Good Games Thread

GGs to T'fam last night. Yeah, you were a little rusty there. I think you were on auto pilot cause you did same mix up over and over. I'm sure you'll get it back soon. some good matches though.

 

Got in a ton of online battles with Kobi and Gauron93 last night.

 

My nigga Tee, it's not just that I was rusty bro, you have improved on your asskicking skills too!
I know how everybody has this anti-egostroking shit going but I don't give a fuck, I give props where props are due. You? You was doing your thing man. I know I got mad predictable with Goh but it was cuz I was tired and I was being hardheaded. It was a bit of a mindgame in a way too though, I thought to myself "He prob thinks Ima switch it up now, let me not switch it up even though he sabaki'd the shit 3 times in row already!" XD
Good reading!
I was fresher when we first started with Brad vs Sarah but you started wearing me down with randomness, lol. You were random but smart. I like how you don't rely on corny bullshit tactics but instead on reading the opponent. Really good use of Flamingo. I saved like two of those cuz I gotta watch and learn
Thanks for welcoming me back to XBL with a foot in my ass, lol.
It's been almost 3 months but I'll come back stronger next time. Keep sharpening them skills bro

GGs Kamais, way to step your game up. Keep improving and if you do end up taking a break from the game it will only help you to look at things from different angles... it might hurt your execution and reaction time but you can build that back up.

GGs Overfiend, it felt like you pulled some elitist shit on me though. I was like "nah, this nigga didn't just flex on me, did he?". We played like 5 matches and they were close, I was having fun and I'm thinking "I've been out the game for a while but these matches are close. Wait til I get warmed up!" And then BAM! random disconnect I don't know what happened but I that was my 2nd day being back and I wanted to play really bad. VF's a hell of a drug, lol.
I sent you like 3 invites and even a message saying "what's up?" and just saw you there not playing nobody so after like 3 minutes I said "fuck it, on to the next one".
Ima get at you for some more games as I get back into the swang of thangs.

GGs Cozby, damn nigga, I knew you was gonna be good but you've surpassed my expectations. You're climbing that ladder and if you keep going the way you're going, I think you will be one of the top 10 VF players in the U.S (maybe you already are )

GGs Social Ruin, we've pretty much said everything through messages so I'll just say keep up the great work

I'm only back for a limited time. I'm borrowing Ladon's 360 (I sold him mine) but I will return it next month. Plz invite me if you see me on. I'm trying to train and get ready for Maddy's visit to Miami at the end of this month.

 

GG's to xChaoticGracex for his stellar play last night. He showcased awesome footwork and superb TE ability while playing his Lei, Kage and Akira. I hope to get more good games in with him later tonight.

 

ggs,tfam. I was fully expecting tur brad to be chalked full of ring rust. I was disappointed, it almost felt like you never left. Heck, ur offense felt stronger than ever. Really, i only noticed it on ur defense. Could see u choosing to just attack some more in spots where u may have done something defensive in the past. But that is to be expected with a couple month lay off. Unfortunately, still the biggest hurdle i have with goh, is trying to overcome heavy offensive flowcharts. And i realized that i think ur the last brad i had played as well, lol. I forgot what a fucking beast he is. stagger stagger float, ftw. Those knees were killing us both, lol

ggs Sudden death. always nice to play someone from vfdc. i was a bit disappointed u didn't stay longer. I pretty much need practice vs all characters with goh. pai and lei and jacky are the only ones i play regularly.

ggs smb. ur pai is picking it back up quick. too bad ur connection is garbage with most people. try mack, i think he is in canada, and also uses goh. as well as everyone else.

 

Lemmy and not-his-brother thank you, too.

EDIT: At least you admit that playing with yourself is stellar.

 

gg's evryone.
BAD GAMES TO ME for sucking balls lately.

Yesterday, i tried very few sabaki's.. the times I actually did the sabaki's it landed well with very high percentage. I still have to find a balance.. i think i did too few.. I kept seeing spam of elbows ( but, higher level... still gotta be extra careful ). I remember the time frame, when my game really picked up. So i traced back when my game improved. It was when i switched from a super moral goh, to a aggressive abare based goh with picking and choosing when to use the proper def techniques. Oddly enough abare style goh, didnt really get Counter hit much, i was ok at picking and choosing when to abare. I even used abare to piss ppl off with the 2p, just so i can get them to 2p and then basara low sabaki. that was conditioning that I enjoyed doing. Yesterday, I just stood still.. and watched ppl play and played very moral... Ppl with strings were just walking all over me.. I was thinking when is the string gonna end so i can finally punish.... I tried Fuzzy guards during the strings.. BUT, thats a huge mistake. usually jabs jabs, PP, are at disadvantage on NH or pretty bad even on hit.. I should be 2ping right there to kill the high strings.. AT LEASt keep moving, keep doing something. I kept fuzzing, only to get hit by mids and throws. PK hit, dash in ( killed the timing of fuzzy )... I gotta stay away from FUZZY's when im being hit by strings, gotta learn to abare at righ times. FUZZY only on single strikes perhaps 2p during string defense.

Neways, tonight ill be on trying to get my offense going again. Yesterday, I let ppl prance around infront of me during advantage..

question for u
gentleman theif, denkai, xxchaoticgracexx.
how do u guys hold ur joystick which grip.

 

... ChaoticGrace is Rodney ? ... I played him and his style seemed more like Cozby than Konjou...

 

GG's to CF white worm, thanks for the session!

 

Made me lol, Plague.

 

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Lol, ah, the power of a missing question mark.
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ggs to mistah tee. Ur sarah was going bananas on offense. i REALLY need to spend 20 minutes in the dojo finding out what's hood on that flamingo. Late in our set i decided i was gonna try and just back dash away from it, but by that time we was playing the long range footsies...well u were playing the long range footsies and then i caught on a few games later, lol. I think it is cool u noticed i've been delaying my attack a little more. Only a little, and only after u evade punish about 10 times, but hell, better than i used to.

Eh, my goh is a work in progress, and after stalling for a long time he suddenly started making a lil progress. I wonder if it is a coincidence that i've improved more in the week my GF was away on vacation than the prior 2 months...

i want to play u more Konjou. U always hidden so send me invite please.

 

ggs kamais ookin last night. I got an awesome TEing game but there are so many flaws like frantically guarding, evading after getting hit. needlessly setting up oki knowing it wont work,not setting a consistent offense.In fact its more of a risky defensively greedy style of play..... i need to fix it and respond diferently with lei i should be applying more pressure but mines only utlizing only 1% of it

 

GGs to Beligerent_Feck

From a few days ago, had some good matches. Akira vs Goh was a lot of fun.

GGs to Settra

Really intense matches the other night. Glad you noticed my movement, I've been working on it lately. Our throw escapes were on point in those matches.

GGs to ManaKnight

Had a bunch of good games last night, it's a pity xbox live kept lagging out randomly at the end of matches.

GGs to VFnumbers

Only had a few but the connection was much better than last time. After you left I thought you were done and I was already in another match when I got your message, sorry. We should play agin some time.

GGs to Krye

At some point I'm going to be able to beat you consistently. I know I'll actually have to put some effort into the dojo to do that so it may be some time.

GGs to anyone I've missed.

 

Yeah they were fun matches seidon, your Akira has improved a lot as well as your Jacky must be all those deep fried pizza's

Anyway I wont be on live for a few week or so, damn RRoD.

 

gg's yesterday to

denkai: Had some good matches with ur lion.. then ur jacky put me away good. I managed to do very little MID sabaki's vs ur lion... but its still a horrible habbit to be busting out mid sabaki's vs ur jacky since u do so many knees. I gotta make it muscle memory not to mid sabaki as much vs higher level players.
Ayufanboi: you dont get enough credit for ur akira. Ur akira is a monster. ill msg u, soon for more games. We should play more because I want a sparring partner from where im from. my bad yesterday.. Im going through a reconstruction with goh.. and its made my goh a lil worse. ill msg u today or tmr if ur on for the rematches

Dennis: GG's as always, evrytime always long session. Until yesterday, i didnt know what was wrong with my goh... I was having a shitty day with my moral goh, wait till people make a mistake goh. I snapped many times yesterday.. I threw my joystick, and asked myself.. WHy is my goh so uneffective all of a sudden. First couple matches, i kinda went slow.. Watched.. evaded. then i said, ok...Im going to go crazy and autopilot now. I think i realized what my problem was.. If i become really aggressive and dirty with goh, it forces ppl to play my game, forces ppl to 2p or whatver, or make more mistakes. But, I noticed after I went very aggressive.. I was able to also do pretty good DEFENSIVELY. My etegs have gotten much better.. Before i used to eteg, and im always caught in failed evades or whatver. But now, im able to do etegs without thinking when to do because i got my ass kicked evryday lately to practise ETEGS. I also have been trying to do less mid sabaki's which has really helped my game out. I also took ur advise about 66k last week, so i came up with more catch throws and poking, I tried K+G too but i dont find it as good. I tried K+G on wake up as well, it seemed ok.. BUt i took that out to, cus my oki was way better than K+G before, but I have to now, make it muscle memory not to K+G as much, still good move, but i can do better without as much... But i should do it less, ... the poking feels really dirty, but another alternative for attacking someone quickly at mid range. Shoulder ram, i used to just shoulder ram in close stance and jus keep doing it over and over. but now, im better at seeing closed stance, and now im waiting to see if the move, then do it. So my shoulder ram closed stance is working out very good when i became patient.
Still need practise VS jeff. So, i would like to play ur jeff whenever ur free again. Im gonna try something vs jeff, last time i only did KNEE sabaki. next time, im only gonna do that when u evade ( i duno why i just told u... ). Also im gonna try, backing up alot more. By the way, you have been giving me alot of coaching and feed back lately. U took the time to write long msg's about my goh. Slowly im applying ur suggestions, and i feel already in long term, it will get better. I know my offense is good, and ur right if my def gets better I will do much better in the long run. Ur suggestion have chnged my style, but i feel its getting better than it used to... not there yet, but its chnging now for the better.. once i went aggressive. Also took ur advise not to OM K all the time. I do it once in awhile now not as much. I did find out something with OM K.. With MEn, i OM K to stomach. With women i do it to their back ( STOMACH for VANESSA IN DEF, BACK IN OFF ), it seems to have a better success rate this way. I also took out something in my game that i being doing alot lately, I duno but i started to Abare with P, but 2p is so much more reliable than j P since its high. So if i abare, it wont be a P, unless i know plus 5, and i dont wanna be thrown or hit with a "CH KNEE' at 17 frames, the only thing i can beat a 17 frame move would be p. Anything below 5, 2p is much better. ABARINg with P is dangerous, i learnt the hard way.. THeres soo many moves that go under highs...
CFWHITEWORM: Ur vanessa is a beast. I like ur delay on ur strings. Next time, i wont fuzzy on strings. would like to do some VANESSA mirror matches and pick up some vanessa stuff
GG's MKSYSTEM( Gohplayer ), Zakkapa another goh, and paper Lion : maybe we can do vanessa mirror matches next time.

 

ggs too:

Social Ruin...once again. thank you for all the games.

and for once, i've played someone other than social ruin!!!!

ggs to tfam....i forgot how tough of a match up brad is. social is the only one i play anymore (b/c im not jumping onto live if i can't verify that there is someone worht playing) and i've gotten so used to him, and to playing goh and lei.

i've become quite adept at trying to counter my bro's moral style and patient, sometimes even passive system (altho he still kicks my ass on the regular ). your aggressive abare was a whole new ball game, i wasn't prepared for that at all.

plus, since i'm kinda sucky again nowadays, i rely on evade throw quite a bit, i wasn't anticipating all of brads ducking swooshing follow ups to go under all my throws i was whiffing at ghosts, lol. good to play you again!!!

One thing that kept me in it, is i remembered to sweep you waaaaaaaaay too much, lol. seems to be about the only way i've ever found to break up brads offense.

do you like how i freeze up and hold G everytime i get confused, ahahaha. i would be better off just mashing instead of just patiently holding guard like a personal invitation to throw me. RSVP for easy throws

look forward to playing you some more. maybe trying out your goh, since i'm a little more familiar with him

 

GGs Libertine, it was great playing you again. We almost played until the Sun came out, lol. Once you patch up the holes in your game you will kick my ass in no time. I'm not blowing smoke up your ass man, you're going to be a WAY better player than me, trust me. You just have to keep playing and keep getting experience and knowledge of the game. Some people have a glass ceiling, they can't execute this or that but I see you being able to not only execute but also being able to check foot position and other nuances of the game that have eluded me. Trust me, I'm not that great of a player, I rely on Brad's evasiveness to get away with a lot but you use basics and fundamentals. Keep working on those and you will surpass me on every level

GGs Wasted Wish, dude, you've lost your abare nature I understand that it's cuz Social's been stepping up his game and playing more moral against you but you still have to have abare in the pocket to pull out when you need it.
Don't let all of these other players talking bad about abare discourage you from using it. Next time you kick somebody's ass and they call you "abare", tell them "thanks, you should really learn to beat it, it's not that hard".
I'll drop a few names right now of some players that you would think don't get abare but they do (everybody abares at some point or another): Overfiend, the moment that you start beating him, he will bust out the DMP+K and abare madness with the quickness, lol.
Even the Professor, Konjou. Yesterday I was playing him and he was playing moral for the most part, until I started mixing in Lau's 42P+G throw. Then it was more abare, why? Cuz if you KNOW that somebody's going to throw and you CAN'T DUCK the throw, WHY NOT?
I remember back in the days when you wouldn't freeze up, you would rather mash on PPP. You just have to mix up your defense more. Look, my defense SUCKS but I know that if I can attack out of a throw, I'd rather do that than ETEG and take a guess at what throws to input. ETEG is good but it's not the answer to everything, specially against somebody who delays floaters

GGs Konjou, you're The Professor for a reason man, I don't know how you do half of the stuff you do. I gave the wrong person a GGs the other day cuz I thought it was Cozby but it was you, lol. It's almost as if you can see throws and/or attacks coming. I still remember when you played people at some Rock/Paper/Scissors and won most of them. Your mind games are too much man, you make my head hurt after I'm done playing you. The same thing applies to...

Mista Tee, GGs, that Vane is a killer son, fucking killer! Thanks for helping my Jacky level up.

GGs Social, abare ftw! Lol, you could see that I was trying to read you, that's why I was able to score more attacks and throws at times than others. You were switching it up well but were relying too much on abare but trust, I understand. Goh's 270 throws are murderous. That's why everybody always attacks, attacks, attacks against him, lol.

GG, Numbers, it was only one but it was good playing you again. Let's do it again soon.