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Discuss.
In 3S, sure. In fighting game history? mmmmnnnnaaahhh
r u troll’n roboto?
Daigo is deffinately the greatest :looney:
No. Nuki is the best.
The more I think about James Cen saying that 3S players are trolls the more I think he’s right.
It’s hard to fight your nature Louis, isnt it?
The googly eyes were intended to make my sarcasm explicit.
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josh 360… his iron man is sooo good… if only mvc2 didnt take forever for me to be decent at…
Nuki even thinks daigo is the shit.
Nuki’s always going to be a Daigo fanboy, so his opinion doesn’t count.
How do you even rate who is the best player in FG history? By win rate or tournament payout? Performance? Consistency of these two combined?
Anygays, I’d give Kuroda the tittle of best 3s player, maybe not the best of all time.
Diago has dominated and won the biggest tournaments in history.
It’s hard to not put Diago in the #1 spot.
It’s hard to say who is the best, since the question is kind of broad. Do we consider 3d games as well? Daigo is certainly the most iconic without question.
james chen is the best fighting game player alive
In terms of how far he is in skill compared to other players in his own game/games, I’d say yes.
why
Excluding the trophies, I’d say RF is a pretty cool choice. Why?
- Top KoF '98 player.
- Top Guilty Gear player.
- Strong CvS2 player.
- Best Sagat player in SFIV.
- Strong UMvC3 player.
Another choice might be Tokido.
But if you only counted Capcom’s games, Daigo might be the best overall.
Speaking seriously for a moment. You may be right with Tokido. How many top players can you name that fucking annihilate in almost every game out there?
As has been pointed out, there are many ways of defining or perceiving “the best.” Is consistency preferred or the absolute pinnacle of performance even if that level is not maintained? What importance, if any, should be placed on longevity? Is it necessary that the best player revolutionized his game(s) of choice or is that aspect of development/discovery insignificant next to the pure mastery and ability to perform in the game?
The best analogy I can think of is that to hail Kuroda as the greatest is similar to arguing that Mario Lemieux is the greatest hockey player in history. A moderately knowledgeable fan who watches Lemieux play cannot help but be awestruck by his abilities - he is truly “dazzling” and made many a hall of famer look like a scrub high schooler. However, a more “objective” (although not necessarily correct) approach only allows for one victor: Gretzky, the man who shattered every record just a few years before Lemieux had his chance, many of which will never be broken if the game continues to look anything like it does now, and who was the captain and best player of some of the greatest teams in NHL history, winning four championships. And in doing so, he became the face of his sport, the one hockey player even the most casual of sports fans knew something about. Umehara is this person in the FGC.
Tokido’s resume, especially the number of games in which he is world class, is incredible, but he would tell you himself he is not in Daigo’s class. Tokido is also a “Daigo fanboy,” and it’s not because he thinks he dresses cool… It’s because he’s been watching Daigo bitchslap all of the top Japanese at some point or another for like fifteen years, and he’s received that treatment himself countless times. I’ve never seem a top Japanese player asked about Daigo who didn’t respond, in so many words, “He is king.” I don’t think any non-Japanese person knows enough about the history of their scene to question what the Japanese themselves say, and I am totally open to correction here but it seems to me a pretty unanimous opinion that he is revered beyond all others.
P.S. If we are looking at achievements in a single game, I think what Justin Wong achieved in MvC2 was as impressive as what anyone has done in any game. He didn’t lose a single fucking tournament for ~five years. And the streak started when he was like 13.
MvC2 Jwong is the best