VF5 Final Showdown Videos

SO are you finally going to leave the bradshow and join the darkside of goh?

 

Dude already played Goh. He ain't joining shit unless this comes stateside. Wonder if LA has anything else to say about the state of VF?

 

I think you'll find the Akira player actually won....

120 dmg bodychecks performed by Akira - 1

120 dmg bodychecks performed by Sarah - 0

 

Yeah, how about statistics of success to failure ratio of bodychecks in videos we've seen so far? As far as I know nobody has ever even launch countered one in a video so far. You could argue that people don't understand how to counter it correctly so far but then you can counter-argue that the way to use this move hasn't fully been discovered anyways.

The thing is;
1) This WILL be Akira's best option in many given situations. You people act like you normally throw out big launchers hoping that they hit and it's a 50/50 - it's not. You use it in situations where you feel it's guaranteed etc if it's against strings, from evade against sabakis / stances (where people can't guard) etc. It's note easy getting up to those kinds of damages without walls involved at all.
2) Who CARES that it's -32 on guard? If I have 50 health left it might as well be -14 since I'll be dead if it lands on guard anyways? But it will be half life if I land it, just think about the psychological effect this will have on matches giving someone a tool like this.

 

I'm still struggling to see what the problem is... Looks like you'll be eating half life if yoho lands too, same exe as bodycheck but yoho is safer.

I'm not biased either, if FS drops on consoles then i'll be switching to Goh or Brad.

 

Good points but I think you'd be hard pressed finding a launchcombo that does anywhere near 120 on say a HW (I guess you're referring to the yoho combo that was done on Sarah?). It's just so much damage. Btw has anybody thought about how fun this move will be with throwclash removed as abare against throwattempts? Not being sarcastic, would really want to see it.

About Goh - I think everybody and everybody's cat will try out Goh in FS. He just looks amazing - time to change the posterboy maybe?

 

No, Akira lost. Whatever damage it does has to be taken into account for balancing, AM2 didn't make it that way by accident. He landed that body check for 112 and still barely won the round. He got run over in round 5 and lost the match.

 

I'm in favour of fair and balanced competition. IMO, it's a broken move.

 

Yeah the yoho combo on Sarah did 103, it looks like 100ish will be the norm from most of the big launchers. There was a Sarah vs Jeff vid where she got 100+ from her , guess we have to wait and see what the average damage from big launchers will be though.

@Gernburgs Rory is just saying that landing the bodycheck for that much damage is an automatic win, the fact that the Akira lost the match doesn't matter

 

Akira's body check on side hit needs to be a thread of it's own. Or a thread for characters overpowered side hit moves. Would be nice to come here and see vids posted instead of people talking about the same stuff that we have been talking about for the last 2 weeks.

 

Did you guys see Akira's bodycheck!?!?

CRAZY DAMAGE

 

I LOVE ME SOME BODY CHECK! If it stays in I might just make a partner sight for VFDC.

www.bodycheck.com

Shit its already taken. SFW btw.

 

Bodycheck don't seem so bad to me, really. I don't know what you guys are smoking lol.

 

Does the bodycheck take 120 dmg only on a sidehit? Here's how I see it playing out for a console release of FS.

Akira is fighting someone who is crouch dashing forward with his back close to the edge of a ring with no walls. Akira has almost no life and his opponent has over half life. Akira sidekick staggers his opponent. The opponent struggles and repeatedly tries to enter 6pg throw escape (afraid of losing the command due to lag) as he is confident Akira will go for a throw like 16pg for a ring out attempt. Akira instead of throwing goes for a deep bodycheck that K.O.'s the opponent.

As Belligerent Feck pointed out, Akira could replace the bodycheck with yoho in this situation to gain either the R.O. or K.O. I don't know if you can enter the easy guard TE and/or struggle together with guard held down in FS.

As Kiwe points out, I think we will see more abare bodychecks instead of yoho against heavy weights if the damage can be as high as 120.

 

Looking for that fighting vipers video where Bahn bodychecks a guy about 50 feet back and through a wall.

Wish I could find it 'cause it was so funny.

 

What? Akira's body check?? CRAZY DAMAGE??? Get outta town!

 

Yutori throw escape is still in Final Showdown, so you can avoid both a throw and the bodycheck in this situation.

 

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Seriously? Fuck it, just leave the subject alone already. It does 70 on normal hit, 120 on CH, that's it. It's a mid move, 17f, with actual 18f due to movement needed in most cases, has moderate range, does not allow further combo, it's "back" class.
Anything else? Oh, knockdown on both NH and CH, on guard it's -32. Now, let's move to another subject, alright?

 

But what about the bodycheck?

 

That bodycheck really is something t hough (shooting for 20 pages)