Sagat is an amazing fighter, the best natural fighter in Street Fighter

FrostyAU · June 12, 2012, 10:24pm

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[LEFT]by Rolando Brison on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 4:50am[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Ok, call me a nerd, but i just realised Sagat is in theory the best natural fighter in Street Fighter. And it say this cause for some reason today i really thought about how hard it is to fight with an eye patch.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Check this pic below the note. As you can see, Sagat is right handed, and his tiger uppercut also goes up with his right hand as he rotate to the left. Now in martial arts (i did a lil judo and tae kwon do), one of the things you learn is that you try to avoid blind spots as much as possible with your moves. If you do a roundhouse, you must rotate at the last moment in order to keep your eyes on your opponent. Or if you do a back-kick, you should also stretch your body so that at every moment you can see your opponent. [/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Sagat is constantly fighting people at a huge disadvantage: His blind spot is actually much bigger than everyone else’s. To get an idea of his difficulty, stand up straight, turn your head towards your 3 o’clock. Raise your right fist straight into the air, now close your right eye: see how much more vision is lost? Now in this same position, turn your head straight, to 12 o’clock, with your right eye still close, your right fist still in the air. You can’t see your right arm anymore. Now open your right eye, and suddenly can see your right hand in your peripheral vision.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]For 25 years since street fighter started, this is the huge disadvantage Sagat has faced in fights. Kicks and punches are much harder for him to track. When he does a roundhouse with his right leg, he must adjust significantly more than other in order to try and keep his left eye on his opponent. That fact that he even does tiger-uppercut is simply amazing: He uses his right hand and rotates to the left: rotating to his blind spot! Its really a suicide move, and i think thats why they made the move so strong in Vanilla SFIV, it theoretically should be super easy to punish. I think Sagat trained hard on the force of his attacks to compensate for his lack of vision, which is why he is pretty much the most physically built character in the series. Ironically though, he seems a bit wiser with his tiger knee, as he uses his left knee, making it easier to keep his left eye on the opponent. Had he used his right knee for tiger knees, he would again create a blind spot when he rotates our of the tiger knee.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]That said, its realy amazing that Sagat was the best fighter in Thailand, probably the world. To have such a huge disadvantage, fighting with one eye, the man is truly great. This random thought i had today gave me a whole new respect for Sagat as a character.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Too Long Didn’t Read: We should all be impressed by how succesful a fighter Sagat is, having to fight with only one eye.[/LEFT]
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Biggzy · June 12, 2012, 10:31pm

I’d be more impressed if people with 2 eyes could put this in the correct forum

Crazy_mofo213 · June 12, 2012, 10:34pm

How exactly did Sagat lose his eye in the first place?

FrostyAU · June 12, 2012, 10:36pm

Like where? The Sagat forum for SFIV or SxT? Fighting Game GD? It’s not in reference to any specific title, or an actual game, rather a fictional character. SFIV GD? He’s in more games than SFIV…

The tone of this write up is much more suited to good old, regular GD.

Pablo_the_Mex · June 12, 2012, 10:36pm

What fucking shit is this?

Biggzy · June 12, 2012, 10:38pm

My bad, I’ll remove the “fucking”, didn’t mean to be too much of a dick.

GD is for anything non-fighting game related. Fighting game discussion sounds like the best place, if that’s still on here.

FrostyAU · June 12, 2012, 10:39pm

That’s for discussion of actual games, we’re talking about a character who is in multiple games, and a rather shitty film, oh and some anime which was kinda alright.

LordJim · June 12, 2012, 10:39pm

THE MUAI THAI KING!
Throwing 200 goddamn tiger shots so that you die

Azure · June 12, 2012, 10:40pm

Fucking shit.

i.e. gay sex without the Preptime Buttman.

Adelheid · June 12, 2012, 10:40pm

He lost it to Dan’s dad before killing him.

Huggy_Bear · June 12, 2012, 10:43pm

Gen is the best natural fighter. Just think about it.

He’s old as fuck but not even Akuma could hold him down. No magic fireballs or any shit like that, but Defiance of gravity and his fingers. Bitch please.

ThatJollyOlBastid · June 12, 2012, 10:44pm

Thailike

AceKillah · June 12, 2012, 10:46pm

He might have the been the best natural fighter then he got uppercutted in his chest. Now he can power that shit up and get a damage boost or whatever the fuck angry scar does.

phantasy · June 12, 2012, 10:48pm

i guess you could say

he has the eye of the tiger

Noble_Cactus · June 12, 2012, 10:51pm

Go Hibiki, Dan’s father (who was actually a master of the Saikyo Style unlike his son), gouged it out in one match. This caused Sagat to go into a rage and actually kill Go, which is why Dan sought revenge in his father by fighting Sagat, who threw the fight because he knew how dangerous rage found be and how vengeance could cloud Dan’s vision.

Elliott_Spook · June 12, 2012, 10:58pm

Doesnt Sagat use his right knee for Tiger Knee? He totally does.

But yeah, Muai Thai has been proven to be the hardest-hitting martial art… combine that with Sagat having longer reach than anyone else, AND being in better physical shape… he would seriously fuck shit up. He fucking picks up grown men by the head and lifts them 7 feet in the air before crushing their sternum with his knee.

drizzt360 · June 12, 2012, 11:42pm

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He just wears and eye patch to be cool. He can see through that shit.

FrostyAU · June 13, 2012, 12:03am

Pretty sure it differs depending on what side of the screen he’s on.

Elliott_Spook · June 13, 2012, 12:14am

But… the article you based this thread on is founding its points on his eyepatch being on the right eye. And then the article proceeds to go in detail about how his Tiger Uppercut is done using his right hand… which, as you would know, would only be the case if he were standing on the left side of the screen. AAAAAAnd I just realized that the entire point about him using the same hand to Tiger Uppercut as the side where his eye is missing, is false. His eyepatch is on the opposite side as the side he uppercuts from. But either way, he attacks with his Tiger Knee from the same side as his Tiger Uppercut. So either way, the article is false in those points.

Man, I never wanted to be the guy to shoot down points from a good article but look what you made me do.

marshun · June 13, 2012, 12:16am

Post Sagat vs Go match art