Not a good sign for Ken to be that far down the listBeta character usage:
Day 1:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693157190455201793
Day 2:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693587912970092544
Day 3:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/694116592565747712
Street Fighter V Beta IV Thread: Jan 30-31
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Boogalogist
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I wouldn't worry about it. SF V will become Ken Fighter V when the full game is released.
Matrix XII
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Cammy is very low on the charts, is that expected? I was thinking of using her as my main for SFV, or is that a bad choice?
Cammy is great imo, go nuts.
Interesting chart. Totally different from my experience with this beta-- foughts lots of Ryus, sure, but then it was all Charlie, Mika, Laura, and then a lot of Zangiefs and at one point, I got what I can only describe as the "flowchart Ken experience." It was like the early days of SF4 all over again-- kept getting DP spamming Ken players over and over again during one session.
sixteen-bit
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Beta character usage:
Day 1:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693157190455201793
Day 2:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693587912970092544
Day 3:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/694116592565747712
Weird I ran into like 2 bisons total
I'm not sure about that. Vtrigger requires 3 bar, which means you only get to use it once at best.
Note that this image is for the top of the leaderboards
I feel like he's a character that attracted better players, not exactly a starting character.
Ginger Hail
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Ken number seems low and Necalli a bit high, but otherwise it seems accurate to what I saw.
Ardenyal
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Beta character usage:
Day 1:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693157190455201793
Day 2:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/693587912970092544
Day 3:
https://twitter.com/GenKaan/status/694116592565747712
It should be noted that this is character usage of the top 250 ranking players, not character usage of all players in the beta.
Shame seeing so few Cammys in the top 250.
CastleRybread
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Yes you get only one initial activation, but it's a huge amount of damage in that combo and any subsequent combos in the round.
Being able to do run cancel combos with his v-skill would be over the top, since damaging combos is something Ken doesn't lack. Also it would easily overshadow every single v-skill in the game.
SolarPowered
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It'll crash back down to Earth when people realize he needs a lot of work to be good with.
Squigly is about as far as I go.
I couldn't play any of the betas fullscreen without crashing 15 minutes later. Makes me wonder if this will happen after release.
It will be open season on shotos come release.
She is great. Right now people are just hyperactive with her, Chun Li and Ken. Mashed jabs, cannon spikes and dragon punches all day.
Ken players were by far the most annoying bunch of the beta for me. Nothing but jab fighter V and dragon punches all over the place. I probably won more than I lost against him, but he's definitely more annoying than scary.
Looking at that chart makes me realize that Cammy was probably my least encountered female of the whole group. The women are still far more popular overall. I probably saw more of her in two hours of play than I did of Zangief, Vega, Sim and Rashid combined all day.
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direct_quote
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How could you hate a guy with fire kicks and punches?
Game isn't even out yet...
I didn't fight that many Karins either. Bison, Necalli, and Laura were the top 3 characters I was getting constantly.
bob_arctor
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Hated him since day one way, way back on SNES SF since I was Ryu all the way. Don't even use him anymore but fuck Ken regardless. And I mean that in the best possible way. The rivalry and hate should live on forever, no matter how chummy Capcom's made them over the years.
BizzyBum
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Game isn't even out yet...
lol god damn son...
Game isn't even out yet...
The beta closing down so soon must have left you feeling...boned
-Pyromaniac-
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I played Ken like crazy when he was introduced and played really well. The beta after he was introduced it just wasn't the same for me. Not sure what they tweaked with him but it just wasn't working. Then I stopped completely by the last beta. Shame.
ZeroTheShadow
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You've literally played the game 10x as much as I have. Seriously where do you find the time to play that much of a beta?
Game isn't even out yet...
A lot of that is from Beta 2 and 3 as well, but I went pretty hard lol
GodParticle
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Man, I dunno about this game. I played around with it for a bit and now I've noticed that they even removed unique neutral jumping attacks. Just seems so barebones the more I mess around with it
Teknopathetic
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It's actually interesting to see how much usage Bison got in Asia. Nash's popularity is no surprise, but Bison's is very surprising.
CountBlack
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Yea they took away proximity normals :/. Something I complained about earlier but apparently people don't like those either ¯\_(ツ
_/¯Boogalogist
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The change in camera angle sure hurt the usage!
The Lone Dragon
Member
It's more an indicator of ease of use, rather than overall usage.
These figures seem to be character usage in the top 250, exclusively.
Mika got nerfed from previous betas, so it's definitely a bit harder to win with her.
GodParticle
Member
Yea they took away proximity normals :/. Something I complained about earlier but apparently people don't like those either ¯\_(ツ
Right, I knew about those, which is bs, but also the jumping neutrals have the same animation as jumping forward/back. I know they say they want the game to be more accessible, but that's taking away part of what makes SF
direct_quote
Member
Just play Nash then.
I really should.
Mass Effect
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Wow, surprised at how low Cammy is on that list. She seems like a top-tier character so I thought a lot of the high-ranks would be using her.
:/
I'll take Ken over Ryu any day of the week, to play or fight against.
:/
I'll take Ken over Ryu any day of the week, to play or fight against.
CountBlack
Member
Yea pretty much. I was really disappointed in it as well but I guess this is what people want in a barebones SF game ¯\_(ツ
_/¯The Lone Dragon
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I don't miss proximity normals AT ALL.
Previous games have all sorts of unnecessary, worthless moves that no one ever uses. Get rid of them, and make the remaining moves all have a purpose.
SF5 has it right.
Previous games have all sorts of unnecessary, worthless moves that no one ever uses. Get rid of them, and make the remaining moves all have a purpose.
SF5 has it right.
Proximity based normals were a drag since sometimes you'd be in range for them to connect but they won't activate due to being outside of whatever arbitrary range they got so you could drop combos for basically no reason.
Some close attacks are great antiair but you can't really rely on them being so situational. I'm all in favor of bringing back the v-ism style from alpha 3 where all of the close moves are a command instead, kinda how Chun's s. Hk works currently in sfv if that makes sense.
Some close attacks are great antiair but you can't really rely on them being so situational. I'm all in favor of bringing back the v-ism style from alpha 3 where all of the close moves are a command instead, kinda how Chun's s. Hk works currently in sfv if that makes sense.
Cammy was fun to use. I didn't even use anyone else for the 2 hours I played.