Originally posted by: Naustica
purbeast0, you have a mean Balrog. You have that float into Super or Ultra down cold. Your Sagat was tough as well. Your combo dexterity is far superior to mine. My old man hand has problem stringing any long or difficult combos. That's why I use Zangief.
yah good games man. i definitely want to play you more so i can figure out how to get in and actually kill you more lol. you have zangief's fundamentals down to a damn science. like you said you don't do many combos, but you don't have to with zangief. he is frustrating to play because of the ways you can exploit some of his moves and the stun that his opponent gets after blocking, which allows zangief to do some of his damn throws.
in general, i find zangief one of the most boring matches when i'm playing as balrog, cause balrog really has no way to initiate attacks on him because zangiefs lariat counters EVERYTHING that he has to offer. that is why i just kept trying to do his light dash punch and catching you at the end of your lariats. it is frustrating because i can't really do many combos on you at all.
also w/my sagat, he is not one of my better shotos heh. i was simply using him because i thought zoning with him would be easier and because he's overpowered. i know a few basics with him, but i have hardly used him in sf4 at all. but once you know how to use a shoto character, you can kind of use any of them to some extent.
but i don't know wtf it is, but on PSN i was having trouble pulling off moves and timing stuff. there were 2 times I can remember when you were running at me to do zangiefs move where he runs and grabs, and i was holding all 3 punches for a TAP, then I jumped backwards and let go of the buttons, however it registered that i never jumped, and then i let go of the three punches and sped towards you, with it resulting in you grabbing me. i even lost 1 way because of that, which I remember because it frustrated the hell out of me lol.
i was also having a hell of a time blocking crossups on PSN which was bothering the hell out of me
and sorry i had to bounce real quick, i initially thought you were cronos until i got his messages to play, which i had planned on doing heh!
and cronos sorry i left so quickly too but i was getting a lot of input delay and i couldn't time a damn thing on wakeup and was getting frustrated against your elf. when I was akuma i couldn't even do moves, i don't know why. i dont know if you saw me just spamming punches and kicks, but that was me missing moves heh. on the last match we had, i was sitting in the corner just tapping jab to see what kind of delay there was and it was noticeable, and i was like f-it, i can't play with this kind of delay because it will just frustrate me.
speaking of your elf, you play him well, to the point i really don't know what to do. i think part of it is that i have not played against elf much so i don't know how to fight him. i would definitely like to play your elf some more so i can learn a thing or two about how to defend and attack him. seeing people play well with him like you did makes me want to try and learn him.
chrono when you get your 360 stick we should play on 360. i just think my internet connection is not that great to have a steady connection on PSN. it was funny cause right after i got off i went back on XBL and played a few ranked games adn I could do all my moves!
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also crono you did say you were on west coast, maybe that has to do with it. Naustica where are you located? i actually did not have any input delay or really any lag with you at all and we had 4 bars, you just flat out kicked my ass haha.