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The Magic Of WarriorBySand's Gen in Super Street Fighter 4

Posted — January 15, 2011 at 9:17 a.m. PST

A SSF4 video compilation of WarriorBySand, who in some people's eyes is the best Gen player in Europe, was created by YogaFlame24.

Also submitted by Luna.

Comments

Oroku_Saki said on January 15, 2011 at 9:24 a.m.

Whoah! He's stylish while playing online, awesome.

Karaiiskaki said on January 15, 2011 at 9:30 a.m.

Next time we'll have:The magic of Pikachu0176

-__-

everybody is magic as soon as he masters his character.

Sparxx01 said on January 15, 2011 at 9:34 a.m.

RESPECT...some of those links i can do in training mode but i wouldnt dare try them in a real fight

Pure Class

ExclusiveOrGate said on January 15, 2011 at 9:37 a.m.

Dang, I wish I was that good with Gen. I actually learned a few things in this video :-)

DeathQuote44 said on January 15, 2011 at 9:38 a.m.

OMG! That was god-like!

MALDA said on January 15, 2011 at 9:38 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

DustinFong said on January 15, 2011 at 9:41 a.m.

Nice links, but they're only good for style points, not damage.

Tsu83 said on January 15, 2011 at 9:54 a.m.

i'm impressed. he makes ssf4 gen look like sf4 gen..

terror said on January 15, 2011 at 9:58 a.m.

very impressive. that's the first time i've seen a gen land his ultra 2 lol

BlazinBlizzard said on January 15, 2011 at 10:03 a.m.

this is what true players are all about.....big props to sand especially with such an underused character

#10

duckmouth said on January 15, 2011 at 10:03 a.m.

Outstanding.

Incidentally, whatever happened to Yeb? Dude seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet.

#11

Dumpling said on January 15, 2011 at 10:32 a.m.

@11

This might be a groundless assumption, but I think he disappeared along with the Gen nerfs.

#12

Dumpling said on January 15, 2011 at 10:37 a.m.

On another note though, this is super stylish. Incredibly impressive to be doing this in matches.

#13

Nei said on January 15, 2011 at 10:41 a.m.

Wow, really impressive. The combos might not deal that high dmg but man, you need a strong psyche to get back in the game after getting so styled on.

#14

powderedtoastman said on January 15, 2011 at 10:50 a.m.

Poor Gen, capable of a variety of links and ways to land supers and ultras, yet his damage still sucks even before he starts to lengthing the combos with fadcs. Such a low pay off for the work going into him. Atleast he can style on dudes :D

#15

powderedtoastman said on January 15, 2011 at 10:59 a.m.

oh btw WarriorBySand is actually from morocco not europe >_<

#16

tylerox9 said on January 15, 2011 at 11:03 a.m.

I was just playing as Gen earlier today, and I never thought to ex-cancel the rapid thrust attack to continue the combo. Genius!

#17

sethkillianfanboy said on January 15, 2011 at 11:07 a.m.

The only thing this video proves is how crappy Gens combo damage is.

#18

Flerg said on January 15, 2011 at 11:22 a.m.

Gen is like the opposite of C. Viper. His combos are so many more hits that he suffers from the scaling damage, where C. Viper's combos are 3-4 hits (Fierce->Seismo->Flame->Knuckle). Watch him combo into Super or ultra after a bunch of hand slaps, it destroys the damage.

#19

MetalxHealthx said on January 15, 2011 at 11:34 a.m.

Damn i have to admit i learned you could Ultra after Gekiro from this... cant believe i didn't know that/hadn't heard about it, looks pretty specific timing/character size and fall rate but still is sick.

#20

Fr3akSh0w777 said on January 15, 2011 at 11:37 a.m.

- I want to fight this Gen..

#21

othawize said on January 15, 2011 at 11:39 a.m.

Gen is nothing less than a beast when he is in the right hands......amazing vid

#22

thegoldencat said on January 15, 2011 at 11:42 a.m.

Yowza. He should enter tournaments.

#23

DestinyZX1 said on January 15, 2011 at 11:42 a.m.

My god... that's amazing. Downright amazing!!!

#24

MadnessFamilyguile said on January 15, 2011 at 11:45 a.m.

Awesome vid, great soundtrack that sounded alot like final fantasy 7

#25

tylerox9 said on January 15, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

the music sounded nothing like anything from Final Fantasy 7. It just had the chanting from One Winged Angel.

#26

ado said on January 15, 2011 at 12:23 p.m.

@28 ya i remember yeb in vanilla

i think he completely dropped gen though?

#27

ShinZero said on January 15, 2011 at 12:24 p.m.

Everything about that was awesome.

#28

Psykotsu said on January 15, 2011 at 12:38 p.m.

The vid was pretty hot.

To the people that say Gen's damage output isn't high, please look at the video again. Obviously his combos scale due to damage reduction but if you look at the start of his combos, they do tremendous about of damage. Look at Guile's(I believe it was Guile) health before Gen resets him, and then finishes him. His hands scale the combos alot because of how many times they hit but he still does massive damage.

#29

Shareware said on January 15, 2011 at 12:42 p.m.

I tip my hat as a fellow Gen player who couldn't do half of this stuff in his wildest dreams. Respect.

#30

Shareware said on January 15, 2011 at 12:43 p.m.

@27

I'm pretty sure that's what he was referring to, but I get your point.

#31

Peejie said on January 15, 2011 at 12:46 p.m.

YogaFlame24's "The Magic Of..." series is seriously one of the best SSF4 series out there. Always a treat!

Magic of Alioune Sensei - http://www.youtube.com/user/YogaFlame...
VRyu's Makoto
http://www.youtube.com/user/YogaFlame...

#32

cvs said on January 15, 2011 at 12:53 p.m.

Lmao i forgot gen was even in ssf4.

#33

Shareware said on January 15, 2011 at 12:56 p.m.

@35

Truth be told, at first I did too.

Then as soon as I accidentally moved the cursor over him I was like "Ah man! I remember Yeb used to break the game with this guy!" and I started to try and play him.

Needless to say, I was hooked. He's just very fun to play.

#34

EsseX_the_Sinner said on January 15, 2011 at 1:05 p.m.

arf...again..

#35

Ryu_Apprentice said on January 15, 2011 at 1:06 p.m.

Now I understand why Gen beat Akuma in the manga, he's just impossible to keep up with. If am that strong when am 80+ i won't complain

#36

Devon said on January 15, 2011 at 1:22 p.m.

im also impressed..... i think he's the best gen player ever... also i didnt even know u could this combo:

stand mp x2, stand mk , dragon kick

so awesome

#37

ThatRandomGamerGuy said on January 15, 2011 at 1:26 p.m.

Gen....Damage Scaling not your friend.

Otherwise some good stuff

#38

darko_p86 said on January 15, 2011 at 1:57 p.m.

cool stuff. i wanna see a dan video, combo AND fight video, where the guy really tears it up.

Go Saikyo+

#39

MadnessFamilyguile said on January 15, 2011 at 2:07 p.m.

@27

I think they call that a "remix"

#40

SnakeX said on January 15, 2011 at 2:31 p.m.

<3 Gen

#41

Kidjeronimo said on January 15, 2011 at 2:36 p.m.

That Gen was beast. Big ups.

#42

OomackattackoO said on January 15, 2011 at 3:02 p.m.

Yeb plays cody now

#43

Zombie4u said on January 15, 2011 at 3:17 p.m.

Fantastic video! I would really like to see his Gen vs a high level Chun Li. I use random select alot and it seems that Gen vs a capable Chun is amazingly challenging. To see how WarriorBySand deals with that matchup would be excellent. Thanks YogaFlame24 for this vid!

#44

denaycous_dee85 said on January 15, 2011 at 3:47 p.m.

I played some good gens but never like this.........oh my

#45

KENFUSIO said on January 15, 2011 at 3:55 p.m.

i hate damage scaling.... big combos does not pay off...

#46

powderedtoastman said on January 15, 2011 at 4:16 p.m.

@#31 psykotsu
How about you look at the video again. That guile example you mention with the reset he did not do "tremendous damage". After the crane cross over mk into s.mp>s.fp(1hit)> hands>fadc> clk ...then it reseted after that. That initial combo did like what..250~ damage? You call that tremendous for killing 2 bars in the process?

And the rest of the video there was a few times where he does the crane double air kick, in which one gets focus absorbed and also scored a counter hit from the second hit(bison/rufus).
OF course its gonna look like his combos start out "strong" especially given completely favorable instances. Dhalsim and ibuki have crap health.

Gen damage is garbage, doesnt help that he scales the crap out his damage with weak moves he also gotta work pretty hard for it too.

DONT try and tell others that was saying his damage is low to go look at the video when you didnt look carefully yourself.

extreme examples for tremendous damage below:
You wanna see MASSIVE damage? THawk jump in Fp>s.mp>FP tomahawk... thats like 350 damage from a 3 hitter. Gouken with someone cornered can do like a 470 damage combo using only 1 ex bar.

#47

Mailorder said on January 15, 2011 at 4:22 p.m.

I don't play Gen, so I've got to ask... what's so good about Ultra 2? (The pressure point ultra with lots of gray damage)

#48

powderedtoastman said on January 15, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.

@#50
U2 mantis is linkable after hands(pressure point one), U2 crane has a few shenanigans too with odd cross over potential on wake ups.

#49

EVOBiohazard said on January 15, 2011 at 4:34 p.m.

Now THAT'S how all combo videos should be made to be epic! Screw Training Mode!

#50

Genuserx said on January 15, 2011 at 4:44 p.m.

Yeb dropped Gen because the transition from sf4 and super was downright game breaking. They removed many of his tools, not just that mk hands loop. After dropping Gen he tried Cody out but afterwards said screw it and just quit Ssf4. He has recently re surfaced again on the Gen forums on srk, wondering about the AE changes.

But theres hope! AE has proved that Gen is much much stronger. With the buff he got from meter gain, he can get a super more times than before. So many new fadc combos have been created through the tcs, even going as far as beating that old mk hands loop. After playing as AE Gen myself, I might even go as far as saying hes better than his original sf4 counterpart because of all the nerfs all the other characters got and buffs he got.

#51

Nep said on January 15, 2011 at 6:26 p.m.

And that's where Gen goes bad.. damage scaling. Sure it's very stylish and hard to pull off, but 90% of the video was combo into hands, FADC, another combo into hands or waterfall kick finish.

#52

Ex_Ein said on January 15, 2011 at 7:35 p.m.

.....Not impressed
and he ripped off Damien Walter's 2010 showreel music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvJy0...

#53

lynx_ID said on January 15, 2011 at 8:21 p.m.

and people say he is weak and low tier, of course not!! he is easy to play like ryu and balrog, damn people understan that all character are the same easy to play, chun, balrog and ryu are the same as hakan and t.hawk, they have the same tools and the same power, and those requiere the same skill to master, if they will nerf guile and honda they need to nerf gen to, thats will be fair (all of this is sarcasm).

;)

#54

draw2 said on January 15, 2011 at 9:13 p.m.

Ahhhh...sick!!!

This dudes Gen is so dynamic!!!
Loved everything about that vid...links...music...style...
the whole shabangabang!!!

#55

Psykotsu said on January 15, 2011 at 9:31 p.m.

@49 powderedtoastman
The combo he does to Abel, a big character, before the fadc, did a ton of damage for a combo that did not require bars or any fadc shenanigans. That mixed with his mixup possibilities after Hands Fadc increases that potential. If this person wanted to do straight damage without being fancy, he could. I looked at the video carefully, relax.

You'd make a great Hero.

#56

Raven said on January 15, 2011 at 10:28 p.m.

Damaging scaling is always a big deal and it's in to reduce the gap between better and weaker players (as are several other elements in SF4). While it's not to have some sort of damage reduction process, I do wish it wasn't so ugly.

Holy hell....this Gen is amazing! But Gen does require good execution, he is not Sagat or Ryu. Individual hits do no damage, so linking and timing with him is vital. But if you've got the execution (like C. Viper), you can rip anyone apart. :D

#57

Raven said on January 15, 2011 at 10:29 p.m.

"nice" to have

#58

YogaFlame said on January 16, 2011 at 12:14 a.m.

@55

LOL are you serious! lol that track dont belong to Damien Walters lol if your going to hate on me, which is fine then at least get your facts right ; )

#59

JinZo said on January 16, 2011 at 3:05 a.m.

Gen is *THE* underdog.

#60

powderedtoastman said on January 16, 2011 at 5:19 a.m.

@#58 Psykotsu
Yea that combo he did to abel, it did do a fair share of damage. But from a relative stand point compared to others that are able to jump in with their strongest air Fierce attack and get a combo of choice, its not a ton of damage WHEN viewed like that(seeing how its common among combo oriented characters).

What to make it worst is that anything else he does after the hands the damage probably aint worth it. Which is the main complaint imo when it comes to his combos.
Yes he can do damage in favorable conditions but when he has to start combos off of grounded light attacks, it doesnt look healthy at all then to fadc hands= burnt meter and low damage pay off. THUS why people say his damage overall is LOW(doesnt mean he cant do damage when the time comes for it)

Also what he did to abel was about the strongest thing he could of done without meter(for your straight damage line) and for meter saving purpose probably best to try and link a sweep after the hands. But this is a highlight reel so its gonna be him showing off.

Chances are you probably arent gonna read this but in case you do^^

#61

BUTTLORD said on January 16, 2011 at 6:15 p.m.

@55

There was a gouken combo video back in "09" that used that music, I guess that predates Damien Walters 2010 video.

@YogaFlame

Your videos are great man, keep it up!

#62

nocturnal said on January 17, 2011 at 6:24 a.m.

I can't understand people who can play like that. What kind of a finger speed and concentration

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