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Street Fighter V: Character Introduction Series
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SolidSnakex
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Jarod McChicken
Member
Quick question, was FANG ever playable in the beta ?
Nope, I think he was only playable at some events.
RockTurtle
Member
those nash setups change ERRTHANG
SolidSnakex
Member
Yeah, I think he's only been shown playable to the press, on the Japanese Capcom stream, and whenever Combofiend has demoed the game.
Jarod McChicken
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Thanks for the confirmation guys !
Garrett Hawke
Member
I wonder why FANG wasn't in the beta... were they working on him right up til the end?
Yeah, both ranked and casual play is cross-platform.
So I'll be able to just invite my friends to a room? YES
lucebuce12
Member
They haven't confirmed that but given that there's an option called "battle lounge" in the final game and the fact that we were able to search for players using their fighter ID in the beta, it's a safe bet.
Great.
I'll just wait for it to come out and confirm that, then purchase it. Thanks a bunch, guys.lucebuce12
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Great.
Sorry for the bump but I just wanted to inform.
Lobbies are indeed in the game. They offer a first to 3 or 5 or 10 format.
Source.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
F.A.N.G. looks very painful to fight. That poison looks brutal and we are going to have to rush him down to even do anything. I hate the character design still but I can see myself breaking a controller or two fighting him. That's not even sarcasm because I hate fighting zoners with DOT. I imagine he can't do much when you are in his face so R Mika can probably eat him alive if she absorbs the poison with her v skill.
robotzombie
Member
I think he also has really low health but someone else needs to confirm that
Teknopathetic
Member
"I think he also has really low health but someone else needs to confirm that"
The stat pentagon on the SFV website has him at 3/5 health, equal to Ryu.
"I imagine he can't do much when you are in his face so R Mika can probably eat him alive if she absorbs the poison with her v skill."
I don't believe you can absorb FANG's v-skill. It applies to you if it touches you at all. It's not a traditional fireball that puts the opponent in block or hit stun, you can walk right through it, but it will apply to you regardless.
The stat pentagon on the SFV website has him at 3/5 health, equal to Ryu.
"I imagine he can't do much when you are in his face so R Mika can probably eat him alive if she absorbs the poison with her v skill."
I don't believe you can absorb FANG's v-skill. It applies to you if it touches you at all. It's not a traditional fireball that puts the opponent in block or hit stun, you can walk right through it, but it will apply to you regardless.
FANG poison looks really slow so I wouldn't worry about it being the primary form of damage. If you get poisoned, just play as usual and don't get in a rush to hit him. Cool heads will prevail.
Still standing by my assessment that, to get use of FANG's poison you need to abuse white (block) damage. Poison eliminates it, turning the game into MK1 style damage.
I think poison will mostly fuck with characters used to trade damage. Zangief may be in a disadvantage, given how much of his good moves trade and then recover damage (don't really remember if poison eats the recovery too. Should check the ross/fiend video but eh). But Zangief has a kiloton of health so again, cool heads will win.
Still standing by my assessment that, to get use of FANG's poison you need to abuse white (block) damage. Poison eliminates it, turning the game into MK1 style damage.
I think poison will mostly fuck with characters used to trade damage. Zangief may be in a disadvantage, given how much of his good moves trade and then recover damage (don't really remember if poison eats the recovery too. Should check the ross/fiend video but eh). But Zangief has a kiloton of health so again, cool heads will win.
Woody Invincible
Banned
Going to be amazing seeing FANG seeing gameplay at major tournaments. He looks fun as hell to use.
Teknopathetic
Member
"Still standing by my assessment that, to get use of FANG's poison you need to abuse white (block) damage. Poison eliminates it, turning the game into MK1 style damage."
I don't believe this is the case. It doesn't eliminate white health, what it does is directly remove green health and prevent the regeneration of white health.
I don't believe this is the case. It doesn't eliminate white health, what it does is directly remove green health and prevent the regeneration of white health.
Mmm. Dunno if this really changes my position tho; FANG looks like he needs to keep the pressure to make use of poison, instead of sitting back and just trying to counter what the opponent does. Forward poison ball doesn't hit so once the opponent is poisoned, he can walk through it; arced poison balls that actually hit may be moved under so fang players will have extra work to keep the enemy away.
Teknopathetic
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I think he'll end up being played not too dissimilar to...Poison in USF4, but without amazing invincible backdash or backflip. Controlling neutral with long range normals and unconventional fireballs that you have to play around. Fang can still throw the arced fireballs such that they fall right next to him, so you can't simply walk under them all the time.
SolidSnakex
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NipplesAndToes23
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This guy definitely stuck in the 90's. Sakoora.
Piku_Ringo
Banned
Couldn't Capcom have hired MADHOUSE to animate the story cutscenes, instead of what we're getting now?
Animation costs muns.