Matador Video Thread

I look forward to those videos. I’ve been watching some of your older tourney matches on youtube and it’s all very impressive/entertaining. Good shit Jozhear. :rock:

thanks nijna

also once again i agere with sasaki. my thougts lately have been that not very many people play vega correctly. any vega who doesn’t use st. lk needs to reassess their game, period. any vega who doesn’t kara throw also needs to do that. those two things are ridiculously important… if yuo can’t use those ground mixups you’re never giong to get any damage done against people who know how to block.

another thing is nobody knows how to play AGAINST vega. seeing people try to SRK on wakeup and stuff is pretty lame. news flash: i’m vega, i’m never giong to try screwing with you on your wakeup unless i’ve already made baiting those moves a threat. why would i be stupid enoguh to make those first moves? punishing that shit makes it too easy. Vega is an amazing punisher. the idea is that Vega is always going to stay out of the other characters range. that c. jab walk up throw stuff just doesn’t work. if you guys watch my new vids, my strategy basically consists of harnessing my reflexes enough that when i play footsies, i only use one move. Sweep. wait for them to poke, and i am always ready to punish them with the sweep. it’s pretty much the only thing it’s good for. once i do that i can start mixing up and gettign safe ground games going. the basic principle behind fighting vega is incredibly simple; Don’t do stuff. Vega needs to maek the first move, not the other way around. i guarantee if you’re fighting my vega, i’m going to punish anything you do thats stupid. but if you watch my charge, don’t let me jump in, and know how to deal with kara throws (LATE TECH I HATE THROWING PEOPLES ARMS BECAUSE THEY TRY TO TECH THE KARA EARLY) then there really is nothing Vega can do. that’s where Vega is supposed to struggle. seeing people trying to reversal me and jump in all the time is like ;___; just relax dude. Vega can not really get in on people that well. that is why I lost to dhalsim and honda. those matchups are tough because neither of those characters really invest much in defending themselves, so it is much more difficult to punish these charactesr then guys who have 50 frame whiffed reversals. the reason i lost to those characters, and specifically those characters instead of the seth, bison, and viper i beat, was simply because they were playing the matchup. I underestimated those two characters i lost to, because, why wouldn’t I? Everybody plays the Vega matchup incorrectly, outside of “rush him down”. thankfully I am a messiah at blocking overheads and teching throws now so it’s cool, but against these characters i simply couldn’t get in. Like Tatsu said this is why it’s always a good idea to share. “Hey man that jump otu fierce is punishable by like, your entire moveset.” “Oh, I’ll never let you do that again.” etc

So yeah. those are basically my thoughts on losing and what Sasaki is talking about. I got so worked up, preparing for that tourney and everything, that in the end, i wasn’t really upset with how i played, I merely got outplayed in both of those matches. it was simply exhaustion and onec again inexperienec. i still haev so much to learn this being my first SF. The mental aspect of tourney play is pretty intimidating so it’s up to the player to be confident but just to take every thing one match at a time. That is why I recommend if yu have a tourney comign up don’t play any more than yuo are already playing. anything yuo normalyl do is better preparation than trying to set high expectations that unless you’er performing at your best you won’t fulfill. Anyway… after yesterady’s tourney i’m taking a big break from SF4 and i was generally depressed after an amazing weekend (maybe i lost cause i constantly had alcohol in my system XP) so it was time for some SF-thinking, and this is what I have to say about it. =)

EDIT: were* playing the matchup

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It’s always nice to read some Vega/Tourney impressions from you, Joz. People here should be more open to share thoughts like these. I think it definitely helps the community.

Honestly, he just ate way too many wake up tiger uppercuts, plain and simple. If he had just blocked those and punished he would have won. No loop, no gimmicks, he probably could have outright outplayed that Sagat.

Wow. I can’t believe that there is someone else who uses the izuna loop in this matchup like i did.

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That was a good Vega mirror match.

thanks man, what about you? any tourneys? you’re from Germany, correct? you gonna come to evo?

nice

My first Vega vid/tourney

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I was at a battlefield tourney where i believe i did pretty well, please to all my Vega peeps feel free to comment on me skillz. I would appreciate a few or more pointers just dont be flat out mean

hey every1 i uploaded 4more videos of my vega plying in CP MODE G1-FINALs…feel free to comment den if u like & let me kno what u think about it…

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Nice videos Sintros and Jay. Maybe i should post mines too…

thanxs Triller aka ( ENEmy STATE ) ! & u should put up sum vidsz of u plying ALSO !

ok im Lookin 4 sum More Vega Mirror MATCHEsz…jus hadd another good set with KaMiSaMa100…any1 wanna throw down with the ASSASSIN ???

I’ll shake your bouncing booty!!!

oo Really ?!?..LeTsz see den !!!

Maybe i will… i bought a capture card back since black friday and i’ve yet to use it lol
we’ll get some games in maybe the weekend or some other time, i just started this new job and i’ve been too tired to play lately.

Assassin jay went in on me pretty bad and beat me 10-2. I all of a sudden want my mommy :*(

lol dont feel bad sintros, that nigga’s good. Me and him go back n forth all the time…

lmao0o…GGs Sintros , jus remember try not to use that high SKy claw attack & dont do the long flip AT All itsz useless =]…

& noo problem Thriller whenever u on & wanna ply den we gonna goo AT Each other BOSTON vs NY ONce aagain !!!

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feel free to give out pointers

Yaoowwwwww Niice REPLAY !!!