How did you all choose a main?

Classic Fighting Games Ultra Street Fighter IV
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I love high execution barriers. But more importantly I love quick/rushdown/high risk characters. I don’t like long, drawn out, defensive situations and I’m an a adrenaline junkie to boot. Viper is a make or break character and when everything clicks, there’s no substitute. The only other character that comes close is Makoto and POSSIBLY Akuma IMO.

I honestly wouldn’t even be playing SF if viper wasn’t in it. I’ve spent extensive time with every character and none of them feel as satisfying or as deep as Viper, with the exception of the afformentioned. The game also feels a lot faster while playing her which lends itself to my hyperactive tendencies.

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Picked Dan in Vanilla, and that was that.

Saikyo-Ryuu-Ougi, bitches.

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I like mix-ups and aggressive play. I picked Ken and Chun-Li the couple of times I played with my brother in Turbo on SNES. Later, when I got my own copy of Alpha 3 for PSX, Ken’s design, cocky, rich, but family oriented, really intrigued me. Mostly, I loved his shoryuken. Watching flames roar out of it for high risk, high damage made me realize how much I liked him. When I started taking fighting games more seriously in Super Turbo and HDR, Ken’s high risk, high reward playstyle really showed true to me. As were his tic-throws and mix-ups. Anyway, Ken became my main in SFIV. He’s rush-down, great mix-up games on knockdown, but has basic zoning ability if I need to use it.

In Third Strike, I main Dudley for similar reasons. Huge damage output, and when you score knockdown in a corner, the fun really begins. I saw Fujiwara play and watching those combos and mix-ups blew my mind. So now he’s my main, and Yang is my secondary.

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I played Fei when I started out (street fighter alpha 3, playstation one) because Bruce Lee’s a boss. Took a long break from street fighter
Switched to gen in SFIV vanilla after watching jibbo and yeb doing amazing things with mk -> hands. After those were removed in super I switched to e.honda because I liked the up close pressure style. And I like watching mike ross play.

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If I like what I see, then I’d use the character.

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cody because he has the best model in the game ie one of the handful who doesn’t look like he’s got downs

also has the best crouch in the game

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Well, I play Street Fighter for Gameboy Color (don’t remember the actual for the game) for the first time, but I don’t remember who I used. Years later in high school at an afterschool gaming club, I played against someone using Chun-Li and I won. Then I chose Rose against a friend and won as well. I always had a thing for elegant, speedy characters. Because I barely play Street Fighter, I’m not that good, but I’m sticking with Chun until I actually find a legit main.

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Although I played SF2 in my youth, I didn’t really have a main ( apart from spamming Honda hands all day to win, lol ) and I had no one to play with either ( apart from an older brother who made up scrub rules to ensure he’d win so that he could make play soccer with him - which also explains why I generally dislike most sport as well. )

Years later, my brother gets a load of Xbox games, one of which had SF2 Anniversary and 3s on it, play Ken like a scrub cos I thought he was cool.

Again, a few years later, my brother gets Vanilla SF4 off a friend, I played Ken like a scrub again, SRKing all day ftw, lol.

Super comes out, I actually buy the game myself on Day 1. Knew nothing about the new characters as apart from knowing the release period and seeing a select few screen grabs of the game, I hadn’t being following SSFIV development. I Intended on maining Ken again but get decent this time. Heh, that intention only last about an hour as one of my first forays into online mode is against a Juri who soundly defeats me but at the same the same time, I was very intrigued by her.

Head back into training mode, pick Juri, mess around with her for a few minutes - she clicks with me like no other SF character ever had before and decided she would be my main. Continued playing her after the bandwagon dies down, the first tier lists for Super show near bottom and I hit a load of brick ways that I manage to overcome, every time leveling up just a little bit more.

I like Juri for many reasons, her psychopathic personality reminds of psychopathic women I knew in the past who I let into my head. This is actually a good thing as I feel I’m channeling the rage and anger associated with them when I play as Juri. I’ve noticed I’ve become a lot calmer and less angry as a result. Another aspect I like is the fact she is capable of being played in many ways, I play a more patient, zone based Juri for instance and I am aware of those who like to rush down with her.

My biggest weakness with her right now is that I mash ex-pinwheel too much so I am taking the rather drastic measure of temporarily not allowing myself to use ex-pinwheel at all in order to break that habit. I have never being this frustrated with her but I know if I can overcome this brick wall, I will become a much better and scarier player!

Apart from Juri, I also play Dictator as a secondary. Simple reason being is that I always wanted to play him since WW but either couldn’t or didn’t know how to properly play him ( I had to be shown how to do charge moves, I was that clueless! ) When I got that, I started messing around with him as well on the side.

My Dic is actually quite good for someone I only secondary with, playing as him thought me a trick or two that I incorporated in my Juri game as well. Some of the lads I play with even tell me that my Dictator is better than my Juri. Fair enough but then again, Juri is more challenging to play as and more rewarding when things go right ( especailly now that I am making a serious effort to get rid of mashing from my Juri game. ) That said, I still like playing as both characters.

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You know, I could’ve sworn I posted in this thread, but apparently not…

I play Vega because I like to zone and keep my distance, and I like charge characters. But I don’t like projectile characters, as they feel too boring and one-dimensional, I’d rather harass the opponent with an armada of pokes from a safe distance. Of course, all of that also fits Chun-Li, but unlike all of the girls that always play Chun, I’d pick Vega any day.

He’s much more fun to play and has more interesting little tools, like the wall dives and the evasive back flips. But I also love him as a character, which is always important if I want to truly love playing as someone. He seems like such a prissy little prince, always obsessing over his beauty and grace. But beneath that exterior, he’s a narcissistic, twisted killer that wears a mask to preserve his beauty and a claw to rip and tear his target into a bloody mess. Again, that or some Chinese cop chick. Give me the beauty obsessed, psychotic narcissist Spaniard, please :wink2:

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I picked Viper because. She is a beast at heart. With technical execution but has such a rewarding feeling playing with her. Every other character I find boring. She does fit a style i like to learn. Its so technical that once you execute something perfectly it feels good when you can pull it off in a real match.

plus latif shows how to use her like a boss

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I choosed Honda because it fits perfectly my gameplay style (very defensive)…

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main seth, dudley, gief
secondary is everyone else

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It is rather ironic, as you play Ken & Sagat…

I usually go along with the character that I feel the most comfortable with.
Going with the coolest-looking/most attractive/insertwhateversuperficialreason doesn’t cut it for me. This is why I end up going through multiple mains until I finally settle with one.

In this case, it was Balrog. I accidentally picked him against my friend on a random day and never went back ever since.

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Anyone who trolls 90% of all SRKers.

I.e. Akuma.

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lol you seem undecided. Main usually means one. not 3 lol.

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Rose is one of the more…interesting designs in the SF uinverse.

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I tried to look for the perfect combination of low tier and “better online”. This allowed me to fulfill all of my anti-tier whore fantasies while simultaneously feeling like I am good at the game. It has been an incredible experience. Thank you Ono-san for the barely functioning netcode… :clapdos:

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I ended up beating Gootecks with Balrog when he came out here to Arizona. He was playing SF4 at one of the arcades here and I challenged him to a match. Didn’t even know who he was until I watched EVO later that year. Mained him ever since.

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everyone should learn everything imo

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When I was but a young lad, I got to Sagat (cpu) at the local aladdin’s castle. HOLY UNPRINTABLE-EXPLETIVE THAT DUDE IS COOL, said I, before wasting several dollars trying to beat him with my sh—y Guile. I failed. And then Champion Edition arrived, where to my great surprise, Sagat was a playable character. Thus my historic and eternal choice was made, and I’ve been maining a sh----y sagat ever since.