Why do you care. Falke probably wouldn’t have to deal with it anyways.
I don’t want crouch tech back because I think it’s dumb. It could solve some things though.
It’s kind of like invul backdashes. I hate them, but they do solve some problems.
It’s really if the amount of stupid these things introduce outweighs the help they provide.
My opinion, couch tech - maybe; invul backdash - hell no.
Ehhh, I think there are real arguments for and against it. if you’re opposed to option selects in principle I can see where you’re coming from. If it’s this specific one that bothers you, I get it too, but I think there are a lot of arguments for.
I think Crouch Tech in 4 was a bad decision that had a lot of potentially good effects. It gave any character with a decent cr.LK a defensive option and gave any character with a frame trap a way to open opponents up. In 4, that defensive option ended up being a little too strong for some characters, but in 5, I think that dynamic could really shine. Crouch teching isn’t just a meme defense, it’s also an additional offense dynamic and I think that’s good.
Writing it off out of hand seems like a way to signal your dislike for 4 to your peers without thinking critically about what it actually does and why it might be useful. It exists in 3s and doesn’t cause problems because it’s just a different game, 5 is a different game too.
Cr tech is good and I hate cr tech, its better than throws defining your defensive play entirely and going no deeper.
Abi crouch tech will be hilarious.
CH cLK>BHP+HP
Nerf ken/Chun 15 frame dash but not ratshit’s? Par of the course when it comes to this character.
I though we agreed to delete Rashid.
Do you think he would need even more nerfs than that?
I didn’t even know his was 15f
Why is this character a 950 lmfao
If they remove CC from regular dps, people will mash them in every 3f frame trap situation. Is that hidden Cody buff 
?
Not sure I like CC removal for EX dps. It would become way more important if you can neutral jump punish it or not.
I am in disbelief at how people still find things to be surprised about Rashid to this day.
I have been saying this basically from the day I joined SRK
Rashid
is
cancer
Anyway, looking at the schedule, I don’t see an announcement happening at Lyon, because Capcom doesn’t give a fuck about EU tournaments (personal opinion? yes. Does it feel that way? also yes) already, can only imagine how little they value a French one.
Which leaves Combo Breaker as the next possible window.
Reason it works in 3S is because you can parry punish them and you can’t really meaty throw as well as you can in SFV.
Crouch teching in V would just make certain characters more unnecessarily stupid than others. Chun Li fishing for cancelable c.LK into legs/ex legs v trigger activation would be loved by all
and whoever want this to come out of a crouch tech must love Rashid.
Get thrown and shimmied. Counter shimmy like a boss.
FANG suddenly top tier and nobody saw it coming.
I think Fang is already lowkey pretty damn good
Rashid was pretty important in the story,featured on the cover art of SFV AE, was the first to get extra battle costumes,mega man costumes and is popular online.
He ain’t going away.Actually I would argue he has the highest chance to return in SF6 from all the newcomers.
Yup. If you don’t have a 3 frame vs Fang it’s already RIP if he makes you block anything that can lead into throw range. Falke EX PP being OS lightable means you’re fucked unless you guess he’s going for a medium or heavy.
I was trying Alex and ran into a Fang. Lol nope, never again. I recall not even liking Urien vs Fang when I played him.
In no particular order:
Buffs:
Nerfs
Also about crouchtech, since people touched on that: another reason why it’s not prominent in 3S, in addition to the parrying, is that it doesn’t double as an easy hit-confirm into a full combo. If someone crouchtechs, you eat a single crouch jab, which is like 2% of your healthbar, while if it gets parried you lose 40% of yours. In SFIV you could lose half your health to a crouch tech easily, and you could time it so that the opponent had to delay his frame traps to blow it up while you still teched throws. That wouldn’t work as well in SFV because of the buffer on normals, and converting lights into a combo takes more effort. I wouldn’t be greatly opposed to the idea of reintroducing crouch tech, but I really hated dealing with it in SFIV so I’m leaning towards letting that shit stay in the bin.
Option selects are kind of a shitty thing to deliberately design in though. If you want crouch teching, just go ahead and make c.lk a valid throw break.
He’s the 7th least used character online.
I like Rashid as a character but he can definitely be a pain in the ass to play against.
I’d argue that the current paradigm is an option select too, it just gives you throw regardless of your crouch state, heh
And it feels more deliberate than it did in 3s or 4, where hitting two buttons just did a thing that was the natural conclusion of the game’s systems. In 5, crouch+LP+LK = throw is a very deliberate, hard-coded option select. That’s a fact.
He’s like Chun Li. Solid, but has pretty bad matchups that make him only so strong in CPT. His worst matchups are probably worse than Chun’s still. He actually has a real V system/trigger now so that helps him a lot.