I don't know about sets, but Snake Eyes' reverse OCV over the whole other team from the Northern California vs Wednesday Night Fights set was the single greatest thing I ever saw in that game.
Also before it comes up, I mostly just asked chat and used games that I'm familiar with and didn't even include all of those. It was just to create some discussion, so if you other recommendations drop them below. Also if you reply to this comment, or on the video with a set that's already mentioned in the video, you're smelly and I hate you
Ghandi was a work of art in terms of nerves and finesse. The man did like five empty jabs right above his head. There is but one true god and his name is wakeup Shori every. single. time.
Except the one time he didn't and did the grab, such is the mystery of Ghandi. Amongst my friends, if you're playing against a complete nut and they sneak a grab on you because you're expecting uppercut every time, that's known as a Ghandi Throw. :)
@@SFO_Dragonman the man, the absolute GENIUS, did a single throw amongst those Shoris and it scared the shit out of me. I'd call in a TO for misconduct if that happened, tell him my opponent attempted to give me a heart attack
I have very fond memories of Momochi vs. Gamerbee at the EVO 2015 Grand Finals for USFIV... that was just pure drama on top of being a bloody brilliant match, what with the counterpicks and the controller issues and all. Gamerbee's Losers Finals against Infiltration (from the same tournament) was also an insanely tense fight... Honestly, they could've done a film about that EVO alone.
Sajam just breezing past Momochi vs Gamerbee's Evo 2015 Grand FInals set. Gamerbee coming in from losers bracket all the way to grand finals, resetting the bracket, taking that all the way to last match, the controller disconnect, the clusterfuck that followed trying to figure out what happens next, and lastly the bittersweet final round where Momochi goes on to win his first SF4 evo championship during the last year SF4 would be a main game there. Bruh
I remember the set, and the emotions/excitement around it well. I was standing in the crowd, and I still think there are better sets. People disagree though, which is fair
Sajam that was an amazing set. He’s definitely underrating it. Adon pretty boring but beating him with a shoto (even if he had to go e ryu) balances the boringness out. Also daigo beating adon in 2013 was amazing and he brushed that off as “daigo kicking the shit out of him” when in reality daigo had to clutch out every single round from an ungodly read.
I will always remember Justin Wong vs Chris G at Evo 2013. Justin goes down 0-2 against the undisputed best player at the time, and then brings it back and wins. I think it's hard to argue against KaneBlueRiver vs Fchamp at Winter Brawl tho
Mang0 vs Zain at The Big House 9 is pretty recent, but still holds as my favorite set. The tournament itaelf was already amazing, and served to made the gfs even better. The journey mang0 went through, having to slog through 15 games already in losers, and this being the epic 10 game grands showed peak melee, but at the same time, showed that there's still so much more to the game.
Infiltration vs Gamerbee Evo 2015 LF its a grueling 30 min set between 2 of the best players of all time where you see both players pouring all their energy into the set and then some.
One of the greatest sets of any fighting game I've ever seen in my life is Bala vs. MadKOF in KOFXIII grandfinals at evo 2012. Outside of playing 95 and 98 in the arcades as a young kid this was my first exposure to KOF competitively and absolutely blew my mind. I legit still rewatch that grandfinals set at least once a year.
Dunno if it counts because of the format but Snake Eyez reverse OCV on NorCal was incredible and still one of my favorite ones to watch. Obviously it’s more of a 2/3 gauntlet though so it might not count. That said the greatest set of all time is still probably Omito vs Nage @ EVO Japan or Go1 vs Fox GF @ EVO 2019. Both were gods clashing against each other.
As a Smash player I can appreciate Leffen vs GO1 CEO being in the mentions for DBFZ, but I think SonicFox GO1 at EVO is probably the better pick overall if you’re picking the best one. Leffen GO1 is probably top 3 for that game though. For SFIV I’m kind of surprised how many years I watched that game but can’t think of one set that really stands out above everything else. Not sure what to go for with that one. For MVC3 I’m definitely putting a vote in for Justin vs Chris G at EVO Grands; that shit was fantastic. I know you didn’t do Melee, but just since that’s the game I’ve followed the longest, I’ll indulge myself a little and say Mango vs Armada at Genesis 1 and 2, PPMD vs Armada at Pound V, and Mango vs Zain at Summit 11.
Teemo VS Richard Nguyen in MVCI grand finals at Canada Cup was cool, but Teemo's run through all the Marvel gods in his home city was the real highlight. Of the entire span of MVCI.
But fr Jeonding vs JimmyJ is easily one of the best Tekken 7 sets of all time. The gameplay by itself is hype and explosive, and Aris's commentary really sells it. There are other sets with way more impressive gameplay, but no set has ever gotten me as hype as that one. Except maybe Rickstah vs Knee.
There are far too many great sets, but aside those who are already mentioned, i would like to put what it is IMO still the greatest EVO Grand Finals ever ... Galileo vs Dogura in BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma... like damn, still get goosebumps thinking about how epic that set was.
Nauman vs Mago was like watching poetry in motion. It was such a perfect set to watch as a Suckura main and to see him mollywhop Mago’s Karin. At that moment Sakura was up 2 in her rivalry va Karin.
How does Sajam know every set of every player for every game ever played? Yeesh. It's impressive. I can't even remember some of the ones I played myself.
Ryan Hart vs PR Rog from Final Round grand finals is extremely underrated in my opinion. Ryan in grand finals winners, gets absolutely washed by PR Rog in the first set and it looks like his soul has left his body. He is getting completely bullied and has no answers to any of it. He then goes into Ryan Hart meditation zen mode for a couple of minutes, comes back to it and completely shuts Rog down as both Rog and his coach (JWong) try to figure out what the hell is happening. Definitely one of the sets I've rewatched the most times. Ryan vs. Momochi from Capcom Cup is also great. I think I just want Ryan to have one on the SF4 list ha.
You mentioned Daigo vs Tokido at CapCup 2019 but didn't put it on the list. I think that set was way more intense then their Kemonomichi match and you're crazy for putting that over their capcum set. Their capcup set is my favourite set of 5 cause its just these two players who have such a great knowledge of both their characters and their opponents on display. It's seriously great
I'm surprised Snake Eyes vs Justin (SF25th LA Qual) wasn't at least mentioned, granted I imagine you would apply the same Yang argument. LOL I would personally add Kazunoko vs 801 Strider - CEO 2015 GF to that list, that match pulled the whole crowds heart strings.
The problem with the concept of this is that the criteria of what makes a a match great according to Sajam isn't established. And what makes a match great might not be the same between us.
My personal favorite was 2011 Evo Poongko vs Diago for the sole fact Poongko was dunking on the entire Yun army. Poongko perfected Diago while he was using the most op character before they nerfed him was so hype to me.
Xian's set with alioune in fight night should be in the running. Season 2, episode seven, it's on youtube under the account ESGN TV. Gootecks was a little....ah. in an altered state, so the commentary is less then ideal. But it's a great ft7. The 5v5 reverse ocv from snakeeyes is probably the goat tho. It's literally the set I'd show people to get them interested in SF4.
the fact you didnt put ogawa vs machaboo kemonomichi when it was ogawa defending the integrity of guilty gear vs machaboo trash talking everyone for playing a game with no money in it and going hard in SFV, neither of them had any respect for each other during the entire set, it was 10-8 and you thought it was a wash is lol
Set came up, like lots of other sets, but most people agreed in chat the EVO JP set was the best. I remembered it being more one sided, but I guess I was wrong.
How comes that nobody mentioned Infiltration vs Gamerbee EVO 2015? That was like the biggest, 1000 IQ galaxy brain match I've ever seen, the knowledge of footsies dripped outside the Xbox by the end
For Tekken i recommend Nobi vs Mr.Naps TWT 2017. Also one match everybody don't talk a lot is Cuddlecore vs Dritonrama LCQ TWT 2018, pretty interesting match for me.
I think the Gamerbee vs Justin Wong where Gamerbee wins with Adon and everyone was talking about the quote where Justin said Adon was a bad character. That was a hype moment because nobody was expecting Gamerbee's high level play. There are probably better Gamerbee matches but storyline was so good.
LI-Joe vs yukadon SFV EVO 2016 I think it was. Great moment for the fgc, and one of the best moments for EVO in the modern era imo. Edit: Tokido vs Infiltration SFV CEO 2016, I can’t believe no one brought this one up, this was the moment infil finally was unseated and tokido lifted the 2kido curse. Close set and hype as hell because we saw for the first time some serious meta tech being displayed in grand finals by tokido.
the Nemo v Punk FT10 exhibition is by far my personal GOAT set. There's so much cool shit happening in it that I go back and watch it just to get hype. Def not a general GOAT set but it's always worth a watch.
If you haven't seen Kusoru vs SteveH from the GG AC grand finals of Final Round XV, you should get on that. It's probably the funniest set I've ever seen regardless of game.
Didn't see Balrog vs Daigo CP Cup 2014 on the list, when Balrog wins last round with a full red focus. One of the greatest set for me, still the remember the hype when I was watching it on live few years later
Probably not GOAT material but Pepeday vs Poongko at CanadaCup GF years ago was one of the most entertaining matches I've ever seen in 10 years of viewing.
Cloud805 vs FChamp has got to be up there for UMvC3 for me, that set was amazing. I came up with a short list of sets for Skullgirls since you didn't/couldn't cover it (no order): Liam vs Elda Taluda Frosty Faustings 2018 SonicFox vs Cloudking NEC16 (winners semis) SonicFox vs Cloud (aka Cloudking) CEOtaku 2019 (Grand Finals) SonicFox vs Swiftfox-dash CB 2018 Rabbleflaggers vs sev CB 2019 Dekillsage vs TJgamer (aka Swiftfox) EVO 2014 (this one suffers from being relatively early in the game's life + being kinda domination by Sage but I remember finding it super hype when I started so I'm including it)
Justin vs Chris G Evo 2013 would be my pick for UMVC3. It has everything. Justin is the HUGE UNDERDOG and if you were watching MVC3 majors that year you KNOW how fucking free and dominant ChrisG made every opponent, Justin included. That year everyone thought it was ChrisG's Evo to win and Justin had a notably losing record against him ever since Chris switched to the MorriDoom team. For Justin to go down 0-2, and then come back and reverse sweep ChrisG, that year, in that set, on that stage, was insane. Also I think ChrisG vs FChamp either that year or before (where they both were so nervous they were misplaying left and right) was a great set in spite of it being technically a poorly played one.
Its crazy how DBFZ brought more players over from different games to America so they can play those other games. Like Fenrich got to finally play Blazblue in America
Imo for the SFV section Tokido vs Infil CEO 2016 GF. Infil was bodying Tokido up until that tourney and in the set you could tell Tokido labbed some stuff and beat him in style with parries n shit.
EDIT: I missed Sajam mentioned it. SF4: Gamerbee vs Infiltration Losers Final Evo 2015 Closely contested, the back and forth momentum change, the healing, the character picks, judge calling time on Infiltration, and he surprise picks Juri. I'm surprised no one mentioned it, and mention the GF instead.
Sajam did. He said that set might be better than the GF. Since outside of the stick malfunction. It was kinda just Gamerbee getting run over by Evil Ryu
Sajam slowly getting sick of his chat is amazing.
They can't read and won't listen. That's a dangerous combination
@@SupermanSajam Seems like you got same problem like Aris. Your chat is comprised of stoners.
@@tyrannosaurus_x Well, some immigrated to Sajam's Rollbackia
Some of us immigrate to the YT comments too ;o
@@SupermanSajam Never become a Nintendo/Smashtuber. That's all I'll say about that.
I honestly had no idea that Daigo lost the next match...ignorance is bliss
Yeah, the good part is that nobody remmembers who won that years Evo, that move overshadowed everything, and i love it
Yeah, people tend to think that it was the finals and that he won the tournament with that moment lol
@@Copperhell144 that would be ultimate clutch and fuck that transmission
Lol people think Justin didn't even take a sigle round lol
Ltg vs Viscant should be a honorable mention XD
Was waiting for that to show up when Sajam was talkin bout SF 4. It even had Mike Ross and Aris on commentary
@@bartnutty it wont take top billing, but that shit is in the HOF so we gucci lol
It's the Leffen vs Chillindude of street fighter. An absolute classic
Yeah, it's in the HOF but not GOAT. The context was up there but the set with hindsight was... Good, pretty good but not Godlike.
@@steeplewiththesnakes but leffen is LTG
Kof13: Grand finals Bala vs madKOF...this set overshadowed sf4 that year and is still very solid
was seriously gonna type this exact comment
You are a gentleman and a scholar. That set was one of the best things I'd ever seen, and I've been thirsty for KOF ever since.
@@JanusIIV i got plenty others but this was the one that immediately came to mind...
Coincidentally just rewatched it like a week ago. Good times.
Reynald vs Hee San Woo the next year at Evo was also great
I don't know about sets, but Snake Eyes' reverse OCV over the whole other team from the Northern California vs Wednesday Night Fights set was the single greatest thing I ever saw in that game.
Tokido vs Punk at evolution 2017 was amazing. To see Tokido finally break through and win the big one was heartwarming
You know Tokido won EVO before right ? Lol
Also before it comes up, I mostly just asked chat and used games that I'm familiar with and didn't even include all of those. It was just to create some discussion, so if you other recommendations drop them below.
Also if you reply to this comment, or on the video with a set that's already mentioned in the video, you're smelly and I hate you
SF5: Viscant vs LTG @ WNF 2016 - simply because of the context
MvC3: PR Rog vs Viscant @ EVO 2011 Grand Finals
Not a tournament but cdjr vs tyrant in mk9 was one of my favorites
You missed dbfz Go1 fenritti world tour finals.
The set started with back to back perfects from both players.
@@DarkSaber22 I talked about both of those in the video I think, but def did on stream
@@mainstream6326 Good set, but I'm still not sure I'd put it with the ones listed. There are prob other sets still better imo
Sajam chat confirmed never to play or watch any fighting games apart from youtube highlights 5 years later.
Sajam vs Twitch chat always makes for interesting sets.
Ghandi was a work of art in terms of nerves and finesse. The man did like five empty jabs right above his head. There is but one true god and his name is wakeup Shori every. single. time.
Except the one time he didn't and did the grab, such is the mystery of Ghandi. Amongst my friends, if you're playing against a complete nut and they sneak a grab on you because you're expecting uppercut every time, that's known as a Ghandi Throw. :)
@@SFO_Dragonman the man, the absolute GENIUS, did a single throw amongst those Shoris and it scared the shit out of me. I'd call in a TO for misconduct if that happened, tell him my opponent attempted to give me a heart attack
One of my favorite sets is Poongko vs Daigo...and not just for the shirt removal
The first time I watched Lil Majin v JDCR Evo 2018 I rewatched it about five times in a row.
Aris made that set so fuckin Hype lol
I have very fond memories of Momochi vs. Gamerbee at the EVO 2015 Grand Finals for USFIV... that was just pure drama on top of being a bloody brilliant match, what with the counterpicks and the controller issues and all.
Gamerbee's Losers Finals against Infiltration (from the same tournament) was also an insanely tense fight... Honestly, they could've done a film about that EVO alone.
People were so mad at Momochi at the end, it really was movie-like in how Gamerbee became this guy everyone wanted to win so badly.
Sajam just breezing past Momochi vs Gamerbee's Evo 2015 Grand FInals set. Gamerbee coming in from losers bracket all the way to grand finals, resetting the bracket, taking that all the way to last match, the controller disconnect, the clusterfuck that followed trying to figure out what happens next, and lastly the bittersweet final round where Momochi goes on to win his first SF4 evo championship during the last year SF4 would be a main game there. Bruh
I remember the set, and the emotions/excitement around it well. I was standing in the crowd, and I still think there are better sets. People disagree though, which is fair
Sajam Fair enough! I’d also nominate Xian vs Haitani at TGU 2013 GF.
Sajam that was an amazing set. He’s definitely underrating it. Adon pretty boring but beating him with a shoto (even if he had to go e ryu) balances the boringness out. Also daigo beating adon in 2013 was amazing and he brushed that off as “daigo kicking the shit out of him” when in reality daigo had to clutch out every single round from an ungodly read.
I will always remember Justin Wong vs Chris G at Evo 2013. Justin goes down 0-2 against the undisputed best player at the time, and then brings it back and wins. I think it's hard to argue against KaneBlueRiver vs Fchamp at Winter Brawl tho
Kinda sad that JWong vs FChamp EVO 2k14 WF isn't in there. That set was back and forth and had really good neutral.
I’m glad Gandhi vs FSP got in, it really is an amazing cautionary tale about remembering your roots
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Honestly, most of my favorite fights come from teh Mikado arcades. Watching some of the GG gods go on huge winning sprees is a work of art.
Gotta say I loved the matches between Ryan Hart and Momochi, Capcom Cup 2014. It was really hype to watch.
I thought of this one too! Momochi was unstoppable back then.
lost my shit when he starting hating on the Midwest lmao
8:43 - 8:54 got a solid laugh out of me
When Lil Majin took off the headset in 2018 it was like Goku taking off his weights.
Mang0 vs Zain at The Big House 9 is pretty recent, but still holds as my favorite set. The tournament itaelf was already amazing, and served to made the gfs even better. The journey mang0 went through, having to slog through 15 games already in losers, and this being the epic 10 game grands showed peak melee, but at the same time, showed that there's still so much more to the game.
I know this game isn’t on the list, but Cleaplamp vs Senaru at Climax Of Night is the set that made me want to really get good at UNI.
Infiltration vs Gamerbee Evo 2015 LF its a grueling 30 min set between 2 of the best players of all time where you see both players pouring all their energy into the set and then some.
I feel Go1 vs Fenritti World Tour 2020 deserves to be mentioned, the back to back perfects were wild
UNIst NCR 2019 tari GO1 finals is a super hype set
Them's Fightin' Herds new character is gonna be a Goat. That's what we're talking about, right.
One of the greatest sets of any fighting game I've ever seen in my life is Bala vs. MadKOF in KOFXIII grandfinals at evo 2012. Outside of playing 95 and 98 in the arcades as a young kid this was my first exposure to KOF competitively and absolutely blew my mind. I legit still rewatch that grandfinals set at least once a year.
Your Gen impression is honestly something else
BBCP Dogura vs Galileo EVO 2014 was the most hype thing I’ve ever seen
Runnin' Sets Ep. 17, 18 and 19 Combofiend vs Noel Brown, Yipes and Marn. Best sets of all time.
Street Fighter IV: woolie vs Daigo
Best Set Ever
mang0 vs Armada at Genesis 3 is my all time favorite
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M2K vs Armada at SSC2018 is crazy good too
I can't believe no one mentioned go1 fenritti in season 2 DBFZ finals. That one was CRAZY
The Snake Eyes vs Xian reenactment fucking killed me
Definitely got some homework to do here, my brain has blended a lot of these sets together
That match where Snakeyez won a 5v5 by himself. Didn’t even know who he was before that.
my favorite tekken 7 set is tissuemon vs kkokkoma. That grand finals was so back and forth it was insane.
Tissuemon was getting fucked up all set then brought it back in bug clutch moments. He was a nervous mess but still won
Dunno if it counts because of the format but Snake Eyez reverse OCV on NorCal was incredible and still one of my favorite ones to watch. Obviously it’s more of a 2/3 gauntlet though so it might not count.
That said the greatest set of all time is still probably Omito vs Nage @ EVO Japan or Go1 vs Fox GF @ EVO 2019. Both were gods clashing against each other.
In SFIV one year. An Oni player named Wao went on a rampage at the Gods garden tournament. Leaving in his wake a scorched earth filled with dead gods.
As a Smash player I can appreciate Leffen vs GO1 CEO being in the mentions for DBFZ, but I think SonicFox GO1 at EVO is probably the better pick overall if you’re picking the best one. Leffen GO1 is probably top 3 for that game though.
For SFIV I’m kind of surprised how many years I watched that game but can’t think of one set that really stands out above everything else. Not sure what to go for with that one.
For MVC3 I’m definitely putting a vote in for Justin vs Chris G at EVO Grands; that shit was fantastic.
I know you didn’t do Melee, but just since that’s the game I’ve followed the longest, I’ll indulge myself a little and say Mango vs Armada at Genesis 1 and 2, PPMD vs Armada at Pound V, and Mango vs Zain at Summit 11.
Teemo VS Richard Nguyen in MVCI grand finals at Canada Cup was cool, but Teemo's run through all the Marvel gods in his home city was the real highlight. Of the entire span of MVCI.
But fr Jeonding vs JimmyJ is easily one of the best Tekken 7 sets of all time. The gameplay by itself is hype and explosive, and Aris's commentary really sells it.
There are other sets with way more impressive gameplay, but no set has ever gotten me as hype as that one. Except maybe Rickstah vs Knee.
There are far too many great sets, but aside those who are already mentioned, i would like to put what it is IMO still the greatest EVO Grand Finals ever ... Galileo vs Dogura in BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma... like damn, still get goosebumps thinking about how epic that set was.
Nauman vs Mago was like watching poetry in motion. It was such a perfect set to watch as a Suckura main and to see him mollywhop Mago’s Karin. At that moment Sakura was up 2 in her rivalry va Karin.
Man, how the hell do you guys remember all these matches? I can recall like, 4 of these from memory.
For Tekken 7 I think Tanukana vs Yuyu FT10 at Kemonomichi is my favorite.
It went back and forth so much that it made it really exciting.
How does Sajam know every set of every player for every game ever played? Yeesh. It's impressive. I can't even remember some of the ones I played myself.
while its funny seeing sajam slowly lose his sanity to his chat this is a great reference point for me to catch up on great sets ive missed
Chris G vs Sako Capcom Cup 2013, I rewatch it at least once a month.
Ryan Hart vs Momochi USFIV Capcom Cup 2014 Loser's Semis its a fucking roller coaster and ryan winning earlier in tournament made it even better
All these meme answers make me want a list of just funny matches
This needs to be a TH-cam playlist Sajam
Ryan Hart vs PR Rog from Final Round grand finals is extremely underrated in my opinion. Ryan in grand finals winners, gets absolutely washed by PR Rog in the first set and it looks like his soul has left his body. He is getting completely bullied and has no answers to any of it. He then goes into Ryan Hart meditation zen mode for a couple of minutes, comes back to it and completely shuts Rog down as both Rog and his coach (JWong) try to figure out what the hell is happening. Definitely one of the sets I've rewatched the most times. Ryan vs. Momochi from Capcom Cup is also great. I think I just want Ryan to have one on the SF4 list ha.
Another suggestion for T7 - JDCR Vs Jeondding EVO 2017 Top 8
You mentioned Daigo vs Tokido at CapCup 2019 but didn't put it on the list. I think that set was way more intense then their Kemonomichi match and you're crazy for putting that over their capcum set. Their capcup set is my favourite set of 5 cause its just these two players who have such a great knowledge of both their characters and their opponents on display. It's seriously great
We need this topic to come back or even a whole channel dedicated to these goated sets. Too much lore is being lost.
I'm surprised Snake Eyes vs Justin (SF25th LA Qual) wasn't at least mentioned, granted I imagine you would apply the same Yang argument. LOL
I would personally add Kazunoko vs 801 Strider - CEO 2015 GF to that list, that match pulled the whole crowds heart strings.
The problem with the concept of this is that the criteria of what makes a a match great according to Sajam isn't established. And what makes a match great might not be the same between us.
My personal favorite was 2011 Evo Poongko vs Diago for the sole fact Poongko was dunking on the entire Yun army. Poongko perfected Diago while he was using the most op character before they nerfed him was so hype to me.
YMCT VS Fenrich ArcRevo America 2019 Grand Finals, that's peak BBCF right there, we'll never get to see something like that ever again on that game.
Arslan Ash vs JimmyJTran.
This _haaas_ to be on this list.
Some Good azz Tekken right there.
Xian's set with alioune in fight night should be in the running. Season 2, episode seven, it's on youtube under the account ESGN TV. Gootecks was a little....ah. in an altered state, so the commentary is less then ideal. But it's a great ft7.
The 5v5 reverse ocv from snakeeyes is probably the goat tho. It's literally the set I'd show people to get them interested in SF4.
It makes me sad that I share that chat room with those people sometimes.
the fact you didnt put ogawa vs machaboo kemonomichi when it was ogawa defending the integrity of guilty gear vs machaboo trash talking everyone for playing a game with no money in it and going hard in SFV, neither of them had any respect for each other during the entire set, it was 10-8 and you thought it was a wash is lol
Set came up, like lots of other sets, but most people agreed in chat the EVO JP set was the best. I remembered it being more one sided, but I guess I was wrong.
How comes that nobody mentioned Infiltration vs Gamerbee EVO 2015? That was like the biggest, 1000 IQ galaxy brain match I've ever seen, the knowledge of footsies dripped outside the Xbox by the end
I do have a bit of a soft spot for the Viscant vs LTG grudge match in sfiv.
Oh, and also the KBrad vs Mike ross match from SFV with floe talking mad shit behind them
Snakeyez vs Norcal at whatever year SCR was pretty damn good too.
For Tekken i recommend Nobi vs Mr.Naps TWT 2017. Also one match everybody don't talk a lot is Cuddlecore vs Dritonrama LCQ TWT 2018, pretty interesting match for me.
Clockwork vs Neo MvC2 was ridiculous. FChamp vs Nemo Umvc3 is insane as well.
I think the Gamerbee vs Justin Wong where Gamerbee wins with Adon and everyone was talking about the quote where Justin said Adon was a bad character. That was a hype moment because nobody was expecting Gamerbee's high level play.
There are probably better Gamerbee matches but storyline was so good.
Umvc3 FChamp vs. Nemo money match is easily my favorite. Such an amazing set with perfect commentary and god level play from both players.
LI-Joe vs yukadon SFV EVO 2016 I think it was.
Great moment for the fgc, and one of the best moments for EVO in the modern era imo.
Edit: Tokido vs Infiltration SFV CEO 2016, I can’t believe no one brought this one up, this was the moment infil finally was unseated and tokido lifted the 2kido curse. Close set and hype as hell because we saw for the first time some serious meta tech being displayed in grand finals by tokido.
the Nemo v Punk FT10 exhibition is by far my personal GOAT set. There's so much cool shit happening in it that I go back and watch it just to get hype. Def not a general GOAT set but it's always worth a watch.
If you haven't seen Kusoru vs SteveH from the GG AC grand finals of Final Round XV, you should get on that. It's probably the funniest set I've ever seen regardless of game.
Didn't see Balrog vs Daigo CP Cup 2014 on the list, when Balrog wins last round with a full red focus. One of the greatest set for me, still the remember the hype when I was watching it on live few years later
Probably not GOAT material but Pepeday vs Poongko at CanadaCup GF years ago was one of the most entertaining matches I've ever seen in 10 years of viewing.
I know this is years later but I’m fond of Mr. Crimson vs iDom at Red Bull Kumite for SF5
I fucking love chat's incompetence
Tokido vs Infiltration I think is a GOAT SFV set personally
Was looking for this comment. Fully agree!
honestly i was confused at the lack of melee, but i do agree with the rest of the list. melee is fucking mental.
One set which I think is extremely underrated is the KAKUTOP League III match of Gagapa vs Infexious. That set is the one set I always come back to.
Cloud805 vs FChamp has got to be up there for UMvC3 for me, that set was amazing.
I came up with a short list of sets for Skullgirls since you didn't/couldn't cover it (no order):
Liam vs Elda Taluda Frosty Faustings 2018
SonicFox vs Cloudking NEC16 (winners semis)
SonicFox vs Cloud (aka Cloudking) CEOtaku 2019 (Grand Finals)
SonicFox vs Swiftfox-dash CB 2018
Rabbleflaggers vs sev CB 2019
Dekillsage vs TJgamer (aka Swiftfox) EVO 2014 (this one suffers from being relatively early in the game's life + being kinda domination by Sage but I remember finding it super hype when I started so I'm including it)
I got one. When Spark, an American player, won Blazblue at Evo. Absolutely god like defensive play from him. I think it was...2012?
Marq Teddy vs Bushinstyle for SF4, kills me every time
Justin vs Chris G Evo 2013 would be my pick for UMVC3. It has everything. Justin is the HUGE UNDERDOG and if you were watching MVC3 majors that year you KNOW how fucking free and dominant ChrisG made every opponent, Justin included. That year everyone thought it was ChrisG's Evo to win and Justin had a notably losing record against him ever since Chris switched to the MorriDoom team. For Justin to go down 0-2, and then come back and reverse sweep ChrisG, that year, in that set, on that stage, was insane.
Also I think ChrisG vs FChamp either that year or before (where they both were so nervous they were misplaying left and right) was a great set in spite of it being technically a poorly played one.
LTG vs Viscant. Don't care how basic the play was, that was more heat than a yoga catastrophe.
Its crazy how DBFZ brought more players over from different games to America so they can play those other games. Like Fenrich got to finally play Blazblue in America
Imo for the SFV section Tokido vs Infil CEO 2016 GF. Infil was bodying Tokido up until that tourney and in the set you could tell Tokido labbed some stuff and beat him in style with parries n shit.
Would love to see some of these matches get retro match analysis
KBR vs Fooblat FT15 ECT 2013 should be here for MvC3
Guilty Gear Xrd honorable mention for the Ogawa vs Machabo FT10 stream exhibition set for the lore behind it.
EDIT: I missed Sajam mentioned it.
SF4: Gamerbee vs Infiltration Losers Final Evo 2015
Closely contested, the back and forth momentum change, the healing, the character picks, judge calling time on Infiltration, and he surprise picks Juri.
I'm surprised no one mentioned it, and mention the GF instead.
Sajam did. He said that set might be better than the GF. Since outside of the stick malfunction. It was kinda just Gamerbee getting run over by Evil Ryu
Is this from an action movie? I didn’t see Sajam reload between shots ONCE.
As someone who has no clue about fighting games can you watch these matches and give your commentary about what's going on? cheers
Even though it didn't make the list glad that Dimeback vs Pekos from TWT 2018 LCQ got a mention, definitely my favourite T7 set.
Sajam used to be so saucy lol either he got more chill or his chat got more intelligent
Wolfkrone vs Ricky Ortiz shouldn't be on the list, but I wish it was just because of the "what are you standing up for" moment
go1 vs sonicfox was the most insane rivalry, such a great story and high level play.
xian vs daigo at evo , gen vs akuma, damn well played and a lore match