Good guy Punk.
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The ground game on display there was top end sf4 level at the least. Really good set
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My shitty analysis of the set was. Nephew had better command of kolins normals and general gameplay, ranges and timings. Punk had better everything else ESPECIALLY offensive decision making.
Looking at offensive decision making, nephew seemed to get more throws but fewer shimmies and frame traps, punk had fewer throws but more frame traps.
Punk had the higher damage output and better decision making gameplay. Nephew had the more consistent style.
Damage and decision making won the day, and this s why punk can consistently beat high level players with their own mains, heās simply out decision making them, which is ridiculous when you also consider the fact that his reactions tend to also be way better than them.
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Nephew won Winter Brawl last year IIRC. Basically the best Kolin in the US
TLDR Punk is Da Alpha 
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Is it uploaded somewhere? 
That grandfinal was interesting af, and punk choosing his opponents main? Crazy.
Regional Finals are starting
Friend of mine got pissed at me 'cause I keep saying how garbage I am at fighting games despite him not being able to beat me, said it was āinsultingā
Donāt see why itās so hard to understand that just 'cause you lose to someone it doesnāt mean theyāre good at the game
But youāre better than him, so when you say youāre trash, then heās beyond trash.
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personally I think itās a bit narcissistic to be obsessed with ones own self loathingā¦ but meh.
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Had to get a new stick
Bought the obsidian
Stick feels laggy, dropping inputs like a mo fucker. This can of spam is giving me problems, anyone else have a similar experience with the obshittyan?
Watched the Punk vs Samurai match. Commentators pretty hard to listen to ( who are they?) Saying Sagat loses the FB war to Akumaā¦ Right.
Punk just playing impatient. Start of the second match he has it , then he loses it again by doing jump ins.
Weāve already seen Bonchan make samurai look like a Super Gold, so I donāt think this is a good example of the match.
Sagat doesnāt seem like a good fit for Punk, Punk seems like a reactionary footsie type guy, not a control type player.
When I watch punk matches (when he plays Sagat) I mostly use him to see what heās punishing, heās particularly good at that side of the game.
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That was the next stick I was looking at getting now that Madcatz is out of business. I heard it was the next best thing because of the sanwa parts.
Surprised itās giving you problems because itās supposed to be a high quality stick.
I have an Obsidian. No issues at all here. Much better than my Hori RAP
Iām having a really hard time hit confirming consistently on the obsidian, iām also missing diagonal inputs randomly. I canāt consistently shoryu from the right side of the screen 
Switched out all the buttons and even the joystick multiple times to make sure it wasnāt just some weird placebo.
It also just feels latent in general, like iām playing underwater and struggling to move fluently.
Probably just got really unlucky with a defective unit
I replied to your YT post. The commentators are vicious and some other guy. Iāve played vicious back in the day a decent amount of times. I considered him to be pretty damn good, one of the top guys that was just under the best players in so cal.
I donāt know if he was the one that said that about akuma, but if the sagat allows the akuma the space to get off red fireballs like punk did then itās a tough match for gat. Of course a good gat that knows how to pressure Akumas neutral will not allow akuma that spacing. Basically punk needed his st.mk. Had he known about how to use that button, the match may have been very different. That and not throwing out random ex fireballs for little reason.
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Akuma wins the fireball war against Guile and Sagatā¦if Akuma has the lead and the match stays at full screen. But yeah, any decent Sagat or Guile player should know that their most advantageous position is at mid range.
FWIW I havenāt had any issues with my Obsidian. I switched to it from a frankenstick and it felt solid right out of the gate. Not sure if that means the Obsidian felt right or that the frankenstick was so wrong.
Sorry to hear about your stick woes.
Red fireball start up and recovery are too long to āwinā the fireball war imo. Unless you count winning as just which plasma stays on a screen.
Akuma is immobile so even if you red fireball and I fireball, Iām going to be moving before you are.
Itās sort of actually the opposite imo. Red fireball is probably better at the mid range to blow up a single fireball and knock Sagat down.
If you are backing into the corner and throwing reds you are not winning the FB war, you are just turtling a life lead like you said.