Meh, I know who I play off camera, and its quite all at least people known for those character in the states not gonna bother to mention cause what do I have to you? Especially ppl who pretend to know what they are talking about
Most entertaining Abel I ever saw, yes sir.
lol congrats on gettin a thread dedicated to suckin you rico. learn to block and you’ll be one of the best in the country for real and not just talking about abel players.
Translate this mess FFS or we’ll all have to pretend to know what your talking about 
I’m pretty sure if he “learned to block” it would suppress his current playing style. Different people play different styles. A person who is good but needs to “learn to block” is a person who is a gambler and tries to be physic during gameplay.
great finals match!
that was awesome.
blocking does wonders, no joke.
Rico’s Abel is ok…
More command throws though, you mix-up game is a bit simplistic. You don’t punish your opponent enough for guessing wrong, if they try and tech grab and guess wrong, the worst they’re gonna eat is what? A short short short combo?
I also noticed you don’t capitalize on resets enough, just something I saw.
Also, one thing I like to do when I land an AA cr.Fr is light roll into another elbow. It’s a free reset and sets up Abel’s guessing game.
LMAO… Are you serious?
A+ thread! Great for the lulz
Uhh, yes.
God, why the fuck are the SF players in SRK such condescending bastards?
I mean seriously, it’s not like I said anything outrageous, I was just pointing out some things I observed. If you don’t agree with me, just tell me why, hell, maybe I’m the crazy one here. But stupid comments like that is really what’s wrong with this site, nothing insightful or helpful. Just a useless, condescending comment. It’s like if your name isn’t “jwonggg” or “Santhrax” people take your opinion with a grain of salt
I mean, the way people defend this guy you would think he’s fucking Daigo or Mago, but he’s not, he’s a decent Abel player (Just to clarify I’m not any better) who has things to work on just like everyone else, and I was just throwing something out there to help him. It’s so funny, because I was actually about to put “Don’t flame me” at the bottom of my post because I knew a fucking cavalcade of fucktards would come and write shit like that
My fucking god.
But anyways, yeah, like I was saying, another reset I like off of cr.fr (launch) is light roll in to towards+mk dash. Actually, don’t even think the roll is necessary but bottom line it leaves you at a crazy advantage, and creates a total guessing game for your opponent. They can try to tech a grab, but if they guess wrong they could eat a command throw or rekka. If they try and jump to avoid the mixup altogether, they could eat a wheel kick or FS, or even a another elbow to reset them yet again. If they backdash, they could again eat a rekka. This mix-up leaves at such an advantage that you can even bait out DP’s for the characters that have them. This is mix-up setup is obviously safer with meter, so you can FADC if you throw out a bad rekka, so it isn’t something I would strongly recommend if you don’t have meter but it’s something that you should do every one in a while after landing an elbow to keep you opponent on their toes.
EDIT: Kind of funny to see two well known players flame each other on SRK xD
EDIT: And also, don’t come with some shit like “Why are you even explaining this to him, he’s a top player he knows already” because honestly, I didn’t see him use anything like this in any of the videos I’ve seen of him. And besides, I’m not necessarily talking to just him, obviously other lesser Abel players wonder in here so if they can leave this thread with a little piece of information they didn’t know before they hey, guess what, I did my job
Id rep a few posts in this thread but unable to do so at the moment lol
the reason we’re always angry: gief and akuma. 
The thing is about reset, really both of you have to guess and nothing is confirmed. Its extremely rare to see matches of top players where abel uses the reset(except maybe in the corner but thats still very rare) and its simply because its simply NOT reliable and more of a gamble than anything. You might be able to pull of fancy reset combos against “average” level competition but not at above average and higher level.
All the options you stated in the above posts are theory fighting at best. Seriously, read again what you just posted, this isnt turn based RPG. Things happen in real time, and in most cases of resets you dont have that time to see/know/react to what your opponent is doing, i mean after a typical cr.hp xx lk roll xx s.lp xx lk roll, you’ll crossup and land infront of your opponent, so you’re gonna do TT now? Its not confirmed at all and you might even eat a reversal or punished if somehow you whiffed the TT (guessing that he’s gonna try to tech throw LOL)…
Confirmed damage will always be better than resets. Period. Not that im saying you shouldnt do it, but promoting it over other better moves? Hell no.
In this case, after an AA cr.hp the highest damage you can get is obviously followed by ultra, followed by dash/roll in super. Then i think its probably a CoD ex Falling Sky. Dash in hp falling sky. Or cancel the cr.hp into hk roll and hp falling sky to keep putting your opponent near the corner(proly the best thing to do if your execution is good since sometimes you trade making it impossible to cancel into a roll but you can still dash in falling sky or ultra).
and SMH for snapping over someone posting “lmao are you serious?”
The reason I like JBA’s Abel over Rico’s is that he’s much more solid, he goes for confirmed damage, he knows how to block, and he knows when to lay off the pressure.
Rico seems to be a naturally good player, but he hasn’t yet reached that level of refinement in his play. His reactions are way above average, and his execution is good when it counts. As Hav said, he just needs to learn when to back off. He has the potential, but he’s not quite there.
And just to cover my ass: This is all theory fighter, and i’m just a scrub. Yes I know Rico beat Sanford, and I haven’t done anything, but i’m just making honest judgments based on the videos i’ve seen of Rico. I also realize that the videos are a fraction of both player’s gameplay.
People were talking about Shiro; there’s no reason to compare Japanese and American players at this time. We’re not playing against Japanese opponents, we’re playing against North American opponents, so do what works best on your continent.
Lol, nah, it’s just like, the SRK SF community is filled with guys like that and it seriously just pisses me off. If your join date isn’t from 2001 or some shit people will flame you for posting in the SF forums, thus why I don’t post here, only lurk. I appreciate guys like you who will go out of their way to help out fellow players and maybe state some reasons why so and so tactic isn’t effective, but like, when you making a comment for the sole purpose of being a condescending dick I mean come on.
But yeah, like I said, I wasn’t exactly saying “Go for the reset all the time instead of damage” because obviously that isn’t good, but I was just saying it’s a good thing to throw out there when your starting to get predictable.
And yeah, I suppose that was theory fighter-esque, but mainly what I do is always throw after that particular reset until they start tech-ing it (Obviously, if I’m fighting a character with a good reversal I’ll do that less often) if they start tech-ing it, I’ll maybe do short short cross-up roll or short short tornado throw.
Basically, what I’m saying is I’ll train my opponent to do one thing (tech throws) then do the opposite (elbow) after that certain reset.
Oh and another thing, if you do elbow>lk.roll>elbow you can do mk.roll to end up on the other side of your opponent to catch them blocking the wrong way.
EDIT: Also, if I have meter I’ll pretty much throw out rekka every time and either command or normal throw after FADC (unless I’m fighting someone with a good reversal in which case I’ll often let the Focus Attack hit them and backdash out, unless of course the FA hits)
lol iv heard of rico suave. one of my friends talks about him all the time. is he the don king of street fighter?
nah its the internet, people act like dicks more often on it (im not excluded from this myself) especially since sometimes when you had a shitty day and came back to see some posts that ticks you off etc… even trivial stuff at times.
oh and i think you should check the combos/reset threads instead. what you posted aint really new/good (e.g. elbow lk roll elbow aint a good reset, leaves you at a disadvantage really) and stuff had been discussed thoroughly. this thread doesnt need those theory stuff(especially stuff that’re not good or poorly explained…), i know you’re just trying to help but if i were you id lay off this thread from all of those for now…
plus the way you compose your post hurts my eyes
oh and
"EDIT: Also, if I have meter I’ll pretty much throw out rekka every time and either command or normal throw after FADC (unless I’m fighting someone with a good reversal in which case I’ll often let the Focus Attack hit them and backdash out, unless of course the FA hits)"
post this in the combo thread and wait for people to tell you why what you’re suggesting is silly.
…and im done with this thread
I wasnt being condescending. That wasnt my motive.
My thought process was that Rico has his own playing style, and doing what you suggest he do might make him play out of his natural element. He didnt ask for help so dont “help” him. Can you beat the caliber of players he does?
If you can then play your style and let him play his. Im not even an Abel player so Rico does not appeal to me. I just noticed all the :looney: post in this thread and thought yours was unnecessary.
off a AA c.FP, EX Wheel Kick is nice too if ur close enough to land both hits
i agree tho, Rico has a lot of potential, just needs learn wen to back off a bit and take the better, guaranteed damage
at this point in time, i like Juice over Rico
Lol, I know, my posts are just like big blocks of texts. I used to really space them out but meh, I don’t care that much anymore. And yeah, I was just throwing suggestions out there of course I’m not saying Rico should totally change his playstyle or something, because he’s obviously somewhat successful with the skill set he has. I just noticed some things, and pointed out what I thought about them, I wasn’t saying that if he didn’t follow what I said he would suck for all eternity lol.
I know what I posted wasn’t new, like I said before, it was more for new Abel players (like me) who happened to wonder in this thread. Your right though, I’ve never tried most of this stuff in a live match so basically it was just theory fighter but it sounded good in theory.
EDIT: I like Juice over Rico as well, I think Juice is the best in NA that I’ve seen. The most recent one I’ve seen was him vs. Saber and TooTall, he looked fucking beastly as hell