I just watched the Kindevu vs Riki videos from the Japan Tourney QFinals and he successfully cleanly stuffs the Head Stomp atleast 2 or 3 times. As you discussed it looks like hes throwing it out quite early.
1 example is at 0:33
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Good catch, that’s what I get for skimming the videos. Nice to have some solid confirmation though : )
Yeah; thanks for the video. I still haven’t gotten the timing on beating the headstomp yet but the video should help.
I am going to start using/practicing Rufus tonight.
I’ve been maining Honda since the original SF2, and I am getting kind of bored with him, but not because I am super good or anything.
I really like these big fatso characters!
Rufus seems like a lot of fun to play; he seems very aggressive, and so I will have to change my game up quite a bit from the way I play Honda.
Wish me luck!
I am back after a 2 week hiatus.
What did I miss besides a mod actually coming in here and closing some threads?
Alrighty. I need some good Rufus players to help me find stuff out. I did this with Justingroton and it helped find some crazy stuff out.
Pretty much it goes like this. I will play random characters, and we randomly test stuff out until something works.
I.E. Blanka Balls are a pain. We test out different moves and stuff until we find out that Tornado beats it out.
PM me or post here or send a friend request on XBL if your down.
srsly. against just blankaball, if you do a controlled mash of c.lp(like a burst of 3 or 4), whenever you think he’s going to blankaball, you beat him out generally.
doing a tornado is committing too much imo.
for me, blanka’s a match that has you in close, or full screen. if you’re two some characters away, you’re better off crouching and seeing what he does. if he does blankaball, block it and try to punish. the c.lp bursts will deter them from doing it randomly.
from full screen, jump back hp(beats it clean at the right angle), lp snakestrikes(beats it clean headon, but can be punished on recovery), and c.lp(beats all versions clean majority[85%] of the time) are my general things that i do. if i manage to jump over a horizontal blankaball, divekick->s.hpXXtornado. if you know the blanka isn’t partial to random electricity, you can go for another divekick, b/c they’ve probably commited themselves to c.mp or c.fierce.
edit2: icic… well thats my rundown on neutralizing blankaball anyway…lol, also upon seeing a blankaball come at you, immediately doing option select throw after a second is a good habit to pickup
Thanks, but that kinda isnt what I was asking. Just if some Rufus players wanted to do some major testing.
Does everyone here have SF4 Installed on your xbox Hard drive, I swear there’s a slight difference?
Ive got mine installed my self, now when I went to play my friend at his house I had a difficult time trying to link easy combos I was getting so annoyed.
I do not have SF4 installed.
the difference is your xbox won’t sound like a 747
Well I found out now and yes it does make the game run faster. The right frames come out when you need them to.
Example;
(Uninstalled)
Rufus - Close Low Kick is “Frame Adv. Hit = +6”, now when you go to apply that on a offline match they recover much sooner then they are suppose to.
(Installed)
The frame rate runs how it’s suppose to be so doing LK to HP aint a problem.
The point is it aint like I cannot pull off the combos properly it just WORKS BETTER installed to the hard drive, try it your self.
Add me on XBL. Hit my wall and need some great Rufus comp to snap me out of my slump.
All installing does is reduce load times and drive noise. All the game’s data is loaded before the fight so it should have no bearing on actual game performance.
Yeah I know that already, after having several people install the game I asked them what did they notice about playing the game after it being uninstalled all this time.
“The timing wasn’t so strict on 1 link combo, even though it’s still hard”.
Just from hearing that from several people who I asked to install game came back with the same answer, so its either just me or there is a slight difference.
Rufus is god tier now…
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=185076
Lets you jump in safely against non-armor breaking moves/multiple hit moves.
Ryu spamming that lp dp? AFJ (Air Focus Jump) in.
Sagat spamming those tiger shots? AFJ in.
Oh god, can’t wait to get home to try this.
it’s a bit hard : (
But oh so good!
The new roll canceling?
I’d rather have this tech be hard to do then piss easy. Seems very interesting tho I’ll check it out 2moro morning.
ok so…you perform the focus just a moment before you land??? is that it?