gg's, Mr. Shake.

Your Makoto is pretty scary, and you block better than most Makotos. But you gotta settle your internal struggle and stay loyal to one color!

Color loyalty is what defines top players in 3s, imo.

Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

August 15 2011 21:31 GMT

#131

I also notice when people turn into random colours! You gotta know your colour!

I play fierce ryu, jab gouki, forward q, fierce dudley and jab hugo

fly.stat

United States449 Posts

August 16 2011 00:12 GMT

#132

I've been playing a good bit trying to get better at inputs and such, but I feel like it takes so long just to be able to do any combo consistently.

For instance, the first combo I've been trying to learn for Akuma is crouching m kick, light hurricane kick, hard shoryu. I also try h punch, light hurricane, hard shoryu. I just can't seem to get the timings right on when to execute each move, and I'm also sort of confused as to when you can start doing the necessary steps for each move.

Do I hard punch and immediately after I do that, do the down->down back->back for hurricane kick, but wait until the exact moment it hits or blocks and THEN do the light kick input? Or does it all have to flow together and not "pause" on any frames? The same can be asked for the transition from light hurricane to hard shoryu. Forward->down->down forward and then hit h punch exactly when it hits or blocks?

If the way I'm asking the question is confusing I'm basically asking if you can divide the directional inputs with the actual punch or kick when in the middle of the combo, or do you just have to time it all to be together?

xmShake

United States1100 Posts

August 16 2011 03:24 GMT

#133

On August 16 2011 09:12 fly.stat wrote:
I've been playing a good bit trying to get better at inputs and such, but I feel like it takes so long just to be able to do any combo consistently.

For instance, the first combo I've been trying to learn for Akuma is crouching m kick, light hurricane kick, hard shoryu. I also try h punch, light hurricane, hard shoryu. I just can't seem to get the timings right on when to execute each move, and I'm also sort of confused as to when you can start doing the necessary steps for each move.

Do I hard punch and immediately after I do that, do the down->down back->back for hurricane kick, but wait until the exact moment it hits or blocks and THEN do the light kick input? Or does it all have to flow together and not "pause" on any frames? The same can be asked for the transition from light hurricane to hard shoryu. Forward->down->down forward and then hit h punch exactly when it hits or blocks?

If the way I'm asking the question is confusing I'm basically asking if you can divide the directional inputs with the actual punch or kick when in the middle of the combo, or do you just have to time it all to be together?

When you're canceling normals into specials such as in the case of cr. mk or hp -> tatsu you just do it as soon as possible because you're actually canceling the recovery animation into the special move. If you wait till when you actually see it hit its probably too late.

When you're comboing the tatsu into the shoryu, this is an air juggle, you're not canceling anything, so you press the punch button right as you're able to perform the shoryuken (do the shoryu motion, then hit fp when you hit the ground from your tatsu).

With any sort of combo practicing I recommend breaking them into parts, practicing them seperately, then eventually combing them. So in the case of cr.mk -> lk tatsu - > fp Shoryu, practice cr.mk > lk tatsu, practice lk tatsu > fp Shoryu, and then eventually practice the full combo once you have them both down.

tatsu is another name for hurricane kick

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

August 16 2011 04:01 GMT

#134

On August 16 2011 06:31 Chill wrote:
I also notice when people turn into random colours! You gotta know your colour!

I play fierce ryu, jab gouki, forward q, fierce dudley and jab hugo

mk colors all da way. nitto yun, rx urien, bubble gum remy etc. etc.

Trozz

Canada3456 Posts

August 16 2011 06:33 GMT

#135

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

August 16 2011 07:08 GMT

#136

Oh my god thats the first time Trozz has ever not posted in Haiku format, and its an image. God forbid.

Trozz

Canada3456 Posts

August 17 2011 03:15 GMT

#137

Why so negative?
Would you play third strike, Zlasher?
Sprite art is awesome.

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Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

August 17 2011 03:21 GMT

#138

Played CPU once
I'm really bad at 3rd Strike
Agreed on sprite art

Some day when I get better at AE though, if you'd like to play on that, would be fun

Trozz

Canada3456 Posts

August 17 2011 03:24 GMT

#139

I have AE too!
Do you want to play on steam?
I'll use everyone.

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Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

August 18 2011 16:10 GMT

#140

Four things I am focusing on:
1. I'm only playing Ryu until I'm not terrible. It's less fun but I was dividing my time between other characters too much.
2. I need to be more aggressive.
3. I still can't do a full Denjin combo with 50% efficiency.
4. I don't often cancel my low forwards into anything.