Not a single character has anywhere close to a low skill cap, only the players that play them.
I don’t know if spamming meaty j.RH->double-sweep can be called easy-to-pick-up-and-play
You’re giving them too much credit saying the j.RH is meaty!
LOL @ Guile being easy to play. Play good competition and you find out quick that you need to know all of his tools inside and out to pull out the win. Yeah some characters get owned by him but I’d only say maybe three matchups are truly “easy” for him.
Well said, Guile is about as easy to play as Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mvt.
Well, I won’t lie. I am practicing Guile as one of my characters I want to main. I guess it’s not that I’m necessarily jumping on the bandwagon because I debated between Guile, Balrog, Ryu and Akuma for a long time. But I guess what I really realized is that since I main Dudley I wanted to learn the mechanics first hand of a match up that can be tough for Dudley.
But either way, I can respect the skill needed to play all the characters. Guile isn’t easy. When I started playing Guile online I realized how different my footsie and close game was… I’m used to Dudley’s expansive high/low pressure game.
But I guess people just don’t know how to deal with Guile with other characters so they hop into the game to try to spam Flash kicks and sonic booms all day. Which, Sonic boom should be used frequently. but it’s a lot more than just that.
Ya guile isn’t easy. He definitely wasn’t easy in vanilla. He takes knowledge of normals and good reaction speed. Finally, a keen knowledge of frame traps. Most noobs don’t know/can’t do those things.
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yeah i quit using guile now because of alls these guile riders, I used him in SF3 HD remix, makoto is the new guile
Just joined the bandwagon today 
It’s hard to believe that playing against Daigo at Evo was a no-practice Guile. Pretty f’ing impressive! Now that you’re on the bandwagon and actually maining him, I expect to see some insanity!!!
lol at that…
troll’d.
lol, I was thinking to myself the same thing. I seem to pick the characters with the worse wake up defense and lowest on the teir lists. Good thing I main’ed Guile in SFIV, so that way I wasn’t bandwagon’ing in super plus I had a chip on my shoulder. Maybe the same thing will happen with the Mak.
I have to agree with some of the earlier posts. I have seen a huge influx of adons and Dictators. Not so much with guile.
On the bandwagon note. I just transferred from pad to stick and my cammy just completely fell apart. Thankfully my guile transitioned rather well to the stick. Been maining him for the past 3 weeks. Feeling pretty confident.
I used to play guile in sf4, then friends started playing him in ssiv…frankly I get bored to tears of whole rounds of mainly boom spam canceling. The sad part is when I play anyone else I feel at a disadvantage due to all his buffs. (hard to punish booms with increased recovery, every freakin’ normal in the book can be used as AA, etc…) Oh well.
Baiko, try Gouken. He is really fun and has a heck of a lot of creative ways around fireballs/booms. Demon Flip to absorb, dash punch, and his fireballs are great too. Plus his focus to dash is pretty darn fast. If you’re the aggressive type you can get in on a lot of people.
if we are talking specifically vs guile, then i’d pick rose. she’s one of the most similar character to pick up, plus she gives guile problems. imo, guile owns gouken for free, so i wouldn’t be looking to use him.
this is all unless you can play dhalsim. if you can, there’s your character.
Sounds like I have some new options to try, thanks guys.
What you might find is alot of people who are not jumping on the bandwagon but are new to the game tried out the characters and liked guile, as he is good in super. Its not a big deal ive been fighting ken on ranked matches solid for days. To be honest I think the ryu, ken noobs are worse.