Alex news when? Capcom did say 'early Spring' but the prior seasons' third characters had both come out in February, so hopefully it's actually Winter.

Anyway, played some more today.



Fourteenth character to master, on a fourteen win streak. That marks half the cast for me! (for now)

Apparently I'd played Cammy in ranked at some point. My profile had her put at Rookie but when I switched to her in Fighting Grounds I was ranked at Diamond 1. Well, whatever. It's been a while since I've played at that low of an LP, and I was reminded that somehow, even now when placements are no longer capped at Diamond 1, Platinum 5 players are the scariest players outside of Masters for some reason. My Diamond 1 climb kept getting interrupted by these battle hardened Platinum players, a few of them punching way above their weight. Lost a few win streaks that were close to 10 before I finally pushed to Diamond 2 and then it was smooth sailing straight to Masters on the win streak above. The high Diamonds I played against were on average way weaker lol.

Anyway, my Cammy play was very limited. I think my combined use of hooligan and dive kick I could count on one hand. I probably would have had an easier time if I'd dive kicked a little more. Opponents love walking back and Cammy's sweep isn't great but it consistently got the job done and from there Cammy's mixup game up close is too scary.

Most of my play consisted of just walking opponents down and harassing them with normals. 5MP, 2MP, 2MK, 5MK, 5HK (mostly the closer range buttons though that I could link/combo into; oh, and with 4MP as my go-to AA). When I got a knockdown, DR into 2HP, 2MP, or throw was my usual guessing game, depending on how I read my opponent. Jumping light buttons when I was close enough to jump into a string for spiral arrow, usually, if I hit. If I hit with one of the meatier buttons when walking down, something like CH 5MP/2MP or 2HP, 2MP xx DR 2HP, 5HP xx 623HK was my usual bread and butter, or finishing with xx 214MP xx Level 3 off the 5HP if I had bar. I'd practiced CH 5MP/2MP, 2MP xx DR 4HK, 236HK, 623HK which does more damage now that I'm checking in training mode and gives more corner carry but forgot to use it.

Coolest thing I did today was AA another Cammy's divekick with a Level 1 to win the round.

I have been slowly getting back into SF6. Working on getting my Manon better; she's already at Master rank. DJ is also at Master rank. Akuma will be next, maybe Ryu but who knows since he's stupidly Top Tier now.

You people are insane with your Master Rank and whatnot, lol.
I'm a noob when it comes to fighting games and i don't play them religiously.

amigastar said:

You people are insane with your Master Rank and whatnot, lol.
I'm a noob when it comes to fighting games and i don't play them religiously.

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Less about being insane but more about the necessary grind to get better haha. Once my Manon and Deejay hit Master, I took a break. Now I'm getting back to it.

Can we just go back to SFV already? When colors didn't deserve a whole ass trailer because we got actual costumes? Please?

Why the everloving fuck is mika in the thumbnail...that's just cruel capcom..

Reizo Ryuu said:

Why the everloving fuck is mika in the thumbnail...that's just cruel capcom..

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You will get a color, probably for a character you don't use, and you will be happy about it, sir. Please, accept our color as if it were a costume

Reizo Ryuu said:

Why the everloving fuck is mika in the thumbnail...that's just cruel capcom..

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Ibuki too, who I'd rather have.

Had a rough go playing yesterday. I haven't played hardcore in sometime and yesterday I got my shit pushed in. UGH.

Man, i know i'm an idiot but i still can't stand the graphics style of SF6. This should be Street Fighter and not Mortal Kombat because that how it looks and what reminds me of.

amigastar said:

Man, i know i'm an idiot but i still can't stand the graphics style of SF6. This should be Street Fighter and not Mortal Kombat because that how it looks and what reminds me of.

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I mean, overall, yeah. it reminds me of MK9 cuz of how ugly some character models are and I don't mean the main roster... although, some characters look quite bad like Elena for example. I like the new version of Alex though, even if I don't like grabbers that much.

Alex's new design and model looks great. Can't wait to see some gameplay, let's hope soonish.

But I think we won't get gameplay until late February and the release for April.

This might be the most insane piece of Street Fighter history I've ever heard. No idea how I missed this. Also, those devs back then were literally wizards.

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