Justin Wong on trendsetters in the fighting game community - Step Your Game Up #11

For a moment, I thought the title said "Justin Wong on Transgenders"

You have to include MarlinPie, which area is he from?
That fools Doom has the be THE trendiest Doom there has ever been. What he did with TACs was straight up foolish!

Poor dieminion getting ripped off of by the unoriginal 3tards. Chrisg is the only one of the 3 I can applaud and give a pat on the back. The other two are pathetic.

This was an interesting article. I wonder what SoCal would be classified as? If I had to guess, I imagine it would be a Spencer/Nova/Doom region :)

EVERYWHERE is the Doom region. Socal is Nova/Spencer I guess. Also Northeast is home of Hulk/Haggar duo.

lol@ #1

@3 Yup. I agree

Dieminion channeled his inner lameness and fundamentals to play UMVC3 without owning a console to play with and started the soulfist soulfist in Big Two. Chris G saw the potential and perfected it.

As for the other two, lulz.

Man...I liked it better when I was one of, like, 10 people around the world who used Morrigan because we just liked the character and felt great when we won a fight with her against the legions of Day 1 Dantes and Weskers, but now that tech came out and everyone wants to get on her.

Day 1 Morrigans for life. :(

I bet there's at least 100000 people currently using Morrigan that will lay claim they started using her 1st.

No MarlinPie? Come on...

apologyman if he keeps up that team and wins loads he'll be setting a trend. I agree deiminion saw the potential in morrigan and chris found it in morri/doom. Also chris was an amazing ryu player before ray ray if i remember correctly.I wish justin would play with iron fist more i think he just needs to find a good lock down assist like vajra.

clakey d was the first one on that morrigan ish- back in vanilla but nobody seems to remember this

was clakey conisistantly placing though? I mean combo used shehulk in vanilla and that trended for a little bit cause he was doing well with that team.

@13 Combo wasn't the only one, most of team EG used She-Hulk in vanilla around the same time

like who? i don't remember anyone using her exclusively like combo.

@15 Justin Wong got the She-Hulk train rolling not Combo and he used her and his Wolverine team depending on the match up nearly the whole of vanilla.

I actually DID use Morrigan back in vanilla... but that was before I even really played. I didn't even know how to fly, TAC, or DHC :P

(Now I use X-23/Doom/Nova)

@1: MY GOD don't make me laugh like that again!

ChrisG and Dieminion, the good Morrigan players (and it seems like Chris is currently the only one who hasn't got tired of her). Nerdjosh has always been a tech thief who uses the hottest trend in the game without being able to come up with legitimate strategies of his own, while I don't know how JRosa plays... but like #13 said, apparently not good enough to place high consistently in major tourneys, so that guy is a w/e

Nerd 'Joker' Josh

For those who don't understand the topic, it isn't discussing the "legitimacy" of the players who pick said characters, it's simply pointing out the popularity of them. For example, midwest has the Dantes, and Norcal has Viper/Strider, etc. Lets be serious here, every region has Doom saturation. He fits well on any team like bacon on sandwiches.

@16
i don't know if thats true i'd say he got people trending akuma and combo was spencer/she-hulk.
Justin is poor to use as an example cause he plays at tournies with different chars iron fist/felicia/she hulk but went back to wolvie (team eg)

he won a tournament with dan in sf. I'm talking character specialists like fooblat-Haggar/combo-she hulk/champ-dorm/dieminion-morrigan, viewtiful joe/fanatic-MSS/marlinpie doom,viper, amy/ clockwork -doom,strider.

people like that set trends justin tries to show good characters sometimes people just don't pay attention it's different.