-use close stand medium punch when she tries to do the upward scramble (where she sends a shadow upward over your head etc.)
Dp any running daggers on block (unless she does lp version or ex)
fake tiger shots a lot. crouch and stand before committing to a shot, so you could get a bead on how they react.
stand hk is a good move to stop her air shenanigans (use this if you are afraid of punishing fake scrambles with dp)
pressure her on wakeup to bait out her stinger dp and punish accordingly. (that move has a lot of recovery)
I fight her a lot like i fight cammy. But i do find her scrambles to be the most annoying factor. Also you have to learn her mixups so you can block correctly.
Delay wake up will screw with some of her set ups. Personally I’m a fan of st.hk as the AA as you don’t have to commit to the DP. Focus attack as quite handy if she does the slide version, full crumple. Also high tiger shots will catch those fake dive kicks in the air.
Really, just zone her and try not to get knocked down. Bait her a lot too, on wake up, dekappas love to churn the Dp which on block is fully punishable, any version with combo xx Dp or just raw Dp.
Remember also Decapre falls slow from the Ex uppercut so it’s pretty much garauntee Ultra1 juggle.
Bonchan on fire , that’s three tourneys this year and he dominated momochis Ken… Scary.
nice addition on the ultra 1 juggle HFB. Nearly forgot about that one.
And about Bonchan… He NEVER beat momochi’s ken before and now he beats him twice in a row! That is crazy! dude is playing out of his mind. That last match in the hyakkishu cup vs nemo… absolute madness…i recommend you watch it if you havent already.
Has anybody started coming up to ya’ll and telling you “sagat is top tier” ? lol.
Daigo is still his demon though…3-1’ed him in the topanga league yesterday.
Daigo plays optimally against Bonchan. Doesn’t give him any room to put anything out. Xio hai let him throw tons of fireballs then got predictable with his own fireballs. I’ve never saw Bonchan throw so many against a shoto character, it was like he just wasn’t scared of xio hai at all.
Daigo just walks in and plays right on Sagats toes, basically the text book way of shutting him down.
I’m actually kinda salty that USF4 is about to be on the back burner. I want to play SFV but it’s soooooo much I need to explore with Sagat after watching these matches.
not to sound like negative nancy over here, but im not hype for V at all. All the characters revealed so far are just… garbage. There’s no character that has that (it) factor that im looking for. If it goes like this im probably gonna play ryu in SFV … if i play at all. Till then im sticking with this.
I don’t like any of the new characters.
I never liked Vega, Cammy, Chun, Birdie or R. Mika.
I don’t really like Charlie’s new direction.
And I’ve never played a grappler outside of SF IV and even then I play grapplers fleetingly.
So that leaves, Ryu, Ken, Bison and Karin. I’m gonna pick Ryu just to learn the game and maybe switch to Karin. I wish she had her counters though. I’m more hype that focus attacks, crouch techs, FADCs and invincible back dashes are gone from SFV then the game itself.
Well SF4 will still have a community. It will be like 3rd strike where all the scrubs quit and most of the top level players quit, but there will be a strong core of mid level players who all love the game and can develop into amazing players during the games twilight years.
I hear ya marz. guess thats what its going to have to come down to. I havent played SFV at all so i cant speak on it. However i would have to say that my main gripe right now is the roster… The characters are so… uninteresting.
It’s also a good thing when you can play the current game rather than the previous versions. Tournaments etc are all surrounding the current game, so you can easily get more immersed by watching tournaments and following the scene.
Yea i havent found a character either. Ill probably play Birdie until Sagat comes out and not take the game too seriously, just enough to keep up with the meta.
Then when the king comes out ill go hard in the paint.
Damn! Snakeeyes eliminates bonchan from canada cup. What happened there? Still… im happy for snake. He has never beaten bonchan so good on him.
A concern though since bonchan lost to hagejin in topanga A league and then loses to snake at canada cup. Xiao Hai plays the gief match up better than bonchan IMO.
Honestly when I play Giefs I always tell them to just take the fireballs, I mean if you just bulldoze your way in you can fuck Gat up big time with one KD.
nice find maf…never wished i could understand japanese like i do now, lol. dude talks so much in the beginning and i have a strong feeling that he’s dropping knowledge on what mindset to have when throwing fireballs but i cant understand anything.