On March 01 2012 20:58 aseq wrote:
Chi-Rithy is good, but I don't think he is considered best in Canada. He played in the Canada Cup though. I don't really remember how he did.

Chi-Rithy had great Yang play during Canada Cup 2011, and came top 32 in singles losing to Bonchan and Xian

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

March 01 2012 22:08 GMT

#3883

Didn't Chi Rithy play Chun before? Either way he's really good but generally Air is the best AE player there, JSMaster has been super quiet ever since WCW3 where he got flipped off lol

Also, FakeSteve is one of the top players too, from what I hear

Excalibur_Z

United States12235 Posts

March 02 2012 16:49 GMT

#3884

Yeah Chi-Rithy was a Chun player, I didn't know he had any alt characters.

Finally got off my ass and went to a Thursday Night Throwdown event to get some experience against some top Norcal players. I met my personal goal of only losing to the experienced regulars, and lost to Kineda's Akuma and Chris Z's Viper. Both pretty rough matches for Sakura in my opinion. I did beat a Sagat and a Juri who were both pretty good though. Got a decent amount of casuals in too. Kimo's Hakan ended up taking 4th but he choked big against John Choi and Harris' Ryus where in both games all he had to do was punish a whiffed Shoryu and he would have made it in the money. Not sure if I'll make it out to the next one, I guess it will depend on the outcome of whether they end up pulling SF4 or Marvel in favor of SFxT.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

March 04 2012 12:19 GMT

#3885

What makes Juri any good? I checked her moveset recently and she has a pretty badass air combo. But that's really it. I feel like her moveset is really limited and connecting her moves feels so awkward (compared to Ibuki where everything feels perfect and transitional).

I was looking to pick up a third character and it came down to Chun-Li, Makoto, Honda and Juri. I was going to do Oni but he felt too similar to Evil Ryu.

o3.power91

Bahrain5288 Posts

March 04 2012 14:45 GMT

#3886

juri is a pretty awesome char imo. i just find her a bit confusing to use personally. also God help you if youre using a pad. those fireball charges are hell on Type A layout XD

chun and honda are easier to pick up and use. chun has one if the best, if not the best set of normals in the game, but has trouble dealing damage.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

March 04 2012 15:31 GMT

#3887

I just played her a bit more today. I feel so reliant on her two major moves because nothing really kicks up. I checked out some of her combos and they look ridiculously hard to pull off or even use in proper matches.

I might play Honda. I'm really looking to have a trifecta of characters that alternate between "forms of play". With Ibuki, I'm pretty aggressive. With Evil-Ryu, I'm tactical.

Now I'm looking for someone a bit more defensive. Not sure if that makes any sense. Sakura looks good too!

holdthephone

United States523 Posts

March 04 2012 15:41 GMT

#3888

I don't respect Juri a whole lot, but I'd definitely say she's the scariest thing to face in the corner out of the entire cast, at least for me.

hotbreakfest

United States145 Posts

March 04 2012 16:24 GMT

#3889

On March 05 2012 00:31 Torte de Lini wrote:
I just played her a bit more today. I feel so reliant on her two major moves because nothing really kicks up. I checked out some of her combos and they look ridiculously hard to pull off or even use in proper matches.

I might play Honda. I'm really looking to have a trifecta of characters that alternate between "forms of play". With Ibuki, I'm pretty aggressive. With Evil-Ryu, I'm tactical.

Now I'm looking for someone a bit more defensive. Not sure if that makes any sense. Sakura looks good too!

Sakura is good too. You just need to get down her tatsu combos if you want to maximize her damage output.

j. RH -> cls.MK -> L. Tatsu -> cls. HP -> L. Tatsu -> cr. HP -> HP SRK = ~411 meterless damage. :D
[cls = close standing]

On March 05 2012 00:41 holdthephone wrote:
I don't respect Juri a whole lot, but I'd definitely say she's the scariest thing to face in the corner out of the entire cast, at least for me.

She's definitely scary in the corner, but I've been playing so much melty blood lately that Juri's corner pressure feels like nothing now.

Azuroz

Sweden1630 Posts

March 04 2012 20:47 GMT

#3890

1 hour and 15 minutes until top 8 at final round, players still left include: pr balrog, justing wong, ricky ortiz and more.

IpKaiFung

United Kingdom91 Posts

March 05 2012 14:42 GMT

#3891

chun is difficult to play. situational anti airs, not very good damage output, low health, very poor reversal.
She has really good normals and pokes and hasn't got many bad matchups.
She's free to vortex chars though, which are the popular tournament chars.

Nikon

Bulgaria5710 Posts

March 05 2012 23:44 GMT

#3892

Hey, does anyone who plays on the PC want to play some games right now? I'm really really bad due to sporadic inactivity and stuff (C max, prolly worse now) but it's really hard to find opponents for some reason TT_TT

Edit: Thanks for the games and the tips, mrzro!

mrzro

United States4 Posts

March 06 2012 00:21 GMT

#3893

hey im down to play some games, name is zroskll

diehilde

Germany1596 Posts

March 17 2012 14:23 GMT

#3894

if you want defense, go with sagat or guile. Oh and I think oni plays completely different than evil ryu. Oni has way more mixups with his instant air dash and air super/ultra being comboable in 2012. Oni is definitey more of a rushdown char than evil ryu
Edit: ohn and its quite sad that the last post in this thread was made on the release date of SFxT... No love for AE anymore?

sOda~

United Kingdom441 Posts

March 23 2012 22:21 GMT

#3895

yo anyone from europe want to play some matches with me on pc?

id: saturDay sticks

ain

Germany786 Posts

March 24 2012 00:27 GMT

#3896

On March 24 2012 07:21 sOda~ wrote:
yo anyone from europe want to play some matches with me on pc?

id: saturDay sticks

I'm often hosting endless 1v1 lobbies. I'm | a1n |

pHaRSiDE

United States752 Posts

March 25 2012 08:19 GMT

#3897

yo, I'm a Seth player who is down to play some games anytime on Xbox Live. My gamertag is ThepHaRSiDE ,and you can always catch my stream at http://www.twitch.tv/cooper_inc1 if anyone wants to learn some Seth play. I float around 3000 PP and 13000 BP with him, so decent level of play.

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

March 26 2012 08:00 GMT

#3898

On March 02 2012 07:08 Zlasher wrote:
Didn't Chi Rithy play Chun before? Either way he's really good but generally Air is the best AE player there, JSMaster has been super quiet ever since WCW3 where he got flipped off lol

Also, FakeSteve is one of the top players too, from what I hear

no way man. i'm on that tier right below the actual top canadian players. i'm the best sakura in canada by simple virtue of there not being any others

there are probably arcade rats in van/to that are just as good with her, or better

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

March 26 2012 08:03 GMT

#3899

and Jamie (Jozhear) is the best player in Canada, fuck the rest! MM him last weekend, lost 10-3

edit so i don't make 3 posts in a row lol, here's a talking point:

why are people sleeping on cammy in this game? every time i turn around someone is complaining that she is ass, and i don't get it at all. she lost her meterless instant tkcs, but gained a slew of new link combos and frame traps, which seems like a pretty good fucking trade to me. i also have much more respect for her footsie normals, her s.mk and s.rh are really good zoning tools. so what's the deal? also, anyone agree with the assertation of most top players, that seth is the strongest character atm? i sure as fuck do not :D Viper Akuma Cammy Ryu Rufus is my personal top5, rest of the top 10 would be a collection such as Seth, Fei, Sakura, Balrog, Adon... maybe you could throw Ken, Honda, Vega (people sleep on this character still! STILL!), Abel, Sagat