Truth to be told, I don’t remember :(, I’ve been told this a few months ago. But back to my question, who’s the best xD?
Imo infiltration is the best i mean have you seen him play lately , and not just with akuma he’s just a amazing player period. Plus he’s the only one left at evo so that kinda speaks for itself.
Whoever told you that is obviously a clueless scrub. Stop talking to clueless scrubs.
That’s hard to say. Infiltration is the most solid of all, Tokido is the most creative and Eita is the most fearless. -6 has some qualities of each and excels in combo execution.
You should watch them all and decide which one you feel is best.
alot of ppl never give infiltration credit because his style isnt as flashy as tokido… but Inf has the best footsies by any akuma player since momochi in vanilla…
ive felt for a while that the top akumas are 1. Infiltration 2. -6 3. Tokido 4. Eita … lately Eita has been playing amazing tho and -6 struggled early on in the topanga league but i still feel this list is accurate… ive always felt that tokido is not good unless he is able to get a knockdown since his footsies are weak (compared to top players) and he doesnt anti air enough he allows alot of free jump ins…
I should, yeah. I really only know Balrog’s bests. I will do my research, thank you!
I could actually agree with you on the Tokido comment. He’s been the only Akuma player I’ve watched and he clearly is lacking in the footsies department. His Vortex is crazy good though.
Anyway, thanks for not bashing me. I’ll start checking things out!
I can’t believe tokido lost this match I don’t see why he went for that wakeup demon. And that ex srk in the last last round when the game was on the line. He can’t be happy with his play in this match.
Eita
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Not to make excuses but either eita was not used to the timing of ps3 or had some tournament nerves. I mean he wasn’t just dropping combos he was dropping srk after lk tatsu. Even when he had a free punish he chose to just do st.hp into ex tatsu which is less damage than a standard bnb combo.
no need to bash if you didnt know… but since you are a rog player have you watched … as you can see the different styles by tokido and infiltration against the same character… pr rog only needed to fear tokido after his corner setups … infiltration made him fear his footsies and knockdowns anywhere on screen…
pr rog vs tokido
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pr rog vs infiltration
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when i watched the eita match the first thing that came to my mind was he cant be used to playing on ps3 he didnt look comfortable… and im not surprised tokido lost eric hai played a really solid ground game and tokido panicked
How about some Infiltration videos
First FT5
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Runback FT5
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Infiltration has been on fire this weekend. He’s isn’t just beating top players, he’s body’ing them hard. From watching the Canada Cup Salty Suite I know he beat Poongko 3-0, Dakou 5-1, Wolfkrone 5-0 and 5-2, and won the High Rollers AE Tourney where he sent Latif to losers and beat him in GF without a reset. IMO Daigo is his only obstacle to winning SF4. And I think he’s a bigger threat to the Americans then Daigo is at this point because he has the right characters to shut down Balrog and Guile.
How did he get so much better since the beginning of this year? Whatever the reason is, you could argue that he has the best Akuma, Gouken, and Hakan in the world right now. I also loved Marn’s commentary. Great quotes such as “Infiltration is weak to Viper” and “like 7-3” referring to the Akuma/Viper match up being heavily in Akuma’s favor.
Marn’s a moron lol. Never really disliked the guy, but this commentary of his is embarrassing, his knolewdge of this game is meek and he’s phrases like ‘Wolfrokne is a 100 precent smarter then Infiltration’ makes me wanna puke. Sure, go on and cheer on your teammate who uses the only really broken character in the game with 100 precent safe mix-ups, no recovery on normals due to the ability to just plain cancel those frames and 100 ways of linking and canceling moves into 400+ dmg combos. Yeah, Akuma does so much damage, Viper just can’t compete, fucking idiot ):
That’s the thing - he’s always been good. Just as everybody else at the higher levels level up, so does he. I feel his strength is his range of versatility and his wealth of tournament experience. His Akuma is really flexible and you’ll never catch him falling into patterns or go-to setplays. He’ll use setups of course, but he doesn’t centre his game around them like say Tokido does for example. If you wanna talk about Akuma’s massive array of options, its Infiltration who has the best handle on them.
I was gutted that he was denied facing Daigo at EVO in 2010 by Ricky, so the fact that he faces Daigo FIRST tomorrow (today?) is huge for Akuma players. Here we have what is currently the best Akuma player facing the best Ryu and quite possibly the world’s best overall SFIV player. As Akuma players we know how challenging this matchup can be when you are facing a truly capable Ryu so its going to be fucking huge.
The real question is will he use Akuma, and if he does and falls, will he use an alt?
I feel once he shoves Daigo out of the way, its highly likely he’ll see himself in grand finals where we’ll perhaps see them face off again provided Daigo can claw his way back IF Infiltration takes him out. The only roadblock for both of those guys in my opinion is HumanBomb* who is looking extremely solid right now with Sakura.
- HumanBomb originally hails from our community here in Sydney and is the one who taught me Akuma from when he used him back in vanilla and later helped out as I was working through the changes in Super. I’m obviously rooting for the guy as he has been instrumental in raising the standard of play in Sydney and Australia for several years combined with helping me get a handle on Akuma after I switched from Gouken towards the tail end of vanilla. HB is a phenomenal player and has been hungry as hell for a top 8 position at EVO for a couple years now and he’s finally cracked it. We’re super fucking stoked here in Sydney to see him up there right now, its awesome. HB trained his Akuma in Japan for a period and participated in the old school Nagoya Street Battles to level up and subsequently dominate our tournament scene. When Super dropped, he switched to Ryu and Chun out of disgust for how nerfed Akuma had become and rarely went back to Akuma despite me constantly scolding his treachery. When AE dropped, he picked up Yun and grew bored with how derptastic his playstyle was, so instead focused on building a truly ridiculous Yang. Come 2012’s release and with it the slew of nerfs, he tinkered with Seth, Bison, Oni and Sakura. (For a short while he drove an obscene Evil Ryu for laughs also.) Evidently he’s settled on Sakura (and Diablo 3) and we’ve seen how well thats working out for him.
If we see Infiltration face HB, it will also be a fantastic battle and again showcase two character masters demonstrating the matchup for us. The real event for us though is that first match between him and Daigo. I never use the word because of how abused and worn out it is on the internet, but goddammit this shit is going to be fucking epic.
I just remembered a funny thing to add to the above from HumanBomb when super dropped. We’d had the game for a couple of days and we were talking about the new characters, the changes, etc.
Me: "Akuma is much weaker though in many ways fairer so far as balance goes. I miss the loop, but it was horseshit anyway. Redball nerfs are horrible. Flip grab whiff is irritating."
HB: "Too many nerf. He’s weak. No more stun. Switch to Ryu."
Me: "No longer viable you think?"
HB: “No. He’s junk. I use Ryu now.”
Haha “junk.” I love it. I remember the conversation clear as day. He played Super the day before I did and told me about the new “unmentioned” nerfs. The flip grab recovery and redball nerfs infuriated us, haha. A couple days later we all started blowing up on these very forums. Ahh, good times. I’ll say this about HB though - his attitude towards improving his game is in a whole other class. He was an awesome teacher and truly knew his shit and changed my approach to how I played significantly. Seeing him in top eight is really awesome and I’m really happy for the bloke due to how focused he’s been to claw his way to the top.
Apologies for derailing, but I figured I’d share for ya’ll.
im so glad that someone uploaded this match… i struggled to stay awake and watch it last night… but thankfully i did, i learned so much and i really loved marns commentary he obviously was trolling and it made it fun to watch… does anybody know if their is footage from the high rollers tournamen that inf. beat latif ?
Man Infiltration is so good he almost makes this match look like its in akuma favor. Did anyone see him using gouken last night vs Laughs ryu this man has some insane reactions. I wonder if he intends to use gouken vs Daigo?
UR ALL WRONG I AM THE BEST AKUMA IN THE WORLD
IIRC the last time these two titans faced it was Akuma vs Yun and before that it was Gouken vs Ryu? Man, we’ll be in for a real treat if its Akuma vs Ryu!
these two fought recently at that LG tournament in korea (correct me if im wrong…) gouken vs ryu , daigo won the match… i think infiltration will use gouken again hopefully im wrong
4 straight rounds of domination by infiltration over daigo…
What the hell is up with Seth K acting like Infiltration came out of nowhere and that he was nowhere near “top” player worthy until this year? Does he only count Evo as the only thing that matters? Infiltration has always been good, getting progressively better, but he was always about as good as a lot of other players that get all the accolades. He just blew everyone up this year.
My jaw dropped at all those demons. Jesus if this was some random I was playing online I would swear he had a raging demon macro button wtf. Those reactions…
God damn these finals were so one sided, not as hype as previous years.