all yang players are mostly in japan now.
truthy
why? is there something the Japanese know about playing Yang that we don’t?
Why play Yang when you can play Yun? Duh.
But, that’s just my outside and ignorant perspective x_X
Is there something the Japanese know about playing Yang that we don’t?
From the vast majority of the posts/threads I see, they really know how to do repeated qcf motions much more consistently than people here. :lol:
How do you do 5 slashes? I try to spin the stick really fast and palm the punches, but everyone just laughs at me 
ex…
You’re not mashing hard enough. 
Traitor lol
Stick with Yang.
Yun’s too easy with Genei Jin.
Now Yang’s version is another task o.O
points to his sig 
That’s the general attitude that my community had before the 3S machine died though; “Yun does damage, so there’s no reason for you to play Yang”.
Lol.
Can someone list which characters specifically require(or recommend) you to use Yang’s SA3? and give a reason why?
So far the only character I can remember being dicussed a bit in this thread was Ken, and that you use SA3 against him because then you won’t have to worry about him punishing your EX slashes since you won’t be using them that much with such a small bar.
The characters that it would be recommended for:
Urien
Q
Hugo
Ken is sorta dumb. SA3 seems good on him since it can do high damage if you reset once or twice, and he can’t just sit around and wait for your ex slash so he can reverse [since you pretty much only get one stock of it]. But then loss of that is the punishment capabilities of not having multiple ex, as well as the damage and stun you lose from ex.
I used to use sa3 for a completely different reason on Ken, which is the control sa3 gives you. Ken pretty much gets to sit there for a few seconds and take a little chip, while you try to mix it up on him and land a bit of damage. During that lockdown, the chance of him beating your ass into a shippu ender is reduced.
I’m more confident against kens now [even before evo] and so I stick with sa2 since I think my mindgames are good enough to warrant yangs ‘guess wrong three times and it’s over’ trump card.
the info on Ken is good and helpful so tnx.
but can you (or someone else) give an explanation for using SA3 against Hugo, Q, and Urien?
is it because the multiple shadows in SA3 make it harder for those characters to grab you? or because it’s easier to cross them up in the corner?
I really just wanna know if it is worth replacing SA2 with in such situations.
SA3 is good against urien because he can’t do shit to stop you from doing whatever the hell you want to him in the corner, while activated. Knock him down, activate, whiff a normal so the shadows hit him if he mashes throw or headbutt, then go to town. Crossup divekicks, overheads… he can’t do anything really.
Same thing with Q, though if your opponent is good you may want sa2 to stun him [if he gets 3 taunts, sa3 isn’t going to do jack shit, you’ll need to stun him in the corner and get a palm combo on him]
Hugo pretty much the same thing, though he can 360/720 you even through seiei enbu if there is a gap in your string, so if you feel your opponent is going to mash one of those, uoh to catch the whiffed 360/super, and go on from there.
These characters are fat and tall and thus seiei enbu randomness works well on them.
Roshihikari uses sa3 against certain other characters but I don’t understand the reasoning [or at least, I think more ex slashes are better against some of them] behind it, so I don’t use it on them. These characters are - makoto, yun, alex, necro, and twelve. I’ve seen vids of pierre using sa3 against chun, and just abusing the divekick crossup, but against chun I’d definitely want more ex.
tnx a lot for the info 
and yea, I’ve seen Pierre use Yang’s SA3 againt Yun in a vid vs Nitto. It seemed like he was using the multiple shadows as a way to keep Yun at bay. When Yun activated his SA3, Yang did the same, and poked like crazy with c.fp to stop Yun from getting close. It seemed like a good strategy imo.
I’ve always thought Yang was the only truly underrated/underused character in 3s, especially outside Japan.
lol Don’t get me wrong I"m an alex player to teh fullest, but I enjoy playing Yang than playing Yun.
Don’t get too upset with my comment, just throwing my opinion
Yang is obviously a good character, but he has several problems that prevent him from reaching top 4. Namely, his damage. :sad:
With all the videos and results floating around, I don’t think he’s really underrated as much anymore, just underplayed. I’m not even sure why, seeing as he’s pretty easy to pick up and play with.
I hate Yang. REALLY.
Good games Deadeye. You were one of the most impressive American players we came across :tup:
ok, after watching a lot more vids of Yang-players, I see why my previous statement about stun caused me to get neg rep’d. Whoops
But anyway, I got a new question now:
After launching with cl.mk, and then using the rollkick, is it better to reset the opponent(so I can attack or command grab, etc.)? or to let the opponent fall to the ground for wake-up games(for cross-ups, etc.)? or are both options equally beneficial to the Yang-player when choosing between reset or wake-up?
tnx
It doesn’t really matter. It depends on you really.
Yo Deadeye how’d you do at Evo this year?