getting to diamond with Honda to prove he takes no skill 

Sometimes the harder thing to do is empty your mind. Neutral is an illusion. There is only headbutt.

As a Blanka player, I'm thankful to Edmund for focusing all the character hate on him this time.

I've mained Honda since street fighter 2. This is payback for the years of fireball traps us Honda mains had to deal with.

I hate people and respect my own time. Guess I'm trying Honda.

We've come full circle. You and dotodoya were once the Krillin boys and now you're both headbutting your way thru SF6

"...that you do not need to be good to make Diamond with Honda." As a Honda main struggling to get out of Gold, I felt that. :(

The worst part about the headbutt and butt slam is how much drive they take on block

Dang. I was promised only headbutts and butt slams. There was more hundred hand slaps and jumping than i was expecting...

When the character's counter play is built around perfect parry, when the majority of the player base is not well versed in the mechanic, it becomes common to see Honda completely derail the match. Especially when people love to burn excessive drive gauge against the character who deletes 1 bar on a blocked headbutt, putting them into burnout (death sentence against honda).

I haven't even watched yet, but thumbnail is PEAK

I think what your video has proven is that judicious use of Drive Impact and good react time is a stone cold scrub-killer.

**Deep Breaths** "It's just a joke. Its all in good fun. You're not a bad person for maining Honda... It's all in good fun..."

DotoDoya going like 31 wins straight using just Headbutt and butt slam was the point I realised something was up lmao

I could literally taste the salt in this title.

To all those complaining about Honda... please continue. It fuels me.

Headbutt is an oxymoron now that I think of it.

I think they designed Honda to close zoner gaps intentionally so you have to play a guessing game about throws, which is his art form's obvious strength, which qualifies him as a 'sneaky grappler.' Long time Honda fan here enjoying this resurgence.

Something about your bald head playing a “head but archetype” character is god tier 😂

Edmund: I fear no man... but that thing... *Perfect parry* Edmund: It scares me...

As a Honda main I actually don't use headbutt very often, people are looking for it. They don't often expect the DR heavy kick combo starter or sumo lift mix ups.

Vesperarcade showed a great video of, I think it was Go1 as Honda, playing against maybe Kazunoko, and Kaz kept parrying the headbutt. Go1 thought it the parry was too good, but Dogura(?) didn't really believe that and told Go1 to throw out a standing fierce, and that made Kaz parry every time. It was hilarious. Anyways, Honda mains stand up! Also these plat players don't seem very good.

This was soooo fun to watch.

"There was pizza in my eyes" Feelin like Sajam today 💀

I’m a pretty new player and I play gief, would be really interested in your takes on his gameplay as someone who learned SF6 basics from your vids and also mains Gief. Always a good time when you upload, boss 👍🏻

Rooflemonger did say sf6 was a new era of ignorance for E Honda and at this point I believe him

You know what's hard. Getting up for work every day tell Honda to cover my shift.

I think it's nice to see Honda getting some love after being an underrated member of the franchise for so many years.

This video makes me want to pick up the game and main E Honda.

Confucius say why throw projectile, when you can throw yourself?

the deejay game 2 is what every game should look like if you play like that... just lab your options lol

I picked up SF6 after watching this as my first fighting game and only play Honda. Thanks for showing the way

I've missed your page man. Glad to see you🙌🏾

The wario of street fighter.

I’m not the only one that just gets totsugeki flashbacks everytime Honda headbutts right 😅

Godlike thumbnail work on this one lol. Also Diamond right off the bat? Let's goooo

Just made it to Diamond yesterday with Honda, coming from Gold to Diamond took me 4 days to get there. Now everyone suddenly learned how to perfect parry headbutt and punish the shit out of me so i am really needing to get more creative.

He did more than just headbutt and buttsplash so he refuted himself in the first thirty seconds

I meet people in silver who can perfect parry headbutts yet Broski and Jmcrofts can find Platinum players who can’t deal with it. It just makes me believe ranks below Diamond have no correlation with skill.

"Let me just throw out all the excuses! I had pizza in my eye!" Haha.

I watched your video this morning, did my placements after, ranked diamond 1 lol. Never played Honda before today.

King of the headbutts and butts to the head and I love it. Honda forever, no apologies!!!

I only need 2 moves. Proceeds to use everything at hondas disposal. Idk combos. Proceeds to do honda combos to win. Yeah proved a point there bud

I literally have no skill, so in your first fight when you said “oo! Whiff punish” I was like “k, I’m out” hahaha

During that Luke match, all i could hear was JWong's "YOU WILL LEARN"

I’d love to see what you can do with Chun Li.

The best endorsement of honda. Jmcrofts out here having fun getting to diamond

That thumbnail makes me think that jm's headbutt irl must hurt a lot. Bro is built different

I used to main Honda in SF2 and SF4. SF6 Honda is indeed his strongest appearance, HHS is not even a piano input now, back then only few people can do it... I know several people who got him to diamond or platinum by just spamming headbutts and buttslams. heck, even the No 1 Honda does it at times

what do you mean charge back forward + punch takes no skill?

C'EST TROP STYLÉ ! Tu risques de me faire passer au Hitbox juste pour le swag XD

My boy mains guile but had a pocket Honda so he doesn’t have to think so hard 😂

18:04 I actually think it's kind of weird that SF6 allows you to rematch on placement matches. It feels to me that the game should force you to play 10 unique players to get the best estimate of your ability. In this video you only played 4 players which I feel is not enough information to accurately gauge the proper ranking. But I do hate playing against Honda myself lol. Your video is making me want to use him. If you can't beat your enemy, join them!

I did this on my own account, but with Blanka. I've been slowly grinding to Diamond on my main, but qualified into Diamond with Blanka after having only looked at his movelist long enough to learn all the blanka balls, and his command throw.

the fun you had is priceless 🤣🤣🤣

Low Diamond and below as Honda is easy asf he’s a scrub killer, but high Diamond/master Honda is tough when playing the top tiers which are mostly bad matchups for Honda. I get the frustration though

You could get to same rank with other characters with scrub strats... people in the lower ranks dont really know better how to deal with some stuff... Sonic boom + flash kick, blanka balls, anyways... this doesn't work on higher ranks (I've played Honda since ST and now master rank here and I'm loving it)

Thank you for your valuable research.

This is hilarious, getting diamond immediately after qualifier also double the hilariousness.

I think you should qualify using Ryu, that'd be pretty fun.

Id like to see you do placements with a different random char because you'd prob rank high with any char

I love this video because I brought this up in my fgc chat the first week of the game and no one believed me lol

Brand new to street fighter and been maining Marisa. Played 8 placement matches with Honda and won them all so far haha

Meanwhile a specific Vtuber loses to a fellow Honda user to the point she wants to throw ashtray at the guy's face 😂

Great video but you can do this because you gave solid fundamentals. I got to put in more hours even with a character like Honda

That was bloody ridiculous. Nice 😂

I’m glad I stuck around because you make me laugh

I laughed the whole time, reminds me of the little kid that does the same move over and over and wins 😂 I can hear those guys yelling “stop doing the same move”

To be fair, you didn't only Headbutt and Splash. You didn't commit to the bit.

So what it seems like is that even with a powerful move like Headbutt, strong gamesense and counterplay will always be more reliable and effective. Good lesson today.

Thanks to this vid.. Honda will be my goto when I have a bad day at work...😂

all i saw is skill

"You can beat everyone with just head butt and butt splash, no skill required. You only need 2 moves!". Dude proceeds to play skillfully using nearly the full repertoire of moves, will timed DIs, even a few combos here and there.. taking note of when attacks are punishes or when they were avoidable, talking about the frame data of his opponents as he's fighting them. "See? Hopefully I've proved it today, you don't need skill to skill play Honda. You only need Headbutts to win." Nah man, you're just a great player. lol

1:08 that gief should have had you eating pavement with OD SPD, you had him SHOOK

This footage makes these plats look like chumps compared to the mid gold opponents I'm always facing.

I'm glad Honda is good. It's been a while. I wish he took more skill and/or had more intricate strategies.

10 matches to diamond is crazy

holy shit e honda tbags 12:27

That thumbnail is art.

He's an honest character.

When I started I went by the rank I got when I played SF5 one month before SF6 launched (bronze). So I won 9/10 and got placed in gold (faced some silvers and golds in the first like 7 rounds). Climbed all the way to diamond by realizing something pretty simple: People all the way to platinum don't know how to walk forward consistently. As long as I could anti-air and headbutt the drive rush, they could not move forward at all, sometimes even cornering themselves waiting for a headbutt to perfect parry. People are right that Honda carries, but not for the reason they think. I believe he carries not because "hur dur specials are plus", but because he exposes other people's weaknesses, and judging by the amount of rage quits or quits after single losses, I think most people don't even care to learn what those weaknesses are.

10:20 my most genuine reaction to the information you have provided me with

The funniest JM Crofts video I’ve ever watched 😂🤣🤣🥳

I actually made it to diamond 2 with Honda without a single combo, I just did headbutt, buttsplash and some jabs.

You voided the challenge the moment you used anything other than headbutt and butt splat. Like you say it only takes these 2 and then you use other stuff.

I gotta say, JM has really upped his movie poster metagame. I kinda wanna see a buddycop movie where Honda and JM can't really get along but still have to team up to weed out corruption at the Red Bull Kumite. Also, I think my scrub ass will also take Honda to Master, just to be a degenerate. XD

This feels like a May Dolphin situation lol

Love your vids man. I'm a Jurri main (No I don't have a foot fedish) I just reached platinum a few days ago. Do you think you can make a tire list video where you rank all of the sf6 characters based on how much you like them personally or just how likely you would main them?

Im glad honda exists so that i can make it to plat with no skill lol

Thanks for giving me the cheat code to win in SF6. Head empty, only headbutt!

Fun fact (not really), LP headbutt is safe against both drive impact and even more perplexing, drive reversal (you literally get a free punish for your opponent attempting). The risk/reward going for a perfect parry is also heavily in Honda's favor since if you mess up and Honda gets a punish counter headbutt, it will out damage your combo since it starts off with 50% scaling.

SF6 absolutely turned me from a Honda fan to a Honda enemy.

It's like saying Sonic boom takes no skill. You can literally get to diamond with guile with sonic boom and his anti air plus a few normals.

Why can you do headbutts so fast when I try to do them I have to hold back for like 5 seconds before it lets me use that move in neutral?

I often joke to myself that JM's thumbnails are just old pics of him holding his forehead, lol, but I like this new style a lot.

""i swear you get diamond with honda only doing headbut and butslam'", "" you do not need to be good with honda to make diamond with honda"" ..... them he play like a regular player using the most stuff of the character... such a click bait hahahaha

Honestly it's no different then playing blanka and spaming ball. It's no different then playing rush downs that can cancel 90% of their moves in to DI or DR. It's no different then playing Modern geif and turtling to fish for command grab etc. Every character does have a cheeser strategy it's just can you make it work of if you are going to employ it.

Boy! I sure hope sumo slam has a high recovery frame count!

JM lookin slim in the corner there my man has been WORKIN in the gym

Everyone: Wait, Honda's brainless? SF2 Players, probably: Always has been

tbh, you should watch where you throw stones, mr glass house lily main. sure honda is a better character, but lily likely is easier to play imo. her gameplan is really really one dimensional and ive seen people with no effort or practice rank her up as well.