I will pick the highest tier out of hakan, thawk or gief. If hakan is overly technical to play ie c.viper. I might go with a char that is better for someone at an intermediate level like my self. But I amexcited about him.
Haha I’m gonna do the same! But I hope Hakan is the best, cause he’s the one I’m most excited for.
From a theoretical perspective I think execution wise Hakan shouldn’t even come close to Viper’s level of execution because at best you’re going to have to learn how to Kara into stuff which should be easy. From a technical standpoint he’s going to be more complicated then Gief and T.Hawk since he has that reliance on oiling up meaning you’ll need to find good times to oil up and avoid getting punished. Meaning you’ll have to sometimes trade position and oki games for the ability to oil up. There may be more technical ways to oil up like using EX Oil and use the invinci frames to pass through fireballs but that remains to be seen in the final version. To me, this is what makes Hakan interesting since he’ll be a grappler with a supposedly good-to-great footise game. Granted Gief has a strong footsie game but his ability to get in close on certain characters really suck but Hakan may be able to address this giving him an overall good set of tools for most situations.
Tier whores…
I kid. I’m just in the camp biding their time patiently hoping that April 27th magically gets here sooner.
Also, I wonder if EX oil would make a good meaty? Bait the reversal, use invincibility to avoid attack, and punish with souped up grab. Wouldn’t work great as a regular thing, but might be nice to throw it in every once in a while as a Hakananigan? to keep people on their toes.
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i althou hope that he at least have fair Matchups against Seth/Sagat then im HAPPY
his abilitys looks great on paper the Slide looks fast maybe as fine as a greenhand i hope his throws hafe good framedatas and not like abels …
i wouldnt care if hakan is very technical ill still look at him
gief players that cant use a character due to execution limitations should probably ask themselves is that why you play as gief? so you can rotate the stick?
i hate when people say ‘oh so and so is too technical for me! ill stay with easy mode so and so’
fact of the matter is the player makes the character most of the time…work on your execution and with that comes better user control of whatever character tht may be…better execution makes gief players better in return
anyways hawk seems the closest to gief in terms of playstyle so ill look to him but i like the uncertainity of hakan and how he has 2 forms of attacks that can be or possibly be cancellable ala oil up
i like interesting features in a char to throw off people who arent used to a character
Zangief has one of the higher execution barriers in the game, he’s definitely not easy mode from either an execution or gameplay perspective. He has command motions that lots of people have trouble with, the short jump command is weird, it’s hard to do most of his option selects, and many of his combos are 1-2 frame links. His strategy is kind of simple since it’s not hard to figure out what you want to do, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to actually do it.
I’m hoping that if Hakan has combos they’re easier to do than Gief’s. There’s definitely gonna be a lot to learn about him, and I think it’s right that he’ll be like Dhalsim in SF4 in that it’ll take a long while before people really start getting good with him. But that’s cool. Looking forward to helping explore him!
Grab loop? Goddamn. Sounding more and more ridiculous with every interview.
Also, I’m liking jump strong into Oil Combination Hold.
Dhalsim range when oiled up. . .wtf
so his ultra catches any fucking thing off the ground. . .awesome
knockdown -> oil up -> mindgames for days
also I wonder if you can juggle jumping strong into a ground normal for resets/mixups…
U2>Bison scissors!
If you have Ultra, this shuts down quite a bit of Bison’s game, as he can’t really pressure or chip you safely if you have good reactions.
It seems like U2 would shut down a lot of games. . .depending on the hitbox for it. . .
If it has anything behind him that’d be ass for characters like fuerte. . .
There’s more…
Stay oily guys.
Nice bit of info on that video, the sliding while charging FA looks silly but hot damn that’s awesome considering the range is pretty decent normally.
Focus Crumple > Oil Combination Hold works too, such a great Ultra it seems :tup:
It’s been mentioned that Oil Shower stacks but is that proper stacking? Like 1 second left + 3 seconds (LK?) gives us 4 seconds or will it just be 3 seconds (over writing)?
Hakan sounds really really gdlk. I think this is my favorite new fighting game character in a long long time.
without oil…done
with oil…dominating
well put s-kill so staying oily is required to play hakan at high levels…the range of his moves increase greatly…he isnt combo dependant but im pretty sure he has 3-hit confirm somewhere
being a focus whore myself the ability to move while focusing is just the icing on the oily cake
i can’t wait for the national tourny hopefully someone picks him up and we see some good shit