Imagine someone new to fighting games saying "This 'LowTierGod' guy sounds like he'd be really cool. Smug? Sounds like an asshat." How wrong could someone be?
I agree. He was new to kage and on ultra silver gold it can be hard to adjust punishes. But his neutral was really good on that level. Dont see that many player on that level with such solid play
Smug dropping that knowledge. I think you're a good teacher, Smug. You analyze, giving compliments and criticisms both, then you show a way to improve while explaining what you're doing. It's great stuff. Thanks for the video. I learned some Karin today.
Evil Ryu and Kage are different. Evil Ryu is a regular Ryu with his "Satsui no Hado" dominanting Ryu's "good" side, so Ryu is controlled by the "Satsui no Hado" and becomes Evil Ryu. Kage, however, is the "Satsui no Hado" that goes out of Ryu's body and forms its own human shape, just looks like Ryu. In other words, Evil Ryu is Ryu with "Satsui no Hado" while Kage is just the "Satsui no Hado" itself.
I play Karin as well and I know for sure not to randomly throw out Ressenhas. Smug is right. High level players punish everything. It's why I started watching the best Karins and Lucias to understand why they do things the way they do.
@@mc_zittrer8793 u never know, now im used to charge i find it more comfortable, less to no risk of miss inputs lol yeah smug, brian, bonus, nightmare effect, child are my fav rogs. who u main?
@@skinnyfatz8483 Not sure I have a 'main'. I jump back and forth between Zeku, Cody, Sagat, and Vega. Also pick Chun Li when I feel like seeing her in beach ware, lol. I do see a lot of high level Balrog play though, so I feel like I'd have a good foundation to learn this character. Not having an aerial cross-up gonna throw me off, though.
Smug: "What do you need help for?, you are cooking" A few moments later, he notices the mistakesade and proceeds to school him and all Karin players with the greatest of ease... I hope someday he teach my Urien/Gill one or 2 things xD. If I get another year PS+, I'll share you my cfn so maybe we can sparr sometimes :D
More accurately, Evial Ryu and Kage are different. Evil Ryu is a regular Ryu with his "Satsui no Hado" dominants Ryu's "good" side, so Ryu is controlled by the "Satsui no Hado" and becomes Evil Ryu. Kage, however, is the "Satsui no Hado" that go out of Ryu's body and forms its own type. In other words, Evil Ryu is Ryu with "Satsui no Hado", Kage is just the "Satsui no Hado".
@@aspreedacore kind of, this is copied from street fighter wiki: In the advent of Ryu overcoming the temptations of the Satsui no Hado dwelling within him, it was assumed that the persona of Evil Ryu had been vanquished. Yet astonishingly, the Satsui no Hado would develop sentience and came to manifest as its own entirely separate, physical entity, naming itself "Kagenaru Mono".
techthegrab i noticed that you don't like to activate v-trigger. you had full v-trigger and failed to utilize it. that kage also failed to utilize v-trigger.
Yea, I normally go for sweep to activate it. Like unsafe, activate, and then either shimmy, grab, or heavy punch. In that match up I think it's ok to v-trigger, as the Kage pressure isn't too much to use V-reversal.
Actually it's episode 2, but it seems like you came at the right time. Smug's main was actually Karin at launch, so he got a lot of match up knowledge on that girl.
what up hollywood smug, i enjoyed that first to 4 with Kami. Definitely was a close set but took him to duff city in game 7. oh and thank you for teaching us what not to do with Karin!
Doing instant tenko into delayed tenko is much more reliable under pressure because you don't have to manually time it, its automatic. You want to avoid uncertain situations whenever possible.
Yea kinda of like if you do mujinkyaku in the corner, you gotta delay the super, but doing if you’re doing it midscreen, you can just throw out the super right away
Smoug with the greatest of ease so check deez nutz like i check dash Acting like you won't get command grab Acting like you won't get mad slap Acting like I'm never hit the lab Even with lag i get that double pp chad I wiggity wash and expose Got trows? I check those EX on ya jimmy so don't be skimming I got the fundamentals you dont even DP
(Aye man I like what you wrote, Smugs got so many quotables so Hope you dont mind me adding, it's wack but whatever it looked like fun lol) Why you jumping fo boi, anti- air for free, Already postulated all your possibilities to snatch the dub with max probability, Man it's almost sickening, it kinda feels like bullying, Got bad mamajama's looking stupid for 12 long frames, conditioning, V-trigger activate and I'm in again, Bait em with the shimmy, just another reason they can't beat me, Dr. Smuggles yo you know where I be, Duff City Dojo's where I got my PHD...
ROTINPIECES Also like of MU knowledge. Never punished those sweeps or orochis with anything. The mark of someone who is new to a fighting game in particular but also knows fighting games decently well in general is that they won’t commit to something that isn’t an incredibly obvious and wide punish since they don’t know the finer points, if any, of the frame data of that game...
Something that might be helpful for these replay reviews is to look at when someone does something random and super unsafe and figure out why they did that and what they should do *instead* of that. Things like Anti-Airs, execution and hit confirms will always be a work in progress, at least in my mind, so you're going to be saying those things *every time*. Better do to a single video covering those things and how to practice them and referring to those rather than doing the same tutorial over and over again. I think it's better to focus on decision making, since those things can be a lot easier to miss. Back on the Karin example, those random Rasenhas both happen over the same thing: He does them when he's too far away to do anything else, maybe he's trying to big brain read a fireball before Kage can throw it, something a lot of low rank shotos will do randomly at that range. Find things like that situation and tell them what they *should* do when they're in that situation. For Karin I feel like just walking forward and resuming neutral is the better option, but I don't know Karin well enough for that.
You are right. I throw it out when I'm too far and I expect a fireball. But it's just a bad habit I have. I should just walk. Karin has crazy walk speed and I should abuse it more.
@@kietey14 I figured as much. Got a couple of other thoughts about the replay as well that Smug kinda missed. I'm not a Karin player myself, though, so I'm afraid I won't be able to give you much specific advice, but I'll do my best. (A lot of this is going to sound like couch warlord commentary, but I'm trying to keep this strictly about your decisionmaking, not your reactions) 2:15 - Nice counter hit confirm off of the light on wakeup. 2:29 - I feel like you ride the C.MK button a little hard in your corner pressure. Remember that after an overhead connects you're even, so if he threw a faster button than your C.MK (a 6 frame button) then it's his turn again. It's also -4 on block, so if it's blocked then your turn is over, at best you're back to neutral depending on the spacing. 2:31- This looks like a panic sweep. It works out for you in the end, but if the Kage had used a different option in that situation it would have turned out differently. I don't play Karin so I don't know what would have been a better option at that moment, but I'm pretty sure one exists. 2:52 - This command dash feels questionable. I imagine you saw him backing up and figured you wanted to chase him down, which isn't really necessary. Walk at him and watch for dashes and jumps. Karin's neutral is a lot better than Kage's, no need to rush. 2:54 - You could have gotten more pressure off of that crush counter sweep. The meaty S.MK was well done, but I think you could have gotten more pressure if you could manage meaty C.MP. 2:57 - You watch him whiff a lot of buttons here but don't really react much to them. I feel like if you see a whiffed button, one of the best things you can do is try to bait another one: walk forward, walk back, delay C.MP, buffer it into murdering him. You may have also had a button long enough to hit him here after the fact. Way to live up to your name on that tick throw though. 3:03 - You just teched a throw, what are you looking for with that neutral jump? If you can't answer that question you should go into the lab and figure out what your options are after a throw tech. 3:06 - I take it you mistook Kage's C.MK for his Sweep? I certainly did when I saw this. If not then I feel like this is another panic sweep you might want to look into. 3:51 - *Biiiiig* risk, this jump. Feels kinda like you were desperate to get out of the corner, I totally get it, but with that much stun on you it would have been much safer to wait for a bit. Kage doesn't have many tools to open you up at that range, you could afford to block for a second to drain that stun. Chris Tatarian has a pretty good guide on defending in the corner. 4:02 - Looks like you were trying to bait a reversal here, not a bad idea given the state of the game here but if you're doing that you don't have to be that close. Could afford to spend some time in the lab working on your shimmies after a hard knockdown. 4:10 - Another random C.MK. I know it can be hard to build the muscle memory, but you've got a lot of better buttons to throw out when you're being pressured. Same goes for the C.MP that you try to throw later that gets stuffed by the jab. 5:35 - I imagine you were looking to escape a throw here with this backdash? I feel like you would have been *relatively* safe delay teching here. 5:48 - Same deal as 2:52. 5:59 - Looks like you tried to buffer Tenko after C.MK but it didn't come out, it happens. Trouble is that you follow that with a panic sweep. It can be hard to practice what to do in a scramble, for sure, but try to get used to using smaller buttons in a scramble situation. 6:52 - For the Kage matchup, remember that his C.MP is +3. It's not your turn if you block this button. Even if it was, C.MP probably wasn't the best button to try to reversal to escape block pressure. 7:21 - This jump wasn't necessary, again I figure it was just the heat of the moment and nerves, but the safest bet would have been to walk back a bit (and maybe C.MP to catch a limb if he presses another button). His pressure was over, no reason to get worked up. Overall I'm noticing you're also waking up C.LP every time you get knocked down. As you get into higher ranks people's meaties are just going to get better and better, waking up buttons is very risky. It's okay to wake up block. Hope I'm not coming off like I'm saying I'm a great player and could totally have won those games, I'm just pointing out places where I think you could focus on to work out your bad habits. Good luck in your games all the same!
Kevin Griffith thankyou for the detailed analysis my man. I’m looking to improve so all of this is good knowledge. The main reason I try to wake up light punch is only because the meaties in gold tend to suck. I’m trying to get better at identifying if someone is going to shimmy on Oki then I can for sure wake up buttons. But yes great into my man
Hey smug i just started on pc last month and i’m in super bronze, i main guile and been playing him since sf4 vanilla can you go over one of my matches my online tag is OnoNaah. Maybe you could give me suggestions on my gameplay..... been watching you play since you started with dudley. Another player trying to level up and smoke you one day bro :)
Generally you don't buffer charge moves in neutral because it leaves you vulnerable and with no punish opportunity if you whiff. So if your character has a motion input rely on that in neutral (for example legs with Chun). However you can use them sparingly in specific scenarios and set ups. For example with rog if you land a dash punch you can whiff a buffered normal afterwards because you have time to charge during the animation of the dash punch and you can still anti air if the buffer whiffs.
Can you do won for birdie my videos are up on my channel..I’m a Diamond but I have other accounts and I’m stuck in platinum lol I left the game for a min but idk how to get my confidence back
SMUG doesn't understand the concept of time. Telling the dude not to do Ressen Ha while watching the replay right now, doesn't mean the dude will learn the lesson later in the same replay.
Dude you just can't understand because you living in the future and Smug living in the past as if it's the present that's about to lead into the future but also as if the present is happening in the past and is also going to happen in the future when the past becomes the present. There is brains inside that flat top dude you must know.
do the motion for a special but don't press the button, so do the cr.MK and do QCF, if you get a hit press your button. Be careful of negative edge so don't hold cr.MK if it's not your button
An easier way to think of it instead of doing the low forward confirm, which is hard imo (I'm TechTheGrab), is doing medium punch and then inputting instant tenko (QCF kick and then punch) while the animation for medium punch is going on. On block or whiff, nothing comes out. But on hit it will confirm into instant tenko.
Idk. Feel like you're only disclosing super basic, somewhat obvious info. Talk to people about footsies, conditioning, and reasoning of WHY they do what they do, and why they should or shouldnt. Like if your opponent isnt watching his ankles. or if they arent teching, or over teching, and how to find out. How to know if they are playing reactionary or proactive. Are they checking dashes? How? How do i take advantage of this? When and why should I start shimmying? The stuff you're talking about, people can observe or discover easily on their own.(optimized combos)
-4 gap close move is not that bad in those waters. I'd say hes random sweeping too much and he can take a combo that starts from the air and finishes in the corner.
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Why is a man with a paintbrush on his teaching me how to fight people on the street?
On his what
You mean the flattop Lmao
On his what
@Shun Goku Satsu Level of what? LuL
I think you’re missing a word or 2 in that sentence
“Now didn’t I tell you this move was -4” lmao
For someone called "Smug", you're such a nice and humble person dude. You deserve the best, man.
Imagine someone new to fighting games saying "This 'LowTierGod' guy sounds like he'd be really cool. Smug? Sounds like an asshat." How wrong could someone be?
Smug teaching people about the dangers of Karin's jumpy-slappy thing.
shrikelet i love that description
I definitely support this series because his approach is so beginner friendly and he dumbs it down for my smooth brain
We here bois
hey i recognize your name from a smug teach vid ;) wat rank are u now?
"I tech those" I love when Smug says that 🤣
Or let me find out you tech those 😂😂
I eat those 😆
@@eddiesykes4080 neckbones
Yo, that Kage player was dropping confirms like mad. He could've dished out some major damage.
His kage was only level 16. He had probably only been playing Kage for a couple days.
I agree. He was new to kage and on ultra silver gold it can be hard to adjust punishes. But his neutral was really good on that level. Dont see that many player on that level with such solid play
Smug dropping that knowledge. I think you're a good teacher, Smug. You analyze, giving compliments and criticisms both, then you show a way to improve while explaining what you're doing. It's great stuff. Thanks for the video. I learned some Karin today.
Thank you Smug ,I know somebody commented on TH-cam about it and you delivered as always. Much love from Chicago.
I feel like we're watching the evolution into Dad-Smug. Tough but fair and still motivational !
Man played Karin in season 1 and still remember the tech now
I like how you lift them up too when they're doing something well! :)
No lie, I love you for this Smug
Adore this series, keep it up director smuggles
Low key didn't know i could do that in a replay
Bro we all need this. This is why we fucks with you with the greatest of ease. We appreciate you
Evil Ryu and Kage are different. Evil Ryu is a regular Ryu with his "Satsui no Hado" dominanting Ryu's "good" side, so Ryu is controlled by the "Satsui no Hado" and becomes Evil Ryu. Kage, however, is the "Satsui no Hado" that goes out of Ryu's body and forms its own human shape, just looks like Ryu. In other words, Evil Ryu is Ryu with "Satsui no Hado" while Kage is just the "Satsui no Hado" itself.
So the difference is only the vessel. Kinda still the same character more or less.
Glad you uploading again smug you the man
I play Karin as well and I know for sure not to randomly throw out Ressenhas. Smug is right. High level players punish everything. It's why I started watching the best Karins and Lucias to understand why they do things the way they do.
And then Prometheus came down from Mount Olympus, to teach these scrubs how to improve.
That corner combo into super is dope. Turns out that it does work with 2 perfect tenko.
I only watch fighting games, but Zangief and E. Honda are dope. Thicc boy gang 🤣
with the greatest of ease
smug Balrog is my main thanks 2 u and he's the best character i ever mained, i was new 2 charge but u made him look so dope
Charge characters aren't really my thing, but between Smug and Brian_F....yeah, Balrog knows how to cook, lol.
@@mc_zittrer8793 u never know, now im used to charge i find it more comfortable, less to no risk of miss inputs lol yeah smug, brian, bonus, nightmare effect, child are my fav rogs. who u main?
@@skinnyfatz8483 Not sure I have a 'main'. I jump back and forth between Zeku, Cody, Sagat, and Vega. Also pick Chun Li when I feel like seeing her in beach ware, lol. I do see a lot of high level Balrog play though, so I feel like I'd have a good foundation to learn this character. Not having an aerial cross-up gonna throw me off, though.
I won't lie I didn't like smug at first. But the more I watched his videos. The more I realized he was cool.
Met him in person a while back before this whole covid thing. He was even more nice in person. Just a genuinely good dude.
Yo smug has so much game knowledge that he can easily couch anyone. That is kinda insane.
Love that your helping fans get their game together! Now If only I didn’t hate Karin with a burning passion
Smug: "What do you need help for?, you are cooking"
A few moments later, he notices the mistakesade and proceeds to school him and all Karin players with the greatest of ease...
I hope someday he teach my Urien/Gill one or 2 things xD.
If I get another year PS+, I'll share you my cfn so maybe we can sparr sometimes :D
Thank you Smug.
Smug, my favourite TH-camr
As a Karin main, this was super helpful. Throwing around that Ressenha is getting me cooked. Thanks for the tips, fam.
"Kage" means "Shadow", he is literally the darkness of Ryu materialized and not just Ryu but evil
Also his name in the Japanese version is Kagenaru Mono, which means "The Shadowed One"
Yeah, that’s a better name that evil ryu imo
More accurately, Evial Ryu and Kage are different. Evil Ryu is a regular Ryu with his "Satsui no Hado" dominants Ryu's "good" side, so Ryu is controlled by the "Satsui no Hado" and becomes Evil Ryu. Kage, however, is the "Satsui no Hado" that go out of Ryu's body and forms its own type. In other words, Evil Ryu is Ryu with "Satsui no Hado", Kage is just the "Satsui no Hado".
Water Spinach so a wraith shoto?
@@aspreedacore kind of, this is copied from street fighter wiki:
In the advent of Ryu overcoming the temptations of the Satsui no Hado dwelling within him, it was assumed that the persona of Evil Ryu had been vanquished. Yet astonishingly, the Satsui no Hado would develop sentience and came to manifest as its own entirely separate, physical entity, naming itself "Kagenaru Mono".
>blocked Sweep, back jump, full screen resenha
Same tbh
I thought I was throwing them off, but I'm trash :D
@@kietey14 its okay bro I am too
_"Yeah I've been waiting for this!"_
Third strike
Smug is the best !
WITH THE GREATEST OF KNOWLEDGE!!
Thanks smug
Also Shin Dan would've been GODLIKE
these silver players are getting stronger
Good stuff Smug
I've never teched a throw except on accident
Ahahah oh man I know what you mean
You should practice delay teching then and you will tech throws left and right.
Congrats on winning in pre season
Great video. I love this series.
You a good dude Smuggle da Professor
12:58 you can do two just ones. Delay the second till they are low and then do super as soon as it’s done
Nice match with Balrog bro in the preseason save that G for when the season starts
Smug....what a guy!
Smug teaching us the sauce
techthegrab i noticed that you don't like to activate v-trigger. you had full v-trigger and failed to utilize it. that kage also failed to utilize v-trigger.
Yea, I normally go for sweep to activate it. Like unsafe, activate, and then either shimmy, grab, or heavy punch. In that match up I think it's ok to v-trigger, as the Kage pressure isn't too much to use V-reversal.
a good character for the corner pressure defense could be akuma or R.Mika , nice video smug!
swordsaint appearing all over the place
I laugh like Kage...
awesome content smug.
They could've made Kage cooler like oni
I main Karin nd def taking notes down
New series, first episode, my main?? What good I might have done to deserve this .
Actually it's episode 2, but it seems like you came at the right time. Smug's main was actually Karin at launch, so he got a lot of match up knowledge on that girl.
what up hollywood smug, i enjoyed that first to 4 with Kami. Definitely was a close set but took him to duff city in game 7. oh and thank you for teaching us what not to do with Karin!
Smug I’m coming for your flat top next stream my skills have doubled
You're actually wrong, you can do CA after the fast tenkos if you wait till the target drops to Karin's eye level. Thats how I do it every time
Doing instant tenko into delayed tenko is much more reliable under pressure because you don't have to manually time it, its automatic. You want to avoid uncertain situations whenever possible.
Andrew Biggam exactly
Yea kinda of like if you do mujinkyaku in the corner, you gotta delay the super, but doing if you’re doing it midscreen, you can just throw out the super right away
Keep these videos going !
I think it works with down punch too
Kage is not part of ryu anymore, ryu purged his evil side.
So whats left is a shadow made of satsui no hado, so in japanese, a kage.
🤔
TechTheGrab = Punk or not?
Heyyyyyy that's me, the Karin player!
Smug you're literally my father
hey smug you should play Among Us, it's a very fun game
U are awesome 👌
15:08 Not the Turkey neck bones ROFL
You play with control
And you play with analog or d-pad
Smoug with the greatest of ease so check deez nutz like i check dash
Acting like you won't get command grab
Acting like you won't get mad slap
Acting like I'm never hit the lab
Even with lag i get that double pp chad
I wiggity wash and expose
Got trows? I check those
EX on ya jimmy so don't be skimming
I got the fundamentals you dont even DP
(Aye man I like what you wrote, Smugs got so many quotables so Hope you dont mind me adding, it's wack but whatever it looked like fun lol)
Why you jumping fo boi, anti- air for free, Already postulated all your possibilities to snatch the dub with max probability, Man it's almost sickening, it kinda feels like bullying,
Got bad mamajama's looking stupid for 12 long frames, conditioning,
V-trigger activate and I'm in again,
Bait em with the shimmy, just another reason they can't beat me,
Dr. Smuggles yo you know where I be, Duff City Dojo's where I got my PHD...
@@OneTrueShogun all right brah i digg it
Lol I definitely need some teaching
This kage literally missed 100 confirms that’s outrageous even for a silver player
You can tell he just picked up the character
ROTINPIECES
Also like of MU knowledge. Never punished those sweeps or orochis with anything. The mark of someone who is new to a fighting game in particular but also knows fighting games decently well in general is that they won’t commit to something that isn’t an incredibly obvious and wide punish since they don’t know the finer points, if any, of the frame data of that game...
dr smuggles preorder hunting demon series?
Something that might be helpful for these replay reviews is to look at when someone does something random and super unsafe and figure out why they did that and what they should do *instead* of that. Things like Anti-Airs, execution and hit confirms will always be a work in progress, at least in my mind, so you're going to be saying those things *every time*. Better do to a single video covering those things and how to practice them and referring to those rather than doing the same tutorial over and over again. I think it's better to focus on decision making, since those things can be a lot easier to miss.
Back on the Karin example, those random Rasenhas both happen over the same thing: He does them when he's too far away to do anything else, maybe he's trying to big brain read a fireball before Kage can throw it, something a lot of low rank shotos will do randomly at that range. Find things like that situation and tell them what they *should* do when they're in that situation. For Karin I feel like just walking forward and resuming neutral is the better option, but I don't know Karin well enough for that.
You are right. I throw it out when I'm too far and I expect a fireball. But it's just a bad habit I have. I should just walk. Karin has crazy walk speed and I should abuse it more.
@@kietey14 I figured as much. Got a couple of other thoughts about the replay as well that Smug kinda missed. I'm not a Karin player myself, though, so I'm afraid I won't be able to give you much specific advice, but I'll do my best. (A lot of this is going to sound like couch warlord commentary, but I'm trying to keep this strictly about your decisionmaking, not your reactions)
2:15 - Nice counter hit confirm off of the light on wakeup.
2:29 - I feel like you ride the C.MK button a little hard in your corner pressure. Remember that after an overhead connects you're even, so if he threw a faster button than your C.MK (a 6 frame button) then it's his turn again. It's also -4 on block, so if it's blocked then your turn is over, at best you're back to neutral depending on the spacing.
2:31- This looks like a panic sweep. It works out for you in the end, but if the Kage had used a different option in that situation it would have turned out differently. I don't play Karin so I don't know what would have been a better option at that moment, but I'm pretty sure one exists.
2:52 - This command dash feels questionable. I imagine you saw him backing up and figured you wanted to chase him down, which isn't really necessary. Walk at him and watch for dashes and jumps. Karin's neutral is a lot better than Kage's, no need to rush.
2:54 - You could have gotten more pressure off of that crush counter sweep. The meaty S.MK was well done, but I think you could have gotten more pressure if you could manage meaty C.MP.
2:57 - You watch him whiff a lot of buttons here but don't really react much to them. I feel like if you see a whiffed button, one of the best things you can do is try to bait another one: walk forward, walk back, delay C.MP, buffer it into murdering him. You may have also had a button long enough to hit him here after the fact. Way to live up to your name on that tick throw though.
3:03 - You just teched a throw, what are you looking for with that neutral jump? If you can't answer that question you should go into the lab and figure out what your options are after a throw tech.
3:06 - I take it you mistook Kage's C.MK for his Sweep? I certainly did when I saw this. If not then I feel like this is another panic sweep you might want to look into.
3:51 - *Biiiiig* risk, this jump. Feels kinda like you were desperate to get out of the corner, I totally get it, but with that much stun on you it would have been much safer to wait for a bit. Kage doesn't have many tools to open you up at that range, you could afford to block for a second to drain that stun. Chris Tatarian has a pretty good guide on defending in the corner.
4:02 - Looks like you were trying to bait a reversal here, not a bad idea given the state of the game here but if you're doing that you don't have to be that close. Could afford to spend some time in the lab working on your shimmies after a hard knockdown.
4:10 - Another random C.MK. I know it can be hard to build the muscle memory, but you've got a lot of better buttons to throw out when you're being pressured. Same goes for the C.MP that you try to throw later that gets stuffed by the jab.
5:35 - I imagine you were looking to escape a throw here with this backdash? I feel like you would have been *relatively* safe delay teching here.
5:48 - Same deal as 2:52.
5:59 - Looks like you tried to buffer Tenko after C.MK but it didn't come out, it happens. Trouble is that you follow that with a panic sweep. It can be hard to practice what to do in a scramble, for sure, but try to get used to using smaller buttons in a scramble situation.
6:52 - For the Kage matchup, remember that his C.MP is +3. It's not your turn if you block this button. Even if it was, C.MP probably wasn't the best button to try to reversal to escape block pressure.
7:21 - This jump wasn't necessary, again I figure it was just the heat of the moment and nerves, but the safest bet would have been to walk back a bit (and maybe C.MP to catch a limb if he presses another button). His pressure was over, no reason to get worked up.
Overall I'm noticing you're also waking up C.LP every time you get knocked down. As you get into higher ranks people's meaties are just going to get better and better, waking up buttons is very risky. It's okay to wake up block.
Hope I'm not coming off like I'm saying I'm a great player and could totally have won those games, I'm just pointing out places where I think you could focus on to work out your bad habits. Good luck in your games all the same!
Kevin Griffith thankyou for the detailed analysis my man. I’m looking to improve so all of this is good knowledge. The main reason I try to wake up light punch is only because the meaties in gold tend to suck. I’m trying to get better at identifying if someone is going to shimmy on Oki then I can for sure wake up buttons. But yes great into my man
i made the 1k like ayeee
Yo smug what’s good. Great content as usual. You gotta check some of my fights, I suck but you gotta check them lol
Is this a recurring thing?
Ok Karen
dr smuggingsworth, how do i save replays
Also capcom named evil ryu kage cause of naruto lol
Still waiting for a real g vs g fight
Come and fight me
Nerf Karin' s voice.
Hey smug i just started on pc last month and i’m in super bronze, i main guile and been playing him since sf4 vanilla can you go over one of my matches my online tag is OnoNaah. Maybe you could give me suggestions on my gameplay..... been watching you play since you started with dudley. Another player trying to level up and smoke you one day bro :)
Some turkey neck bones lmao
guide on buffering charges while hitting opponent with normals? like in terms of timing cause thats kinda hard to do
there's no trick to it, just hold down back or back as fast as you can after pressing whatever button
It's impossible unless u a pro gamer or unless u sit in training mode all day everyday
Generally you don't buffer charge moves in neutral because it leaves you vulnerable and with no punish opportunity if you whiff. So if your character has a motion input rely on that in neutral (for example legs with Chun).
However you can use them sparingly in specific scenarios and set ups. For example with rog if you land a dash punch you can whiff a buffered normal afterwards because you have time to charge during the animation of the dash punch and you can still anti air if the buffer whiffs.
Why do gold karins want to find a way to always cr.HK.
I can get soo annoyed by that XD.
Most people don’t know that they can punish it lol. And if I space it well it’s free pressure and I can get v trigger activate
Can you do won for birdie my videos are up on my channel..I’m a Diamond but I have other accounts and I’m stuck in platinum lol I left the game for a min but idk how to get my confidence back
Check the art work I sent you on PSN
Is this game still relevant
Dude has no ex bar and wake up mashing buttons?
Coaching for donor$. That'$ $o $mart $mug. 🤑
SMUG doesn't understand the concept of time. Telling the dude not to do Ressen Ha while watching the replay right now, doesn't mean the dude will learn the lesson later in the same replay.
Dude you just can't understand because you living in the future and Smug living in the past as if it's the present that's about to lead into the future but also as if the present is happening in the past and is also going to happen in the future when the past becomes the present. There is brains inside that flat top dude you must know.
I should have read the future like Smug tbh.
What is a buffer?
do the motion for a special but don't press the button, so do the cr.MK and do QCF, if you get a hit press your button. Be careful of negative edge so don't hold cr.MK if it's not your button
opening a door, if it's unlocked you complete the motion and walk through
if it's locked you don't complete the motion and walk through.
That's doing too much buffer my ass
An easier way to think of it instead of doing the low forward confirm, which is hard imo (I'm TechTheGrab), is doing medium punch and then inputting instant tenko (QCF kick and then punch) while the animation for medium punch is going on. On block or whiff, nothing comes out. But on hit it will confirm into instant tenko.
Caulkhead can you turn negative edge off in this game?
Hola smug
Idk. Feel like you're only disclosing super basic, somewhat obvious info.
Talk to people about footsies, conditioning, and reasoning of WHY they do what they do, and why they should or shouldnt. Like if your opponent isnt watching his ankles. or if they arent teching, or over teching, and how to find out.
How to know if they are playing reactionary or proactive.
Are they checking dashes? How? How do i take advantage of this?
When and why should I start shimmying?
The stuff you're talking about, people can observe or discover easily on their own.(optimized combos)
Can't tech or react to anything when the game lags like hell
phd
-4 gap close move is not that bad in those waters. I'd say hes random sweeping too much and he can take a combo that starts from the air and finishes in the corner.