Timedog said:
I don't address every single one of your points because I don't care enough about you to spend enough time to write short works of fiction, like you. Funnily enough, despite your claims, you've thrown out more ad hominem attacks than I have. I'll make this one longer, but after this post I'm done arguing too, but with a caveat.
Ugh. Nice work of fiction there. Also, you've thrown way more ad hom attacks than I have. Go ahead and count if you want.
You don't care about me? That's sweet. That's why you went out of the way to attack my post even though I was obviously ranting because I was frustrated? Yeah, way to show you don't care.
-You said Bison can't ultra Ryu when playing footsies after I mentioned that ultra can punish a whiffed dp. Then I said that I was not specifically talking about Bison when I wrote that. This is not a hard conversational thread to follow. I never claimed that you said "Ryu can only fight Bison", I have no idea where you got that out of what I wrote. But of course, I'm the one that can't read.
But before you said
If he sticks out a whiffed SRK out of nowhere you combo him, score a knockdown or ultra him!
Care to show where it was implied that you meant it was "only situational" and/or for "certain characters?
-Ryu's ultra by itself does 400 dmg. When comboed it will do less do to damage scaling. As I wrote earlier, I thought we were talking about the ultra itself's dmg, not the damage of the entire combo with the ultra included. I thought this because of what YOU wrote. You did not clarify that you were talking about a combo + ultra. I don't see why this is such a big deal. There was a miscommunication. But believe me, I know far, far more than you about what kind of dmg various Ryu combos do.
You said before
Ultra does weaksauce damage.
I said
Upon doing a google search, Ryu's Ultra does anywhere from 291 to 495 worth of damage when used in a combo (as it will be 9.9 times out of 10). ~30% of a character's health is NOT shit damage especially when it can come after a trade.
You said
Ryu's ultra NEVER does over 400 damage. It only get's 400 damage when NOT used in a combo.
To this, I replied,
From
http://oomickeydizzleoo.blogspot.com...u-numbers.html
- Ultra Combo's: hp shoryuken 381D (at times 291D when anti aired). c.mk, hp shoryuken: 424D (454D if c.hp is used instead). F+hp, hp shoryuken: 474D. c.lk, c.lp, hp shoryuken: 345D. j.hk, land, c.hp, shoryuken: 495D
Still trying to make your bullshit arguments?
EDIT: Upon further review, I'll concede this point to you on the nature of semantics. Technically, via the wording used, you're right. The problem is that players tack on the ultra at the end of their combos making a 200-300 damage combo turn into a ~500 damage combo and you're trying to argue that that's insignificant?
-Bison's Psycho Crusher is not the signature move in the game. It is not the most well known move performed by the most popular character. That is a bad comparison. The dragon punch simply is not going to change significantly. Complaining that it doesn't "look" like it should hit ground pokes is a waste of breath. Holy shit, you just brought up racism and segregation in an argument about dragon punches in a video game? :lol I think we're getting pretty close to Godwin's Law, folks!
This is a bad comparison just like comparing old street fighter games to new street fighter games. Older games didn't have FAs. The original Street Fighter games weren't even fighters. Street Fighter 2 didn't have parries. The move's properties have to change ANYWAY. It's a new engine with new models. It's not going to be exactly the same as it always was. That argument is complete bullshit. So he gets an overpowered move, so what? It doesn't mean it makes any sense. So that's the way it's always been. Still doesn't mean it makes any sense. It's in the game, so I have to live with it. Still doesn't mean it makes any sense. And yeah, if the bottom of your toes touch the Dragon Punch, you get hit by it. Worst thing about that? It used to be high risk / high reward. Whereas, if you blocked the shoryuken, you could punish for so much damage. Now? They FADC out. Oh and yeah, I just made an analogy involving racism and segregation. Ever heard of an analogy?
"Your eyes are as pretty as stars." "Holy shit, this asshole just compared my eyes to burning hot globes of massive nuclear destruction."
-SRK > FADC is not zero risk(unless you use backdash instead of forward dash). The same situation occurs when ending a combo with a hk tatsu. People don't like to do this because it puts them at some risk. I've already explained this and you apparently have no response. I'm simply not going to buy into your childish semantics game on what "risk" means. What happens after the FADC is NOT a completely different situation. You cannot separate the FADC from the SRK. It seems like a terrible way for you to try to justify in your mind that an attempt by Ryu to combo into ultra is completely safe, and it is not.
Oh, at first it was definitely a 50/50 and now it's "not zero risk unless..."? Why bring up the Hk Tatsu? That's a completely separate situation. Combos ending with HK Tatsu don't reduce risk, it's an offensive gamble that may or may not pay off. If you're on the ground and the opponent is standing near you, you can freely SRK -> FADC and face basically zero risk. You think I'm doing some word twister, when you're the one confusing yourself. You think that SRK -> FADC is the same thing as ending with Tatsu. It's not. The Shoryuken is (was) a high risk move that becomes safe after FADCing out of it, because you can't punish the FADC. You're trying to argue that FADCing out is NOT safe because you have twenty different options after you FADC out. Who the hell cares? The Shoryuken is now safe from punishment. What you do after the SRK -> FADC is on you. It's back to a neutral state guessing game.
-It is implied by your rant that you seem to believe that Ryu has a huge advantage over Bison. If you do not believe Ryu to have advantage, then why are you complaining about his toolset vs. Bison? I don't go around yelling "Oh my god, the Ryu vs. Dhalsim match is TOO fair! Look at all these tools that Dhalsim has!", although I might do so if I thought it was a terrible matchup for Ryu.
Oh? It is IMPLIED? I'm glad that you finally figured out your arguments are based on what you infer from my writing. Like I said before, it was a rant. I'm not going to say "oh I'm so mad that Bison's st. mk and st. rh kick ass." Why am I complaining about his moveset? Because I feel like it's bullshit (oh, also because I was upset as most people are during their rant). Doesn't mean the fight isn't even. Here's a better question. Why did you feel so obligated to attack a frustrated player who was obviously ranting and trying to get it out of his system? I thought you didn't care? <3.
Is Sagat a more imperfect character than Ryu? IMHO, yes. It's his damage output and health that make him a bigger threat in most people's eyes (I guess also his kara-bullshit). In any case, I agree with most of the match-up charts. On a professional level, Bison-Ryu is 5-5. It doesn't mean the Bison doesn't have to work harder than the Ryu player. THAT'S what's frustrating to me most of all. Yeah, true Bison-Ryu is 5-5, but that's under ideal conditions with professionals of equal skill level. Under less ideal conditions, it's so much easier for a Ryu to scrub out a win vs. Bison than the other way around.
Finale: Since I don't want to hear any of your crudely thought out rants in this thread, let's do a first to 10 "I quit" match. Loser has to leave this thread until Super comes out, and there is a new thread made for that game. It will be easy to tell who has more game knowledge regarding Ryu. I wouldn't do this on some matchups, but since Ryu vs. Bison is 5-5, its fair. So basically, put up or shut up.
Here's the end of it! An e-tough guy I see! But you see, I never said I was better in Street Fighter than you. In fact, I never claimed to be better than anybody. However, as logicians (I assume you're a logician since you brought up the ad hom attacks above) we also know that you can only judge the arguments and not the source of the arguments. Otherwise... well trying to discredit my arguments because you can beat me in Street Fighter sounds kinda like an ad hom in itself eh? So I politely decline your invitation to play with these stipulations because, truth be told, you may be better than me. That doesn't mean your not-well-thought-out "arguments" are right and mine are wrong though. Either way, I'm really getting tired of arguing with you. Honestly, I wouldn't have made this post if you didn't continue to attack me and try to spin things around. So yeah, I know you want the "last word" or whatever. Go ahead and address my points. Keep it semi-civil. If it makes sense (or whatever) then I won't reply to it anymore. If you continue to attack me, then I'll continue to do the same. And to be fair, you can go as far as I did this post (in terms of insults/vulgarity/whatever).