Good stuff, I'm gonna need all the help I can get to rock faces with Makoto.
I knew that complaint on the Cody tutorial would do something!
Yay Makoto!!!
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This video just further proved to me on how much I am a crappy Makoto player.
About damn time Makoto got some love, and there's some really great stuff in this vid. Honestly, I think she's underrated. It's just that you need to be able to read your opponent rapidly, and also react to the successes and failures of the things you try. She's not like Ryu where you just throw out the same crap over and over regardless of what the opponent does.
Also, I think a lot of people overestimate themselves when they hear a character is hard to use. They think "Oh, they must mean for idiots, I'm sure I can do it if I try hard enough". Yeah, no, sometimes it really is too much for a normal or even above average person to handle. I know I won't be playing Makoto seriously, even though I would like to. I'm just not that fast.
Thanks for this finally-I thought all my 3S practice would pay off-but was surprised to see how badly it DIDN'T.
I now see I was approaching her from the completely wrong angle. I shouldn't play Makoto like she's in 3S, because this ISN'T 3S. I should play her for what she is, a NEW character in SSF4 and start from square one. This'll help big time. ;-)
This is great! I've been trying to get good with Makoto but so far haven't been having much luck. While most of this isn't new to me, there's some new stuff that I hadn't quite thought of in that way.