That’s the thing. If you wanna do something like that someone could be like “I like SF2 on the Super Nintendo because there was no loading times and it had the speed up mode which made the game more fun and fast. The cartridges dont break like these damn discs do either and I’m against non physical content”. You could go anywhere with it really.
st lk goes an inch further, and it’s just a standard 4 frame. Nothing exceptional. especially compared to the other shotos. Sakura has a far better one.
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Yes, now imagine all V-Reversals actually hit. It’ll change the game completely in, probably, the best way possible.
I like all the Street Fighters. They all have their pros and cons. It’s why I put anyone in at any time.
Could. I do like that I finally play a character with a fast hit V Reversal. It definitely gives you opportunities that the knockdown based V Reversals don’t.
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I’ve been putting a lot of time into Kage lately and it’s just making me notice he goes even with a lot of the cast. Sure he may have problems with rashid or Birdie, but his matchups are mad winnable.
Meaty stomps are life.
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The thing is that he had bad matchups but can still end the game off a couple touches. People who want him buffed are making a mistake.
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I’m starting to see how solid he is. I already figured he was kinda strong/dumb, but getting to see more of it now.
He doesn’t have crazy neutral crash unless he pops trigger, but he has most of the other meta SFV shit and some of his EX moves allow him crazy punishes against shit that other characters can’t get. You basically can’t jump at him with any hope without air trajectory change (and even then it’s tough) so he can stop the air at least as he’s going in.
His V Skill also got downplayed to all hell and is easily top in the top tier of V Skills.
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St. Lk really hits further? It so doesn’t look like it.
Kage > Sakura. Doesn’t get bodied in every matchup.
It goes an inch further, very hard to notice but you should always be linking cr lp into st lk instead st lp. St lp is +3 ob and on (ch) combos into st mp.
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Kage gives me the same feeling I get with Mika and Boxer.
Yeah I’m losing, but I’m about to touch you once and roll your shit. All while having A tier AA and a real reversal. Out here hitting HP SRK on ibukis trying to use jump shurikens and shit.
Kek if Capcom buffs Kage man…
Lol I’m always shook when that happens 
Me: Obvious af jump in air kunai
Opp: DP’s my knife and me out of the sky.
Me:
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You are supposed to use the EX Kunai.
If you want an alternative to sakura you should be going for akuma. You get proper fireball (aka neutral game), the air game is even scarier to deal with for the opponent, better normals, same ambiguous mk jump in, better whiff punish, offensive jump in mix ups. Even your bnb combos are better.
Akuma has cr mp/ into ~ l tatsu ~ h tatsu which results in knockdown pressure.
St mk ~ v skill kick which gets you oki and corner carry.
Kage has cr mp ~ l tatsu, no follow ups, because dp you lose oki. St hp is stubby as fuck, and unless you send the opponent into the corner with tatsu you lose turn with h dp ender.
Akuma ain’t edgy enough and I like how far Kage’s DP hits. I don’t have to deal with anyone’s air bull shit and I EX DP rashids trying to activate VT1.
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ye I remember it becoming a thing at start of S2 or something. It’s pretty nuts. Enables st.mp target combo now because that shit hits crouchers. I also don’t think her getting TC out of MK Fuha would be busted tbh.
Ex dp vt1? Rashid players tend to use that move full screen.
I’m gonna keep tabs on how long you and dj stick to kage. The characters completely collapsed in userbase. Early hype dwindled down after finding out you have to work and play perfectly.
The dumb shit Kage players have been doing to my Falke, I’m ready to do dumb shit to other people. No shoto can keep my Falke out of the air better than Kage. His AA coverage is OD compared to all of the others. Which is saying something considering Akuma.
By keeping you out of the air you mean that long ass jump mp falke has. Kage’s long active frames on his dp catch it free.
But you shouldnt be jumping much on kage anyway (especially with vt2 activated), Sakura also keeps players grounded.
Where kage suffers is his neutral. Stubby cancelable normals. Mid range normals dont lead to much. St hk stands out as one of the best in the game but whiffs on crouchers. Lack of a fireball game.
I never got off the Kage train mate, full speed ahead.
Kage only bad matchups are birdie/rashid at 6 to 4 and Akuma/Karin/Gief/Guile/Cammy are 5.5 to 4.5.
Goes even or beats everyone else.
Don’t @ me.
Falke has to deal with something? What the hell happened DJ?
Also, in my limited experience, Sak is also good at swatting Falk out of the sky with Her DP range, and I would figure Sagat could do it too with Kara DP. Don’t know if you are counting them as Shoto though.