@@MegaCodgod99 You can find videos from jmcrofts or Justin Wong himself that explains it perfectly, but to try to sum it up: Daigo (Ken) had a pixel of Life left. Any hit would make him lose the round, and since each had won one round, it would make him lose this match. Any hit, even a blocked one, due to chip damage (you take much reduced damage when you block, but you still take damage. Super moves deal a lot of chip damage) So Justin used a super move that Daigo couldn't evade due to their position. Daigo couldn't block, because he'd die to the chip damage. Justin went in for the kill. Which lead him to parry Chun-Li's Super. Instead of holding back to block, in order to parry, you need to press forward on the controller, within 1 to 6 frames of the hit or something like that (around a tenth of a second). If you mess up the timing, you're gonna get the hit straight to your face, because you're pressing forward instead of back to block. It's extremely difficult to parry moves in general. Daigo parried every kick in Chun-Li's super. Each time pressing forward perfectly timed with each kick. Pausing in the middle of the sequence and continuing. Parrying the last move (an overhead) in the air *AND* doing his own combo into Super Art for the finish. In front of a lot of people. In the EVO's finals (largest fighting game tournament in the world). Daigo went on to lose the set. I believe he lost the tournament. It doesn't matter. He won many tournaments, Justin won many EVO's too, but what Daigo did was unheard of. Some say he even baited the Super, since he was throwing Hadoukens that allowed Justin to build up super meter. But one thing is for sure, Daigo was the protagonist in the FGC's most hype and famous moment.
This is what real victory looks like. One that has meaning. Against an incredibly strong opponent, one that would beat the living hell out of almost anybody else, in a seemingly hopeless situation with exactly zero room for error... and then pulling off what nobody had ever done before. This match rightfully holds its place in history, and both players deserve the highest praise.
The crowd getting loud with the first few parries and then getting louder when they realized Daigo was actually parrying the whole thing makes this so much more memorable.
daigo actually said that before going into this Evo, he intended this to be his last ever tournament. he was simply too poor to continue playing seriously and couldn't support himself.
@@dahgameps432 and how does just saying something make it a promise in the first place. i'm going to have an omelette for breakfast tomorrow but if i wake up and then decide to have toast instead i'm not breaking a fucking promise lol
@@WHAT_1400 exactly lol You could wake up and just not crave omelettes anymore. I can say im getting mcdonalds but say fuck it and go to wendys instead
1.- Daigo prepares the play fueling Justin’s power bar with a pair of Hadokens 2.- Daigo synchronizes movements with Chunli’s to get the correct direction when Justin’s starts his predictable super 3.- Daigo parries correctly the 17 hits, concentrating despite the crowd shouting and Justin mashing 4.- Daigo counter attacks with a winner combo Everything in this play is SUBLIME👌🏻
notice how he didnt used hadokens in the whole game, just in the second round because he knew that he was going to do the S.A. After parry the 15 hits he makes a combo that kill justing. This nigga got everything calculated god mf damn
Imagine pulling off one of the hypest maneuvers in all of fighting game history, creating a once in a lifetime moment that will be remembered and revered long after your death, and the game itself tells you, “Meh, solid B rank”.
One of the most, if not THE most, hypest moments in FGC history. Maybe even video game history in general. Several years later and it still never gets old. Always brings a smile to my face
Next year will mark 2 decades. This represents the kind of competition, hype and pure adrenaline in its most raw form, and we likely won't see anything quite like it again. I just wish I was in thar room. It's a moment that I believe if you asked anyone who was physically there, that nothing or nearly nothing has topped that experience.
Justin Wong kind of did. There's another shot of this video where you can see him mashing his stick like crazy. Maybe he was trying to mess up Daigo's timing, or maybe he was just mad.
You can hear someone yelling “LET TIME RUN OUT!” On one hand, if Justin listened he would have lived and won the match. On the other, this clip wouldn’t have existed.
Something similar happend in smash when ZeRo fought hbox in the first smash 4 tournament. the announcer said a minute left on the clock and he heard that and so he proceeded to camp and win the tournament.
This right here is the peak of competitive gaming, change my mind. Perfect execution. Down to the wire. High stakes. Only one option for both players. Pure hype throughout the entire room. No room for toxicity, only respect for what has just transpired.
Hrmm. Moment 37 absolutely defined competitive gaming but "the peak"? Nah, that's an exaggeration. What you're saying is that any and all other events in the FGC from EVO 2005 until now and in the forseeable future, whether you've seen them or not, are worse or not as good as moment 37. That is a claim no one can make because you can't know that, it's way too subjective. Do you know how many fights happen off camera? In casuals and in money matches? Or how many fights happened that you didn't see in games that you aren't interested in? Do you know how many amazing players exist that simply choose not to play competitively? Like I said, moment 37 was absolutely a defining moment for the FGC because it showed players something they may have not seen before en masse, but to say that the FGC peaked at moment 37 is a claim no one can make objectively.
This clip is about 18 years old and it’s still an insane clip to this day. The matter of fact that it was round 3 and Diago had to parry, and stay calm enough to preform a combo to win in a massive crowd is insane especially because parrying is a .2 second time window. He even taunted to tick off Justin enough so Justin would super then. What a set.
The taunts in SF3 had many different properties, such as power boost for the next attack, increasing defense, etc. In this case, Daigo was setting up. It’s possible people thought he was doing it on purpose instead of with a purpose, in that moment, which was why they hyped up Justin
Just for context: it took Maximillian, a professional fighting game streamer, *139 tries* in trial mode to get this sequence right even one time. Meanwhile, Daigo did it in *ONE SINGLE TRY,* under pressure, having Justin smashing on buttons and shaking the table next to him to try to fuck him up, the entire crowd rooting against him, having to perfectly anticipate and read the moment when/if Justin would throw out the super, and PERFECTLY TIME his stick movements with EVERY SINGLE HIT of the super, AND do the jump parry for the maximum damage punish. The sheer iconicness and talent in this moment legitimizes eSports for all times, I mean, seriously, how many people on Earth are even capable of this?
Jacob Hutchison professional entertainer, sure. Most games he plays he’s not good at though. He’s barely a tekken green rank, guilty gear BnBs are a struggle to him and he’s played a hell of a lot of street fighter yet he’s a bit above an average player at best. Not a pro gamer. He’s a real cool guy and TH-camr though.
If you saw how people get the max rank in their games, seeing a B in this is pretty normal. Max rank you can get awarded is MSF, Master Street Fighter.
B for my alcoholic dad who beats me and my mom everyday when we used to live with him. I hate everyone equally except for my mom. I hate her the most because she decided to hit on me. On her own son. My brother left my family and I hate him too, but the truth is, I don't really blame him. Also, my grandma was useless.
I can’t even imagine the amount of adrenaline that fight gave them. With that many people to bear witness as well. I love that capcom immortalized this moment as a playable training mission, right down to the final retaliation super combo.
As someone who never played this game or much of Street fighter, I always assumed it was a really cool clutch moment. I recently learned about the mechanics of the game and that particular Chun Li move. Now it's the most amazing thing I have ever seen in gaming
Absolutely my friend. Parrying that attack would probably take me 100 hours of straight practice on that game. And I'm an above average street fighter player lmao. Parrying a super that's a projectile is actually rather easy, but that's just different
@@LunarianQueen so in street fighter if you counter, which is to make the exact same attack as the opponent in the opposite direction, you negate all damage. Chunli's super attacks 15-17 times, depending on the game, in an extremely short window. We're talking in the sub 10 frames area of fast. Prior to this it was considered impossible to counter the full combo
This is actually a lot harder then this looks. To get the first parry, he has to input it before the screen freeze. Justin knows this, so he's trying to throw off his timing. So he not only guessed right, he then pulled off the entire super parry, which is as hard as it looks, then does a pretty difficult air combo that's super easy to mess up, especially with all that pressure, to get the kill. There were like 30 different ways that he could've easily messed up. The fact he did it is a miracle.
I do agree with you on everything except that it is not a miracle, it is mothafuckin Daigo and its hours of practice, even a God couldn't help in that situation, yet he managed to pull through...
It's even harder still, he zones him to push him to make this move. It's not just guessing right, but actively setting up his opponent to do it in the first place, then guessing he'll throw the timing! Honestly, the zoning is almost as impressive!
@@Klamageddon I agree. The most impressive part is that he correctly hits the 10th of a second window before the screen flash. It looks like he's guessing, and while he is, he's using mind games to make his guess likely. Every part of this is impressive. The best part is that he's bluffing. He can't go in and fight him because he has a pixel of health, so Justin feels pressure by a non-existent threat.
@@Pandaman64 This is a comment from jmcrofts' channel talking about the combo "Street Fighter has different air normals for neutral jumps compared to jumping forwards or backwards. When jmcrofts tries the combo here, you see that he gets the neutral j.HK, which sucks. Daigo neutral jumps, but he gets the moving j.HK, making the jump-in easier." Also, here jmcrofts himself mentioning how the combo is rather tricky. th-cam.com/video/7xvDiV7EVew/w-d-xo.html For Daigo to made it happen live at that time is truly insanity. He really is a beast.
This can never lose it's hype. The absolute insanity of getting a perfect parry with *NO HEALTH* and instantly punishing with his own to _win the tie breaker._ Justin could have sneezed and accidentally killed him, but Daigo had to go and defy literally ALL odds. 🔥 In just a little over a year when this becomes 20yrs old, I'll _still_ get them goose pimples watching an impossible come back.
This is literally the end of a movie. The protagonist have everything againsr him and at the last second, he somehow manage to overcome and almost as it was a miracle, he epicly achieves victory.
@@22espec The most memorable thing is that no one cares if Daigo lost in the finals, THE DAIGO PARRY it's in the history of esports, if I see a TOP 10 esports moments that not have THE DAIGO PARRY in first in just call the video bullshit and the whole world have the same sentiment.
@@22espec he lost at the finals but won at life because i been know dis nigga ever since i was 5 years old and now im 21, i literally dont know any SF champion by name, only this nigga right here (tekken's better adjectively)
As someone who has played a lot of fighting games competitively, I have to say, just coming from where Daigo is standing in the final round, you have to understand that mentally, most players would have already given up seeing that their health bar is so much lower than their opponent, especially in a 2d game like street fighter, where pretty much any attack would have chipped away at his health bar and would have eventually Koed him, but not only did Daigo rush into an attack with nearly no Hp left, he also countered one of the most difficult special attacks to counter, and followed up immediately with his own special, well done.
Slide Through, Slick Easy to parry? Under that pressure of competition and his circumstances I doubt that it's easy. Maybe in training mode you can get it but in a real game it's probably nerve wracking.
Slide Through, Slick You get them in games regularly. OK. None of them are at EVO in a crowd that's screaming to put off your sound cues on the parry. Not to mention all the odds were against him, if you look at the match leading up to the parry he cannot make any mistake at all, can't take any risk. He baited that super hard with mindgames. If you think this parry was easy then I don't know what to say.
Same, I used to play them when I was a kid, though "play" is just smashing as much buttons as possible. I've played games that doesn't look much, just characters hitting each other, but the players know something insanely inhumane type of shit is happening, so I know how fucking insane the whole thing is even without playing the game.
For people who don't know, had he just blocked that attack, the chip damage would have killed him. Literally had no other choice but to counter, and he succeeded.
My wife doesnt play games and has never seen street fighter 3. She hasn't got the slightest clue of the game mechanics or who these characters even are. Even she popped off with the crowd. Its 2019. This moment transcends Street Fighter fans. It transcends the FGC. It is one of the greatest moments in general entertainment.
People who haven't played this game don't know that Chun-Li's special move has a different number of hits based on the distance to the other character. So not only did he masterfully parry the whole combo, he also gauged the exact number of hits based on Chun-Li's distance. That's how much crazier this feat is...
And to add onto that, it actually hits a different amount of times depending on if you’re playing ryu, ken, akuma, or Sean, meaning daigo would have had to specifically prepare doing said parry with Ken
In this game, you can press forward to parry an attack within a 10 frame window (~0.2 seconds) just before the attack lands, which negates all the damage. If he'd just blocked, the chip damage would've killed him, so he had to parry Chun li's super which has 15 individual hits that each have different timing, perfectly in order to survive.
pretty sure he jumped at the end when it was not mandatory to parry the last hot but to set up his combo afterward, taking a small risk for a big reward.
People watch inspirational speeches to be inspired, but I watch video game comebacks to be inspired to fight till the end. It ain't over till its over!
This is stuff that literally only happens in movies, so the fact that he was able to accomplish this in real life just shows how amazing this moment is.
This moment right here changed the fighting game landscape forever. This happened during a time where arcades where dying and the fighting game community was an uninteresting underground sport. Look at it today. Huge heavy kudos goes to these two men right here. Justin Wong and Daigo.
If the internet is still around in 50 years, where I'll be 73 years old (hoping I don't die) and having said that I should download this clip somehow just in case. I promise you I would watch this back and still have the biggest smile on my face as I do now and have had for the past 8 years of this magical moment happening.
This video belongs to a museum, as a patrimony of gaming history in mankind.
Guaranteed it will go down in gaming history as a gem.
Alongside with Leeroy Jenkins
80k karat gaming
A-Greeeeeed
The good thing is that this has been established as the greatest moment in gaming history.
17 years later this is still being watched. This is what the Ancient Greeks referred to as 'glory.'
You are 2 years to early
@@Shiny_Rayz nope this video is from 2004
Can someone put into perspective what he did exactly please??
@@MegaCodgod99 You can find videos from jmcrofts or Justin Wong himself that explains it perfectly, but to try to sum it up:
Daigo (Ken) had a pixel of Life left. Any hit would make him lose the round, and since each had won one round, it would make him lose this match. Any hit, even a blocked one, due to chip damage (you take much reduced damage when you block, but you still take damage. Super moves deal a lot of chip damage)
So Justin used a super move that Daigo couldn't evade due to their position. Daigo couldn't block, because he'd die to the chip damage. Justin went in for the kill. Which lead him to parry Chun-Li's Super. Instead of holding back to block, in order to parry, you need to press forward on the controller, within 1 to 6 frames of the hit or something like that (around a tenth of a second). If you mess up the timing, you're gonna get the hit straight to your face, because you're pressing forward instead of back to block. It's extremely difficult to parry moves in general.
Daigo parried every kick in Chun-Li's super. Each time pressing forward perfectly timed with each kick. Pausing in the middle of the sequence and continuing. Parrying the last move (an overhead) in the air *AND* doing his own combo into Super Art for the finish.
In front of a lot of people. In the EVO's finals (largest fighting game tournament in the world).
Daigo went on to lose the set. I believe he lost the tournament. It doesn't matter. He won many tournaments, Justin won many EVO's too, but what Daigo did was unheard of. Some say he even baited the Super, since he was throwing Hadoukens that allowed Justin to build up super meter. But one thing is for sure, Daigo was the protagonist in the FGC's most hype and famous moment.
@@MateusDrake thank you!!!
Its been 15 years and this is the closest thing we have to Ultra Instinct.
But this is ultra instinct
@@KABLAMMATS yes
100% ultra inctinct
F
Not to ruin the joke, trust me i find it hilarious, but the technique did KINDA exist for reals.
18 years later, still gives me the goosebump...truly a once in a lifetime legendary moment...
About 2 decades and this is still one of best moments ever in the fighting game history.
I still can't rewatch it without my eyes filling up with tears.
Joshua Pruitt
FUCK YES
Joshua Pruitt
onions magically appears whenever you watch
of course it was, it had ken in it!
I agree. Just watching it now, I still get chills. Amazing.
This is one of those videos
that you revisit from time to time simply for satisfaction.
Duchi You are late to this one
Confirmo
every day
Shorba14 right now. I need the dopamine
y e s
The entire crowd popping off makes this clip so much better and gives it so much personality.
Facts, seeing all those silhouettes throwing their fists in the air as daigo won was fucking epic and gives me nostalgia for the early 2000's man
@underthesun i know, but damn if i could make my own perfect world it would definitely be set in this era
No shit idiot
@@diegoleal1207 who hurt you
@@gunnonbass2052 no one, he stated something obvious, as an idiot would
This is what real victory looks like. One that has meaning. Against an incredibly strong opponent, one that would beat the living hell out of almost anybody else, in a seemingly hopeless situation with exactly zero room for error... and then pulling off what nobody had ever done before.
This match rightfully holds its place in history, and both players deserve the highest praise.
Justin: "This ends now."
Daigo: *Anime glasses adjust*
Absolutely legendary, even 14 years later.
You know thats funny because just about any anime i watch, no matter the genre anyone that adjust there glasses are about to do some unearthly shit.
Accurate
it's funny because literally jwong is the guy wearing glasses not daigo
Piano music*
16 years, now
daigo: *parries all the hits of chun li's super*
game rating: B
The ranking system in 3rd Strike was bullshit
Rank B for bullshit
🅱️
3rd Strike deserves a D for Drunk for that rating
Rank B for Beast
The crowd getting loud with the first few parries and then getting louder when they realized Daigo was actually parrying the whole thing makes this so much more memorable.
And then the absolute pop off when they realized he not only parried the whole move but also brought it back from the brink of defeat
@Kenneth Calazan virgin lelouch vs Chad Charles
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With that hp
did he have to parries each attack individually ? impressive
17年前の動画がオススメに出てきた同士！レッツゴージャスティン！！
当時のEVOとは見違えるほどゲーム界隈、格ゲー界隈は変わったが、あのウメハラは未だ伝説を残し続けている！
Somebody in the crowd: "Let's go Justiiiiiiiiiin"
Daigo: *Ultra Instinct unlocked*
I hear "Daigo".
don't know which is which but no going to lie the girl character fought better for the rest of all of the fights. At least imo
@@mightyvideos334 Chun-Li IS Justin, Ken is Daigo
Imagine how gutted the guy was that yelled that out
@@mightyvideos334 Yeah but still, that parry comeback is something that is almost impossible to achieve
daigo actually said that before going into this Evo, he intended this to be his last ever tournament. he was simply too poor to continue playing seriously and couldn't support himself.
and he did kept his promise.
DahGamePs4 how did he keep his promise if he still competes?
@@dahgameps432 and how does just saying something make it a promise in the first place. i'm going to have an omelette for breakfast tomorrow but if i wake up and then decide to have toast instead i'm not breaking a fucking promise lol
@@WHAT_1400 LOL
@@WHAT_1400 exactly lol You could wake up and just not crave omelettes anymore. I can say im getting mcdonalds but say fuck it and go to wendys instead
This is the most legendary clip in gaming history, i get chills everytime
Same here
Pure facts, you see something like this in anime
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This and the Wombo Combo are so legendary
@@doomslayer8431 link?
1.- Daigo prepares the play fueling Justin’s power bar with a pair of Hadokens
2.- Daigo synchronizes movements with Chunli’s to get the correct direction when Justin’s starts his predictable super
3.- Daigo parries correctly the 17 hits, concentrating despite the crowd shouting and Justin mashing
4.- Daigo counter attacks with a winner combo
Everything in this play is SUBLIME👌🏻
don't forget that daigo also jumped to parry the last attack in the air so he could do the special, otherwise he could still have lost
Your comment is cringe
I don't know mechanics in this game but it sounds ridiculous, absolutely insane @@splintergp
This dude literally put the same comment word for word on all the videos that capture this moment.
notice how he didnt used hadokens in the whole game, just in the second round because he knew that he was going to do the S.A. After parry the 15 hits he makes a combo that kill justing. This nigga got everything calculated god mf damn
It’s freaking 2020 and this clip still makes me smile 🙂
Me too!
Me too!!
It's just so epic--spur of the moment and all the excitement lifting off in the room! Daigo has some amazing concentration!
Yeah
Terry Low 300th like lol🐲
Imagine pulling off one of the hypest maneuvers in all of fighting game history, creating a once in a lifetime moment that will be remembered and revered long after your death, and the game itself tells you, “Meh, solid B rank”.
I love this bro, good one
B means Beastly
B means badass
Emotional damage!
probably c without the parrying.
This is literally a protagonist moment with plot armor
Insert Midoriya from MHA
Ultra instinct vibe
I would definitely watch if its animated
It is. It’s a video game.
Eren Yaeger be like
One of the most, if not THE most, hypest moments in FGC history. Maybe even video game history in general. Several years later and it still never gets old. Always brings a smile to my face
Next year will mark 2 decades. This represents the kind of competition, hype and pure adrenaline in its most raw form, and we likely won't see anything quite like it again. I just wish I was in thar room. It's a moment that I believe if you asked anyone who was physically there, that nothing or nearly nothing has topped that experience.
Guy comes back from toilet :
- What did I miss ?
Ummmm do I tell him
History
@@mitigamespro8757 yeah but i guess your more stupid than this comment
@@TwentySixth_ NO
The blitz
you literally cannot get mad if you lose against that
Justin Wong kind of did. There's another shot of this video where you can see him mashing his stick like crazy. Maybe he was trying to mess up Daigo's timing, or maybe he was just mad.
@@JesusGarcia-wh2hc he did was trying to mess him up. He later said that. Didnt work anyways
Jesús García I need the vid of that
@@JesusGarcia-wh2hc he explains he was using the noise to try and mess up daigo. They're chill
Jesús García I’ve would’ve been enraged
Justin: Parry this you filthy casual
Daigo: Okay..
Justin : Wait, no
When dark souls player meets sekiro player
@@98-carlmarkmarak22 lmao so true
Sí wey
Lmao
But justin still won so......
17年前の動画なのに何度見にきても感動するわ
そのとおりですねぇ
だよなあ 田中よ
This is a pure, original, truest moment of "Im'ma about to end this man's whole career".
only that both had great careers after that
Except Justin is a fg legend
@@dave2.077
And Justin is the most dominant EVO player of all time
Legend has it that Justin still wakes up in cold sweat in the middle of the night with nightmares of this moment.
justin is pro and legend. but daigo... man... he’s a god.
-Dad, why is my sister's name Rose?
-Because your mother loves roses, son
-Thanks dad
-No problem Justin vs Daigo Umehara evo 2004
😂😂😂😂
You, sir, win the comment of the year award.
Lmaooo
i actually thought the joke was that his father named him daigo after the parry
I laughed too hard lmao
You can hear someone yelling “LET TIME RUN OUT!”
On one hand, if Justin listened he would have lived and won the match. On the other, this clip wouldn’t have existed.
>he would have lived
*implying he died physically to the Jinraikyaku*
He was probably telling that to Draigo but ok...
Cant win like that man!
Justin won the match after this
Something similar happend in smash when ZeRo fought hbox in the first smash 4 tournament. the announcer said a minute left on the clock and he heard that and so he proceeded to camp and win the tournament.
This right here is the peak of competitive gaming, change my mind. Perfect execution. Down to the wire. High stakes. Only one option for both players. Pure hype throughout the entire room. No room for toxicity, only respect for what has just transpired.
Hrmm. Moment 37 absolutely defined competitive gaming but "the peak"? Nah, that's an exaggeration. What you're saying is that any and all other events in the FGC from EVO 2005 until now and in the forseeable future, whether you've seen them or not, are worse or not as good as moment 37.
That is a claim no one can make because you can't know that, it's way too subjective. Do you know how many fights happen off camera? In casuals and in money matches? Or how many fights happened that you didn't see in games that you aren't interested in? Do you know how many amazing players exist that simply choose not to play competitively?
Like I said, moment 37 was absolutely a defining moment for the FGC because it showed players something they may have not seen before en masse, but to say that the FGC peaked at moment 37 is a claim no one can make objectively.
Wombo combo is more famous.
@@anyany2021So how come we consider it the greatest moment in FGC's history?
Justin: *uses super*
Daigo: "so you have chosen DEATH?"
Haha
XD
There are comments here from 2 weeks ago.
People regularly visit this masterpiece.
do I hear Prince Dail from Freedom Planet?!
DAIGO BRANDO
No matter how many times i see this, it never gets old. The energy in that room is so insane you can still feel it 17 years later
Yeah, thats what the guy with alot of likes said 9 months ago…
@@ShinzoX90 oh no, two people on the internet have the same opinion? What will we do?!
@@Luxorcist more like one person is cringe as fuck and wants to get fake likes by stealing other peoples shit. Clown
@@Luxorcist we might as well start a riot
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You can clearly see that for each parry, his friends in a flashback are helping him win.
My guy wait till you lern daigo has his own manga now
Hahhahhahahh
@@padq1183 what the manga name?
😂
The power of friendship
This clip is about 18 years old and it’s still an insane clip to this day. The matter of fact that it was round 3 and Diago had to parry, and stay calm enough to preform a combo to win in a massive crowd is insane especially because parrying is a .2 second time window. He even taunted to tick off Justin enough so Justin would super then. What a set.
The taunts in SF3 had many different properties, such as power boost for the next attack, increasing defense, etc. In this case, Daigo was setting up. It’s possible people thought he was doing it on purpose instead of with a purpose, in that moment, which was why they hyped up Justin
He probably got a flashback about his old sensei teaching him the art of parrying and the power of friendship.
th-cam.com/video/rjR3fEVY95s/w-d-xo.html
That's so true 🤣
That’d take about 15 episodes for each flashback
The ultimate flashback happens during the parry moment.
Like the Van Dam movies
At this point, it'd be an honor just to talk to someone who was there live.
Talk to me then
@@strangefate9605 You were there?
@@serraramayfield9230 yes. i had just graduated high school that year, so my dad agreed to take me to evo
#TeamEevee Nice.
@@strangefate9605 I was only 4 years old lol
Just for context: it took Maximillian, a professional fighting game streamer, *139 tries* in trial mode to get this sequence right even one time. Meanwhile, Daigo did it in *ONE SINGLE TRY,* under pressure, having Justin smashing on buttons and shaking the table next to him to try to fuck him up, the entire crowd rooting against him, having to perfectly anticipate and read the moment when/if Justin would throw out the super, and PERFECTLY TIME his stick movements with EVERY SINGLE HIT of the super, AND do the jump parry for the maximum damage punish. The sheer iconicness and talent in this moment legitimizes eSports for all times, I mean, seriously, how many people on Earth are even capable of this?
Calling Max a "Professional" is a stretch.
Lava Sharknado mate idk about you, but I’d call him a pro.
@@asmodeus235 Can't even do a BnB in Xrd. He's a hype man nothing more.
Jacob Hutchison professional entertainer, sure. Most games he plays he’s not good at though. He’s barely a tekken green rank, guilty gear BnBs are a struggle to him and he’s played a hell of a lot of street fighter yet he’s a bit above an average player at best. Not a pro gamer. He’s a real cool guy and TH-camr though.
Daigo said he pratice this parry quite alot
15 years and we never ever got close to this perfection again. Daigo Umehara will be remembered forever for this.
Funny fact: They did a friendly fight some time next of this and yes, he parried again the whole chun super.
Daniel alex goddamn Justin probably was like “Goddamn again?”
Source?
th-cam.com/video/3nC2D6sOrbg/w-d-xo.html
Still has the magic of hype into it
Yup
@BWGgy It wasnt, asshole
>pulls of one of the greatest comebacks in gaming history
>”eh, ill give that a B.”
He lost a round and the score just got an average of B but tbh if the last round is the only thing that was scored it is SSS+ for sure.
@@hxn4466 the screen would've exploded cause it couldn't fit the infinite S's.
@@jynxui1943 true
Its for badass
If you saw how people get the max rank in their games, seeing a B in this is pretty normal. Max rank you can get awarded is MSF, Master Street Fighter.
The greatest B rating in history.
B for BEST
B for badass
B for awesome
B for my alcoholic dad who beats me and my mom everyday when we used to live with him. I hate everyone equally except for my mom. I hate her the most because she decided to hit on me. On her own son. My brother left my family and I hate him too, but the truth is, I don't really blame him. Also, my grandma was useless.
@@uhjeff3651 your ok bro??
- What's Daigo doing?
- He's beginning to believe.
lol. underrated comment.
😂😂😂👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
"Like PaRappa, you gotta believe."- Dr. Phil McGraw
cringe....
@@mollies13 are you talking to yourself?
I can’t even imagine the amount of adrenaline that fight gave them. With that many people to bear witness as well. I love that capcom immortalized this moment as a playable training mission, right down to the final retaliation super combo.
the same amount in every final
In what game?
@@Yetiii23 3rd strike: online
Nah,for the japanese It was Just a normal daigo play
Imagine Justin's PTSD! Hahah! JK! Both LEGENDS!
As someone who never played this game or much of Street fighter, I always assumed it was a really cool clutch moment. I recently learned about the mechanics of the game and that particular Chun Li move. Now it's the most amazing thing I have ever seen in gaming
Absolutely my friend. Parrying that attack would probably take me 100 hours of straight practice on that game. And I'm an above average street fighter player lmao. Parrying a super that's a projectile is actually rather easy, but that's just different
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I am not familiar with this game mechanics. Can you explain or send a video that explain it complexity? ty!
@@LunarianQueen so in street fighter if you counter, which is to make the exact same attack as the opponent in the opposite direction, you negate all damage.
Chunli's super attacks 15-17 times, depending on the game, in an extremely short window. We're talking in the sub 10 frames area of fast. Prior to this it was considered impossible to counter the full combo
@@LunarianQueen here's a good video explaining it better th-cam.com/video/4cNCa8PylLA/w-d-xo.html
seeing "14 years ago" on youtube makes me feel so freaking old it's crazy.
Tell me about it. I’ve had this account since like 2005-2006. Old af.
Chris Handsome
Damn you were around since the golden age of TH-cam. I’m envious.
@@JanoyCresvaZero wow, your account is 7 days older than this upload.
2:39 The fact that he knew what he was gonna do and stood there baiting it for 6 seconds is something else.
When you realize you're a Shonen protagonist at the last second.
More like you remember the friendship you've made
lol
ahahah
Flashback memories of hardwork and friendship.
😂
This will be FOREVER one of the best EVO moments of all time.
This is probabli the best
You mean The 🐐?
It is the best moment of all time
One of?
The best ever comeback of all time.
The best fight ever.
Classic of all time.
Now & Forever✌✌✌
I wonder how the “Let’s go Justin!” guy is doing. I wish him well
the lets go justin makes the clip more epic
He's prolly cryin popcorn with justin
He's pretty top tier in KOF now. He's definitely going to be at the finals with the new KOF game.
What’s his channel
@@shadowdancer5330 What's the channel name??
20 years later... Still one of the most Iconic of fighting game's history moment... Come back to watch it time to time.
This is actually a lot harder then this looks. To get the first parry, he has to input it before the screen freeze. Justin knows this, so he's trying to throw off his timing. So he not only guessed right, he then pulled off the entire super parry, which is as hard as it looks, then does a pretty difficult air combo that's super easy to mess up, especially with all that pressure, to get the kill. There were like 30 different ways that he could've easily messed up. The fact he did it is a miracle.
I do agree with you on everything except that it is not a miracle, it is mothafuckin Daigo and its hours of practice, even a God couldn't help in that situation, yet he managed to pull through...
@@lasterman94100 the only god Daigo needed was himself
It's even harder still, he zones him to push him to make this move. It's not just guessing right, but actively setting up his opponent to do it in the first place, then guessing he'll throw the timing! Honestly, the zoning is almost as impressive!
@@Klamageddon I agree. The most impressive part is that he correctly hits the 10th of a second window before the screen flash. It looks like he's guessing, and while he is, he's using mind games to make his guess likely. Every part of this is impressive. The best part is that he's bluffing. He can't go in and fight him because he has a pixel of health, so Justin feels pressure by a non-existent threat.
Bro that sounded so complex that it makes the existence of the 4th dimension tame in comparison. What a fucking God...
Justin: You can't win this
Daigo: Yes I Ken.
Justin:Heh alright I’m shoryuken
Nice puns battle you have here... 😁
Underated comment
Chun can't Lin this*
How lame yagoo i mean Daigo
Scientist: “Humans have 5 senses.”
Daigo: “Hold my Pringles.”
I am eating a pringles while reading this
Edit: I was
The real pringle was the friends we made along the way
@@Mike20321_ yes
Hold my fingers
Humans actually have way more than 5 senses. The 5 senses thing is just a cultural myth
19 years and this still gives me goosebumps.
It's been 17 years since this masterpiece.... I come here every once in a while for motivation.
th-cam.com/video/krKWXFCMPNI/w-d-xo.html
17 years, just like the amount of hits Chun LI got parried on
More than 17, this was Evo 2004, just uploaded later.
same
Checking in!
"What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge Chun-Li's kicks?"
"No Daigo, I'm telling you that when you're ready, you won't have to"
this comment right here proves that legends never die, matrix, street fighter and 2004 evo, what more can I ask for?
He is the one
Nice reference 👌
10/10
Lol
2:14 the most pivotal moment of the fight. Look at the lifebars. To come back from that, and the way he did it, is nothing short of spectacular.
This literally the FGC Equal to Lebron coming back 3-1 against Golden State in 2016 Lol.
*And the Let’s Go justin! Is the same as Blocked by James!*
Ask ur mom for what the most pivotal moment for her was last night with me lmao
16 years ago… wow I’m getting old
モニターに立ち上がった観客達のシルエットが映り込むシーンも好き
so exciting
Daigo: *makes the greatest parry and come back of all time*
Street Fighter: Grade B
B for Beast
Frigidmoon
Or “Badass”.
B for bullshit
@@theemperor3672 jajaj jaj
Daigo: Am i a joke to you?
This is the single most LEGENDARY MOMENT in all of gaming. Daigo's most famous moment.
Nah son. Idra vs MMA during MLG was the most legendary moment.. but for another reason lol
aw i didnt want to ever think about that idra moment ever again... how can i see that on a video about daigos parry... WHYYY lol
That and the wombo combo
Don't forget the xpeke backdoor
@@InviZ. not even close. That shit is overrated.
43 years old and still get chills with this. Brings back my childhood playing street fighter
Who's here in 2025 revisiting this glorious moment in competitive gaming?
This is still the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life
Novembre Pleut not many things come close
though he didnt win he did perform it again in 2014
Me too man, I haven't known this epic beattle it's was really amazing..
IT REALLY IS!
That is so sad...
You can still feel the energy of the room till this day. Truly legendary.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate that this was one of the first videos on youtube
I first watched this about 15 years ago. Still one of the coolest things I've seen on the internet.
That transition from the crowd cheering from the Daigo parry to screaming from Ken's Super finisher still gives me goosebumps...
That's what you call a roaring applause!
After I came to know that the hard part was actually the combo instead of the parry, it makes the crowd reaction so much better.
@@FahmiZFX wat? How was the combo the hard part?
@@Pandaman64 This is a comment from jmcrofts' channel talking about the combo
"Street Fighter has different air normals for neutral jumps compared to jumping forwards or backwards. When jmcrofts tries the combo here, you see that he gets the neutral j.HK, which sucks. Daigo neutral jumps, but he gets the moving j.HK, making the jump-in easier."
Also, here jmcrofts himself mentioning how the combo is rather tricky. th-cam.com/video/7xvDiV7EVew/w-d-xo.html
For Daigo to made it happen live at that time is truly insanity. He really is a beast.
2:39 this dude straight up had a flashback of his tragic past and the main theme song started to play
"no, i can't lose!"
Giorno theme
also he never successfully performed the special move during training but he has no choice but try it during a real fight
"I'm sorry master but i must go all out, just this once"
When the anime protagonist starts talking about friendship and the heroic version of the main theme starts playing
"justin vs daigo" and "wombo combo" are the most powerfull moments in my life
In the whole FGC if we are honest
@Mike G well so do you if you saw what you typed
I had never heard of wombo combo until you brought it to my attention. I don't get excited over SMASH, but that was half bad.
Important Moments
@@Anakele20 Half bad? What does that mean lol.
You want your hairs to rise and your eyes to water
You come back to this moment no matter how many years will pass
Exactly 💯💯💯
I KNOW RIGHT 😊😊😊
Same
This can never lose it's hype. The absolute insanity of getting a perfect parry with *NO HEALTH* and instantly punishing with his own to _win the tie breaker._ Justin could have sneezed and accidentally killed him, but Daigo had to go and defy literally ALL odds. 🔥
In just a little over a year when this becomes 20yrs old, I'll _still_ get them goose pimples watching an impossible come back.
Cringe
This is literally the end of a movie. The protagonist have everything againsr him and at the last second, he somehow manage to overcome and almost as it was a miracle, he epicly achieves victory.
Then you find out that it's a semifinal and he lost in the final.
He remembered his friends and suddenly that gave him power
@@22espec The most memorable thing is that no one cares if Daigo lost in the finals, THE DAIGO PARRY it's in the history of esports, if I see a TOP 10 esports moments that not have THE DAIGO PARRY in first in just call the video bullshit and the whole world have the same sentiment.
@@22espec he lost at the finals but won at life because i been know dis nigga ever since i was 5 years old and now im 21, i literally dont know any SF champion by name, only this nigga right here (tekken's better adjectively)
Karate Kid
As someone who has played a lot of fighting games competitively, I have to say, just coming from where Daigo is standing in the final round, you have to understand that mentally, most players would have already given up seeing that their health bar is so much lower than their opponent, especially in a 2d game like street fighter, where pretty much any attack would have chipped away at his health bar and would have eventually Koed him, but not only did Daigo rush into an attack with nearly no Hp left, he also countered one of the most difficult special attacks to counter, and followed up immediately with his own special, well done.
And that aside, it is as Joseph told The Empress in JJBA: "Once your opponent has started to boast his victory, he has already lost."
That super is easy to parry though. The hardest part is the jump at the end. The pattern is very simple.
Slide Through, Slick Easy to parry? Under that pressure of competition and his circumstances I doubt that it's easy. Maybe in training mode you can get it but in a real game it's probably nerve wracking.
no, I got them in games regularly, it's a simple beat. you only have to keep a simple rhythm, if you saw what it was, you'd know.
Slide Through, Slick You get them in games regularly. OK. None of them are at EVO in a crowd that's screaming to put off your sound cues on the parry. Not to mention all the odds were against him, if you look at the match leading up to the parry he cannot make any mistake at all, can't take any risk. He baited that super hard with mindgames. If you think this parry was easy then I don't know what to say.
I’m not a fan of fighting games and don’t play them much, but goddamn that moment gave me chills and goosebumps.
Same, I used to play them when I was a kid, though "play" is just smashing as much buttons as possible. I've played games that doesn't look much, just characters hitting each other, but the players know something insanely inhumane type of shit is happening, so I know how fucking insane the whole thing is even without playing the game.
ikr i get chills every time
I replay the vid and get the same feeling each time.
That was insane, it's been over a decade since i played street fighter and that just brought the adrenaline of memories back!
The amount of concentration it had to take trying to parry everything with the crowd going nuts.
Robert Williams the zone
PABLOOOOOOOOOOOO¡
Daigo has no emotions so it's pretty easy for him
Ronemilix Tube this is the _definition_ of *_"the zone"_*
-Angel- disonancia...
For people who don't know, had he just blocked that attack, the chip damage would have killed him. Literally had no other choice but to counter, and he succeeded.
*parry
With style
Uhh, alright.
No shit Sherlock
@@blasdelezo4042 he said for people who don't know, wise ass.
10 years later, this never gets old!
Shut up and kill titans
13 years later.. still watching it
Hayate Mishima same here
The sound of the crowd... what an incredible moment. Thanks for preserving it. SF3 forever.
this will never get old, for me the best iconic moment of gaming history in an esports event
When main character is about to lose but then he heard his childhood friend girl shouting daigo's name and say she's believe in him and never give up.
@Zedrik Allen Daigo: look at me. I am Justin now
When he discovers the power of friendship
@@DanielGonzalez-jo7pg Alguien necesita un abrazo.
@@DanielGonzalez-jo7pg Jajaj un capo
“It isn’t over yet!”
My wife doesnt play games and has never seen street fighter 3. She hasn't got the slightest clue of the game mechanics or who these characters even are.
Even she popped off with the crowd. Its 2019.
This moment transcends Street Fighter fans. It transcends the FGC. It is one of the greatest moments in general entertainment.
EVO now: *Double Bayonetta with the players fucking around and having to get forced by the judges to stop stalling*
Adrian Naranjo we gotta let go man that was 3 years ago
#bigfax
People who haven't played this game don't know that Chun-Li's special move has a different number of hits based on the distance to the other character.
So not only did he masterfully parry the whole combo, he also gauged the exact number of hits based on Chun-Li's distance.
That's how much crazier this feat is...
And to add onto that, it actually hits a different amount of times depending on if you’re playing ryu, ken, akuma, or Sean, meaning daigo would have had to specifically prepare doing said parry with Ken
In this game, you can press forward to parry an attack within a 10 frame window (~0.2 seconds) just before the attack lands, which negates all the damage. If he'd just blocked, the chip damage would've killed him, so he had to parry Chun li's super which has 15 individual hits that each have different timing, perfectly in order to survive.
Chun Li's super has 17 individual hits :)
Thank you for your explanation
well obviously
pretty sure he jumped at the end when it was not mandatory to parry the last hot but to set up his combo afterward, taking a small risk for a big reward.
And then he had to land a combo.
2:43 Daigo: "Argh, Call an ambulance...
2:51 But not for me."
Underrated comment.
Justin: "AHHHHHHHH I NEED A MEDIC BAG!!!"
Just remember this when you think everything is lost
Oh shit, a Paul McCartney profile pic
100% 🔥🔥🔥
I watch this vid at least once a year and it never gets old. It will never get old.
People watch inspirational speeches to be inspired, but I watch video game comebacks to be inspired to fight till the end.
It ain't over till its over!
Jebaited amen
Hmm yes, the floor is a floor.
Amen
Jebaited, too true.
Me:How many attacks can you parry?
Daigo:yes
MANY
All the yes
Hahahahahhaha
YES YES YES
Yes: Daigo
This gives me so much inspiration to never quit on life
The Prodigy what will you do parry all ur problems in life?
19年（EVO2004から）経っても同じ人が白ケンですごい逆境から逆転劇してんのほんとすごい
Daigo may not be the champion on this tournament but instead he was crowned as the "people's champion"
@Reyan Mahir I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of real steal lmao
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bobby scar
The Daigo Parry
A fighting game moment so legendary it got its own name. Like the Picard Maneuver.
Great reference.
I thought it was moment 36? Or was it 37?
14 years ago I was like "wow I could probably do that...."
14 years later I'm still trying
*crying?
@@pofi1957 that too
*dying(?)
@@c4_kadalmen on the inside
Somebody tried to do this again to justin. Dude panicked for a moment.
I wasn't looking for one of the greatest fights in history, it presented itself in my TH-cam home page lol
Justin:I'm gonna finish daigo with my super.
Daigo:I'm about to end this man's career.
Justin: Why do I hear boss music?
Whole career
All those parries gave me a seizure
?
@@fabianbravo6964 calla virgen
Winner Grade: B
Biggest lie ever told in a game
I mean a B against Justin is pretty fucking good
B for Badass I guess
In this kind of match where both players are very good its very common to get as final note: D, C or B.
It's not a lie. It's a lesson--grades aren't always a true reflection of someone's ability.
B is pretty decent for Japanese grading system
This is stuff that literally only happens in movies, so the fact that he was able to accomplish this in real life just shows how amazing this moment is.
th-cam.com/video/5AVyB-lnMC8/w-d-xo.html
and both players are still alive and playing and winning its pretty insane!!!!
why not 1,000 like
This moment right here changed the fighting game landscape forever. This happened during a time where arcades where dying and the fighting game community was an uninteresting underground sport. Look at it today. Huge heavy kudos goes to these two men right here. Justin Wong and Daigo.
Who needs porn when you can just watch this?
NAZI
Twice is the best ;)
Definitely my proudest fap
Thicc Chinese woman gets publicly dominated by american
"Japanese guy smash a chinese bbw" -volume 1-
If the internet is still around in 50 years, where I'll be 73 years old (hoping I don't die) and having said that I should download this clip somehow just in case. I promise you I would watch this back and still have the biggest smile on my face as I do now and have had for the past 8 years of this magical moment happening.
Get a life.
portlove84 We got a bad ass over here.
portlove84 haha you must be Justine
i hope that you are still alive, long live this man!!
2:43
justin: im gonna finish Daigo with my super.
Daigo: Giorno Piano Intensifies.
Berkan Powah who’s the girl in your pfp
Berkan Powah *you will never arrive to the truth*
Kono daigo niwa yume ga aru
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V:
Legendary
The fact that justin and daigo still play together like good rivals, makes this video way more incredible