I think you should just buy me In 'n Out for being back in Cali.
I just may honor that if I swing by tomorrow night to get away from my Diablo shenanigans.
Tonight we shall have a gathering. Everyone and anyone is invited. The more the merrier. I’ll be going around to collect the E fee so please have it ready for me when I ask for it. Anyone new who wishes to join us please text me at 310 344 9367. Hope to see you tonight.
So JR, you going? If you are, I need to know so I can save all my eating strength for the trip to In and Out. :]
I will be there.
GGs all. Fuck Ken.
I agree fuck Ken. He’s too powerful lol. But when you’re lazy like me and you just want to win just use SA3:p
Not to mention you start getting cocky when you win with him. It’s disgusting I know. Something about using Ken that makes the person using him a douche lol.
That’s why I’m all for playing 3S on Versus Cabs these days. You don’t want to sit next to a guy who uses Ken lol.
I hate you so much sometimes, Don. I don’t even hate Ken that-that much, but you will do the most scumbag, cheap stuff I have ever seen with Ken that doesn’t even make any remote sense…AND you bait with taunts on top of that. Wake-up super full screen – really?! Taunt-Shoryu – lolwut?! Ex-tatsus everywhere – fuck the other guy’s priority. I can’t even get mad when I play because you feed off of the rage and play even better as a result. It’s not fair…I just came to play video games in your humble establishment, man. Not get raped up and down the corner like a cheap hooker. D=
Actually, why haven’t you ever played in tournaments? Other than you, the only other people who give me a lot of problems are the 3s OGs.
I actually take that as a compliment lol. A lot of Ken players I played thought were scumbags also. I’m actually copying them lol. I’ve been you were last night when I lost to many a Kens long ago. Guys would annoy me so much with their cocky attitude that I’d kick the machine and punch the screen. I lost my cool and did that at Camelot a couple of times.
I’m really lazy when it practicing now a days. I believe that too be good at 3S you gotta be like Bobby Fischer and consume yourself with the game. It’s too hard. That’s why I don’t do tourneys. I know how good the comp out there for 3S is. I know what I’m against. So to beat them you got to eat and breath 3S. I admire people for trying. Actually me and Naked Snake had somewhat a conversation about this last night. He sees playing and learning fighting games in training mode as fun. I see training mode as a lot of taxing work. KOFXIII is a great game but I know what’s in front of me. I have to learn all these details and nuances. Too much work. I actually feel this about ST right now. The more higher level players come here I realize that I’m playing this game wrong and I got to relearn everything. I don’t know if it’s too much 3S or something else but I’m definately playing ST wrong right now.
I like doing this though because I like seeing players like you guys try.
Sorry for the many grammar errors in that post. I just read it. I’m writing this in the car while riding on the freeway lol.
I can’t really play multiple games unless I get really involved with the mechanics. Otherwise, I play like a day 1 scrub because I don’t put in the time (mainly SF4). 3s is definitely my game – not many people can actually keep me pinned down and figure me out to the point where I can’t do anything at all these days. I don’t really feel like there’s that giant gap between our skill levels anymore, but I do still struggle to you, at times. I just never knew why you didn’t compete. Now I’m curious as to how much harder the comp can get and how I compare to them currently…
If you want to have a idea of how tough the level of play for the 3S So Cal Tournament Scene, Tenren would be a good example of what you’re up against.
So who is harder to fight against? Ken, Chun or Yun? From what I have been reading and watching, they are the “top 3” in the game.
imo, Chun and Yun are more to worry about that Ken without meter. Give Ken one meter of SA3 and he’s as lethal as them. If I had a choice, I’d add in Makoto to make a top four list just because Makoto is just stupid random good, but that’s just me. And if I had to pick between Yun or Chun, I’d be more fearful of Chun than I am Yun, just because of how she is and effective she can be with a simple game plan.
Naked Snake is right about Makoto. Once they found out about the 100% combo she was added to the Ken, Yun, and Chun Tier.
So the top four in 3S is Ken, Yun, Chun, and Makoto with Urien and Dudley following behind. But according to the latest tier according to the Japanese it’s the four with Gouki at 5th.
I don’t mind the Makoto matchup to be honest. At least from what I fought, she relies a lot on her Karakusa grabs and so the range is always a factor with her. I main Hugo btw and the Hugo vs. Makoto isn’t that bad imo. To be honest, I have harder times fighting a Dudley because he has a weird hitbox and he has that kick move where he steps back punches. That shit is annoying.
Can you point me to the tier list?
A few years back I saw a Japanese list placing Hugo as a B+ character while American tier lists always have Hugo really low.
It was a Third Strike forum I read a while back ago. The guy said that Japanese had Gouki at 5th.
American tier lists are unreliable because their based on very skewed results and people not playing the game as efficiently as they should. Personally, I wouldn’t put Makoto anywhere higher than 4 or 5, and Gouki – as I’ve said at some point in the past – is easy top 5. The weird thing about 3rd Strike’s tiers is that it evolves a lot once people become a lot more knowledgeable about their own characters faults, since you can cover those areas in some other fashion thanks to parry and situational attacks being used for utility reasons (think ST). Elena used to be somewhat lower, but they say that SA3 Elena makes her go higher up. Ibuki keeps going up because she’s the only character with a counter for every situation (red parry SA2 Ibuki is extremely lethal, but also incredibly high level to achieve).
S - Chun, Yun
A+ - Makoto, Gouki, Ken, Dudley
A - Everyone else (This is only true if you’re a character specialist, in which case Ibuki, Oro, Elena, and Ryu would be B tier if you’re clueless how to use them. Remy drops to C, but Urien and Yang are always A regardless of skill.)
B+ - Hugo, Alex
B - Q, Necro
D - Sean, Twelve
That’s my list, which is more or less based on functionality like a Tekken tier list, not tournament results. Twelve can hit B tier usability, but your gameplan would focus on timeouts and runaway to really lame extremes. Remy is godlike, it’s just that no one understands how complex he is to play though. His close fierce, close forward, and close strong work like my Ibuki’s standing roundhouse and Gouki’s close forward, his charge partitioning makes his zoning hard to counter, his kara throw and crouching fierce are great against throw-techs when spaced properly, he can combo in the air like it’s SFxT, he can mix you up ON YOUR WAKE UP like he’s Ibuki, standing forward and standing strong beat everything, and if he has you in the corner, odds are, you’re going to have to guess your way out.
IMHO, Ibuki, Sean, and Yang should be way higher up on the tier list, but Capcom gimped their priorities from 2i so badly that they’ve lost a lot of necessary links and cancels that made their gameplay strong. Ibuki, in particular, lost everything that made her a rushdown character, but with Chun-Li damage. Now she occupies this weird space that’s similar to Ryu as far as mindset, but plays like Yun when it comes down to mix-ups and pressure. If she had damage, she would be right next to Gouki.
One of Third Strike’s darkhorses is Electric Snake Necro. In good hands Necro can be impossible to beat.