I laughed a bit when some people were giving me advice like HEY ITS JUST ZONING AN DTHEN YOUR LIKE MASTERING FADC

haha if im not good at street fighter how am i going to understand technical terms like that

some of this stuff has been helpful though

I've won online once so far.

I laughed a bit when some people were giving me advice like HEY ITS JUST ZONING AN DTHEN YOUR LIKE MASTERING FADC

haha if im not good at street fighter how am i going to understand technical terms like that

some of this stuff has been helpful though

Zoning = exactly as the term suggests, knowing your offensive and defensive zones, which moves work best at which ranges, using attacks to keep opponents out, controlling the fight by limiting which zones your opponent can jump/rush in or counter you, and/or keeping your opponent in a certain zone where their options are limited.

FADC = focus attack dash cancel - hold your focus attack and dash forward or backwards to cancel the FA, requires zero gauge and is very useful for baiting attacks or faking out an opponent. ex. of how to use it: if you've knocked down a shoto user (ken, ryu, akuma's fighting style) chances are pretty high they're going to try to shoryuken you if you're close while they're down. Go in and start to charge your FA almost right beside them while they're down, cancel it by dashing backwards and punish their whiffed shoryuken.

Terms you might want to know -

Super/Hyper armor - basically instead of flat-out receiving a blow from an attack you'll absorb that attack and you'll still continue your attack animations. I can't remember if all attacks that are absorbed give you temporary damage or if it's just special attacks, also whenever you absorb an attack there's usually some delay you receive from absorbing an attack. All Focus Attacks have Super Armor after you charge the FA for a little while.

Armor breaking - some attacks have armor breaking and will allow you to basically shut down an attack that has super armor. Any sort of special uppercut usually has armor breaking

That is not at all what a focus attack dash cancel is.

focus attack dash cancel is when you hit the focus attack buttons (medium punch and medium kick) and dash forward or backward, thus using two bars of ex meter and canceling whatever move you were doing.

example:

sagat does tiger uppercut > fadc> dash forward> forward+round house> ex fireball/ultra/nothing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JcSn1NXkFU


you are also wrong about uppercuts having armor breaking. a regular uppercut has no armor breaking properties at all. ex uppercuts of course have armor breaking, they are usually multiple hits.

to armor break a focus attack you either have to hit your opponent twice, or use a move like a hurricane kick that has armor breaking properties.

some ex moves can also be broken, like balrogs ex rush punch, rufus' galactic tornado breaks that.


don't listen to that guy, unless you want to be misinformed about street fighter 4

my bad I haven't played/discussed SF4 in a while, Focus Canceling is what I was talking about and you're right I forgot to mention that only multi-hit uppercuts (pretty much special uppercuts) have armor breaking, oh wait I did say special uppercut :/

I will give you the best advice afura


don't play street fighter 4 at all.

play 3rd strike Blazblue, it's far superior.

Fixed, most SF3 players will have migrated to SF4 and Blazblue has PSN/XBL support, and you're right SF3 is probably harder to learn than BB & SF4 combined

You will just have to spend the time practicing especially since you don't want to invest in a joystick (Which would make it easier) Time spent and lots of button pressing in your future...

day three: still fucking infuriating, sometimes I still can't get past the third stage on medium depending on if its rufus or that electric bitch.

WHY DID THEY MAKE IT SO HARD