The Street Fighter V Lounge - Balrog Mains on Suicide Watch

ArtVandelay · February 28, 2016, 9:02pm

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I did that in training mode and it worked 20 out of 20 times. In a real match though I find it awkward, since you have to watch your spacing so much especially in SFV, that I rarely have time to shift my eyes, to the side of the screen.
I just combo off counterhits when I know it has to be a ch. For example with Ryu when you pressure someone with st. MP> st. MP and the first one was blocked, but the second one hit, it has to be a counterhit because the guy must’ve pressed a button, so I can sweep him.
I feel like having a different color hitspark and soundeffect would make confirming of counterhits a lot more convenient.

I mean crush counter demonstrates this quite well. It’s kinda hard to miss the opportunity to do something off CC, thanks to the very obvious sound it makes.

JokeeBoi · February 28, 2016, 9:26pm

Where the fuck is the Alex trailer? It’s almost March. I swear if this update comes at the end of March…

drunkards_walk · February 28, 2016, 9:35pm

I think I need to cut back on my drinking. Every Saturday or Sunday morning I wake up with the vague recollection of playing matches, then I log on and see a few trash talk messages and like 800 less points than I started with lol

Plaid_Unicorn · February 28, 2016, 9:43pm

Yea something I hope to improve on, the hitspark is quite large for CC but on CH it gets lots in the sauce for me from time to time.

DevilJin_01 · February 28, 2016, 9:48pm

Remember you’re playing Street Instinct

drunkards_walk · February 28, 2016, 9:55pm

Does anyone know who won that FChamp vs KBR match last night?

DevilJin_01 · February 28, 2016, 9:57pm

F.Champ for the quick answer.

It wasn’t even a match. F.Champ purposely forfeited a few rounds just to help him out. F.Champ pretty much destroyed him other than a few rounds. It was probably the most trollish exhibition I’ve seen in a long time. I figured F.Champ would win, but not literally play with his food like he did.

drunkards_walk · February 28, 2016, 9:58pm

lol ouch, I guess we won’t be seeing KBR wearing his bath robe in public anytime soon

Plaid_Unicorn · February 28, 2016, 9:59pm

Champ was a savage, screaming “this is my game”. It wasn’t even a contest.

Champ would pause purposely to give blue river a few rounds.

drunkards_walk · February 28, 2016, 10:02pm

I’m honestly not that surprised. Mashing Lariat can only get you so far

nicfurious29 · February 28, 2016, 10:13pm

Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ken and Ryu’s DP is NOT invincible on start up?

DevilJin_01 · February 28, 2016, 10:14pm

You’re using the wrong ones. MP and EX are fully invul on start.

NupoChromine · February 28, 2016, 10:21pm

I’ve literally just been throwing games so that people in matches don’t ragequit while im in my Survival matches. I’m not sure if ragequit matches kick me out of Survival or not so I’m just bleeding LP for colors…

Typhlosion · February 28, 2016, 10:21pm

I feel its actually really easy. I dont find it difficult at all and I just got the game yesterday.

PVL_93_RU · February 28, 2016, 10:27pm

Fuck, man, it was a massacre.

Champ went with the Doom / Magneto / Phoenix team for the entire exhibition

KBR tried like 7 different teams, the last one being Sentinel / Vergil / Doom, IIRC

Champ won like 4 games straight, took a mic, screamed “THIS IS MY GAME”, won liek another 4 games, then gave one to KBR for free out of pity, then won another 2-3 games, then gave KBR another free match, lost a few matches as well, then it was more or less back and forth between them when Champ’s Phoenix was out and the rest was mostly a free match for KBR

During the entire thing, Fchamp looked at KBR, clapped him, laughed, facepalmed, patted him on the back, etc. Overall shit was pretty humiliating, and they still have a main tourney to play through today at Winter Brawl X, they’re both currently in Top 8

drunkards_walk · February 28, 2016, 10:27pm

Trolling Europeans is literally too easy, I’m loving this Cannes chat

jebop · February 28, 2016, 10:42pm

I can’t actually find a character to stick on, I just float around the select screen.

Tebbo · February 28, 2016, 10:45pm

Did anyone need to tell you to fucking LEARN THE GAME?

MilesRiey · February 28, 2016, 10:53pm

Is no one on the face of this planet playing ranked or casual? I played this game for almost an hour and not one single online match happened. So I go to battle lounge, and no matter who I pick it never works… why is it gotta be like this .__.

To be fair Laura’s st.MP into cr.MP is pretty practical to react to on counter hit, the time gap during this link and the hitstop on her mediums really helps to pull it off in a real match.

MachoRhombus · February 28, 2016, 10:55pm

Veserius:

Dime_x:

Veserius:

@Dime_x as another “arcade kid from socal” what arcades were you playing at cause I’ve played tons of scrubs who hold up forward in tons of different games.

90% of my matches until i got to like 3500~ LP were just me crush counter anti airing people 2-3x a round because i knew they would jump.

I mean I get it if you’re not used to playing online, but it’s good to learn how to fight people who play random as fuck cause you might play that sort offline. I had to last week.

Lakewood mall arcade.

Then sf4 came out at evo and I played there, then it came to super arcade, v 94 and arcade infinity and I played there 8-10 hours a day on the weekends. Visited FFA and denjin arcade a bit as well, but not much.
Got a 69 game winstreak at AI one weekend, that was cool.
Placed 13th in a 64 man stacked sf4 tournie at denjin and played casuals with Valle, watts and choi on the A2 machine while waiting… That was also cool.

Went out 0-2 at some SCR tournament… That wasn’t so cool.

I’ve never been close to top player strength. But in sf4 at least I managed to take almost every top player off the arcade machines at one point or another… The only arcade player I’ve never won a game against was Valle… He owns my soul.

Who are you in the scene? Have we met?

That was actually an Alladin’s Castle as well, i picked up DDR because MVC2 was always dead.

Before the SF4 era I played 3s at Regency, AI, and the arcade in CSULB. When SF4 dropped, 3S started to die down so, I started to play 4 at AI and V94, but that died off when Super came out and things switched to mostly console meetups and I was one of the big online lobby monsters with SRKLive, PJS, and eventually PXG. I didn’t start entering tournaments in earnest until sf4 where i won some of the early local stuff here.

I’m king scrub in majors, but locally my first okay results in bigger tournaments were 13th at a 128 man SD tournament where i lost to Futile in winners(ex upball left him with magic pixel and having a reversal that is punishable on hit sucks) and Ken I double jeopardied me in losers after i destroyed him on stream. I go to WNF only a couple of times a year, but I got 5th before, and 13th in one of the pre SCR ones with over a hundred entrants. Ranbats here in Long Beach I won a few times and I finished 2nd in two seasons we had. Hugo101/OnlineTony/Myself finished 1-2-3 at 90% of the ranbats here to the point where people just gave up on trying and it ended up killing our local tournaments. Got 2nd at a 50 man sfxt release tournament lost to Vicious who kept joking about his early access to the game, and 7th at the levelup one they had, lost to Combofiend and LI Joe, dropped the game winning combo vs. combofiend to force g3, and ended up losing to LI Joe after he switched off of Rolento after game 1 in top 8 and I lost my matchup knowledge advantage.

@lukybear threw a sf4 tournament in his house years ago and Snake Eyez showed up kind of unexpectedly, and everyone is kind of expecting him to win free. Evo champ, and he’d recently started to tear up WNF in SF4. Winners finals I beat him 3-1 or 3-0 pretty soundly, and the room is just kind of dead silent. Grand Finals rolls around and he takes the first set 3-1, and the atmosphere in the room kind of changed back to that “oh of course he’ll win he’s Snake Eyez” stuff. Set 2 is close, and the room kind of shifts again, it’s more like “wait this is an amazing back and forth set”. It’s 2-2 and there are just a bunch of amazing reads back and forth, room is going nuts. I lost the second set 2-3 but earned the respect of not only the locals, but of a crazy strong player. Spent the next like hour or so talking tech/fighting game philosophy, and strengthened my netplay friendslist(quite underrated). GFs was too hype though and we got the cops called on us.

Like idk if I’m anybody. I think i’m the strongest SF player in this city, I’ve consistently placed decently in locals, and I’ve played all sorts of players who play in all sorts of ways. I held my own in sf4 playing a weak character, but I know I’m a poor tournament player compared to what my actual skill level is.

Snake Eyez bringing people together…

I got SF4 in 2012, started going to tournaments over here a couple of months afterwards, first match I ever won in tournament was in stream, should be out there somewhere… anyways, I never really went to my locals, I just showed up whenever there was a big tournament and played online as much as I could in a laggy ass tv. That laggy tv gave me a ton of issues since I had to play a ton of casuals to get adjusted to lagless play and if there was no way to get a ton of matches I’d get wrecked in tournament with shit like doing focus attack > suplex and nothing coming out, so I figured I had to start going to my locals to be able to adjust faster. This was in 2013 after they announced Snake Eyez, Justin Wong, Ricky Ortiz and PR Rog were coming over here.

At that tournament I did pretty meh. I got way over my head thinking I was going to fight Justin round 2 and I never prepared for my first match where I got destroyed by a basic Honda (not a knock on his game, his Honda basically beat me with basic footsies and I was never able to handle it). Afterwards I wrecked some shit in losers beating a dude who counterpicked me with Sagat and some other dudes from outside of the city only to run into Flocker and choke hard because he was a known player. The good stuff came afterwards when I saw Snake Eyez money matching Rasec (Gief from Monterrey and widely considered to be the best in the country with the character), Snake Eyez wrecked him 5-0 and I asked to go next. Put my money, started the match getting destroyed but I noticed something, at that point his defence wasn’t as good as the rest of his game, so what I did was I stood in sweep range and never blocked low looking to get a good read and go from there. Before I knew it it was already 3-2 and I was close to bringing it to 3-3 before he noticed what I was doing and just started grinding me down with his footsies, destroying me in the process. Afterwards he went “you really like your momentum huh? good stuff”, I never really had any time to talk with him about the match afterwards since the last train was close to coming and I had to run home, but the next day I just asked him inbetween everyone talking shit who was better, Rasec or myself and he answered that I was better, which felt great.

That match really made me think “hey, I can do this if I get into it” and I started showing up to my locals whenever it was possible, joining leagues, going to tournaments and all that. Went from trying to go 1-2 or 2-2 to being a clear threat for top 8 and being able to beat anyone here in a good day. I’d say that by the end I was the best Gief in the country and I honestly didn’t see anyone from the continent other than Snake Eyez playing a solid Gief like mine (as douchey as that may sound).

Going back to SF5, I’m having a bit of trouble to adapt both to playing on stick and to trying to get people to be honest without SF4 Lariat. I barely got to silver the other day because between getting a match every 10-15 minutes and just not being able to practice a ton it’s been difficult. You gotta understand it’s part of the game though, this is a new street fighter and some players already feel adapted to it while others need time to adapt to the flow of the game, but it will happen and it will happen sooner than it happened with SF4. With 2 CPT events in my country it looks like this year will be mighty fun to be a SF player in Mexico.