He cracked when he should have had it and lost the round.I'm still salty about Brian F losing.
This is the darkest timeline man...
Daigo wants to play low tier trash because he's having a midlife crisis.
Well, I dunno if Ryu is really "low tier." He's not amazing anymore, sure.
Apart from Damage, what is he good at exactly?
He has a fireball. He has a DP. He has a 3f jab. He has good damage. He still has good mobility. His V-Skill is good, if situational. His footsie tools are not bad.
"Low tier" is the realm of Alex and FANG. Ryu may not be one of the gods anymore, but I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't be alongside a lot of the other characters now.
His footsie tools aren't good. His fireball is in a game where fireballs aren't that great. His mobility isn't great. He has those tools, but how good are those tools? His throw isn't even as scary anymore because he lost the throw loop. His st. lk was shortened which was a great way to check dashes and to punish. That was one of his most important footsie tools.
No way is Ryu as good as Ken or Chun now.
I think you can honestly make a case for Ryu being bottom 5 in the game.
But not good compared to who? He has a cr.MK. He has his cr.MP and st.MP.
He has a 16f dash, and his walk speed is good. He has above average mobility. Everyone pretty much lost throw loops.
Again, Ryu isn't one of the best characters in the game anymore, but are you saying that he's now one of the game's worst characters? When we have Nash, Juri, Chun-Li, FANG, Alex, Birdie, Vega, Ken, and maybe R. Mika?
The only characters I think are worse than Ryu are Nash, Fang, Alex, and Juri?
Yeah Ken still has insane damage, he now has one of the best overheads in the game (one of the few remaining safe overheads and can lead into a combo from it), V trigger is still good, cr.MP/target combo is still good, his EX dive kick is still a get in move (though you aren't plus after it anymore) and he still has some of his shenanigans (minus the air tatsu no lower hit box which was always dumb to begin with). He still has a very snowball type game play to him, it's just that other characters can snowball better than him.I'd agree with Chun, but are you sure about Ken?
We are having technical difficulties
SF4 could have gone another year or two
SF4 could have gone forever
SF4 could have gone another year or two
SF4 could have gone another year or two
First day of pools is already great. S2 is going to be pretty sick.
SF4 could have gone another year or two