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[]Punish stuff you can’t punish before (IE. EX Blanka ball, Whiff Devil reverse / claw dive, EX condor dive… etc)
[]Control space better then ever. ( Natural jump full screen? Punish! Predicted Focus attack / Backdash? Punish! )
[]Deal extra damage and stun on EX palm without FADC
[]FADC from counter is godlike if you pull it off. Deal -so much- stun.
[]Also do FADC on palm or Tatsu just about anywhere beside max distant palm hit.
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Super is also wonderful
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[]Safe jump on Gouken is now extra tricky. If they know the match up or ate a Super before, they are going to leave you the hell alone on your wake up since 3 frame safe jump is sooo difficult for many character.
[]Your Counter doesn’t just do 150 damage, it does 400+ now since you can easily hit comfirm in the stun freeze when counter is activated, you don’t even need to buffer it to work. Plenty of time.
[]Tatsu -> super does 400+ damage
[*]Simple BnB does 500+ damage with super cancel.
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Gouken isn’t top tier, not by a long shot, but Gouken in my opinion is viable. Most of his critical flaw have now been patched.
Just had the funniest “deer in the headlights” moment with Denjin fully stocked against a 7k bp Gief user. Started charging from fullscreen, he had no meter, and apparently no idea about the speed buff; he didn’t even block.
opponent thinking Oh, he’s activating Denjin, I’ll wait until he releases and jump full speed denjin catches them in the jump animation announcer K.O. their face
dash dash j.hp, walk forward a bit, enemy thinks I’m gonna throw, counter hit st. mp, hit confirm cr. hp, he’s stunned. dj. hp, st. hp ex palm, dash tatsu
WIN
Case 2:
Honda has me cornered, does stop sign, lands on a fireball, denjin WIN.
Case 3:
Adon tries to jump over me, eats jump back mp, denjin. WIN.
Whenever the AE2012 patch gets released for PC, I don’t want the Oni Arcade Title Screen. I want a Gouken title screen and I want the announcer to say “Super Street Fighter IV: Denjin Edition”
What I like about Gouken is not only his badass moveset and combos, but his backstory. YES HIS BACKSTORY. I know most people don’t care about stories in fighting games and that’s understandable and all, but few characters have some decent backstories. His is one of them IMO. Being the master of the two most used characters in the game and the elder good brother of another badass character (Akuma) is cool.
And I love landing a Shin-Shoryu on mofos. Hell, landing a Denjin, hit them with a h.Gohado into EX Tatsu… damn.
