• Reports are coming in from the Japanese arcades that Daigo has started a new Akuma card at the arcade and is currently building up battle points. So far he's accumulated around 20,000 BP and has gone 12-15 in 27 matches against Nemo's Yang. Sent in by Rafael2487.
• Dariaga has put together an EVO montage in the form of a music video. He also added in annotations to give more detail of what is going on. Sent in by vanwees.
• Alioune Sensei has put together a video showing a lot of different resets for Yang's Divekicks. Tip sent in by Rafael2487.
• AkaneLV has posted a 31 hit Fei Long combo. This combo is Dudley specific. Tip sent in by Rafael2487.
Haha getting ready for the 2012 Yun nerfs maybe?
@3
He probably is. Lets try being happy for him.
It would be a pleasant change of pace from the Salty Hate usually spewed toward the Michael Jordan of SF.
Love him or Hate him, his achievements in the world of SF are impressive. Of course he's going to have fans.
Try not sounding like a jealous jerk.
RARE FOOTAGE OF DAIGO GIVING IN TO THE SATSUI NO HADO?
And when you try those dive kick resets there will be a wake up DP waiting for you
I'd say Fuudo is better than Daigo, at least right now. He blew up EVO and Godsgarden, going undefeated against the best competition.
Looks like Daigo has succumbed to the Dark Hadou...
@11 troll spotted!
@3 haters gonna hate
some of you may have short memory but who beated the talented valle in 1998 i think in us championship and using which character?
i expect umehara's akuma to be DIFFERENT from Tokido,umehara has this ''talent'' to release hidden potential of a character(Ume shoryu,Dhalsim super,double palm )i expect more crazy mindgame from him .
from an Umehara fan
im so excited about Daigo giving into the dark hado that iv gone and ruined someones art work :-D
Pretty interesting to say the least. IMO Akuma got hit with the nerf bat even harder than Yun.
That's pretty cool, I always thought he'd play a good akuma. I've seen his akuma in a random select money match I think last evo and you could see he never played him then. He knew the basics from other games and obviously from playing lots of akumas.
AE 2012 Daigo switches to Evil Ryu. I am calling it.
Daigo's getting ready for Yun's nerfs in 2012 version. Hey, the guy wants to win. If Yun's going to suck later, might as well start training for another character now.
there needs to be a top evil.ryu player in the scene.. since mr. naps ditched him.. now i have nobody else to learn from...
I also saw him play a Sagat card after 2012 was announced, but even I beat him with my Sakura (lady luck was on my side, he hit me with U1 in corner for the win but I flipped out completely like Chun's U1 and got free punish) Later I asked him if he dropped Yun already but he said no, he will still play him in Godsgarden (which was the week after)
And yes, that was the only time I beat Daigo..
Akuma would be a wrong choice for him IMO. The perfect character for him I feel judging from past results would be one with a very good defense and a very good offense. Ryu was the perfect character in that sense. If you master that character you can't be stopped he pretty much had everything.
The second character that has that I believe would be Fei Long, but eh. Akuma is like Yun kind of a double edge sword and he's nerfed a bit in AE 2012 too so idk if he should go there.
HIs Yun is epic but it wasnt on his Ryu lvl. That said it would be really cool to see what he does with Akuma
Although I'm excited to see Daigo using Akuma, if there was a mirror match I'd much rather watch Tokido VS Infiltration.
Daigo has already stated that as a sponsored player, he'll do whatever it takes to win.
He probably wouldn't make a character shift unless he thought it'd make him more oompetitive in the future.
I think he is making a logical assessment that, as Yun, Yang, Fei-Long, and Viper are weakened, Gouki will land somewhere near the top.
the number of yun, yang, feilong players online seems to drop ever since the patch news came up!
it doesnt really matter which character daigo uses! he's like capcom's android on broken nightmare difficulty! anyways... not just for being sponsored but he play to win! going to big tourney's and mad cash prizes aint no joke specially everyone is after his head the man to be beaten! and in the end u gotta give mad respect n props to him from his achievements!
If this is true, he will definitely make Akuma more popular and selectable. Remember that it was partly due to him that Ryu became so widely popular.
as I wrote on Twitter, Umehara Gouki looked at and played for a few sessions in the face of top Japanese players.
BullCat, one of the best Japanese faces Gouken and Gouki lost to a no name, 20 000BP. Gouki same faces one of the most Yang of Japan: Nemo.
BullCat, intrigued, goes to the other side of the terminal, the Gouki in question was none other than Umehara. The mess ends with a scary 12-15 in Nemo.
UmeGouki ● ○ ● ○ ● ● ○ ○ ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ● 12
Nemo was moderately appreciated not having played against the hand of Umehara ...
A few days later, a party with a lot of top Japanese player took place: Nemo, Tokido, Umehara, Mago, Iyo. Here are the results:
Nemo - Tokido: 8-1
Nemo - Iyo: 2-1
Nemo - Mago: 9-9
Nemo - Umehara (Yun): 2-7
Nemo is impresionant in its results. Umehara, he, too, there is fear, especially when we see that Nemo has inflicted a severe 8-1 to Tokido (best Gouki Japanese) Umehara, for its part, had done well to hang Yang Nemo with his Gouki.
There's also the Daigo vs Poongko matches:
Umehara ◯◯◯◯●◯◯◯●◯●◯◯◯●◯◯◯◯● ●◯◯◯◯◯●◯◯● 22
PoongKO ●●●●◯●●●◯●◯●●●◯●●●●◯ ◯●●●●●◯●●◯ 8
PoongKO – Mago : 2-3
PoongKO – Itabashi Zangief : 4-2
Umehara – Mago : 5-1
Umehara – Binbinman : 5-0
Umehara – Ojisan : 8-3
Umehara – American : 4-0
So Daigo's Akuma did better against Nemo than Tokido did Vs Nemo? Lol, he's already better?
Idk, Id prefer if he picked Ken, Fei long, or Ryu I guess since I feel the perfect char has a great defense + offense.
Although Akuma has great normals/pokes as well + DMG + Vortex so maybe this is better
@ #53
Akuma has no better damage than Ryu or Fei Long (that was in Vanilla), because he gets hit harder when you look at the sheer damage percentage.
Basically in the old days he got hit hard, but he also hit like a truck, while now there's many character who have greater damage output.
That and the horrible stun output he gets now from bread and butters (Super and Arcade Edition nerfs).
That's of course for the sake of balance, vanilla Gouki was hella strong.
Still Daigo using Evil Ryu would be more epic as he's renowned for Ryu, if he's looking for a Shoto with more options using his Evil Ryu would be the right thing to do as he can play him in a similar (*Note I said similar not the same*) manner to Ryu whilst at the same time having the advantage of using more tools (Yes I know Akuma has much more at his disposal compared to Evil Ryu)...Evil Ryu's Damage & Stun output can be and normally is very high (go watch the LordOfUltima videos.) Dark Daigo/Evil Daigo/Satsui No Hado Ni Mezameta Daigo. Whatever you want to call it, Daigo is giving into the Satsui No Hado and the results will be very interesting to see...
@ #58
No, it was Yun. That stuff is old, goes back to Evo.
As Fuudo stated, Daigo was the best player entering Evo. He just didn't play that good there, and "janken is janken".
@ #57
E. Ryu plays like Ryu, you are right there. And who thinks he's closer to Akuma than Ryu has yet to figure out the gameplan for these characters.
Think of E.Ryu as a lower health Ryu but with greater pressure, greater agility (his dashes are better even than Akuma's) and a couple of trick up his sleeves (hop, kara stuff, command divekick).
With 850 health it was impossibile to win tourneys with him. Now that he's 900 (and got overall better), things should get interesting.
#53 I know, I just mean he does decent DMG. Wasn't comparing Ryu to Akuma or anything.
TBH Ryu was the perfect character, im glad he's nerfed lol. And yea he does Meh Stun now, he's still a very awesome character though, top 8 for sure but you have to be insanely good to win or even do decent.
Lol few hits from Seth..Few Frame traps with Makoto and your stun in a second, Akuma is nothing compared to that. Hes good tho
@ #62
Don't worry, just wanted to point that out because there's still people who go crazy on Ono's twitter asking to nerf Gouki because his damage is insane and he stuns like crazy. Yeah, sure.
Akuma's good, but he's probably the only character they have been nerfing since Vanilla, and he already was one of the most balanced fighters since Super. He hasn't won anything important in tourneys since vanilla, and only Tokido could place high with him because it takes tons of effort to win with him @ elite level.
Yet they nerfed him even in 2012, something which was unnecessary given the buff the whole roster received.
Yea Im already having trouble doing decent with Akuma..when I saw they nerfed part of his Vortex I was just like... damn. But w/e, he's one of my many alts :D
He was def. perfect in Super or even AE imo. I don't think an Akuma has every won anything big (not counting small tournies)
sagat is up there as well, although not as strong as vanilla, he has always been top, with dp fadc high kick ultra, fast projectiles, and high kick after dp trade, he will always be top
I would love to see him use ken or evil ryu. You don't see either place well in tournments and ken is a top shoto with defensive play. Also like thinking that team Madcatz isn't just akuma and fei long
Who won CEO?
Theres loads to learn with old Gouki.
@ #66
Tokido did. But with half the competition like Mago and Daigo attending NorCal, so that doesn't really count as a big tournament - and it's the only one he won since GG2 back in vanilla where the character was ridiculously strong.
It's not like Tokido didn't place well in other tourneys, but still he couldn't win. You could see how strong the twins, Fei or Viper were (characters who got nerfed) but that wasn't the case with Gouki.
He mastered the character under every possible aspect (so nothing to learn for him) teaching the community tons of setups and tricks, he's a f*cking monster. Yet Capcom keep bashing the character and it'll be even harder for him to winning anything, which is sad since he'd deserve it.
He'll discover new stuff. I'd count CEO as a big tourn.
#67 Tokido has won a tourny with mago, sako, alioune, ryan hart, dieminion, starnab, louffy etc... he's also won another with MOV, RF, alioune, ryan hart, louffy, starnab, evans etc... akuma has definately won majors. infiltration also got 3rd at evo, and 2nd at NCR, losing to daigo's yun. he's def at the top
I can see the future:
Two months from now, we'll see these posts:
Akuma is clearly completely overpowered. They need to nerf him already. They should take away his uppercut and nerf is demon flip, before it's too late.
Akuma is easy mode and way too powerful. We need guile, honda, chun, and balrog to be top tier again, those are the real skill characters.
:).
@ #71
How about Sako? Acqua? Ojiisan boy?
Keep also in mind that lot of americans didn't have much experience with the twins. Floe could have made top 32 for example.
@ #72
Not much to learn. The character is essentially the same since vanilla, only nerfed 3 times in a row. Aside from AE characters, one might expect something from Ultra 2 but it has been already explored to a great extent, and Tokido even reverted to U1 in some matchups.
With the throw nerf Akuma not only loses some crossup mixups when he lands a forward throw (throw vortex -> weaker), but the timing for all the corner shenanigans Tokido created will change, and lots of setups will have to be recreated (assuming all of them >can< be re-created) from scratch, which is definitely frustrating for the players who spent times in the training room.
@ #73
That's just on paper, having lots of even matchups means you've got the same chance to lose as your opponent, but when you've got lowest stun in the game and second lowest stamina one small mistake and you're done for. That's why Tokido has yet to take home big tournaments.
Daigo can choose between characters who fits his playstyle better (basically every other shoto, since they rely on solid play rather than vortex and tricks).
I wish EH had a quoting system lol.
#75 you say "The character is essentially the same since vanilla" and i dont understand this thing about tokido not winning big tournies. he won GodsGarden 2. a huge tourny. and he has won big tournies in Super, and got runners up 1 or 2 times(unless your idea of big is only EVO?) i wish akuma didnt get nerfed but excluding the top 3, he and viper are already winning tournies so i guess capcom wanted to tone them down slightly. which is probably why they left ken and sagat alone who havent won a tourny in like what, 2 years?
I think Daigo's best bet it to use Ken, he hasn't been nerfed and he's obviously going to be the best shoto in 2012, not Akuma. I don't even know why he'd pick Akuma, as people have been screeching about his nerfs that are central to his play.
While Akuma will always be a strong character, it is hard to win with him. One knockdown from any rush down character than can mix-up and half his life is gone. His demon ultra is also hard as hell to land unless you've been playing him for years. He truly is an example of "not easy to use, almost impossible to master." =P But the depth of his gameplay is endless. Akuma is a monster because he's an offensive juggernaut, so his low health is expected. But he shouldn't be nerfed at all anymore, it takes too much work to win with him, especially against the twins.
I'd love to see Daigo use Ken, as I haven't seen a Ken in top 8 at Evo yet (forgive me if one made it). There are lots of Akumas and he will be well read if he takes him up, especially because of the presence of Tokido/Infiltration. Ryu got buffed as well, so perhaps trying him out would be a good move. While still isn't as good as Vanilla, combined with the nerfs of the rush down cast, he can fight.
Daigo can't get easy wins anymore, not in a balanced game. So he needs to focus on a character that plays to his strengths. Namely somebody with options and comeback potential.
E. Ryu would be a fun, but he gets blown up. Sure he has more health, but he is practically useless in the Dhalsim match-up. Daigo was aware of how hard he'd have to work with Ryu against the likes of Dhalsim/Yun/Fei Long and that is why he switched. He isn't going to disadvantage himself by going with E. Ryu, who has less life. Hell, he may as well pick Akuma in that case.
well i might may let u guys down but daigo didint started akuma card, i live in japan and check his card today and suprising he started a ryu card instead akuma
whos live in japan can check by yourself at http://s.sf4.jp
u need to access with a cellphone inside japan, thats the only way to check
daigo has these cards: ryu/ken/guile/yun
his ryu fisrt card fight was 2011/08/25 18:56 against a cammy player
daigo has 17 games/ 12 wins with ryu 3.056 BP class DDD
his ken:
214 games/ 170 wins 23.335 BP class A
his guile:
53 games/44 wins 8.872 BP class CCC
his yun:
10.927 games/ 8.859 wins 315.398 BP class Warrior
daigo may have bought a card and not registered under umerara name wich is also his game tag in japanese arcades but only scrubs have a lot of "NO NAME" cards and register only after they got a good winning ratio
Here we go...