Hey, someone needs to bring a ps3… I don’t have one. So Venomish, if you could bring your system and the game that’d be great.
ok i’ll bring my ps3 and game.
hdmi or component?
component
:’(
ok
see you in a bit
Is there a certain place visitors have to park?
visitors can park anywhere
Is there anywhere breaking the street date besides K-mart, I called them earlier and they said they were all out.
Oh shit…I wish I had checked this forum out earlier today, been sleepy/busy all day
Gj on getting Super early
Yeah, i called KMart too and they said they didn’t have it in at this time.
Thanks a lot to goblinmarine and Venomish for allowing us to play Super early. It was definitely a fun night.
Also for the guys going to MWC maybe some tips on Blanka, though I understand everything was super casual.
John- One thing I noticed in our matches is that every time you got Super you would refuse to use EX Bird on wakeup, no matter how much jumping in I did. Her super is great too of course and worth saving, but I think most Blanka players would gladly trade slides and sweeps for free jump-ins. A few stuffed jumps would probably have been worth the meter. Admittedly though there are some Blankas who just anti-air with crouch strong and never jump so it depends on who you play. Maybe Anthony saw things I didn?t but to me it didn?t seem like your ground-game needed that much work, apart from always striving to be better that is. You poked well and even though I put in some long hours to train myself to block Hazanshu there were several times where I got rushed down and my defense really fell apart to the patented Chun Li pressure. Also there were three times in a round where I was walking towards you, you were walking away, and as I got close you would throw a kikoken, which I think is by far the easiest fireball to reaction slide, walk forward focus or walk forward hazanshu would probably work really well instead.
OnlineOliver- I think the biggest problem is you played too offensive. When I coward crouch a fireball I?m always looking to force the player to come to me. A lot of people forget you can cancel crouch into any of his specials, and you would often throw a boom, watch me crouch, and then wall dive right into an Up ball or lightning, getting knocked down and letting me in in the process. I think Seth really needs to play to keep Blanka out. Stay back, throw booms, punish jumps with SRK and balls with standing fierce. If you absolutely must do anything on a coward crouching Blanka I feel like standing fierce is the best option. Throw jab boom, move in and standing fierce, for Sim I think this is a genuine punish for crouch, I don’t know about Seth but I assume it’s similar. Mixing up the speed of your fireballs can work too if I lock myself into too much of a rhythm.
Venom- We played a lot of matches and you definitely play it really well. You really sense when a slide is coming and focus those perfectly. You really owned me with that the first time we played, where you would throw a kikoken, walk forward and focus the slide, even if I waited until the last second. This time I used more ex balls but I think it?s only because of familiarity with your playstyle and a random Blanka you might run into at MWC wouldn?t have that advantage.
Goblin- We played a lot more Vega/Honda than Blanka, but I have to say your Honda is really improved. Your blocking is way better and you finally learned to unleash the ultimate combo: down-back-stare. As for matchup specific stuff, I really do feel Honda/Blanka is a 5-5 matchup and early damage and knowledge of the match are key. I think most important is you really need to headbutt blocked balls. At least in vanilla Honda can fierce headbutt punish EVERY blocked ball, jab, strong, fierce, EX. Also know which headbutts Blanka can punish on block and which he can?t. In vanilla Blanka can only punish the strong and fierce headbutts, not jab or EX, and he can only punish with slide, never a Blanka ball. If a Blanka does a full screen ball don?t even wait to block, use fierce or EX headbutt. Fierce has to come out early to avoid trading, but EX can be done at the last possible second and it will still beat it cleanly and never trade. Even so it?s better to trade than to let a Blanka use whiffed ball shenanigans. Honda has more life, does more damage, and gets a knockdown on trade without being knocked down himself.
Tourou- I know you?re wicked disappointed that we didn?t do any Blanka/Gen last night because it?s your favorite matchup, but there?s still time, good sir, if you think you?re man enough to survive in the jungle.
Hopefully I’ll have a copy of super soon and I’d love to play more matches with you guys before Friday if you have time this week. Mine is basically completely open.
Once i figure out what I have that stuffs Blanka balls/electricity and what not in training mode…now that crane cr.MP is so much faster I think it’ll be a slighly easier and more importantly, actually fun matchup. I keep hearing about how SSF4 is supposed to more aggressive
If I meet a Blanka at MWC i think i will be fine because I’m much much more patient in matches that matter
Thanks for hosting last night goblinmarine, was really fun
Glad everyone could come!
Great fun, gotta love that T.Hawk domination that was going for a while.
My week’s open after Monday… though I do have some cleaning to do before next weekend.
Thanks for the advice aliceinangels. I’m still working on matchup knowledge. Due to all the online play the only matchups I have my head around are Ryu and Akuma.
john seems you were right. i cant do any dead body hits after ko
Yea, I liked giving people a courtesy fierce after the round ended.
Anyway, GGs to everyone, I had a ton of fun trying out new characters with you guys, let’s to it again ASAP
Yo Jmcrofts if you havent seen this yet you may want to take a look.
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daigo using the hakan flow chart
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yeah saw that video, pretty exciting stuff. I was hoping no one else would so I’d have a few more surprises for wednesday! Although I might have a few more I can pull out for that 
Oh shit! We in the vortex
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Gen can combo Manits U2 fully. woo Ex hands into Mantis U2 is just silly.
I saw that video last night…these were the sort of combos I was hoping for (and judging by the fact that MP->MP->MK is possible they removed the shitty “far MP” and just kept the frame data for the close version)
Seems like SSF4 Gen is what I expected SF4 Gen to be like, A3 Gen but with links instead of chains