^more recent tier list
I disagree with anyone who said that Dee Jay doesn’t need a second character. If your playing tournies and you’re playing to win I don’t suggest sticking with only Dee Jay on some of his bad matchups. Also if ur just playing casually why wouldn’t you want to play with other characters as well?
The matchups that I like to switch characters on is Guile, Adon, Dhalsim, Balrog, maybe some others like Rufus and Akuma. I’ll switch if I’m not feeling confident with DJ in a tournament, or just in casuals when I don’t want to risk getting b/s’d out of a win and have to pass it.
IMO Dee Jay is kind of a solid character in this game, but he just doesn’t hit hard, doesn’t do well with pressure, and can’t do much with his Ultras w/o risk. If anyone wants to give their opinion go ahead, and I’ll tell you why I feel this way.
Never dropping DJ as a main though, I still play the hell out of him, can’t wait to get his new alt 2! Also can’t wait to see what changes are made for DJ in arcade edition.
I disagree with you disagreeing.
It’s kinda hard to put into words but the basic nub of it is.
If you’re playing tournies and you’re only playing to win. Then picking Dee Jay in the first place at all is a far greater handicap then not picking up a secondary to cover his matchups could ever be.
Picking up a secondary is never a bad idea, it helps you learn more about the game in total, and gives you another point of view which will also benefit your main character. It is however very difficult to play two characters at a decent level for players who just don’t want to invest as much time.
I say just pick whomever you like and don’t care about matchups, if you’re good you can win with anyone. I say that from an intermediate player’s perspective however, never have known what it’s like on tournament level.
Dj does good damage… I’ve been able to punish peoples pokes with c lp c mp xx a lot instead of trying to always jump in and stuff oh well
DJ does decent damage, but not good compared to other characters. Ryu can do more damage with easier links, and even more damage with harder links, and has much harder punishes. I wouldn’t say DJ has good damage output, unless we’re talking EX MGU > dash U2. That’s guuuud.
I don’t want to turn this into yet another matchup thread, but there’s no freaking way that Balrog is a 5-5 matchup. Dee Jay has such problems with Boxer it’s crazy. No effective zoning ability, inferior pokes and footsies, sobat’s pretty much useless… the only thing you can really do is cross him up like a madman and try to get a vortex going.
Am I missing something? Does DJ have a special taunt that turns Balrog into Dan?
Hmm, Deejay getting more fun for me. I think he compliments my Bison main pretty well. If you don’t know, Bison can’t properly AA consistent against some of the more popular characters (trades a lot because of distance+hit boxes). I’m finding upkicks to be suchhhhh a relief after two years of SF4 Bison AA options.
I honestly wish the Deejay forums had better representatives who post more often.
Some of this info is plain wrong, and it will confuse people who don’t know.
I’m not a great player but if I really get into Deejay, I’ll attempt my best to contribute too. My Bison forum track record’s not too bad :d
We’re doing our best here, buddy.
If you see info that’s wrong, it would be a huge help if you could post it up for us! If you’re seeing a lot of it, maybe a “DJ Myths debunked” thread would be good, too!
First off the tier list goes by match up data. doesn’t mean the character at the top is the best.
Although deejay is higher than some characters i believe
Adon, Viper, and some others have the potential of going further than him in a tournament because they are better overall characters despite their matchups.
I don’t think T Hawk is a bad matchup. You can carefully lame him out. If you stop zoning you will lose.
^There’s always a dick headed twerp who will take general statements personally.
Balrog is a 5-5 match up and so is Bison… EVERYBODY is just doing it wrong right? =0\
Who made the tier list? Does anyone of the people main DJ or even play with them in a high or competitive level?
Dogma
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The Iplaywinner one has the name “Fiipino Champ” stamped across the top.
Da_Knut
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I knew that but none of the people who helped with the list main or uses DJ as an alternate.
threi
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i think tyram uses deejay out there, dunno if he had any influence on the list.
with regards to the topic in question in vanilla i mained bison with rog and fuerte as alts, so i do go back to them every now and then.
For super it’s either between vega and honda as my main alt, whichever i get better with first.
Maining Honda it looks like the bad match ups are the same, ones that cover honda’s are viper, Abel, fuerte, Seth, dhalsim, akuma.
MRN20
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I use to main guile, but I’ve been sticking with Deejay lately. Working on Rog at the moment.
