I’d like to see a Kuroda vs Deshiken and RX someday. Those are my dream matches.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Deshiken lose a Ken mirror. Ive seen him take down KO, Matsuken all in dominating fashion.
I think I need to stop watching Kuroda’s matches, because they just make me sad. Are their reactions really so good as to make back mk useless? That seems ridiculous to me, but what do I know. I just don’t think I could ever have reactions like that. Makes me wonder how little I understand about this game.
It’s a pretty slow move. 18 start up. On arcade, the timing is a lot slower so its even easier to see it.
That’s only 3 more frames than UOH though, and both players seem really reluctant to parry so it doesn’t seem like a huge risk. I just don’t get it, but I have virtually no arcade experience so maybe it really does make a difference.
Pressure + ex hadou / hadou mind game
Mentioned multiple times, back mk isn’t dart shot. you really have to have the other person pressured for it to hit. I’ve only watched some of the matsuken matches but he uses it at unexpected times. also, like any overhead is the game, it’s stronger vs taller characters who literally have less frames to react to it.
Ken back mk is almost useless offline at a high level. You don’t even have to smell it to react to guard or red parry it.
my overhead reaction is bad but i think every player can reasonably aspire to be able to block every overhead except maybe dart shot on reaction in a low pressure situation.
Americans will never be on the same level as top japanese 3rd strike players.
I just don’t get what I’m supposed to be learning. It seems like at top level only fundamentals matter. So why am I wasting my time learning offense stuff? There’s so much to learn, and most of it is worthless. I guess learning to defend is all that matters, and my defense is garbage. I can’t red parry literally anything, aside from maybe the start of the second volley of Chun’s SA2, but I have so few opportunities to practice that outside of training mode because the CPU never uses it. And maybe Q’s SA1, but same situation.
On the bright side, I know how to juggle post stun with Necro’s back mp now because of that last FT10. Not that I’m any good with Necro, but getting less bad maybe.
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Hey @Deemo or @hismit
Can you put the ft5 ken ken on YouTube. Thanks!
Kuroda/Matsuken mirror was so boring…Waaaays from dat entertaining FT5 between Yuuki and Boss. I never saw Boss owned that way, great shit Yuuki.
damn that was amazing yuuki!
I think it’s like the first time ever Boss lost a set to a gaijin, can’t imagine the salt 
And also the two sets afterwards were godlike as well. Impressive stuff! How would you think you’d have fared if you picked Ken vs his Makoto and Yun too?
I want to see Yuuki vs Marko now
I will fix this for you. Americans will never be at the same level as the top Japanese players in any SF game.
Boss actually exclaimed halfway through the set “wtf this guy’s good…”
On page 4 of the article it gives the next battle name but they somehow disabled right clicking so can’t see who it is against: http://wpb.shueisha.co.jp/2014/12/12/40617/4/
Wow, so good Yuuki.
It’s Pierrot.
If you’re on pc, you can select the text and drag/drop it somewhere else.
Now someone translate the commentary.
At the right range they both seem to be countering cr.mp or possibly crouch tech with back mk into super. Kuroda starts using it like that then Matsuken gets a few. Close to the edge of where the mk will connect to super is the distance. Cool!