Cylus, sometimes frames don’t matter honestly. Everyone talks about frames this and frames that in Street Fighter games, but it comes about to be what people fall for. That crouching medium kick poke is good because it knocks down and just adds another dimension to his mind games. I’m not discounting what the “frames” say, but I’m an old school player who always went with what worked and what didn’t by sight and experience and to “add” a knockdown as an option = scary. Even his crouching Roundhouse Kick is super slow, but if you get hit by it, instant combo, that’s the danger of these moves. Crouching forward kick to knockdown and get Dudley closer…there’s a lot of stuff he has as options…it just means you can’t “spam” the moves, but they are viable.
Before this game came out, people said Dudley was too good. People believe hype. I said he is VERY good but will take some work (people can’t just win with him like people can with Balrog, who is much easier to use). You have to have execution with Dudley to set up his stuff, but when he gets in, lifebars go bye bye…now people are saying he’s not as good as advertised, but once everyone executes with him, they will see the power. Anytime you have a character that can deal massive damage off one crouching jab you have to respect that.
I definitely think he is in the top tier of the game, but the “top” list will be crowded…8-12 when all is said and done.
Remember the days when Guy was going to be bottom-tier? LOL. Nasty corner traps, mix-ups, air-to-air izuna drops, bushin chain combos into almost everything…
C.Vipers jump arc is different, it helps to cross up with roundhouse. Her BK hit box has been changed but not enough to where she cant do anything she used to. Cr.mp got buffed a bit because now I trade with shoryukens. I THINK they added more (and blue tinted) smoke to her seismos? Its crazy, theres even less room for error but because her damaged didnt get nerfed as bad as the rest of the cast Im gonna say shes up there among the tops.
Oh I’m not denying he has some matchup issues (Chunners, Hawk, Seth apparently gives him fits) but he’s not the garbage character people were saying he was going to be before the game came out.
Agreed. I understand why pad players feel entitled to PPP and KKK… but I still don’t think it should be allowed. It would be like showing up to a tennis match with a ping pong paddle and demanding an adjusted playing field. PPP and KKK moves (lariat for example) were designed to require three simultaneous presses, same as hadouken was designed to require QCF punch.
But, it’s allowed at all the major US tourneys (like Evo) AFAIK, so that’s pretty much the end of discussion I suppose. I don’t understand why the major tournaments wouldn’t be “purists” about it, but if they’re not, then I accept it, heh.
Do you guys still play here in Memphis? Now that I have a car, I might be able to show, depending on where you guys are. I’d love to learn, if anyone’s patient enough to help.
Umm, yeah. Every Wednesday, at Powerplay Videogames in Cordova, from 7-9 PM.
We have a solid group of about 6-8 regulars, plus more coming out every week. We are always down to welcome new players and breakdown matchups. Of course with Super lobbies, we have a greater amount of games together online too. But it’s still best to come out on Wednesday night.
The only characters I can think of that are worse than him off the top of my head are Gen, Dan, and Hakan. I don’t think he is bad, but he’s in a secondary lower tiered group that is just above those three.
Alright thanks, Hiryu. Wednesdays are just really bad for me, but I’m making excuses to miss church because I want to play. Mind you, I don’t like church, I havta go because of my job, etc. But, I just told 'em I have school stuff so I can make it. Luckily I live in the Bartlett area so Cordova isn’t that far away. Haha.
So word out of MTAC is that all of their SSFIV setups are lagging all to hell and nobody I’ve talked to has even bothered playing. Dunno why exactly, probably HDTVs with composite inputs or something – all I know is that everybody’s said they’re ass. That’s a shame, probably some good competition up there. Maybe they’ll get it fixed Saturday/Sunday.
Aw shit HnK best game I spent way too much money importing and stopped playing lmao. Please put a “TOKI IS CHEAP JESUSBEAM LOL” sign across the front, please and thank you. Interested to see what World’s Fastest Drummer is like too. Ninja Warriors is just silly, glad it’s been shuffled out for more SSFIV er I mean console space.
Reading all your lab work with Juri is awesome cause I’m not really gonna be able to even get in the lab with her until like thursday of this coming week cause of school and all. I’ve played with my crew in the boro here randomly over the past few days using some of your ideas and I’m just about up to speed with them, and they’ve been practicing every day since the game came out. Appreciate it!
Also you think there’s any viability in a BnB for her that starts with close mk? Cause her close s.mk (like throw range close) is actually two hits automatically. I’ve found s.mk, c.lk, forward s.mk, c.hk makes a damn good mixup for putting pressure down. Maybe it’s just a bad idea but close s.mk seems quick enough to be safe if you’re really that close and don’t go for a grab right off the bat. It takes a little longer to come out than like c.lk but I think there’s some potential to that extra hit on close s.mk. (Might have my buttons wrong, again I havent played since probably Thursday and won’t for a good long while. )
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