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GAF: Can /you/ do a Dragon Punch motion?
- Thread starter Warxard
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It isn't actually 360 you need to do for SPD. What I do (and would assume pretty much everyone who plays grapplers) is pressing punch when you hit up-back direction. That should work in all games.
mekes
Member
Never had any problems with dragon punches. It did take me a long time to get used to continuous dragon punch motions that are needed in places like CVS2's A-Groove
I've been able to pull it off, but never particularly reliably. I think the key distinction is that the fireball is a clear roll from one direction to the next one along, whereas the dragon punch requires you to make a 90 degree shift in direction without hitting the intervening down-forward on the way.
Dragon Puncher
Member
Yes, it's probably my favorite fighting game motion! So satisfying.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
This is going to sound nerdy as shit, but whatever. I used to box. The motion is like stepping forward and then shifting your weight, pushing from you leg and then transferring that force to an uppercut. When I explain the input in that way people usually get it.
pauloshinobi
Member
forward, then fireball. Never fails.
Zack Zavage
Member
Pretty much this. Can consistently do it on D-pad as well as on arcade stick.
It gets really hard though when it comes to canceling other moves with this motion like in SF4.
Skyball Paint
Member
Could never do it when I tried just pressing F, D, DF.
Now I just do F, DF, D, DF as a single smooth motion and that works in every recent fighter I've played. I dunno if that's how you're "supposed" to do it, but I suspect it's valid because most command lists notate it as a "Z" motion these days and the motion I use kinda makes a Z.
Now I just do F, DF, D, DF as a single smooth motion and that works in every recent fighter I've played. I dunno if that's how you're "supposed" to do it, but I suspect it's valid because most command lists notate it as a "Z" motion these days and the motion I use kinda makes a Z.
Rynocirator
Member
I can but only on the player 2 side, rip my dreams of learning how to zoop zoop
Solidus187
Member
What an unnecessary motion... glad that's dead.It isn't that hard to do.
What is hard to do? Pretzels.
I had trouble for years, then my best friend (who is a whiz at fighters), told me to just walk forward and do a hadouken motion while walking forward... now I can get it right nearly every time.
Charge moves on the other hand, forget it. Especially the supers.
Charge moves on the other hand, forget it. Especially the supers.
davidwhangchoi
Member
you got some skills there! that's actually alot like my friend, who can pull it off at will with the Dpad.
just the opposite for me. the arcades was where i learned to play and really comfortable pulling off a dragon punch on a cab.
I loved playing against Ken in SNES´s SF2. I lowered his health enough so that he started doing SoRyuken´s nonstop and timed my own so we both SoRyuKen´d at the same time against each other and neither of us would get hit due to the move´s high priority. I also loved doing the weak version to go through Fireballs when playing against friends, they would always freak out the first time seeing that and say I was cheating XD
I can also do it with an arcade stick, though not as reliably as with a DPad, specially to the left.
I can also do it with an arcade stick, though not as reliably as with a DPad, specially to the left.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yes I can dragon punch.
I can even do the soul steal motion from castlevania symphony of the night which is basically a pretzel.
←→↘↓↙←→ + [ATTACK]
I can even do the soul steal motion from castlevania symphony of the night which is basically a pretzel.
←→↘↓↙←→ + [ATTACK]
Since '92.
But honestly, I'm sick of it. There is no practical reason for the complication except that it is now an accepted legacy of the fighting genre.
Soul Calibur and Smash have the right idea about how hard the controls should be. Skill should not be about twitchy fingers and just frame links.
But honestly, I'm sick of it. There is no practical reason for the complication except that it is now an accepted legacy of the fighting genre.
Soul Calibur and Smash have the right idea about how hard the controls should be. Skill should not be about twitchy fingers and just frame links.
Add another punch and he'd be doing a Midnight Bliss. I know I wouldn't be upset about having the coolest move in fighting games on my arm.
davidwhangchoi
Member
ThirtyPlus
Member
Depends on the pad, mostly. First player side, about 95 percent. Reverse DP...maybe 85.
super-famicom
Member
I can DP efficiently.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
It isn't that hard to do.
What is hard to do? Pretzels.
Yeah fuck pretzels
Sanctuary
Member
As someone who actually learned the motions of the moves in the arcade when Street Fighter 2 was brand new, it's hard for me to accept that these motions are really that difficult to grasp. All it takes is a little practice.
Also, what I used to tell people that were first learning the game was to try to envision a "Z" and do that as a motion instead of thinking too hard about forward, down, down/forward. That usually did the trick.
Also, with the shortcuts added to current fighting games (starting with SF4 I think), it's become even easier due to how lenient they are due to having control pads in mind. Now, instead of forward, down, down/forward you can just hit down/foward twice. Or, alternatively just buy a Hitbox, or use a modified stick that has the hitbox layout instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZ7YF16td8
NoctisVsStar
Member
Tap forward, Hadouken in one quick and smooth motion.. Being doing it since 92 Champion edition boys.
I can do SRK pad or arcade no problem.
The pretzel I don't know since I don't play KoF. Just a little bit of the new one and haven't had many problems with it.
Now, I still have to see someone do Saki's Critical Heart attack from Arcana Heart 3.
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The pretzel I don't know since I don't play KoF. Just a little bit of the new one and haven't had many problems with it.
Now, I still have to see someone do Saki's Critical Heart attack from Arcana Heart 3.
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Haha, me too. Same with the hip too.
On an arcade stick it's easy. For the last motion you can jam the stick into the corner (if you have a square gate).
Even if you're not using a stick though, you can do forward -> down -> forward and it will read your input as a DP. Most games aren't strict about the last "down-forward diagonal" motion.
Even if you're not using a stick though, you can do forward -> down -> forward and it will read your input as a DP. Most games aren't strict about the last "down-forward diagonal" motion.
Curry-Hakase
Member
I can paint fences.
on the left side :<
Like many others have said, I can do the DP motion because I play fighting games. If you want to play fighting games, you're going to have to get used to it pretty quickly since it is the presumptive input of reversals in almost every fighting game. Indeed, a lot of people complain about how obtuse it is but the fact is that that's kind of the point; if you need a reversal, it's probably true that nothing else will do so the input needs to be on the right balance of obscure and doable, which the DP motion is. After about a month of playing fighting games I was able to do them reliably.
The input motion that I've grown to hate the most over the years is BlazBlue's 6428 (right left down up) super motion. I don't know who thought that it was a good idea to make Sonic the Hedgehog's level select cheat the motion for a reversal super, especially since 8'll make you jump and you need to do the move on the ground.
The input motion that I've grown to hate the most over the years is BlazBlue's 6428 (right left down up) super motion. I don't know who thought that it was a good idea to make Sonic the Hedgehog's level select cheat the motion for a reversal super, especially since 8'll make you jump and you need to do the move on the ground.
This is actually a fairly common motion if you take the initial 4 off of it.