Bro, cammy’s had the same 3 bum ass combo since season 1. Season 2 gave her one new combo. Wtf is doing tournament stuff with cammy? There is none of that: just doing the few things she does.
Cammy also had no way to meaty with throws in season 1 so you hold that you silly goose.
SFV is pretty much the launch version of Counter-strike in 2000 with all the bugs like visually whiffing normals, dumbed down yet-refined gameplay and because there’s nothing else to play money-wise.
Problem with Necalli winning is nobody plays him. Machabo is the only really strong one left so it would have to be him.
Edit forgot about Phenom…
Other darkhorse contenders with non top 5 characters: Dogura and Nemo with Urien, Fuudo with Mika, Itazan and Kubo with Abi, Gachikun and Oil King with Rashid, Punk with Karin, Momochi with Kolin.
Counterargument: people aren’t sleeping on Necalli because they think he’s not very strong, they’re literally sleeping on him because he’s so boring to play and watch that even pros don’t want to use him even if they know he stands just below the Top 5 in the tier list.
Doing that is the definition of ZzZzZz. Segway, actual conversation happening in our local discord:
Local: I just realized, the last person to use my fight stick was James chen.
Me : Did he imbue it with the ability to downplay any top tier?
Local: I believe so, Because I’m picking up Gweelay and he’s not that good
Me : damn, James Chen aura is powerful.
Chakotay was one of the main guys I followed when I was still playing Mika. Even after I switched to Laura I’d still check in on his YT channel just to see him play. I always appreciated the way he made Mika’s pressure really sing.
There was something about his style though that didn’t lead to results in big events. I think that archetype is hard to play there anyways because it is so coin flip out and Mika can really feast or famine. Doesn’t help that S3 has some PITAs hanging out in the coolest kids club that she has to grind through.
Hope he does well. Always rooting for the grapplers.
I would have went with Cammy in Season 1 if I didn’t think Chun Li was going to be good and had more things to mess with tech wise. I dont mind boring characters like Cammy because walking around with buttons into confirm is always fun for a 3S player. You can pretty much play half the cast of that game if you walk around and hit buttons. Necalli cant really walk around with his c.MK and s.HP until he gets in v trigger and Cammy’s dive is at least more interesting to use than his when you wanna go outside of walking around.
Falke is fun for similar reasons. Like a cross between Rose and Sagat where you just fish a lot with buttons and shoot shit occasionally. Zonk charging adds some fun to optimizing what you need to do and allows you to “charge” while still walking forward and not having to kill crouch.
Punk is basically a Cammy player now. Like if he were to somehow win Evo it would be with Cammy, but I think its safe to say his Cammy is at least a small tier under NL’s and Verloren’s. Funny thing about Cammy is there is a lot of Cammys but there’s only really like 2 real Cammys. Xiaohai kinda counts, but he’s been more into KOF lately and probably not in position to win Evo. Somehow with the best version of Cammy yet, KBrad seems to be dead.