1441

Sabre says she still sucks, he posted this in the Cody thread:

Time to move on, if you want to win I guess. We still got respect for you Sabre. I’ll be playing Cody too, watching your shit.

1442

Ah, shit, if SaBrE’s saying that over there, then I guess I gotta swallow what I just put out earlier; every single bit of it. Ironically, this goes back to what I said some pages ago about how the hell is she supposed to hold up to these new juggernauts in Dudley, Cody, Hawk, Juri & Ibuki. Now that I think about it more, I wonder just what the hell was the point of Sakura coming back in IV if they were content on making her suck so much; it’s like the biggest insult to me really, like she was just intended to be included for nothing BUT fan-service, without any thought about how she was supposed to transition into the game.

Well, fuck it, I’m still gonna play her, and if push comes to shove, then I’ll go to my original plan about just playing Juri & just flipflop their status as main/sub in my book. Sheesh, no love for this girl whatsoever. See you guys on the 27th; I’m outta here.

1443

Yeah I’ll still play her, and Dan

But I’ll be spreading the love around. No shame in that.

1444

Well, I really feel down in the dumps now that Sabre’s quitting Sakura. Well, at least Sabre’s happy that he can play with Cody.

1445

Joe, come back to the Chun forum. :-*

1446

after watching the poongko vs sakura vid, it seems like sakura’s j.mk crosses up after: throw, step back. whereas a j.lk wouldn’t cross up after throw, step back.

good thing in my book :tup:

1447

You guys are killing me. Why do you even care if Sabre drops Sakura?

Sakura all day, every day for me.

1448

To be fair all of the console characters got the short end of the stick. Dan probably was the only one who came out better than expected and he still kinda sucks :rofl:

Sakura’s bad match-ups are still bad it seems :confused: question is how well will she fair against the new cast?

Where’s that video? searches Now we have a proper ambiguous cross-up it seems since step back after throw is how we’d land j.HP or j.HK, now they really can’t tell what our intentions are until it’s too late :slight_smile:

Still, better cross-up and new Ultra isn’t really what we needed :frowning: Better fireballs and footsie/pokes was the priority, yet seems like we didn’t get much, if anything, in that area.

1449

Contrary to the point of what I said earlier, I’m not really interested in the fact that Sabre’s dropping Sakura. Truth be told, I was about to type about how I just can’t stand the fact that the girl I love so much is basically just being put in the back-burner by not only the competitive players, but apparently also the development team themselves, but then I caught myself, because I remembered half-way through my rant about why I picked her up in the first place, and the reason I played SFIV so intensely when the game first came out; all that hate gave me something to prove with her, and I didn’t give a shit about tiers back then like I was doing now. The only thing I cared about was that I was playing my favorite character and I was going to be that one Sakura that people wouldn’t take as a joke when they fought me. One year later I practically proved just that, but that left me open to listening to all the BS talk about her and made my heart treacherous, which I guess makes sense because of the fact that I heavily believed in “let the best player win” and not “the best character”, which SFIV catered to the latter too much for my liking.

No matter how much I love something, it’s ALWAYS gonna suck when you lose to some stupid/basic shit just because your opponent got that one lucky shot on you, but it was even so much so rewarding when I beet a Gief/Sagat/Shoto with her in a sound manner. That basically Sakura in a nutshell for all of us and I guess I had to just keep reminding myself on how I did things one year ago.

Shogun, I gotta hand it to you (and for that degree, Sugami, and a few other friends I got) reading that post made me realize that again. Support your own, screw everyone else; Sakura for main all day, even if it winds up killing me.

1450

i am not gonna drop sakura too :wink:

definitly my main.

1451

Alright, I’ll be there poof

Also I don’t care if he plays her or not, but if you wanna fight an uphill battle more power to you.

Ill still play her

1452

[media=youtube]XUCHO8cocmE[/media] at 2:30

but it might be because rose did a wake up drill move (dont know the name).

1453

You knew this would happen as soon as Cody was announced.

I will still be alting Sakura here and there. It’s too bad that we didn’t get anything other than U2 and a slightly better j.:mk:.

1454

That feature in your sig man is starting to sound like a good idea…

1455

I refuse to believe that using Sakura is an uphill battle. You guys are out of your minds.

1456

u can go ahead and refuse but it is the truth, well depending on the match really against people with no real outs then your golden if they have a reversal of some sort then it gets much harder

1457

Soul Spiral did move Rose forward a bit, hmm…

1458

I hope the arcade release for SSF4 reveals some ninja japanese Sak players :bgrin:

1459

I’m quite interested to see what they do with Hakan :rofl:

1460

It is harder to play as Sakura since she doesn’t have as many reliable options like Ryu, you’ll just have to put forth the extra effort, a lot of effort, to even be mediocre against top players. All it takes is a mashed DP to Ultra and that’ll just ruin your day.

Basically what codallendschmidt said.

I basically feel that Sakura relies too much on one thing, and she really has a hard time to get in to do it. Most people know her game plan by now, and they can easily get out of it.