Sfa2

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Hi everybody, I’m back into SFA2 since a few weekends. That’s all because we got a new arcade maschine here in my area and wow the game still has a lot of fans (more played then Alpha 3). So I started to play again.^^

I would especially like to know what the Tiers are in Alpha 2. SOme interesting match vids would also be cool.

I like to play with Guy (my fav SF char of all time)as my main char and think he is pretty strong in Alpha 2. His chains do good damage, he has a nice anti air super, his cc’s are good (repeated qcb + P, finish with qcb + K), his air throw has huge priority and poking with s.MK and c.MP is very effectiv. Maybe someone has some good hints for playing Guy, if yes I would like to hear them.^^

My second best char is Ryu IMO. He has great cc’s thanks to his HaDoKen and his normal ShoRyuKen is very effectiv. His HaDoKen has also a cool knockdown ability up close and a very good recovery time. Even if a lot of today’s player in my area don’t like him I think he is still a cool char (even if sometimes a bit boring^^). It would be cool if someone could give me other cc’s for him besides HaDo raves, which are strong …

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Generally the big 4 is Ryu, Ken, Chun, Rose- who were about 85-90% of the tourney chars.

These guys are bottom tier
Dan (though not unwinnable- his glitch throw into super does help)
Birdie

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so you’re sayin ryu is better than guy?

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Top are Ken, Chun and Rose. I play with sodom cause I like him and he has an answer for kens kick AC.

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Rose is that good??? Wow, nice to know that, but can someone explain this to me. I never really played with her or had problems with Guy against her (but a bit with Ryu)…^^

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i’ll explain rose.

-c.mp beats everything in the game, literally.

-soul illusion: she has a 55% combo off a level 1 soul illusion. activate soul illusion, jump in mk, c.hp, rh soul drill. 55% life gone. or if its blocked, rh drill during soul illusion for major chip. theres also unblockable soul illusion setups.

-punch alpha counter counters every move in the game that is not a projectile. and she can follow it up with c.mp xx lk drill

-level 1 anti air super (soul thru) stops almost every jump in

-reflectors kills fireball games from full screen. lp reflector gives her shitloads of meter AND powers her soul spark

-great set of normals. besides the godly c.mp, her c.hp anti airs nearly everything with good horizontal range, c.hk is deceptively fast and huge range, she has a great crossup and air to air normals like j.mk, j.hp, etc.

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Thx a lot for the detailed information, this sure helps me out a bit.^^