They’re popular. Capcom is damned if they don’t give their fanbase what they want, and damned if they do it seems.
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Non shoto char tend to have very clear deficiencies in their functions. Slow walkspeed, no projectiles, non cancellable lows, weak anti airs, etc.
People get tired of searching and just settle for a shoto.
Fighters have always been 100k FM. Side note: I thought the ads were over for now. Didn’t they go away on Christmas.
Everything about vt2 was an inconsistent mess. I should have elaborated, but the opponent would sometimes just fall out of it for no apparent reason, the hits were janky, and the follow up was very inconsistent. Between the higher vacuum, the higher consistency with the follow up, and the overall hits actually landing it’s a real vt now.
No i get why it’s just frustrating. Capcom has lots of great and interesting characters. But most of my matches will always be:
- Karate Man
- Karate Man’s Friend
- Old Evil Karate man
- Karate Man’s evil spirit
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Vt2 was always cheap, and it’s cheaper.
invincible dp into vt2 into dp is utter filth.
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Well to be fair, they legitimately attempted to make them more varied in their appearance and playstyle. If they keep diverging them like this, shotos will be fine.
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I’ve been bitching about this since SF4. I don’t remember there being such a lack of variety during the arcade days.
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There popularity of shotos is the only thing that keeps me from really playing them. Not sure sure how much variety you get at upper levels but I feel like all I ever fight are shotos and guile and then I’ll have the odd day where it’s almost like Capcom picks a uncommon character and throws them at me all day.
I want to report that a drunk Kage off of Whisky 10-0s Blanka and Dhalsim. They have no chance against him.
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How in the ever loving fuck are 1 hit confirms a crutch? A crutch for who? People with good reactions? I’ve run into Plat Kens that can do cr.MKxSuper on reaction and they are still fucking Plat so clearly that needs to be removed!!! No seriously though most people are buffering into shit more than actually 1 hit confirming so I don’t even know how anyone can see this as a crutch because being able to buffer (while not nearly as consistent) is still a skill that enhances your abilities as a player. Maybe I’m missing something about 1 hit confirms being a problem. I’ve seen Dime mention this before and I’m like… what?
Please someone tell me why my insight into this wrong.
Same for me. It mostly has to do with splash as a mix up to fuck up my AA’s and the fact that she gets really scary offense on a KD where you basically have to commit to blocking or get counter hit or get popped by wingless airplane. The Mika still has to make a read but in many of my situations I find that any time I’m face down on the ground is basically me already losing. Mika is a “just don’t be in that situation” character and it makes me nervous.
One of the big reasons why I like SFV is the fact that I don’t have to be in training mode practicing FADC 1f link loops and shit. This game still has difficult combos but it’s more situational optimization stuff than “I can’t land this because this BnB has like 3 1f links.”
But 1 hit confirms aren’t paramount in being a top player even if it enhances your footsies and I don’t think that should be considered an execution barrier since it doesn’t take a genius to do that stuff.
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Hopefully, Kage is the last of the shotos of this era. (Sorry Dan)
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What do people have against shotos specifically? Just the popularity?
I can think of like 10 other characters that are more annoying.
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Actually, we need more shotos. We need Makoto, Sean and Dan.
Just their popularity. I’m not a hipster or anything but fighting the same few characters over and over gets old fast, especially in a roster of over 30 characters.
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Sakura is the answer.
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(1)People tend to pick ryu because he’s the mascot of the series.
(2) People pick Akuma because they’re salty former ryu players who called it quits and now want easy wins.
(3)People pick Ken because they like to be unique, mash h tatsu all day, or were forced to pick that char by a older sibling.
People pick 4) Guile 5) cammy 6) Bison
- former zoning ryu players, autopilot, + on block all day. And they’re cheap asf and according to word of mouth top tier.
(6)People pick zangief because their execution is trash.
(7)People pick Karin because braindead gimmicks or they are posh, elegant, or they are just french.
Sakura was the most popular char in the capcom popularity poll but yet nobody wants to pick her because nobody like to graft! Playing video games isnt a job. As for rashid i have no explanation why he’s so low maybe because of ingrained arab/oriental bias.
They’re boring af
Fighting 15 of them in a row is a painful experience. I’d rather fight the “annoying” ones.
You obviously don’t know me very well then XD
No she ain’t
I’m just trying to think of characters that handle the likes of Cammy/Rashid/Blanka better, the characters I hate fighting the most as Menat
…but judging by how much @HighlandFireball hates Rashid, I’m guessing Ryu doesn’t handle him very well either