Street Fighter 4 Notes 08/08/08

Basic Street Fighter 4 Notes

I usually post this stuff on Mixi(Japanese Facebook/Myspace), So I type in Japanese terms.

Quick lesson

Shou= Light, Chuu= Medium, Dai = Hard
Ex: Dai Kick= Roundhouse

Originally posted on August 4th 2008:

To kill time, I've been trying to learn スト４．　

Learning a new game is so hard.

ふだん、にしＳＥＧＡＣＬＵＢにいった。
I think SF4 is interesting for now, But deciding a character to use is always めんどくさい！

So far I have tried RUFUS, CHUN-LI, and SAGAT.

I can use Sagat but it's not my best style. I think my best character is someone that has great defense. And can wait and counter attack. I also like fast characters who have tricks, but I think if I want to be a strong SF4 player, I must use strong characters for now.

Bea says the best characters so far are BLANKA, RUFUS, BALROG(Boxer), ZANGIEF, and SAGAT.

I think I will try SF4 Blanka tomorrow. zenken dekiru.

-Kim

Originally Posted like 10 minutes ago on August 8th 2008

くそげ！！　じょだん。。　たぶん。。

ok english time.

Haha my win percentage in SF4 is 22% ! WATCH OUT FOR ME. I have a 22/100 chance
of kicking youｒ ass.

Today I went to Nishi Sega again to use my newly registered SF4 Card. I wanted to make my name "KIM" but for some reason they wouldn't allow me to do that, the website said I have to include numbers, so I'm now "Kim1234". Lame. I know most players don't have numbers in their name, so I don't get it.

My record today:
15 Loses
1 win !

Anyway,

Learning a new game is tough. Whenever I learn a new game, it reminds me of the fact that I'm not a naturally gifted game player. I have to lose a lot, and lose in the worst ways in order for me to learn from my mistakes. It's pretty amazing how famous players can suddenly pick up games. I'm not one of those people. I need some sort of skeleton, some inspiration for me to build on. I.E. Clockw0rk in MvC2 and Shiro in CvS2 .

Speaking of Shiro, I saw him at Nishi Sega today, because of my terribly basic Japanese I couldn't say much, but his Abel looks very cool. I would try to use him, but that means I would have to spend more money. I'm no where near complete with Rufus yet anyway.

MULDER I HATE YOUR ZANGIEF. MR. #2 RANK IN JAPAN!

スト４ Notes:

1. ) Rufus can do crouch shou kick, crouch shou punch, crouch shou kick crouch shou punch, ex spinning ball (But I can't do the combo off 4 attacks). I tried out the combo and was only able to do crouch shou kick, crouch shou punch, ex spinning ball... I don't understand SF4 combo engine.

2.) You can pin the opponent down to the ground with Rufus dai kick, if they block it, Rufus has frame advantage.

3.) If I'm stuck in the corner and my opponent keeps jumping on me, I think I'm going to try to dash out next time. I tried Rufus's d/f chuu kick but it's too slow.

4.) I don't yet know how to use EX spinning ball yet. It acts as Vaccuum and it looks very useful. I played vs Matei a little today, and he would always teleport away when I was near, I'm sure I could EX vacuum his ass if I react to his teleport.

Maybe the best way I can play Rufus is to read my opponent. His combos do good damage. So instead of concentrating on ground game all the time like I usually do. I should just work on avoiding getting hit and landing combos.

If I can force my opponent to jump, i can do big damage. Jump dai kick, EX CRAZY PUNCHING HANDS is a lot of damage.

Hopefully I can make up some setups for after I land a basic rufus combo. I need to make my opponent confused which side he is on, so I can continue pressure. After crouch shou kick, spinny ball, I usually do a cartwheel, but it's not good enough. I sometimes see people follow up with an immediate jump dai punch, but that sucks too. Hopefully he has something.

Can anyone here even read this?

I miss CvS2. and Kimura Kaela

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CvS2 3on3 Team Tournament 07/13/08

New videos from the 3on3 held on July 13th 2008

Sorry for the poor camera work in some of the matches.. the arcade doesn't allow recording so we had to be especially ninja about it.

Winners Bracket:

Pinokio(K), Mii chan(K), GAO(K) vs Gunter(A), Kim(A), Bea(A)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3

Kosaka(A), BAS(A), Mizoteru(K) vs Sakamoto(P), Kisshi(A), AO (K)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3

Losers Bracket:

AO(K), Sakamoto(P), Kisshi (A) vs Kim(A), Gunter(A), Bea(A)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3

Yane(K), Ken/Vega/Sagat(C), CHAPA OU(C) vs Gunter(A), Bea(A), Kim(A)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5

Winners Finals:

Mii chan(K),GAO(K), Pinokio(K) vs Kosaka(A),Mizoteru(K), BAS(A)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5

Losers Finals:

GAO (K),Pinokio(K), Mii chan (K) vs Ken/Vega/Sagat(C), Yane(K), CHAPA OU(C)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5

Grand Finals:

Mii chan(K), GAO(K), Pinokio(K) vs Kosaka(A),Mizoteru(K), BAS(A)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4

Mizoteru(K) vs Pinokio(K)

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June 6th 2008 CvS2 Casual Match Videos!

Enjoy!

66 minutes of hot CvS2 action. Peep Iyo's Sagat. It's hella good.

-Kim

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My New CvS2 Team

OH YOU WANT TO KNOW DON'T YOU?!

Yeah. Haven't really wrote much about my actual CvS2 progress lately. C groove is dead. If not dead, I'm so incredibly bored playing it. At least for my team, the way to be effective vs good K and A groovers is boring. It's all about defense with my team and K/A groove has so much freedom to do whatever they want. So in accordance to this, I am choosing to finally sell out. That's right, I am dropping the team I have played for 5 years.

My new team?

A GROOVE

ROLENTO, BLANKA, ANOTHER.

Of course, I'm going to stick with Rolento and Blanka, my signature characters and they happen to be godlike and usable in A groove. My third character however is a mystery. I've tried Sakura, Vega, and Bison. And I find problems with all 3 of them. I can't do Sakura's custom consistently and I also think she can't catch runaway characters. Vega is kinda my style, but I'm not interested in using him. Bison I can use a little, but he has no ground game. I'm running the entire time, then when I get meter, I'm able to do a lot pseudo mindgame shit .. aka hella throws.
I might just stick with Sagat in A groove. Hella ugly character, but atleast he has a ground game. His custom does big damage too.

As of right now, I can think of a few things I don't like about Sagat in A groove.

1) Punishing whiffs from max distance is impossible with A-Sagat. What am I going to do. Custom, low roundhouse, then what?

2) Still no mobility, just like C Sagat.

3) Using Level one's means I'm left with no custom to use.

4) No effective block damage custom

5) If my guard is flashing, how will I avoid getting killed.(No safe level 2's)

Onto the good things...

1) High damage custom

2) Good ground game

3) Yay

So there was a tournament today actually, and I did horrible. No patience at all. That's suppose to be my strong point, but not lately. Execution sucks And I keep dropping customs. I feel a little let down by my performance. Today was a bad cvs2 day, but next tournament may be different.

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May 23rd 2008 CvS2 Casual Match Videos (Over one hour of footage!)

Casual Match videos from May 23rd 2008. Who loves you?






Ok, so I figured this was probably the easiest way for me to provide footage for all CvS2 players. The method isn't so bothersome, so I believe I can upload hella match footage like this on a weekly basis. As long as you don't have OCD and care about individual match clips, I'm sure everyone can be able to enjoy this.

Recording in most arcades is a big no no. But fortunately the most popular CvS2 arcade in Tokyo doesn't care!

I really dislike shaky camera footage, so most of the videos I will be uploading are going to be fixed. Since the arcade has a lot of traffic coming through, there isn't much room to put the camera without someone knocking my shit over. So I found a pretty sweet place to leave my camera(and it's Japan so no one is going to steal it). The bad part is that once in a while, you will see people walking by the camera, so you might miss like a second of sexy CvS2 action.

So here's where I add my piece... Obviously I've had this site(www.crazyasskim.com and now this one) for a while now, so this is what I would ideally like to see people doing...

People often watch the vids I provide and that's cool. Occasionally people will post something about the videos. 80% of the postings being something like "Nice videos herrr herr".

As weird of a request as this sounds, watching vids and THAT'S it is lame. Watch these players play, improve your game, steal from them if you will, get ideas from them. Don't know how to do something? Ask on SRK forums, post a comment on THIS WEBSITE. I'd love to see CvS2 get more appreciation and publicity. Post more on SRK. PLAY MORE at the arcade. Push over a kid, tell him about my website. Etc.

Have fun, respect

-Kim

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Japanese CvS2 Players

Some quick info on the players you may or may not know

Yo,

So often after work I stop by Shibuya to endulge in some Capcom Vs Snk II. I've been thinking about writing about the CvS2 players here for quite a while, but I haven't had anytime to do it, but I'm sure there's many fools that want to know what's up with CvS2 over here.

First of all, the 'scrubs' are amazingly patient over here. More so then most top players in America, IMO. Here, top players and even the scrubs are not afraid to spend the whole 99 seconds(for each character) building meter, or running away, or even *gasp* attack. I think the stigma in the U.S. still holds true, in that everyone is pressured to play fast. If you don't, you're name is Justin Wong, you're trying to be like Justin Wong, or you use low tier or something like that. Speaking of Justin, I'm sure he will be proud to know that almost every Japanese player knows who he is(even though I've only asked like 5 people, somehow my stats are correct).

Anyway, on the flip side, I think the American players who are top and who choose to play fast, are extraordinarily talented in adapting to gaming situations. I still have not played another C-Ken who adapts faster then Choi. I have not played another Vega that can frustrate, outfootsie you, and somehow still stay unpredictable as well as Ricky, etc etc. Anyway, if you haven't watched it already, Choi vs Ricky from a recent AXIS tournament is now up. You can view the matches hmmmm... HERE.

Ok so on to the players I've played against since moving here...

1) Kisshi: It seems he has dropped A-Iori and is trying to figure out another character to use. He usually uses, A-Iori/Sakura/Kyo but recently I've seen him use Akuma and Vega. This guy is the most technical person I've ever played in CvS2. One game I saw him do jump back air fireballs and safe block attack strings the entire round, if the opponent jumps, with 100% perfect execution, he does rc short hurricane kick and combos into custom and continues to run away. I think maybe the reason it's so amazing to me is cause of the Akuma stigma people always have. 'oh he's so weak, if I get hit once I will lose so much life and my sperm count will decrease by 50%'' That's right.. 50%. Anyway, Akuma having an invincible hard to catch teleport, jump back airfireballs, and perfectly executed short rc hurricane kicks... shit is pretty disgusting. Disgustingly DOPE. Anyway, his Sakura is way solid and his Kyo is just like Sakura in that you will get chipped if you are P or K.

2) AO: I think the the letters stand for his initials, but I don't know the guys name. So for now, let's just say that A.O. stands for Akira Oyama . Anyway, He plays K-Ryu/Kyo/Sagat. His attacking is on point and his character weaknesses are all covered up by his JD ability. His style is different from the usual sloppy K groove rushdown. He plays fast, but in a kind of articulate/calculated non messy way. Think of Combofiend's K groove, but NICE LOOKING(Take that Combo). His K-Ryu really stands out. Obviously there aren't many K-Ryus out there(who are good), but AO's knowledge of the game and JD ability makes Ryu a force to be wreckoned with. He knows when to throw fireballs that are safe to RC Blanka ball, etc.

3) BAS: Whatever.

4) Sakamoto: Best P groove in Tokyo. Plays P-Kyo/Geese/Sagat and parries everything. Possibly he tries to parry too much. But when he gets it, you're dead. When I first came to Tokyo, I think I lost to him like 8 games in a row. Every game his Geese would somehow magically land that stupid screaming super. Anyway, P groove is very not weak.

5) Dan: If you're reading this, you better know who DAN is. The realest C-Ryu/Ken/Sagat on the planet SON. He doesn't show up at the arcade too often, but when he does he's wrecking shop and doing it with style. His ground game is pretty admirable and with those terribly mid tier characters, only he can do what he does. You rock Dan.

6) Mulder: Haha, this fool will turtle like no other. But seriously, his C-Chang/Guile/Rolento is buff. Apparently, he likes the X-files and beer. Tell me one person who uses C-Chang in America? Fuck that, tell me someone who uses Chang in America? Exactly. Do not sleep on Chang. If he hits you once, you are deader then a dead deady dead. I still haven't tested out how to counter RC Ball chain thingy, but it looks pretty much safe. Good defensive tool for Chang. Big damage super, good jump ins, Freddy Kruger assist, and the ability to take huge chunks off of your guard bar makes Chang a deadly ass character. Oh and Mulder's guile and rolento are nice too! Imo, he is one of the more patient CvS2 players out there.

7) Mii Chan: She is a girl and she plays CvS2. That's already awesome. Mii chan probably defies the odds in that she actually knows how to play. K-Sagat/Mai/Cammy. Of course she has to use Mai, cause shes a girl, and girls have to represent that girl power at all times. Couple days ago, I saw her jiggle with mai for 60 seconds and not press a button. That's tight.

8) Pinokio: He is the new INO. Rushdown ability and weird attack strings. Usually uses K-Kyo/Chunli/Cammy , but also plays a billion other teams in casuals. His Cammy is his best character, and for a rolento player, that means 90% of the time my Rolento dies.

9) K groove Geese Chick: HEY GIRL IF YOU'RE READING THIS. CALL ME, WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

Matane,

-Kim.

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050408 Mikado CvS2 2on2 Tournament Videos

050408 Mikado CvS2 2on2 Tournament Videos

It's been a while...
Here are some tournament videos from the most recent Mikado CvS2 2on2 Tournament

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xhflo_ohayo1234_mikado-2on2-050408-tournament

Results:

1st D44 and Uma
2nd Miichan and Pinokio
3rd Mulder and Yane

Also....

After the tournament there was a random SURVIVOR SERIES 10 on 10. Those were also recorded and you can view those ...... HERE!

-Kim

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