Ultra Street Fighter IV - Page 330

On July 24 2013 23:41 Excalibur_Z wrote:


First off, it depends on who you're learning. Second, there are core fundamentals that apply to every character: links and cancels.

A link means that a move you do provides so much hitstun that your recovery will end X frames earlier than your opponent's hit recovery, leaving you X frames to connect (or "link") with another move. If X is 5, meaning your move is +5 on hit, then linking a 5-frame move would be a 1-frame link (1/60th of a second timing), linking a 4-frame move would be a 2-frame link (1/30th of a second timing), and linking a 3-frame move would be a 3-frame link (1/20th of a second timing).

A cancel means that you are canceling the recovery portion of a move into the startup of another move. Certain normals have this property and if you were to look at the frame data for your character on a site like the Shoryuken wiki or Eventhubs, you would see certain "sp", "su", and "ch" tags next to some moves. "Sp" means special cancelable, so if you input a special move while your "sp" cancelable move is either starting up or active (but not in recovery because then it's too late), it will cancel your first move into your special move. "Su" means super cancelable, so your normal move (or special move) is cancelable into a super. "Ch" means chain cancelable and only applies to certain characters' light attacks which can chain into themselves. The exception for "ch" moves is that if you have canceled a chain-cancelable move into another chain-cancelable move, you cannot special-cancel into a special move.

The third basic fundamental is the focus attack. By charging mp+mk you begin a focus attack, and you can either cancel out of the attack altogether by dashing forward or backward (double tap left or right) or release the attack. There are three levels of a focus attack: the first level is basic and crumples the opponent only on counter-hit (he pressed a button but your attack landed first), the second level occurs after your character flashes white and causes a crumple state so you can continue to combo, and the third level is released automatically after charging the full duration and is also unblockable with an even longer crumple time. Focus attacks have a very long recovery period, but if one connects, meaning it either hit or was blocked, you can dash to cancel that recovery period. This is essential for any of the Trial challenges that ask you to do a focus attack. If it asks you to do a focus at the start of a Trial, always use the level 3 focus to give yourself the most time to complete the combo. If it asks you to do a focus attack in the middle of a Trial, always use the level 2 if there are more moves to do afterward so you get the crumple, or use the level 1 if it's the last move in the list. In any case, always dash after your focus attack connects, usually forward which has less recovery. If the Trial asks you to focus cancel, then you input mp+mk as your move is starting up and immediately dash to cancel it.

On July 25 2013 18:27 RagequitBM wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the quality of sticks from China? I have a friend whose in China for vacation, and the sticks there are $100 cheaper, so I was really tempted to ask him to buy one for me.
I've heard some questionable things about the quality of certain products from China, so I'm not sure.

On July 26 2013 02:01 Arnstein wrote:


It depends of course. I mean, I'm pretty sure all the sticks that are made today are made in China anyways.