Thought I would start posting videos on here in some attempt to revive the forums a bit. I go by Pirateyoshi and I play in the Orlando area (CEO). We have a solid group of pot monsters, but we all get bodied by Du/Booker/Balrog lol. Anyway, here are some videos from a little weekly we had. I will put up some XBL replays once I start saving them, but just wanted to introduce myself.
Need to work on the Rose matchup, but nothing too major. Just need to sit down and practice my s.lk OS on wakeup. The rose player there is still working on figuring the character out.
The Zangief here hasnt played the character in a while but his Makoto (while very strong) has not beat me in tournament at all, so hes going back to his old main to try and help me while helping himself.
Was playing a bit nutty and not patient enough. Early anti-airs/EX SS are important, along with not becoming too dependent on cr.hp (better to not press anything most of the time). I will have to test that j,hk that stuffed lariat around 3:50 and see if its something I could sneak in once a set. Messed up the timer scam at the end (boy did light gh get fast) but overall gave up a lot of space and thats no good.
Starts at 7:52 (have to learn the BBCode later). He played Yun in the first match and I was a little impatient to get him to switch over to his Sagat (we are close friends). With both of his characters though, you can see that his 3 button tech game is very strong compared to some people I play against, so I have to even further delay my divekick or make my cl.mp frame trap/throw game a lot tighter to open him up.
Anyway, sagat comes out at 10:05 and I havent won a tourney set against him in forever. I jump in immediately because he has a bad habit to do low fireball at match start but mess up my plink and lose a bit of damage. The first round is a testament to how lousy I am at sweeping s.hk and high tiger shot. The matchup in my opinion revolves around beating s.hk to the point where they are afraid to use it, then it turns into something manageable. Having to block it crouching from far away while getting hit out of closer sweeps/divekicks/staggers makes that move so annoying. Lose my cool and get too obsessed with being his zoning game as opposed to staying right outside of his s.hk and playing the sweep/poke/divekick game. I think that is the optimal range to react to most things he can do in the matchup, and staying there is important. Remembered to use crouching jab for a change and things were going alright I guess. Still forgot about the positioning but whatever. Messed up the hk messiah fadc (ty justin) and tilted out.
Got mauled first round in that second match, didnt take time before the rematch. The second round was more of the same beatdown, but I got my fraudulent delay flipkick into ultra and regained composure. I moved back after a cr.lk chain which was pretty poor since I already baited 2 dp’s that round and probably could have afforded to be more aggressive. Either way a fireball fadc setup didnt work out (I think j.hp would have connected either way) and I got a 3rd round.
Tried catching a cr.mp tech with a higher divekick but got dp’d (grounded frame traps are better here since s.hk can catch you if you are trying to delay too hard). Whiffed a ex messiah followup (I find crossup divekicks to be hard on Sagat since he is really tall, but there is a sweet one that hits his middle back and makes dp’s whiff. Just need to formally practice it.) Got dp’d out of an air reset which is really my fault since one can react to a divekick like that. Gave up my positioning after the j.hk ultra with a lame crossup setup (barely any reward if it hits) and lost from there. Sagat’s dp isnt all that great, but the fear of losing control after finally getting a knockdown keeps me from being aggressive. Oddly enough I get like that with most 5 frame dps but not with the strong 3 frames. Possibly because I am more actively thinking on how to bait them, but who knows.
Anyway, will try to post more in the future. I am a first-year teacher so I am pretty busy lately but I know I need to help build the Rufus community since the EG cats are tight-lipped!
