those who don’t know, to parry he had to counter each hit in 1/10 of second. chun lis super spits out 17 consecutive hits. so he had to time 17 parries each within a 1/10 of a second window. WOW
Assuming you hit 1/10th of a second too quick right on or too slow he had a 1 in 6.5 billion chance to hit that perfect, literally given the chance one person in the entire human population could hit that
@@brendanlist4811 Uh, you just have to tap forward within 6 active frames of the attack's first active frame, hence 1/10th of a second @ 60fps. It's not up to chance, but practice. The gap between the flurries is what's off-putting.
@brendanlist4811 It's at a cadence, so it's something that can be reliably trained. What _can't be,_ however, was the read. Chun Li's (Justin Wong) attack here is a super move that is "0 frames startup post flash." What this means is that after the super flash (the screen freeze) starts, Ken (Daigo) cannot take any action. So, in order to parry the first hit, he needed to predict Justin's super and input forward *before* the super.
@@baltharaaz9847 Wrong. You can parry after the flash, as she moves forward. It probably has some invincibility frames, but definitely not 0 startup. Have you people even played 3rd Strike in your lives? What the hell are you even saying? Here, I even just checked frame data for the move. Hyakuretsu Kyaku (EX) 3・5・7・9
It's not just the fact he perfectly blocked every kick. It's the fact he jumped, knowing if he missed the air block he'd die, in order to get the counter-combo and win. Not only the skill, but the absolute balls of it must be appreciated
@KruzSTUDIO thats a pretty sped up version. more accurate one would be justin screems out the name of chun li ultra (about a 1min) then diago will have a flashback, probably take 1-2 episodes, then diago comes back to the present, then parry every single kicks in slow motion while talking in his mind about half an episode, with extremely loud jet engine noise in the back ground, then he will have to screem out every single attacks name in the counter lead up to his ultra with even louder jet engine noise, id say probably half a season worth of material right here.
Having the second camera on the players is so amazing for this clip. You can see how methodical Daigo is with his parry timing, who knows how many thousands of times he practiced for that specific situation. You have to be starting to parry before she even starts the animation for her super. He read the situation perfectly. I have never seen such a perfect moment anywhere else.
From a video that I saw, Justin was told not to use Chun Li's super because Daigo was seen practicing this parry before the match. Ofc, tense situation + nerves + not a single person believing that this feat was humanly possible back then would make your reflex kick in since it was pretty much a sure win at that point.....until it wasn't.
You can actually hear the “OHHHHH”s in the crowd grow 3 different levels as people figure out in real time each impossible stage of the parry culminating into the final KO.
The best part is the crowd getting steadily more hype. From "oh shit he's parrying it" to "oh shit he parried the whole thing flawlessly" to "oh shit he just knocked him out"
damn all these comments replying to you being condescending because of their small brains not being able to comprehend something like that actually did happen. what a sad life it must be to not be able to revel in breakthrough accomplishments of the human race. this clip included.
It's the jump right after the parry that always gets me. Who the HELL has the patience to jump after that?! It was exactly the right move to block and set up his final combo. I just can't wrap my head around the concentration that requires. That kind of mastery always reminds me these guys are playing a different game. Sure it looks and sounds like the same game we play, but what they're doing is on a completely different level.
Well if you play the game and not just the story mode y’all find out this is basic knowledge. Hard to do, but everybody who plays this game knew about the most optimal punish
@@kingfargo9578 Ever wonder if you'd be just as douchey if you'd gotten really into Animal Crossing or something? Or would you just be replying with condescending messages about....like farming techniques? I guess I don't really know what people do in Animal Crossing but you get my point.
@@kingfargo9578When itncomes to pro game play nothing about it is “basics” its all mind games, thats why its impressive, its also why he is there and you are here in the comment section lmao
@@NousagiCaptain “basic Knowledge” isnt the same as basic thing to do.. is you stupid or dumb? Can you comprehend? Basic knowledge is just something EVERYBODY know. Literally everybody knows about parrying in this game. Did you not read the part when I said it’s “hard” to do? Did I say Daigo was trash? Again can you read? Probably not. There’s no mind game at all. Daigo reacted with a parry to Justin ultra move..
This was so unbelievable that most people don't even remember that Daigo didn't even win the tournament! He lost in the Grand Final, but no one even cares because this was so incredible!
In most sports, including esports, winning it all isn’t the only amazing thing to witness and remember, sometimes moments like this, while in big picture seem minuscule, are HUGE because of skill and how memorable it is. You don’t need to win it all to be legendary.
To be fair, performing such a near impossible feat under such pressure would drain anyone. Daigo most likely also gave his 100% in that moment, which left him in worse condition for his next match (of course I have no proof and that's just educated but still a guess on my part).
@@joliecide fun fact that guy had a terminal illness during the filming of cobra kai and his character died in the episode he appeared in and the last ever shot of him was the body bag being zipped up now that i think about it that fact isnt all that fun
Not a gamer myself but every so often I revisit this to get the “feels”. Makes my hair stand up and I get a strange feeling run through my body. This is the power of this video clip. Amazing.
I was around 12-13 when I first saw this online. I'm turning 32 this year and this moment still has a special place in my heart. It was the first time I had ever seen a display of skill like that in a fighting game. I couldn't fathom that something like this was possible yet as a kid, I was watching it unfold in front of my very eyes. Just such a transcendent play that has gone beyond the gaming world. I've heard non-gamers talk about this moment. That's how phenomenal the play was and still is. These days, I like to think of EVO Moment 37 as a celebration of gaming. The skill needed to even pull it off in the first place, the mastery to be able to pull it out of his arsenal when he needed it, the focus to be able to execute even with all the background noise and Justin trying to throw his timing off and lastly, the clutch gene - to be able to pull it off when the pressure was at it's highest.
I don't understand how 15 years latter* it still bring tears to my eyes every single time, such a legendary moment *This is a little older, but I first watched it in 2008 when I was getting more into third strike
If you are here in 2024, you’re just in time for Evo Moment 37’s 20th ANNIVERSARY. 20 years… since this legendary moment etched itself in gaming history. And if you were there… what a blessing!
For those of you who don't know... When you parry in this game, you need to time your button presses EXACTLY to the framerate of the moves, so seeing Daigo do this with literally a sliver of health is super impressive and legendary.
@@cameronbigley7483 i think chunlis super hits 14 times on shotos. The timing for the first parry is before its even activated. The subsequent parries should be 1/6th of a second. Plus all the visual/audio queue you get for landing a parry in the first place.
@@bigcaka7725 and time the first hit before the screen flashes for the super. I think someone else had mentioned (one of the top comments in this video) daigo had baited justin to do it. the more you think about it, the more mind blowing it is
@@adrianpena2748 And you can see Justin actually faked the input before doing the real input in an attempt to throw Daigo off. So it's not like he was just looking at Justin's hands to see when he was going to do it either. The dude mindgamed Justin hard. Not only baiting him into using the super to begin with, but also knowing he would try to trick him with a fake input first and then follow up with a real one.
It’s crazy that the explosion of the crowd didn’t even throw Daigo off one bit. Kept perfectly timing that parry, then the flow into the Super. Truly the GOAT of Street Fighter.
The swell of the crowd's roar as it turns from "nice parry" to "whoa he parry'd the whole thing?!" to "he won?!" to "best thing I've ever seen in my life!" SO awesome. Everyone wants this moment in their life. Out of a movie.
The best part was how knowledgeable the people in the crowd are. They started standing up and clapping as soon as Daigo launched his punish. They already knew Justin is finished with that punish.
The iconic "Let's Go Justin!!" is the cherry on top before everything even happens. It's obvious that Justin gets the KO, just from the health bars + the old worldwide gaming rumor that you couldn't parry Chun's 2nd super. These 2 birthed arguably the original gaming moment, and it's just insanity. This moment is why I will always love the Street Fighter series
I love this moment in a special way. Everybody thought Daigo was finished. Everyone doubted him, hell he doubted himself. But he never gave up and gave his absolute best, doing what was almost impossible to ultimately win the fight. From the brink of defeat to the most unexpected, unlikely victory ever. Truly inspiring.
@@sheershchaturvedi4534 Right after Ken gets the Final Smash glow, he perfect shields an attack from Little Mac and goes straight into his Final Smash.
I've watched this literally hundreds of times in my life, but something just occurred to me. Was Daigo trying to create this exact situation by throwing those two fireballs, hoping Justin would parry to gain the meter to super? As soon as Justin had enough meter, Daigo threw no more fireballs, he was just dancing in time with Chun-Li, likely because he anticipated the super and you need to be inputting forward before the super comes out in order to successfully parry the first hit. If so, then I am even more completely mindblown than ever, which I thought was impossible.
Daigo indeed practiced to parry that attack, and yes, he probably was baiting Justin into doing the Special, considering as soon as he tried another attack, it'd come out and be his end.
Regardless your favorite gaming genre, regardless you were already born or not when this moment happened, or even regardless you're a gamer or not, this moment is indeed one the of greatest moments ever appeared in a real competition. This is the real definition of impossible mission has been done successfully.
@@HURT108 That was Alex Valle one of the greatest street fighter player in the west. He knew that Daigo was practicing it when he showed it to Alex and he was stumped. Chun Li has like 0 frame startup so you need to parry at the same time Chun Li starts her super. Alex kept telling Justin to time it out when the organizers told them to shut up. When Justin did the super. Alex said it's over. He lost. Yet that move became one of the greatest fighting comeback in the history of fighting games where back then, there weren't comeback mechanics.
@@user-ec7fh9sp3h To be fair, parrying IS a comeback mechanic, regardless of how hard the execution may be. Turn the momentum of your opponent against them.
Daigo went ultra instinct before it was cool. Look at his hands while he does it, no panicking, and and it looks so natural it seems involuntary. Any mistakes and the chip damage would do him in. Truly the ultra instinct pioneer
I found his RU-vid channel not too long ago and one of his videos is him doing the daigo parry. When he finally got it he put that sound bite in right at the same moment lol.
This will never be not impressive. Even after watching a thousand times. The skills it takes to just perform this is insanely high, and he did it under pressure with no room for error. Must be the most mind blowing display of skills ever
I was even more impressed when I read this so you should read it too. I once saw someone that describe the seconds leading up to the moment, so I’m just gonna paraphrase it here: Effectively, Daigo was playing risky, but he knew he could parry the super since he had done it earlier in the day in practice. There’s someone in the crowd yelling “don’t do it” because he had seen it before and knew how inconsistent it was. Chun li actually didn’t have enough meter to do her super, so daigo threw out a couple fireballs that were easy to parry so Justin could get the meter needed to super. That’s not playing a game. That’s playing the player
I’ve been in some CoD tournaments in the past and the pressure is real. As someone who deals with anxiety etc it really sucks sometimes. So, I don’t know Daigo’s personality etc but if that were me in his position the endorphin rush would’ve sent me thru the stratosphere. Hearing the crowd roaring like that. Damn
I believe this is probably one of the things he was best at. But they hardly have the chance to display such thing because the fighting style on these tournaments is tricky and people tend to do repetitive things in order to corner the rival. I bet he was used to parry these moves. Not taking any credit from the moment because it was THE moment to do it. And playing under pressure (as you said) is brutal. But I don´t think that was his first time doing this or something too "uncommon" for him. Yes in public maybe. But not his first or one of his firsts times doing it.
@@nadiamoreno4505 But that's the point. Daigo was just that good and that ready to do this difficult task when he needed to the most, and he did it flawlessly... mostly because he grinded his ass off becoming one of the best. He practiced it plenty for damn sure, but this is the culmination of his parry training for this specific fight, and it pays off. Legendary.
This. This is the greatest moment in professional gaming history. I'm sure there were moments in other games with bigger struggles, more desperate comebacks, more impossible moves. But this? This is perfect for any gamer, any non-gamer to understand.
No matter how many times I see THAT moment, it will always leave one hell of an impression that will forever be immortalized in the annals of gaming history.
1.- Daigo prepares the play fueling Justin’s power bar with a pair of Hadokens 2.- Daigo synchronizes movements with Chunli’s to get the correct direction when Justin’s starts his predictable super 3.- Daigo parries correctly the 17 hits, concentrating despite the crowd shouting and Justin mashing 4.- Daigo counter attacks with a winner combo Everything in this play is SUBLIME👌🏻
Talk about cold blooded. Daigo pulling out the power of anime and friendship just to settle the score for the match doing shit no one thought was possible. lol
0:30 look at the camera look at how dead still daigo is while doing the parry compared to justin trying to mash buttons to throw off his timing that alone is incredible
@@pindo8856 If i remember correctly, the crowd DID nearly throw off his timing since he learned to parry the move using a combination of things, one of them being the sound queues from each hit. This means that the sudden and loud cheers almost made him fail had he not have the muscle memory of each hit.
Remaining static and focused while you're losing and needing to hit your parries perfectly and a crowd is pressing you in, I just can't believe it. What a fantastic and unique move
I had to rewatch it, I hadn't noticed that, it was very funny. And it just makes this moment the greatest, I guess Justin was saying this is not happening, it's impossible.
Also, normal blocking will chip away your hp and lose that fight. Those parries, man!, and that combo to ensure his finishing won't get parried. Brutal!
Actually Jan M is correct, he could have stayed on the ground to parry the final high kick in chun-li's super but he chose to jump parry so he could execute his super from a jump kick which gives justin no time to parry or even just soak the chip damage from a guard
almost makes me feel bad that FGC-PEA K could only gush his hypothetical 3S epeen on the YT comments section, cause he certainly doesn't have friends with that attitude
Words cannot describe the inexplicable feeling I get watching this clip. This clip of a tournament I never went to, of a game I never played. For some reason, every time I watch this clip, without fail, I get a shiver down my spine, and a rush of excitement. Even though it’s just a game, I can feel the skill, TASTE the energy. The odds against him, the triumph. Truly one of the greatest moment in gaming history.
Its the same as Sports fans get from watching sports, when our brains SEE something amazing, we can literally get the feelings of doing it ourselves, that plus the energy of the crowd hype going stronger and louder... He could have parried everything and LOST and still have been a Legend, but the fact that he jumped up to parry the last hit was so stylish and effective to combo into the win... This was like being Link in Matrix Reloaded watching Neo bend time/space and fly so fast to catch Trinity before she hits the ground! I felt like that day Daigo was Neo LOL 💖
God, just imagine being in that room when that happened. The energy, the hype, everything. I swear to god this must have been one of the most hype things to ever happen in human history. Everything about this moment is perfect.
lol bro... most hype things in history come on now. people risked their lives being gladiators etc. hell just last night justin gaethje vs michael chandler check that out if you want hype
The first real hype moment for E sports. I remember watching this back in 2004 (took 5 minutes to download because of my dial up connection) and thinking: God damn it's not that bad to be a gamer after all..
i love how you see justin go from not doing anything because he's sure the super killed to massive fucking panic mashing while daigo is just calmly activating ultra instinct
If u are a street fighter fan then u wont watch this only once but back to back for a 1000x times for sure. I swear on my life ! I can guarantee you that !! THIS IS LITERALLY A LEGEND DOING LEGENDARY STUFFS 💪🏻
Is not only the fact that he managed to parry all moves, but also the fact that he is so good to predict and force Justin to use Chun-li's special move, the fact he managed to make Justin do what he wanted is amazing
@@jahirichardson9458 I never said it wasn't impressive, weeb. If I were xenophobic, I wouldn't have moved to Asia. If you are finished laughing your butt off for nothing, please reel it back in; it's unsightly.
