Hi, I was just playing an hour and a half straight of street fighter 4 online PC. i did 50 matches. Im maining zangief.
4/50 sagats
3/50 goukens
2/50 balrogs
41/50 ryus.
WHAT THE FUCK.
82% of the time im facing a fucking ryu. and EVERY SINGLE ONE is following this flow chart.
Hadouken>miss>jump back>hadouken>hit>hadouken>miss>jump back
People seriously fucking ruin the game by doing this. just saying.
bye
Are you playing player matches? people switch characters in those a lot of times.
No. ranked. Also, the problem was just sparatic i guess now its more 2/10 ryus. so weird thought that randomly like 41/50 are all ryu. Also, now that I have figured out how to counter most of his moves i get most of the ryus i face to ragequit anyways 
What’s your GFWL d00d?
Also ranked in general sucks. I try not to go near it much.
I know. It’s drambit. but i’m not that great really, just most of the people i face suck REAAAAAAAAALLY bad
There are a lot of ryus, although I just played a few matches and I think I had one or two ryus out of 5 people or so, there was also a chun li and a balrog. I should note that every ryu is different, and that each character has 40 or 50 moves which can be used in a variety of ways and tricks, so it’s more the player playing than the character. Also it’s normal to lose a lot in multiplayer, just get used to being a normal person. The #1 way to win at multiplayer is to practice a lot, I totally can tell I get better with more matches played, I’m around 1600 matches now with 400 wins and 1600 bps. My bp score usually is around the number of ranked matches I’ve played, although I didn’t do very much single player or player matches, although I do sometimes do the player matches for a series against one person instead of playing a bunch of different people in the ranked matches. There does appear to be some sort of matchmaking system, so if you’re getting beat up a bunch keep playing and it should eventually find better opponents for you, plus it’s good to practice in multiplayer to learn how to do fast moves and watch your opponent and modify your technique based on theirs.
One huge advantage to being dhalsim is that he is a very rare character, so most players haven’t played against my character very often. However they are often ryu, and I have seen most of ryu’s popular moves and combos many times already! Thus I know what to expect when he does his ultra, however I frequently have people try and jump-dodge my ultra right into it, because they haven’t seen it yet or only once or twice.
One technique I found helpful is that when I did find another good dhalsim player, I would observe what they did very carefully and remember it for later practice in multiplayer matches. I used to not teleport very much, until I saw how another dhalsim did the teleport and then did what he did, approximately. If you play a popular character, this is easier to do, however I personally tend to favorite/friend/duel people who are also dhalsim since they’re kind of rare.
I do think it’s really helpful to pick one character and stick with that one, since there’s a ton of subtle differences between each character, and you really have to spend a lot of time with one to be able to use more of the moves and tricks effectively for that one, along with fast timing and jumps/blocks/dashes and that sort of thing, at the high speed of multiplayer it’s helpful to have one that you’re most familiar with, usually the first one you played as.
Thanks for teh info. Yah, i like sticking with my 3 mains, ironically though, even though i found them and learned them on my own, when i looked it up they’re the most common, annoying characters there are. i dont really care, i play to play. I main ryu, sagat, balrog, gief. i play gief when im bored and spam the hell out of lariat because people are always shooting projectiles, so i guess he really isnt a main. Sagat i play a decent amount, but im not very good with. ryu and balrog i own with. I’m really liking getting back into street fighter 4 now. i was just playing a solid hour of ssf4 and imo that game sucks donkey balls. but when i go back to sf4 i have much more fun.
Balrog, like most of the characters, either beats me or I beat him usually based on the player’s bp score. I always feel like I’m beating him, except I need to land like 57 hits and he only needs to land 3 or 4, so I don’t actually win against balrog very much. The high score boxers seem to use a lot of defense, and they watch my attacks and when they think I’m distracted and going to throw a slow long punch, they do a spinny flashy charge through the attack and land a hit, then try and stay in close and guess if I’m going to jump or block high/low, then keep melee range while throwing damaging attacks that counter the correctly anticipated/watched movement. Balrog is slow, but has high damage and armor, and it seems like the best strategies with him involve lots of defense and waiting for an opening to land one of his attacks, along with confusing combos of high and low hits, defense, and unanticipated surges of movements and speed.
Aeris I wanna play you. I want some Sim Practice.
I play Rog and Gief.
Yup pretty much. Basically stopped playing altogether since school started, i only play with a friend now because there are too many scrubs online. That + lag just kills it. I went on yesterday and a bit today and nothing has changed. Same old flowchart kens/ryus/sagats and the occasional odd one out.
I fought a guy using chun he had like 3000 bp or something and all he did was jump+jab+hozanshou. Nothing more.
I need to point out some more major flaws. I was just playing for an hour, and 3 times out of 8, i didnt get any bp. WTF! Like ill start round with 1000 points (no prior quitting mid-game) and win, it will say +44, and what do i get? SHIT FUCKING ALL. Nevermind the fact that 6/8 times i was about to win the guy i was facing ragequit. and the massive lag spikes getting worse, randomly (about once very 2 seconds) it stops for like 0.3 seconds fucking everything up. and ofc more flowchart ryus. i lose like 200 bp every time i play now. Yesterday i had 1600 (roughly) bp. Today i won 5/8 rounds, going: Loss, normal win, normal win, ragequit, ragequit, ragequit, loss, loss win with no points, win with no points. also another thing that bugs me is every time i win i either get 0 points or like 30, whenever i lose i either lose 7 (because im unfairly matched with someone with 4k bp) or like 80 so i get super far set back. today im down to 900 bp. this is serious bullshit. And only one out of 8 rounds i was facing someone that wasnt following a flowchart, not spamming, didnt ragequit, had same bp, and he won. but i still got assloads of lag. which is fucked up because i usually get about 15 ping on steam.
If anyone wants to play me send a message or friend invite to my windows live account, same name as forums ‘aersixb9’. Also your bp score should fluctuate a bit normally, however on average you will beat people with a lower ‘real’ skill bp score than you, and will lose to people with a higher score, making your bp score tend to center around your current street fighter skill level. If you play a series against someone and drop your score by 50%, it should shoot back up as you beat players with 25% more bps than you and get a large boost for winning, as well as a smaller minus for losing to players with 500% more bps.
Fun time. Started today with 1150 bp. lost 6 rounds in a row, than after i broke that 2 more now im down to 0 points somehow. so they stole like 120+ points per round (they’re usually at like 600). I go on an epic win streak. 16 wins in a row and you know what im up to? cmon guess! oh its amazing! 300 points!!! What a matchmaking system too. Oh yah i mark it as “SAME SKILL” and what do i get? people with 3000 more bp than me completely wasting my time, because when i learn shit all, get perfected twice, and lose no more than 1 point its fucking aggrovating. apparantly theres a new fad today too. 50% flow chart following ryus, 50% flow chart following sagats. this is the sagat pattern i noticed. heavy projectile, heavy projectile, heavy projectile, jump backwards> heavy projectile, heavy projectile, take damage, tiger knee twice, heavy projectile, jump back, if havent used dp lately, dp, back to projectiles. this is versus any character in the game, from fei long, too zangief, to balrog to bison to sagat to ryu noone changes. This game just keeps getting worse and worse.
Yet one more god awful thing about it: It’s a steam game, meaning you buy it OFF STEAM. But instead of having wonderful well manages, easy to control, steam servers, you have to use games for fucking windows live. So i had to make a brand new account to play sf4. just so i can FUCKING SAVE MY GAME. That says it right there. Oh you want to switch comps? good luck asshole, even knowing you cant save unless you have access to your online account, it doesnt save TO your online account. Who’s retard idea was that. Plus the shitty games for windows live servers constantly crash for me, its attached to windows live hotmail, so if anything windows related gets hacked your pretty much fucked and have to make a BRAND NEW email, BRAND NEW account, AND you have to completely re-get all your data. sounds fun doesnt it?
gfwl is pretty awful i have to admit. I know a friend who lost his gfwl password for another game, and guess where they send it to?
THE FUCKING HOTMAIL ACCOUNT HES USING AS HIS GFWL.
SF4 is probably the most frustrating SF Ever. Play some player matches.
Most of the people on my friends list were met in player matches and they all are cool people (Who main different people… Two I know main Rufus… One mains Abel… Another mains El Fuerte.
It’s an amazing change of pace from the million and one shotos in Ranked.
I’ve fought probably twice as many Ryu’s as any other character and like 1/6 of my fights are against Ryu. It does get pretty lame when you’re fighting against the same character over and over. There’s a reason so many people use him, he’s easy to win with.
trust me i know. All 3 people on my friends list came from player matches a long time ago. But i have a terrible flaw. Ones i get frustrated at something and lose really badly, i wont quit until i’m happy and win really well, which almost never happens and just gets me more frustrated creating an endless spiral of no fun 
Out of 2000 fights (Which I’ve only won like 400 of) I’ve fought 315 Ryu’s, 164 Ken’s, 137 Akuma’s, and 47 Sagats.
Shit is real.