Those are what scrubs complain about. The people who complain about him (myself included) make him sound better than he is, but the people who defend him tend to undermine his power. Oh he gets owned by Ryu so he’s not that good. Yeah, he has some bad matchups. He’s still a way more solid character than people give him credit for. I feel like a lot of the people saying it’s oh-so-easy to zone Honda just haven’t played the right (patient) Honda. Yeah a lot of the online players will block one or two fireballs and jab headbutt through one. But when you fight the right Honda who knows the perfect range for his beefy jumping kicks, it’s not as easy to zone.shrug Winning Evo may be an overstatement but he’s a force to be reckoned with.
You really do think this game hasn’t changed at all since ST, wow.
cuz T. Hawk is obviously winning evo… duh lolololol
You should make more videos with thelo imo
This is why counter-picks exist.
Don’t like Honda? Learn Ryu, Guile or DJ and pick one of them in match 3.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some action with honda deep into the tournament, but that’s nothing new really. He is a really powerful counter-pick character against the right characters (Sorry Cammy, no evo finals for you), but he is also very easy to counter-pick against as well.
Do people not realize that if you play an odd number of matches counter-picking does little to change the outcome?
If you lose match 1 and counter-pick in match 2 they can always counter-pick in round 3. Being able to counter-pick doesn’t net you any sort of gain. All it does is make the first match that much more important as the subsequent matches are now skewed in favor of whoever previously lost.
God, I love E.Honda.
Played HD Remix for the first time, today, since the patch. I’ve decided to put my money where my mouth is and if I think Honda is so good, he’s now my main character in Ranked matches.
I went 16-0, lost 4 rounds TOTAL (2 of them to Gief!), and had about 3 or 4 people pull on me. I’m now ranked 224 (and I love that the person ranked right below me has 0 wins and 3 losses… amazing ranking system they have here). Used Stored Oicho about 35 times, no exaggeration. Had one session where I perfected someone 3 rounds in a row (apologies if it was you and you read these boards).
God I love this character. :rolleyes:
- James
Clearly you didn’t face a single fireball character since we all know that Honda loses to fireballs for free.
That’s it? If you are going to go pro with Honda James, you need to store that at every opportunity. :lol:
I would love it if you reported back how awesome he is when you get up in the 50’s and play some really awesome players.
Me too! He’s so awesome. I :love: Honda!
Sadly, me too. I was actually hoping to have some rough matches somewhere, but it’s been almost kind of saddening how simple it has been using him so far. I’m still waiting to run into some high level Shotos and Guiles and Dee Jays. I’m actually looking forward to getting beat up while using Honda, 'cause right now he just feels like a bully.
- James
You are going to run across matches where you regret saying this.
That’s only true if the other guy is able to play the counterpick too. I play exclusively Honda, so if you pick a shoto in the second game, I’m kind of screwed.
Flow Chart Ken!
If you really want to get your Honda beat up by DJ I’m sure you’ll eventually find some mid tier DJ who can oblige.
Now if you?re looking to get your Honda absolutely decimated, shoot me a friend request.
He’s super strong to be sure, and kills most players people pretty easily, but at the highest levels of play most of the dominant Honda strategies break down. The best players have the reaction times to stuff Headbutts and reversal splashes, and they won’t get oichou’d nearly as much. That leaves the Honda player to try to outzone, or outplay his opponent, and he has far less tools to use for that purpose.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Honda is still top tier, but not anymore so than Balrog, Vega, Dhalsim, or Sagat. It’s just that he is the easiest to get really good with really fast, so we see a lot more dominance from him online.
My money is on one of the best players winning, and whatever character they use will be the winner. Since none of the top players use Honda, and I don’t think they’ll switch to him, I’m saying he won’t win evo.
Weird, I thought I had you as a friend already. I just looked online and I guess I don’t. shrug I’ll try adding you later.
Again, not sure if people believe me or not, but I DO wanna get decimated using Honda. If I do, I think I would be able to sleep better at night. 
- James
oh man that match, at first i had no idea what you were talking about but someone brought it to my attention recently, i can’t fight honda, it’s pretty obvious
i play honda as my main and i do get my streaks of 20-0 going alot. maybe its just me be that good…lol
Yeah I thought you were on my friends list too, but than I realized I don’t know what your gamertag is so we’re totally mistaken.
Shoot me a friend invite and we’ll get some games in.
Hey, Bruce.
yeah, last few times I’ve actually gone on, I checked Eggo’s list to see if you were on, and were offline at those times. But I have looked for you. Next time, though, I’ll just send you an invite straight up. Not sure why I didn’t just do that.
- James