Throws are important! One of my goals every time I fight a Zangief is to throw him more than he throws me. That’s usually accomplished by those sneaky anti-wakeup throws and by throwing every Green Hand I block. When I get really confident against Zangief, I even start doing tick-throws off the grounded Knee. I did one in the third round of that game.
That’s the tricky part about tournament participation, the thing I have no experience in. The pressure is so much higher. I’m a very laid-back player, I don’t get upset or nervous when I play, but I have no idea if that would hold up in a situation like the ones you’re playing in. It probably wouldn’t. I’ve played Damdai on XBL a few times, but it’s quite a different story to be playing him or someone of his caliber in person.
Knee pressure is definitely the way to go against Ken, at least until he shows he’s willing to counter it with a wakeup MP Shoryuken. That makes your life a little bit harder.
Ah, posted while I was already replying.
The game wasn’t really laggy, just my execution wasn’t quite there for much of the game. It didn’t help that it was close to 3 AM, I guess. I usually know better than to overuse the Air Knee against Abel, there’s really no need to do it against him except as occasional corner shenanigans. As you see, it cost me by getting me Ultra’d at one point.
As for the dash, I have no idea if it really pushes the fallen opponent into the corner faster, but it certainly doesn’t do it any more slowly. Plus, it’s funny. So why not? Dan really benefits from cornering his opponent, especially one with poor wakeup options like Abel.
With my horrendous execution that’s me forgetting/messing up either the kory-fadc input or heavy punch going to do heavy danku but reeling the arcade stick to far back resulting in a jump. I’m a nervous wreck when i play in tournes.
Dunno if Alex was as nervous as D-Bus or just kinda shit
Can really see your nerves in that one D-Bus, too anxious to get those punishes in after focus crumples making you too quick on the HP and missing it out entirely. Also missed on some heavier punishment occasionally too, going for a throw or sweep where an HK Dankuu combo or even Ultra would have worked. What’s important is you won and with the legendary taunt no less, good job :tup:
Hey all, I’ve been using Dan a bit offline against the local SD people. Figured I’d record some matches.
[media=youtube]FQ1XEZDTURY[/media] - Dan vs Ken
[media=youtube]vdVVm4zyJ1Q[/media] Dan vs Ryu
[media=youtube]CXYPSW4BEK8[/media] - Dan vs Viper
I haven’t quite figured out all the possible mixups, and I think I play Dan a little too shoto-like right now.
[media=youtube]S42uZCi4UqU[/media] - Me vs Bison. This one I lost, but I had a lot of fun playing Bison. I’ll have to look around for some matchup info on this guy.
Looks pretty solid for the most part, good reactions on KRKing jumps and that Ultra in the Ryu match. One thing though, if you’re going to punish with a KRK don’t bother FADCing it, save the meter for when it’s needed. HP SRK punish should be HP xx HK Dankuu, not a KRK FADC, if you want to FADC then HP xx Gadouken FADC > s.MP xx HK Dankuu.
Most of your Knees seem to be Air Knees as well, need to get more regular grounded Knees in. On wake-up or combo into them off a cross-up are great opportunities. Dan’s mix-ups are pretty much all of his Knee (can check my Knee video :P), Knee pressure is the bulk of Dan’s rush down game.
Not seeing any EX Dankuu, don’t underestimate that move since the speed is able to catch people off guard and can combo form a c.MK for a better punish (and knock down) than a Gadouken when there’s no time for a s.MP xx Dankuu.
Yeah Sugami did a pretty good job of everything I wanted to say. Just wanted to emphasize that ultra through fireballs is really important against shotos because Dan’s pretty hosed otherwise.
Don’t jump in short. Do like mk or hk. Also don’t do jump in knee unless you’re specifically trying to beat their AA or you’re going to air-to-air them or something. It’s really easy to dodge jump in knee if you see it coming.
Learn to poke with s.mk, cr.mk, gadouken, and hk danku. Hk danku gets you in and then you can mix up backdash, throw, and koryu FADC.
For punishing lp shoryus you can either ultra, just hk danku, or cr.mk xx koryu/EX Danku
Well, fuck. Seems like my Easycap has crapped out on me, the sound is now completely fucked (not just the right channel), guess that’s what I get for buying cheap crap. I guess it’s sound replaced by groovy music or nothing at all now.
So I decided to record my efforts trying to get Dan to finals of smelly G2 since I’m not really using my Easycap (though it’s kinda fucked now as I mentioned). In truth I’m only going to show runs that get me to the semi or final but if the matches where I don’t get that far are interesting enough then I’ll post them too
PART 1 - [media=youtube]INvcyl-k540[/media]
PART 2 - [media=youtube]MPbf6wamZHU[/media]
There’s a few more tasty nuggets on the way
Sorry about the double post, wanted your attention for this Well there’s not really much too these matches, just me playing not very well against people who aren’t that good, the Akuma match is my favourite as you’ll see at the end of the 2nd round
Edit:
Nugget #1 vs Bison - [media=youtube]CpT9jL1_hDg[/media], I love the second round, jump over Ultra, dash, dash, dash, Ultra :tup: Chou yoyuu ssu! Nugget #2 vs Seth - [media=youtube]A-QBPbjiSfs[/media], couple of good taunts in this one including a very tasty choice taunt at the end of the second round The second he SRK’d my Knee on wake-up I worked him out and baited those SRKs like an expert fisherman for tasty punishment :tup: Final Nugget #3 vs Viper - [media=youtube]wfNFrgvglr8[/media], loss to a pretty good Viper, he seemed to be missing stuff probably from the lag. Viper’s Thunder Knuckle seemed to be stopping my Knees on wake-up
Sugami, keep fighting the good fight. I’m at 7500 points (the last 6500 all with Dan), Getting to G1 before SSF4 is my goal, I predict by that time we will all be so damn good with Dan that even the slightest buff will make him S tier in our hands :-p
Hehe I’ve peaked I’m afraid, held back by my horrible reaction speed and the inability to think on my feet quickly I suffer a lot from nerves, which is silly since there isn’t really anything at stake, and funnier still is they get put at ease a little if I’m able to talk to my opponent, which obviously only happens when playing against friends, which is why I like playing friends the most (how many embedded "which"s in that sentence? ).
I doubt I’ll make it to G1 before Super and that’s not even my goal, I just want to record Dan in the finals and hopefully get some interesting matches in the process
The good news is I heard back from the people I bought my Easycap from and they’re replacing it apparently
Here we go, another replay from Xiahou Mao -> [media=youtube]JJyFtjytnkw[/media]
This one is particularly special since I know his opponent, teehee! DeNice is a fellow Sakura-ite over in the Sakura section so I’ll be taking this over to there too :tup:
I noticed a possible cross-up Knee in the corner (can’t remember which round) but I’ll ask DeNice about that since he’s the one who might have been blocking
Yeah, hope you enjoy the awesome music in absence of the sound, it’s no Indestructible but it’s almost as good
Ugh having a horrible day today, had to fight through fucking 4 Ryus to get to the finals (one dc’d but don’t think was intentional) and lost to a spammy Blanka due to silly mistakes and bad matchup That footage is all trash so I tossed it and tried again, this time only coming across a Ryu once I hit the final who bored me into submission with his blandness and abusing lag tactics with cross-ups :rolleyes: Anyways think got some entertaining matches in the process so here’s part 1, rest is on the way…
PART 1 G2 RUN -> [media=youtube]s3EVlsj-BFQ[/media]
I love the Vega match, think I captured the spirit of Dan with taunting him to use his Ultra, punished, then taunted again
PART 2 G2 RUN -> [media=youtube]9IUS-Q22VV0[/media]
Had a bit of trouble catching Bison at the end, he wasn’t very good but his randomness was throwing me off as usual. Looking back think I was just a bit unlucky against that Ryu. Random moves always work against me and never for me
KEN OUTTAKE -> [media=youtube]9RiVlndzu8E[/media]
This one is in just for the taunt I did after he threw a random Ultra in my face
BTW guys how does the video quality compare to my old(er) videos? Using wmv over mpg because it seems like it’s the only compression that’ll allow me to use widescreen on this copy of Vegas >.< I think the video files are a bit smaller too but it takes an hour to render D:
Well there’s not really much too these matches, just me playing not very well against people who aren’t that good, the Akuma match is my favourite as you’ll see at the end of the 2nd round