[Locked] Whelp SSFIV Players...

sakabato24 · 2014-03-03T04:16:25-01:00

It's been a good 4 years that I've mained Sakura since Vanilla, but now it's time for me to depart with her as a main and switch back into playing O.Sagat and O.Ryu when Ultra comes out. Time to dust out Vanilla and start playing it again. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OOhECaPwsho.*?[/youtube] Reasoning - During the Vanilla times of SFIV, Sakura was pretty bad as a character. Some of her glaring weakness was : -Her low health -Low damage. Even her Ultra was pretty bad. Only decent damage if she had Super meter for Ex Tatsu. -j.Forward/Medium Kick didn't cross-up -Her over head smashes were techable, even on the last hit -There were characters that were just strictly better than her. The only thing back then that made her decent was her resets off of Ex. Tatsu. After SSIV come out, they nerfed every other character and only buffed her slightly to become a lot better. And as time went on, and patches, SSFIV:AE and 2012 were released, she gotten a lot better and when higher on the tier list due to the fact that she didn't need to be changed as often as the rest of the cast. Now that Ultra presented itself in which you can play Vanilla characters again (e.g. O.Ryu, O.Sagat, O.Yun, etc.) I do feel like she's going to be lacking in terms of how the Vanilla characters are. Remember, she really didn't climb up on the tier list because of buffs or nerfs to her, but because of the nerfs of characters above her on the tier list strictly made her a better character than the cast. Don't get me wrong, I still think Sakura will be good, and I will play her because of all the time and effort I put into learning her (4 goddamn years), but in terms of she being A tier still, I'd highly doubt it. She will drop back down to the mid-B tier, and characters that will out-shine her the most, were the characters that she dreaded back in the old Vanilla days. And as of today's competitive standards, it's either play someone that's very solid, or to just dedicated yourself to one character and hope for the best. I'd rather not take gambles when playing though, so I will be switching to playing a solid character and learning them. /rant Still though, I do think that adding this type of selection for the cast is going to be real fun. I have to run through my own memory banks and remember the tech that each individual character had during that time period, and provides extra character match-ups that I have to remember before I get blown up by it. I did miss SSIFV Cammy. Good ol' instant Cannon Spikes. So good. Built meter from anywhere on the screen and was almost as good as dive kicks from SSFIV's Rufus.

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sakabato24 World Warrior

11 years ago

nacho wrote...

damn son, didn't I see that stick on some kof stream forever ago? You got rekt, I think. Now you gonna get rekt by madkof even harder.

EVO 2012. Yes, I got wrecked. No, I didn't really play KoF at the time and was practicing SSFIV over KoF. Joined in the KoF bracket just for the awesome-ass shirt. ;D

Damn-nabit boy, I gotz me to pull up dat der archive of dat darn old stream.

*EDIT*

FOUND IT~!

Starts @ 1:13:00

http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo2/b/323884187

-Aimless-

11 years ago

Vanilla Sagat? Come @ me, bro.

DarkShatter Wonderland

11 years ago

Shotty Too Hotty wrote...

Cammy's Butt.

Spoiler:

Iamnotchrishansen Jiggy Blackson

11 years ago

Haven't played SSF4 since LoL has given me my competitive gaming fix. Fuck Sakura's Ex tatsu to shinku angled hadoken.

I wonder what they're gonna do with T Hawk...Juri is a getting a buff too? Notchris liiike.

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Waar FAKKU Moderator

11 years ago

sakabato24 wrote...

Sorry. I did feel like posting this in the VG forums, but I do feel like this was more of a rant from me than anything else, so I posted it here.

I feel like you should post where it belongs.

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