Kansas City, pick some mains or quit already

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@exmortis: Yeah, I realize I misspelled canon. Lol. Btw, if anyone’s really interested in the Sf canon here is a link to what I feel is the most comprehensive guide to the Sf universe so to speak:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/file/564869/26094

Pretty much taking into account almost all the capcom games that ever had any of the sf cast in it. Mostly from All About Capcom, responses from Sirlin and many other Capcom staff. It’s quite a read and an intersting way to take a break when your thunbs and wrists are tired from too much fightings games.

@Axiom: I understand you point. I’m in the same boat myself. SF4 is my first serious attempt at getting really good at SF games, too.

@Ben-ra: I have similar issues losing a lot like you when I get to play serious SRK players online in general.

Adding those psn ids from the midwest database and playing them really has taught me quite a bit. As well as reading the Guile threads here. I’d ask more questions in this thread, but nobody else mains Guile or Claw like I do. And not to knock on anyone’s explanation techniques here at SRK, but I’ve found I’ve learned more about Guile from reading the SF4 character threads at http://www.neoempire.com

They don’t have a thread for Claw yet, but they do tend to explain things in plainer english there. Heck, reading that stuff is how I’m learning Guile’s ex focus cancel, special move cancels, and kara throwing. Stuff I I’m still trying to work into my normal play.

Speaking of which, it just feels like there’s a steeper learning curve when it comes to playing pro in SF4. Maybe because I haven’t been playing 3S, MvC2, or GGXXAClike many of you have these past 10 years… While ya’ll were enjoying that I was scrubbing it up in SFA3 and KoF. So yeah, I sometimes feel like I’m 2 games behind or something.

I will get better, but baby steps for now. If being able to eek an occaisional win against some of you is any indication, there is hope for me yet. :slight_smile:

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I’ve been screwing around with abel recently, he’s got pretty strong rushdown and mixup. His wakeup game is trash though, which bugs me because rog’s wakeup game is also trash.

A couple of combos that are really good to know with him are 1st hit of rekka, fadc, cr. hp, ultra and f+mk, dash, cr. hp, ultra. You can sub roll into sky fall if you dont have ultra after cr. hp, and so on.

If you do a deep crossup that they block, you can mixup between cr. hp and command grab. If they try and poke you out of the grab, the cr. hp will knock them up for ultra. If you get the throw, you get to do the setup again. The key is to do the throw a few times first, so they’re scared of it, giving you an easy cr. hp.

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I look forward to seeing the fruits of everyone’s labor at the next hookup…whenever that is.

I’ve been messing around with Apollo Creed some more. I’m officially the last person to get headbutt into ultra down…

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Ben - Again, I am with you on what you are saying. I unfortunately have a big heart and let anyone play at my hookups, even people who arent that good, because I believe in giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. That said, I talked to Drew about this as well, I will try and switch a night around at work one of these weeks coming up, and head to the Chachidome to play with you, Drew and Lyquid.

For the rest of you, see you Friday.

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Now i wanna see an anchorage, alaska thread

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It is a secret to everyone…

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I was thinking of starting the “Antartica: The Savage Land” thread…

Then I dropped the idea, since it’s hard enough to get people to post in this thread, let alone the crackhead/shittalk edition…

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Just be thankful we have more than just 2 dudes in the metro that play. Looking at the thread for my hometown is depressing:

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=159729

Area code 254, nothing indeed…

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At least they have a Tilt. :mad:

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Yeah an arcade would be great, then like 10 of us could get together and play on one machine. With shitty controls. And pay for it. Pshh.

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This is assuming we know 10 people, the machine actually has controls, and the coin mechanism actually works. That’s asking a lot out of an arcade nowadays.

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1st page says KC is serious business.

Also, STL top 3 at HDR/SF4/3s.

I didn’t know people actually played those other games >.>

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Yes sir. KC can roll with the best of them on Tekken. That’s about it though. For now. .

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Looks like we gonna have me/kaal/superfx coming up for sure. Wondering if we could get some housing friday night?

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Yeah, the Chachidome has some couches you can pass out on. Feel free to share knowledge, among other things. Gotta smoke outside though.

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hey kc you pick your mains yet? or you quitting

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nice, good look. For sure, a hookup that night to meet all the new KC players would be cool. I think you know paul(superfx) and Ben(kaal) is the bison player from the STL tourny(tied for 5th).

NKI is also coming for sure, hes just gonna ride there and back saturday.

Cant wait, been a while since i been out west wit a chance to get paid :nunchuck:

Is anyone gonna enter 3s? KC betta rep hard in all the games, dont pull an STL and only enter sf4. 3s and HDr need some tourny lovin! :party:

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I don’t have mains, I have mediums through which I ruin lives.

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Rex come around here with his hand out, why don’t you spend some of the money you’re sure to make on a hotel room, huh??

Seriously tho I told you back at rave I can host. Chachi does have a lot more space than I do, on the other hand you never know who’s gonna show up there…

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Don’t forget Luigi182’s Birthday Extravagnza/Friendly KC tournament is TOMMOROW AT 3PM!

Looking forward to seeing ya’ll tommorow. :slight_smile:

If it turns out well, I may do another friendly tourney sometime in August. So show up, beat the shit oout of me and my friends and you may go home with a free lunch, or maybe even a deeply discounted game of your choosing at Gamestop!