Really dude, if you’re having trouble with Akuma players spamming air FBs and sweeps… Nah, y’know what, I’m not even gonna bother. Foremost I’m not even qualified to give you advice, as my Akuma isn’t even that good to begin with. But if I were to give it, I’d tell you to pick Akuma in Ranked and start spamming air fb’s and sweeps and see how fast you get to 2K PP… Please document it in video so all us scrubs in the Akuma forums that are wasting our time learning setups and matchup specific tactics can learn from a Master how it should really be done.
All this time I’ve been listening to guys like LordofUltima, LoyalSol, Shinakuma204 and practicing all these hard to learn setups, but you obvsiouly know more than them. Teach me please!!!
Yeah, I’d say most of you SRK Akuma players outside of Sol and Shin (Ultima still plays this game?) have some work to do then. You don’t need any set ups against most of Xbox live, and using them will get you killed more often than not.
If one is so fixated on points, here is a guide for 2,000 easy mode:
Pick Akuma.
Play keep away. Can they get in? If so, move to 3. If not, you won!
Walk back and forth all fucking day within cr.HK range. Do it a lot. Nobody at this level is going to whiff punish you and 1 out of 10 people will actually block and punish. Once you knock them down, proceed to 4.
Pick between LK Demon flip > throw, LK Demon flip > palm, jump Tatsu, dive kick, j.MK. I recommend Tatsu and cross up j.MK the first few times, it avoids mashing pretty easily.
Keep going to town until they guess right (well, they’re flipping coins against you anyway, so they will eventually.) If you’re not in the corner, teleport out! If you are in the corner, block for a little while first and then teleport out. Nobody at this level will usually know the OS to beat your teleport, but a few players might try to wait where you’d teleport. Start back at 1 after you escape!
And now you’re a 2,000PP/5,000BP member of the XxShinGoukixX Xbox Live army.
One thing that you are not considering is that Demon Flip Anything Other Than Sweep is not possible on a lot of connections if you use anything close to offline timing.
Akuma is in fact harder to use than most the cast. Online he is probably the hardest character to use with his miniscule active frames and tiny hitboxes. Offline this issue isn’t that big of a deal but with any type of latency this becomes stupid hard.
Also I’ve used a handful of different mains at low level, Akuma has definitely been the toughest experience. People also need to take into consideration that lag can have a rather large effect on Akuma, one small hitch in lag at an inopportune moment (like when trying to work a vortex) can lead to a pretty nasty punish which hits Akuma a lot harder than almost everybody in the game.
While Akuma has a lot more tools to work with, there is a much smaller margin of error allowed and expecting perfection from low level players is ridiculous.
He showed 4500PP/18K BP (godlike for PC), but was a pure scrub who never stayed on the ground any length of time. After demolishing him in Round 3 (okay, so I tried to actually play him like he was decent second round and dropped it), the 'tard yanked his cord. Taunted his shitty Sagat skills after the quit, and got this lovely reply:
avoid guns n roses or something, he beat me wit a scrub bison, then invited me to a party to talk shit, so i bodied him with ken and joined and starting laughing my ass off and him and his friend started screaming at me as i lol’d and was like GET ROCKED! then i got 2 extremely angry voice messages
it was fuckng great, i showed my friend the messages and we laughed so looong.
Wow… So he pulled the plug thinking he denied you of any points, but he himself probably lost like 150 BP/PP by doing that. Genius! And his litterary skills could make Shakespeare blush… Sucking shit and cocks together! Or maybe he prefers you do one first, then the other. Maybe you should’ve asked him…
I use to run into Kax here and there back in the Vanilla PC days. Not only is he awful but he would intentionally play the game with the settings too high. Basically his strategy was to pick Vanilla Sagat and force his opponents to play at 30 or so frames per second with him. Now this wasn’t lag, it was consistent low frame rate from beginning to end. So pretty much he would chuck tigers all day and if you jumped at him, he had a minute to anti air you. Does he still do this?
No, the settings were fine (I have it on Fixed, and it was my room). No matrix crap or anything. Only that he was the one jumping around like a hyperactive flea on a combined caffeine high and sugar rush… LOL! Eventually, I just made him pay through the nose for all that airtime, and when he got to about 20% health left, the game stalled. I knew he had pulled, and just waited it out.
Unfortunately, he must’ve found some kind of exploit to allow him to get away without losing anything, so I immediately filed a cheating complaint against him.
here’s another from kaxblastard. from the looks of his bp/pp, i thought i was going to be free. it turned out low strong was too much for him http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6302/afse.jpg</noscript>
Ya, I just played Kax yesterday, he was using Bison with 5000+pp and was horrible. Pretty sure I faced his Sagat a month or so again, and he did the same thing. The minute you win a round on him and can potentially win the next one, he pulls the plugs. I’ve only been playing for 3 months or so, figured he was going to destroy me…and not even close, he’s awful. I don’t think he loses any points when he dc’s, so who knows what he’s doing. I just reported em and that’s about it.
