bob_arctor said:
Yeah, playing a Dhalsim, especially a really good one, is a little like figuring out advanced Calculus for me. Lost and befuddled something awful. On getting thrown--it has always been a problem for me since even SNES SF to be honest. At least by slide>throw #5678, I was teching them. A little.
So we gotta play again, even if it bores the shit outta you. I'm on a mini-vacation and will be back online tomorrow night.
You'll get used to teching throws eventually if you keep fighting people who like to grab. Best to make throws a part of your game plan as well (not just for linking Gouken's Ultra), if you haven't already.
And no, you didn't bore me. I'll send another invite if I see you online / looking for someone else to play.
captmcblack said:
So Guile turtling is hilarious.
I was playing some Dhalsims online and having a field day playing footsies and flash kicking them when they would try to teleport in front of me to throw or poke me. It was especially hilarious when they'd try to cross up with Ultra -----> teleport crossup -------> j.hp to try to pop me up and get the Ultra to hit, and instead they'd get Ultra flash kicked into oblivion. :lol
That... ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A CHALLENGE!!!!!
MIMIC said:
And to our resident Dhalsim (can't remember your tag, sorry): I definitely wanna play you more often. I've never played so many matches where most of them went to 5 rounds. My 1 win was just a moral victory. :lol Your Dhalsim is scary.
That was me.
I had fun against your Blanka. Partially because I felt the urge to directly compete against his aggressiveness under your control; I simply don't like it when someone wants to outmatch my Dhalsim in that area. :lol My (perhaps arrogant) way of showing that I (ideally) won't run away to the opposite end of the screen unless I really have no other choice.
toneroni said:
GGs MicVlad. Your Dhalsim is a beast! First time i played sim online and it had to be yours :lol
Nice teleport/ultra game you got going there.
Hopefully i'll be better adjusted to my new TE stick
and get more wins next time!
That explains why i spazzed out every once in a while lol.
It was fun trying out some other characters though.
Player match is definitely where its at!
I wanna work on chun and some other characters a bit more.
Oh, OK. I was wondering why you were doing certain attacks seemingly at random (you know, hitting thin air), so now I know. GGs.
FindMyFarms said:
I gotta disagree. Claw sucks. Bad anti air, bad footsies, wall dives get shut down by focus attacks, wake up game is PPP or KKK, worthless ultra. Air throw works about once a match (assuming the person you're playing doesn't suck.) He's also the only character that gets WORSE in a match (losing claw.)
I really wanna like him, because I LOVE playing him in casuals, but I have yet to see anyone win with him in a serious game. The only time its happened is when the other player either doesn't know the matchup, or is just completely outskilled.
Tatsu's pretty good with him on a competitive level, from what I can tell.
Team Tatsu vs Team Vinegar (part 1)
Team Tatsu vs Team Vinegar (part 1)
Team Combofiend vs Tatsujinken
I'm positive there are other great Vega's out there.
nakedsushi said:
Has anyone had a recently approved friend request to the GAF SFIV2 Xbox360 gamertag? I'm not sure where everyone is. I sent a friend request a few days ago, but still pending approval.
Eric WK said:
I had a request pending approval for about a week before I got sick of seeing it at the top of my friends list and just canceled it.
I'll send a PM to firehawk to ask what's up. He's the one who made the tag.
drohne said:
think i'm going to start learning a new character -- leaning towards boxer or rufus. was going to wait until my abel was decent, but that doesn't seem to be happening
I vote for Rufus. He doesn't show up online that often, as opposed to Balrog's.
FindMyFarms said:
I watched a couple of top players using him (mainly IYO) and from what I see, after you get all his setups down and what not, you just have to out execute your opponents. I'd see him pull so many last second slides and d PPP to dodge fireballs and get into spot that I think he just never messes up. He also almost ALWAYS wins in pokes (playing against other dhalsims, I'd 90% trade on pokes) which seems hard to do and time correctly. He also never messed up his tk teleport.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see too many mind games that Dhalsim has, but if you're execution is spot on, you're zoning can be almost unstoppable.
He has a fair share of mindgames once you go on the offensive, with and without his Ultra. Dhalsim has become rather flexible at close range thanks to his new and improved teleport, so you really should add it to your repertoire (and figure out its limits) in order to mess with people's heads. It's especially fun to bait specific moves or confuse charge characters with it if you use it right, and the same can be said about his Yoga Tower (though this move is not THAT useful).
Sadly you don't see a lot top players using that particular strategy, even though I perfectly understand why. It's very risky to approach your enemy with said approach due to Dhalsim's relatively low health, but it's a ton of fun regardless of that shortcoming. Not that I don't respect those with excellent zoning / poking abilities, on the contrary. It's just not something I'm interested in doing with SF IV Dhalsim most of the time (unless I have to go against Zangief)...
akachan ningen said:
yeah, it's been a rough ride but it's fun. I still feel like I'm just using 5% of him.
Ri'Orius said:
Yeah, from what I understand (been trying to main Dhalsim; still not good enough) with 'Sim you just need to be an untouchable poking machine. I've rarely seen Sims use combo's; certainly none as complex as I've seen among most other characters.
I love that style, and I wish I were better at it, but I'm just not familiar enough with all the various characters to know how to counter them all (when to block mid, when to block low, change-ups always get me, etc.).
If only you two had the game on 360... :[
You're right by the way, Dhalsim doesn't have any long combo's like other characters. Think you can only land 3 consecutive hits tops with his best non-Super, non-Ultra combo.
