Inside the mind of the Beast - Daigo 

If you would like a more fundamental primer on the throw/shimmy/meaty mindgame, check out this earlier video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZmaFAVlIqc8.html

This is quickly becoming the best Daigo-focused RU-vid channel. Keep the amazing Daigo content coming!

Umeshoryu? More like Umethrowyou.

The content about risk reward, where everything kills, just do the option with the most reward, reminds me of Sun Tzu where he says that if you are in a really bad spot, attack with full force. Thanks Brian and some old chinese general, for helping me win RPS interactions on SFV.

When Daigo does it, he's a genius. When I do it, I'm random.

Brian upload?? Pog

"you can make a whole youtube video about this one interaction" *proceeds to make a whole youtube video about this one interaction*

Wow Brian I remember back when u had only 7k, I don’t even play SF anymore, and suddenly I come check you out, and u have like 3 times more. Love ya man!

And what was even more Ballsy was that he did it AGAIN in the corner less than half a minute later, from a St.lk block before clutching out that round. Kawano by the 2nd throw was probably stumped that his corner shimmy tech was getting blown up against an opponent with 0 health in the corner and he still couldn't close out the win for the round. Hella demoralizing... 😅

I have just noticed something: In the very first round of the Guile v Claw they had, Daigo and Kawano had THE SAME situation. That time, Daigo went for a EX Flashkick, which was also successful. This surely adds up to the mindset in this great video.

Daigo is so good at higher levels because he can seemingly turn it on and off during matches, he’ll play like he’s a noob playing random and panicking one second making you think “is he serious?!” while you’re thinking that he’s walking up throwing you and turning the “pro switch” back on to steal the match

i remember watching diago lab walk forward throw against shimmies like a year ago on stream, never thought he'd actually find a use for it in tournament

great explanation. For people who just dismiss Daigo as a "spammer," these kinds of details would completely fly over their heads. This is why he's the beast.

Hey, Brian! I honestly love your content. You not only play, but you teach, you talk and you show lots of things about the whole FGC in general! I really think you have bright future as a caster, or maybe creating your own 'show' related to FGs. I can easily picture you interviewing other players. You have the eloquency and the charisma! I doubt that's what you are going for, but you are a natural.

Walk forward throw.Thats experience right there. Daigo been through so many battles, he could almost predict the future.

That thumbnail lmao i often see this move in my sleep saying dooooont juuuuump i have been hit by it so much.

I just watch fgc translated channel that translated Daigo stream. He talk about this and it is a good watch to hear Daigo talk about it.

Thanks for the breakdown Brian.

i very much appreciate the annotations on this, ty editor

Who does your thumbnails? It's my new desktop wallpaper. Artistic brilliance.

Daigo is like the Santa Clause of the FGC. A major tournament without Daigo is like Xmas without a tree, it is simply not right!

Great breakdown brain f

Dude I don’t play SFV I play Tekken, but I watch these anyway because the breakdowns are too good. We got content creators in Tekken too but imagine if Brian F were as well 🤌🏻

13:50 You forgot the most important point, the walk fwd throw mentally shook the opponent. It makes the attacker rethink everything.

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That's what we call the UmeGuess

I love Daigo, i see someone talking about him i watch and like

As a philosopher of game theory and being a grappler at heart, when Brian said it’s grappler propaganda that everything isn’t 50/50 and it’s more he’s wrong on one thing. It’s not grappler propaganda. It’s just facts what you said and a REAL person who understands how classical/ operant conditioning works, will tell you that everything is a mind game. Every decision isn’t 50/50, 1/3, 1 out of 4; tbh they have so many layers to how you can condition that a single abare situation can be made to condition 6 different interactions and it’s mixing option counterpart can make more options to condition the same main mindgame. What I’m saying sounds abstract but a real conditioner get what I’m sayin. Brian, I’m happy you made this video, and know, your a student of conditioning too and you understand what your studying. TLDR grappler propaganda isn’t real, everything isn’t 50/50 because mind games have hella layers and this is from a grappler player.

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my feeble mind told me that was a hard read😵‍💫

Great analysis.

>17 minute video: here’s the series of thoughts that went through this master’s head >Daigo’s brain, probably: “i wonder if I can get away with this. I bet I can.”

Daigo also mentored Kawano and knew him well enough to prep for the "surprise" Claw pick. Could it be a personality-based read?

> When Daigo does walk-up throw after getting knocked down, genius 5-head play. > When I do walk-up throw after getting knocked down, random af gold player jk great video as always. love seeing these breakdowns of player decisions. always learn a lot about the inner workings of the game.

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Don't and won't play SFV, but I watch Brian's S-tier content.

If I remember correctly, Daigo had not done any UME flashkicks in the tournament up to this moment. Played safe and reasonable. This is like he made a statement to KAWANO that he would do crazy moves like this and can you still stay cool. I think KAWANO's probability function got seriously messed up. After this, Daigo did a lot of UME flashkicks and the success rate was very high if not 100%.

Kawano also spent all his meter getting Daigo into the corner. I assume it made it easier for Daigo to do such a ballsy play

Thumbnail is accurate.

daigo is just Brian’s cash cow now

Great analysis as always Brian

Check out Daigo's boxer vs john choi's o.sagat if you haven't seen it, another showcase why he's the Beast

Hi, Twitch chat!

And if you include his success in SSF2T, Daigo thinks “outside the Boxer”

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Walking forward and grabbing on wake up is a common strategy in Fantasy strike characters since grabs are 3 frames. Jaina is a prime example of a character that can take advantage of a shimmy since she always has a reversal, fast walking speed, and a fast jump attack that leads to 50/50 on block

I'm still waiting for, Inside the mind of Brian_F: The accidental charge.

There's a reason why people like diago is a top player in the world and we're not.

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More awesome content again. Congrats on the Kumite. Rooting for you.

Definitely got shmixed by Brains opening. Ggs

The thumbnail shows all you need to know

"We should all take a page out of Daigo's book. And try to learn new ways to approach seemingly impossible situations." If I do that, I'm a random scrub though.

Daigo_F

All that thought and tech is very nice and informative.. But what about v shift? Not worth mentioning? I missed it at general explanations in the beginning.

Brian when are you gonna upload something of you on that guitar though?

Discovery ID: inside the mind of a madman

All I wish is for daigo to say he misclicked

Great video! But is it possible that the walk forward throw worked because it was online and Kuwano didn't have the ability to react and punish the forward walk?

Daigos played so much SF hes probably been in that exact situation with the 2 same characters a bunch if times that's y it came so naturally ??

Wow cool.... question, why throw and not backthrow? He doesn't reach?

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So always walk forward throw. Got it.

I know it's harder to do, so that might already be the answer, especially given the high-pressure situation, but I pose the question nonetheless: isn't it strictly better to walk forward backthrow? backthrow gives you oki, 20 more stun, takes longer overall, and most obviously gets you better screen position for the price of 10 damage and the risk of missing the throw by accidentally microwalking back? maybe he tried, but kept his timings conservative to ensure to not get a microwalk back. If it is deliberate, and I'm guessing it is, this optimization seems obvious, so I'd like to know if that's true or whether I'm missing something? do you think wasting brain-cycles over such optimizations yields too little results and the broader idea matters more? The difference in return on this one seems really high to me. I can think of only one situation where you'd choose forward- over backthrow in this particular position: when the 10 additional damage kills.

Oh but when *I* walk up throw in the corner...

Higuchi and Daigo…I can’t wait to see who the capcom cup will favor. Hopefully, Caba will qualify and we’ll get all three Guiles in this tourney.

Best Twitch comment: "I know ya'll ain't subbed yet."

Please upload more content like this i want to learn to kick high level players ass

I wish I was Daigo

Respect in the diago clickbait title

in Twich chat: Daigo cured my cancer.. LMAO

somebody send this video to that commentator called Veggy xd

Daigo hype.

Pretty sure I still saw throw beat block

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i learn lot of that match it was big brain ballsy too boy i need to walk up or do something to get out can,t throw tech forever it hurts getting shimmy if i guess wrong ggs.

ggs I was the mind

Ume-flashkik.

daigo is the reason I play guile tbh

brian play dopesmoker by sleep on your geetar

Beast_TV alt found??

Daigo street fighter

Brian upload?

more daigo contenttttt

Brian is the gerand thumb of fgc yt

The Daigo milking is real

Is there a reason he can't walk forward backthrow instead of forward throw?

There's really nothing to this interaction. There's plenty more high level key daigo moments in history then just walking forward and doing a throw. I know it's not that simple, there's a lot of thought put into that decision but he still could have made the wrong guess at that moment. The most you can say about this moment is daigo knew the kolin player knew to walk backwards and block because they thought daigo was going to wake up flash kick. It's that simple and not really worth going into. Daigo knew he was facing a high level player that was going to try to shimmy him or defend against his high pressure situation moment because he had meter to do ex-flash kick. There's an analysis of player, character, the corner situation, how much meter they have, how much stun they have, and daigo knew that the kolin player was going to respect all the meter that he had and was going to respect that he's daigo and he's playing guile. I don't know, not trying to be rude, but this is very simplistic risk reward fundamental analysis.

You should reach out to daigo and try do some content. I feel like you guys have a decent overlap in audiences

Why don't we ask him?

Hi Meatwad787!

Every time I wake-up throw an opponent....meh it's random, but if Daigo does it, It's Mind Blowing! 🤣 I love Daigo.

Acting like this isn't "Brian-one-take-F"

Oh ye

hi henry cavill

No notepad, I’m disappointed

When you see nick Beast you picture someone like LTG. Daigo is more like a philosopher or sage.

Respectfully, I feel like this analysis misses something. To Brian, Daigo is just inventing a really cool rock or some extra sharp scissors. But he's still playing RPS. I don't think he is necessarily, I think it was a hard read. And that's what makes it's beautiful. That's something Daigo is good at, yomi. As a guessing game variant, walking forward is a pretty terrible move that beats almost nothing. But as a hard read it's like saying" I'm so positive you're about to predictably walk backwards but I'm willing to die to call it out." The throw is a nice option for the reasons Brian mentioned but it's extra strong because of the mental damage.

This was definitely an incredibly turnabout for Daigo. But given the reaction to this move, it's clearly not a staple of the typical wake-up mindgames. So then, given it's effectiveness here, why don't we see it more often, at least in high-level play? Throughout the video, we go through all of the layers of the wake-up mindgames, all of the risks and rewards. Finally, we conclude that given how every option of Daigo's had incredible risk, walk-up throw would give him the most reward. How come other players haven't come to this same conclusion before? This feels like a P=NP question, but there's a bevy of other factors too. Does Daigo just have stronger nerves? Was this developed as an anti-Kawano measure after analyzing his matches? Is this just a miracle of the human brain? Or perhaps, do we just tend to think from the techniques down, as opposed to from the mechanics up?

It’s cuz he gives zero F&;;)ks