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Fighting Games Weekly | Mar 9-15 | Sponsored by Popeyes

Malice215

Member
Johnny Cage looks awesome

He looks alot better than I thought he would. Story mode looks like Injustice 2.0. People are going to love it. I'm hyped to watch it ripped immediately to YouTube.

And this $20,000 invitational couldn't spare some cheddah to fly Spooky in to put on a better presentation? I hope these other invitationals being planned take note.
 
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kano pls
 

Kimosabae

Banned
I, uh, I think Ky is fine without the j.S cross up in Xrd lol It's not like what he's supposed to be doing. He just has good normals and + frames and a fireball and it's fine.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need it. Besides, I'm not missing the crossup hitbox due to oki, though that would be nice. He suffers in neutral because of it. j.S is almost a button never worth pressing. If you're in a situation where your opponent is open below you, and the two character's hurtboxes are in danger of crossing up, you don't have a button to take advantage of that unless they're crouching (j.K). Intuition tells you to press j.S, but that just whiffs and gets you grabbed.

And there's also, again, the issue with the lower portion of the attack's hitbox - it practically doesn't exist. So you have to be an execution wizard just to be able low-airdash j.S on a lot of the cast, while crouching, or you just sail passed them into a punish. It really hurts his oki (what he's supposed to be doing) because Dust/Greed Sever are not legitimate overhead options. This is why you see Ain spam TK Stun Edge all day. His oki game has gone from a legitimate high-low with his low AD option in +R, to a throw bait gimmick with Air Stun Edge. It's admittedly a good gimmick, but its Attack Level is reportedly getting nerfed and the landing lag is still a thing.

j.S is fundamentally broken. It doesn't function outside air combos.
 

vulva

Member
Just tuned in now, glad to see my pick to win it all is doing just fine so far (sorry Momochi, Kazunoko got this but my heart's still with you <3)
 

fader

Member
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I mean, I love Gootecks and Mike Ross, but they should NOT be commentating.



Starting to get better. It was the worst during Daigo v JWong. Maybe more people tuned in during that time???

Mike is usually good with combofiend. idk who gootecks can commentate with but it's certainly not mike.
 

Malice215

Member
UltraChen thank gosh <3

Yes, I'm back in there.

Anyone else agree that ft3 would have been perfect for the 15 minute timeslots?

I assumed it would be for this much money and so much time spanned across 3 days, but eSports isn't on point with everything it seems still.

Why was there no hype/promotion for this tournament? Is full of murderers!

The community needs to do a better job at hyping events. Maybe it would help if the players talked about the event beforehand, or maybe the organizers could have shed some details to help get the word out which is only to their benefit since they also want people to watch.
 
Mike is usually good with combofiend. idk who gootecks can commentate with but it's certainly not mike.

Possibly. I could see Mike was just letting Gootecks ramble. Kept on going "tell me what you have in your mind" and telling him to calm down during that Rose match.

edit: I think there was also no balance between them two. Mike is a good play-by-play commentator, but Gootecks could not carry the color commentary.
 

shaowebb

Member
You can tell the moment Daigo wakes up and gets super focused in a set. Gets a perfect and closes out the next with an attempted Demon finish. Guy is a monster when he starts facing pressure.
 

shaowebb

Member
All these shotos let me count them.

  1. ken
  2. ryu
  3. evil ryu
  4. gouken
  5. akuma
  6. oni
  7. dan
  8. sakura

Maybe there is a reason I got bored with SF...
 
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