You know, I find it weird when people go “HURR DURR JUMP FIGHTER V HAS NO NEUTRAL AND PEOPLE JUST PLAY YOLO AND PRESS BUTTONS” but still complain when someone plays “boring”.
“Who wants to see Street Fighter be a game that rewards patient play and a careful neutral game?”
“I DO! I DO! ME! ME!”
“And who wants to see the exact opposite, a game that is offensive and punishes backdashing?”
“I DO! I DO! ME! ME!”
“So you want a game that is methodical and defensive, but also is off the wall offensive and punishes turtling?”
“Yeah, pretty much.”
The “Jump fighter 5” shit never made sense to me considering half the people bitching about it played SF4 where 10 or so characters could jump all over the damn place.
What few annoying air tactics that still remain in SFV can be beat in the same way you beat all the other stuff in SF4.
While I do think that Knuckledu is an amazing player and the best US player right now, I think overall Xiaohai is better. He just didn’t know the matchup.
Knuckledu caught a few of the Asian players offguard with his Mika.
Imagine if Tokido was there, he knows the matchup very well because he plays against Fuudo a lot.
Maybe. Maybe not. Fuudo and Nuckledu play the character very differently and if you’re expecting one style and get the other it’s easy to see that not going well. Not so say Tokido couldn’t win just that we’ve seen in the past where someone with theoretically a ton of experience against a specific character gets bopped by someone who plays the character differently than what they’re used to.