He looks extremely exhausted in just about every bit of footage I have seen from him since CapCup. He has been doing double time on the Japanese talk circuit. I think he might be working too hard or something honestly.
I hope he gets his shite together soon
How does Knuckledu do it man? I been watching videos of him steamrolling people, especially at Frosty Faustings but I canât seem to transfer that to my play. Whenever he does wakeup jabs, or gets in, it seems to work. For me, I get blown up.
Good fundamentals, corner carry with combos landed with those fundamentals that push them into the corner. Blend them with lady mika and command grabs once they hit the corner
Dash up command grabs and v trigger also helps
Also one thing with Du is that he have earned players respect so they play more passively or too respectfully. This happens all the time against top players. There is also history there so he have a built in intimidation factor doing.
Would you play your regular game if you know you are playing against Tokidoâs Akuma and not any random Joe ? Chances are you wonât for a bit.
Mika is still the exact same great character once you get someone to the corner. Still has meterless corner vortex, jump in altering normal and solid damage. If she was as horrible as this forum said, Du/Fuudo wouldâve dropped her already.
I donât think the majority of this forum who actually play Mika would disagree with you.
Gone for a bit and people still crying about mika on here lol. Anyway fooling around wanted to share this with the mika squad
Yeah weâve already been talking about that. EX tackle isnât a true block string at close ranges. Small just frame gap to throw in a frame one invincible reversal or can even activate v trigger and trade.
Du is the best in the world right now, so of course he can do stuff we canât. Heâs a very skilled player.
I would not so easily dismiss it as âthe best in the world.â Though it is true that a lot of top tier players get away with shit that doesnât work in lower tier metas.
Knuckledu is all about the drop kick. Everything he does is centered around âwhen can I get in my drop kick?â This is what seperates him from every other R.Mika. Yes Du is skilled, but he plays the character in a way no one else does. He has style that lets him do more than Mika could do if you just tried to straight up play her. He mastered the one thing about her he liked and made the rest work for him. When training a character figuring out what makes you happy and âbecoming the masterâ of it is what lets you exceed your own expectations.
Fuudo is the opposite. Fuudoâs âstyleâ is basically âplay the most calm and cleanly possible so my ham goes under the radar.â This is like as boring as a Mika you can get. There isnât a style really (and I say that as someone with a very similar style to Fuudo.) This is how the character was âdesigned to playâ and when they made S2 changes to her it was clear they were looking at Fuudo when doing so (;Capcom has a habit of fixing characters to help/not hurt top players so they can maintain hype.) But in the end Fuudoâs style is just âplain Mika.â He has mastered most aspects of her and continues to be the best at executing her tools.
Try not feeling too hard on yourselves if you canât integrate Du stuff it is really specific to his style. Try not to worry if you canât integrate Fuudo stuff it is really boring and subtle and most people donât like Mika for her boring or subtle aspects. The best thing about fighting games is everyone can play the exact same character differently. The most important part of fighting games and getting good at them IS eventually âfiguring out what your style is and what makes you happy even if it isnât exactly optimal.â As Infiltration says âhave fun with your game.â
@HanDred_Fist Itâs crazy cause I never really thought about it that way. I started to be competitive with street fighter with sf4 and I always thought that it would be best to emulate a top playerâs style due to seeing it work not only on streams but also in person cause it apparently works. Maybe I need to see it a bit differently.
You can always just try the Louffy way and keep jumping until it works xD
But yeah I think everyone have their own style despite them not being aware of it sometimes.
Well it is a very difficult thing to learn. In kendo they teach that you must first learn the basics. All the katas. In fighting games this is meaties, combos, footsies and match up knowledge. Then you must question everything you have learned, looking deeper into what you and your opponent does (mind games, shenanigans.) Then you start tearing down everything you know. Everything that does not feel right to you. Your âkatasâ from the novice level, and your answers from the beginner level allow you to be consistent and challenge successes and failures when they happen. The people who succeed at the intermediate level are the ones that start thinking about their opponents style not just the âkenâ, the âryuâ, etc. It is when you start developing match up knowledge for styles not just characters and where you start developing your âcomfort buttonsâ (which is the key to how your style develops in fighting games. Then finally you start truly developing your style in full. Questioning everything about it in relation to your opponents. You succeed here by âout pacingâ your opponents meta.
Obviously fighting games is a little less strict and you can easily train all of those things as you go along, but being aware of ones style is a lot of hard work to figure out and requires you to not be focused just on winning but what you truly find fun and expressive. Also I am pretty sure Louffy wins crudely because he does not want to invest heavily in Mika. We will see if we get Helena now or later in the year. She probably has a big enough chest for him -_-;
I hope to god we donât get nerfed again.
The only reason now to nerf Mika is the fact that she won the Pro Tour last year and they donât want to see it happening again. No more bypass moves, no more wallbounce midscreen, few complaints overall about her; thereâs no real reason to nerf her anymore.
She doesnât really have anything to nerf anymore at this point. Itâll pretty much either be revisions back to stuff she had before or new buffs.
I donât think they will touch R.Mika. If they do it will be a flat damage buff. The only way you could nerf her at this point is to make her a complete irrelevant grappler. Maybe there is some d-bag at Capcom that would go against their own game balance but they have worked pretty damn hard to prevent any DeeJays from happening this game. We talk about tiers a lot but in the end everyone is still pretty viable (except s2 F.A.N.G. they need to reverse a few nerfs from him though nerfing him given their system changes was necessary.) Sooo, yeah, lets skip the âI donât wanna get nerfed ;~;â. She is balanced as is. It would break their own design model to nerf her more at this point in a major or even moderate way. If it happens well it will be ass. If it doesnât we will probably be bubbling happily for weeks that we got the weird frames for 2mp back or something.
I think if they change her itâll be buffs. Sheâs already one of the least played characters online