I just rage quite and I don't feel guilty The guy I was playing would do a move the exact moment as me and he got upper 100% of the time. When I got fed up, about the tenth time it happened, it just happened to be the finishing blow. Apparently, if Akuma does that spinning kick (not even going to try to remember what it's called) the same moment as Ryu, Akuma will always take damage and Ryu will get nothing. Good to know if you're Ryu, even though it's cheap as all hell. Akuma isn't aways so great when you play him, IMO. His moves are powerful, but he can't seem to handle much damage. He really doesn't last long against somebody of equal skill as yourself. YMMV
Akuma is the one of the weakest characters in all of SF universe. And he's one of the easiest to stun as well. So yeah, he can do a lot of damage but Akuma players must be careful, precise and good at defending too otherwise it's suicide mission against Zangief.
Ha!! I admit it's frustrating when we're outplayed like that, gotta resist the quit button though (I save it usually for Sagat players who does nothing but fireballs high and low non-stop).
Hope you mean stamina wise. Because he left vanilla SF4 ranked 3, only after Sagat and Ryu (sorta, kinda a tie).
what is vanilla SF4? by the way, Im having hard time to complete 8th challenge of Vega and 7th challenge of Guile can anyone guide me?
Vanilla SF4 is... just SF4. SF4 nowadays just refers to SSF4. Akuma's mid tier in SSF4, but he'll work his way up. He always does. But the nerfs do hurt. Akuma was the only high tier char that wasn't "cheap". He had no inherent advantages over others; you needed to be skilled and precise with him. He gets punished so easily if you screw up. With precision and skill, he was probably the best character in the game with the sheer amount of options available. And his wakeup game was second to none. And fun to watch too (youtube tokido).
I find that akuma in the ios version is just very choppy to play with. I main akuma on the console and he just doesnot feel right on the ios. Now i understand all the characters are going to not feel the same but akuma just feels unplayable. Ive been playing with ryu and my record is 110-10. Most of my losses are with akuma. I really hope that capcom can just make him feel a little smoother or something cause its almost impossible to play with him competivetlty. I still have not lost to one either. So i guess ryu it is.
I was celebrating my win, and forgot to save the Replay. But even if I save it, how would you get it to play on your iDevice?
the window for linking a standing fierce after a double-roundhouse is pretty small, but any sort of lag will have a big impact on getting it off successfully. I ended up just doing fierce-spinkick-srk, instead of risking missing the link between double roundhouse-fierce and getting punished for it. his special leap is pretty ineffective for mix-up, as is his diving kick, although they're both very good options for escaping fireball traps. diving kick seems to catch ryu fireballers before he can recover for an SRK; a regular jump kick gets punished due to jump floatiness. his jump kick also has a stupidly small hit box, either you land your foot very accurately, or you neckkick; anything else and it's missing and you're getting punished. compare that to ryu's jumpkick, huge huge diff. i'm still hoping to figure out enough nuances to make him a viable option.
just now met few fireballs spammers eg. Ryu, Ken and Sagat(high & low- very annoying) besides FADC, what's the other strategy to punish them? I feel that they just mashing the SP button non stop FADC can go thru 1st fireball but will hit by subsequent fireballs and jumping over seems not viable as they constantly SRK on you
Timing, anticipation, and baiting. If you're using Ryu, you have the hurricane kick to fly right over and kick em in the face. Otherwise, jump over fireballs to get closer, and anticipate their next fireball, and jump-kick them and launch into a combo. You can also throw fireballs of your own. If you're reacting to a fireball and jumping over it, you're too late and you're going to catch an uppercut.
Also, you also can't be afraid of getting hit by an SRK. Ryu's fireball does 60 dmg. His SRK does 110 dmg to a jumping opponent. A jumpkick-standingpunch-fireball combo does 256 dmg. So if you jump over his fireball 3 times, get hit twice by SRK, but you hit him with one combo once, you've still got an advantage.
I'm curious: what are the differences between Ruy and Ken that leaves Ruy at the top of the vanilla list of strongest fighters, and Ken not among the top three, at the very least? I know they have diverged from each other as time has gone by (back when I first fired up SF2 on my Super Nintendo, the only difference was that Ken evidently enjoyed feeling his opponents up before throwing them a bit longer than Ruy ). Are the super and ultras different enough to separate them in terms of effectiveness this much?
I was using Guile and took a little dmg in order to approach them once i was beside them I just crouch and waiting for SRK and i just flash kick them or use Bison's head press and not follow up then jump backward and psycho crusher when they attempted SRK I want to ask is it jump kick can only be blocked by high guard?
I personally find that Ken doesn't do enough damage in general. Ryu's jumpkick-fierce-upper combo lands 320 dmg. His SRK-Super-Ultra combo does around 754 dmg. His super can catch ppl jumping at you, and you can juggle with an ultra afterwards. Hurricane kick goes over projectiles and gets huge distance. Ken's jumpkick-target-upper lands 299 dmg. The most I can get off a target-upper-super-ultra is 609, and the timing for it is pretty challenging. Against ryu, I find ken needs to land at least 3-4 sets of combos to win a match, along with a lot of poking with kicks. With ryu, 2-3 sets of combos, along with a few fireball-srk traps, is enough to win. Ryu's versaility with his super-ultra is really really useful.
Sorry for being a noob but during multiplayer matches can you use the SP button to assist you? For example, using it to do a Hadouken when playing as Ryu instead of Down-Forward+Punch. Personally, I prefer to do it manually but if the SP assist is available in multiplayer matches, I don't want to waste my time doing that if I can get beat by someone who just spams that one button. Thanks for any help. I would check myself but I'm unable to connect to a match at the moment.