Is there cheapness in SF?

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There’s already a tick throw thread here. You can’t be thrown while in block stun. If someone tries to throw you on your first frame you come out of block stun, hold toward or away and mash every button you have that’s a throw for your character. If you both try to throw at the exact same time, the person who just was in block stun always gets the advantage.

I equate “cheap” with low risk, low skill curve required, and very high reward. And based on that definition, it definitely exists in ST (Akuma, intentional) as well as HD Remix (again, Akuma).

But certain match-ups, because of the tools both characters have, can feel cheap because there’s no easy out for what looks like something brain dead. That’s when you use your mind games, son. :nunchuck:

The game is built around putting yourself into situations where you can deal more damage to your opponent with minimal risk to yourself. You and your opponent are both doing this at all times, trying to put yourself in that advantageous position. Once he has you in that throw setup, he has beaten you in grabbing the advantage, and earned the right to his low risk/high reward tactic.

That’s no more cheap than hitting someone with a shoryuken when they jump. You are in the advantageous position of having an attack that can easily deal significant damage to your opponent, and which he can almost certainly not avoid.

In my experience, people only consider something cheap if they don’t know how to counter it. Thats there way to justify there loss.

There is no such thing is cheap. There are just opportunities. Learn to counter stuff. Don’t complain.

I liked this thread better when it was called “On Cheapness” instead of “Is there cheapness in SF” as FreshOJ pointed out…

Seriously, post there and stop making repeat threads…

honda is cheap, fuck that guy. he should be deleted from the game and all builds with him in it set on fire.

OG ST Akuma.

Im out.

But yah, i say no.

Scub.

No. Just frustration.

I think it really depends on the match up. Some character have a big advantage against certain character, like having moves that is difficult to counter for that character, which some people would consider that cheap.

Na there aint no such thing as cheap in SF2. In real competative games, like SF, you do whatever it takes to win man doesn’t matter if its that low kick shit with bison or tick throwing, whatever it takes to win. Me personally, i don’ play to lose, so Ima spam lk with bison if you cant stop me, thats just my competative mind set.

Oh and by the way I think you can throw bison out of it.

well played

Before throwing words like cheap around you should have gotten the answer to this.

I just stop complaining about cheap and just concentrated on figuring out how to beat it. If keep at it, those losses will teach you what doesn’t work and when you figure out how to get out of it, you will be a better player in the end.

I think “cheap” and “legit” are two very different things. Yes, I do think there are cheap tactic in SF. If something is low risk, takes little skill and it’s counter is difficult, then I consider it “cheap”. However, it is still “legit”.

So no, I won’t complain about it, but at the same time, it won’t make me think that he is any good.

A friend of mine had a great quote regarding “cheapness” in an arcade one time… He kept KOing a scrub with fireball chip damage on wakeup. So finally after the 4th or 5th time he does this, the scrub calls him out on his chip damage KOs.

So my friend says to him: You shouldn’t let your life get so low, and maybe that won’t happen next time.

Several guys bust out laughing, scrub promptly leaves.

…ya had to be there. :slight_smile:

what a horrible thread.

the answer to your question is here:
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please close thread.

I was playing chess against this guy online, and I moved the bishop diagonally across some squares onto a square that put my opponent into check, and he was like, “Hey, that’s cheap! Stop using the game mechanics against me! There’s no counter for a bishop, is there??”

“What other players message you after you beat them”

Read through this thread and it will generally tell you the communities view on Street Fighter and Cheapness.

Cammy vs Honda, nuff said.