My friend always says “practice it on both sides”. If you can do a dp facing left 20 times, do it on the right 20 times. Then FADC and try again. Rinse and repeat. I’m not a big Ryu player, played him in Vanilla but switched over to Cody when he got buffed. Just take it slow, I had issues with Cody’s one frame FADC but a couple hours or so and bam. I can do it without thinking. Just work on it man, take it slow!
Imagine doing Evil Ryu’s Heavy Combos…Now thats Hard =)
Cody is harder imo. So many links. Ryu feels like a cake walk in comparison to me.
Well, if you’re failing anything other than 1 frame links you really cannot blame online unless the connection is really horrible.
2 frame plinkable links are so easy (well, timing wise) that if you miss them it’s only your own fault.
Playing on 3 green bars is different from offline from a footsie/reaction perspective, but as far as combos go there really shouldn’t be any problems.
OP just seems to need loads of practice time since he’s new to the game. Becoming remotely good at this game takes hundreds of hours, it doesn’t help that after almost 4 years a lot of people are already decent and will murder any new player making him want to quit.
try Gen, El fuerte and blanka combos lol
Biggest thing for completing combos is getting that initial hit in to start the combo and then having solid execution to hit your links and cancels. Make sure you can HIT-CONFIRM or in other words, being able to react to the first hit of your combo. Personally, my BnB combo starter for Ryu is cr. lk, cr. lk, cr. lp…This can vary with jump-in attacks, but essentially all I need to complete the combo is hitting the jump-in attack which is fairly easy to react to, and/or getting the initial cr. lk in. Most of the time I’m using OS crouch tech for my cr. lk, but that’s just my personal preference. Set the dummy in training mode to Randomly block to practice your hit-confirming; it will make a world of difference.
What do you mean by first and second part? There’s two parts when executing combos? How do I know which is first and second? Sorry for the dumb questions. I been playing Aion. 
lets say you want to learn this combo
Forward Hard Punch, crouch light punch, Hadoken
Essentially if you are a total beginer you can cut this into 2 parts
Part 1: Forward Hard Punch, crouch light punch
Part 2: crouch light punch, hadoken.
Practice getting the first part 5 times in a row
do the same for part 2
then do it all together
Play the “Punisher” style of play for a while to ease yourself into it, that’s what i did. Don’t go over the top, just work on your AA’s (the most important thing on online play lol) and when you block a wake-up DP or anything of that nature, you’ve got a decent amount of time to compose yourself and pull off your punish. Once your’re comfortable anti-airing and punishing, then look at playing a more offensive game where you don’t rely solely on your opponent to make a mistake (although on XBL the latter will win you a lot of games).
OK, so I been practicing cr-lk, cr-lp, cr-lp, cr-mk, hadoken.
I got the fist part cr-lk, cr-lp, cr-lp down. But I’m having a very hard time linking cr-mk into hadoken or tatsu. What’s the easiest way to link this?
It’s a cancel not a link, if you’re waiting for the cr.mk to finish then it’s impossible to link anything after it. Or if you’ve just mixed your terminology up then work on executing the qcf/b faster after the cr.mk has come out, try and cancel the animation quicker
Don’t play to win yet, play to learn. Force yourself to practice new things you’ve drilled in training mode on real opponents. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, just keep the game going and work it out.
Also, FYI even when you get better the feeling of being a noob never really goes away. There are always people that will kick your face in. You will always make mistakes and get stuck in places you THOUGHT you had gotten past. The fun is in improving over the long-term, learning new kickass tactics and combat, and finding out new things about your character and matchups!
link= wait for the move A to finish the press move B
Cancel= wait for move A to hit then input move B. * ex. Ryu crouch MK, immediately input hadoken and the hadoken will cancel the crouch medium kick.
Kara= Cancelling the start up of one move with another.
So cMK to hadoken is a cancel
That is true, but you will surely find yourself around 15,000 BP when you are cool with Ryu. and below is the recipe for winning with Ryu online vs >10,000
- Crouch HP: people never learn that jumping at ryu is suicide(not as much as like Juri)
- Tick throw: whether its c.jab c.jab throw, empty jump throw, walk back walk forward throw, cHK dash neutral jump throw, works wonders
- Ume shoryu: doing a DP fadc at random lol! make sure you have two meter to fadc ultra
- dont throw fire ball at mid range or close range unless you train them not to jump. also fire ball is a super poking tool when you know how to use it
- The focus attack bait lol!
- Unblockable/Ambiguous set ups
Once you learn these you are cool offensively
Learn to block lol!, in the furry of jabs jabs jabs, never panic, by blocking you download alot of the players tendencies, even if you are thrown its better than eating a counterhit from COdy lol.
If you want to escape a jab pressure you can learn to crouch back dash. (advanced stuff)
learn to block cross ups.
If you want lessons let me know. I give free lessons on skype if you are interested
Step 1 would be to stop playing online. Even the best of connections will have some lag and even 1 frame of lag at the wrong time can cost you a combo, a round or match. It’s not the same game no matter what anyone says. Someone who plays consistently in arcades or offline with friends will tell you that with 100% certainty. Someone who doesn’t have those luxuries will think online is fine.
If that’s not an option, try to make sure you get a good connection. Playing the game online sucks for the most part anyways but you have to use what you have available unfortunately. Outside of that, easier said than done, try not to panic. Just press some buttons and practice. There is no secret that someone can tell you where you’ll instantly be able to do all your combos perfectly every time and never make a wrong decision. You’re going to mess up combos and eat a punish. You’re going to freeze up and let a guy walk at you for 10 seconds before throwing you. It happens. It’s all just practice, dude. Keep at it and if you are motivated to improve yourself you will.
Too lazy to scroll up and find the name but someone above me said play to learn, not to win. This is good advice. Think of it like this, these guys who are beasting on you have probably been playing a while. The guys you could beat at this level will teach you absolutely nothing about a real Street Fighter match. If you can, record your match and watch it later. What did the guy use to hurt you with? Did you fall for a trick or mix up more than once? Why? Where did you mess up combos? Can you see times when you used the wrong poke, block string or mix up? Why and what can you do differently?
In short, practice practice practice. Fighting games will take most people a good 6 months of solid, regular playing before they’re remotely good at them and years after that to become pretty good. The plus side is that what you learn in this game will transfer to pretty much any other 2D fighter and you’ll be a leg up for learning other games.
Just keep training that’s all.
^^^^^^^^ I could’ve just written that instead of my essay. LOL
Play on PC for the best connections. XBL for better connections, and avoid PSN like there’s no tomorrow.
Remember, winning online does not make you a good player offline. You never know when you won or lose because of lag. So don’t feel too bad if you lose badly and also don’t feel too good if you win a lot.
spend 1000 hours in training room practicing and then complain about excution (i am not kiding i really mean 1000 , and thats just the begining)
Before you even do all of this practice make sure your television set or monitor isn’t laggy or else you will be mostly wasting your time.