***** Not unless it's prior to knockdown. Doing that shit mid/full screen will get you a first-class ticket to a dash straight or Machine Gun Blow. Or hell, U1.
+King Buffalo but most dudley's use corkscrew cross not rolling thunder. though Balrog's is a major threat at mid screen if punch version. Even a balrog super can knock Elena out of healing. I don't know if TAP does much though.
EatTheWorld well im not at all qualified to say, but in my opinion, I think chun li was a better choice than akuma for footsies and zone control against elena. :) but it is infiltration and I guess he has the most characters to choose than anybody else
Kuro Shinko The entire thing had to be my fave really. -Winners Finals where Infil takes a page from Strider and forces Momochi to switch. -Nemo's Rolento causing headaches for everyone just because _Rolento_. But was damn near masterful and just ran into Gamerbee who had answers. And the explosive set with AiAi who finally got it together after being BTFO by Infil in winners. -Grand Finals where I had confidence Bee was going to break Momochi's Ken (like he did in last year's EVO match up) but also incurred the wrath of a familiar demon: Evil Ryu. so damn memorable.
BludAardvark Gamerbee should hold his head high. He did technically beat Momochi. He reset the bracket. The guy must have been mentally exhausted by then, and then after everything to have Momochi switch to Evil Ryu...
Love these types of matches. Gamerbee playing incredibly patiently, never losing his cool, and it payed off. His spacing at the end was godly Infiltrations comeback at 20:45 was legendary too!
Man, This better be the match they show for Gamerbee's player profile, I don't care how stupid long it is. An absolute mental war of attrition. A Street Fighter game has a max of ~5 minutes and they managed to stretch 5 games to 30 minutes. Long thoughts about counterpicks, long rounds where losing focus could end your tournament life. I'm tired just watching it. Unless Capcup has some absolutely stunning games, this match will go down as best of the year for me, maybe my favourite set in SFIV's history (I've definitely come back and watched it more than any other).
***** ".All those fights with Elena was not nice to watch", could you explain this to the guys whooping this was the best evo matches ever? Because this match was actually horrible.
completely enthralled, never liked watching elena because of how hard it makes it for some characters in the matchup, but infiltration has every character in the game to choose from and it was just awesome for hi to show that great diversity throughout the top 8 both here and against momochi
this match was the one that secured my love for Street Fighter I picked up the game at the launch of Ultra and immediately was interested in Elena, but I knew she wasn't a good beginner character, and at that point she was considered pretty bad as well to my knowledge. Gamerbee always seemed like such a great guy to me, and seeing him make everyone realise that Elena was good was just so amazing. I can't remember who said it, but a commentator said during Evo that Gamerbee made it so that everyone had to have their main character, and then a pocket Elena, just because she was so strong. Watching this live was just so amazing, and I wish that something like this could happen again but with the state of SFV that seems unlikely
SFV was rough especially at launch and, while it got better as time went on, it never had the same hype as SFIV for me. SFVI however :) it's like a combination of USFIV and 3rd Strike and the most hype I've ever been for Street Fighter. Such an amazing game. With that and the newer Resident Evil games/remakes Capcom is really turning things around for the better and I couldn't be happier.
What an exhausting, emotional and brilliant match to watch, geez. Can only imagine what was going through these guys' heads with this much at stake! Really tense stuff.
I can't really blame Gamerbee for the Elena play it's Capcom's fault really, but it was disgusting and no doubt she will be seeing nerfs sooner or later.
I know what happens, i know how it ends, i notice the damn title. But when i watched this, i was hypnotized by both players. I FORGOT EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MATCH, Legendary game guys. You dudes ruled my F**King World!!
So Juri has projectiles, so her neutral isn't too bad, and an incredible punish game when she has her ultra... I don't play SF, so could someone please tell me what her flaw is? Does she have one?
RiN she can't press some buttons when she has her fireballs charged meaning her pokes can be limited when she wants to hold on to fireballs, she has slightly lower health then normal. Her ultra is only really good if you manage to get on overhead/low since your opponent is gonna be very defensive when you use it and her ultra 2 isn't great. Also her projectile gets beat out by better projectile chars such as poison, sagat, guile. Overall she is a great character tho and was underplayed imo
her fireballs are all stores, her footsie game isn't simple like ryus her buttons are all situational, to punish and have optimal damage you need to have a fireball store which cripples her again because if she has her low fireball stored she cant tech throws, medium can't focus attack and heavy isnt good for combos. She also lacks a real reversal on wakeup playing her is really tough but once you get pass that barrier she can compete with the best characters but you can't telegraph your gameplan.
Wow. Years and years of boring street fighter players doing nothing but hadokens; and then GamerBee doesn't even have a fireball of his own, but just says "Go ahead. I'll be sitting over here when you're ready to fight." Shame that so many matches went to the timer though.
i dont know why everyone was cheering for gamerbee in the grand final. after i saw this match for the seconed time i realised that infiltration was a more deserving to be in the final.
1. Gamerbee deserved the win.2. Elena antifirespam tactic was brilliant and gratifying to see. 3. Infiltration Hugo versus SnakeEyez Zangief can be FAR more fully appreciated after seeing these matches. Favoriting.
What's the deal with Infiltration's Gouki folks ? His Gouki play is the most precise and beautiful play I've ever witnessed in this game. Gouki's last (Ultra) version is nerfed ?
Now THIS was great to watch. Especially compared to the infamous Rose vs Sagat match. Also, if Elena seems to be widely considered as a low tier character, why does she get so much play? Is she merely a counterpick?
Shes not that good but shes not horrible her damage output is quite low compared to other character because alot of her main tool is jabs or a medium kick into a special. But she does do well in quite a few matchups in which adon fails in so shes there to sorta cover his ass in certain matchups in which he doesnt want to use adon in.
+Shin0bu Elena is not low tier. People just don't know how to use her. Especially her SFX/SF4 model. She can really kick ass. She's a black female and that's a taboo sterotype the fighting community doesn't accept yet.
Charlie Chang Except I still don't think she even looks black. She's just got dark skin. It's like, "Oh we'll have an African woman, and she's a princess, but she's got white hair, blue eyes, and the facial structure of... not African women." Or maybe I'm just ranting. But still....
Charlie Chang "She's a black female and that's a taboo sterotype the fighting community doesn't accept yet." LOL subtle pull of that race card The fighting community had Elena and she no less kicked ass & was not considered low tier by back in Street Fighter 3 over a decade ago. Nothing to do with one's skin color, that's really painting the community as formally racist and that's never been true. You need to get over your identity political BS.
A Gamer Aaron Yeah I'm gonna have to agree on that. Although IMO there are still a few minority representation issues in gaming, it's fully irrelevant here. People pick strong characters in tournaments because they want to win, not because the character happens to be white.
This is probably the greatest set of Street Fighter IV in Evo history. Combined with things like Sleepin's comeback in KI and KBR vs J. Wong in MvC 3 this is probably the best Evo so far.
