round. His defense/damage his insane.
But seriously Sim got trouble against any character with high damage. Gief, sagat, rufus, balrog, gouken ya this bitch got some crazy combo.
Sim has trouble against everyone in this game 
His best match-ups are probably Honda and Blanka and those are probably 5.5-4.5 Sim at best.
However, out of those you listed, Rufus is by far the worst. Sim can go pretty even against Sagat though…outside of Akuma and Sagat mirror, Sim is probably Sagat’s worst match-up. I think that’s why, in spite of his low-tier status, Sim is fairly tournament viable: he does pretty well against the most common top-tier characters: Ryu and Sagat. Balrog can be rough, but then again Balrog is a very one-dimensional character and Sim can stand his ground.
What kills Sim is the high-mid: Rufus, Bison, Viper. Those matches are the stuff the bowels of hell are plastered with.
My Balrog has gotten a lot better. I beat the area’s tourney winner who plays balrog a number of times during the tournament last saturday. I NEED to figure out how to beat a good Bison. I demolish bisons online… But this guy… his block strings… his intelligent crossups with ex devils reverse… Any help?
sim vs bison is so bad, ughh
i play andre, and man he will break you so fast
Lets talk some more about Sagat, after recovering from SB 4, I really thought I knew the Sagat match-up before SB. I have no problem with Sagats at my local tournament scene. But I faced Eric Kims Sagat and I got a beat down that I never gotten from a Sagat before.
-He absolutely did not let me get into a fireball war with him.
-Few instances where I would try to jump back,teleport back and ate kara uppercuts
-His rush down was just to much pressure
-Lack of experience against national caliber Sagats
Any chance that we can kill this thread in favor of having individual threads for each matchup? 34 pages of mixed character information can be a huge pain when you want to specifically work on a single character matchup. I think the unified thread format doesn’t really make sense for what individuals need at any given time.
The only advantage I see is that it’s easier to check for regular updates. Thoughts?
I say keep this thing going and direct comments/questions to the individual matchup threads that already exist. Until there’s one for every matchup there has to be somewhere for Sim Army Infantry to go. Unfortunately, not everyone who has input/questions is willing to take the time to manage a thread. Perhaps we could sticky <verb> links to the individual matchup threads here in the meantime?
Lets figure something out, I’m used to posting shit in this thread. 
Why don’t we do the ‘one big thread’ thing, but have those little spoiler boxes on the front page for each matchup? 25 or whatever character threads is aloooot of clutter… although we HAVE been getting better information in individual threads, imo.
I’d volunteer to do it, but I think only UltraDavid can.
Whoever doesn’t have a job, do it lol.
Its a big job, imo.
Basically, the person who runs a single-thread would need to be able to distinguish key info from useless, straight-up WRONG shit.
Another reason why maybe the individual thread idea is for the best.
We could do something like sort out the important info here, and then someone can easily just copy all the posts together, stick them in a thread and bam, we’re there. And then probably just close this thread, since all the info will have been posted in the big thread. And then it would be the poster’s job to update the first post in that thread everytime new info (that works) is posted.