I’m amazed he landed so many jump ins. The 3 st.HK loops was beautiful though.
The Sagat player is not Mago, you can tell by his battle points. Good match, though.
EDIT: Momochi vs Uryo/??? starting at 2:30
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2 Akumas,
Eita(GO) vs Kindevu(RU)
Maeta Taison(BA) vs Momochi(GO)
Apparently this is the Tougeki 09 prelims, so this means Momochi won’t be going to Tougeki?
didn’t realise there is no chip from blocked sweeps in that case case I’d say he did them just in case the other player never blocked the fireball (quite a few of his sweeps were after air fireballs) - its a safeish way of getting a 2 hit when you least expect to.
those that didn’t get me - fishing for the ultra off sweep means baiting a focus, there was a nice Momochi vs Daigo match where you can see this in action. (although in this match Momochi wasn’t fishing for it, it looked like pure reaction)
'08?
Only specials do chip damage.
Nice reset combo at 2:20
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Wonder why that Gouki didn’t want to punish Honda for spamming butt splash?
speaking of that what can akuma punish with? can he do a hp > bnb? i was playing a honda for a bit yesterday but was whiffing that when i’d try to punish. am i just bad?
Honda is tough to punish and if you mess up you get sumo throwd for 20% of your life. not worth it to try imo.
butt splash is -2 on block for the lk and mk versions. You could try to throw, but that honda had ex meter, and ex headbutt has invincibility frames, so he’ll win out. There really usn’t anything safe you can do so it’s smarter to GTFO with a teleport.
Note that he was thrown the first time, but that looked like a hk version, and honda had just acquired the EX bar, so it was a calculated risk.
Isn’t he wide open to a standing HK -> BnB after you block or he whiffs a butt splash? Honda definitely is hard to punish, he’s one of the chars I still have trouble fighting… That’s why I wonder why he isn’t punishing those butt splashes…
Is it easy for a good player to command throw you before your HK comes out at the range you’re at when a butt splash is blocked? I know I have been thrown during the startup frames of standing HK, so maybe that’s why?
Ah, that makes sense now.
I need to learn to recognize the difference between Honda’s butt splashes… I don’t play enough Hondas but when I do I usually get owned because I have trouble punishing him.
For a character that doesn’t combo much, Honda can be a real pain to deal with. One of the more annoying problems I always encounter is that if he tries to FA and you use your HK the first hit will be absorbed, but he can duck the second hit by releasing the focus attack. So your HK is almost useless against a Honda that knows this. So the large portion of your BnB comes from light set ups.
Yeah I’ve been working on starting my BnB combos with cLP, cLK or cMK against chars who can avoid HK by ducking or in Honda’s case, FAing.
I do use HK a lot against Honda though, and I think the FA ducking thing only seems to work for him if he anticipates your standing HK and is charging the FA ahead of time.
Well even though he can’t always land a lvl 2, a good Honda can react fast enough to punish the HK.
Does it crumple you? IE: should I stop using HK against Honda altogether? 
If he predicted early enough then yes it will, but if it was reactionary then usually no. So just don’t overuse it.
wow, i started seeing an increasing number of cross up air tatsus in those vids. or has time just passed me by?
and it’s so hard to watch other akumas after u saw a Momochi fight lol
Here’s a casual match on PSN between me and J.R. Rodriguez. You should know J.R. from 3rd Strike fame. Anywho, here’s one of the matches we played online.
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I’ll like to know what you guys think. I messed up here and there, but overall, what do you think? btw, are any of you guys from SoCal?
@ psycho bucket (you’re missing the H if its suppose to say psycho…lol).
Why did you use a lp SRK to complete a HK combo? ehh? err… nvm that was your friend. In which case… why did you lose the first round?? lol. Probably shouldn’t have focused that jump in. And if you do you really have to do a back dash the moment they hit you. And then you teleported next to him so he could finish you off. Classy 
UGGG 2nd round started by a tatsu? Akuma’s tatsu are trash other than light in combos… keep that online trash for playing as ryu 
You missed the memo on the point of hit confirming… its so you don’t tatsu when you haven’t hit 
good super at the end there to make up for both of you guys using way too many obvious demon-flips.
I really really hate the choice to teleport forward to start a match. Its just… so… yea. lol. I mean I like it when others do it because I get a free throw most of the time but still…
ur friend did a good super back after that dash… good use.
And I’m glad you got the demon in that third round… you missed the chance to do the same exact thing in one of the earlier rounds.
well played final round though even if you missed the fadc for the possible win *faceplam.
Its online though so I give a LOT of leeway if I see someone is doing something online instead of offline lol.
speaking of which it turned out I wasn’t crazy and the reason I’ve been getting horrible matches online for the last few weeks is because someone had fucked with my internet lol. took about an hour fixing that shit and it funs better… still not great but better. 
I live in norcal… not socal. my connection with socal ppl is rather hit and miss (xbox anyway…).