so just realized i know nothing of character matchups i think me and spektrum just went 15 rounds and i won 2 of them lol i advise every1 to play him only person i’ve honestly ever played that made me scared to move I COULDNT DO SHIT!
Lol. And to think…I didn’t play cammy once.
Your sakura is much better than your cammy, but you need to stop doing such unsafe moves. That’s what hurt you the most.
yea i notice i get focus attack happy and i keep jumping into the hits like a force a habbit thanks for the matches though
XBL Gamertag: Rable1980
Location: Belgium
Headset: Yes
Record Matches: Yes (digital camera)
Dedication: getting better
Characters: Guile (mostly), Rose
Strengths: zoning, patience, knowledge of game mechanics, corner pressure
Weaknesses: being rushed down, ambigous crossups
Characters Good VS: Cammy, Bison, Zangief, Sagat (
Characters Bad VS: Viper, Balrog
What I Need to Practice: Execution, effective use of FADC, not beeing predictable
spoken languages : french, english
notes :
-I don’t get bored playing a single matchup for a long time
-If possible connection must 4 bars or more. This mean I will probably not play with non european peoples.
XBL Gamertag: DarkNTormented
Location: New Orleans, LA
Headset: Yes…meh
Record Matches: Yes (digital camera)
Dedication: Just getting better overall.
Characters: Akuma
Strengths: BnBs, hit confirming, mechanics
Weaknesses: Particular match ups, using focus attacks (the attack itself. I can FADC pretty well.)
Characters Good VS: Zangief, Sagat, Ryu/Ken/Akuma
Characters Bad VS: Rog, Seth, Chun, Honda
What I Need to Practice: Focus attacking properly, matchups, AA’ing more
XBL Gamertag: TrinityRagnarok
Location: PA
Headset: Yes
Record Matches: No
Dedication: Trying to get better at the game, maybe competitively if it comes along.
Characters: Sakura, Cammy, Ryu
Strengths: Knowledge of the game mostly, ability to read opponent’s strategy.
Weaknesses: My playing actually keeping up with my thinking, ability to combo going down during a match, knowing certain matchups.
Characters Good VS: Dan, Sakura, Gief, Sagat, Viper
Characters Bad VS: Ryu, Chun, Gouken, Bison
What I Need to Practice: BnB’s, practical usage of FADC’s.
Parallel Quicks (feedback)
In our first match, you took Gen. Gen’s jump is excellent, but you’ve been too jump happy here. Against a crouching Guile you need to be very carefull before jumping. A bit more baiting and ground game are needed here.
Then you took Rufus. As for gen you need to be more carefull against Guile. Rushing down is good but to close the gap against guile with Rufus is not easy. If you just walk and jump with dive kicks you will lose too many HP in the process. I guess you still have to work your pressure strings as I was able to take distance again. At the very end of the last round, you had very little HP then you began to be really careful. That’s what you should have done from the beginning.
Last match you took Sakura. Well. Again, to play against Guile, you should have the same patience as if you were playing Guile. Just walking forward, taking every sonic booms is not the solution. I feel you totally lost patience in this match.
I guess, overall, you need to work mostly on footsies and patience. Sorry for playing only Guile, and for those 3 matchup I play turtle Guile, so I understand it’s not easy.
oooh which reminds me anyone wanna take on my sakura? message me sometime after 11:00 eastern time i’ve been training with her and got the compliment of ahem your sakura play is by far the best i’ve seen gg indeed mind you i lost this round to a vega player and i wish it was recorded it was a beautiful match
Quick before darkntourmented gets to post i was playing with the controller upside down lmao i still need more work but there will be a rematch as soon as i figure out where i tossed my dpad lol
In light of that I’ll keep my opinions to myself until you find your dpad. Just send me a message so we can fight again.
in light of what happpened last night i decided to post a couple videos of my sakura matches about 5 minutes after my match with Mr.Mcoy… i would post these over in the sakura forum but i feel like i know every in here and i get better support here to
oh and Mr.Mcoy its not an excuse or anything but i came fresh off a 5 round loosing streak right before we fought so my mind wasnt in the right place but hopefully we’ll hae some better matches next time
just watched the new ssf4 vid with dudley and anyone besides me noticed they look kind of ugly now? dudley doesnt exude the same coolness as he did in 3rd strike adn makoto’s clothes are too tight grrrr
She is more girlish now
posted the sakura vids here dey go
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Just hit me up when your ready.
yeah i play sim… i used to play some people here and took a break, but hit im back at least until someone like killakelly or mr snk woop my ass too hard and I realize I wont ever actually be shit at this game…lol JK sorta… anyways hit me up I would be glad to give you some tips… you can see how I play him and decide if you like how I play. I also main dictator so you will prob play him a couple of times too.
this is to kaizenstrife
In the 1st video, a few questionable Ultras were thrown. Whether they were controller malfunctions or not, I think you should be a little more conspicuous when throwing it open air like that. You should be comboing into it CONSTANTLY. Me being a fight pad user myself, I say get yourself a Mad Catz, I got one?it works fine. And the look on a stick user?s face when I beat them offline with my pad is priceless.
More patience. One of the reasons why you?re having match-up knowledge issues, is that you?re too busy trying to blitz your opponent right away. Give yourself some space to notice what your opponent is doing and how it relates, if at all, to the match-up strategies already known to be effective. I really have to say this: Learning the match-ups won?t happen overnight. It takes a little time to be able to adjust your hands through all of them more comfortably. KEEP PRACTICING.
At first I was going to say ?You FA into combos pretty well?but after the 1st round its extremely predictable.? But now after watching everything in its entirety, I?m saying that you FA way too much. Use it, but use it more effectively. Since you throw a lot of open air FA, concentrate more on FA?ing opponents slower attacks.
Sakura has way to many options for lethal damage coming out of that EX hurricane kick and you use NONE of them. Learn your combos. (In the 2nd video, Seth was supposed to be KO?d at 4:13. You had an EX bar and full Ultra.)
And most importantly man, learn how to block?you need A LOT more defense. Your defense and AA game are virtually non-existent. Please don?t take offense.
I repeat?PLEEEAAASSSE DON?T TAKE OFFENSE TO ANY OF THIS. I AM NOT PERFECT AND ONLY TRYING TO HELP ANOTHER PLAYER.
To sum it all up, you had it exactly right in your video description. You are impatient, therefore, you already know your own problem. Better defense comes with patience naturally. Practice more effective focus attacking along with solid blocking and that combined with learning your combos will put you in a better position. Sorry if it?s all too wordy, but there you go. GG.
Sorry…
lol noted thanks for the tips
I feel his pain though… sakura is very hard to get in with and staying in is even harder. I would probably compare any character getting away from her except maybe rose equal to guile getting away from a bison after guile has been cornered. SO FRUSTRATING to chase them all over the place.
I play a little of her for a third and I would say everything that darkntormented has said is true, with the addition that I think that even though her fireball game sucks you make almost no use of it. while it can be worthless as far as hitting an oppnent, it will usually make them come to you or push them into the corner… both good things for sakura.