Just my luck, my new bulldog chewed on my 360 controller’s analog and my cousin borrowed my stick. Now I can’t play anything on the 360.
I am so bored…
How do you deal against Abels? Am i the only one getting costantly beaten up by people using him? It’s weird 'cause against other characters i usually don’t suck that much
my biggest problem is with rufus… i cant stop that damn dive kick
i’ve had some luck mashing c.lp during all those damn dive kicks. Also another scrubby tactic of mine is to just block high and mash throw 
I don’t really see anyone falling into the charged Hadouken xx Haru Ichiban trap 
They see you charging the Hadouken they’ll either block or reversal you in the face, if they block it it’s all too easy to block the following Haru Ichiban. Final round chip damage is great, actually I’m not sure about it being able to beat reversal DPs due the invincibility window but I’m positive they can’t jump out the way of it.
Shou > FADC > HP I just can’t get the link to land at all 
Even with the “right” way of FADCing I can’t get the timing down. That’s also two possible resets you’re giving up for it, although if you could pull it off you might only need one reset to score the dizzy.
I hate Abel so much >.< I’ve given him a childish nickname, see if you can guess it There’s only really two tricks I know concerning him; the first is you can throw him during his rolls, the second is to try to back dash after blocked cross-up, if he follows up with an attack you should block it, if he tries for Tornado Throw you should dash out of it. If you get the feeling he’ll try and Tornado Throw back dash the fuck out of there
Edit: I did some testing with the Charged Hadouken xx Haru Ichiban on wakeup (forward throw) against Ryu. It’ll hit him if he does a LP SRK but other versions he’ll sail right past. What’s interesting though is a reversal Super or Ultra on his side will get beaten by the Haru Ichiban, probably because it comes out in between the Hadouken and Haru Ichiban, so if you fancy a bit of fun on someone who you’ll suspect will do a wakeup Ultra it might actually work
I like to practice Sakura’s mix-ups by recording the training dummy doing mashed cr.LP in an endless loop, then you j.HK, cr.HP xx EX shunpu and you’re off…
…it’s disturbing how much stuff cr.LP will beat.
EDIT:
I’ll bet it starts with ‘G’ 
Bingo
I got a tourney tomorrow, hopefully I can put her to good use.
good luck man, show them what you’re made of :tup:
will you be able to record?
the 5v5 will be recorded I’m pretty sure. I donno about the whole tourney. we shall seeeeeeeee. Going in without much practice either, was trying to help a few people train and haven’t actually sessioned with sakura seriously in a while.
standing HP or cr. HP will take care of 99% of the dive kicks.
for some reason i can only c.HP cammy, gouken, and akuma outta their dive kicks… unless rufus jumps all the way up, his dive kick keeps stuffing my c.HP and s.HP
I suck with sakura and need to quit using her
Tournament didn’t go so well?
I also had a mini local tournament on Friday night - I only beat one dude before getting knocked out :sad:
No like I just shot myself in the foot I won with chun against a honda then lost next because I didn’t punnish a headbtt, so I switch to sakura and then lost to the honda. I basically knocked myself out because I was stubborn and tried to play her. I’m ready to just give up with her imo
There’s a lot to be said for being a tier whore if winning is the main aim. The top brackets where I live are always Sagat/Ryu/Boxer. The price they pay for winning is that all their matches are boring and repetitive.
I largely depends on when in their jump the execute the dive kick.
If they do it right away you have to cr. HP right away(for example on the way UP). If they delay it a good standing HP will stuff it(just after the peak of their jump arc).
The timing is much quicker then stuffing any of the other dive kicks. Your fist has to hit Fatties leading toe.
Play as Dan! I’m kinda better with him, anyways. How that’s humanly possible, I don’t have the slightest clue. But don’t ever give up.
Not to be offensive to you, I’m sure you’re good, its just that there’s always someone who’s better than you. The only thing you can do is keep doing until you do better.
This is the part that makes me mad. I literally cost myself 3 rounds using chun because I just don’t play her enough anymore to punish like I used to. I really felt like I beat myself, and then on top of that I went and picked sakura to add insult to injury after the fact. Pretty shitty imo.
I’m a great Chun and I alt with Sakura. I play both characters just to have fun…
I hate losing, but imo fighting games are for fun mostly. I had to learn that or I wouldn’t have much more hair to pull out. I’m a changed man.
But anyway would your rather play top tier to win, or Sakura to have fun?