Made it in safe guys. Weekend was a blast. I learned a ton from the KoF crack sessions and they left me with much more to dissect and practice. When I got home a thought hit me: I may seriously consider a trip to Memphis semi-often just for this Underground Kang. Y’all are DEEP with sick ass players there and I learn so much when we play. Don’t let me get good at this game though. Y’all gon hate my Street Fighter playin ass playin footsies with y’all niggas. Then I take 50% of your life with just Kula’s st. B. Ain’t that right Mike?
TN crew was slim this trip, but shouts to Khushnood Blade and XBox Kinect for rolling with me and pitching in on gas. The trip all the way to ARK would have been complete A$$ A$$ A$$ A$$ (even more than it already is) solo. Excellent stuff to Marcus for taking MK and that KANG. Luv watchin that nigga play. And good stuff to Kinect for 9th place finish in AE and 4th in KoF.
Good games to everyone I played in KoF this weekend - Mike, Adrian, Bishop, Marcus, and I feel like there was someone else that I can’t remember. I know one thing - that’ll be the last time we hear Marcus meow from laughing so hard after Terry’s EX Buster Wolf got counter hit by Maxima’s plain ass Meatball Sub. I’m just glad that nigga wasn’t there for the NeoMax. I don’t give a fuck I’m not the main character anymore. That shit was whack as fuck.
Whatever nigga you know that’s you and Patrick Swayze from the Chippendale sketch outtakes.
Re: Bison vs. Gief discussion
Bison’s lk scissor can still be reversal SPD’d if it hits deep. Yes this would mean that the Bison player would have to mess up spacing, but I am just making the point that it can still happen.
I’m not making the argument that Gief beats Bison or that Bison is bad. I don’t know how to make that part any clearer - I will NEVER argue that Bison is a good character…ever. Bison is amazing and gay and pisses people off…that’s why I play him. What I’m saying is, Gief is gay too, lol. That matchup is even, and you can go into .5’s arguing that it’s slightly in one character’s favor or another. Here’s how I look at it - it is a matchup where both characters are limited in what they can do. If I can’t do my “Bison shit”, then that’s a gay matchup. Yes, Bison’s footsies are great, but even if I get a clean anti air with st. RH, that’s, as Jason said, 90-100 damage. That amount of damage isn’t shit to a character with as much health as Gief. He can even that up with ONE jab SPD that will snatch your ass up from damn near half screen. And if that jump in trades, oh God it’s even better. I’ve studied the spacing in that match from playing Jason with all of Bison’s anti airs. They are so spacing and timing dependent, that more often than not I find myself trading or getting beat clean. Best/most consistent AA option I have found is jump back HK. That’s not to say I am doing everything 100% correctly every time, but I’ll be damned if I am not trying to knock that hairy motherfucker off the screen every time his Brawy-man-with-the-flannel-shirt-off lookin ass gets in the air. Also Bison can’t be as liberal with pokes in that matchup. Smart Giefs will pick up on it and just EX Green Hand through that shit, then he’s right next to you for SPD mixups. Jason has done this to me so many times I start watching his meter and actually try and bait it out so I don’t have to deal with it.
tl;dr version - other characters are gay besides Bison.
Glass of wine then passing out. As much fun as I’ve had this weekend, it’s also been a long one and I did a lot of driving. Night homies.