How A Player Exploited the Meta to Win Championships 

Every time Akuma drops, I immediately think of Tokido and the hell he's about to unleash.

The matter of fact delivery of "I have to take it seriously. Its my job!" Is just so so so good

He's biggest achievement was defeating dsp and putting him in the legendary 4th place.

Fun joke is that Tokidos name is a reference to his cheapness in KOF with Iori lol

2017 Evo Finals was hype in person

This guy didn't lose a single set in round robin? No wonder Justin Wong put him as his number 1 fighting game player of all time. Not just street fighter, but fighting game player of all time

Akuma had a lot of mix ups and crazy moves in sf4. The opponent had to guess a lot.

how is it considered as exploiting meta if there are only 3 Akuma in Top 16 and he's the only Akuma in Top 8

0:37 papa: He's been using Vega SF2 footage: Balrog Ah, this naming mess never gets old

Beautiful editing and ease of viewing. Thanks for this video :)

I think my favorite tokido story is tokido vs daigo post evo 2017. and their eventual rematch where tokido got his payback.

where u been papa

It's 2am I should probably go to bed

Always look forward to your vids! Amazing work again

5:14 really nobody gonna talk about how my guy literally pulls ouit a tape measure to measure his sitting distance? shit had me dieing lmaooo

Was thinking about you and your content the other day. Always eager for your latest upload!!

"When I'm praying I make a silly ass face" © Tokido

awesome video! Tokido def one of my favorite players.

tokido is and has always been one of the best sf players to ever touch the game, his best year in sf5 was 2017 where he was beating literally everyone, and hopefully he can have another year like that in sf6

great video keep up the good work ....Tokido makes games so hype

You forgot the give us his iconic line about Fighting Games ;'(

"Fighting games are something soo great."

Great video Papa

I love these types of videos. I either learn so much about the fighting game players or about some of the greatest moments in fighting game history. Thank you for all the work you do Papalobster 🔥👍🏼

another banger papa

"It's my job." There's something so funny yet chilling about that. Yeah, he enjoys this, but at the end of the day, he'll be damned if he lets anyone take food off of his table for free.

I just always think of Metalocalypse when I hear “Murderface” lol Met him irl several times tho, he’s a great guy

That is actually how you play KOF. He has a KOF strategy.

12:11 he was almost defeated immediately after his victory.

Good stuff brother, keep making videos! very good, very knowledgeable.

I watched through the whole video and i am left with just one burning question in my mind... How exactly did he exploit the Meta again?

I watched that tokido punk fight on live stream in China, it was awesome

the taunt combo is so poetic. Punk had t-bag and taunted opponents many times, tokido knew how to crack him

I'm surprised you didn't mention his two FT10 matches against Daigo.

Love the content ❤

Man has mastered the satsu no hado in real life.

Another lobster banger!

'Exploiting the meta" is a sus way to say "playing the game correctly "

Murderface is known to play bass in a metal band from time to time

Fridays are good. Fridays with PapaLobster dropping the lore are better.

Tokido was also the only other Japanese player to win a major MvC3 tournament due to understanding the meta early and made top 8 in KOF XIII EVO with DLC characters.

Tokiiiiiii DOOOOOOOO - great work papi

How is he exploiting anything if anyone can use the same character tokido uses?

Dad finally come back from buying milk

thank you for including the good and the bad in tokidos video ❤❤

He was actually really good at KOF XIII as well. His Chin was oppressive.

I like how that’s considered cheap lol. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. I wonder what is ChrisG’s MorriDoomVergil Team in UMVC3 considered then? Just simple high execution?

Glad your back take it easy Cuhzo ones a week upload Awsome

Hey broski, great vid im subbed. 👍 (btdub) u remind me of chum lee from pawn stars. Lol

Great little doc. Well done sir

Good video, I suggest a little more audio balancing between clips and voiceover though, I had to turn audio up and down s few times heh

Making my opponent guess is also a huge part of my playstyle as well and my favorite characters to do it with are Sagat, Lei Wulong, and Shang Tsung.

Amazing

THE LOB RETURNS

Amazing video

The comeback wins 🤌🏼

Tokaido vs punk will always be a classic

peak definition of "dont hate the player, hate the game"

The stare between him and mena is hard af

great vid

Real shame is that these days a lot of people only think of Tokido as a SF player.

Tokido please bring back Evo moments again with Akuma

Ultra sf4 tokido akuma was a lot of footsies, Fuudo vs Tokido at canada cup 2015 was such a legendary set.

Tokido the legendddddddd

That Johannes Bornlof though. Rise of the Phoenix raw.

Great video.

I wanna see Mago, Fuudo and especially Kazunoko come out more to US tourneys.

I met Takido in South Africa Kumite 🔥🇿🇦

BRO WHERE HAVE YOU BEEEEENNN!!!! WELCOME BACK!!

Seeing Tokido play Ryu is so wild

I don’t think he exploited the meta more than he defined it but i guess that’s a matter of perspective 💀

Great video about the GOAT

Wake up babe new PapaLobster video is up

I really enjoyed this video

Out of curiosity. What the deal with Tower of Terror just chilling in the back?

Good stuff

Chumlee it's that you? Nice video

Blue lobster jumpscare

8:57 wtf is that man on 😂

My man really did say "pick a top tier" huh?

So basically tokido is that kid that people hate playing from the cheapness

I wish I could be a fgc legend, but i was born in 2000. ^^;

That evo win against punk was insane

Damn RIP FChamp and Infiltration. 😅

Going up against punk twice, fchamp, and kazunoko is wild

Happy to see papalobster back! Like comment and subscribe fellas

nice vid

Takedo is one of the all time greats of street fighter

Tokido will always play akuma unless he becomes too hard to win with, in a game like sfv the balance was so over the place that you kind of had to go top tier as a pro. Hiom picking Luke is not something I enjoyed....but then again every pro player switcxhed to luke, he was just too strong

Tokido knocked out the 4th place American Champion in 07

We all know Tokido big moments. But a couple of years ago I seen ISDD first to 10, Tokido was Urien att and his fundamentals were what impressed me. There was a lot of 2-2 rounds but he'd always take last round and game and it was 10-1 Tokido but it looked like a 10-7, Guile Vs Urien it was a great set dispite the score. But also I've just started playing SF6 because I needed a Brook Adapter for my stick and it's a different Street fighter and I'm not sure I like it, I don't like you can't jump over your opponent in the corner, surely that has to be a first in SF. Anyway it's different for sure and I'm just trying to time these drive rush cancels or whatever, yknow the green glow dash, I don't really like that either. I think they should have put as much attention into a proper SF rather than change the game mechanics so much that I can't see the continuation from 3,4,5 to 6. Maybe it'll grow on me I'm not sure.

Used sim in alpha 3 as well

People have to stop calling techniques dirty. If you got your ass folded up, you learn the rotation and punish. Sometimes, all it takes is a good eye and the ability to punish quickly then reset.

It blows me away how good MenaRD is. He's the current SF god

The GOAT.

12:15 Dude on bottom right looks like Brian_F

the irony of losing to the dirty bullhorn that was safe in grand finals vs mena was hilarious

Just out of curiosity how do people see punk nowadays? I remember he was America's sweetheart back on this Evo he got second place in but then it seems to me people started having a more negative opinion of him or something. Legit asking, haven't followed the FGC in a minute

Alternative title: "How a Player Played the Game Put in Front of Him to Win Championships"

Tookido has mastered the satsui no hado