Chun Li Overview - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike [4K] 

What if you wanted to win Evo, but Daigo said: tap Forward

OH SHI-

How to give Justin Wong PTSD flashbacks.

Daigo is not gonna sugarcoat it

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Ah yeah that's right, cheers. Will slightly change up the wording for the compilation video at the end 👌

@@ThatBlastedSalami yeah your wording implies the hitconfirm window is static, but it's different depending on what button your confirming from, moves like stand MP are confirmable but have a much smaller window compared to cr MK or cl HK for example

It's also not full screen. More like 45%-50% of the screen

it's just that SA2 can punish almost anything in the game with practice, even fast things like Geneijin activation

@@QuantemDeconstructor it cannot punish "just about anything" and also this has nothing to do with the confirmability of individual normals

Well, she may not have been in the original Street Fighter, but she still is the first playable female character in a fighting game ever. That makes her legacy.

Let's face it, SF2 is the start, no one really ever thinks of the first game. It's more like a pre-alpha build to SF2.

@@SkarrGaming Well, yeah. SF1 is just meme material...

@igorsemfronteiras2484 You guys know how many fanBOYs (Not girls. BOYS) Chun-Li has?! You know how much p0rn this character has?!

@@scorpioigor No, Typhoon Gal is the first playable female character from 1985

People really hated 3rd Strike back in the day...

That’s just a street fighter thing. Stand blocking is objectively worse than crouch blocking so to offset it stand blocking usually has you pushed less, recover quicker, and if you get hit while standing you have less hitstun and damage taken. Q however just takes more block stun than anyone because *shrugs* which means he has to red party stuff others just parry out of block.

There are a lot of characters with fast reversal supers, though. If that were the case, it's strange that things like Electric Snake, Seichusen Godanzuki, and Shippu are untouched, especially considering Shippu was 0f startup in the previous SF3. My guess is that they recognized that the characters have a more defensive playstyle and wanted to make getting in and pressuring them feel more rewarding, but that's also flawed because characters like Urien and Necro also have the space control tools but lack the extra blockstun.

Do you know how many fanboys Chun-Li has? More than you can count. You're not allowed to talk trash about the character anywhere.

@@philithegamer8265 third strike players LOVE to talk trash about chun lol. But she is super popular in the general fandom yeah

Welcome aboard! Glad you like them.

exactly. sf games dont really have the amount of moves like Tekken. its more about figuring out the character's strengths and weaknesses.

agreed. indeed she has thicc lower hurtbox

Isn't she top tier in Alpha 2?

@@aidanklobuchar1798 I don't remember but i'm not surprised if she's top tier.

Nope, we do want to go back to finish that, but from now on for these overviews series we want to focus on games that are more or less "done" and aren't being patched anymore. KoF XV, Strive etc are still in a state of flux.

@@ThatBlastedSalami figured as much, can’t wait for you to return to it!

@@ThatBlastedSalami Ohhhh ok that makes sense, thanks for saying it and keep doing what your doing!

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There will be more SF3 videos every day the next 18 days

Yep! Why we put KOFXV on hiatus.

​@@ThatBlastedSalami I assumed as much. Im happy KOFXV is on hiatus.

It has a release on the PC via fightcade but if you want to go old school, it's on the Dreamcast and on the PS2

Yes, quite a few. We'll get to them later!

This also confused me. I was like "so she has less block stun when crouching?"

This was thought provoking, and I agree with a lot of what you wrote, especially regarding older games. Thank you for the insightful comment. edit: Though I don't think strictly sticking to balanced risk / reward is what should be prioritised. Unintended developer oversight has resulted in some of the most interesting, emergent gameplay in fighting games - look at MVC2 or Tekken BDC for example. Games that tightly confine players to how the developer intended them to play often end up feeling like they were designed on an excel sheet.

​@@ThatBlastedSalami Thank you very much for the reply and for making a great point about emergent gameplay. Ideally emergent design will apply to the systems of a game and the way different characters and archetypes can play off of those systems in creative and fun ways, rather than result in wild swings in character balance. Much, much easier said than done, of course. The fact that Chun-Li is virtually God-tier in 3rd Strike probably has more to do with character imbalance than an issue with game's core systems favoring certain characters, or archetypes, over others. As Street Fighter pro player Mago said on his stream, the things that make for a top tier character in most fighting games are good buttons with reach that lead into big damage (and probably Oki pressure as well). In modern competitive gaming, the term mental stack has gained a lot of traction, and of course high tier characters overwhelm the mental stack more than lower tier characters, on account of how many things you have to be wary of at any given time. A good example of a modern game that played out like a spread sheet is of course SFV at launch and it's early years. I believe the developers over the years, as they tried to remedy the "on rails" nature of the competitive meta, intentionally put emergent elements into the game to allow for more expression and just fun, because their balance patches in the later years especially were never as simple as just clip this character's wings with subtle tweaks, or bust that character open with huge buffs; they almost always tried to give the entire cast new tools, and then they'd see where everything would settle before sometimes releasing a minor patch to address the most egregious out of whack elements. (I would love for you to make a video on how SFV changed as a game in its lifespan, that's now nearly over; and how - in my view - it has became a game that is in essence a dialogue between the past and the present.) Competative gamers Brian_F (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kR09DqQHY3Y.html) and LordKnight (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AzMdCnZv3jY.html) made two fantastic videos explaining the issues with emergent design if you're a competitive player. If you have the time, please check them out. Thanks again for engaging with me. Your content is fantastic. I don't even play Tekken, but I adore your Tekken videos. Much love from South Africa.

theyre doing every character just wait lel

They’re doing characters in order of strength, so you’re going to have to wait a while.

@@funkuro He'll be the last one for sure lol

@@TheGodOrpheus nah, I’d argue Q and Twelve are worse

@@funkuro Q is definitely better than Sean