I have a tournament in Houston in 2 weeks and I’ve been playing nothing but AE. I was able to get over 4000 PP but now I’m at 3500 due to lag and errors on my part. 
Once I got to about 5300pp, I was like, I’m done with ranked. Though I did get up there with Bison and Ibuki. >_>
For a long time my goal was just to get to top 1k rank on Sak, but there was a session where I went something like 7-3 with the losses being to 0ish PP Blankas/Kens and when I looked at my own PP I was pretty much exactly where I had started. Since then I actually haven’t played ranked in any of the games I play, I realized all it was was me asking to end up mad, at best I beat someone who I rightfully felt I should have beaten and wasn’t really ‘happy’ about it, at worst I lost to someone who I knew full well I was better than and was infuriated. Been enjoying the games much more only playing player matches/endless lobbies with friends and offline play. Online rankings aren’t completely useless, but I feel they’re more a statement of one’s dedication to stick out a long grind(which is to be respected in itself) than actual skill.
Unrelated, but I played casuals on Saturday and was on fucking point, it felt so good. I barely dropped anything all night, I didn’t win every match but at least all of my losses were me legitimately being outplayed, not me throwing away potential wins with dropped combos.
Mother of God… I can’t wait to Shunpukyaku everybody in SFxT with Sakura. Random
Jiavin
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I can’t wait until Sakura gets released for DLC. She can replace either Xiaoyu or Juri on my main team or I could pair her with Alisa.
I used to be so great with her in SSF4, making one the top 50 Sakuras in the world, mostly because at the time, not many people used her at all. Now I hardly play that game anymore, but I went back on SSF4 one day after a year of not touching it and I fully remembered all of the combos and mix-ups I did with her. It was crazy how I retained all that knowledge.
Anyway, I would love to use her again in SFxT when the DLC is out.
…I’m still waiting for Karin…
Can’t wait until Sak is out for DLC for SFxT. I think she’ll be to due to the fact that she has a lot of combo potential as well as having great pokes that others don’t have, just like her CvS2 counterpart.
Sugami
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Sadly best chance of seeing Karin (and other old faces) is probably in TxSF, I find that thought hugely depressing…
Logia
4888
I don’t know, I don’t think Sakura being in SFxT is enough for me to try the game again, it has way too many problems at the moment. Maybe I should give it another shot…
I went to the arcade today, sadly it only has regular AE and I fought a Yun. Dear god, this matchup was terrible, even though I won most of my games. It made me realise that to really do well with Sakura, you have to optimise every opportunity you get. I’ve been dropping tatsu~cr.hp alot and I can’t make excuses for not learning hp.sho xx FADC st.hp etc. Hmm.
hehwat
4889
that combo is pretty important imo lol
Sugami
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Started reading Sakura Ganbaru again, I’m not much of a manga person but I can honestly keep reading this one :3 Makes me pine for Karin though, played a bit of Alpha 3 but I can’t do the combos in that game
Sugami
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Unless you get an AA counter or something, that ain’t comboing 
I just can’t get the timing on her rekkas
Wow, thanks Sugami. I never new Sakura had a Manga yo.
c. lk’s to s.lk to rekkas or dp + p. It’s not too hard.
Karin was better in CFJ though, cancellable c. mk accounted for a lot.
I still have my copy of the manga 
Still have both of mine too.
As for Karin. Karin has a great footsie game. s.lk and s.mk both have great range and priority. Both can be special cancelled. c.hp is a decent AA, j.hk has great range, j.lk can be used sorta like a dive kick due to it’s very downward angle, her rekka is great, and can be safe on block if you use the upward kicks if rekka is blocked, and to an extent, her sweep is safe on block depending on distance. Using V-ISM, she has a lot of tools to go into her infinities.
Karin was top A tier with Sakura in Alpha 3.
If any of you guys had GGPO, I’d play SFA3 with any one of you.
Sugami
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I recently ordered SF Legends: Sakura as well 
I can’t get the rekka to combo, seriously have no idea what the deal with it is. 2nd one will always be too slow to combo, doesn’t matter what I try My favourite thing is comboing the AA Super after the DP kicks or kick ender of rekka :3
V-ISM dood. Infinites are fun.
Good hit confirm combo is an c.lk>c.lk xx lp rekka, lp rekka, d+k rekka sweep for oki.
DP kick rekkas is good to AA, into V-ISM to infinite. Also good for air oki, either grab or do j.roundhouse if they tech in the air, if not, it’s a free j.roundhouse for damage.
Sugami
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You actually have to be good to use V-ism, hence I use A-ism
Sakura combos in V-ism are fairly easy. I would venture that it’s easier than A.
Sup Sakura players? I’m actually playing this game again.
