First, Yay A.E to much umvc3 everywhere.

intense match between magon and juso, damn

who the hell is juso? he's so clutch

Daigo plays a lame Akuma.

#3
one of the best sakura players in japan

daigo plays much better, when he's more aggressiv with gouki, when he played defensiv he lost.

Wow, Daigo's akuma is a mad zoner. Honestly I'd prefer watching his Yun but I don't think ver 2012 is gonna be cancelled so I guess his akuma will do. Daigo is always fun to watch for me anyway

Juso Sak is ８．９５円 =P
Daigo plays Akuma like Ryu! How many Akumas do you see who use that many fireballs or cr.mks?

That Dudley vs. Chun was a hero, even though he lost in the end.

I miss watching his Ryu, maybe the escape tatsu is the only missing that prefents him from going back to Ryu in 2012. Just an assumption. There's many amazing Akuma's who've been playing him forever. I just don't know if Daigo can catch up and be on par with them.

whatever get the job done, we will see people complain about Akuma soon. I think stream monster dropped Yun already, now they are moving to hating akuma.

Is Daigo still in this event?

I missed his Akuma :'(

Awww the pain on morichika's face haha

Bollox! Wanted to see Daigo's Gouki

Stupid people spamming chat and trash talking... I shouldn't send the link here

Do u guys think 2012 the gameplay will be in favor for zoners again? 2011 aka AE is definitely belong to attackers or rush down type of char with the hongkong trio being so dominan

All tourns should have this 'salt cam' its funny

@15, dunno, don't care, will be on ko13 where rushdown is a way.

Momochi using Ryu..?

I really wonder why Momochi picked Ryu against Mago?

Momochi annouced he'll play a new char for a nsb, a char he'll use as secondary during ae2k12 :)
Daigo smiled against Kindevu, rare sight! :D

@15

Too early to make predictions on that.

Wow, cool to see Daigo's still a beast, beating Kindevu with Gouki right after Tokido, often regarded as the best Akuma player around, lost against Kindevu's Viper.

shi vipah is tokido's rl matchup tho. :p

Daigo's Akuma already looks top-notch!
The way he played vs Kindevu's Viper...amazing!

#21
Yeah you probably rite.

It's just that, they gonna make Ken's n Fei's slp into sweep combo gone. Seth's 50-50 mix up gone, akuma's fwd throw 2frame more recovery...it seems like 2012 will be less vortex

Yun Yang nerf...so rush down will be less likely to rule in 2012

Sagat, Ryu, Dhalsim's buff...Akuma's demon flip into air firball. I'm thinking it looks like capcom really wanna turn it back into zoning kinda gameplay

is it over? cuz it said semi finals and yet they are holding interviews and stuff

Daigo came close to beating Eita's Akuma...awesome matches. Daigo had a lot of smiles while playing Akuma and seemed to be enjoying the matches.

That final Sagat was free against Mago's Fei. :)

@27

Yea I was thinking the same thing! It seemed that he had a lot of fun playing Akuma!

Poor Nyanshi. He didn't stood a chance against Mago. In other news, Daigo's Akuma plays really differently from Tokido, Eita, etc... For some reason, he doesn't use vortex and seems to rely on footies. Never the less, it was nice and funny to watch Daigo playing Akuma. Also, I never seen a second team member select retry and go right at it, but maybe that's because most team battles requires all team members to select a different character from each other.

Daigo making up for 20 years of smiling in one night!

@30

Hell no, I'll always play Evil Ryu over Akuma.

FADC'ing HK tatsu! Love it!

@#30, time for the akuma hate, haters.

I like how Daigo is showing Akuma has a very good zoning and footsie game, apart from the vortex play that almost all other Akumas have been focusing on.

@9
I don't think he needs to catch up. He's already as good, if not better the established players. See Kindevu vs Tokido, and then Kindevu vs Daigo.

LOL @ #32

@30
Thats a redundant comment. Ryu was always and still remains one of the most popular characters online. And Yuns everywhere because AE, not daigo.

if im not wrong juso won the first nsb when ssf4 became AE

jet upper or jepaa like the japanese says is the sickest rufus i ever faced here in japan....but im still a scrub ;(

Uhh.. Isn't Akuma basically better than Evil Ryu in every respect (e.g. - walk speed, footies, zoning game, teleport) except his health points? So what is the incentive of picking Evil Ryu over Akuma anyways?

you are 90% correct, but Evil Ryu does more damage than Akuma.

hey guys doesnt juso play on xbl? Juso isnt his gamertag though. i think its kof2002um.

missi's Dudley was the best thing about the tourney, yo.

@ #39

Akuma is better than Evil Ryu, though the gap is closing in AE 2012. If you want to get into specifics, he got:

- Better dashes
- Better antiair (DPs with more range and Ryu's normals with tons of active frames)
- Way better stun, does more damage too (especially meterless)
- Normals have generally better hitboxes, active frames (see Ryu vs Akuma)
- Better ground fireball game
- Comboable Ultras, for better comeback chances
- More health and stun (2012 only)

Hopefully people will stop downlooking him with the health and stun boosts in 2012, that was much needed.

great stream now people are gonna complain about daigo and how he uses akuma cheesy etc. man people are just always gonna hate on the guy for stupid things.

Cant wait to see AE ver. 2012 and who everyone is gonna main/alt and such

@#43
Evil Ryu has:
Worse DP
Worse teleport
Worse wakeup pressure
No air fireball
No affective mid-range poke that leads to big damage
Needs to be up close for big damage

These are the reason that Evil Ryu will never be better than Akuma.

And his sweep is poo as well ha

#45

I'm not saying Evil Ryu is better than Akuma; I agree with you. But, the aforementioned list are reasons why Akuma is better at being Akuma than Evil Ryu - not reasons why he's a better character overall. Many of these things apply to Ryu as well. But, he was an arguably better character in Vanilla, and maybe Super.

Evil Ryu is a pretty good character. But, the instant you start trying to play a vortex game, he becomes terrible. He's supposed to be played more like Ryu, with a higher damage output and a few bodega Akuma tricks.

Personally, I feel his sweep being too slow and no knock down on EX fireball are what really hurt him.

daigos akuma is so scrubby this makes me sick

@47

Yea, he's so scrubby that he lost to Kindevu's Viper while Tokido easily beaten him....oh wait, it's the other way around.

Its not really that scrubby, just a different style from all the vortex players. He should of beaten Eita tbh.

@48

Daigo didn't beat Kindevu because his Akuma is better than Tokido's. He beat Kindevu because he is better than Tokido.

Daigo plays his Akuma like its Ryu. He won't win anything big playing like that. He will need to apply some setups to go along with his already amazing zoning, which I have no doubt he will.

Daigo's akuma better than Tokido's? You need to put the crack pipe down son............