Well Tokido is going to Tokido. Best SFV bar none. He’s been consistent since the game launched.
So I’ve narrowed down my bad matchups.
Birdie, Abigail and ken…
I’ve accepted birdie is a bullhorn mashing shit fest and I need more experience vs Abigail, but I’m seriously not understanding Cammy vs ken. I shit on akumas, ryus and sakuras. Ken? All I hear is how much he sucks and every single one blows me up. Really frustrating trying to figure whose turn it is on top of guessing dp/grab.
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I don’t play cammy or ken, but know both characters decent. Incoming longish post about generalities:
Cammy tends to struggle against characters that have some combo of:
Strong pokes
Good damage
Good AA
Highish or high HP
There are a lot of things you can do in the ken matchup specifically, but you will have t know wha type of ken you are playing against.
In general:
Kens st.mk blows up cammys cr.mk for some reason.
Kens spamming neutral jumps (and any character spamming neutral jumps tbh) can give cammy a hard time. So learn to dp neutral jumps on reaction ( not easy to be super on point with this) also learn to walk forward and pressure neutral jumping characters as they land. Kens offense is mixup heavy and high damage which is bad for cammys HP…
So try to not get knocked down… which is obvious of course. From there see what type of offense the ken player runs. Is it mixup heavy, frame trap heavy, throw heavy, are you letting him get away with run cancels, when does he reun cancel, does he only do it when he’s high powered with super and looking for a confirm into half life or is he a nut that just throws it out as a mixup. Cammy is linear and strong so DP/not dp is going to do well against her since the ken will know when the mixup is coming. Vary your pokestrings and use a good amount of delay attacks at obvious DP timings like after he blocks a jumpin or after you knock him down and go for jab>medium… both of those attacks are DP bait so both should be staggered a decent amount once you see the ken throwing out DPs right there. Be on the lookout for the ( one mixup and I’m dead) DP which will usually come out when the opponent is lower 1/4 life or when their stun is high. Players tend to bet the farm there because one mixup can kill them anyways. If a player has shown any kind of tendency to DP at all, it’s a good bet that they will dp in that position of you get them there so make sure to use delays on their wakeup/in blockstrings. Ken shouldn’t be able to jump at you for free with BMP and DP AA. Go into training mode and figure out which of your buttons you can use to wiff buffer and hit his. What’s your answer for his st.mk? What’s your answer for his cr.mp? What’s your answer for him whiffing his st.hk in your face? What’s your punish for blocking his st.hk from close range? You need to have answers to all of these as well as good places to AA him from and knowing what distance he is likely to want to try to ex air tatsu in from. To beat him you are going to have to know your ground stuff and stay solid on defense… which isn’t easy at all but it is what it is.
Birdie, basically the same thing. Figure out what you can punish, stay away from his big starters, develop knowledge of how he sets up can and how you counter it if possible, find your best whiff buffers versus his different pokes… what range can you punish his st.hp from? With what move? What about his FHP charge? What is most likely going to make him want to do ex dolphin against you and at what ranges… etc etc.
If you can find answers to some of these questions and learn to properly implement them, these matchups will likely become easier for you. As an example, Kens like to do fhk after hitting people with hk tatsu. But that is unsafe on block so learn what you cna punish it with and learn to punish it into super which will really keep the ken from wanting to use it any kind of predictably. Etc etc
Happy hunting and sorry if nine of this works for you or it’s all too obvious, but sf5 is an obvious ass game and lots of stuff simple comes down to mathematics rather than actual skill and strategy. Try to keep the math in your favor.
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Wasn’t obvious for me and everything you said makes so much sense. Especially the neutral jumping and st.mk. It’s like EVERY ken is happy to neutral jump all day and it just threw off my AA rhythm so bad. I was starting to go crazy with that damn button beating me. I’ll use more st.hp.
Definitely see what you mean about “mathematics”. I was letting him get away with murder. Cr.mk and thunder kick are -4? Smh.
Lastly I’m getting used to birdie, not as unwinnable as I used to think.
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No, because it’s true. He’s been consistently the best SFV player since launch. Once I saw he was going to BAM. I just assumed he’d win. He was the best Ryu in Season 1. He’s been the best Akuma in Season 2 and 3. He record of top 8 finished is impeccable.
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I still find it kind of strange that he went there. He doesn’t need the points and there is very little money in winning the event compared to a Premier event which he skipped out on to attend this instead. Did he just take pity of his fellow Japanese who all went to Stunfest instead?
But I guess he’ll be the exception to the rule that top ranked Asian players will ignore Ranking events and only go to Premiers.
In tennis they offer appearance money to the best players. Helps some of the smaller tournaments attract top 10 players. Maybe SF tournaments have started doing this…lol
I think all SFV characters should be broken with Akuma’s health
I hope Cody and the Gorilla God are broken
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Menat, super lame ass character. Daigo almost did it, but I dunno if there’s a counterpick vs her in this game. Sure thing Infiltration use Menat like no one.
Fujimura is amazing, holy God
Speaking of being amazing, holy god.
Who is that in your pic ?
Katrina Jade. Give a look at your own risk.
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Might prove to be fatal ?
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Land your wake up super only to lose to Ume Flash Kick.
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Ibuki is fine. Keep complaining about Akuma instead. Thank you.
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People don’t often complain about Ibuki because these people are all gold or lower. Fujimura drops Kolin at lightspeed because he felt she wasn’t cheap enough. He get back to Ibuki, wonder why.
Tachikawa was the one who switched to Kolin. Fujimura has stuck with Ibuki since he dropped Nash in Season 1. He knew there’s always a way to make the ninja cheap.
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I hate both Ibuki and Akuma.
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