Justin Wong kind of did. There's another shot of this video where you can see him mashing his stick like crazy. Maybe he was trying to mess up Daigo's timing, or maybe he was just mad.
@@MegaCodgod99 You can find videos from jmcrofts or Justin Wong himself that explains it perfectly, but to try to sum it up: Daigo (Ken) had a pixel of Life left. Any hit would make him lose the round, and since each had won one round, it would make him lose this match. Any hit, even a blocked one, due to chip damage (you take much reduced damage when you block, but you still take damage. Super moves deal a lot of chip damage) So Justin used a super move that Daigo couldn't evade due to their position. Daigo couldn't block, because he'd die to the chip damage. Justin went in for the kill. Which lead him to parry Chun-Li's Super. Instead of holding back to block, in order to parry, you need to press forward on the controller, within 1 to 6 frames of the hit or something like that (around a tenth of a second). If you mess up the timing, you're gonna get the hit straight to your face, because you're pressing forward instead of back to block. It's extremely difficult to parry moves in general. Daigo parried every kick in Chun-Li's super. Each time pressing forward perfectly timed with each kick. Pausing in the middle of the sequence and continuing. Parrying the last move (an overhead) in the air *AND* doing his own combo into Super Art for the finish. In front of a lot of people. In the EVO's finals (largest fighting game tournament in the world). Daigo went on to lose the set. I believe he lost the tournament. It doesn't matter. He won many tournaments, Justin won many EVO's too, but what Daigo did was unheard of. Some say he even baited the Super, since he was throwing Hadoukens that allowed Justin to build up super meter. But one thing is for sure, Daigo was the protagonist in the FGC's most hype and famous moment.
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👌🏻
notice how he didnt used hadokens in the whole game, just in the second round because he knew that he was going to do the S.A. After parry the 15 hits he makes a combo that kill justing. This nigga got everything calculated god mf damn
2:43 this is still one of the most iconic moments in all of FGC history. Daigo's parry may have been impossible, but an insanely impressive feat in his career
One of the most, if not THE most, hypest moments in FGC history. Maybe even video game history in general. Several years later and it still never gets old. Always brings a smile to my face
Next year will mark 2 decades. This represents the kind of competition, hype and pure adrenaline in its most raw form, and we likely won't see anything quite like it again. I just wish I was in thar room. It's a moment that I believe if you asked anyone who was physically there, that nothing or nearly nothing has topped that experience.
This right here is the peak of competitive gaming, change my mind. Perfect execution. Down to the wire. High stakes. Only one option for both players. Pure hype throughout the entire room. No room for toxicity, only respect for what has just transpired.
Hrmm. Moment 37 absolutely defined competitive gaming but "the peak"? Nah, that's an exaggeration. What you're saying is that any and all other events in the FGC from EVO 2005 until now and in the forseeable future, whether you've seen them or not, are worse or not as good as moment 37. That is a claim no one can make because you can't know that, it's way too subjective. Do you know how many fights happen off camera? In casuals and in money matches? Or how many fights happened that you didn't see in games that you aren't interested in? Do you know how many amazing players exist that simply choose not to play competitively? Like I said, moment 37 was absolutely a defining moment for the FGC because it showed players something they may have not seen before en masse, but to say that the FGC peaked at moment 37 is a claim no one can make objectively.
B for my alcoholic dad who beats me and my mom everyday when we used to live with him. I hate everyone equally except for my mom. I hate her the most because she decided to hit on me. On her own son. My brother left my family and I hate him too, but the truth is, I don't really blame him. Also, my grandma was useless.
daigo actually said that before going into this Evo, he intended this to be his last ever tournament. he was simply too poor to continue playing seriously and couldn't support himself.
@@dahgameps432 and how does just saying something make it a promise in the first place. i'm going to have an omelette for breakfast tomorrow but if i wake up and then decide to have toast instead i'm not breaking a fucking promise lol
@@WHAT_1400 exactly lol You could wake up and just not crave omelettes anymore. I can say im getting mcdonalds but say fuck it and go to wendys instead
This is what real victory looks like. One that has meaning. Against an incredibly strong opponent, one that would beat the living hell out of almost anybody else, in a seemingly hopeless situation with exactly zero room for error... and then pulling off what nobody had ever done before. This match rightfully holds its place in history, and both players deserve the highest praise.
This clip is about 18 years old and it’s still an insane clip to this day. The matter of fact that it was round 3 and Diago had to parry, and stay calm enough to preform a combo to win in a massive crowd is insane especially because parrying is a .2 second time window. He even taunted to tick off Justin enough so Justin would super then. What a set.
The taunts in SF3 had many different properties, such as power boost for the next attack, increasing defense, etc. In this case, Daigo was setting up. It’s possible people thought he was doing it on purpose instead of with a purpose, in that moment, which was why they hyped up Justin
People who haven't played this game don't know that Chun-Li's special move has a different number of hits based on the distance to the other character. So not only did he masterfully parry the whole combo, he also gauged the exact number of hits based on Chun-Li's distance. That's how much crazier this feat is...
And to add onto that, it actually hits a different amount of times depending on if you’re playing ryu, ken, akuma, or Sean, meaning daigo would have had to specifically prepare doing said parry with Ken
I find it funny that this video has transcended so far beyond the tournament it took place at. Literally Daigo didn't even win this tournament, but this moment is so influential to the point it doesn't even matter
Imaginate que tienes a alguien a un pixel de vida le tiras un super movimiento y lo dete ga completo y termine rematandote, quien demonios detiene un especial completo asta ese momento nunca se vio a nadie hacer eso, una de las remontadas mas increíbles en la historia de los juegos de pelea
You can hear someone yelling “LET TIME RUN OUT!” On one hand, if Justin listened he would have lived and won the match. On the other, this clip wouldn’t have existed.
Something similar happend in smash when ZeRo fought hbox in the first smash 4 tournament. the announcer said a minute left on the clock and he heard that and so he proceeded to camp and win the tournament.
This moment right here changed the fighting game landscape forever. This happened during a time where arcades where dying and the fighting game community was an uninteresting underground sport. Look at it today. Huge heavy kudos goes to these two men right here. Justin Wong and Daigo.
Imagine pulling off one of the hypest maneuvers in all of fighting game history, creating a once in a lifetime moment that will be remembered and revered long after your death, and the game itself tells you, “Meh, solid B rank”.
17 years ago . We are getting old . And im still in Love with this Game . This was insane for me back then and its still for me one of the most iconic's things in my Life . I Love Streetfighter 2
The crowd getting loud with the first few parries and then getting louder when they realized Daigo was actually parrying the whole thing makes this so much more memorable.
For anyone who knows the game well, that last hit when he jumped he did that just to style. you don’t need to parry her last hit and you could just start your combo under it
Just for context: it took Maximillian, a professional fighting game streamer, *139 tries* in trial mode to get this sequence right even one time. Meanwhile, Daigo did it in *ONE SINGLE TRY,* under pressure, having Justin smashing on buttons and shaking the table next to him to try to fuck him up, the entire crowd rooting against him, having to perfectly anticipate and read the moment when/if Justin would throw out the super, and PERFECTLY TIME his stick movements with EVERY SINGLE HIT of the super, AND do the jump parry for the maximum damage punish. The sheer iconicness and talent in this moment legitimizes eSports for all times, I mean, seriously, how many people on Earth are even capable of this?
Jacob Hutchison professional entertainer, sure. Most games he plays he’s not good at though. He’s barely a tekken green rank, guilty gear BnBs are a struggle to him and he’s played a hell of a lot of street fighter yet he’s a bit above an average player at best. Not a pro gamer. He’s a real cool guy and RU-vidr though.
Street Fighter 6 is currently popular among Japanese streamers, and gamers like Daigo Umehara have gained recognition. Daigo Umehara sometimes instructs Vtubers. translated by DeepL
@@luciferotto Streamers who play Street Fighter include shaka, kuzuha, botan shishiro, pekora usada, subaru ohzora, sarome hyakumantenbara, and karubi akami. sarome hyakumantenbara, with 1.81 million channel subscribers, received guidance from umehara. translated by deepL
@@user-Drhjiyvyvbi why are they famous? Are they professional gamers? Most of English streamers are famous because either they're very good at games or are good looking. Which category do famous Japanese streamers fall in?
@@luciferotto japanese Streamer is both a comedian and a professional gamer. Shaka, yuuta seki, and spygea are from pro-gamer backgrounds and are good talkers. kuzuha has been a challenger in LoL but has never been a professional gamer. He is the most popular male vtuber in the vtuber agency nijisanji and has great gaming skills but also great comedy skills. usada pekora, subaru ohzora, botan shishiro, sarome hyakumantenbara, karubi akami are all Vtubers. They are talents with good comedy skills. As a result of the popularity of vtubers in Japan, almost all female streamers have become vtubers.
This is actually a lot harder then this looks. To get the first parry, he has to input it before the screen freeze. Justin knows this, so he's trying to throw off his timing. So he not only guessed right, he then pulled off the entire super parry, which is as hard as it looks, then does a pretty difficult air combo that's super easy to mess up, especially with all that pressure, to get the kill. There were like 30 different ways that he could've easily messed up. The fact he did it is a miracle.
I do agree with you on everything except that it is not a miracle, it is mothafuckin Daigo and its hours of practice, even a God couldn't help in that situation, yet he managed to pull through...
It's even harder still, he zones him to push him to make this move. It's not just guessing right, but actively setting up his opponent to do it in the first place, then guessing he'll throw the timing! Honestly, the zoning is almost as impressive!
@@Klamageddon I agree. The most impressive part is that he correctly hits the 10th of a second window before the screen flash. It looks like he's guessing, and while he is, he's using mind games to make his guess likely. Every part of this is impressive. The best part is that he's bluffing. He can't go in and fight him because he has a pixel of health, so Justin feels pressure by a non-existent threat.
This moment was etched in our memory forever, it is the most epic thing I have seen in a fighting game. I've seen it so many times and it's still too epic.
This is literally the end of a movie. The protagonist have everything againsr him and at the last second, he somehow manage to overcome and almost as it was a miracle, he epicly achieves victory.
@@22espec The most memorable thing is that no one cares if Daigo lost in the finals, THE DAIGO PARRY it's in the history of esports, if I see a TOP 10 esports moments that not have THE DAIGO PARRY in first in just call the video bullshit and the whole world have the same sentiment.
@@22espec he lost at the finals but won at life because i been know dis nigga ever since i was 5 years old and now im 21, i literally dont know any SF champion by name, only this nigga right here (tekken's better adjectively)
I just can't watch enough this video, I really love to see it with more quality, this is so EPIC. Maybe there is nothing better than this fight on this competition.
I have no idea why i woke up this morning and this was on my mind i don't even play 3s, this is still a joy to watch has the same impact today as it did 18 years ago thank you...
