I would just like to congratulate E.Honda

Its all about Claw winning evo this year! :wink:

Altough I also would be glad if Honda does it.

Sorry to drum up a two week old topic, but I keep reading Shotos, Guile, and DeeJay. What does Honda do that Sagat can’t deal with? What does Honda do that Sagat even has trouble with? It seems totally unfair to be honest.

I realize most of the players online who play him suck balls and just think he’s supposed to be their win button since they can’t deal with his shenanigans, but it just feels unfair picking Sagat against him. Even those dedicated Honda players who never miss a reversal ochio and know their spacing, frames and hitboxes.

Blocked low shots carry Honda away for days especially if you link a meaty slow shot into fast shot which is pretty much impossible to safely reversal out of. TU’s eat up anything Honda can stick out at all offensively for a huge portion of the screen with very lax timing and are harder to punish than the anti airs of the other guys mentioned. Jump back anything is a damned safe bet to beat out any headbutt including super. His jump ins are fast and terribly safe, works better than most characters overheads for a high low mix up. Standing roundhouse beats about everything but a very early improved jumping short. And in the case he does get over a brazen and punishable low shot with strong, fierce or super headbutt chances are he still eats it and loses the distance he manged to close as well as giving Sagat advantage to play more wake up games.

This is my scrubby analysis. If I’m wrong about any of this, don’t spare my feelings.

Also wondering how Mr. Chen’s quest to get beat as Honda went.