why do you guys take topanga’s list seriously? Don’t you remember last year transcription of Mago, Haitani and Tokido composing that list?
Tokido:“I haven’t fought many Zekus so I guess he’s bottom tier right?” chuckles
Haitani and Mago laughs
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It’s probably dumb, but i like mashing lp/lk. They get angry for being hit by that, so they switch to fp (i think).
What do you do against alex with vt1? I an still free to that.
No worries man, we will sync up one of these days. My days are usually pretty free so just hit me up whenever you get a sense that you’ll have the time and we will square away time for sets.
Until then keep grabbing folks. 
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Haven’t played many so I dunno.
The big issue is those button (and what frost mostly just seem okay) and it feel like I’m on the losing end of spacing battle even against players who aren’t trying that hard at their pacing (to be polite).
Lmao, I’ve saw the match where you lost before, not the last one. He was so frustrated because your AAs were on point, then he blacklisted you saying you lagging and you used the ‘one and done’ behavior before. He will never change.
I kept grabbing them 'til it ends and usually they die trying for parries.
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Why not?
Chars placed bottom in topanga tier list are questionable. Ed and vega are typical, but you have g, blanka, and nash there which is strange. They should’ve just combined the bottom and low mid tier chars into one imo. Nemo in his interview put G sraight in mid tier.
One place the Japanese and Americans are most divided is zangief’s strengths. Zangief was considered top tier by the japanese pros even in s3. But americans think he’s trash, almost useless. I suppose more mid tier now though after buffs. Wonder if it’s because the Gief players in the west are just bad.
Even the Gief forum made it pretty obvious that western players just don’t place much value in Gief. Everything is buff me I don’t have enough, fireballs oppress me etc.
That’s also why Gief will never become truly top tier as on the east side he is one of the godzilla grab demons that is slowing their other strong characters down.
I think it’s because you need to have a really solid neutral game with gief alongside making big reads. Castwide knowledge and tech can go a long way too. But people generally dont have the time for that. And get salty when rushdown fails. I find gief players to be a real salty bunch too. Good luck getting a runback against them if you play birdie.
Gief is borderline top 10 again like he was in S2.
He is definitely not bottom 3 like he was in S3 any more, but hell no, he ain’t top 6.
Japanese men are just afraid of being hugged by a manly, big, burly, hairy man.
I think there is a lot to factor into the threat of Itabashi putting you into his special kind of jolly goblin blender. If I was in that region I would be consistently scared of him ever getting back to that. It seems like Gief will still have plenty of match ups where he has to super grind his way in but Itabashi is good at that so that terror remains.
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If JPN puts a Grappler high into a Tierlist, he is generaly stupid in one way or another.
They must have their reason for it and it’s probably a good enough reason to nerf him back into S3 form.
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Gief is one of the best characters after landing heavy or EX SPD. The gamble situation right after that is heavily in his favour, particularly against characters without invincible reversals. Not sure what Japanese pros use as an argument for his placement but Gief went from being free to Chun in SFIV to an ‘he either doesn’t land an SPD and I win or he does and I lose’ kind of matchup.
Alex going for parry on anticipation instead of reaction is playing YOLO and already lost the mental game.
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Your character selection makes me think you’d be a laura or G player. Command grabs and lots of offense
Been screwing around with G a bit. Maybe I will mess with Laura, she has a reversal at least.
Having a reversal is a big bag of shrugs in this game. If you have enough offensive bullshit you’ll be fine.
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She doesn’t have anything invincible as far as I know, only a 3 framer.
In VT1 Kage can cancel every special into teleport, blocking the fireball makes him teleport toward you for free with little time to guess if he’s in front or behind you. Obviously if he’s far the teleport will leave Kage in front of you with frame advantage, not the best of situations.
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