32 PERFECT PARRY IN GRAND FINALS - Kakeru (JP) vs AngryBird (Ken) Gamers8 SF6 Invitational 

This had definitely the "main characters encounters main villain for the first time and can't lay a finger on him" energy

Kakeru continued to use Ryu in SFV because he loved Parry. Everyone thought he could have used a stronger character, but never imagined he would actually turn into such a beast.

You can tell Kakeru trained against every Ken animation since Evo. Great training.

the way JP's animations look so dignified and casual makes him an even more intimidating character to fight against

Insane skill by Kakeru, this game is only gonna get nuttier

It's safe to say Kakeru studies his loss to Ken/Tokido and now has perfect timing.

This is exactly the reason Perfect Parries has scaling

How Kakeru used parry is exactly how I wanna implement it into my gameplan. To see it work this well proves how vital it is to improve your timing. The rewards, while scaled, always put him in an advantage.

The insane thing is that in between all these parries, he didn't parry at 3:15. The level of reactions and confidence in his spacing to not continue spamming parry there is just bonkers.

1:30 how the commentator suddenly rises his voice so funny lmao but seriously hitting so many perfect parries is really insane

Always thought that kakeru was the closest guy in winning evo if it wasnt for that spike not hitting vs tokido, but hey he won the tournament with more money lol

The people hating in the comments are prob the kens spamming dragonlash and wondering why they're losing everygame. You'll never be AngryBird just letting you know ❤ Kakeru did his thing and I dont even know the player.

I think it's only a matter of time until all the top players master the perfect parry, things will only get more insane.

For anyone in the comments wondering about his parries, Kakeru just said that nothing else was working so he decided to start parrying. Although most of the comments are talking about 2F this and that, I guarantee you it's more about playing AB on and off stream and knowing his tendency as to where in there spacing he likes to use dragonlash. I do the same to Zangiefs and Hondas consistently online. I don't train parry at all and I get perfect parries all the time on Giefs cartwheel kick and Hondas headbutt. This is something yall can start paying attention to. It'll help you get perfect parries without even trying. Just try and notice where in the spacing your opponent does a certain move and I'm sure you can punish it.

He made this bird look free as hell This is JAPAN

People saying Kakeru is carried by JP are completely downplaying his skill. There are no other JPs remotely at his level right now.

次元の違う集中力と練度。 本当におめでとうございます✨ 益々の活躍を期待してます🎉

All love to angry bird but it’s so nice to see Ken struggle

Kakru was absolutely untouchable there, whatever he uses, I need it

3:16 shows just how impressive he is, we all parried there but he knew the spacing that much he didn’t even attempt it because he knew it was a punish 😭😂

Kakeru clearly labbed the Ken match up after Evo, what a performance!

Every time... Angrybird runs over everyone in Evo with Ken. "He's amazing!" Kakeru executes a perfect way to deal with the best ken in the world "jp is trash. Nerf." Any time a zoner wins a major its the same complaints. Look- we understand that you don't know how to play against zoning characters, they're noob killers after all, but trust us that pros like Angry Bird are very aware, and he's not running around salty. He knows kakeru adapted and played a hell of a set for grand finals.

I think Kakeru understood the matchup and AngryB believes that he has to have that draog kick to do damage and so he was able to snipe it consistently.

I think it was mentioned in Evo's Japanese capcom commentary by Kazunoko, but Kakeru is the type of player who do parry a lot.

Just like Daigo said when he first saw that move " capcom wants me to perfect parry this move every time , it will take some time " but it didn't take much long for Kakeru though .. insane play 👌👌

Kakeru practiced parry in SF5 and it paid off.

Really good video. I liked that you Also showed what happened after each parry

主催者と選手達に感謝 凄い試合を見せてもらった

So deserved for Kakeru, he played like such a beast - especially after getting knocked into losers.

Angrybird even had to admire that. He was just smiling at the end, knowing how insane that was.

When I saw Tokido's protagonist clutch at EVO I didn't know it was actually just the first half of Kakeru's own protagonist arc

He studied very carefully Angrybird every match and didn't repeat the same mistake he did in EVO against Angrybird

Congratulation to Kakeru!! After everything he achieved in evo including the so close heart break loss, to not only bounced back, but to raised him game is great! Japan has another new face for the future.

Kakeru went full Ultra Instinct. Angry Bird needed to change his gameplan but was tilted

Finally the Hitbox gets a chance to shine... Thank you Kakeru

"Ah, I see, so that's 14 times this kick hasn't worked for me so far. Why don't I do it 20 more times?"

This is wild, dude fought so many pro level Ken that he became a parry god in this match up.

This game about to be turned into a Sekiro sequel and I'm all in for it

How many times have we heard people talk about how significant perfect parrying is going to be in this game going forward. Mastering it is damn near akin to mastering neutral, itself. Even with the reduced damage scaling, the ability to instantly shift the momentum and take back your turn can be crucial.

The prize pool of this event is far, far bigger than Evo 2023. Happy for kakeru bagged the $400k

Amazing. I could barely do the perfect parry training in the adventure mode lol

Watching this shit was like watching art in motion. Those perfect parries were musical.

this is how good you need to play to beat a player as solid as angrybird with his ken - amazing performance by kakeru

If this had gone to a game five there wouldn't have been a number to describe how many parries he got.

bro came for the bag. well done

The new meta against Ken. Hes doing this against the best Ken.

Definitely the best JP player I've seen 🔥

The Era of kakeru has begun

Bro i don’t even play this game and I’m like “Stop using that move!!!”

For the pro, perfect parry make you +0.5 drive advantage, perfect parry in melee distance give you +1.5 drive advantage (perfect parry +0.5 and punish counter +0.5 to you -0.5 opponent)

The new beast form Japan.

Kakeru perfect parried almost every Dragon Lash in the set omg.

I don’t even watch street fighter like that, I play and watch a lot of mk, but that is fucking insane and beautiful.

Great Parry! Nice guy

"Oh, 32 parries in the finals? Probably parry back and forth." JP: _tisk tisk_ "Nope."

Amazing 👏🏿

The parry is amazing but look at the masterful footsie poke.

The weird thing is that AngryBird just KEPT DOING dragonlashes one after another. And shoutout to Punk, complaining about the monitors and technical issues while Kakeru was perfect parrying everything. Stay salty, my dude.

BROOO WHATTTTT THAT IS INSANEE also love footsies, great game and taught me good fundamentals

One of the issues with a top tier is often you get much more practice against them than a lower tier, so you know more about their tricks and how to parry the hell out of them

I think this is a similar situation as daigo wiff punishing everyone medium buttons with sweep on 2020, no one believed that was possible so no one tried, but once someone do it, everyone start to lab that, i believe we will have much more perfect parries from now on

Don't think I've seen a ken player so subdued since sf2 before he got more range on his dp.

I'm glad Kakeru shows why perfect parry doesn't need buff. But watching Kakeru did 32 perfect parry makes me wants to lab perfect parry. At best, i can only do maybe three or four perfect parry /match which most of them was against projectile, Honda headbutt, Cammy spinning arrow, or Ken dragonlash.

Man was using Ultra Instinct.

Kakeru pulled many Daigo Parries is just insane 🤯

Angry Bird in Grand Finals against a lvl 11 CPU lol “….STOP READING MY INPUTS GODDAMMIT” That’s what I’d be saying if that was me

wow crazy how fast kakeru adjusted. during the bracket stage, semifinals i think, angry bird beat kakeru 3-0. and then after kakreu got sent to losers final and won. he somehow during that time "downloaded" angry bird pattern, enough to parry the specific dash kick into punish. crazy in just a short amount of time. a reverse sweep, and overwhelming win.

DAMN!!! EVO is all yours! Bigger prize pools is mine!

The character style matches the number of parries he has done.

Bro wasn't buffering moves he was just teabagging😂

3:23 that was a parry 33 🎉

I now consider Kakeru and AngryBird rivals

The old man: "How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, young man?"

This Kakeru guy trained his parries for moths like his life depends on it into perfection.

It was a bonus stage for kakeru.

凄すぎて途中で笑ってしまう

Bruh, this game is gonna be SO STRESSFUL to play one year from now.

Does Kakeru have a RU-vid/twitch?

Kakeru becoming a SF6 legend, after winning so much money I'm afraid we won't see him anymore. 😢

Gratz for all who won some good cash during that tournament 😄

Kakeru won the tournament where real money is at. Evo was just the test run for the real deal. He had his priorities right for sure.

It's a great thing that damage is scaled off PP. If Kakeru was getting full damage from his combos games would have ended so much faster. Imagine if Zangief gets full damage on an OD-SPD off the PP. The game would end on 2 parries.

He used to use Ryu in SF5. Maybe that's part of the reason why he is so good at parry.

He just showed us how to handle a button crazy ken

This is insane.

Are modern controls allowed in tournament?

He has been just a week. But enough to be the perfect.

Insane

Safe to say that Kakeru knows the matchup

Pro players really about to start looking at the game in a whole new way after this.

The most beautiful thing is, he doesn't have to pay taxes.

Wait was that before or after Evo2023?

He got his payback that’s for sure LOL 32 Perfect Parries😮

how do you parry in this game? back forward?

Is this the commentator from the actual game??

Here comes the perfect parry game now folks. Either adapt or die.

A month ago I commented on a SF6 video (i forgot which one) this is what i said “Parry wins games i guess” and a random dude replied saying “what makes me say that parry wins games” I didn’t reply back but if you’re that person this is what i mean by win games. So practice your parry/perfect parry doesn’t matter which, it probably raise your win rate.

That must have been the most frustrating experience ever for Bird...

32???! I watched the match, and I knew he hit a lot of perfect parries, but I didn't know it was that many. I wonder if he has some way of killing frames to get the right timing, or if he's just manually timing it.

Kakeru made a personal patch update, for this entire game Dragonlash has less than a 15% success rate.