the reason justin is the best player isn’t because he has more experience than everyone else. it’s because he’s more consistent than everyone else. through vanilla and super justin won pretty much every tournament he entered. I know justin won every major he entered with the exception of evo 2k9, evo 2k10, and SBO. you can debate the rest i suppose, but you can’t ignore results. And NO ONE in the US has results like justin.
since justin moved to socal ~6 months ago, he has won every tournament we’ve held that he’s attended. he just won an 8 man invitational with makoto…
Its easy to watch a youtube vid and armchair pro and say “that guy isn’t that good” but frankly the only thing that matters is winning actual events, and Justin wins the most (for now).
This is exactly what I’m trying to put across. Justin has the results. Consistency = Results which in turn = reality. That’s hands down, a fact. I don’t deny he is the best US player cos he is holding that title and I also feel that he has better matchup knowledge than most US top players. But when I watch matches, I tend to analyse players’ thoughts and I think some players have better defense and ability to break down defenses better than him with regards to mind games during matches. That’s why I feel he deserves to lose against these players. I honestly think if some of these players were getting paid to play too, like him, then he might be facing retrenchment.
I have never played with them so I’ll never really know till I play them. Maybe I’m wrong. But what I feel is from the matches I’ve watched. Just like from Jap matches, I think that Bonchan is a better Sagat player overall than Mago even though Mago is globally recognised as the best Sagat player.
My post/s might have been offensive to some but it’s just my 2 cents worth. I apologise if I did, for I don’t mean any offense to anyone.
Justin is the best no question. Ricky is the best on paper, but I don’t think that Ricky is second best. He is very good, he’s top 5 in my book when it comes to consistency, but I don’t think he’s right after Justin. We will not know until the top players play long sets against each other, which won’t happen unless people organize an event and set something up.
@rexell - I see why you would think so highly of Valle then. Valle is extremely good at analyzing his opponents and taking them out of their element. I like your posts, you’re a smart guy :P. I swear guile attracts intelligent players.
@dieminion - top 5 is really hard to do. i have favorites, but i couldn’t construct a top 5.
Yeah I’m gonna have to agree. The reason I started playing guile was how different his gameplay is to the rest of the cast. In a game where combos and ultras do insane damage and are pretty necessary to win, I find it amazing that a zone and poke relient character like guile actually has what it takes to win. Guess that shows that Capcom did a pretty good job to balance that out in my opinion.
On another note, when playing guile I feel 100% more comfortable because his play revolves around reading the opponent and reacting appropriately to patterns. I used to play viper and I couldn’t focus on her combos/mixups AND overall match flow, it was all about the next blockstring feint mixup or what to do after this throw, etc. When playing guile it’s about the overall match awareness of what is REALLY going on making good reads.
Not here to disagree but there isn’t such thing as “Best Player”, only top 5 and/or a top 10.
Justin is a mighty player, no doubt, but certain people that aren’t as highly ranked give him trouble…and the same goes for anyone.
In mayor tournaments, seeding matter a lot and who you go against mid tourney is often more important then who you go against later on.
Great example is Daigo v Sabin. On paper, Daigo has more wins, more experience, more whatever. However, Arturo has to be one of the hardest player to beat for Daigo due to play style, character choice, etc.
Number of wins is an easy way to quantify ones skill, but it’s a bit incorrect.
Again, not arguing that JWong isn’t inside the mighty top 5. Dude is a machine.
Thought the last flash kick would give me enough meter to fadc in the Boxer vid. The Ryu and Sagat players in both matches didn’t really have good matchup knowledge about Guile. I will try to take vids of players who know how to fight Guile if I have the chance again cos the arcades in my area don’t allow recording of videos. That’s why the Sagat match is only half done.
Hoppa! great vid!! I had trouble with that stupid kick, NJ HP seem to be an excellent answer! going to try that tomorrow
A million tks, Rexell, you going this wkend?
Trying to find out other ways to use UDK kick on some opponents recently and I think it’ll work quite well on Bison. I believe UDK counterhit can link into 2 x far s.hp if the distance is right.
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Against a Ryu player. I think he might have won if he didn’t turtle that much and play the 50/50 tech or SRK FADC game.
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The ending setup into ultra has saved me quite a few times when Zangief tries to do jump ultra. If he jumps a bit late, at least the super will tag 2 hits to him and get out of his crossup game.
Sanchez is legit. He showed up for a rinky-dink tournament I went to a few weeks ago with Min and dominated everyone hard. I’d go with Valle or John Choi as my favorites cuz I’m old school like that.
I’ll be the first to admit that I can’t plink for shit. My inputs are straightforward. I tried plinking and I don’t know…I can’t seem to get the hang of it. Could it possibly be due to my old age and ancient reflexes, perhaps?
After playing at Guard Crush, I noticed I was having issues with hitting my links on the XBL system and decided to use the system to tighten up the links, etc. It’s set up to a n old lagless CRT. (The PS3 is set up on an Asus).
