It was a joke, guys. Calm down. I generally just tease about Ibuki being the best character around because I’m an Ibuki main and bad at Ibuki. If you’re unsure of this you can look through my post history. I knew very well that the topic was about Ken being the go-to training character for 3S. That’s why I made the tease about you guys regretting using the wrong character to learn 3S with. I assumed most people knew that Ibuki wasn’t the best to learn the game with and would recognize me pushing her as a joke. Apparently I went too hard. I was wrong, sorry.
The whole “game shares a letter thing” was put in on purpose along with the pet tanuki and flying part. You may not know this, but Ibuki also can not fly (afaik) and her having a pet tanuki doesn’t make it easier to learn the game (also afaik). Everyone can also parry high, low, and even in the air. I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume Oro’s name also happens to not loop endlessly and is just Oro.
The entire post was supposed to just be a HEY I’M ALIVE post, while staying true to my general posting trends so that people who did know me could be like, “Oh hey, look, Niji is back and being Niji.” and maybe even get a chuckle. I realize I’m not famous here, but there are a few people that do recognize me I think and I did drop off the side of the planet a while ago. I felt bad leaving people I know hanging like that.
As to why I stopped posting and playing suddenly, it’s cuz I had to lay off an employee at my liqour store way back near the end of last year and start working 10 hours a day myself. I also own a fansite (though not huge) and had to manage that during the release of a new installment in the Armored Core series. Tebbo knows of this as he plays AC as well. Then about three months ago I left to visit familiy in Europe for about two months. Now I’m finally back at home working 8 hours a day and 6 days a week and finally getting time to play games I want to play like 3S. I was honestly hoping DJ was around so I could tell him that I didn’t just randomly vanish on him on purpose.
As for my geniune opinion on the topic, since some of you seem interested in it, I think Ken is a better go-to than Chun by a long shot because Chun isn’t as standardly applicable to other characters. Chun is very likely the best character, Ken is “just” very solid. That’s an important difference. The other characters don’t ALL have amazing pokes, easy cancels into supers that deal enormous damage, a variety of cancelable moves, and tiny hitboxes while crouching. Getting used to a slightly weaker character than the best is good for general practice since you don’t go into fights with other characters expecting strange things of them.
Ken isn’t exactly lacking in any field, as I’m sure we all know, but he’s not quite as ridiculously damaging as Chun and he requires a generally more aggressive approach to fighting your opponent. The approach makes a difference in learning since most characters approach the game in a more similar fashion to Ken rather than Chun. Chun can be played aggressively, sure, but this is in regards to people learning the game. Newbs, noobies, noblets, etc. Ken will make people work more for their wins, while having a more normalized hurtbox compared to the other characters, more normalized super art damage, and a more standard aggressive approach.
Yes, I know I framed this in a Ken vs Chun setting and that somewhat unfairly ignores the other characters. I just think that you should learn the game with one of the better characters of that game and you should generally try to stick to the most straight forward of the best characters to minimize excessive non-standard mechanical training. It’s great if you can do fancy Urien Aegis tricks, but that’s not easily applicable to every other character.
It may even be that Ken is better for one subset of characters to learn and Chun is better for the other. For example, I think you’d get more bang out of Chun if you play Q or Remy than you would out of Ken. I’m not a pro, though, so I could easily be wrong.
YAY WELCOME BACK NIJI! IT’S NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!
Also, it’s called Ibupki Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Get with it hipsters.
EDIT: Thanks for the shoutouts womble.