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
I'm more of a Tekken fan, but regardless of what fighting game series you prefer, you just have to love this video. It's so fucking epic, and holy shit, it was uploaded over 10 years ago O_O
I am a Super Smash Bros. player (yes everybody, go ahead and tell me it's not a real fighting game,) and I acknowledge this as one of (if not) the best moments in any competitive fighting game.
The reason there was only a B rank was because the game counts points, and if you lose a round you lose a lot on that. B+ is actually a fairly high ranking when you lose a round and is that low on health when you win round 2. The computer is unfortunately not smart enough to just measure pure skill. Having taken two supers.. being close to zero health and then parring every single attack, ending it another block\attack then a super of his own and finishing off his opponent is unexpected and legendary.
Sometimes the safest move you can make is the most dangerous. Using Chuns special there was the best move he could make but it ended up being what killed him.
I feel like crying! Goose bumps and everything! What a moment! Can't believe it! Our children will never understand or witness glorious moments like this again!
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
This can never lose it's hype. The absolute insanity of getting a perfect parry with *NO HEALTH* and instantly punishing with his own to _win the tie breaker._ Justin could have sneezed and accidentally killed him, but Daigo had to go and defy literally ALL odds. 🔥 In just a little over a year when this becomes 20yrs old, I'll _still_ get them goose pimples watching an impossible come back.
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”.
If you saw how people get the max rank in their games, seeing a B in this is pretty normal. Max rank you can get awarded is MSF, Master Street Fighter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As someone who never played this game or much of Street fighter, I always assumed it was a really cool clutch moment. I recently learned about the mechanics of the game and that particular Chun Li move. Now it's the most amazing thing I have ever seen in gaming
Absolutely my friend. Parrying that attack would probably take me 100 hours of straight practice on that game. And I'm an above average street fighter player lmao. Parrying a super that's a projectile is actually rather easy, but that's just different
@@LunarianQueen so in street fighter if you counter, which is to make the exact same attack as the opponent in the opposite direction, you negate all damage. Chunli's super attacks 15-17 times, depending on the game, in an extremely short window. We're talking in the sub 10 frames area of fast. Prior to this it was considered impossible to counter the full combo
he gets hit and parries 1 attack though... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7buEBe9YB9g.html kind of an over exaggeration to think it was referred
I can’t even imagine the amount of adrenaline that fight gave them. With that many people to bear witness as well. I love that capcom immortalized this moment as a playable training mission, right down to the final retaliation super combo.
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.
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.
For people who don't know, had he just blocked that attack, the chip damage would have killed him. Literally had no other choice but to counter, and he succeeded.
In this game, you can press forward to parry an attack within a 10 frame window (~0.2 seconds) just before the attack lands, which negates all the damage. If he'd just blocked, the chip damage would've killed him, so he had to parry Chun li's super which has 15 individual hits that each have different timing, perfectly in order to survive.
pretty sure he jumped at the end when it was not mandatory to parry the last hot but to set up his combo afterward, taking a small risk for a big reward.
