You will get there. Don’t give into the weakness of “Muscle Power”. Are you gonna let Falke’s abs down?!
With 40 defeats and a 0% win ratio today, I already let her abs down.
Defeats can be learned from. Quitting cannot.
That also applies to defeats taken on Gief, though.
Yeah, you learn that Gief is CANCER TO YOU!
I’d rather not have a character like Makoto with a plethora of active command normals get crush countered to hell and back in a game that shits on neutral.
I think side switch VRs were a huge mistake, gonna be honest
completely invalidating the corner like this shouldn’t be a thing, and not everyone can work around it
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Before I didn’t realize how much the character is loved until I saw various polls where she isn’t lower than top 3 including the official Capcom one. Atm there’s a lot of actual characters who have a bit of her, but they aren’t. Zeku VT1 is better than people think, but will never becomes silly enough. The stars are lined, it’s hard for Capcom to justify why the most requested waifu isn’t in the game, she’s unique, that’s why. When that happens I’ll see what kind of treatment they did to Makoto, good or bad.
Rose and Viper are more interesting than Makoto I think. Hell, I’ll take Necro’s girl Effie over Makoto. It’s just Makoto has always been too bland to me. Great play style though, but I doubt that will translate intact to SF5.
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Your opinion don’t matter, SF isn’t a beauty contest. Effie over Necro? Makoto being bland while you’re on Bison? Ok.
Yeah, no way a character based around explosive, unreactable movement and throw/grab mixups will fit in this game.
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No need to put the honest halo around Makoto. She basically is the first SFV character.
Throws around a bunch of heavy normals and minus safe specials, jumps with parries and air shit that’s hard to punish. Focuses around slow walk speed and unreactable dash that can lead to dangerous/stun scenarios. People complaining about Bipson better be ready for SFV Bipson with a command grab if she makes it. If she gets some Kolin/Alex counter/parry shit even more fun.
Adding crush counters to her heavies is just going to make her even more stupid. Ricky Ortiz complained about how random Makoto was in 3S and she was the “random” character of a random game any way. Both 3S and SFV have priority trade system also. Screw your lights, take the heavies. Ken LP DP doesn’t have any real invincibility but still blows a bunch of shit up because trade system and fast start up.
SFIV Makoto was forced to be a bit more honest with armor stuff that could be broken with armor breaks, but SFV you can’t blow up the armor/parry shit without throws/multi hit or super so that’s gonna give her more stuff to bully with if she does get parry/armor shit. You can live without a strong EX reversal in SFV so weak defense won’t be as much of an isssue.
If Makoto gets even a decent c.HP sweep it’s literally over. Giving Makoto CC fish sweep VTC is going to be oh so hilarious. Get the best of Mika and Laura for robbery fishing.
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Makoto doesn’t have soul power tho, so on that alone I think rose should be in sfv over maketo cause she does have the soul power!!!
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Who she was in SF3/4 may not be who she is in SF5 - Gameplay-wise at least, because whatever Makoto could do a lot of characters can do now in SF5. Her niche is not unique to her anymore. Characteristically speaking, she is bland af - Another underage Japanese waifu girl. YawnzZz.
Everyone loves or loves to hate Bison. In both cases Bison wins. You can’t compare to his power, get lose!
Anyway, Rose is the future headliner of S4. It is known.
If Makoto plays anything like SF4 she will stun you in one combo then kill you in the next,Abigail style.
Add in a unreactable ex dash punch and some commang grab loops and you can pretty much guarantee you have the next hate train.
Makoto with meter in Sf4 was basically fighting Balrog vt 1 and Abigail mixed.
As a character I can’t hate her,but fighting her will most likely just be another yolo blender bullshit that SFV likes to promote so much.
Rose is bae. That’s the character that taught me Street Fighter.
But I wouldn’t be opposed to yanking a fool up, either.
Rose and Makoto would both be good.
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As long as it can be baited and the character in question doesn’t have any kind of defensive options, i.e. FANG, I think it’s okay.
Why Cammy or Rashid have one of those though is a mystery to me.
Outside Makoto I have Rose as the other female in S4 cast since Menat don’t play nothing like. Viper is good also I couldn’t imagine her without JC’s and with SFV Capcom don’t want to make things harder for players, so…
I will forever love Bison, but I dump him because of his mono-dimensional game. Capcom had to give him super good stuff to keep him relevant (also Makoto-ish kind of movement), but in general I’m too bound to his SF2 playstyle, in SFV he’s too SFA-like for my tastes. Rose is highly possible I agree.
Amen to that. She’s just a SFV character since '99, it’s even too easy to put her in. I don’t expect to keep everything -she would be stupid- but only her basic gameplan is strong enough to let her shine even now. Her popularity and her waifu status makes Makoto almost impossible to keep out more. If that was Capcom goal they piss on their feet with the last poll, they can always decide otherwise, but they’re too sensitive about what people want nowadays. If she makes it people better be ready.
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