Ive been playing AE since April, but Im pretty much still a newbie because I've never stuck with a character due to being too frustrated and eventually quitting. Akuma is my 5th main thus far. I pretty much only work on execution atm, but I pretty much never get an opportunity to even use most of what I practice as I always get bodied to the point that I can't start any offense, aside from random sweeps/throws into crossup palms or tatsus. Blockstrings never happen because I never get into that situation and if I do it happens so suddenly I forget everything I've been practicing for hours in the alb and just mash crouch tech.
I am Gaf's pin cushion. Every single person that has said they suck at this game has gotten a confidence boost from playing me because I literally almost never win a match let alone a round. I am forever a sub 500 pp'r. You shall be no different. I'll make you feel like Infiltration playing me.
I do notice that in this game and Marvel it is extremely hard to learn from matches by myself with no outside help, simply due to all the little things that you would never know about unless someone tells you about it. I never get this in any other game , P4A, GG, BB, KOF, even in 3S I can clearly see where I fuck up.
I think you're being too hard on yourself, lol. You managed to take rounds off of me almost every game and the games were pretty close outside of the last one where I was just making really good reads. I've been playing for a year and a half to two years! Lol, that's why I think I'm awful.
Yeah, that outside help definitely helps me because I'm generally not too good at figuring out what's going on. It may not be accurate, but here's what I was thinking when I played you:
1. If you do st.HK, you always do sweep after. Something people don't keep in mind is that Akuma's st.HK is -2 on block now, so I can do cr.MP and it'll basically beat any normal you throw out after.
2. You play according to 4 ranges. At max range, I should get in. If I maintain a distance greater than sweep range for a little bit, you generally either do st.HK or fireball, so I focused on beating the normal after the st.HK. At sweep range, you sweep. At face-to-face range, you generally try to get away. I tried to wait for you to do something most of the time because I was too afraid of getting swept, so I usually just waited until you put yourself in a situation I could get damage from.
3. Every time the situation reset to neutral (for example, during an air trade), you always did jump back air fireball. Every time you landed from a jump or air fireball you did sweep. Every time someone lands in front of you, you do sweep. That's why I knew to focus after landing at the end of our last match.
4. Your oki consists of demon flip something. If I managed to block that, I didn't have much to worry about since you weren't really scaring me into pressing buttons. I would get grabbed sometimes, but most of the time you would do sweep, cr.MK, or something that would put you at negative and I could escape.
If you notice, none of these really have you at frame advantage. That's something I noticed. You never tried to use frame advantage for pressure. For example, if you feel like your opponent isn't going to do anything after blocking your cr.MP, feel free to walk forward a tiny bit and do another cr.MP.
Other than that, I noticed when you were playing Kadey that Kadey would whiff some unsafe things sometimes but you couldn't punish them because you were jumping back and forth too much. Although maybe that's how you got Kadey to whiff those things in the first place, lol.
Been trying hard to level up my Yun and it's driving me nuts. I lose to everybody. Kadey's 1 button characters, random 1000pp players in ranked, mashers, and so on. But screw it, I'm going to keep grinding with this character. After some endless with kokia and kadey I decided to just play a couple of ranked matches. It turned into 45 more minutes because I kept losing and wanted to keep playing to make up for it. If that wasn't bad enough I ran into the usual folks who would host, win, and then didn't host again assuring they wouldn't run into me for a run back which made me more salty.
:<
Sorry. I was getting too many not-legit wins off of Yun's weird upkick whiffing on Ryu thing.
