I Got Every SF6 Character To Master Rank And I Have Some Thoughts 

the most medium fireball you ever did see

Medium fireball should just be normal medium fireball that doesn't spend denjin

I think light and medium fireball/hashogeki should just come out as normal and not consume the denjin charge. So you're not forced to choose between denjin hashogeki and being able to throw a fireball in neutral

Or even a Denjin Shoryuken. I know his CA is already a Denjin Shoryuken though, so maybe they can make his normal DP like a... diet Denjin Shoryuken, ya know? A weaker version of the super.

@@BadmanOfBanterburythis!

Learning characters would help you know what you're talking about. Who would have thought?

Bro, this is his job. All he has to do is sit in front of monitor all day and press the buttons

​@@R4V3NU5along with being entertaining first of all, moderating his chat , planning RU-vid content, explaining his thought process, etc. This is all aside from his other job of actually being a professional commentator and flying out to production locations to work with broadcast teams. It's a cool and particularly unique job but it's still work dude

@@docsaysurdeadNone of that is godlike. Like at all.

@@666slateran666You know how it is these days, everything is the best or the worst, a lot of d riding too.

It’s definitely impressive, but this is just what happens when a player is on their way towards the higher rank their level of play actually is

Lots of people don't realize it but Sajam is a good player kinda sometimes

@@rafdes you came this far just to downplay him? Tourney nerves are tourney nerves. Sajam isn’t bad at any fighting game he touches. It’s not a kinda sorta thing. I’m prepared to go even harder on you. Do you think the current pool of commentators are just color commentators that hop on the mic because they drowned in pools? Sajam, Jiyuna, Yipes, tastysteve, Aris, James Chen; these are all equivalent to pool sharks. Just because they aren’t wearing jerseys doesn’t mean they won’t wash the entire FGC that isn’t playing in tourney. I’m embarrassed for you. Please give these people more respect.

@@jevonsw1 the dude was just making a little jibe, not even at Sajam's expense but at anyone thinking he's not a good player

@@jevonsw1 damn dude. you need to increase your experience with other people so you can expand your knowledge of how people speak. The guy was clearly, uncontroversially joking.

i have a plat deejay and i've never even bothered with his level 2 before lol. might give it a try now

I almost want to use Modern because I can not reliably execute the start of the move when I need it. I find I can do the heavy version easiest, but Modern takes it away, so it just is a reversal.

I have a combo that fails 1/7 times maybe, it does 50 more damage but it looks cooler

Bot.

@intellectic9155 ok? Thanks for the input

no just jamie, afaik. since drinking after 4 drinks gives him drive gauge anyway.

i feel like it would be cool if every character with an install move had it recover drive gauge if they already have the buff on them. i have no idea how broken it would be but it seems like a funny and cool change lol (obv also wouldn't apply to install supers that aren't jamie's lvl 2, not like you can gain meter while using an install super anyway)

There's a few semi obscure mechanics like that. Like blanka lvl 2 making his lvl 1 hit full screen

Only if he’s level 4

If you do Jamie’s 6hk 4hk p target combo and delay the punch at drink level 4, he staggers back and chugs like his SA 2. I’ve never done it in match or seen anyone use it either.

Sanford Kelly would like a word

She is infuriatingly strong honestly, people are just playing her wrong, i fully believe this. She is the strongest grappler Capcom ever made.

She’s strong. She’s just a little too honest at the highest levels. She doesn’t really have any cheap shit that she can just do and make an opponent deal with.

@@rickpeters8204 the problem is shes the strongest grappler in a game where everyone else has strong throw loops and better damage then her. Her risk reward is very bad early on so she has to be right on several interactions in order to be competitive with better characters damage wise and shes often prone to dying on her own offense.

​@@rickpeters8204No. Just no. She really isn't.

She needs a projectile. Let her toss her medals like they're fireballs, but she loses a level every time she does so. Hire me, Capcom.

She should at least lose 1 or 2 depending on how many you already have. She shouldn’t lose all of them because unlike Jamie drinks or Juri Fuhajin you can’t get it for free with distance

Yeah we work tooo darn hard for the medals and the damage isn't improving much from level 1 to 5. Jamie takes a sip and boom he's back but with Manon you literally have to go to a danger zone up close... Hell no she's already having a tough time keeping up with all these rush down characters and zoners. People could complain if level 5 had the same damage as Giefs Screw Pile Driver, but it doesn't Soooo it's a no go.

​@@Step43099but why would Manon lose medals if it's literally her own reward system she has in place in her head? With Jamie it makes sense for him to lose them as he is sweating it out and maybe between battles he has a toilet break but hers is like a mental medal where she constricts herself to not go beast mode from the get go but she keeps count of her moves in her head, she rewards herself mentally to be able to go ham on her opponent once she reaches those internal rewards, she needs to feel worthy of them and she respects her opponents in that regard. Manon is not like Gief that just demolishes his opponens from the get go, she rather has a more fair method. Shes not like Jamie either, Jamie is like the rebellious sinner type. Jamie takes shots and have parties all up in the place , Manon is his opposite, where with her it's all about self control and constricting herself to not just indulge in her strength, but only to indulge once she deserves to. Let the swan 🦢 spread her wings with her level 5 medal, she deserves to be free. 😅

​@@louisfacadeare you really trying to apply that kind of logic to fighting game balance? 😂

@@dizzygunner Jamies drink input is Soooo easy and quick after one drink boom man is next level.

I am also Platinum 4 Chun Li, but I believe Diamond would be easy if I had more time. I could maybe reach it today. I am trying to get other characters close to Platinum 1 when I need a break.

@@sigurdtheblue ‘easy’ isn’t in my vocabulary lol. I’m ADHD(C-Type) and also have to work on my reactions. Also been trying to clean my inputs a bit.

I'm silver with Marisa. That's all.

Exactly, when she’s found the momentum she needs she can be really oppressive but until then she struggles in comparison to everyone else

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Sajam's been playing fighting games for a long time, and he has a lot of experience with older SF titles as well. A lot of that carries over. And like he said, he's only focusing on the basic elements of each character. Having good fundamentals and being able to understand what your opponent wants to do in a match and acting accordingly takes you very far.

At 4 drinks the level 2 super gives him drive gauge, it doesn’t take away drinks because it doesn’t give you any drinks to take, since you were already at the max.

@@SquidwardProfilePic yeah this super is CRIMINALLY underused

@@Prodighee it can’t be used to it’s fullest potential because most Jamie players dont make the effort to get to 4 drinks, they’d rather keep the pressure after 1 or 2 and just win like that instead of having to reset neutral and give the enemy more chances to win.

Super Art 2 is best used as a combo extender; if you confirm into it near roundstart, you can then do c.HP into double Palm and now you're a Jamie with 4 Drinks while your opponent is already missing 40% of their health. You can easily snowball with this install, but you better win the round afterwards, since during the install you don't get any super meter for dealing or receiving damage, but your opponent does. Chances are, you're gonna start the next round with 1 bar of super while the opponent has 3. That, unless you do SA2 while at Drink Level 4. The install timer doesn't start, so you can still get meter and snowball *even harder.* (Although if you're at DL4 as Jamie, then you're most likely near the end of the round anyways) You can also just use it to make moves safe on block. Personally, I like to throw out random OD Bakkai's (his breakdance special move) on neutral, and then cancel them into SA2, to make an otherwise -46 on block move actually PLUS on block. And if it connects instead, you get a full combo out of it ;D

Yeah it's weird you get the charge and immediately want to stop throwing plasma so you can use the charge on hasogeki in a combo

Yeah that's like the only thing I have a problem with on ryu

I agree. I think both of these would be HUGE improvements at least in terms of how he feels. Biggest issue is the dissonance of setting up your BUFF only to put you in a position where you don't want to use any specials

Ah, stealing one from Hakan... and I don't mean drinking olive oil.

I still for the life of me don't know what that word means outside of the context of ryu/shoto mains throwing it at any character who doesn't share their game plan

​@@doctordice2doctordice210 gimmick?

@@BoomtetrisforJeff yeah, because it usually just boils down to "this character is different, reee" instead of "this character has a one dimensional shtick" like the poison mechanic A.K.I has isn't a unique mechanic, it's a gimmick, that sort of thing

@@doctordice2doctordice210 I always assume it means that their unique mechanics aren't backed up by good fundamental tools or a varied gameplan. So when you play as or against them they can do their one thing to you but they're bad once you know how to deal with it. Like how Sajam described Honda in this video.

@@prodigaIProdigy that's the idea, (I think) but the word itself is kinda just as blindly overused as calling something "broken"

You can already end combos in donkey kick and get a charge that way.

@@bartekkko Oh yeah! I didn't have any real practical change in mind, more that i thought it would be cool. If Ken can have things change with the fire on his shoryuken in 6, why can't Ryu have new effects with the lightning on his?

Easymode character too

@@Gankstomper I'm not very good at SF6 yet lmao it's my first SF game

Time and experience

@@DeadKaat Don't sweat it. Sajam's been playing FGs for very long and has a good mentality for learning, hence his content's really good for breaking it down.

@@GaminexPro I just recently got into Sajam but I'll definitely take your word for it and watch more! Do you think his road to mastery series is good for learning from?

Not Sajam obviously, but imo I think Sim is A) one of the harder characters in the game and B) is good while having specific weaknesses. Classic Sim buttons, teleport, good fire balls, and good setups while having intentionally bad defense, slow/floaty, commital pokes, and needs that setup to be threatening. It isn’t so much that he’s over/under powered, it’s that he’s locked behind an unorthodox playstyle that takes more skill to abuse, making him a more average character. It’s not that he needs buffs, he needs more time/a good player to unlock more of his potential.

@@lukezane7952 appreciate the response either way- I think thats a good take. Not weaker at maximum function, just harder to get there (so will perform weaker from the same people). Good spot to be if you wanna feel good about playing the character haha.

Unless it's a combo ender I only use it on opponents jumping away. Seems to be the only time it's reasonably consistent to hit. Even then it can be dicey.

​@@benlevett2354it works when they jump back or up. I'm in Plat and people are scared of Drive Rush SPD so they jump on wake up and it catches them every time

​@@Cheltastiqueeven on neutral jump I find it dicey doing it on reaction. It's generally fine to hit if you do it in anticipation and guess right no matter which way they jump. But on react it's spotty as hell. And if you guess wrong and they stay grounded it's super punishable.

What rank are you these days? Did you reach Master.

Bottom of Diamond, I reckon Master about this time next year, lol. @@markchavez738

I'm not sajam I'm rank 3 diamond and beat master ranks quite often but her simple drive rush combo is the best. Starting with medium kick poke and then doing a stance cancel combo. Doing her quarter circle down heavy kick that jumps to the opposite side is super strong to do as a mix up and as far as her overall gameplan I would say she's extremely fluid you have the option to play aggressive with her or defensive because she has fire balls and great anti airs. She also has great anti fire ball options. To play her successfully you just have to mix up a lot with her stance and very simple buttons I check players constantly with small simple stuff like LP LP LP and light spinning bird kick.

I know you're talking specifically about a book or other written media, so if you're already aware of this just disregard this comment, maybe it'll help someone else. That said, if you go to his channel's page, he has two playlists that add up to basically what you're talking about. One is titled "Learning How To Learn" and the second is titled "Sajam Talks General Fighting Game Strategy." If you add them up, they're basically the equivalent of a beefy audiobook version of the Old and New Testaments for fighting games. If you finish both of them and want the extended apocrypha and deeper hidden wisdom, then there's a third titled "Sajam Talks Fighting Game Design & Philosophy."

I honestly think just giving her a cancelable cr mk would go a reaally long way for her.

well a) dive kick sucks and b) how often do you even see jamie players

Trust me. In bronze you just need to focus on anti-airs and the random Di's and you will get to silver easily. Just don't be too agressive and over complicate things.

Should probably be a bit better spread than that. Her power spike after one drink would be crazy

@@Amaling i think combining drink 2 and 3 would be an even bigger spike

I don't think it's necessarily designed for you to get to max drink level every match

@@Switcheroo4542 yeah but what if you want to play a character that isn't shit

I think it just goes to show how incredibly important strong fundamentals are.

@@NickJJU Oh, for sure, but it's the difference between someone who has a basic understanding of them and someone who literally does this for a living.

That Jamie player’s one of the most famous street fighter 3 players in the whole fgc.

I’m new to SF scene this tells me nothing