SF4 Omega at a Glance - Dee Jay 

Imagine how crushing it would've been to play Deejay in early Ultra when he lost the low invul on light Sobat and see that not only did Omega Deejay get to keep it but that he also got it on heavy Upper for basically no reason

Get yourself a significant other that smiles back at you the same way Deejay does

I think having Dee Jay as a motion character makes more sense thematically. He’s a dancer, he’s not gonna duck for a second every time he wants to do something cool. He’s gonna go fluidly from move to move. Spontaneity over calculation, any day of the week.

i actually suspect SF6 Dee Jay will be motion by pure fact that they probably want to revisit nash's playstyle without bringing him back from the dead... again. Omega Dee Jay being a Nash prototype just cements this thought for me. Both characters share a position of being built on the Guile achetype, but SFV feels like the only time they really made it work, so my gut says they'll be looking at Nash as the foundation of this version of Dee Jay I would personally prefer charge Dee Jay though. I just like charge more lol

Now that I see it, it's almost as if omega deejay was kind of like a beta sfv Nash, similar to how omega T hawk is kind of like a beta necali.

Nothing makes my day brighter than Omega at a Glance coming back, good stuff

Glad that he’s coming back for sf6, he’s always had a nice balance of being cool while also being good comic relief

Dee Jay is definitely going to be motion. Even if it's not the best change for him, it's what's most highly requested, plus it helps differentiate him from Guile. And, as someone else said, it lets Capcom keep aspects of Nash without un-unaliving him again.

Omega DeeJay and Decapre made me with that more characters in omega mode had massive overhauls like them

I think the SF6 team is more aware of charge QoL than the SF4 team was, so at the very least Dee Jay will be able to punish and confirm like the rest of the cast, whether it be via new command normals or full motion

To anyone lurking in the comments: SF6 dee jay is motion except for air slasher and jackknife maximum. A nice compromise imo

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I'd love to have a hybrid charge + motion character in SF. Like you can keep his fireballs and DP on charge but make Machine Gun Upper and Sobat motions.

First of all, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for making this video Baf! I was really looking foward to it, since I made that post on Twitter. Omega DJ seems like a much more fun/better version of the character, even with still some issues. About the "elephant in the room", I see people either saying he should become a definitive motion character, or at least be a hybrid character, with still like 2 charge moves. Like someone from the comments said, I also think the motion type fits DJ better since he's a very energetic character, and doesn't really seem the "defensive" type. Plus, with Guile being the pillar of charge characters, and returning like that in SF6, I think they can change Dee Jay to a motion character indeed, but he needs stuff to actually make him more viable/strong. I have hopes Capcom actually does that. So, with that said, thanks once again Baf! TAKE THAT *MAXIMUM LIKE!* 😎🎧🎶🥊👍🇯🇲

I wonder if Dee Jay will be a hybrid motion/charge character in SFVI. He could be, in a weird way, a dictator replacement. Make Sobat function like Scissor Kicks more and keep it as charge, overhaul a motion airslasher to be more of a combo tool then a fireball, and keep upkicks as charge. I don't know, could be neat I guess.

he should be a mix of charge n motion. Machine upper/sobat kicks should be motion and Air Slash/Jackknife should be charge

It's so interesting to see what they did in omega to what is now sf6 deejay

So here we are, seeing that Dee Jay in SF6 is a mixed-input character who’s upkicks and Air Slasher are still charge. He also turned his double AS into his heavy Air Slasher

awesome, great to see you returning to Omega from time to time! 👑 incidentally I've been playing Omega Deejay lately and I have an addition to your summary, if you don't mind: Ultra1 can be combo'd on crouchers: cl. MK, cr. HP xx EX slash(1), Ultra1

He's a motion character here, but in SF6, he's part motion and part charge

i hope DeeJay gets akuma-style teleports in SF6, with the animation being him dancing. you could call them “danceports”. put them on a qcb+P input alongside his regular charge moveset.

So glad to see this series back By the way, cl.hp also super cancels on the second hit and cl.hk launches, so his cl.hp is no longer a shitty useless move and cl.hk's function is now put onto cl.hp with cl.hk gaining new utility This is why I love Omega mode

Glad to see the At a Glance videos back! When I saw deejay in sf6 I was stoked! I prefer charge motions but perhaps they will do a half measure. Charge fireball input sobots perhaps?

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!! Hyped to watch this!!!

This is probably my favourite version of Dee Jay since Super Turbo, they didn't really do anything to him past Super Turbo to really shake him up when he moved to 4, it felt like a lot of his stuff got taken away instead of preserved and felt like you had adhesive to stick to the ground This Dee Jay in contrast is much better, this feels like a proper SF6 version of Dee Jay, new moves for him to play around with without taking away what makes him fun to play, the only thing I can say bad about this one is that I don't know if I agree with him being a motion character, I've already played with him so much as a charge character, regardless I'll be happy either way I would be more upset if they just did nothing, buffed tiny things about him and say "hey he's a motion character now" and called it a day, I wish I knew more about Omega Dee Jay's new stuff like his TC, I only really knew about his new special moves It's hard to say what he'll become in SF6, since Waning Moon is a motion input and they'll have to think about how they would make that a charge input if he is exclusively charge, perhaps he would become a hybrid of charge and motion, who knows? I'll be happy to play him when he releases

Shoutout to spabobin!

Love when you do these retrospectives. Thanks Baf!

Amazing to see something like this! Omega is not talked about enough.

I’d love to see more Omega at a Glance videos! They’re easily my favorites out of all the videos you’ve done so far!

Personally I hope in SF6 dee jay has a few motions that flow into his required charges to act as a sort of bridge from motion characters and charge characters, i.e. the waning moon hcb so he can get back charge or a divekick command normal that requires a down input so he can hold it and have downcharge started while still playing the game, gives him a status as a charge character like people remember and possibly a charge character that people can pickup easier by mixing in motions that let them get to required charge

Sheesh but can we talk about how sick his new moves and alterations look, ex upper and kicks would look crazy in 6

Bro I've been waiting for this one for so long good shit baf

Man, this is a shock, I missed the omega vids, and welcome back baf!

I wanted someone to talk about Omega DJ so much. Thank you!

6:04 theres an ultra 1 route that use an extra bar but breaks 500 damage (does about 640 on jHK jump in) because the full animation plays. crMP -> crHP -> Medium Air slasher -> FADC -> Sobat Festival

Oh fuck yes ive been waiting for this series to come back Sf4 omega was always one of the coolest sf versions of an sf game, it felt like sf4 from an alternate timeline

If they do change his inputs then I'd rather have him be a hybrid character than making him a pure motion character I can't help feel that getting rid of all his charge motions would loose some of his identity

YOOOOOOOO massive grin on my face seeing this in 2022, awesome

Nice to see you uploading again. Hope the break helped you out 👍

Love these videos, man.

I hope they officially turn him into a motion char in 6

Bafael omega videos are back yesssss

It's back!!! We love you Baf

Thanks for the upload!

Love these vids, omega mode has such a disparity, some chars are redesigned pretty well and others (Yang) it’s like they clearly phoned it in. Not biased or anything. Anyways commenting for the algorithm

I can't imagine that even in the roster of current SF4, Omega Dee Jay would get any higher than mid-tier.

i like charge characters and i think that dee jay doesn't have to become a motion character to be a good design. what i would like is fur the charge aspects of his design to be emphasized while making him a more mobile character design, to match his energetic purrsonality. it's kind of crazy to think maining this toilet water character was what got me really deep into fighting games AND was how i met my boyfriend lmfao

Really cool to see omega mode content again! I'm personally hoping he stays charge in SF6, but I guess we'll have to see.

You have awesome execution !

OaaG was awesome, glad to see it (and Baf himself) back. As for Dee Jay, I think motion inputs are possible (especially after Vega), but only if they can't find a way to make charge work. Maybe they'll make one of his moves a motion input but keep the rest of him charge (like SFV charge characters). Personally I don't mind charge at all, the problem was that he's a charge character with no ways to build charge (like SF3 Remy).

I expect Dee Jay to be a motion character in SF6 not just to make him feel better but to make him more accessible too. Unorthodox special inputs like charging have become less of a thing in modern fighting games. They'll still exist to an extent like with Guile and Chun but that's Guile and Chun. Two of the genres most iconic characters who players have sunk thousands of hours into. It'd be weird to make them motion characters at this point. Dee Jay has never been a very popular character though. A few people might dislike it but making Dee Jay a motion character would probably do a lot for him.

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So update : there was a data mine with the commentarys voice calling out attacks and deejays waning moon attack was one of them so it's safe to say that's in sf6

Ah yeah i kinda tried omega dee jay too around when this vid came out. Really cool motion input concept,and the combos were nice

I would do a mixture of charge and regular motions. I think Rolling Sobat and Machinegun Upper should be motion inputs while Air Slash and Jacknife Maximum remain charge

This was the DJ we all wanted

Its crazy to look back at Omega (which I didn't play much admittedly, stuck to SF:CE and main gameplay) and see that so much of Nash's SFV toolkit was essentially being test ran on Dee Jay!

It would be awesome to see Dee Jay as absolute top tier and hopefully not just forgotten after season 1

i played him in new challengers as a kid, i was honestly thinking about picking him up for 6, but i didnt play him in 4 so i super appreciate this vid

Another Proto-sfv feature: Omega Dee Jay far fierce launches on counter hit. As far as I can tell, anything that works from his other juggle states works there too.

I would like to see Waning Moon and MGU as motions, and Sobat Kicks, Air Slashers and Jackknife Maximum as charge moves. Waning moon can be a party starter, overhead and way around fireballs on reaction and MGU is for damage, a combo ender and for when you don't have charge but want a quick punish. Keeping Air slasher as a charge move means you can make it really good, and let's also incorporate the just frame mechanic where you can do perfect versions. Jackknife Maximum as charge means that you can let it auto correct sides and be a really good anti air still. And rolling sobats is a good combo tool with ex having fireball invincibility. If you give him that with some new target combos, a proper Jamaican accent for once, a rhythm game 3 bar super that powers you up like Kimberly and a marraca mechanic for damage like Jamie and his drinks, then he would be really fun!

I would love to see an USFIV tournament with Edition Select enabled. It could not be the most balanced setting in a competitive POV, but it would be so fun to watch.

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holy fuck i was actually asking for this video yesterday lets go

I hope SF6 makes him a motion character like USF4 Omega. As a charge character he was pretty much completely outclassed by Guile (except in SSF2T) so not having to charge was a pretty good buff for him. I just want to see Dee Jay be viable again

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Oh that last combo was SICK

Well they data mined commentator voice lines from the SF6 beta and it seems like waning moon is indeed his new move. High chance he's gonna end up being a motion character too.

Very nice, glad to have you back! Do you plan to make Omega at a Glance - Juri at some point? I would very much like to hear your analysis on her kit!

SF6 will have to really work hard to get me to care about Dee Jay. I hope they do make him much more interesting and an overall solid character this time around. If not, he'll just be another dead slot/specialist character like he usually is.

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Can we get Omega Hakan next? Good stuff on the Deejay video.

I never saw deejay as a charge character so this is a really nice change for him

1:04 damn and it combos? Nice

wow omega mode deejay looks super fun, hope he's like this in sf6

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YESSSS DEEJAY IN SF6!

I'll admit, all this time, I dismissed Omega Mode as being an 'enhanced' mode akin to Gold characters in Guilty Gear and Unlimited characters in BlazBlue, and found it baffling that people actually thought up a competitive Omega Mode metagame. After seeing these more in-depth dissections, I'm just that little bit more convinced that Omega is just an alternative rather than a God Mode mod for the cast.

Omega Dee Jay is probably my favorite character in SF4 alongside Ultra SF4 Oni. I personally really like the removal of motion inputs as I don't really like playing as charge characters I also think it is suits his personality as a dancer he wouldn't 'sit around' and wait for something to charge but of course personality and playstyle are two different things and don't need to match. While I would want Dee Jay to not have charge in SF6 due to the rarity of them I do think it would be for the best fo the game if he did.

I hope they give him some new moves like a dive kick & Hworang's target combos from SFxT

Honestly, Dee Jay never felt like charge character conceptually.

Dee Jay was a ton of fun to play as in SFIV but it was a shame he was so bad (compared to other characters). I hope he's given a significant bump in SF6.

Coming back to this after the recent SF6 developer match footage with Dee Jay. Air Slash, Sobat, and his upkicks still seem like charge moves, although his new Jus Cool sway move and Machinegun Upper seem like motion inputs. You can see after he Drive Impacts Dhalsim into the wall that the dev playing as Dee Jay walked forward a little bit and then did what looks like cr.HP into Machinegun Upper, so there's no way it's a charge move. If I had to guess Jus Cool's input, it could either be a quarter circle or two Punch/two Kick buttons like Ken's run. If Dee Jay was in SFV I imagine that this would be one of his V-Skills. He looks really fun, I'll definitely give him a try when the game comes out or if we get another beta. EDIT: His voice actor was changed too, but I think I'm still getting lost in da beat.

wait your still making these damn i just got into sf4

Dee Jay will be in SF6 I wonder what they'll keep from Omega mode

Good video, Baf! Will you make a vid on Seth Zang matchup?

Holy shit his sabots knock down!

God I hope they give him good normals this time around.

0:12 Oh yeah! I see what you did there!

I know it seems unlikely…but I would love it if we could get a rerelease if Omega down the line with rollback net code. I mean. No one saw a Red Earth getting an official release with lobbies and rollback and HERE WE ARE. It could happen. And I would love it.

Hey! It's proto- SFV Nash.

Actually, on a lot of character, maybe all I haven't tested, deejay has midscreen and corner setups to do meterless or one meter fireball combos into u1. It does require specific combos, but is possible, making u1 a little less bad than it seems.

Number 1: His fireball shouldn't be charge in sf6

I’ll just say transition to motion from charge is a tough thing for capcom in the past, as Vega proved last game and to some, there are a lot of hybrid characters in SFV as they are still trying to balance that. I hope he comes out great as I am looking which characters to play in SF6, Mimi, Jamie and Dee Jay are top of my list as of now and I cannot wait to play it

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As a DJay player since AE2012... this video is ALL PAIN considering he was Trash Tier all along in the oficial versions of the game... and even if he were trash in "omega tierlist" too, at least he looks Fun with much mode options

(m. Bison noises) YESS

also i think the very frequently used talking point that "charge inputs are too hard to learn" to explain why devs should or will make charge chars into motion chars is a very confusing thing to keep stumbling on. the idea that learning SF with charge characters could be harder than learning with motions literally never even occurred to me. i just played the game and learned. i feel like people fur whom charge inputs are difficult just kind of assume that expurrience is universal but it really isn't. ideally games will have chars that appeal both to people who struggle with or dislike charging enough to want no charge moves in their moveset, and people who find the unique dynamic of gaining charge appealing enough to want most or all of their character's moves to be charge.

I think in SF6 he’s a combo charge and motion character?