Soul Calibur 5 Official Discussion

I like it, there needs to ways to force your opponent to duck. Poking repeatedly with safe quick lows doesn’t put enough fear into them if they know getting hit by a 3B into full combo could be coming if they duck.

Why does Algol’s super need to do like 75% life? Largest hitting move in the game, right?

I can do just as much damage with 2 meters as Cervantes. Crazy high damage with 2 meters isn’t that strange in this game. It gets hugely scaled down if he combos much before it anyway. the 1 meter version is absolutely trash as well so he is without a 1 meter utility super.

Wow, it takes 2 full meters? I thought it only took one, nevermind then, that makes much more sense.

Yeah, it takes one to slam the chair down, then another to initiate the animation.

That’s what I get for having the training mode set to infinite meter and never realizing it is going from full to empty in one attack.

Yeah, I almost missed that too. But I figured there had to be some reason for it to not go into animation automatically.

Hey guys. I have some more uploads on some games. Was wondering what I can do to improve. I know myself need to work on doing more side-steps as well as throw-teching more. Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

~Saka

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Felt like the Siegfired could have used more stance changes and more kicks, but I felt like he was smart enough to attack when he blocked my EX attacks as well as try to keep space between me and him.

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This match made me feel like even though I did side-step a lot of his attacks, I should have punished more with B moves, since, I was caught off-guard that Raphael could do a ducking move to dodge A moves.

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Again, I felt like I could have side-stepped more, but I remember me being a bit cautious of both his A and B move range. Can you also tech his throws? If so, I need to learn to tech a bit more.

You can tech all of his normal grabs, even the ones he “combos” into, with, for example, CH 4A and 6A,A. Dunno if you can grab the 1A+G grab, or if you can tech the just version of 63214A+G. I can’t see anything that changes with that move on just, so maybe that’s it?

This game is so good and Leixia is so fun but I have no idea what I’m doing. I seriously feel like the slow kid who can’t figure out which blocks go in which holes when I’m playing this game. So many moves…so many underlying game mechanics…

but throws arent particularly fast and are duckable

also, lol at the idea that teching a throw should damage the person who performed the throw

Can anyone upload some decent cervantes match videos? I’ve tried to find some on youtube, but no luck. I want to get a better feel on how to execute his moveset. Especially against some of the more faster characters like raphael, xiba, pyraah, etc.

You don’t like the concept of risk vs reward?

Doesn’t Yoshimitsu’s health suck throw work like that? If they tech it, they get life from you instead? Or maybe that only worked in SCIV.

Not sure if this has been posted but theres a great feature on this game for the PS3.

You can upload your replays directly to youtube straight from the PS3

  1. Save your replay
  2. Output your replay to video (should see this option at the bottom of the screen on the saved replays list)
  3. Go to the video editor in XMB and select your video
  4. Upload to Youtube or Facebook.

Great feature for those who don’t have video capturing options and such.

Game has an extremely solid feature set for online, I hope all fighting games that follow strive to equal or be greater than what is offered in Soul Calibur 5. Fingers crossed they get Tekken Tag 2 right!
Netcode is decent aswell.

Thanx funk1 wish I knew that before I turned the game back in.

I know most of the move notation, but I haven’t seen this before. Explain please?

iGDR = 214~B
Basically Cervantes’ EWGF. A move with an improved uber version that is way harder to do and he whores it all day long.

So what do you guys think of Patroklos vs alpha Patroklos as well as Pyrrha vs omega Pyrrha?

Ugh, I hate the Sophi siblings match up. Poor Hilde can’t afford to stand near them for too long.

If I had to say I think aPat comes out on top if you master his JFs, but I can’t doubt Pyrrah’s speed though.