for akuma what is ex flip red fb? i saw this in the matchip specific guaranteed demons thread but no one seems to answer me. maybe somebody in here could help me out:wonder:
By deep are you inferring that GOW and MW2 take no skill because you rush out in the battlefield and shoot a gun:wonder:. And also to answer your question SF4 is deeper in content,combos, and skill. Content meaning that they have supers and ultras and different stages and music for each stage and leaderboard rankings and replays of entire matches! By combos i mean linking,plinking,double tapping, and canceling are way harder than holding the R trigger:rofl:. By skill i mean its quite hard to find a really good person on GOW and MW2! I mean i have not played MW2 but i used to play MW1(10th prestige btw) and lemme tell you I was a lot better than most of the 10th prestiges out there. GOW is extrememly hard to find somebody good cuz everyone chainsaws like a maniac and shotgun is less powerful so players cannot fall back on that anymore. So pretty much i hope i answered your question and good luck on winning that argument:tup:
Hey guys since this is the beginners thread I have another question:rofl:! Alright i think i said this but i’m an akuma mainer and this is my first Street Fighter ever:looney:. I am in G3-B and play a lot of player matches with the GFAQS Casual Lounge and the Training Team for PS3. But i lose a lot:sweat: and i mean A LOT! What tips would you guys have for me to do with my akuma? If you guys could breakdown what I should try to learn or what i should be doing that would be great.
Well, for one thing, go through the trials. The hard trials all share one particular combo that will prove particularly useful. Also, do not attempt the super or ultra unless you are 1) punishing a move that’s slow enough for you to get in, 2) getting an opponent coming from the air, or 3) crumpling the opponent from a focus attack. The only way you can combo them in is to dash out of a successful focus. As soon as you hit, basically the move becomes :r::r::lp::lp::l::lk::hp:, because you have to buffer in the ultra command while you’re dashing. If you hit the opponent in any other way, like perhaps a jab as you’re doing the input, they will actually be allowed to get out of it no questions asked.
The aerial fireball is going to be quite useful when properly applied. I think the most important thing of all is gonna be that teleport. Akuma can be an offensive powerhouse, but until you get that good, he has good defensive tools to utilize. A reversal teleport gets out of the tightest situations, and because it doesn’t care where your opponent is like the other teleports, you’ll always know where you’re going. If you find your opponent is chucking lots of projectiles, his red fireball beats even the EX projectiles.
I’m not exactly an Akuma main (I like to actually have some life and play Zangief), but these seem like fine starter points.
Thanks! I already beat Akuma’s hard trials a long time ago. I think like a month or month and a half ago but i started to main him like 2 weeks ago. Also yeah I need to learn how to bait my air fireball more. It seems like that will come in handy. Also I need to improve my mixup game, and most of all zoning with akuma. I just started to read Sirlins “Playing to Win” book and I see some useful info in here so I am going to read it. Any more suggestions would be grat to help me out:tup:
i’m asking this q here cause i dont know where it better fits:
what did the newest patch for sf4 on X box live do?
i have nt put the game in the xbox in awhile but it hasnt been over a month i dont think, and yesterday i had to dl a new patch… what does it do?
-dime
Hi everybody, I’m new to fight games and SF, and I have a problem finding people I can practice with. I don’t mind losing, but it’s usually 10-0, I do get 30-50% wins most. Problem is that the online community that I can play with are by now far ahead, so its hard to get people at a bit lower skill level. I also don’t really like the Ryu/Ken/Sagat mainstream so I play Fei-Long, Rose, Cammy. And I play on a PC with keyboard. You might guess these don’t help either 
So if you have any advice that would be cool, and - its nice to be here and keep rockin’!
Hello,
I am not THAT new, but I took a long time off SF4 (blame WoW, but now I am over that).
As such, my current G1 rank does not reflect the skills I have, and I probably need to step back and play at a lower level for some time.
I have noticed some people talk of “new accounts” to reset their GP standings, but I suppose this is on PS3 because accounts are free.
Is there any way to reset my GP and/or get a fresh account on XBL, short of canceling my current Live subscription or adding another?
EDIT: Just wanted to point out my G1 rank isn’t skill either, just a lot of play :wgrin:
Create a new xbl account and you get a month free gold membership.
Looked like a good idea, and I thank you, but apparently, at least in Italy, free Gold trial only comes with a new 360.
If there is no other way, I will just pay for a couple months for a new account proper and that’s it.
It looks strange to me that there isn’t a way to reset your GP, but it’s possible.
Seems like a good idea but when I did this before buying 1 year of live, I couldn’t load the same profile on that account which meant I had to unlock everything from the beginning. There may be a way to circumvent that but I’m clueless to it.
Hi folks
I have just startd getting into SF4 in a big way and need some advice regarding landing arial attacks against human contolled oppenents.
I usualy play as Ryu, Ken, Sagat or Akuma.
I have started working on my combos and most of these start with jump kicks or jump punches.
I have no trouble landing these and getting a small combo aginst the computer even on the hardest difficuly.
However, I have sarted playing on xbox live and I am not having much luck landing arial attacks agains human players. 9 out of 10 times the opponent will land a succesful anti air attack.
Can anyone give me any sort of pointers regarding the sort of situation when you have more sucess landing an air attack on an opponent.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
dont ever jump in unless its over a fireball
Even then you have to zone it properly or you’re still susceptible to punishment.
stick vs pad players in person.
i play my nephew offline a lot more than live now and he uses the loud sounds the TE makes to give him an advantage in wake up games.
is this commom? what to do?
I think you misunderstood me.
I was talking about this being in the OP:
I agree, I have no problem with making vids that are awesomely impractical (I’ve actually made a few myself in a variety of different things including SSBM and martial arts).
The thing is, I think that having something like that particular article in the OP is a misplaced priority. This is an introductory thread for newbies, and learning how to make trick shot vids and the like are well beyond. As a martial artist, I know that nobody would teach a student a backflip on their first day of class, and that’s what the inclusion seems like to me.
Yea, it just seems off.
When playing a competitive style game, meaning someone wins and someone loses, the potential winners should take every legal advantage they can, which in Mr. List’s case includes sounds. I can only see 2 routes you could take here.
- Practice at being quiet with the stick. I don’t even know if this is possible without sacrificing gameplay.
- Fake him out. If he’s using your sound as an advantage, that means he knows you’re going to try doing something and has an answer ready for you. If you intend on baiting out these reactions from him, do some nonsense actions that don’t interfere with your actual commands. In his confidence, he’ll commit to trying his answer to your “answer,” and then you can punish him when it doesn’t work.
for jumping attacks you won’t get much if you just randomly jump at them. use it to jump over predictable f/b. use safe jumps. cross-ups. but more importantly work more on the ground game first.
fake mash or fake inputs. not every move has to be a move.
i have a question
Recently i bought an arcade stick and im trying to transition from using my pad to using the stick but im finding it quite difficult to do special moves such as a DP or fireballs from the left side of the screen so my question is; what is the best way to train myself to do special moves easily?
also pardon my bad english (second language)
just keep on playing and practice on BOTH sides.