Japanese Players: 1 game, 1 character

[PozerWolf]

This is not true. They are generally fairly good with all characters, you just rarely ever see them bother to use them.

No, it is true.
But who you are to talk? All you do is watch youtube vids all day and judge the community based off that while nut hugging the japs.

I, on the other hand, actually have experince and seen it for myself (as well as most of the people who post here).

So fuck off.

[woof]

are you japanese emil

[System_1]

I think it just comes down to playing the game alot.

I mean inputs in 3rd strike aren’t that hard, so if you’ve fought hundreds of dudley’s and have picked up working strategies, it’s probably not too much to pick him up and be decent with them.

I mean these guys do play the game enough.

[KayinNasaki]

Several Japanese players have actually counter picked at EVO in ST. Notably Daigo (between Ryu and Boxer) and I recall hearing that even Gian(Or maybe some other Dhalsim) actually swtiched to Blanka(?!?) to counter Vega(D:)

But either way it’s important to dabble in as many characters as you can to better understand the game and the japanese realize this. They just seldom build these characters up that far, as theres little point in the japanese tournament structure.

[BaSiK_TeKniK]

Guilty Gear and tekken are good examples

[Emil]

No, it is true.
But who you are to talk? All you do is watch youtube vids all day and judge the community based off that while nut hugging the japs.

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You’ve already lost the argument by bringing up this point which has nothing to do with the discussion. Also it’s irrelevant if you have experience or not, this is about whether they really do use only one character and whether they suck with the ones they don’t use. This can be seen from experience or video watching.

[Pablo_the_Mex]

Fuck japan.

[Sabin]

Have you ever noticed that Japanese players seem to only play one game and use only one character. It seems that stateside majority of the players use multiple characters and play multiple games.

this is because most of the time

1. you can actually focus on YOUR game of choice, unlike the usa, because we just dont have the scene. For example, I play Arcana Heart fairly seriously, but beacuse I’m in america, im not going to be able to find comp for this game all the time acuse it isnt THAT popular. In Japan? Not really a problem. Same thing goes for Melty/(insert random game here that has a small western presence)

2. because of the reason i stated above, since theres actually a scene to play in, and theres lots of dedicated players, the comp can generally be so fierce in yoru game of choice that you have to devote all your time to 1 fighter. To give you another example, I’m definetely a multi-game player, and I was planning to play capcom/snk/tekken in japan a bunch, but seeing as i mainly went there last year for arcana, and the comp is so good, the only way i was going to be able to keep up was if i devoted all my time an denergy to that one game.

3. That would also explain the resson why Japanese stick to 1 game/1 character (can sometimes be character love, also due to the fact that they have single elim tourneys where you have to stick with the same char all the way through. Also, comp is so beast in the major cities that it’s really hard to experiment without getting owned up/losing a shitton of money in the process.)

[DS]

Almost every Japanese player I’ve ran into has a handful of chars they dabble with but one they will use for tourneys.

They also would love to have double elim and char changing in tourneys.

What this guy said and what Sabin said. And yes, single game single elim tournies will do that to you. And yeah, they have huge scenes for each game, so you usually have to stick with one char most of the time for tourney time.

Oh, and Tokido doesn’t learn braindead chars for the most part. He just plays whomever is top tier. I like his philosophy.

[PozerWolf]

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You’ve already lost the argument by bringing up this point which has nothing to do with the discussion. Also it’s irrelevant if you have experience or not, this is about whether they really do use only one character and whether they suck with the ones they don’t use. This can be seen from experience or video watching.

What the hell? Why do you even post?
No one likes you 'cause your just a damn loser. There was no actual points, not to mention what you stated was just complete BS. Whatever, you like to think your right when we all know you don’t know shit.

And no, its not “irrelevant” if you have experience or not. Watching vids and to actually play them are 2 diferent things. If you believe otherwise then your a fuckin’ idiot.

Forget it, I’ll just do what everyone else has to do.
First time I have to put someone on my ignore list on… well… anything.

EDIT:
*This message is hidden because Emil is on your ignore list. *

Oh, this is interesting.
I guess I can just assume that when I see a post from Emil I know for a fact that it will be completely retarded rather than seeing a small wall of text.
This works.

EDITx2: Added some more stuff, lol ;o

[System_1]

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You’ve already lost the argument by bringing up this point which has nothing to do with the discussion. Also **it’s irrelevant if you have experience **or not, this is about whether they really do use only one character and whether they suck with the ones they don’t use. **This can be seen from experience **or video watching.

I think having your colon around your head is the only thing that keeps it from exploding from sheer stupidity.

[shatterstar]

^BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

AW for Vice President.

[Einlanzer]

Fuck japan.

im still trying to.

[Josh-TheFunkDOC]

hayao plays kira in arcana, or at least used to at one point

the ruu who plays 3s is a different guy from the gg/mb ruu (one uses katakana, the other has hiragana)

overall though, i am sure most elite players can use multiple characters well. even the better american players do. one of the most effective ways to figure out a difficult matchup is to learn that character yourself. i know someone who put hours into practicing every single character in accent core for this reason.

[System_1]

overall though, i am sure most elite players can use multiple characters well. even the better american players do. one of the most effective ways to figure out a difficult matchup is to learn that character yourself. i know someone who put hours into practicing every single character in accent core for this reason.

This always seems to work well. I remember Ryo was such a bitch for me to beat in kOF’s until I started playing him, now he’s a joke.

[MAGUS1234]

I bet USA players can beat up Japanese players

[System_1]

I bet USA players can beat up Japanese players

SBO 2009 believe it

[Dandy_J]

Have you ever noticed that Japanese players seem to only play one game and use only one character. It seems that stateside majority of the players use multiple characters and play multiple games. The only Japanese players I can think of who play several games are

Daigo - 1 character in 3s, 1 character in SFA3, CVS2, 1 character GGXX
Tokido - 1 character for every game he plays

both of them have switched around characters at one time or another

[Keits]

Tokido: Every game, The most braindead character

I only spent time with Tokido while playing Samurai Showdown Tenka, but he played several of the best characters, and two of his choices are anything but braindead. (Mina and Sogetsu are not as easy to play as Kazuki and Amakusa)

[Captain_Ryu]

I’m kinda like that. If I’m playing a game I play the character I know best 95% of the time. I usually only fuck around with other characters once in a while, usually when the other guy is picking other characters also and I don’t have to wait if I lose. Otherwise, even in casuals I like to stick with the guy I know best and I want other players to do the same for me.