Latif: I felt content during last year's EVO after I beat Tokido, Daigo and Poongko and that was a mistake

WILL WE SEE A REMATCH AGAIN ? ^_^

"With so much focus on Mago, Tokido and Daigo last year, nobody really paid any attention to Fuudo."

Someone will say something this line next year in regards to Eita.

Latif's got nothing to be ashamed of, reaching grand finals is an insane accomplishment, good luck this year!

lol, latif responsible for the most unhype grand finals in evo history

We've hardly seen Latif play at all this year, I wont be surprised if he fails to mak top 16 with all the big hitters attending.

Why is the picture next to the article on Honda? Last time I checked Latif uses Viper. And Daigo, Fuudo, Mago, and Tokido don't use Honda too. Lol, someone messed up big time.

@7
BC he's Edmond "The Sumo Wrestler" Honda, son!!!

yeah I feel alot of people will be trying to take down daigo,tokido,fuudo,mago that eita will come in a win because his akuma is on another level

whats up with the thumbnail picture? Latif and Honda?

Good stuff, but I don't see Latif taking Evo home this year.

Viper got toned down a bit and she's more manageable, needing 1 (or 2) more mixups to close the round.

#9

It's EVO. Serious players are going to try and take down whoever is in their way. I don't think Justin gives a crap either way whether or not he sees Daigo, Mago, etc. in his run so long as he gets to GFs.

Latif and Wolfkrone were riding high last year because no one had adjusted to how derp Viper is. That has changed now.

Btw. I know Viper requires great execution. Fortunately there's more to this game than having great execution flying all over the screen with random derpy burn kicks.

And that was Latif's greatest mistake, but for Fuudo it was just Sunday!

@ #12

To be fair I don't think Japan lacked experience.

If you go back to vanilla days there was one character every japanese pro agreed to fear, and that was Viper, because basically the strongest characters were Akuma+Sagat+Ryu and it's not hard to figure those out.

Japan had great Vipers players, like Uryo, Dashio, Kyabetsu, also Succhan iirc.

What really happened was that Viper was left untouched for unknown reasons, while everyone else got hit hard. v2012 was the first version they buffed Ryu, Akuma managed to get nerfed 3 times in a row, Sagat stayed essentially the same after Super.

@ #14

Precisely.

Also, execution is not a barrier for elite players, and when you're talking about those players and tiers, all that matters is character potential.

Even if Latif played a bit better it wouldnt have helped - Fuudo read him like a book. He was just unbeatable at EVO.

Ps: F-ck Viper.

@17

F-ck Viper? OK Mr. 'I dropped Yun in v.2012' Haha

@18 I play Akuma since Vanilla, nice try though :-)

Sorry, but Latif > Wolfkrone.

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It could go either way same for Ricky and Justin rufus wise.

I've actually heard wolfkrone say that latif was better than him

@4
did you read the full interview? sfxt messed him up.
@5
you just watched the boring matches :P
@7
it's from the interview's website (evil geniuses)
@11
me too :/
@17
although latif is probably the only player from my country (saudi arabia), i do agree on that one. fuudo beat him in top 8, grand finals and redemption suite. fuudo's just plain better. if i wanted to come up with excuses, i'd say:
"he wasn't prepared for top 8"
"he was too hyped during grand finals after beating three monsters"
"he was too hyped during redemption suite after beating fuudo in three matches in a row"

but during EVO 2011: latif < fuudo

man please dont compare a pad player to stick player.
alioune and wolfcrone made thse most stupid mistake by playing with pads,means no SBO for any of them as they play on arcade cabs.
and also the level of latif is on another level compared to all nowadays viper cause of character loyalties ,same thing with poongko.its like you too familiar with your own character.
also except jap players the only us viper than can chase you with an ultra after an air trade is latif.
for vipers lovers theres a new tech discovered by kyabetsu :center of screen burning kick cross up to ultra.
@dietsunkists2
keep diving there.why dont you do us a favor and go play your SF X T.

Viper and Krone are about equal.

LOL @ people calling Viper derpy and yet somehow Fei is, what, some high level technical character because the Japanese favor him? Viper is one of the more technical characters in the higher tiers in SF4. And Viper is no more figured out than Fei and Rufus who still dominate. S/A+ tier characters may be figured out, but they still have that game-changing ability when they get the knock down.

Latif is an awesome player. Honestly, SF4, to me, is mostly figured out at this point at the high level and I think that the winner of major tournaments all comes down to getting the favorable draw. Pick high tier and hope you don't run into someone who either knows your matchup REALLY well or just beats your character 6-4 or 7-3. I'm not dogging anyone, I just think this game all comes down to matchups now. Let's face it, a Fei/Seth/Viper/Rufus will probably win this year, just like last year and it comes down to the fact that they have the fewest bad matchups.

Latif is just as capable of winning EVO as anyone, IMO. He's proven it by beating others who were potential EVO winners (a lot of people were pegging Poongko and Daigo as locks last year). Anyone saying who will definitely win and not win is just another keyboard commando running the mouth.

@dietsunkists2
i was referring to an old comment of yours praising that abomination.
for viper you can be godly all you want there are some mixup that need 50/50 chance.you just dont have time to react to.
so two ways of dealing with it:
-youre a godly autocorrect ultra guy.
-or never let viper get a hard knock down.
ive seen kyabetsu and latif abusing that move against top players and its 50/50 thing.
and LOL at people speaking of eita winning EVO.
his random shoryus can be very deceptive but i know 3 or top players that have a degree in fishing for shoryus scecially fuudo .
also im positively sure that its will be either sako or daigo that will get evo.
as long as they dont run on Pr balrog or poongko or ortiz.

I think Latif was just lucky to reach grand finals!

Daigo playing Yun.. was a big mistake for the beast.

maybe its just me!!

@30 I think so too, Yun has a hard time on the defense. I mean just look at Daigo vs Pongkoo - Daigo looked so desperate all he did was mashing srk. Dont care who wins evo, i just want entertaining matches :) (but i hope tokido takes it ^.^)

@25 Huh? How is Viper and Krone equal?

#27 Knows whats up.

FreeLatif...

Lose to ultranerfed YUN, japanese player...tsc,tsc.

FreeLatif, top 64 only...Hauahauhahuahuahuahua