Exactly. God but his spacing is genuinely amazing. That spacing + Tokido style setups would be insanity. I was hoping to see a bit more vortex, but it was like watching Ryu with a demon flip lol.
By the way guys, what is the exact distance or timing for the j.lk fake corner crossup. I can get it like half the time but I don’t know why. Maybe I’m doing the j.lk too late and it fully crosses up. I use a setup in the corner against ryu/ken where after a lk.tatsu do a c.lp reset, step back and j.lk right away, and it should fake crossup. I haven’t been hit by a srk yet, but I would figure that a mashed srk would probably hit you as you jump.
Daigo is playing very well, much better than i expected. Akuma can do more than mixups every game and i always liked that. Im sure daigo will get more into that, but its nice to see someone who actually plays Akuma with zoning and footsies and all. oh and, he anti airs!
I am talking about more than just set ups (which he is using very basic set ups). In general you can see in the way he plays that he hasn’t adjusted to Akuma just yet. He is playing generic shoto.
@dragzor sorry, no link but should be out there anytime soon. i watched it live. and when daigo did that combo the whole crowd just cheered. its like umeshoryu back again.
@loyalsol: i don’t think it as he’s doing a ryu experience. i see it more of another interesting way to play akuma. he does minimal vortex though. the corner ambiguous trick mainly as far as i can see.
he’s still screwing up his tatsu fadc, s.mp, c.mp tatsu combo, but seriously he does it for damage and meter building only not for vortex.
its more exciting than watching tokido just because i watched too many of it. daigo style is interesting. the positioning of his fireball and demonflip makes his opponent twitch alot. also his low forward always catches his opponent at a right time eg. they tried to focus the incoming fireball but instead he did another lowforward ex fireball at max range.even tokido is in awe at the back clapping at ume’s gameplay. usually timeout are extremely boring (thinks guile) but daigo’s akuma timeout was interesting.
Only reason I can think of for why Daigo isn’t using Ryu is because of Dhalsim & Fei Long, Mago destroyed Daigo’s Ryu pretty damn hard during the last few months of him using Ryu, I don’t see those matchups getting any better for him (specially now that he’ll be facing top Fei players such as Mago or Fuudo even in foreign tournaments on regular basis).
I liked what I’ve seen from him so far considering he only picked up Akuma recently, IMO those hk tatsu FADCs just aren’t worth it though, unless he’s able to pull 'em off like 100% of the time. I honestly don’t see him succeeding in majors with Akuma, I hope I’m wrong though because I’d love to see Daigo winning with insane zoning and footsies + some average mixups, it’ll require him to be flawless in every single round.
Watch him switch to Evil Ryu in 2012. That would be awesome to watch. Still a tough match against sim though, the only real extra tools he has is the shaku and divekick.
Ok wow that viper match was intense. Dang cr.mk beats her burn kick on wakeup?!
c.mk beats every (or rather doesnt lose to any) of Vipers wake up options, which is really useful in reset situations since you dont have time for a safe jump. I fail to see why Viper is so high on the tiers btw
From what I remember of the last few international tournaments that I’ve watched, only Wolfkrone and Latif from the US gave the japanese players a hard time. Even though I hate that whore who belongs in MvC, I don’t think she’s broken, just too damn random IMO with huge stun and damage potential.
She’ll still be Very strong in AE V2012 because her stun output was left totally untouched, but the damage nerf and specially EX sesimo being vulnerable to throws will tone her down a bit (hp thunder knuckle no longer being vulnerable to throws isn’t nearly as good as EX sesimo was). Would have been nice if they made the first frame of her ground burnkicks not airborne anymore, hate that thing.
The thing is, if he was that concerned about Sim he could’ve gone back to Ryu, then switch to Yun when he has to fight one. Should still be a very favorable matchup, while Akuma doesn’t win for free against Dhalsim (see metallica’s post).
And about Fei, I think we all remember Daigo trashing Mago with Guile so…
I don’t have a clue as to why he goes for that. Again, a FADC combo with no cr.LP hitconfirm into st.MP, cr.MP etc does 9 more damage, and even less stun than a st.HP combo. Also, it’s character specific, wonder if he knows that (I assume so).
MBR mentioned better positioning (I asked why since you pretty much can do all those setups with a standard sweep knockdown, but iirc he hasn’t posted since that video), even if that was the case at times he just doesn’t vortex at all even after a knockdown, when he gets a lifelead.
Personal taste, but I’d really hate if this turns out better than Tokido’s.
Is that an unblockable he’s doing to Sagat after forward throw in the corner or just hard to block? I don’t have my TE with me right now so I can’t check, Sagat does wakeup a frame slower after forward throw so you have to press the j.mk late if you want it to be active and connect.
I was thinking the same thing. I’ve noticed lately that Tokido just plain goes for the unblockable setup on many opponents regardless as to whether it is Ryu/Ken/Makoto or not. I figure its just difficult to block or is designed to mess with people.
As much as I feel Daigo needs to learn from Tokido (setups, oki, etc) I feel Tokido could stand to learn a lot more from Daigo too. I’d be really curious to see how Daigo for example deals with Sagat to see the difference in styles.
