Lets add a quote to this wonderful thread and expose some of the akuma defence patrol.
Metallica 2 years ago :: Oct 01, 2011 - 5:17PM #11
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Capcom please don’t ruin a perfectly balanced character, you’re taking away and nerfing Akuma’s most essential tools that direclty effects his core gameplay.
We have accepted the nerfs you’ve done to Akuma from Vanilla SF4 to SSFIV then to SSFIV:AE, but this time around you’re breaking our character with those nerfs (specially forward throw and far HK nerfs).
Please keep in mind when doing such nerfs that Akuma has 850/850 health & stun for a reason, he’s supposed to be a glass canon, but you’re turning him into a weak character with such low stamina ratings without giving us Anything useful in return!!!
Why would one choose Akuma over Ryu in AE2012 when they are both average at everything they do but Akuma with 850 health and Ryu with 1000? Akuma Should be a superior shoto compared to Ryu but his low stamina ratings balances him out.
AE:V2012 could very well be the last version of the game in the SF4 series, please do not ruin a character we’ve worked so hard on for almost 3 years now!!!
Let me draw attention to “Why would one choose akuma over ryu in AE2012 when they are both average at everything they do”.
Is that meant to be a joke??
It just shows that there was misinformation and blatant ignorance on both sides of the akuma balance thread over on capcom unity and it was apparently only one-way-ignorance. Incredible.
see…I like you volcanic . You never got emotionally attached throughout the whole discussion. I have already read through that entire thread because I followed it daily on my phone . How could I miss that? The butthurt on both sides was outstanding . There were guys with salty tears streaming down their face coming in swinging nerfbats from every direction . You had the akuma mains vehemently defending every last nerf suggestion and fending them back with the shield of dogmatic resent.
honestly i think there was tons of butthurt. and a lotta times it didnt need to get personal, although i rightly called some of the ppl in there trolls cuz there suggestions were RIDICULOUS or there was that one guy spamming nerfs for akuma w/o actual reasoning.
http://ncr11.challonge.com/ssfivae2012_pool9
Yes, he is there, he has Bo Rai Cho in his pool and a Yang player(Illiterate), will be tricky, but Kimo can actually get out of the pool.
I did say that and the Akuma player salt rage started with v2012 because the nerfs started to get too much, we all know how Capcom can get overboard with them.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding yourself if you main a character for years and be “Alright” or even worse “Glad” every time he gets hit with the nerf bat, of course you’ll be against them, specially when they’re big changes and they aren’t the first bunch of nerfs in the character’s history.
Now that the sodium levels are down, I can understand the far roundhouse and DF palm overhead nerfs specially because other strong characters got nerfed a good amount (twins, Fei, Viper…etc) which allowed Akuma to stay top tier. The forward throw nerf however I’m still salty about, such a stupid fucking change and IMO it was only done as a lazy fix for his corner unblockables.
This time however, I’m expecting the worst so pretty much nothing would surprise me from Capcom, I truly believe buffing low tiers with minor tweaks to Akuma will balance up his matchups well which aren’t too badly in his favor right now, but I’m not going over a quote war again to explain why that’s a better way than nerfing him to their level. Akuma players and haters made sure to express themselves more than enough by now, just gotta see what Capcom will do about it.
Kimo is a Hakan player from NorCal and appears in tournaments like Hadocon, NCR or tournaments made by PelicanTV or Kineda. He will also go to Evo this year. He defeated one of the AGE Giefs(Vangief), PR Rog or Fchamp already.
Edit: He was in the Top 32 of the last NCR and was 9th at the last years Hadocon, where he defeated Vangief.
Ricky Ortiz praised him for his improvements, FChamp also had some praise for him, especially after he defeated a Sagat player, who also mains Dhalsim, because the Dhalsim wanted some kind of a FT5 mirror with FChamp, but it did not happen and Fchamp always mocked the Sagat player and Mike Ross for being a fraud.
He also appeared at Evo 2012, but lost early against the Fuerte of Kai, still it was really close.
Kimo took 2nd place in Tight or Fight a couple of weeks back, losing in the final to LPN`s Cammy and defeating F.Champ ( Dhalsim) and PR Balrog ( Fei Long) as well as a slew of others on his way. He almost gave Hakan his 2nd medium-tournament title in 4 months ( after EBI in Japan in December).
People have FINALLY started exploring Hakan and showin what he’s capable of. Scary thing is kids were asking for hella buffs in the Unity threads as well.
I said it before to UltraDavid and I’ll say it here. I really hope Hakan is never unlocked because his potential for bullshit is through the roof. If Oil Hakan gets buffed in 2013 I can tell you right now there will be problems. Oil Hakan’s vortex makes Akuma’s mixups look like Balrog’s.
I think you are mistaken. The Hakan thread was actually really balanced, with them all recognizing Hakan’s potential and the suggestions bore in mind that it doesn’t take much to break him. Most suggestions were mild and interesting, like a “fakeout” oil-up, things like that.
A LOT of people were asking for his EX Oil dive to have armor and for his 8F 2hit +3F on hit s.HP to be an overhead. There are a lot of obscene buffs requested for Hakan that don’t address problems he actually has but rather just make his mixup game even stronger and his pressure even stronger even though those 2 things are already top 3 in the game once oiled.
