Phantom_Miria

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I think they tried to buff command grabs in this game by buffing the damage a lot, it's the highest damage from command grabs in a while, but they also make you lose all oki on top of being just inherently risky to attempt compared to how effective regular Drive Rush pressure is, so it still doesn't work out apparently.

After watching Luffy getting manhandled at this event, and being pretty unimpressed with Idom too, and seeing the absolute state of Lily and the fact that Zangief might as well not be in the game with how many times he's been sighted, I've come to conclusion that there isn't anything wrong with any of these characters in particular but I think it's the whole archetype that's crippled in VI. The only effective use of command grabs I'm seeing is from characters like Marisa, Blanka, JP, Honda, maybe even Jamie even if he got other issues, because those characters have gameplans that don't rely on command grabs and thus can use the ones they have as surprise move to get people scared. Gimmicks, basically. Marisa forcing you to twitch and eat more of her knuckle sandwiches, Blanka closing out matches with that dumb hop of his you'll mistake for another of his hundreds of dumb moves, JP jump-scaring you because he can, that sort of stuff. Characters who have to constantly threaten and use their command grabs to win tho, I haven't seen much success from them. I straight up don't remember Lily landing a grab in this event at all, although I'm probably wrong. I definitely remember seeing Luffy getting punished for trying to landing grabs way more than ever landing them. Command grabs still have the huge recovery they were given mid-way through SFV, because SFV was all about being in your face and grapplers could get really snow-bally with V-Trigger, but in VI it's Drive Rush to be king, and Drive Rush makes a lot of characters able to go for heavily damaging mixups and be plus if they're wrong. Grapplers' Drive Rushes universally suck and they still die if they guess wrong. There's no reason to pick a grappler if you only care about competition because everyone else has safer, better roads to damage. Not that I really care personally because Manon is fun to use and everyone can win with anything online. I'm the guy who switched from Cammy to Falke when she was released, because she was fun and she somehow carried me to Diamond while she was labelled the worst character in the game and Cammy was Rashid tier. There's no low tierdom that scares or concerns me. It's just that I also like watching the characters I play in tournaments, and Luffy is dropping Manon after this and I expect Idom to follow very soon.

Don't be scared of large stages. Be scared that Ken can corner you from anywhere regardless of how big the stages are. Anyway, I very much huge stages over small SFV ones, especially with this game's corner games.

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Apparently Kakeru already showed up on stream at EVO 2022 for SFV. He was that Ryu player who beats Caba with a clutch dash-in DP read on a V-Shift playing under another name. This also gives me even more respect for the guy because, while he's using JP now, he was in the gutter using Ryu back in V.

Stryker: "Toothy thot, BEGONE!"

She did that because she wanted to get in Cammy's non-existent pants and everyone knows that.

Yes, just like the ones the snake demon ladies from Nioh 2 use. Poison is stored in the bewbz.

The internet is working fast as usual. 🙂

So this is a case of: Juri: "For all my rough exterior and sadist attitude, I really wonder where I am going with my life. The sudden and violent death of my parents left me filled with trauma and anger against the world. I try to fill the void in my soul with crime and senseless violence, but it does nothing to hide the sensation that I'm alo-" A.K.I.: "Poison. Poison small children. Poison my own father and mother. Poison the village's water supply. Disperse deadly poison in the middle of the crowd on a busy city day. Poison. Toxins. Venom. Ichor. Nerve gas. Snakes. Serpents. Scorpions. Having a pet cobra. Having a pet rattlesnake. Breed and eat poisonous frogs. Unleash 222 live vipers in the middle of an elementary school. Poison (the Final Fight character). Worship Master F.A.N.G's naked sculpted body (Gigachad) as the apex of the human male form. Season food with Cyanide powder to develop resistance to it. Poison."

I think she's translating very well. Her hair somehow looks good even though it's one of those hairdos that always look weird, and she is obviously designed to look off-putting between the white face makeup that leaves her face featureless, small eyes, how lanky she is, and also the fact that she's nuts. The style of SFVI isn't realistic anyway, it's still very anime-inspired stylized with highly detailed character models. Also, I don't think she's necessarily reminding me of Juri. A.K.I. looks like is supposed to be a lot more unstable and unambiguously evil compared to Juri, who kinda goes between being a sadist criminal but also helping the good guys in V. I haven't seen anyone talking about this strangely, but A.K.I. has a big snake theme going.

To celebrate Angry Bird and Ken's victory, let us sing Ken's Theme. I said Ken's theme. The REAL Ken's theme. Perfection.

Almost 290k people watching on Twitch. Almost 300k by the end.

Ladies and gentlemen. Blanka might win EVO.

Going from 2-0 to reverse sweep makes me salty for him, Punk's gonna go nuclear on Twitter. I guess Oppenheimer's release was topical.

Broke: Punk is salty at losing to Japanese players and writes a rant on Twitter. Woke (Modern): the Japanese are salty at Punk winning and write very short and direct slurs at him. This EVO is full of surprises.

I mean, you said it yourself. It's for the Capcom Jam band.

Get that modern ass outta here, Japanese scrub. This is America, we play properly and classically!😡

"I paid for the band, so the band plays every game!"

I'm pretty sure now that no one can fix her and it still doesn't matter because whatever is wrong with her is way hotter. Exactly! You're too old and frail to handle that woman, you'll die at the first mixture of Amphetamines and ancient Chinese torture poison. Go back to your retirement home and leave this lady to me!😠

I'm on Summer break so I got nothing to do for the whole month, and I'm a night person anyway so I'm unfazed. Guys, play the whole OST!

Can't wait for EVO Antarctica. Seriously though, I've been hoping about an EVO in Europe after they made EVO Japan, so maybe this is it.

By the way, does anyone know who streamed the Alpha 2 top 8?

For me it starts at 4am, which is great because I'm usually still up by then.😎