Street Fighter V: A Preliminary Thread

[Krandor]

It might change if Alex ends up being good, but Bison/Necalli is my two characters going forward.

[Milks]

woah our tastes must be pretty close, I play bison and a little necalli and was also eyeballing Alex. I'm still torn on whether or not to switch back to ibuki when she's released

[Odesseiron]

Ugh. Fuck these servers. Fuck this game. Once again, 23/30 on survival. DC.

[Krandor]

woah our tastes must be pretty close, I play bison and a little necalli and was also eyeballing Alex. I'm still torn on whether or not to switch back to ibuki when she's released

My thought process is mostly along the lines that Necalli covers the holes Bison has against certain playstyles. That and Necalli color 4 (the purple one) is dope.

[Milks]

I can't find a bison color I like yet, been using the purple battle costume and I'm too lazy to unlock the others so I'll prolly stick with this. I thought I wouldn't buy anything with real money but I'll prolly buy everything, being as lazy as I am

[Don Katsu]

I have been using only Necalli and the Birdie match up is no fun

Also, in terms of commiting, Ken has got to be the most unsafe character in this game.

[Weltall]

His normal xx run shit cannot be safe in block like it looks is it? I see top players doing that left and right.

[Krandor]

I think the only one that's safe is EX Fireball into V Trigger. Everything else V Skill / V Trigger is mad unsafe on block

It's simply a matter of catching people unaware, like with Bison's dash and whatnot

[Deejay]

Ken's run is always unsafe. You can make his V trigger safe if you cancel from HP, st MK, or HK.

His DP is -5 when cancelled, so those are unsafe too.

Ken sucks


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[Chun Liroy]

I feel like everyone says that their character sucks in this game lol. I think Ken is midtier

[Krandor]

I don't think any of the characters I play (Bison, Nash, Necalli, Gief) other then Gief suck.

Idk how Snake Eyez does so well with Gief in this game, he seems fucking awful in release

[Krandor]

Well in spite of the warning Rage Quitters are still doing their thing in Ranked matches, got two in a row after getting blown the fuck up by a low rank Nash and losing like 120 points.

[Callisto]

I think after yesterday I was about to be demoted back to bronze lol

[Krandor]

I'm trying to get to Gold because I kinda want to trophy whore this game since that's the only really hard achievement. Everything else is just a matter of time.

But alas, after just being a few points off from 3800 got blown up by a Nash, back to back rage quitters, then a fucking money Karin put the hurting on me and made me call it a day.

That said being in the NE is great for playing online. Alot of the NLBC regulars are online all the time so I get some good matchups to learn from.

[Krandor]

Fun with numbers, sales figures are shitting the bed HARD.

Game had a 73% drop in sales in Japan this last week (11k units)
Steam version is now losing owners (i.e. more refunds then new purchases) after peaking at 128k thousand on the 1st.

Digital sales on the PS4 version are still unknown, but both of those figures are not a good sign for the future health of this game unless Capcom pulls a miracle out of their ass.

[fantasticdan]

The DLC also seems to be set up in a way that anyone who has actually been playing the game somewhat regularly will be able to just buy everything (or atleast the characters) with fight money. Hardly seems sustainable with the install base this game has.

Doesn't help that it's super easy to hack survival to earn a ton of fight money, or apparently even just tell capcoms server that you've cleared this or that without actually doing it.

[Deejay]

I feel like everyone says that their character sucks in this game lol. I think Ken is midtier

He sucks. He's low mid. His pokes are below average, his damage is okay, and his rushdown is all unsafe. He has nothing outside of an invincible DP that would make him formidable against all the top tier characters in this game.

[Weltall]

Fuck man, at least he has an AA. But I feel your pain. I'm going to stick with Karin despite her not fitting my playstyle, at all, until Ibuki drops.

[Krandor]

Since I see alot of people falling for this shit and it's maybe not as widespread of a knowledge thing as I thought, I'm gonna share some stuff about Bison with ya'll

After a backthrow (unless it's in the corner, since spacing is different then), the opponent is left at the exact tail end of Bison's df+HP, which can lead to crush counters if you hit a button or stuff attempts to jump out.
If Bison is trying to apply pressure via st HP into scissors, mash that shit out. st HP to scissors is not a true blockstring.
His forward dash has less throw invul frames then it does for strike/projectile. If you react quick enough to the dash you're much more likely to be able to throw him out then land a hit.
Somersault Skull Diver (Headstomp followup) is +5 on block
EX Devil's Reverse is +13 on block, normal version is +5
EX Headstomp is +2 on block in V Trigger

Edit : actually removed the part about free safe jump following a Psycho Inferno. That was true in beta but I don't think it works here since I lose out to alot of EX shit from it.

[Deejay]

Fuck man, at least he has an AA. But I feel your pain. I'm going to stick with Karin despite her not fitting my playstyle, at all, until Ibuki drops.

I'm going to become a necalli boy until someone else interesting comes out. There aren't too many Necalli players in FL and I think he has a lot of interesting tools to play with.