Nitto playing so fucking patient and stealing the round off of Dan
KO's Ken being so lol.
Pierre completely blowing with SA3 but able to steal the game from Nitto (who played so clutch and almost came away with the win). Pierre's no Roshihikari with fancy SA3 combos, but his yang gets the job done.
Ridiculously close 3rd place match between KO and Nitto.
Pierre getting owned in the finals, lol.

Bill307

Canada9103 Posts

November 04 2007 19:59 GMT

#843

The finish to Nitto vs Pierre was fantastic. I've never seen Pierre playing Yang before, but he does a surprisingly good job of it

.

Also, yes I would like to play via Kaillera

. My friend Sneaks here in UW lent me one of his big joysticks to use ^^.

I was practicing earlier on Friday, trying to pull off Makoto's 100% stun combo on Alex. I got it only twice after about 2 hours of practice T_T. I've also learned how to do the max damage + high stun combo, though unreliably: abare, dash, mp.fukiage, super jump cancel straight-up, immediate mk.tsurugi (usually people do a fierce here instead, which trades a little damage for a little stun).

Also, Akuma is reeeaaaalllly easy to stun off of an abare combo: you just do dash, mp.fukiage, cr.roundhouse (very easy to hit).

Bill307

Canada9103 Posts

November 04 2007 20:20 GMT

#844

By the way, I think Pierre was knocking down his opponents on purpose during Seiei-Enbu, for 2 reasons:
1. it resets damage scaling, and
2. he can attempt another unblockable or tricky mix-up on their wake-up.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

November 05 2007 02:45 GMT

#845

haha KSK can't access his own server so he had to upload everything to youtube and filebank, including the torrent file.

No wonder I didnt see any files on the blog last night, when they should have been up usually.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

November 05 2007 11:38 GMT

#846

Man, Yang vs Yun Match was fun to watch. For some reason I hate Yun but Yang is cool. Maybe I just hate juggle characters. It just seems so lame and imbalanced/no skillish to me. Its lts so boring its like all Yun users have is the juggle shit and all they do is try and set it up all round. Same thing in every matchup.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

November 05 2007 13:02 GMT

#847

well said "no skill juggle" did take an entire country of players about 5-6 years to develop X__X.

And because a lot of characters differ in physical properties after being hit, you need to know different sequences for different opponents, at different points in the stage.

What separates a top level yun from a scrub yun is how they deal with the nonstandard genei situations and how much of the "little stuff" they execute beautifully, as well as how optimal their combo sequences are. Pyrolee is a very good yun but I've always noticed that his genei sequences are far from optimal.

myrmidon2537

Philippines2188 Posts

November 05 2007 15:38 GMT

#848

I used to think I like Yang better than Yun (I still do though). But Somehow, I find Genei-Jin >>>> Poke to EX slashes. Maybe that's because I can't SAIII worth ****

Anyway, while Yun only has "Juggle and shit", its not really easy to use and pressure with it. Like what haji said. you're not going to GJ off a target combo everytime so you use it when you're free and pressure them to open up or to grab them. Getting your opponent open to your attack take a lot more skill than whatever combo you can do.

PePe QuiCoSE

Argentina1204 Posts

November 05 2007 18:43 GMT

#849

though, from a spectator point of view, it looks cheap. It's like once he gets his show running, you can't do anything about it. Feels so imba.
Without questioning the skill involved, i always cheer for the "lesser" character. Loved that Yang beat Yun there, but also that Chun Li crushed Ken clearly showing it was the better player. Didn't cared to watch Yun vs Yun, but the rest were nice, thanks :D

Chill

Calgary26004 Posts

November 05 2007 18:47 GMT

#850

On November 03 2007 11:57 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Anyone wanna play via kailera? Chill?

I'm an Akuma user. and I am very BM.

We can play online?
Holy shit! Yea let's play sometime after work hours.

Chill

Calgary26004 Posts

November 05 2007 18:50 GMT

#851

On November 06 2007 03:43 PePe QuiCoSE wrote:
though, from a spectator point of view, it looks cheap. It's like once he gets his show running, you can't do anything about it. Feels so imba.
Without questioning the skill involved, i always cheer for the "lesser" character. Loved that Yang beat Yun there, but also that Chun Li crushed Ken clearly showing it was the better player. Didn't cared to watch Yun vs Yun, but the rest were nice, thanks :D

Isn't Chun higher tier than Ken? Like literally the #1 character? Chun > Yun > Ken > Makoto?

jkillashark

United States5262 Posts

November 05 2007 19:15 GMT

#852

On November 06 2007 03:50 Chill wrote:

Show nested quote +

Isn't Chun higher tier than Ken? Like literally the #1 character? Chun > Yun > Ken > Makoto?

No, they're all the same tier. There are just some crazy Chuns out like Nuki and Tokido that make Chun seem like it's a Tier 0. o.O

Those 4 characters all belong to tier 1 but I do believe that Chun is a little bit better than Yun, Ken, and Makoto. I would have to say Ken and Makoto are the two funnest characters to play with in 3rd strike though. I would add Yun for myself but I just never took the time to learn how to play Yun properly. Chun is my nazi character but she's pretty dang boring to play with.

ScoutWBF

Germany641 Posts

November 05 2007 19:33 GMT

#853

No. It's Yun>Ken>Chun>Makoto

PePe QuiCoSE

Argentina1204 Posts

November 05 2007 19:36 GMT

#854

in my post i meant that yes, i believe chun to be higher than ken (that's why i put a "but" in there), but in that game the chun player was so much better in all aspects, not just abusing the character, that i didn't care about tier. If i see a Yun winning and not relying in it's super to deal mass damage, i'd also root for that guy.
It's just that generally when you see a lower tier player vs a higher tier the lower one seems to play better/smarter.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

November 05 2007 20:59 GMT

#855

If I HAD to rank them it'd be yun > chun > ken, but you really shouldn't use tiers and such for 3s. People have studied every single matchup sufficiently that the "diagram" is far better when discussing things like this. Esp since the most important 3s tournaments (SBO and Cooperation Cup) are team matches (3v3 and 5v5 respectively), character matchups are much more relevant.

Then there are certain characters out there where winning like 40 games in a row is quite difficult, but are extremely dangerous in a do or die tournament situation, like Makoto or Dudley. Esp Makoto, the most feared character in tournaments.

myrmidon2537

Philippines2188 Posts

November 06 2007 01:07 GMT

#856

Yeah, Makoto is one touch death. Haji's also right, its YCK.

IIRC In the last matchup list that the japs released Yun has no bad matchups and I think draws even with ken, Chun's bad match-up is only yun (not by much) and Ken's bad matchup is chun.

Again, that's IIRC >_>