List of people who are 10th Dan and higher

Current Rank: 9th Dan
Highest Rank: Master
Worst Demote: Hmmm, 6th dan I think? Not sure lol.

Dayem, I really give props to those that know the ins and outs of this extremely deep game. LOL it's funny b/c I was never a fan of VF at all. I thought it looked extremely bland in comparison to Tekken(10 hit string combos and flashy hit sparks for teh win!) and the floaty jumps looked ridiculous to me. My first exposure to VF was at a Circuit City...The Sega Saturn had just came out and VF1 was the game that was being displayed. I liked Ken so I chose Jacky b/c he was the Caucasian guy lol. I remember fighting Akira and I just remember how slow and unresponsive it was. I didn't really enjoy my first taste of VF. As years went by I ignored VF2 and VF3, thinking nothing much of the series. I played Tekken 2 and 3 to death however!

Anyhow my older brother was the one who sorta got me into VF. We just got our ps2 and he bought VF4...I still didn't really take a liking to it but then VF4: Evo came out and that all changed! I went through it's excellent tutorial mode and before I knew it, I started to grasp the game's deep fighting engine. Now I prefer it over Tekken! Still, I never really mastered and went through the entire tutorial mode in VF: Evo lol. I just kinda learned the basics....as you can imagine, all this talk about fuzzy guarding, frame data, punishment chart and stuff doesn't really make much sense to me lol. I guess I just don't have enough time to learn and master all of it but evenso, I'm not complaining...eventhough I know you can't be a great VF player without learning all these things, I'm quite content at with current skill level. I am quite proud of myself b/c I've come quite far and I'm just glad I can give some of you great players a challenge.

 

i learn how to play vf4 thanks to its tutorials also when i was 16 or 17 yrs old at that time in 2003

 

Current Rank: Master (highest I've gotten)
Worst Demote: 6th Dan

 

Just a quick shout out and props to everyone who's posted in this thread and everyone else who's gotten better over time.

If you can make it to 6th dan you're on the right track. If you can make it to 9th dan you've definitely improved. 10th dan and Master... just a little ways to go. Warrior and beyond, you'll soon be a threat to reckon with.

 

I use to be master but i demoted to 8 and is now a 10dan

 

Just want my Defender Ranking back, that's all.
Highest Rank, Defender.
Current: 9th Dan ...But, one match away from 10th Dan

 

Shinob,

Same thing happened to me. Went from Defender to 8th eventually. Now back to Master +1 win on the bar. 10th dans are at a minimum these days, so hopefully I'll catch you in ranked as soon as you get it back. I just don't know if I can beat any one player 4x in a row under that kind of pressure!!! We'll probably end up trading ranks.

 

I wonder what the consensus would be if people used secondary accounts to get people past Master. The reason I mention this is related only to seven5suited's comment about the lack of 10th Dans now which is a pity.

I have a secondary account at Warrior which I created about six months ago only to see how fast I could rank up, not to mention it was fun starting from scratch. I haven't used it though since.

Like I said in the first post of this thread, if you were good enough to get to Master or beyond once, you deserve to be there again.

 

I feel seconday accts would cheapin the system, and throw another ugly caveat in the already flawed rankings.

On one hand, it would be beneficial for higher ranked players, such as you jhow (and i'm not saying that is why you suggested it) in that there would be new "talent" to fight for ranking bar. And there is an argument to be made for the fact there are fewer and fewer 10th dans online now.

But on the other hand: I struggled for over 6 months trying to push past the master barrier. Falling down to 10th or 9th and working back up, and wondering if the day would ever come that i could push through master. When i got four wins and was one win away I even asked a buddy of mine if he'd mind losing to me to rank me up, he said no problem. But when i got home that night, i knew it was the wrong thing to do, i challenged a 10th dan 70% kage (no walls) and gutted it out for the win. And it felt amazing to finally get it.

I think that there are a handful of people who have gotten it fallen and ranked up again: Blahzie, VFnumbers (a few times), Misty Tea, anergic, etc.

In my opinion it would ruin the integrity of the game to rank up those who have fallen, and cheapin the accomplishments of those who have done so honestly. What would be the incentive/challenge of playing as a defender/hunter/warrior if you thought, if i demote i'll just rank back up. That pressure is part of the game.

One more potential problem I see with this (again an integrity issue) is what level of fairness are we really going to apply here. Whats if persons a, b, and c have a buddy with a 10th dan acct, but persons d, e, and f dont. Will there be open requests on VFDC, will we confirm, yes, player X has reached defender before....will/would not 10th dans, 9th dans, masters, ect all expect or deserve the same treatment?

it would cause an artificial inflation of the ranking systems. The players who truly deserve it (the guys i've already mentioned, and others such as seven5) will eventually get back there. Just like you, jhow, easily ranked back up to warrior.

 

Give me those 10th dans!

 

on the other hand if u see a 10th dan almost to demote and he's a freind of urs who can be trusted and ur a master why not lose to him and then he lose ur master back to u and viola he has half rank bar again. That would help keep 10th dans around.

 

It's definitely cheating--worse than pulling--but who's to stop you? People pull all day; they probably do that too.

 

When you loose Master it remembers where your bar was when you were 10th Dan.

 

Wow, does it really KingoCarnage..that doesn't sound like it could possibly be right (and you'd think i'd know, was master-->10th--master only 526 times in my VF career.)

 

update:
Wasted Wish
highest rank: Raider

 

Im a Hunter looking for Food. Ill put it on the line against whoever long as you do take it and run like a bitch.

 

raised up to raider and my bar started at 1/3 /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif is that right or did i somehow get jobbed?

 

raider or barbarian start with 1/3 bar.

and if you promote to slayer or same rank of that, you have 1/5 bar at first.

is this make sense.

 

yes, thanks.
wow, that kinda sucks

 

finally Defender. it feels good to get over the master mountain. what a climb that was. and the last 2 days were hard to find the last 10th dan. there was really only darthminion but i didnt want to take the chance that he would pull on me and i would lose my bar. it will be fun to play ranking now before not a big deal ranking down it was easy to get back to 10th dan but now demoting back to master mean something, something that i dont want to deal with again. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif i love it, more on the line now. if any one wants to get a few rounds in hit me up.