Ridiculous problems with equal finger pressure

Basically, the point of this thread is to ask you guys how do you handle situations in which certain actions in game, must be performed by pressing two or more buttons simultaneously? Are you right/left handed? Do you use a stick/gamepad/keyboard? Which fingers do you use to perform action X? Do/did you have any problems with it in your learning process, or did it come naturally?

I’m asking for all this for two reasons:
1.) Nobody ever really talked about this (at least that’s what uncle Google told me)
2.) For the life of me, I can’t perform a damn throw EVEN IN THE LAB.

But first things first, I’m still a scrub, but an open-minded one. I want to learn, I understand the importance of spacing, I’m able to utilise footsies, read my opponents, so on and so forth… Yet, countless times I’ve read my opponent going for a throw, and I’ve eaten it, because I CAN’T TECH.

Have you ever been suprised by a low PP dude, who forced you into playing footsies and even did some crispy links here and there, but you’ve never seen him go for a throw, EX attack, FA or Ultra, even once?

To speed things up: I’m right-handed, play USF4 via Steam, AE was my first fighter I took seriously, played on Keyboard and XBOX controller. Atm I’m using the latter because I find QCFs and all that stuff easier with stick. I binded throw and FA to the additional buttons, but I don’t want to learn it that way. I use the default bind scheme.

Now, the vital part, so you guys can grasp what I’m talking about here:
To perform a throw you need to press A+X - most naturally you’d use your thumb, as it lies right over them. But I know that many people can’t do that, including me, and found different tricks or binding schemes to do so. What’s my trick? I need to change my grip to keyboard, and rotate my hand 90 degrees counterclockwise so that index and middle finger rest on A & X.

OH MY G… Hey,wait. It’s not that terrible really, many new players ha-

… Then I have to look at my hand

:0

… Ignoring completely what happens on screen, and transfer my whole willpower, my identity, my hopes and dreams, and carbs from dinner, into the middle finger, to boost its might to be on par with index’s fabled power level; then thrust both into the depths of destiny.

:000

… So that I have a 70% chance a LK does not come out.

Yeah, I really went out of my way to describe such a trivial problem, but I wanted you to have an uderstanding of the scale. Of course this transfers to every duo (or trio) of fingers, every combination of buttons, every controller.

If anything, Street Fighter taught me I will never need to buy a piano.

I don’t think many people have a problem using their thumb to hit those two buttons. You can try using your index on X and your thumb on A.

Or just join the rest of the humans on an arcade stick and hit LP and LK easily with the same method (index on LP, thumb on LK). On a stick it’ll also be easier to quickly tap the two buttons, giving you both the press and release as a chance to get the input.

A lot of people waste quite a bit of time complaining about basic inputs while fighting these goofy controllers.

I use a stick, so that probably colors my experience considerably. Although I never had problems throwing with a PS2 controller in 3rd Strike using my thumb to just jam both buttons together…

Use your thumbs. Thumbs for throws, thumbs for focus attacks and thumbs for holding light kick fireballs with Juri. Just feel it out and put in some time trying it out in training mode, like ten minutes or so. Don’t overthink it during a match though. Once you instinctively know where the buttons are you’ll find yourself naturally using what’s most comfortable. Usually that’s a thumb for the lower row and an index or middle finger for the top row, but don’t second guess yourself if you find yourself alternating between a few different finger configurations.
Also: teching online is super unreliable. You’re simply going to find yourself screaming at the monitor all day long about how you totally teched that throw. Netcode is just garbage and there’s only so much you can do to overcome that.

Guess I’m back to the lab, thanks guys.

I’ve never played on a keyboard, but it doesn’t seem like a comfortable instrument to play a fighting game and I’d assume it’s the worst “controller” to use.

Like cidbahamut above, I used to use an Xbox controller and used my thumb to throw and FA. Never had a problem.

Now, I’ve graduated to an arcade stick and I use my pointer and thumb to throw. I’m sure 99.9999% to 100% of stick players use this method.

Keyboard has a bit of a learning curve, but I’ve used it for emulators back in the day and it was perfectly fine once you got used to it, same as how you have to get used to a stick. Stick is definitely my preferred input device of the three however.

Scrubs, by definition, aren’t open-minded.

These days it seems anyone who isn’t good is defaulted to being a scrub by their FGC peers =(

<- scrub team captain

You can use the outside of your thumb to push both in at the same time. Or you can just use a throw button macro, there’s no shame in it for a pad player.