Didn’t seem like Daigo got too many hard reads to me. More like he just knew the mu well and never let smug get started. Smug should have mixed up his rps situations more too, but that’s sorta what I mean by Daigo never letting him get started
This is why the Japanese top players say Daigo is revered for adapting to players skills... give him some games and he will have you completely downloaded. - Poongko - Xian - Infiltration - Now Smug. What a beast, indeed.
people can only beat daigo in random best of 3's. which is most tournaments. in some universe where there is unlimited time and resources, and every tournament was best of 10. daigo would be god
smug is good but hes not adapting how other players are playing. he can body anyone that isnt learning from his playstyle. he needs to study other players to be top tier players.
I want to remind everyone that there was only a three week difference between when these two fought each other. Its rather frightening how much Daigo picked up about Smug in such a short time.
Why does James act like Daigo thoroughly studied for Smug? He just picked up on Smug's tendencies the first time they played, and simply exploited them. Highly doubt Daigo would spend time trying to learn Smug exclusively.
+Azure Saiyan I dunno, he's been known to do that quite a lot. I know he did for infiltration and snake. He's also said that smug was a player to watch out for before.
@@verximama828 i saw daigo vs justin. Im just saying that people worship daigo, it doesn't make sense to me. But daigo is arguably the best player at evo. I still think smug earned his title.
Love to see Daigo using that Focus/Throw 4 button tech on wake up, and then making sure to keep his meter below 3 so that he's able to use that option without worrying about red focus coming out. Amazing meter management.
Damn... My dude smugs wasnt ready this time.... He could of changed up the overhead mixup eith throw to beat the focus but then diago kept changing it up... Throw break game was on point... Diago actualky taught me alot about wake up fadc bash dashing
Smug should have picked up on two things. 1. Done acual block strings because daigo realized everything he was doing werent actual block strings. Thats why he kept getting dped. 2. Stopped hitting buttons after the knockdown. Daigo, as the commentators pointed out, knew smug loved hitting buttons after a knockdown. Smug in my opoinion could have played a little better if he adapted. Im a huge fan of his and seeing him get destroyed like that sucks haha. Im also a fan of daigo. Props to his match against smugs dudly
it was more he kept going for the overhead and daigo was ready for it because last time they played smug got him with alot of overheads, but in the long run daigo was way more prepared for that match then smug. which is a shame as im like you and really wanted to see smug pull it out.
Basically someone did more homework than the other did. I'm assuming Daigo's been grinding against a resident Dudley in Japan in Kokujin, who used to play Dudley in Third Strike but was inspired to try playing him again in USF4 due to Smug's success. And the Japanese players certainly learned their fill, especially Smug's tendencies to do that overhead on wakeup which took American players couldn't figure out but at least Daigo and Itazan realized this.
BludAardvark Daigo has been traveling for weeks, he didn't have the time to try and practice for Dudley. n fact, Daigo already had Dudely experience, as one of his friends Hxmjp is a resident Dudley player. The only piece of studying Daigo had of Smug was his first game against him when he realized he likes to press buttons, and go for non true blockstrings..
***** I dont' think its that difficult for Daigo to realize this having previous experience with Dudleys and lookign more into the possible tools Dudley has. Its funny but the 4 button tech is something no one busted out but Daigo did against Smug's habits of the wake up overhead.
MrFoxtrotpro He's been playing back to back so hasn't had much time. Smug's gone months of being destroyed only to learn how to adapt. Similar to how Daigo had a year of being basically free to Infiltration until he adapted and then started returning the favor. But at the same time, Daigo has been in top form lately running over most people he's come across.
MrJade12 Seeing as they had only played each other a few times in that year and Infiltration 6-0 him one of those times where at least one other time IIRC it was 3-0, he was definitely free to him. He took time to adapt and he even said each time after he lost that he wanted to play him more in long sets. Smug's only played Daigo twice now and their first games were closer than Daigo's were with Infiltration back then. Their second showing has gone the same way. It'll be interesting to see Smug adapt as he's always done after blow ups, even then money's still on Daigo.
xOmniCloudx Infilitration won at Evo and in 25th anniversary grand finals while Daigo beat him in winners. Smug on the other hand lost to Daigo at NCR,Final Round and at Topanga World League 5-0. That is what it means to be really free to someone.
Its been awhile since Smug has had to hold it. Right now he's holding it against most of the Japanese players and Snake Eyez's Gief I think. But sometimes in order to level up, you gotta get whupped by the very best.
people give smug shit need to realise he's playing probably the best sf player to have ever existed. daigo has been playing sf when smug was still in diapers! literally! not dick riding daigo but you can't discount smugs skills. he just needs more experience.
hardace1708 idk about that. the tech and strat daigo is using vs smug is applicable to the whole cast but no one else is using it for whatever reason. little do people know, daigo fights HJMXP the exact same way. it's just how you play the match up. daigo's offense is his reads on smug, but his defense is just how to fight dudley in general.
lilhorsechoka To add, Smug MM'd Bonchan at FR18 and Bonchan went 5-1 and Bonchan credits knowing the matchup going against Kokujin, former 3rd strike Dudley player who is also recently picking up Dudley in USF4. Ironic since Sanford has had little luck and little consistency in blowing up Smug using Ken and Sagat.
These are two of my faves to watch but I feel bad for Smug because he's kind of between a rock and a hard place. Whenever he loses to Top tier players people say "He's not good enough", but if he wins it's always "Dudley is just OP and his damage needs to be nerfed" #TrueStory
NinjaBen00 More like Daigo picked up on something most didn't and exploited it. He even had an interview saying he didn't actually practice the Smug/Dudley match up.
I know this was a short set, but damn Smug! Why couldn't you adapt to what he was doing? You must've caught on to those focus attacks at some point. Gotta learn to adapt man! But good show by The TRUE beast Daigo, he made Smug look like a harmless lil kittn wearing mittens for boxing gloves. He surely studied he last match and unlocked a key to Sumgs play style, and my hats off to him for taking it serious
Daigo is heavily oppressing Smug with his playstyle and when smug isn't the dominate force in the match he loses control fast. Smug is all offense. so when he's pressed into defense he falls apart.
I love watching Smug play and all but ... when did people call him Smug "The Beast" lmfao. Please don't give Daigo's title to someone who only wins in US tournaments and has little international experience.
what daigo did was watch smugs tape realize smug just mashes buttons has the same 4 sets ups and uses the same3.4 combos. dudley made smug not the other way around. dudleys overly good normals and stun is the only reason why smug can hang with these cats at all
I love how yall use any opportunity to talk smug down. Kid is mad good, and he just doesn't have that international experience or years of other players. D U F F C I T Y 5eva
***** no he def has to hold dat. But who hasn't really. The level of comp is so insane that everyone gets a good bodying here and there. People just take every chance they get to hate on Smug instead of encouraging him. He only 21.
mxtra22 Well, there was a few people before their encounters that said Smug would beat Daigo free. I think this animosity towards Smug comes from people who are fed up with his fans. If anything, Smug is similar to Daigo in that regard.
Honestly tho.... diago is the beast......the only beast, SMUG is awesome with juggling and beating opponents. But diagos' sheer power with that joystick is godliek........... I'm rambling
Damn, Daigo is really good but his confirms with evil Ryu are really poor, Evil Ryu is a combo character and every time I watch a video of daigos Evil, he always dropping them combos..... For that just stick with regular Ryu :/
yeah. Its funny how daigo doesn't play E-Ryu like how E-Ryu should be played. Like he just gets meter and fishes for a low forward kick confirm to go into his thing. I've heard that Sako and to an extent, Snake Eyez plays E-Ryu a lot more toward the cleaner high execution end of things.
That's some impressive top notch broadband speed Daigo is carrying. Downloaded Smug before the match even began.
Didn’t seem like Daigo got too many hard reads to me. More like he just knew the mu well and never let smug get started. Smug should have mixed up his rps situations more too, but that’s sorta what I mean by Daigo never letting him get started
I thought you couldn't show actual murders on TH-cam?
lol
I have to report that to youtube
lmfao ...damn hilarious that was right there :) ... ahh well
Lmfao haha.
King- Gamer
It's not funny...a young man lost his life that day
y'know I fuckin' love watching Smug, he IS a beast.
But, seeing Daigo come back to the top is like finding out Santa Claus is actually still real.
Stop cursing
@cardan2525 I agree.
This is why the Japanese top players say Daigo is revered for adapting to players skills... give him some games and he will have you completely downloaded.
- Poongko
- Xian
- Infiltration
- Now Smug.
What a beast, indeed.
But he hasn't won xiaohai yet
Give him time... if there's an exhibition... the beast shall prevail.
people can only beat daigo in random best of 3's. which is most tournaments. in some universe where there is unlimited time and resources, and every tournament was best of 10. daigo would be god
Yy Lee He has.
Yy Lee he came really close at those ft7 at Canada cup, and then stated he would win next time
Daigo did his homework. This was a complete shutout.
smug is good but hes not adapting how other players are playing.
he can body anyone that isnt learning from his playstyle.
he needs to study other players to be top tier players.
I want to remind everyone that there was only a three week difference between when these two fought each other.
Its rather frightening how much Daigo picked up about Smug in such a short time.
Why does James act like Daigo thoroughly studied for Smug? He just picked up on Smug's tendencies the first time they played, and simply exploited them. Highly doubt Daigo would spend time trying to learn Smug exclusively.
+Azure Saiyan I dunno, he's been known to do that quite a lot. I know he did for infiltration and snake. He's also said that smug was a player to watch out for before.
ensanesane he specifically said he didn’t prepare for snake and that “it’s just Zangief”
Dont call yourself the beast, you earn it. Bravo Daigo
Smug earned that title, you must live under a rock.
Daigo is good too.
@@kibbywitz Daigo is one of the 5 gaming gods of Japan. You should see his gameplay in his prime
@@verximama828 i saw daigo vs justin. Im just saying that people worship daigo, it doesn't make sense to me. But daigo is arguably the best player at evo. I still think smug earned his title.
@@kibbywitz I can agree that Smug is a very good player,even in Sf5 his G is very good
Love to see Daigo using that Focus/Throw 4 button tech on wake up, and then making sure to keep his meter below 3 so that he's able to use that option without worrying about red focus coming out. Amazing meter management.
Damn... My dude smugs wasnt ready this time.... He could of changed up the overhead mixup eith throw to beat the focus but then diago kept changing it up... Throw break game was on point... Diago actualky taught me alot about wake up fadc bash dashing
Smug should have picked up on two things. 1. Done acual block strings because daigo realized everything he was doing werent actual block strings. Thats why he kept getting dped.
2. Stopped hitting buttons after the knockdown. Daigo, as the commentators pointed out, knew smug loved hitting buttons after a knockdown.
Smug in my opoinion could have played a little better if he adapted. Im a huge fan of his and seeing him get destroyed like that sucks haha. Im also a fan of daigo. Props to his match against smugs dudly
it was more he kept going for the overhead and daigo was ready for it because last time they played smug got him with alot of overheads, but in the long run daigo was way more prepared for that match then smug. which is a shame as im like you and really wanted to see smug pull it out.
Well he better hit up the match footage, as he's going to have to play against Daigo very soon at Topanga World League this coming weekend.
Basically someone did more homework than the other did. I'm assuming Daigo's been grinding against a resident Dudley in Japan in Kokujin, who used to play Dudley in Third Strike but was inspired to try playing him again in USF4 due to Smug's success. And the Japanese players certainly learned their fill, especially Smug's tendencies to do that overhead on wakeup which took American players couldn't figure out but at least Daigo and Itazan realized this.
BludAardvark Daigo has been traveling for weeks, he didn't have the time to try and practice for Dudley. n fact, Daigo already had Dudely experience, as one of his friends Hxmjp is a resident Dudley player. The only piece of studying Daigo had of Smug was his first game against him when he realized he likes to press buttons, and go for non true blockstrings..
***** I dont' think its that difficult for Daigo to realize this having previous experience with Dudleys and lookign more into the possible tools Dudley has. Its funny but the 4 button tech is something no one busted out but Daigo did against Smug's habits of the wake up overhead.
6 rounds of freedom!
Lol ! Aaaah man, you killed me.
Rubentastique lmao!
Hate to see Smug shut out, but no matter good match fellas!
Random fact.
At 3:36, Smug is given a point, instead of Daigo.
Then the scores disappear and reappear with the error corrected.
How many times you see Smug not being able to go into his overhead combos. This was crazy defense..
honestly, some of the greatest players are great because of their defense not offense.
Dang, Smug...
I can understand those nerves, you're PIE Smug, baby!!
Bring some HYPE to Evo!
Daigo's whiff punishing so good. He had an answer for everything Smug did. Wonder how Smug can adapt to this later on.
xOmniCloudx He cant he just got destroyed by daigo in Topanga World 5-0.
MrFoxtrotpro He's been playing back to back so hasn't had much time. Smug's gone months of being destroyed only to learn how to adapt. Similar to how Daigo had a year of being basically free to Infiltration until he adapted and then started returning the favor. But at the same time, Daigo has been in top form lately running over most people he's come across.
xOmniCloudx A year of being free to Infilitration? He lost to him twice and then bodied him 10-2.
MrJade12 Seeing as they had only played each other a few times in that year and Infiltration 6-0 him one of those times where at least one other time IIRC it was 3-0, he was definitely free to him. He took time to adapt and he even said each time after he lost that he wanted to play him more in long sets.
Smug's only played Daigo twice now and their first games were closer than Daigo's were with Infiltration back then. Their second showing has gone the same way. It'll be interesting to see Smug adapt as he's always done after blow ups, even then money's still on Daigo.
xOmniCloudx Infilitration won at Evo and in 25th anniversary grand finals while Daigo beat him in winners. Smug on the other hand lost to Daigo at NCR,Final Round and at Topanga World League 5-0. That is what it means to be really free to someone.
LMAO TOTALLY GOT DESTROYED HOLD THAT SHIT SMUG.
Its been awhile since Smug has had to hold it. Right now he's holding it against most of the Japanese players and Snake Eyez's Gief I think. But sometimes in order to level up, you gotta get whupped by the very best.
Wow Seth Killian on commentary? How long has it been
Smug: I want to be at Topanga. I cant level up here damn america. LMAO.
jab jab jab, dudley is like " that is not boxing sir"
people give smug shit need to realise he's playing probably the best sf player to have ever existed. daigo has been playing sf when smug was still in diapers! literally! not dick riding daigo but you can't discount smugs skills. he just needs more experience.
Where's the USA chant? Lool
that happens when someone from the usa wins
I know it's hard to understand the concept when one lacks basic social skills, but try to keep up
SecretAgentC1ank clearly you missed the sarcastic "lool" at the end of the message, don't cry because you hero got bodied.
Ike Dim he is a typical fanboy..salty and butthurt
guys went out for a smoke after that "sexual act"
USA USA
Could smug have option selected the wake up focuses?
2023 and the patch notes is still the most nightmare of the "beast".
Much respect to Smug. GGs.
Daigo's reading is unbelievable.
I just want watch Daigo vs Wong on EVO and get hype!
Dem boys at NLBC need to lvl up
They all levelled up but daigo is just well ahead of them
hardace1708 idk about that. the tech and strat daigo is using vs smug is applicable to the whole cast but no one else is using it for whatever reason.
little do people know, daigo fights HJMXP the exact same way. it's just how you play the match up. daigo's offense is his reads on smug, but his defense is just how to fight dudley in general.
lilhorsechoka To add, Smug MM'd Bonchan at FR18 and Bonchan went 5-1 and Bonchan credits knowing the matchup going against Kokujin, former 3rd strike Dudley player who is also recently picking up Dudley in USF4. Ironic since Sanford has had little luck and little consistency in blowing up Smug using Ken and Sagat.
I miss this game
I play ryu, but is dudley a bad character or just bad against ryu? ive never lost to any.
These are two of my faves to watch but I feel bad for Smug because he's kind of between a rock and a hard place. Whenever he loses to Top tier players people say "He's not good enough", but if he wins it's always "Dudley is just OP and his damage needs to be nerfed" #TrueStory
Flawless Victory.
Lol Destroyed in Minutes...great play
must've been laggy.
It was a local game, there's no internet latency when playing on the same console.
First rule to be a "legend" on SF Series: always choose the most Overpowered character.
Daigo's a beast, he makes everyone his bitch. I'd love to see him make a huge comeback this year's EVO.
This match broke Smug's brain. He lost all 6 rounds here and 6 of his next 7. Completely exposed. Low jab, low jab.
Daigo is such a smart player.
I've never seen Smug so free! He was definitely intimated, he has a weak mind for tourneys unless he knows the players.
He wasn’t intimidated he just got out played by someone who knew exactly how to beat “him”
THE beauty and the beast
Damn that was brutal.
The only thing that happened here. 4 words. Daigo did his homework. Nothing more, nothing less.
NinjaBen00 More like Daigo picked up on something most didn't and exploited it. He even had an interview saying he didn't actually practice the Smug/Dudley match up.
right but what im saying is he looked over the matches from their first bout at final round. thats what made smug free in their ncr match
At least upload all the videos in order.. Tshi
daigo would be a better akuma than tokido and better oni than kelly
Damn, this is not NLBC! Hang in there Smug, he's only human.
daigo made that look to easy
Daigo is like the Batman of fgc. With enough prep time, he can beat anyone.
lmao daigo snatched up that key to duff city.
Daigo made that pro player look like a noob. This wasn't even fair
I know this was a short set, but damn Smug! Why couldn't you adapt to what he was doing? You must've caught on to those focus attacks at some point. Gotta learn to adapt man!
But good show by The TRUE beast Daigo, he made Smug look like a harmless lil kittn wearing mittens for boxing gloves.
He surely studied he last match and unlocked a key to Sumgs play style, and my hats off to him for taking it serious
Daigo is heavily oppressing Smug with his playstyle and when smug isn't the dominate force in the match he loses control fast. Smug is all offense. so when he's pressed into defense he falls apart.
Damn that was a blow up
Some people forget that there's MONEY at stake here. You better know as much as you can about who you're going up against.
Smug was nervous to play daigo sloppy play. All daigo did was focus dash jab and low fwrd smug should have adapted
Daigo is the beast of the East
Dam that was rough
I love watching Smug play and all but ... when did people call him Smug "The Beast" lmfao. Please don't give Daigo's title to someone who only wins in US tournaments and has little international experience.
He gave it to himself...
Daigo is not invincible. But that being said nobody is safe from being bodied by him like Smug was.
lmao that riley chain
Wiggety WASHED
Smug's fifteen minutes of fame is gone. Now players figured him out. Dudley gonna go down once again.
The focus attack/tech OS on wake-up is very strong, but I feel like some low pressure from Smug would have beaten it. Guess he was mindfucked.
what daigo did was watch smugs tape realize smug just mashes buttons has the same 4 sets ups and uses the same3.4 combos. dudley made smug not the other way around. dudleys overly good normals and stun is the only reason why smug can hang with these cats at all
Smug didnt adapt to daigo's wakeup focus the whole set :S
Young, wild and free. :p
The hero Smug? More like Zero.
Love em or hate em dude got skill. Much respect mr daigo
I love how yall use any opportunity to talk smug down. Kid is mad good, and he just doesn't have that international experience or years of other players.
D U F F C I T Y 5eva
Pragmag - Welcome to the FGC, where nobody is really that good... except for the japanese of course
Smug is very good, but you still have to admit, this shit was mad free. He has to hold dat.
***** no he def has to hold dat. But who hasn't really. The level of comp is so insane that everyone gets a good bodying here and there. People just take every chance they get to hate on Smug instead of encouraging him. He only 21.
mxtra22 Well, there was a few people before their encounters that said Smug would beat Daigo free. I think this animosity towards Smug comes from people who are fed up with his fans. If anything, Smug is similar to Daigo in that regard.
***** fair point
Honestly tho.... diago is the beast......the only beast, SMUG is awesome with juggling and beating opponents. But diagos' sheer power with that joystick is godliek........... I'm rambling
Damn man love smug but he is not at that lvl yet that shit was free one day though
Wiggity Washed
Oof you know by the title the outcome
Daigo nem joga tão bem assim
Also james i highly doubt daigo was studying up on smug >_>
New mayor of Duff City lol. Smug is still a damn good player, but what an ass whoopin'
I told ppl smug is bad period he have no real mixups it's the same shit I remember when I schooled them with his own Dudley
lol
How about you do the same? Oh wait, you never won a tournament in your life.
Smug didn't know how to exist
Destroyed!!! Oh wait this isn't Guilty Gear :-} but it looked like an Insta-Kill lol
Damn, Daigo is really good but his confirms with evil Ryu are really poor, Evil Ryu is a combo character and every time I watch a video of daigos Evil, he always dropping them combos..... For that just stick with regular Ryu :/
yeah. Its funny how daigo doesn't play E-Ryu like how E-Ryu should be played. Like he just gets meter and fishes for a low forward kick confirm to go into his thing. I've heard that Sako and to an extent, Snake Eyez plays E-Ryu a lot more toward the cleaner high execution end of things.
BludAardvark Snake Eyez execution isn't that good with E.Ryu. In fact, Daigo's execution is better than Snake Eyez.
This is kinda hilarious to read
nice
land of the free
daigo could probably body me playing with his feet
Smug got beaten down.... No gimmicks
Low forward vs. dudley = 10-0 Low forward
Wiggity WASHED!😖
ayyy duff city
Daigo: . o O (I'll just DP every frame trap. It's not like he's going to block.)
Shmug got shit on
Daigo shit...Smug da best
blown the fck up
Smug is free.
Cooked
damn smug got beat pretty bad lmao
Lol
Daigo is dat nigga Smug hold dat L
*fades out* USA! Usa! usa!
fray
Smug down..
:(