Uh-oh. UH-OH. Looks like poor wittle Sakura’s gonna be hangin with the big boys now if these buff work out the way I hope they will. Ex Tatsu mindgame madness, a crossup j.mk AND a super easy comboable Ultra? Looks like my main just got a LOT better.
EX Tatsu to upward Shinkuu.
Believe it.
Finally I have a reason to sometimes use Sakura over Dan!
I’m doing a ho-down!
you fuckin people make me sick. so what if she gets used by everyone? how is that a bad thing? i see the same bullshit in the vega forums. bottom line is that people have been playing these characters for the last 10+ years.
So her hadouken goes full screen now?
Looks like it
Tell us how you really feel
she still wont win any fb wars but its good that is fullscreen now
wonder if dp’s got changed any
what about her j.mk cross up was so godly to begin with? or at least in the other games?
I don’t know that it was. I never understood in SF4 why they decided that it was ok to give Ryu a meaty MK cross up but leave sakura with a piddly lk cross up. Especially when he has better anti airs, better fireballs, loads more ultra set ups. I just don’t get it =/
lol, I love Sakura players, we’re getting all giddy over getting a medium kick cross up lol :wgrin:
Lookin good, this shows a couple of nice changes for sak that will really help but I still think she needs a few more tweaks before we can get really excited.
Lets hope she gets sumthin like a lp srk for wake up, maybe sum imprvments to otoshi to give her that needed close range move (that isnt asking for trouble) and hit box tweaks.
I’m starting to feel hopeful tho and that ultra II shud definately have more options for use. Good shit on sharin’ the vid 
Good to see the return of the j.mk cross up. Have we confirmed that Shinku can be shot in the air and straight forward? Hopefully Shinku can be used after EX Tatsumaki but I don’t see why it couldn’t.
it was like, my opinion, man
I predict that the distribution of players to characters is going to stay the same. Most people aren’t going to drop their mains permanently, and most people certainly aren’t going to switch based on tiers.
Exhibit A: Rufus. Top tier, really good, some say too good. A million ways to combo into ultra, tons of health, crazy rushdown. I know one person that plays Rufus out of 20-30. I never ever see Rufus online.
Exhibit B: Ken. Shitty shit fuck. Tons of Ken players out there.
Unless someone wins Evo with her, we’re not going to get a huge influx of Sakura players just because her fireball goes slightly farther and her MK crosses up. And even if we do, so what. Too many people skate by on their character being wacky and hoping people don’t know the matchup.
She’s looking much more solid. I hope she’s way more popular this time around. The less Ryu/Ken/Sagat players, the better. :bgrin:
Not gonna lie, I do this more than I should.
But back on the subject at hand, if for some ungodly reason people start flocking to Socks, that means we, as Sakura players, have a greater sampling of matches to draw strats and inspitation from. I’ll gladly trade “obscure character” for that any day.
Having her mk cross up and fireball full screen only makes me want to play MORE sakura. It’s some of the things we’ve been crying to have addressed and it looks like CAPCOM finally listened for ONCE on this.
Couldn’t it just be that the MK crossup is character specific, as in it only hit T.Hawk because of his hitbox in much the same way her j.HK can crossup certain characters now?