Kuroda Interview by Shueisha's Weekly Playboy Magazine

Since people are hung up about the yun chun and yun mak discrepancy here is his summary of these match ups.

Yun chun

Yuns normals don’t reach chun because of her small hitbox. Yuns normals can’t beat a lot of chuns normals so yun can’t build gauge as easily, and even when going to throw her she will walk back making throw whiff. Yun has a hard time high jumping away from the corner because of chuns headstomp. When not in genei jin chun is yun has the hardest time fighting chun (compared to yun fighting other characters outside genei). Even if yun has genei Jin, he cannot activate it easily because of chuns sa2. Even when he activates genei jin, chun can pose a threat with her kara throw and fast cr lp, and at mid range pose a huge threat with her cr mk, leading to yun having to deal with risk even in genei jin.

Yun mak

It’s slightly in yuns favor because genei Jin resets into zenpo is extremely effective with its meter return and damage. However makoto can trade or punish yun building meter with cr mp so he cannot build meter easily. Furthermore, yun has low stamina and one hit into seichu yields huge damage, in theory this match up should be a good fight.

AFAIK new version just removed unblockables and mak ken glitch but ended up introducing a new way to break the game lol.

Makoto went from 7th (Unblockables) to 4th (No Unblockables)

btw does he actually mean version B or is he just saying that if Urien/Oro chose not to use unblockables this is what the matchup chart would look like? for instance Kuroda himself chooses not to use Unblockables because he considers them “boring”

He sure uses unblockables when playing Urien

Yeah i think he meant Oro’s unblockable loop

I knew I was ahead of the times when I would say Sean isn’t the worst character, and people would just link me to tier lists.

Also SA1 Sean > SA2 Sean.

More hit confirms, more supers, more EX uppercuts, more chances to get big damage over all, and actual utility for the fake basketball setup.

Yang is much better at stunning than Necro, and seems to get better damage, or maybe that’s just a placebo effect of his moves not having 8 years of startup. Dudley doesn’t need to always stun. Obviously they know better than me, but like…I never see Necro in videos, and when I do he loses horribly? Whatever,

You know what? Nevermind.

with the way kuroda plays i think he probably doesn’t feel yang is too amazing because he’s so technically skilled and understands the parry/attack game so well. i think if you’re not so great technical ability wise, yang is a lot scarier than if you are.

so you have to take that into account. i think also necro’s return on stun is bigger than almost any character. he has big meterless combos.

its a negligible ‘tier’ distinction anyway, that’s why they’re all in ‘A’.

Konitan and Sugiyama, enough said.

necro is strong. I’ve always wanted to learn how to play him really well cause of how stylish he is, but it’s too much work and I never liked slow characters.

my turn to shine with a good OT post !

tamu and konitan (or yakkun) are better / smarter necros
tamu’s ground game / poking game in particular is second to none
konitan’s not bad at all but sugiyama…man,i think he has always been over-rated,imo
i feel rather strongly about this issue,haha
ikeyama is another good necro !

i mean…at some point in 2005,we all thought ksk was the sickest alex in japan…then we discovered the truth
no,i am not implaying that sugiyama is like ksk = the laughing stock of the japanese 3s community
poor ksk

Also, I can’t see how Elena is on the same tier as Urien

Most fun Necro to watch is PinoAB7

I guess I just can’t wrap my head around how you’re supposed to play him. I’d need a coach or something. I watched this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWP7d7TJGw

and mostly I just saw really on-point defense, and a Yun who seemed scared a lot of the time.

Always argued SA1 Sean is the best super but after seeing Kuroda implement his power move philosophy with SA2, I’m convinced that’s his best super.

Unfortunately 99% of us can’t play like he does. So hard to find openings with SA2, so SA1 is most useful for the general public.

ikeyama yaaaaaaa. good pick fran.

necro is weird. a lot of what he does seems innocuous and then he backthrows or post parry combos you into the corner and you’re in trouble.
it’s slow pressure.

and yeah he can’t be hyper aggressive. he’s not built for it. he doesn’t need it either.
he just walks around interrupting any offense you’re trying to build and then you end up cornered and he fucks you.

+1 place up for Necro for having some of the coolest animations.

Edit: -18/X places though, where X is Effie’s age.

I think Sean’s super choice is more matchup dependant.

The reason Kuroda chooses SA2 for Sean is for a number of reasons based on his philosophy.

a) Power moves: SA2 can do up to 40% damage. (i.e Hoyokusen)

b) 50/50 cross up post super (i.e Ken SA3 follow-up)

c) Basketball setups (something SA1 cannot do)

The super + post-setups is a good potential 50% damage. Not too shabby for 1 opening =D