I was looking up memes yesterday, and came across this video. I’m sure many of you have seen this, but I hadn’t (imo, it’s hilarious and well written lyrically). I’m just throwing it up for the newer players in hopes they will step outside the shoto circle, sts. youtube.com/watch?v=6uZWArSOmCc
A flowchart ken is a Ken that follows a flowchart. The most typical is “Am I blocking/knocked down? Mash SRK” which is scary and powerful as fuck online because of lag spikes or you give the ken player too much credit and assume he’s not going to SRK this time.
I know, but there’s never a bad time to show the actual flowchart. Even first dates would be a perfect opportunity, and might even get you to seal the deal at the end of the night.
Protip: Girls love flowcharts. And Ken. If you show them a Ken flowchart, they’ll be all like, “OMG you can flowchart?” and you’ll be all like, “Shoryuken!” and then you’ll be shoryukening all up in the vajayjay by the end of the night.
Shoryukening with your penis. Fierce punch style even.
Man, this takes me back to when Vanilla launched and the shoto invasion began. Literally 90% of the players used Ryu/Ken/Akuma and scrubbed it out in every SF game. I remember before Vanilla on 2DF very few people picked the shoto’s in SF games then right afterwards the shoto’s became the most popular characters. Reverberations still felt to this day I think.
It must be the flames, a ton of people use Ryu too but they usually use the shoryuken sparingly. However with Ken, throwing out that fierce badass flaming dragon punch is like the primary objective. Doesn’t work? What the opponent baited it out and punished you? Damn you bastard, I’ll shoryuken you to oblivion! Hurricane kick…Shoryuken! Jumping roundhouse, Shoryuken! Shoryuken, Shoryuken!
I feel like Kens fierce DP is the best reversal for standing pressure. Guaranteed you will snag everything with Kens than Ryu’s and Akumas F DP doesn’t, which at farther spacing only clip the opponent and leave you open for full punish.
I think thats what makes it attractive to mashers, is because its so much more reliable to hit it when you don’t wanna just block.