Solomon Grundy's better
Fighting Games Weekly | Feb 17-23 | United, Divided, Anime
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QisTopTier
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I'm intrigued, could you elaborate? It's not the first time I hear Grundy's notable as far as grapplers go.
Don't know about being better, since I barely know Potemkin, but Grundy's godlike, one of my favorite grapplers
EDIT: the famous Japanese arcade a-cho just uploaded a day one GGxrd video with casual matches, good quality
awesome, not too blurry!
inanutshell
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I'm guessing one xbox and one ps3 stick for the anime games.
ChrisG just can't win at super arcade. Hope he's at least splitting the pots.
Thank you based a-cho!
I'm always amazed at how late Japan is with internet video quality...
[EDIT]
Meanwhile, in Turkey...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-5RT3TGzQ
yeah i'm lovin' it
i really love shakeups, it's great and healthy for competition
in general chris movin' down to cali has been great entertainment because a lot of folks have that lingering feeling that socal is butts so i enjoy watchin' how the best player period does vs 'em and what they do to try and fight him since a lot of them have less drab teams
Its been a while since I played Injustice, so some of this might have changed. Grundy is too elaborate to explain, but I'll try my best.
Grundy's Tools:
- A full screen special move that makes zombie hands come out from under the opponent's current position. Normal version is whatever (knocks down). Ex version is fast and on hit, ENSNARES THEM IN POSITION FOR LIKE 5 seconds. This one move solves what is almost every grappler's weakness (getting in). Can be used in combos for loco damage.
- Its not his only 'getting in' move though. Grundy also has a walking grab (think gief's suplex) which has super armor, and can be cancelled mid animation without using any meter. So he can just armor-walk through your puny projectiles. On landing the grab, Grundy headbutts them and knocks 'em down. EXing this move does an extra throw, and doesn't let them stand back up for like 3 seconds, so you have 3 full seconds of setup/positioning/oki time.
- An overhead special that does a ground bounce on EX.
- An anti-air grap similar to Abel's grab from SF4.
- Another grab special that throws them high into the air to the other side, leading to a full combo. You can use this when cornered to throw them into the corner.
- Rot. If you've played Dota, this is like Pudge's rot. Grundy activated a stench around him, that damages the opponent if they stand close to him. If you activate rot before a combo, you're looking at like 10% extra damage.
- But the creme de la creme of Grundy is his trait, the chain grab. A single press of a button leads to grundy grabbing the opponent. Upon activation, you can go into one of three chains, each doing different grabs and leading to different positioning. But more importantly, each of these chains give Grundy something in return. IIRC they are:
Power Chain - Doing this chain is like going into Makoto's Tanden Renki. Everything you do does more damage once you are in power more. That 36% combo you learnt now does 45% in power mode.
Health Chain - The opposite of the power chain. Makes the opponents hits and combos do less damage to Grundy. I don't use this much.
Defense Chain - My favorite. Makes you take like no chip damage. A large part of what made Grundy fun was chain grabbing Deathstroke scrubs, ending in the defense chain, then just turtling full screen away. After 60 seconds of spamming guns and swords, you could just taste the frustration from them.
These chain effects last until you use another chain grab or the end of the match.
- d+2
Probably the most bullshit Grundy move wasn't even a special or super. Grundy's d+2 is a sick anti air that reduced his hitbox, hit a huge vertical range, and led to easy 50% combos.
You really need to play the hero to appreciate how all this fit into combos and setups. Grundy made me feel empowered like no other grappler did. Every anti-air, every swamp hands, every chain grab just made me snowball and do like 40-50% damage at least. Here's a combo I made in the early days of Injustice. There's better tech available but this shows almost every Grundy special used in a combo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3u_7mmsIb0
I sincerely feel that Grundy's the best designed grappler in fighting games. Unfortunately some of the other fighters in Injustice aren't so well designed, and the games moderate following ensures that most people don't know what an awesome character Grundy was.
CountBlack
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Really thought this next season of ESGN would filled with all new players except for Infiltration :/.
At least bring Tokido back
At least bring Tokido back
"God's Beard!"
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Gunz2 is out? First game was so good.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I don't really anything there that makes him better than potemkin specially considering the game he's in
Osu 16 Bit
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Grundy is awesome. Bane is even better.
call_kotaku
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Potemkin doesn't count off the days of the week and get the stream monsters hype
DryEyeRelief
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They invite infiltration back and then they bring 3 cammy players.
At least it'll be harder to interpret spoilers from the trailers this time. You see cammy being played and you're like..."who's that?"
At least it'll be harder to interpret spoilers from the trailers this time. You see cammy being played and you're like..."who's that?"
Figured this might be relevant:
Lemeza Kosugi from La Mulana is available in EF-12 now, and Lumisa will be added if the kickstarter for La Mulana 2 hits 300K,
Lemeza:
Lemeza Kosugi from La Mulana is available in EF-12 now, and Lumisa will be added if the kickstarter for La Mulana 2 hits 300K,
Lemeza:
"God's Beard!"
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How is that a trailer for season three?
Looks hype, can't wait
sixteen-bit
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Is that the Square Enix game Daigo was shilling?
It would be great if future fighting games picked up the showdown mechanic.
Edit: I mean that's stolen from Smash too but there's something about the presentation of it in Samurai Gunn that's way more hype.
Someone has to do it. Might as well be you.
sixteen-bit
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KI Cuts '13 yesssss
KI'13 has some cool tunes. I'm glad they're considering a soundtrack release.
"God's Beard!"
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Too bad no Daigo after everybody requested him.
Looks like the players are having more fun this time around.
Seriously, I want to know what the hell is going on with this and the Hadouken cabs. Something's going on.
Dammit, seems like I missed some great RR play again. Going to have to visit the archives.
I really hope Sanford left a lot of bodies in this season.
I don't see how this can possibly be done between 8 and 11 PM. That's going to run way over.
It always does.
Parallax Scroll
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oh yeah, if i can figure out how to make gifs on a mac i'm gonna gif something from last night's TRB
JeTmAn81
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What the hey, man! I've actually been eagerly awaiting this but I thought it wasn't out until Tuesday. I'll have to download this when I'm home from work. Looks like the free DLC for the PS3 version comes with it on PS+ as well though it is a separate purchase on the store.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
If you figure it out let me know.
So long as the method doesn't involve money or gifcam
They only spoiled one thing this time which was:
*There's a Ryu vs Cammy match which pretty much means that Infiltration loses somewhere in there, probably very early. So no going home with $25000 for him. Only Laugh plays Ryu from the pool.
LMAO @ chibi Sanford on 0:15.
SloaneRisette
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Tournament Standard Time
JeTmAn81
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Actually...I think Infiltration plays Ryu sometimes. For instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD2I9dkphLY
CrazyTank940
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Almost made me laugh in class. dammit lol
I wasn't even thinking about it starting late, just the amount of time allocated.
Going to be an interesting night, let's see how it plays out.