He didn’t “do much” with Sagat but I think that’s why he won. That cammy was not going up in the air without Daigo anti airing. I’m sure the Cammy knew the one thing Daigo was going to do right was be an anti aircraft gun vs Cammy so he had to stay on the ground where Cammy is much more predictable to deal with.
In the Ed matchup, Daigo was doing some crazy shit too like pressing s.MK to stuff the very first attempt the Ed player tried to charge V Skill. Just knew he was at the range for it with a character that doesn’t have amazing walk speed and snuffed him.
Anti airing with EX knee is very Daigo also. Use the anti air that pushes them back the farthest and get more space.
Can’t say I’ve played, but even if his FBs don’t have the fastest recovery (I assume guile still has the best), his low fireball should in theory give him more time to DP just by virtue of it being a crouching state fireball. It looks that way anyway, this is SFV so who knows what the Hurtbox looks like.
But yeah crouching fireball to a sub crouching state DP if done immediately. That’s a couple frames more for the DP to come out, so good for any honest man.
That Ed player shouldn’t have been trying to V-Skill Daigo to begin with. Daigo was obviously playing a very reactive game. He just got lucky that Daigo was likely going to stuff anything he was doing at that range with s.MK rather than take the free jump-in for massive damage. V-Skill is immensely risky vs someone who is essentially reacting to whatever you do.
Maybe I will hate Menat a wee bit less now with Miss Pew Pew and Schoolgirl. They don’t suffer of the 8-2 syndrome.
But then in two months I will look to Gief, remember how much fun we had and go back to hate Menat at full force.
Over the years I’ve seen so many Guile vs Bison matches where the Bison player loses the first game and counter picks, then loses even worse.
If your secondary pick is half hearted, then stick with your main.
The other side of this is that your main is your comfort zone. If you feel you’ve hit a wall with a certain matchup, then maybe you should step outside of your comfort zone. You may hate charge characters, but maybe the answer to your problems is there.
Sometimes I’ll try playing the character that is giving me problems, just to get a feel for their gameplan.
I think the others have given you some solid advices.
I think the issue with you though is that since you’re very picky with who you play it’ll be a challenge. Like you can just tell someone that mains Cammy to pick up a pocket Rog deal with Sagat and Falke, but if they dont like charge characters or dont like Rog’s play style/design then that’s not going to work. Punk’s Cammy shows what happens when you dont put passion into one of your serious tournament characters.
Ibuki and Falke basically covers every matchup I need with characters that fit what I like to do so it works well. Have a big button character to challenge big boys if I dont want to outlast a short vs long range game with characters that have unblockable moves. I also make sure I play Falke in ranked and grind it out with her so not only am I good with her in her good matches, but I know what to do with Falke better in her bad matches and learn about her more through that also. Yeah Bison and Boxer sucks, but it’s good that now I’ve grinded losing to them is a bit more about me than just how much they disrespect her. Those matchups have also buffed my defensive decision making with her as well.
Like the characters I can immediately think of that can handle Menat’s hard matchups are characters you probably wouldn’t want to play like Blanka or Abigail. I think Menat is a strong enough character where you can fight through it and just mess with some others on the side for fun. You can’t switch characters until set is over online in ranked/casual any way.
Overall, I agree with the opinions stated here.
You aren’t playing a character that loses to the select screen.
Going Menat only ought to work really well for you @Akhos so you probably stick to that.
As Jin said, the counter picks for her bad MUs aren’t characters you would enjoy playing. So that wouldn’t work at all. You cannot put in work if your passion isn’t with the character at hand.
Picking top tier won’t make you good or make you win unless you have the passion and will to do so.
So stick with Menat till her hot master Rose makes into the game.
Ahhh, the good ol’ TS spam. Whoever tasted them can’t be scared about modern era pew pew. SF2 and all his iterations were my Hokuto Shinken High School.
