Not every 3S match gets recorded and uploaded for westerners to watch, and there was even less available pre-Youtube.
The most famous Ryu players back then were Namijin and Ruu, who still seldom use denjin after its āpopularizationā because that super isnāt their stylistic preference.
I was gonna say youād have to ask a long-time Japanese player to really know the impact Frankie3S had, but I see ryan covered that. I will say that I definitely found Frankie3S match vids to be pretty inspirational when I was starting out though!
Nothing against you Ryan but that sounds pretty vague. Who did you ask? Could he not just be trolling (or have a negative attitude towards gaijin players / gaijin 3s)? I donāt have a side in this argument of who āinventedā denjin ruy, just putting it out there that your message was hella vague.
I remember hearing about the dreaded frankie denjin and how he would use the fireball to force a red parry and scoffing. I then played frankie and double parried the denjin into full denjin parry but then still lost. It was glorious. Iām sure I beat him a few times eventually.
Well I asked and that was what I was told. I donāt really care enough to keep asking about the subject to other people so i said ok and posted the answer.
The idea that Frankie popularized Denjin in Japan probably isnāt too far off. Iām sure they knew how the super worked, but I was at SBO 2003 and all the Ryu players were using SA1 or 2. Vanao did improve that style but he didnāt start getting good until a few years later.
listen to the Ask Dr Sub-Zero broadcast, episode 06 part 2 (2007)*, starring Vic Vance
*(41:03 - Question: āI heard Frankie3S OCVed a team at SBOā¦ā)
I canāt believe people are arguing about whether or not Japanese players knew about Denjin 10 years ago. Have you guys heard about the Nagoyan vids? It came out in 1991.
Besides the obvious comprehension of the footsie game, look at what else they already knew about:
They knew about stuff like CPS1 chains a while the rest of the world was still learning how to perform a DP. (BTW, search the forums and newsgroups, back then US players thought they were the ones who discovered it in HF).
To think that players in a country with a video game culture as strong as Japanās didnāt know how to use Denjin is just silly.