I’m surprised about the reaction here. I think Blanka looks really nice. The game really needs more charge characters.
Alsp, just reached Gold, how far is Platinum?
Yeah. I’m not looking forward to playing against Blanka but he does look cool in the trailer.
One reason I’ve been playing Urien is I really like that he’s a mix of charge and fireball motions. It’s kinda like playing a Shoto, kinda not. It’s fun!
Urien shotos better than the shotos.
Funny to see the comments about grapplers, unless you’re as overtuned as Abigail grapplers have it hard this year. I see nothing but zoners and keepout mostly, so frustrating. I had to take a break due to a week of straight losses. Definitely looking at Blanka cause I’m in a bit of char crisis right now.
Seriously considering going to EVO this year since this is one of my last chances ever. Also some FGs I’m interested in seeing before they’re released, and I want to play Cross Tag Battle as well. I don’t know if I’m good enough to be legitimate at EVO- the last time I hit a major the streamer literally called me out for choking on stream (and I disappointed folks here too)
@Hereafter Plat starts at 7500. Gold is gimmicker hell, but good fundamentals can get you to Plat.
Now we have to see that clip!!
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble. I hear Rashid is good these days. Hehe.
On a whim I spent the night in practice mode and probably had more fun than I’ve had in weeks. It’s amazing how fast you can improve when you’re not interrupted with a match every 30 seconds. Duh!
Why not compete in one of the online competitions to see how you do? They were advertising that on PSN. I thought about trying it just because.
My problem is that I still don’t know how most characters work. I thought I hit a major lag spike until later I realized that Chun Li’s VT1 gaves her double hit normals.
I took the time to learn Rashid and now I can play against him. My next person is ED since I lost to him almost every time.
I was going to hit you up for some games @TimJames last night when I saw you were in training. But I figued you were doing some secret super Saiyan stuff.
One thing about this game I really starting not to like it the rush rush rush feeling of it. The 50/50 on wakeup sure doesn’t feel fun too. I heard Capcom nerfed command grabs too I cannot imagine how powerful they were previously. Right now I think they’re still too good.
@Alstein what’s your main. I recall it was Alex?
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Birdie, not Alex. BTW command grabs are really not good now, a missed grab is as bad as missing a DP now. The 50/50 stuff really got toned down as well, which really hurts Birdie as he lost most of what he had (and he had less than most, Birdie’s fraudulent on defense but honest on offense)
Yeah but it’s much easier to punish a DP: hold back to block, then stand still and wait!
For awhile there, I felt like I was getting better at the game. I’d win about 40% of the time, which seemed pretty good in ranked, for me anyway. Last Thursday night that all came crashing down. My rank plummeted. I can win roughly 25% of the time now, and I feel like I can’t even execute moves right anymore. It sucks. That was playing as Urien up to last night.
I finally figured maybe it’s just the character and that I hit a wall and suck at playing him. I started poking around with other dudes that I had used a little with @Mike_Cathcart and @Jason_McMaster including Balrog, Ryu and a handful of others. Finally I arrived at Ed.
Ed’s special moves are just pushing buttons. WTF?! No joystick motions except for pushing forward and the Critical Art’s double QCF. How can this be?! Is this Street Fighter V: EZ Mode?
Apparently it is. I won some matches. I was able to execute well. I even put together a 15 Hit combo into CA victory that looked like I could actually play the game and knew what I was doing! I guess I’ll have to play more Ed now? Weird.
I feel like I have to get worse before I get better. I’m trying to switch between two bread and butter combos depending on spacing but it’s messed up my execution on the original one. I still can’t even hit confirm reliably after the initial 2-hit combo. Heh.
Long way to go.
Blanka comes out tonight. Maybe I’ll try to farm the newbies in ranked!
And that skin. That horrible skin.
I beat his story mode last night so I can spend 40k Fight Money on his third outfit in the hoodie. No more Young Bison Wannabe for me. :)
I love his theme…
There’s a whole lotta Blanka out there.
Ed’s hard thing is the flicker. For some reason buttonmash moves in SF5 are pretty hard to do right while everything else is easy.
Blanka, as I kinda expected, is a lot riskier than his SF4 incarnation. Has Birdie’s command grab though.
Signed up for CEO just now too. Was seriously thinking EVO- but cost to hit CEO is half that of EVO, similar level of comp, and it’s a better run event than EVO.
I’m concentrating more on Tekken 7 and Blazblue Cross Tag if it gets in (secret shame: I actually like the RWBY characters even if the writing is questionable) because I don’t like SF5 S3 much, so don’t expect too much from me in SF5.
@Alstein I think I’m just a little bitter over losing to Laura and her grab so many times.
I’m not treating this game like SFV. I’m playing playing this game like 3S and ST.
Thing I need to work on:
- Change my block strings. I’m still using Guile’s block string from ST :-/
- Learn to knockdown more. Currently still using Sonic Boom as a ende. I should be using FK.
- Throw out more booms
- Learn to use the upsidedown kick better.
- Learn to combo to CA from FK.
Blanka’s normal seems really slow. His crouching strong is a very good anti air. His MU vs Guile doesn’t seem
as bad as people say. You can’t really slide on reaction versus a boom when you’re close. This is all from my testing though so take it as you will. Also, VT2’s timing seems extremely strict.
I just got my first rage quit disconnect in ranked. I’m writing this day down in my diary.
I had my son cracking up while we were playing last night because I took Zangief and his V-Trigger 2 which is hilariously voice acted by the announcer. :D
“THE HUMAN CYCLONE’S ABOUT TO BURST!”
I really do love that this game is quirky that way, and embraces the silliness of Street Fighter’s universe. Good times!
Made it to Silver after beating an Urien where I had no idea what to do against him. After the first game, I nope’d out of there as fast as I could. Haha!
I still have no idea how to play this game and my execution is even worse than before, but I want to take a break to focus on other games for a while.
Maybe when Capcom Pro Tour starts up again I will get back into it.