Cody has always been my main, he’ll be my main now.
Hell or high water, bronze or grand master
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VT2 looks very strong. VT1 seemed to have a too short of a duration, specially if you do it’s special moves.
Overall, I like him. Mostly because of the underwear model costume.
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The recovery of them is good? Didn’t check it the full streaming. SFV is full of anti-zoning moves,even meterless. I’m curious how Cody will be able to play D against Young Zeku one the latter bypass the Tornados, he will be all over him no time. Btw I’m surprised by the lack of CC normals, the st.hk looks good, but I’m curious if that will be enough in some situations.
As always then.
Wasn’t expecting top tier, not like it’s that important anyway. His frame data at first glance looks like the most impacting thing, his mids are slow and so are his heavies
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Man Max is losing his shit on Twitter cuz people are calling him out for saying that Cody got shit animations.
Like brah you play MKX hop off
Wait, people are mad that he’s bashing the obviously terrible animations?
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I think SFV has actually shown me this isn’t a huge deal. I’ve made peace with the fact that if Kolin comes back in SF6 she ain’t gonna be the same. Either I play the new version or play GGxrd45
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They did Ibuki right and that’s all that matters.
Falke is cool too
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I think Cody look fine minus stand light kick and light buttons are hard to animate consistently because they’re literally like 2 frames of actually animation+how many unique light normal’s can you make?
Also Kolin has an air throw and her standing light kick is from heaven so I love SF5.
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Yeah I’d say his st.lk is whack and all others are decent, unfortunately st.lk looks super important so you’ll see it a lot lmao
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One major takeaway is that trigger 2 was a lot better than expected.
It’s a bait, armor break, keep away, and pressure tool rolled into one.
Sure the startup is insane, but you’d have to commit hard if you want to challenge it.
There’s definitely some figuring out to do and the fact that it’s 2 bars is great.
The US stream showed so much tech for the VT2 I was drooling at how absolutely filthy it’s going to be.
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Didn’t watch it because they always put me to sleep.
Gonna play catchup tomorrow.
Like, he plays almost nothing like SF4/Alpha Cody but that’s alright. FF fans are happy. Biggest difference is he actually has a legit projectile now so he should beat up on grapplers. Which works out nice for me since those are Karin’s tougher matchups.
Bro I’ve gotta tell you some shit
VT2 upwards rock bounces off the ground when it lands and has a hitbox as it rolls on the floor so you can do whiff set-ups for it where the rock misses when it falls, bounces on the ground and rolls into them. So Cody can do upwards rock > hit them with a normal(as they rock falls and misses) > jump over and they have to block for cross-up as the rock hits same side.
They did another set-up where they went knockdown > rock(no pipe followup) and then command grab before rock hits, it was only a small frame gap so it deffo baits them to block.
VT2 is insanely dirty man
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Cody gonna have tech to satisfy Froztey and let him express himself through his main character
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Some animations do seem a bit off are they swapping between animators or something? Some characters in this game have an on hit/block animation for buttons and others don’t
He is getting heat because his animations look good.
No idea why people think he looks bad aside of st.lk.
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Eh, i find Cody his animations pretty weak, especially the ground and air normals. Specials are allright but they lack impact.
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