well, they may be good players in general, but they aren’t playing the matchup right.
I’m not trying to take anything away from your choices. You correctly took full advantage.
I’m just saying that they shouldn’t have let you get away with half the shit you were doing.
I think you’re really good. I just need to see you playing some players with a lot of fundamental play eg footsies because I saw something interesting!!!
I do think you got away with abusing focus a bit though… in most of those scenarios, a smart player will cancel into something… for example vs. Akuma and Ryu, I think they did raw sweeps… most good ones will cr. mk > hado and beat Goukens focus.
I think you have a great awareness for his buttons and you have some good block strings / traps (although they can be mashed through).
Overall, I think you have a really good Gouken… I’d definitely like to see how you make adjustments when on Defense or when you aren’t able to get in so easily though… Also your dive kick placements are off vs the shotos’ they should have reversaled you… aim for the top of the head/back of the shoulder.
#1 isn’t as nice now with DWU #2 is a round ender, because you end up even’ish and in their face. #3 is a tricky looking high/low mixup. #4 is an impossible to see left-right mixup, but at the expense of less pre-mixup damage
and of course you know the ultra standards
of course, there are other shenanigans, like, if you are further out then hp.fb, lp.fb far.hk dashin can be a surprise, but it’s certainly not safe.
hp.fb lp.palm jumpback.hk can put you into zoning distance, which is nicely safe and good damage, but it’s pretty easy to miss the timing on the palm which allows you the followup.
Yeah he’s been gone for a while now… I just ask b/c there’s always been posts about Proud, Bullcat, or whoever was #1 at the time. He’s been #1 for a while now…
But I guess it’s just a sign of how dead this forum is.