high level execution takes skill.
lol k
Lmfao, I now see where I was wrong, foh.
I’d argue that viper takes more skill than those characters you listed at the highest level. Random viper crap hasn’t worked for at least 3 years now and you have to actually play footsies and have a smart offense with her suboptimal toolset.
Which character takes most skill is a dumb subject anyway
Watched Shadowloo Showdown and Momochi plays Yun matchup perfectly. Not only at this tournament but at other tournaments in the past Momochi is a thorn in Kazunoko his side, he shut him down completely.
Hope this is the year of Momochi, seems to finally have found his groove, or have gotten it back.
Also, what is this “secret character” that Sakonoko has that everyone talks about, one of his oldies, def not E.Ryu, or Elena, also don’t think it’s Ibuki.
meaby Cammy or Rose
Sako’s characters in the past have been:
Gen, Cammy, Rose, ibuki, Evil Ryu, Elena
So, make your choice I guess
Momochi too good.
Not sure why Sako didn’t use Elena against Gackt’s Fei. Instead he used Evil Ryu and got 3-0’ed.
Viper takes no skill, that’s why nobody plays her.
Execution isn’t skill. Skill is using a character that has a dive kick and ambiguous crossups. Hard hitting combos that require, execution. Vortex, and 1 frame links that require, execution. Ridiculous damage and combo heavy which requires… Execution?
It was never gone. Cody is an epic time waster. I wonder if he could do a run with Ibuki, his reason in Super was she wasn’t tournament viable.
In the past Sako said that he thinks Evil Ryu beats Fei Long, and this was AE 2012. Evil Ryu is better now and I’ve seen many Fei players say that Fei is a worse off(although I guess that can be subjective). Sako also used Evil Ryu to beat Fuudo in Topanga A League and Capcom Cup in 2013. He did play Gackt last year at EVO when he first lost with Elena and then went 1-1 with his Evil Ryu. Not sure if it mattered but Daigo’s Evil Ryu also defeated Fuudo and Gackt fairly easy(in terms of W-L margin) at Topanga A League and CPT Asia from just last year. So maybe that also played into his decision to stick with Evil Ryu for this match up.
Viper has a weird tool kit to use against competent people
She’s basically forced to play footsies with her very slow and laggy crMK, crHP, crMP MP TK and her seismos
Doing dumb don’t work as well as people think really. It does work, but sometimes you get a big wake up call.
Sako’s Elena took out Fuudo’s Fei in the last Topanga A league 3-0. It seems to be a fairly good match-up for her. Maybe he was thinking back to the EVO matches with Gackt and that Gackt plays a much more aggressive Fei than Fuudo. I can see why he would stick with Evil Ryu in that case but I was a bit disappointed he didn’t switch after he lost the first two matches so convincingly.
I’ve tried dumb, it never works out for me. You know those stupid Vipers that do stuff like burn kick, and immediately dp? Yeah I’m like 0-10 on that.
Gotta go dumb in a different way
burn kick, then overhead, then dp. then dp again on the opponent’s wakeup!
don’t actually play viper just take my word for it
This is why I’m not as good as I know I should be.
Instead of thinking like low iq charge players, I think like LTG. Too smart.
Sako also played Akuma in Vanilla so there’s another possibility.
He also has a chun… tell you wot, let’s just say what character he doesn’t play it’ll be faster.
Well he probably won’t play a grappler
I think Sako has played almost the whole cast excluding grapplers. I’m sure I’ve seen him use Oni too.