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The song itself almost makes me want to play this mother fucker.
Haha I love, he actually sounds sorta spanish now!
I wish there were some explanations. I mean I think Viper is a solid enough character, (I can’t wait to get my viper up to a higher level) I just don’t see how she’s Super duper tier, any of you guys who at least get to play more, and therefore can analyze matches and such better want to give some insight?
I’ll try my best to explain maybe why they say she’s so high up, but don’t take my word for it heh.
-Dizzies quickly.
-Can hit ultra anywhere on the screen, whether it’s from a juggle or her actually linking into it.
-Thunder knuckle cancels add an entirely new element to her game. Instead of someone just doing low forward xx strong thunder knuckle, you have her canceling her strong thunder knuckle which leads to a whole plethora of things she can do afterwards (grab, low forward, overhead, flame kick, maybe ex seismo). Also as you know, thunder knuckle cancels lead to buff ass combos. It also helps that thunder knuckle is safe on block and does a decent amount of cheese. And the fact that you can juggle someone into ultra with fierce thunder knuckle is great as well! Oh and I forgot to mention that thunder knuckle beats saving attack.
-Flame kick is a great anti throw attack which in the corner, leads to an ultra =/. Also helps that it’s safe on block, so there’s relatively no risk in throwing it out.
-Ex seismo is great as well for being an attack that has a good amount of invulnerability that also happens to hit low, that also happens to launch someone, which leads to juggles. Which can lead to ultras. Not to mention the fact that you can do seismos consecutively for cheese. Good to throw out since it hits low. You see someone jiggling around, seismo. Someone tries to throw a projectile at you, seismo! You block a Blanka ball, seismo! You think someone’s gonna jump the second they see you go for seismo, cancel it, then do fierce thunder knuckle, and if you have an ultra, hey, why not tack that on as well?
-Also happens to be the only character in the game with a super jump. Not a big deal by any means but, it’s a perk.
-Jumping rh has great priority and crosses up ambiguously. Which can be canceled into an ambiguous air flame kick, which also, if you happen to be in the corner, leads to an ultra =D.
-Yet another random perk, but her overhead can go over projectiles. I once saw it go over Dhalsim’s ultra. How silly is that?
I think one reason why she’s rated so highly, is because she should be able to fight any character in SFIV, with the exception of like say, Zangief or Honda. Everyone else is subject to gettin busted out. That is to say, she only really has two losing matchups when played to her utmost potential. Again, this is just my reasoning for why I think the Japanese see her as a top tier character. I may be wrong and I wouldn’t be surprised if my post didn’t serve as a compelling argument.
This game just needs to hurry up and come out.
EDIT-Ever since I originally made this post, I’ve made three different edits to it. Keep coming up with new stuff for why Viper is good.
Also, (this is kinda trivial, but whatever) that weird glitch where she doesn’t have to block a low attack after blocking a jumping attack. Or whatever it is. I hope they fixed that for console.
She can ultra after 90% of her movelist without even burning a FADC, and 5% more with FADC. As of now I’m pretty sure she has even more setups for that shit than Rufus and Sagat combined. Not sure if that makes her top tier but I just thought it was pretty impressive.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, someone’s been uploading the challenge modes daily.
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I knew something was gonna make me wanna use Sakura. I wanna try Cammy as well.
Goukens AA tatsumaki looks hella gross, tears up fools.
I’m going to say it right now: that looks like Street Fighter : Clay Fighter Edition.
Challenge Mode looks pretty awesome though.
Who’s the equivalent of Blob? That is to say, who’s broke as fuck in the early build? I’ll play him/her/it.
I can’t take this anymore!!!
I’m going down to Tacoma to play SF4 later today, random saturday pre-funk console release edition.
I just spent an hour messing with that shit…
god so did i
Sagat.
204925 views for the interview clip shit is crazy