nakedsushi said:
Okay I think I need a tutorial about what all this cancelling talk is about. I have no idea what I'm doing, or if I'm doing it at all. When am I supposed to do it? How does it help? If anyone sees me online on SFIV, send me an invite if you want to teach my newbness how to cancel.
Cancelling(FADC) is referring to using a Focus Attack (FA) in the middle of a special move in order to prevent yourself from going through the whole animation. Keep in mind, this takes up 2 bars.
Go into practice, pick ryu. Do a fireball, then immediately hit(and hold) mp + mk. While holding those buttons, hit forward twice. You'll know you performed it right if you're character flashes yellow. Congrats, you just performed a FADC! It has a LOT of different uses, but here are the two most basic uses:
1) Comboing. Most characters can land their ultra after a cancelled special move. Example, Ryu can do a FP Shoryuken, use cancel (FADC) so that he never leaves the ground after the first hit of the shoryuken, then throw out his ultra fireball and catch the opponent as they fall to the ground.
You can also do longer combos with FADC that do more damage. Using ryu as an example again :
standing fp (s.fp) -> fp hadoken -> FADC forward -> s.fp -> s.fp hadoken -> FADC forward -> s.fp -> fp Shoryuken.
2) Pressure/mixup. If you have an opponent blocking alot, and you don't have a dependable, quick overhead, you can use the FADC to pressure them. Using Ryu again, if you perform a shoryuken next to your opponent and they block, you can FADC forward so that you don't whiff the shoryuken, and then throw them.
If you want to see all this in action, there's lot of youtube videos to watch. Also, feel free to hit me up on PSN : FindMyFarms
