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Yeah i agree, thought the same as you on all hints against it, atm i'm like 90% inclined to think she's a woman, just not the 100 i have for a Kimberly or Lily 
 

My fav is Luke one, that pose in japanese (fight sports) culture is associated with "fight like a man" vague ideal where a man give up technique and defense and he's just willing to stand and bang in a contest of will/toughness to see who have greater fighting spirit
 
Take that pose is bit like an unwritten challenge to the opponent to do the same
 
I remember it in bunch of K1 and Pride fights (and while i'm not sure, guess in jap pro-wrestling pride in being able to take a strike too), audience used to go crazy for it in Japan, bit like american dorito eating UFC crowd would start cheer as soon they see shit degenerate into sloppy brawl because somebody may go to sleep, but japs add a sense of honor to it because they traditionally stress much more on technique and give it up is bit like a warrior chosing to remove his armor
 
In Baki they use it a lot to add significance to fights, some good examples him vs Pickle or vs Oliva endings, where Baki does it to have a "pure fight"
Hanayama also does it all the times and win or lose everybody is ever like "this is a true man"
 
Hard to explain better for me, but if you know the thing it's so cool see Luke do it, feels Capcom truly is treating him like a protagonit beyond his role in story itself
 
 

Evil Ryu?!
 
Ryu had this normal before and it was special cancelable back in the day! I'm happy he is looking way more fun in this game than SFV where Ryu was st.mp the character until season 4.

Thank you! 

Evil Ryu?!
 
Ryu had this normal before and it was special cancelable back in the day! I'm happy he is looking way more fun in this game than SFV where Ryu was st.mp the character until season 4.

I don't know if this was mentioned before but i'm surprised that they added blood back to the game after so long.
 
Look at Guile after the fight, he has bruises on his face, a black eye and blood. 
 

 

Evil Ryu?!
 
Ryu had this normal before and it was special cancelable back in the day! I'm happy he is looking way more fun in this game than SFV where Ryu was st.mp the character until season 4.

Evil Ryu?!
 
Ryu had this normal before and it was special cancelable back in the day! I'm happy he is looking way more fun in this game than SFV where Ryu was st.mp the character until season 4.

@HonebamiX
 
 

hmmmmmm

Akira's VT1 is a little overrated but VT2 is okay if you learn it. It helps her neutral by making her stray  pokes lead to damage, and gives her more pressure options. I too find she has a problem opening people up who learn the match the lack of something like a good st.mk as a poke, lack of consistent anti-fireball tools, and st.lk being 5f start up is killer. I think she is fun but just kind of seeming mid tier at best feels lacking.

SFV Gill? He is pretty fun to watch but his little brother is cooler.  I think Bison is a lot more boring than Gill in SFV maybe because Bison is so straight forward.
 
Third Strike boss version Gill? His supers are dope and flashy. Resurrection effects plus voice line is hype as fuck the first time. Even more hype when you parry it and beat him down when you learn the game. lol boring af to play.
 
I think his New Generation stage was awesome. Third Strike stage is dull. 

I miss when match up charts were more stantard early last in SFIV's lifetime but those take very long to both make and then  theorycraft. And a week later a patch just changes things anyway.

SFV Gill? He is pretty fun to watch but his little brother is cooler.  I think Bison is a lot more boring than Gill in SFV maybe because Bison is so straight forward.
 
Third Strike boss version Gill? His supers are dope and flashy. Resurrection effects plus voice line is hype as fuck the first time. Even more hype when you parry it and beat him down when you learn the game. lol boring af to play.
 
I think his New Generation stage was awesome. Third Strike stage is dull. 

FWIW, if you go into Arcade Mode, the final boss on the SFIII path is a version of Gil that would be stupid unfair if it was playable in vs modes.
 
He's got SFIII style Resurrection, and a few other things.

I miss when match up charts were more stantard early last in SFIV's lifetime but those take very long to both make and then  theorycraft. And a week later a patch just changes things anyway.

Just saw this, been away from the boards for a bit so I missed the tag. It's.....a very complicated issue. From what I believe,  Erin wasn't forced out, but she willingly stepped down. I don't know her personally, but some friends do and have worked with her. She's passionate about us black and minority VAs getting a fair shake and has been vocal on twitter about this since before last year.
 
The issue is as I said complicated. I wont get into the nitty gritty, but in general voice work for black people, east asian, Arabic, Latino, and other minorities is a mixed bag to say the least. Anime is a warzone. Now, I'm a freelancer, I'm not in LA or Texas and repped by a union, though some of my pals are and the voice acting community talks. When it comes to white people, they can get audition sides for any and everything. A lot of times what happens with black people is that you will have white performers be called in for anything. Sometimes you'll get the shot with black actors and actresses, but with anime, you'll hear stories of how black actors are not called in for anything but small cameo roles of black characters or characters that tend to be stereotypes, rather than getting a fair break at even AUDITIONING for main characters.
 
One of the most recent and infamous examples was Carol in Tuesday. I don't know the full story and my memory is fuzzy on the details, but the Japanese version of the anime actually went out of their way to get Carol to be voiced by a black girl, the creative team searched all over and got their pick.  When it came time to be dubbed in English, they didn't bother asking any black actresses to audition. Many who were called in just flat out said they were not comfortable doing this and passed, but the role eventually went to a white va. The sides that went to black actresses was for some side character that's in like one scene.
 
So this is the problem, you have black and POC VAs being called in for a very small pool of roles to audition for, but sometimes, even with that, you can get tossed aside as a white VA, who can audition for EVERYTHING, comes in and can also get that role.
 
Everyone loves to say "but what about Kevin Michael Richardson, Cree Summer, or Phil LaMarr?!"  They're some greats, I love and respect them, but the reality is they're few and far inbetween. Yes, there are black VAS working today, but they've had to fight and work their asses off at the roulette wheel, in one case, my buddy had to "accidentally" read the wrong audition sides he managed to get a hold of that were for all the white characters and he knocked it out of the park.
 
The other side of the issue is about flexibility of roles. Now, I don't speak for everyone, but myself and others have basically said, in an ideal world, sure, let people play whoever is best for the role, but that's not the reality we're currently in. Also We absolutely are NOT saying "only let black people be black people" because then that leads to 90% of us never getting work since there' s like 5 characters at a time.  What do we want?  To be offered the same opportunities as our white peers, let us audition for white heroes like Captain America, Steve Rogers, All Might, Eddie Brock etc to show off our range. Now I've read with my own eyes peeps on twitter saying that we don't get as many offers because we're not as good or some garbage, but that's not it. We're just not offered the same CHANCES to audition in the first place. Pretty hard to prove your worth if you're not getting send audition sides.
 
I mean my buddy even had a situation where he read for a role, knocked it out of the park, the initial team LOVED his take on the character, but as it went up higher in the chain of command, he oddly got a request for a headshot. We're voice actors, we almost never provide headshots unless we're going to make a con appearance , they were absolutely insistent on him sending his head shot and since he didn't want to, the folks in charge cut him loose despite him absolutely killing it and winning over the local casting team.  Then there's cases were pals have been called in to read and then get kind wrangled to just play the thugs and "blacken up" their voices.
 
There are some stides being made because some brave VAs have spoken up and made some noise.
 
The long and short of it is that Erin believes that stepping down is giving more black vas a chance because things have been so skewed for a long time. What the public knows is FAR from the whole story. It's slooooowly changing, but it's rough.  I'm freelance and for most of my career no one knew what I looked like, so me just auditioning for projects online had me avoid a TON of these hurdles. Sometimes, I'd get the "Oh wow, I didn't know you were black ShockDingo!" and that's it, but I didn't get the in person hurdles.
 
I hope that provided some perspective on the issue.

I think it's less crazy than it might look.  While I generally disagree with having an 'S' tier when there are going to be 7 characters in it, they only used 3 letter grades, showing how the strength distribution is pretty compressed right now.  (Gotta count the + and - tiers as half steps within an actual tier.)
 
Then when you look at how they placed the characters themselves, there are only really two clusters going on:  S through A, and A- through B-.  If you look at which of those two clusters each character ended up in, there's a lot less to nitpick.  Maybe I'd swap clusters for Menat and Ibuki (but tbf my main does a lot better against Menat than against Ibuki).
 
I think everybody knows that tier lists like these are really just guesstimates.  But it's hard to get high quality data to do match-up charts that aren't also just based on guesstimates.

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs

I fought somebody tonight from Megashock Forums Dojo.
 
If you reading this EddieMayPlay( Is this close? I am exhausted) CFN your Falke was dope. My CFN is Reapershrug was using Juri we played a set tonight in Ranked. GGs