What can I do after my jump in is focus absorbed?
block and if they don’t immediately release focus poke them out of it.
Tournament and 5v5 today. Wish me luck homies.
Good luck! Represent. Hahaha
i need to get a stick for my ps3 before i can really start labbing anything, but i am going to post some vids of local tourneys around here with me stomping ass as vega.
Send me an invite, i like to play different vegas and see what they do.
I always use st. mk at a distance because i can attack safer and have more poke range. But the st hk has a little more height which stuffs them if they try to jump and you have the chance of getting both hits. I guess it’s just preference or habit for some people.
If you have time go for a grab or quick poke/sweep. Or just try to play it safe and back dash or backflip. I usually try to grab cuz it will decrease the chance of trading hits. St. lk might be a good idea cuz you can throw out 2 of em pretty quick then follow up with a HP or HK.
4th place out of ~64 entrants at the Calgary cup tourney! There will be vids up. Admittedly, I didn’t play up to snuff in the last few matches (basically pissed one away vs a Blanka, as you will see) but I chalk it up to being nervous. There were a lot of people there and, (recipe for loss) I had my eyes on the prize. Hell of a lot of fun and I represented myself well nonetheless.
Also the 5v5 was pretty lame. I lost my match but by the time that was around nobody was hype and everyone was dead tired. I for one was just looking to get some fresh air.
Congrats on 4th out of 64 people, thats really good for a vega player!
Well, my Vega has progressed considerably since I started coming here, but I’m still in ‘scrub territory’.
Here are two things I wanted to throw out to the Good Vega’s here:
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Piece of Mercury. I’m considering adding this to my gameplay, but other than hopping over a low forward, I’m not sure of its uses and it’s combo or mixup/followup ability.
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Ken/Ryu/Dan/Akuma’s Air Tatsu. What’s the best way to react to this? I was beating down this Ryu earlier today, and after he got air-thrown several times, he starting using Air Tatsu as soon as he would go up. I’ve read air throw can beat it, but I’m doubting it right now as I tried air throwing early/late/whenever and never once beat it.
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@ Joz
You have mentioned several times that you prioritize getting a ST knockdown because of the the mix-up game on wakeup. Have you ever compiled a list of all the possible mix-ups? I still feel like I’m not doing as well in this area as I could be doing.
Thanks Buddha Weapon! it was such a fun night on the whole. =)
Off the top of my head;
- Ambiguous cosmic heel corpsehop
- ambiguous piece of mercury corpsehop
- slide-under
- Safe jump in
- Barcelona trap
- EX Sky High on their wake up
- the usual stuff like jump out fierce or kara throws, meaty focus if you want
- Whiff another ST for meter
The main reason it’s good is because as we know movement is Vega’s strong point… when they’re in the air like that unable to do anything, you can do whatever you like, and since Vega’s so quick you can always use this grace period of maneuverability to do some tricky stuff that exposes your opponent’s defense. My favorite option is the slide-under cause it looks so cool. You can slide-under then EX SHC. people really don’t expect to have to change blocking sides twice in succession. Realistically I usually stick with safe jump ins (you can also meaty RCF but that’s dangerous) and the cosmic heel mix ups. The more crazy stuff you use in the thick of things when you REALLY need to score some damage.
wow just saw the barcelona trap, thats very very cool, you guys figured out so much shit while i was gone, im so proud of all of you :).
and JDH peice of mercury is a good tool because since your airborne you cant be thrown
i use peice of mercury as an oki shenanigan with all of vegas other bs that you can do on someones wakeup. Vega has so many options that implementing one more is really helpful and confusing to an opponent.
anyone with blazblu for ps3 please get on and add me my psn id right now is jarekov, i need to work with hakumen against bang, noel, and that cat bitch, i dont know anyone who plays them.
ohh and im leaving it to my wonderful vega brothers to think up of an awesome vega inspired name for me on psn. help me out guys. i cant think of shit.
I recently came back to the forums and sf4 in the lat week or 2 and heard/saw Kara RCF and Kara EX FBA. How are these done? Same as Vegas kara throw?
How about “Eeee-Ooooooooo” lol. or something along those lines
i will consider eeee-ooooo just because that would be hella annoying
i’ve tried to figure it out but no dice. not really sure how that input is supposed to work. I’ll get back to you once I do some more practice with it.
So, I have kind of a general SF question.
What TV’s do you guys play on, and do you notice any lag input with said TV?
My current TV was pretty old, it didn’t look great but it had no lag. Recently, my TV died so I’m looking for a new one. I found a good deal on a monitor, but the thing is it has 5 milliseconds of lag. I’m assuming that if SF runs at 60FPS, 5milliseconds (half a second) would be a ton. I’ve been told if I have some HDMI cables it would significantly reduce the lag, but idk.
I also found a TV that obviously would have pretty much no lag but it costs more and looks worse (they’ll be black bars on the sides of the screen and it’ll be madd squished until I can get some HDMI cables)
Any thoughts?
lol I’m kind of liking eee-ooooooooo. Maybe we should all make names with it using different amounts of e’s and o’s just to piss people off lol
And my idea for the kara was maybe actually walking forward? Kind of similar to how you can j.hp, st.mp xx exFBA. Instead of using the buttons leniency to do another attack, use it to move forward a step then execute the attack? So for the RCF you would charge back, then walk forward for a second and press punch late.
I tried it a few times the other day, but it didn’t work. I’ll try it some more later.
You guys are all forgetting the y and the w.
aND THE CAPS LOCK.
“EEE-YOOOW”
ive got a panasonic hdtv i dont remember the model number but i know its lag less, if your hardcore into it that should be all that matters, and yeah 5 milliseconds is alot of lag.
lmao when the hell did i get positive repped? oh is their a video posting of kara RCF? i cant find shit on it.