Xiaoyu seems to be popular lately online, at least for me. The last few times I’ve played, I’ve run into at least 1 every session. -___-
Local tourney today, packed full of MVC and other stuff.
no sfxt. /rant
I’m currently having a dilemma on which one to partner with Ryu. Would it be Juri or Nina? So far, here’s my breakdown:
Nina’s Pros:
- Strong damager
- Combos rarely scale, hence the damage
- Better synergy with Ryu
- Super and Cross Arts are hardly needed
- Fewer buttons to press
- Strong at middle
- Good reach
- Better jump-ins
Nina’s Cons:
- Super and Cross Art are difficult to connect (in case the need for it arises)
- Slow fighter
- Weak cross-up game
- Drains too much meter due to synergy
- Poor mobility
Juri’s Pros:
- Fast fighter (I consider her one of the fastest, if not the fastest character in this game)
- Good mobility
- Super and Cross Arts are easy to connect due to plenty of options
- Trickster fighter due to her unpredictability, making her easy to get in
- Strong at corners
- Strong neutral jump kick
Juri’s Cons:
- Combo scaling
- Poor synergy with Ryu
- Poor reach with normals, particularly punches
- Super is punishable when blocked or missed.
What attracted me to using Juri is due to her speed and mobility, while I got attracted to Nina due to her strong damage and good jump-ins. Anyway, I’m not asking for advice on which one I should choose, but feel free if you want to. I just want to rant it anyway. 
Drop Ryu altogether!
NinaxJuri, can’t go wrong with that!
That’s out of the question. I’m a Ryu loyalist.
Is that on the Xbox? I’m thinking there’s less Xiaoyu players on the PC 'cause most keyboards can’t register more than 2 buttons pressed simultaneously. Then how do they do super arts? Glad I’m using a joystick lol. Guess I’m going to have to pick up a pocket character to replace Xiaoyu if her popularity gets out of hand.
Yup, XBL. 
One in particular has been beating the crap out of me, runs Cammy/Xiaoyu. Every AA turns into like half my life and a mixup. Think his tag is “Log Trap”, if anyone else has run into him.
There aren’t very many Xiaoyu on PSN luckily. I really don’t want my character to become too popular. Mirror matches are annoying. o_O
Ya know, I used to think Blanka was an okay guy. I would just sort of look at all the hate and go “Well, that’s just *their *opinion”. I’d think, “hey, he was charming in those Vita episode things”, “at least he’s not heihachi”, or “THINK OF BRETT ELSTON”. But dear god, now I want that green piece of shit to die in a fire.
i have. he’s good.
I know that feeling lol. I remember when Juri was all the rage. Constant mirror matches. UGGGGGGGH. >__>
Good to know I wasn’t the only one that’s played him. XD Went 1-4 against him in ranked one night, couldn’t do anything but give him the nod of approval.
Play RyuxRyu- erm Ken. :stare:
Sometimes I wonder if even the RyuxKen players are tired of seeing RyuxKen.
Even Ryu players have standards.
I’m quite sick of Ryu/Ken players, although I’m a Ryu/someone else player.
How exactly? Both are comboable and comparable in difficulty to Ryu’s SF4 Ultra setups.
Super: Whatever into Geyser, Ivory Cutter then super.
Cross: Whatever into Geyser, HP Skull Splitter, Cr.:hp: , cross art.
Her cross works as an anti-air too, if you’re close enough (their move must not be just barely hitting you, cross misses those).
If I juggled using two Geysers and then Ivory Cutter, the super will no longer connect. For me to connect after a two Geyser juggles, I’ll have to catch it without Ivory Cutter. The same goes for Cross Arts. I’ll have to use Geyser just once for them to connect easily. I have to say Nina’s super is safer compared to Juri’s.
for a setup to work after ivory cutter it has to allow for you to hit them afterwords. 2 geysers + ex skull splitter gives you a bounce for either sweep, ivory + tag or her super.
as larthy said earlier, Skull splitter is a good setup into cross, i dont use cross arts often but when I do, I always try doing an optimum combo without too much unnecessary hits. a good one for nina would be cr. hp > hk geyser > cr. hp > hp skull splitter ( I wanna say you can squeeze a final cr. hp in here but I’ll need to check) >cross art. if they’re too far for the cr. hp, a cr. mk would suffice as well.
anchor pacman…you got trolled son!!!
I wish I could play Pac man to troll some people and kinda humble them up a little bit.
Too bad he is banned…for now.
Whaaat?
…you’re right, you can sneak in an extra cr.:hp: . God damn. You just optimized my cross combo; 574 to 610 damage. Yummy :3
He is pretty damn good. He has beat the hell out of me a couple times.