Meaty = attack that does a big chunk of damage
Salty = your face looks nasty like you just ate some Wendy fries with extra salt
Vanilla = plain base, like the first game of the series (SFIII New Generation, MvC3, etc.)
A meaty is an attack that hits after the first active frame, so you get more frame advantage than usual.
Salty is an older term that refers to the salt in your tears.
Meaty… just kind of makes sense. It’s hard to describe. Might have to do with what Reruns said; your attack just feels meatier/beefier when you do it.
For some reason, Japanese-only terms like Oki and Kara used to annoy me. I don’t know why. Might’ve had something to do with, “Isn’t there an English term here that would make more sense?” That went away after a while.
“Swag” is overused, though that’s not limited to video games. I hear and see “swag” goddamn everywhere in NorCal and it’s a little disappointing to hear a legitimately cool (as in, actually cool as per the jazz definition. Not like I was alive during that point in time) word get diluted like that. Oh well.
It’s supposed to.
Its used in MvC2 when you get a double snapback. You chant it like people do ‘ay’ with Genei Jin as your character juggles the assist.
I know what they mean dawg, I just don’t get why they cant come up with non-food terms.
Wrong and terrible troll.
Meaty means long active frames aka collision detection time frame and first time I heard it was in 1992 (sf2 ww) but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t used earlier.
Salty means you cried yourself a river of salt and the term was used before fighting games even existed. First time I heard it was in the mid-80s.
Can we make it a rule for people who don’t know anything about fighting games to stop posting definitions for terms or people whose first game is SF4 or MvC3?
smh :shake:
Regarding what Robust aka Potter said, to be more specific, most terms exploded because of CTF and yea CTF was basically the EC. Stuff like godlike, free, ass, etc, got used by a lot of people but mostly Sanford got noticed because he had skill to back up his talk and he actually traveled unlike most others.
Also shout outs to Potter for backing me on what Pringles meant. Tired of people who don’t know anything about MvC2 making up crap. Wong was godlike but he was out of touch with the CTF scene since Triforce kept him on a leash.
that was beautiful. thank you sir. I’m a new school mvc2 player (just started 2 years ago 
) and I have always been interested in a timeline of the scene. much appreciated post, i wish I could like it more times
It’s surprising to me how many people have only heard a lot of these terms in the context of fighting games. I’ve been hearing random fools calling anything from a tasty burger to a clever diss godlike for years before I even knew anything about competitive SF.
Although perhaps the most surprising is how many people I’ve seen post about how dope a term “godlike” is. It’s not even clever.
And shit, everyone should know Soulja Boy invented swag.
How can you take that guy seriously? He spelled batman wrong and has an avatar of ibuki. Pretty sure ibuki doesn’t look much like the caped crusader.
I wish we got the “anime fighter” term down.
Melty Blood and Arcana Heart 3 aren’t anime fighters, they’re doujin fighters.
All that
All of it.
I remembered a few more “terms”.
Scrape. Scrape comes from Northern California hip hop, primarily. It was a term from the “hyphy” movement to describe a car. In Nor Cal, drivers would accelerate their car quickly, then press the brake quickly, cause the car to dip and “scrape” the pavement. Hence the term scraper. (The peak of scrapers, in my opinion, was this: [media=youtube]hQGLNPJ9VCE[/media]). During the early 2000s, a video from a japanese third strike (or 3s) tournament showed the crowd cheering during Yun’s Genei Gin (sp?) combo, yelling “Ay” during each hit. The Marvel community, on the west coast, stole this concept and applied to to characters who were snapped out (a feature of Mvc2, in which the primary character, along with an assist, can be “snapped” to bring in a new character, leaving the assist exposed and able to be hit without blocking). Initially, I think it started in evo 2k3 or 2k4, where players would yell “rape” during each launch on the assist. This degenerated to “scrape” when nor cal was in attendance. Later, players started saying “free” or “fray” during the repeatedly launching of an assist.
Catching a Classic. Catching a classic is another EC term used to describe a player’s inability to win a tournament set. It described when a player is winning a set, either 1-0 (in a best of 3) or 2-0 (in a best of 5) and everything is going well for the player, and then the opponent who is losing the set, comes back to win by 1 (i.e. 2-1 or 3-2). A lot of non-elite players would have this happen to them, but also to some of the very best. After all, anything can happen in marvel.
Stop Beasting. “Beasting” was a term used in the very early 2000s (post-SHGL) to describe a player who was “on fire.” The closest analogy to the definition of “beasting” is becoming “on fire” in NBA Jam (where you make three baskets in a row). It is when a play is in complete control (either offensively or defensively) and everything they do seems to work, to the point, where it appears as if the other player is not blocking or has let go of the stick. Stop Beasting was used a lot during the early 2000s and died out before 2007. Everyone that played marvel used it, from the northwest to the deep south. It died out on its own really, probably from over usage.
Mango Sentinel. Mango Sentinel comes from a Money Match from SBII where I played Demon Hyo in a first to 10 for $100.00. We were playing on a random mix that had New York Knicks (professional basketball team) colors for some of the colors, and I happened to select a sentinel color that had those colors and yipes said something to the tune of, “oh he got the Mango Sentinel? That nigga look New York Knicks.” The highlights, or lack thereof, from the money match had yipes’ commentary to the set, which I lost 10-9, although you would never know that from seeing the video clip.
Where’s yo Curly Mustache at? This term comes from the term Pringles. To be “Pringles” is to have ineffective defense, or the simple inability to block very well. If you were open to simple, or not so simple attacks, you defense was seen as “Pringles,” or easily penetrable. And once someone went in on you, it begged the question of where you’re curly mustache at? Referring to the character on the front of the Pringles can. Yipes is attributing with inventing this term.
We in here. This was a term to describe when out-of-town players arrived for a tournament/visit. When we, so cal marvel players (Dipset), arrived in New York we’d say “we’re in here. In the flesh.” For instance, when Erik Arroyo arrived to Southern California for a tournament, we picked him up form the airport and he said “I’M RIGHT FUCKING HERE, BILL. WE IN HERE.”
We got those. This refers to the ability to land a difficult combo or tactic. The ability to refly in Mvc2 was difficult, if you could land this on a consistent basis, especially during a tournament or tournament-esque environment, it was common to say, usually someone not playing, that “we go those.” Conversely, a player not from the area would comment when a play landed or performed a difficult maneuver, “oh, you got those?”
Stay in that ass. This is one of my favorite saying in marvel. This was advice given, usually to magneto players, to continue their offensive aggression and rushdown on the opposing players. To “stay in that ass” meant to not let the other player breathe and to remain persistent, given the player confidence that they would land a hit. The rushdown in marvel was different from any other game, as offensive pressure was extremely difficult to block and/or escape if performed correctly. EC players made this terminology as well.
Bet it. This refers to pre-money match talk. If a player felt rambunctious or superior to another player, the other player could simple reply “bet it”, meaning, put your money where your mouth is. This usually led to a money match or an agreement to bet on a match.
Shoes/Boots/Stilettos. These terms referred to Sentinel and his re-fly abilities. Sentinel had the ability to perform effective rushdown through reflying and pressing the kick buttons. People referred to this as “stomping”, but some players on the east coast would says “shoes” or “boots” or “stilettos” when a player executed aggressive lockdown, especially in the corner, on an opposing player.
Johnny Donuts. This referred to players who were no-names in the tournament scene. The first rounds of most tournaments was filled with “Johnny Donuts” and that was usually the name of the player on marvel videos, where the person was unknown and the other play was known. It is basically a random player.
Earfed. This is the same as “bodied.” It means to be completely destroyed in a match, usually by a near perfect. They both derive from the term “rape” or “raped.” Common usage: “Earf this nigga, Isaac!”
lame. To “lame” someone out is to play extremely defensive, and exert very little offense. This strategy is based on the principle, that a defensive style will prevent a player from being hit, while at the same time attracting the opposite player to attack the defensive player. This strategy usually would lead to mistakes by the offensive player, and the other player would capitalize from these mistakes while incurring very little risk. Also this was used to define the style when players would “run away” at the end of matches, where the time is running out, to secure a victory. For instance, Erik Arroyo was seen as having a “lame” style in mvc2, as did Justin Wong. He was seen as “laming” his opponents out to victory.
Being wrong doesn’t make someone a troll, i’m guessing he used his definitions of the words instead of the actual meanings.
Anything mooks picked up from Excellent/Marvelous Adventures and constatly yell out without knowing what it actually means.
Also curly mustache and anything else off mahvel baybee 1 and 2, including calling mvc3 ‘mahvel’
There also the another meaning for Pringles which is when you’re getting ‘chipped’ or taking block damage from moves, you’re eating Pringles(Pringles being chips, although technically they’re not) But yeah, this is the original and “actual” definition of Pringles.
Not to take away from that explanation, but was that nigga rapping about his bike?
Like, not even a motorcycle, but a bike? A pedal powered bike?
are you fucking serious?
Pringles has never been used to describe chip damage ever.
lol i often say “gamestop trade” when two chars trade moves and one takes way more damage then another.
Nigga.
I hate when people call things option selects that AREN’T. Like… empty jump into DP/invincible move. Or, something happens that people don’t quite understand… “that must have been an option select!”