Red Pantie Addict Anonymous: Sakura General Discussion!

shytzoo · October 26, 2009, 6:03am

DJRedrumofEPG:

I actually played Chun before Sakura. I use her every now and again, but for right now it’s panty time.

So, I have a question for you guys. What do you feel is the most important thing for a Sakura player to learn when they are just starting? For me, it’s Pokes. That’s the foundation of your game and being able to play footsies can go leagues beyond doing Sakura’s nifty combos. As an example, the first thing I wanted to do consistently with Sakura was hit her low forward> HP Sho-oh-Ken. I would practice buffering the motion and then whenver I’d see the low forward connect, I’d hit the fierce button. From then, I built upon that (using EX meter to FADC into the harder combos) and then began to do her link combos.

Now all of this is excluding the resets and other things off of a landed EX Shippu Kyaku. Those are important, but I feel that learning Sakura’s footsie game is the first step to becoming a better Sak player.

Thoughts?

footsie game is the first thing you should learn for ANY character…

except gief, all you need to know is piledriver and ultra and you win

Lelouch_OTR · October 26, 2009, 6:49am

DJRedrumofEPG:

I actually played Chun before Sakura. I use her every now and again, but for right now it’s panty time.

So, I have a question for you guys. What do you feel is the most important thing for a Sakura player to learn when they are just starting? For me, it’s Pokes. That’s the foundation of your game and being able to play footsies can go leagues beyond doing Sakura’s nifty combos. As an example, the first thing I wanted to do consistently with Sakura was hit her low forward> HP Sho-oh-Ken. I would practice buffering the motion and then whenver I’d see the low forward connect, I’d hit the fierce button. From then, I built upon that (using EX meter to FADC into the harder combos) and then began to do her link combos.

Now all of this is excluding the resets and other things off of a landed EX Shippu Kyaku. Those are important, but I feel that learning Sakura’s footsie game is the first step to becoming a better Sak player.

Thoughts?

Yeah, I’m a Chun first Sakura too.

Being a Chun player, pokes/normals are the first thing I know try to learn well with any character. Then you can learn spacing and zoning.

Right now I just all out rushdown with Sakura. She has changed me from defensive minded player to an offensive minded player. Its intelligent rush down though lol.

Saikyo_Joe · October 26, 2009, 7:28am

Takari:

I just bought the Sakura Ganbaru manga lol, saw them lying around when I was killing some time before I went to the barber. I’m not even that much of a Sakura fan, but it’s great stuff. Buy it!

Sak: 'Mom! He (her li’l brother) stayed all up playing video games last night!'
Her mom: ‘Then you’d better continue son! You knpw I don’t like quitters!’

Dan: 'Sigh, okay… aim here’
Sak: 'Ehh, I kinda changed the name of the move… ^__________^;;;;;;;'
Dan: 'LIKE I CARE! Just do it.‘
Sak: Shouoken!!’

Dan: 'Amateur! I’ll show you my special technique! YAHOOOOOO! Easy victory! (rakusho rakusho!)
Crowd: 'Wow! The Legendary Taunt!‘
Sak: I certainly don’t want to learn THAT kind of technique…’

Also got the SFIII: RYU manga while I was at it, maybe I’ll finally start loving the 3s chars, already saw Dudley while skimming. I just love Udon.

I got them too. Too great to pass up for Dan/Sak fans.

I just hope she doesn’t master my Gadoken too…

Probably the beta version of her, methinks.

DeNice · October 26, 2009, 9:09am

I know that guy. Disregard that video, he doesn’t play Sakura. In fact, he takes great pleasure raping my Sak with Zangief. He’s really a Gief player… A DAMN GOOD Gief player, so I suppose he was just goofing off on that one.

Sugami · October 26, 2009, 5:13pm

DJRedrumofEPG:

I actually played Chun before Sakura. I use her every now and again, but for right now it’s panty time.

So, I have a question for you guys. What do you feel is the most important thing for a Sakura player to learn when they are just starting? For me, it’s Pokes. That’s the foundation of your game and being able to play footsies can go leagues beyond doing Sakura’s nifty combos. As an example, the first thing I wanted to do consistently with Sakura was hit her low forward> HP Sho-oh-Ken. I would practice buffering the motion and then whenver I’d see the low forward connect, I’d hit the fierce button. From then, I built upon that (using EX meter to FADC into the harder combos) and then began to do her link combos.

Now all of this is excluding the resets and other things off of a landed EX Shippu Kyaku. Those are important, but I feel that learning Sakura’s footsie game is the first step to becoming a better Sak player.

Thoughts?

Took the words right out of my mouth. Shame most newbies only learn how to spam special moves and do j.HK > c.HK combos…

Sakura, like all characters really, need to learn your basic combos first (before the complex stuff). But unlike quite a few characters I think learning her link combos is pretty damn important.

BTW what’s a “Shippu”? Sounds like something from Naruto Shunpuu Kyaku is the name of her move, translates to “Spring Breeze Kick” (more or less)

Hehe

Takari:

I just bought the Sakura Ganbaru manga lol, saw them lying around when I was killing some time before I went to the barber. I’m not even that much of a Sakura fan, but it’s great stuff. Buy it!

Sak: 'Mom! He (her li’l brother) stayed all up playing video games last night!'
Her mom: ‘Then you’d better continue son! You knpw I don’t like quitters!’

Dan: 'Sigh, okay… aim here’
Sak: 'Ehh, I kinda changed the name of the move… ^__________^;;;;;;;'
Dan: 'LIKE I CARE! Just do it.‘
Sak: Shouoken!!’

Dan: 'Amateur! I’ll show you my special technique! YAHOOOOOO! Easy victory! (rakusho rakusho!)
Crowd: 'Wow! The Legendary Taunt!‘
Sak: I certainly don’t want to learn THAT kind of technique…’

Also got the SFIII: RYU manga while I was at it, maybe I’ll finally start loving the 3s chars, already saw Dudley while skimming. I just love Udon.

I also have them :tup:

Heh not only does Sakura “master” the Gadouken, she surpasses it too :tup:

Hidamarii · October 27, 2009, 2:46am

I thought so! :wonder::wonder::lovin:

I was just thinking, that person can’t really have gotten that far playing like that, but you never know.

Paolochun · October 27, 2009, 6:04am

Psh, gotta figure in the :3p: lariat and EX green hand in there somehow. :arazz:

I, too, am mostly a Chun player. Normals and footsies are definitely top order. Mobility options (the hows and whys with regards to your character getting around on the screen) are important as well. You also want to emphasize to newer players (and MvC2 transplants) that jumping is a last resort.

Sugami · October 27, 2009, 10:03pm

I pointed this out in the Dan forums ~> http://www.hadoken.net/

Some of you may have already read it, the part that I find interesting is the bit about every character getting something new. Assuming he’s not talking about the extra Ultra it makes me wonder what Sakura will get. Hopefully it won’t just be a new Ultra and Shinkuu Hadouken if that rumour turns out to be true.

Lelouch_OTR · October 27, 2009, 10:08pm

If she gets a tool to help her get past an opponents zoning better, man… That would improve her a lot. Thats all I want.

codallenschmidt · October 27, 2009, 11:05pm

yeah she had the triangle kick thing in cvs2 that would be awesome thats just a whole new game added to her mix up

shytzoo · October 29, 2009, 10:18am

best psn mail ive gotten in a while:

after beating a sagat who spent half his time taunting me and throwing tigers, i get this marvelous gem in my PSN inboxl: “I hate that overpowered bitch”

damn sakura, you are so much more OP than sagat.

Sugami · October 29, 2009, 3:19pm

Oh delicious irony, how we missed thee :lol:

Rose_Magician · October 30, 2009, 3:24pm

I love Sakura!!!

Kros · October 30, 2009, 8:38pm

Of course dawg, her hadouken zoning game makes ryu look like a bitch!

Kich · October 30, 2009, 10:40pm

Just started picking up Sakura today (technically last night). Didn’t really know most of her combos, but I have a lot of Akuma experience, so after browsing through her moves and fiddling with the EX.shunpu a bit I felt confident to get my ass beat by my friend (mains ryu exclusively, definitely above average). Get my ass beat for about 4 rounds while I take mental notes (what normals are good for what etc.).

And then the “Oh wow, she’s really fast has ridic mixup and her combo’s don’t hit like a pansy O.o…” kicked in and shit went down hill for Ryu ^_^. Was mostly playing with a rush-down akuma frame of mind (fireball > ex.otoshi to gain ground back, resets off of ex.shunpu, abusing her mad long range focus attack).

Greatly enjoying the speed and concept of Sakura, might have to drop Guile for her =P

Crazykat · October 31, 2009, 12:16am

She counters Ryu :badboy: SHE DOES GODDAMNIT!!!

Generalvivi · October 31, 2009, 2:05pm

HAHAHA! I love me some good Sakura talk! ^^ looks like we converted another player! woot.

In sad news my arcade stick basically is unplayable anymore. I’m tryign to use the normal controller until I can buy a new stick. Sadness is me… but! my friends at work started playing sf4 again…so that’s good… more 1 vs 1 face to face time for me!

GO GO SAKURA!

Sugami · October 31, 2009, 4:12pm

Which stick were you using? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the Madcatz SE stick.

codallenschmidt · November 2, 2009, 12:01pm

so has anyone else here tried the ryu challenge. well should i say have done the ryu challenge, its really not that hard of a challenge lol

Mr.Flowers · November 2, 2009, 4:06pm

I completed Ryu’s trials in 15mins (just to spite ryu users) but only because I got stuck on hard 2 and on hard 5 I was doing the ultra too early. Its amazing how much harder sakura’s are!