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How do you do Sagats f hk tiger shot Kara? it Never comes out when i try it i always get TIGER KNEE!

People claim to be able to do :r::hk::hcf::hk:. I’ve tried and decided I have better aspects of my game to practice and work on because I have never once gotten that to work.

Usually the way I can get it is only if there’s another tiger shot on the screen (the game limits to only 1 on the screen at once), so I just do qcf hk, and then release a little bit slower than usual so if the tiger shot goes off the screen i get it, if not, I get a f.hk. It’s possible to use as an option select.

edit: I’ve also never seen someone like Mago or other sagat top players do it without having other shots onscreen.

I can’t ever do this naked, the timing is simply way way way too strict for it to come out for me especially with the lax execution timing in this game, I pretty much always get HK Knee.

The only way I can get it to come out is by abusing the 1 projectile per screen rule.

Basically throw a slow tiger shot, then right before it hits the target, do :qcf: :hk:, :hk:. Sagat will not be able to throw a TS since the slow one is still on the screen and F-:hk: will come out right before the first TS hits, but tap :hk: again and if you’re still inside F-:hk: cancel frames, he’ll kara forward and throw another TS. Not very many uses for it so far imo.

i start playing sagat since 3 days and i play him very offensive
i mean i dont play the zone game with him i always want to get in the oppenents face
is that a bad habit that i got ??

i know sagat has a very good zone game but i dont feel like to stand in the corner
and do the tiger ak47 projectile stuff !

now i want to know if i should stay with my playstyle
or mix it up with his zoning ability ??

quick question…

How do you play Sagat when you are in a mirror match?

like i decribe it above i try to get in
and dont play the fireball game

ok for my defense i spam some too but in the end i always want to get in and dont spend my time in the fireball fight

Well against another Sagat player you have to play the fireball game.

Whoever jumps in first is going to die. Unless you catch someone throwing a fireball in a punishing position.

i know youre right
they were a few matches that i lost because of this
but if you dont look on the fact of an mirror match

would you play sagat in a offensive style ??

A little mix of both. I like to zone until I get a knockdown. His close up game is not as bad as people think. After knockdown, I try to pressure with TK, his bnb, cross ups, tick throws, etc. After a while, I sometimes back off and start zoning with fireballs. I believe you have to give your opponent different looks and keep them guessing, so its harder for them to figure you out. Zoning is part of it.

mixup of both sounds good…
i will give it a try !

How do you cancel sagat’s f+lk into a tiger shot? I can can do it into knee and uppercut, but not tiger shot.

I don’t think you can do it with flk, you gotta use fHK

You have to immediately stop pressing forward after you do the f+LK and then do the Tiger Shot as late as possible but still before the actual kick comes out.

So, it’s:
:r:+:lk: then go back to neutral and wait a little bit then :qcf::k:

What’s the best way to fight a Poongko style Ryu? The type that avoids fireball wars and likes to jump in alot and alot of mixups.

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I have the stick for about a week.
Its doing better and better.
But im still a noob when it comes to FADC.

My Q is about TU > FADC so i can do the Ultra.

When i do the TU > FADC i always dash behind my opponent.

Anyone got a idea what in doing wrong.

Am I doing it 2 fast or 2 slow.

any uses for EX-TU?
only one i can think of is to dodge blank’s ultra

anything else? it does only 30 more dmg over a H TU, so I’m guessing its not worth using the bar for it normally

if u have ultra and only one bar then use it as an antiair. much easier to hit the ultra when they jumpin.

uppercut them when they jump. all you wanna do is get them to jump and then you can anti-air them.

question for me in regards to that is:

What the hell do I do against crossovers? or when guys jump into you when they’re close. I end up missing my uppercut and get punished

block the opposite way… you shouldn’t let them get so close to you but it does happen… there is a way to get the uppercut to go the opposite way, but i still haven’t figured it out yet.