You choose!
Nobodys wrecking house with him at the moment. If it becomes painfully obvious that he is busted, then time to ban him.
Yes.
This shouldn’t even be a question. Anyone voting no must not understand the problems with the character.
Put him away for good, and hopefully we’ll start to see other scenes follow suit.
Wait for real tourney results and see what evo committee does.
Hm, I suppose I understand the input from the non local people that have been voting, but for the most of us, there’s a couple people that have voted that are unknown and a couple people that don’t actually live here =/.
Anyway, I’m glad this thread is getting votes, let’s keep it going!!
It’s just my general input. Because local stuff might have an impact on the country standards. But you should also wait on solid tourney results and see what the evo staff will do about Akuma and STHD in general. Me living there or not has nothing to do with it.
I think a wait and see attitude is always better than a banning one. I know some of the stuff wrong with him, such as weird setups for guaranteed demon on block, invincible fireballs that stuff cross-ups, and 1 frame reversals that beat safe jump attempts, but he still has stuff going against him, mainly taking horrible horrible damage. So lets just see whats up.
He doesn’t take horrible damage. He seem to take pretty normal damage. Taking horrible damage in ST would be dying after three sweeps. He doesn’t seem that different from the rest of the cast in that regard.
Nah he definitely takes worse damage than everyone else. His super also builds up slower than the rest as well. But with his runaway game it doesn’t matter lol.
I do also believe it’s possible that most people haven’t fought against a legit Akuma let alone an Akuma period.
I vote until people start picking him and abusing his gay shit, or evo bans him, to not ban him.
It will be a kewl japan-style “Soft ban” to not have him OFFICIALLY banned, and if someone WINS with him on the straight cheese tip, it will show how stupid Akuma is, and if someone loses with Akuma, we can laugh and call them a piece of trash failure.
But I know for sure he will eventually be banned at Nationals for being fucking stupid, so if I had to ban him now I would, but as of right now there’s no reason to take a stance on the issue, I don’t think anyone in Seattle is bitch enough to use him.
edit: ^so what should I vote on the poll, no or yes?
Every one I’ve fought sucks.
Had I an American stick for xbox, I would fuck people up with Akuma. No point in picking Ryu.
Why must you forever doubt me…
I think we should get rid of Ryu and add Roll as his replacement. Then get rid of Dhalsim for Sentinel. E Honda for Storm. Blanka for Magneto. Zangief for Cable. T Hawk for Cyclops. Fei Long for Strider… Then we have a perfect game.
^ wow.
None of those characters are in VirtuaFighter so how can it be the perfect game?
^I agree with this gentleman, for once. Unless someone is saying “HOT DOOOOOG!” or stuffing random shit with d+lp, and fuzzy guarding the fuck outta people, it ain’t the perfect game.
VF 4 LYFE WESTSIDE IS THA BEST SIIIIIIDE!
^^ agreed – starting to get a little tired of remix. We should restart our epic VF sessions. 90% low throw combo FTW.
Arooo! Do you hear me? I’m the best that’s ever been.
So if there are 7 akumas in the top 8, then a ban is needed? I like how Zass calls him a “failed experiment”, which seems to be the perfect description of the mofo. I am just curious to see if “top” players can hang with a well played Akuma come tournament time.