This will sound a bit whiny and ranty and tbh, it is, but I will make clear, this isn’t about Super to AE.
When I first played SF2, I didn’t have a main as such, there was no-one I particularly gravitated too beyond picking Ryu over Ken. None of the characters really stood out as play preferences. Then Super came along with it’s new challengers. Of these, Cammy stood out. Not for her obvious assets but because she had answers.
I’m not a fan of the Shoto’s and i’ve always prefered different characters who didn’t have that now tired moveset, fireball, hurricane, dragon punch. Cammy had answers to all those moves and move.
I learnt about Footsies from playing Cammy, getting up in peoples faces, poking them with kicks and hitting them with preassure, she didn’t have cannon spikes or HC back then but she still worked okay. I should also point out that I’m not a tournament winner or even a great player, back then I was okay but then we didn’t have major tournaments or even tech. What tier she may have been back then or if others were “better” at what she was doing. Don’t know, too late to care.
They fireballed, you SK or just jumped and preasured, you baited and you waited and then you kicked face. To me, she’s been that way ever since, maybe not great but just a girl with answers. Every game she’s been in, that’s been the general idea to me. She has techniques to get around and then harrass people in their face.
With SF4, this is only half true and I feel she’s changed into a half rush-down and half-mix-up character, what’s worse is that she’s not really great at either. I’m not saying she’s a horrid character but her options are freakishly poor. Due to their speed, SK and HC are near dead moves. Not entirely useless but they essentially dead for what they’re meant to do with a few slight cases and occassions where they’ll work.
Her remaining option is to hope she can bait people out with her poor moves and good normals and otherwise just hope things go okay. If she gets a knockdown then she has some minimal options, nowhere near as solid as other people with proper mix-ups and cross overs but she at least has those, without them she’d be left with nothing.
In short, due to an array of poor options she’s basically stuck doing one thing she’s not that great at and for me is just not the character I think she should be.
Is anyone else unhappy with how Cammy has turned out? Not because of things like TKCS but because her playstyle has just devolved from what it should be.
