How Did You Find Your Character

I initially started with Ken in SFIV... which stemmed from one fateful trip to Epcot in Florida a full 10 years ago this summer! I played a game called 'Marvel Vs Capcom 2' on a Dreamcast demo pod they had there. I did the Shippuujinrai Kyaku and that was it... hooked. First super combo I'd ever seen, as my experience with Street Fighter up to that point had been SFII Turbo on the SNES.

Played Ken for a while, but was sick of seeing him online, so I moved to Sagat (teh irony, I know). Reasoning was he seemed to have a good move for just about anything. Used him for a bit, and got on well enough I suppose. Also played as Cammy for a bit, purely based on aesthetic tbh Eventually I was playing less and less SF, but last Christmas the OH got me an EX2 stick, which reignited my love of SF in a big way.

Since getting the stick I found that my execution is better with charge characters, so I moved to Chun Li, and haven't looked back. Still play as Cammy a bit, but all about Chun. I'm still not 100% on execution with the stick, and that frustrates me, but I couldn't go back to pad now! No way.

As for Super... Along with Chun and Cammy, I'm going to use Guile. Would have used him in IV, but I couldn't link into his Ultra (don't laugh)... But Sonic Hurricane means he's now looking great Will also use Ibuki as I've always wanted to try her out, but never played any iteration of III (for shame).

Another stipulation of me picking a character is that they must have an air-throw. All four above tick this box! Would prefer charge to qcf characters, but like I said in another thread, I can't eliminate most of the cast because my execution isn't up to scratch.

Mr. K wrote: »

One word, Sabre...

Sho...Ryu...Ken!

In SFIV I messed with Ryu and Boxer at first, then I switched to Ken. I liked his mixup with kara throw and I thought he was cool so I picked him. I eventually got bored and felt like he was limiting me as a player so I recently switched to El Fuerte and I love him.

In super I have been messing with Dudley, because he was so class in 3s, and his mixup and damage output in super is really really good. My type of character

As for Urien, well, WTF Capcom, add him already

I'm gonna main Cody for a few reasons:

• His combo-ability is through the roof, and I'm going to explore this aspect as best as I can.
• The knife.
• Has a load of taunting in his moves, playstyle, etc. This is fitting for Team Taunt Commander. BINGO!
• The knife.
• Has decent health & stun. I suck, so this helps me to not die so fast.
• The knife.
• He's really easy to pick-up and play with.
• THE KNIFE.

I pick whoever's least likely to win. That makes it more awesome when they actually do pull a win from somewhere.

When I actually do wanna win, I swap Dan for Balrog. I've used him for centuries so it's just habit. I forget why I settled on him back on the Megadrive. The backstory of a game is also very important to me so I'll often lean towards characters with interesting tales to tell.

Sabre0001 wrote: »

With the imminent release of Super (and for those who have it already ) it's time to look at character appeal.

My back story is that Street Fighter 4 is the first time I've played the series properly (and fighting games in general really) - played 2 back on PC and played a game called One Must Fall (which was essentially a SF rip off the more I think about it) but never really put time into them or learned combos / specials...

So with the release of 4, and pretty much Super, I am a blank canvas. I still haven't found a character because to be honest, for ages I was discouraged very easily - not realising that I have 20 years of catchup on some players!

So, how do you select a character (for any fighting game) - is it their style, their moveset, their options, their tier, the fact that you can get through their trials without hurling a controller? Tell me your story....and, if it applies, with Super how will you test alternative characters or may you switch to a new character that was already in the series?

Honestly, I'm very much the same. I like to switch around between characters. I mainly look for how varied a character's moveset (for mixup) is and their speed (startup frames and recovery time). I haven't settled on a main yet as I feel equal with 5 characters (Akuma, Vega, Balrog, Ryu and Guile) whom I like to use each of their individual characteristics. With Vega and Balrog, I rarely use combos. With Balrog, I mainly keep distance and wait for opportunities (except for a some handy ultra setups one (cr.LPx2, cr.LK -> Headbutt / cr.MK -> Headbutt / Dash Overhead, cr. LK, Headbutt / EX Dash Upper (to pierce through fireballs), cr. LP, cr.LK Headbutt (each ending with the ultra). Vega, very much the same again, keep my distance and try baiting the opponent to do SRKs (e.g.: Going for the Flying Barcelona and sticking to the wall). With the others, I definitely like to keep close and nail damage through combos. I think for most people, its about who they just like. Even though I see myself that I'm balanced over the five characters, I like Akuma the most (based on the story of the games (other shotos haven't transcended humanity! because I know this sounds ridiculous but Akuma would symbolise the epitome of Ansatsuken (fighting style of shotos) so I'd make a stronger effort to become better with him than I would others. Also, in my opinion, out of all the characters, Akuma is the best all round fighter (Can fight well long range with air fireballs, good mixup at close range with the demon flip and is devastating at close range because of his combos). I like using Balrog because he's hard to punish and has strong attacks and Vega, well, because I rarely see anyone using him so I thought I'd see what he's like (I'd probably define him as my main in HDR now).

In regards to other fighters, I suppose like Vega and Balrog, I like to use characters who have powerful singular attacks so in a game like VF, I'd use Akira and Tekken, Jin. I suppose I chose Akira as well because I like the look of his combos and with Jin (yes, I'll admit) looks cool. I still appreciate the quick fighters in each of those games (e.g.: Lau, Kage / Law, Hwoarang etc.) but I prefer learning powerful characters. The only other serious fighter I play that I'd prefer using quick fighters over powerful ones would have to be Soul Calibur (Mitsurugi and Kilik).

But definitely Akuma because he's one bad mutha fcka! OW!

Generally I have a tendancy to play as female characters in any games I play, so I always check out the Y-Chromosomally challenged characters first. It also helps that I much prefer fast characters and women usually own that turf in fighters. My final preference is to go for a not commonly used character or someone with odd quirks, I get bored watching the same match over and over. And I'll admit, I get a certain amount of pleasure in beating 'high' level guys with 'low' levels - not that it happens often, but y'know, a guy can dream =D

Generally I'll stick with whoever I check out in my first sitting, but occasionally I'll branch out into the complete opposites of my standard comfort zone. In Soul Calibur I started with Sophitia, Talim and Tira in each game they were introduced in, but ended up using Nightmare and Astaroth more. In Street Fighter 3 I started with Ibuki but now use Alex and in Smash Bros I started with Samus but moved onto Bowser.

blag wrote: »

I like psycho crushers.

psycho power obviously

mr_kyle wrote: »

I did not find Zangief. Zangief found me.

In Soviet Russia, character finds you!

Back in the day on the Snes, I didn't really have the skill and patience to learn complex moves. Also didn't help I had a brother who liked to make his own rules on the fly so that he'd win ad then make me play football ( a reason I hate sports now ) so yes, I used E. Honda and spammed the punch move, it was all I knew. :rolleyes:

Fast forward to about 2005 and one of the games my brother had gotten off a friend for his xbox was Street fighter Collection ( It had HSF2 and 3s along with the SF2 movie ) at which point, I eventually started playing it again, only this time, I had enough patience to get somewhat decent with Ryu and Ken and basically any other characters that didn't require a charge attack. As we didn't have live back then, I didn't have anyone to play with.

With SFIV came out, my brother got it off a friend for his Xbox360 and seeing that was hardly around AND I now had Xbox Live myself, I was finally able to go online. As a result of me playing with HSF2 and 3s in the recent past, I went straight for Ken.

I got my ass kicked a lot in those early days, especially when the tournament DLC came out, I persisted and did OK but then I stopped playing. Don't why, I just did.

I got SSFIV as a day one purchase and got myself back on Xbox live. Knowing I'd be rusty, I messed around with Ken again for a while before bringing myself online. Got my ass kicked a lot that night, realizing tactics that worked for me in SFIV mightn't have carried over so well into SSFIV.

I didn't plan on maining on Juri, intending to stick with Ken until I saw her in action online. Something about the way she plays appealed to me so I started learning her myself.

Its probably a good thing with Juri being a completely new character, that everyone who is playing as / against her are in the same boat, we all still learning about her. I only learned how to pull off her flying kick today in training mode and still can't do it within normal gameplay yet.

So for SSFIV, Juri is my main, with Ken / Ryu as backup. I'm going to consider learning Dudley and a weaker character just for variety and to add an element of surprise.

D4RK ONION wrote: »

... I'm watching you :mad:

Haha, then I found out about the piano method for Hundred Hands and could not have been bothered learning that. Saw a video of a Gen player (Jibbo?) and his fingers were cut from doing the slide method, I dont think I'll bleed to learn a character!

GorySnake wrote:

So basically choose the guy with the knife.

^ This.