• EVO Moment #37 But in a Different Perspective
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1xPOUn7vQ Dug from the ground by MarkMan23.
This continues to be one of the most absurd displays of skill in fighting game history.
Since I don't play Street Fighter does someone want to explain to me exactly why what happened there takes so much skill? I can tell it does just by how the audience reacted but I'd like to have an explanation as well.
There's a wikipedia page on it that does a pretty good job of explaining it I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Moment_37
He parried (perfect block, frame perfect basically) 15 hits from Chun-Li's super while only having enough health to just barely keep him alive. If he got hit at any point it was game over. Right after those parries he managed to combo into a super that won him the match.
I don't know about this Wikipedia. However, instead of avoiding it, Umehara chose to "Parry", a high-risk, high-reward technique which allows the defender to block an incoming attack without losing any health, but requires moving toward opponent's direction in the same time a hit lands,[7] within four of thirty frames of the impact animation – about seven hundredths of a second.  isn't 4 of 30 frames closer to thirteen hundredths of a second, not seven? One of those two things is wrong.
3rd strike runs at 60fps, and the parry window is roughly 10f The issue however is that the startup on chun-li's super is mostly pre-flash. That means that Daigo (ken) had to already be holding forward before the cinematic from the super began, or he would've been hit. Then, afterward, he has to time each parry input precisely to avoid getting touched by any of the following hits from the super.
It's a bunch of godlike displays of skill stacked on top of eachother. Display of skill #1: Daigo knew without doubt that Justin was going to do the super to chip kill him. Chip damage is damage taken by blocking, which can kill you in this game, hence chip kill. Daigo's only option was to parry the super. Chun's super is too fast to avoid any other way. He had the whole situation analyzed perfectly. #2: Daigo was able to parry the first hit. Chun's super is too fast to parry on reaction to the freeze frame. You have to input the parry just before the freeze frame, so you need to basically guess when they're going to do it. This is what makes Chun's super so good at chip killing. If they didn't try to parry by pushing forward the moment before you do it, they're dead. You can't just hold it either, parry requires you to push forward at a precise time. You can see Daigo rhythmically tapping forward in the moments just before the super comes out, you can see Ken inching forward every time he takes a guess at when the super is going to come. #3: Daigo maintains composure and parries the rest of the super as the crowd erupts behind him, and Justin mashes on his stick trying to break his concentration (You can see that in some other footage). I think parries in Third Strike have a 10 frame window or something, so every hit he parries is a 1/6th of a second window where he pushes forward. #4: Daigo's punish was optimal as fuck. For the last hit of the super he does a neutral jump and parries it in the air so that he can punish with a full jump-in combo for maximum damage, sealing the round and game. Straight-up galaxy brain. Basically the real impressive thing here imo is Daigo's nerves of fucking steel. There's a lot of people out there who are able to parry Chun's super like that in training mode, but in a real match? Where you don't know when it's coming? At the worlds biggest fighting game tournament in front of a big crowd? When you're both up a round and it's for the game? And you know that every person in that room wants to see it happen? Bro your hands are shaking and sweating and you know that for every hit of that super, a fraction of a second's slip up in timing means the K.O. screen pops up and you gotta shake justin's hand and walk off the stage with a shitload of adrenaline coursing through you with that L in your pocket.
not ever a moment where this ceases to amaze me
also casual mid air after-parry
"you had to be there"
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