anyone notice those scrubs online, who use ken or ryu, you beat them once, and then they switch to the other shoto? this makes me laugh everytime, especially because they play both shotos exactly the same, and it makes me wonder what compels them to switch to the other shoto.
I just hate the lag abuse that goes on. I know i aint getting hit by all them lows or fucking up flashkicks and shit.
i can’t help but laugh when i’m halfway through a typhoon with a t. hawk and then the netcode decides to roll me back like a wal-mart sale and suddenly i’m the one getting thrown or dp’d
Seeing them played the exact same way makes me wonder if people are observant enough to realize the difference between the two characters.
Picking Ryu vs Sagat is fine if you aren`t expecting Ryu to counter Sagat and just like to play story matchups for fun sometimes. It is casual after all.
If I meet someone I find is really good with a character I will often pick someone who is weak against that character and play that matchup straight for practice. I always snicker when someone calls me a scrub after these matches.
So either up the smoothing setting or choose to play people with lower pings 
observation: jump more please =P
When you hear their character select cursor move around like a million times in a second, and then slowly a few more squares afterward, they’re going to pick a shoto. They just don’t want you to think they’re picking a shoto.
Yeah thats BS. They should just get rid of your opponents character select sound all together.
Yeah, what’s the point of double blind character selection if it isn’t double deaf as well? Instead it’s just double dumb.
your opponent cannot see who you pick and make a pick based on that
Yeah, but I don’t see the point in being able to hear what they’re selecting if you can’t see it. You can guess who they’re picking instead, which is almost the same with all the scrubs who play Ryu and don’t even bother to move their cursor, or the scrubs who select Akuma (cursor moves twice), or Ken (once), or the aforementioned insane superfast selection noise followed by a few slow ones (almost always a shoto). If they don’t do any of that, you are simply unaware of who they pick, so there’s no true point in being able to hear it in my opinion.
If your opponent is a scrub it doesn’t matter if you counterpick them or not.
If your opponent is not a scrub then you can’t guess who they pick no matter how many sounds you hear.
My point exactly.
I have the most trouble with mashers, believe it or not. Somehow they will always do the most random counters and dizzies. I played this one guy who had no idea what he was doing, but literally countered everything on accident because of the sheer madness of mashing.
I’ve been found out!
Whats the most fun is turning it into a drinking game.
If its a Ryu everyone drinks.
Lightspeed cursor movement followed by shoto pick, drink.
Slow picker, guess character. If right you pick the drinker.
You would be wasted after like 5 Friendly Quickmatches.
One way ticket to alcohol poisoning.
Dunno about the 360 version, but if you pick your character with start, there is no sound when you pick them… There is still the sound of the cursor moving, but there is no select sound.
I’ve been kind of a wuss and have only played friendly matches online (just started playing 2 days ago). The skill level of a ranked match is higher, right?