SF4 (28) - Alex Valle (Ryu) vs. SabrE (Sakura)

[Denshuu]

@flytai No shit, because he dropped the link. People drop combos sometimes. Welcome to fighting games.

[latandafour]

Anyone know any other good sakuras with vids on here?

[weefunker]

@latandafour search for uyro, he is the best sakura in the world

[shinkiroukata]

@latandafour hornett

[Apemopo]

weird to see daigo getting mixed up like that :P

[quicksaund]

I'm taking notes. I need to learn this shit.

[wildreams]

2nd Best Sakura I have ever seen.

[MrNsk909]

Want a challenge go vs oNSKo STEELHULK im oNSKo iSuP3RMaN

[CyanPKM]

1:20 O_o

[Sevenyxxtimes7xx]

SabrE opened his skull, Stuck his dick in his brain and started fucking. And what came out was crossup jizz.

[Domskater55]

wow

[ignitzhjfk]

Amazing the second round.

[DarkShaDowHooD]

Sweeet..

[vVSkyZaVv]

Alex spammed at 1:40, think he meant to do shoryuken but didnt know when the combo would end so he went for it and accidentally done a shinku hadouken XD Sabre rules and inspired me to play as sakura, my 5th character as of today :P

[Blaze3111]

That´s what u get for mashin Valle ! 1:42

[IBeezSoCrazie]

Wow what an awesome Sakura O.o

[knutitup]

That's what you call "Legend Killer". Alex was confused. He didn't know if to take a shit or go blind

[armatebeo]

"It feels great when you can pull off combos just how you imagine 'em!" -sakura

[itachimaster645]

Wow

guess Alex was freaking out

[Lrdvltr]

I didn't know pros used Sakura.

[RisingStars]

funniest shit ever is the nigga in the background screaming, "IS DAT MAGNETO"

[Emjay92]

Ive never seen some1 emberass alex valle that bad

[twitchinstereo]

THAT WAS STRAIGHT OUTTA THE MATRIX.

[trunksbrief1]

I don't at all understand why Valle never once anti-aired with uppercut when Sabre jumped into him... most noobs i play online will do it....why doesn't he? im not calling him noobish....

its just great players seem to have predictability after a bit... and so when i play newer players...they tend not to do things that great players do..so that throws me off... here clearly Sabre has enough faith in Valle's capabilities not to uppercut i guess?

[330432]

@trunksbrief1 he was mindfucked and didnt know what to do most likely it happens

[foxhound21xx]

@trunksbrief1 Actually, thats exactly what beginner's luck is. The new player's refusal to conform to the conventions already set by the people who know what they're doing results in a completely different playstyle that can catch even the most skilled player off guard. That doesn't mean a flowchart Ken is winning any tournaments soon, however.

[strikerk]

"It feels great when you can pull off combos just how you imagine 'em."

[ImShiawase]

That was freaking awesome. I want to be able to play Sakura like that.

[JCrest87]

Valle may have great footsies but Sabre's mixups were CRAZY at Evo 09, he really brought his A game. I hope to see him again at Evo 10.

[nainqx]

does the damage scale go back to normal everytime she resets the combo?

[iPityDatFoo]

yes :)

[OkaGantZ]

@nainqx Thats the whole points of resets lol, its all about tricks and have a game plan, problem whit that its that its useless once its figure it out.

[kakashiSensai00]

Holy Shit! Sabre man! Craziest Sakura ever!

[coolguy681]

haha lol valle never loses like that.

[xMiKeIzKeRaZex]

"IS THAT MAGNETO!?!?!?!" hahaha. Sabre's mix ups are incredible.

[MelonPanJin]

Sabre FTW

[Zephil]

1:40 most epic slow motion ever!

[glenburg89]

Dont wanna seem like a noob, but what does SRK stand for. Im not sure if its an abbreviation of Shoryuken or something else. I probably know what the technique is.

[Serotonergic]

it's shoryuken

[IAmPhotoBucket]

Took me a fuckin like week or two to realize it too. I donno why.

[ihatemovingpictures]

"It feels great when you can pull off combos just how you imagine em!"

You sure showed us how true that is, Sakura.

[SakurasOtoshi]

I love the crowd's "OHHH"s it gives me chills for some reason lol

Nice match! Like the best match ever in the history of SFIV lol

[anthony398]

@SakurasOtoshi

Best match? Man, you need to watch more SFIV vids :p

[ggxxslash]

Well it was match of the year on SRK but I don't think its the best match ever.

[strikerk]

@SakurasOtoshi

That's the sole reason I go to Evo. :) The chills.

[ThePsychoCrusher89]

LOL matrix! 1:39

[KingOfKingz504]

SICK!!!!

[etang5]

siiiiick resets.  zomg!

[Jedlessness]

IS DAT MAGNETO!?

[RisingStars]

@Jedlessness LOL

[Ellie14]

@Jedlessness lmfao

[azn80149]

Do shoryukens kill sakura's reset game? Usually just as they land they input a shoryken as I attempt to reset and really frustrates me. Is this because of my timing?

[DeeLiciouzZzZ]

Same thing happens to me a lotta times. Don't know if my timing is the problem. But watching SabrE I guess it's definitely a timing issue. IDK...

[toemaetoe]

No, SRK do kill resets of any kind if you press a button. You can try blocking and baiting it out but if they dont SRK your mixup is destroyed. It's a 50:50 vs good players and 90:10 vs bad ones :P

[amigdala85]

they dont time the SRK input right...they MASH it from the beginning of ur combo and hope for the next free frame of ur combo (reset or combo lag).notice that and mixup blocking/attacking/option select throwing.

another good thing would be the "weird jump" wich makes SRKS and ultras wiff...look at my videos.u will find it there in the "sakura reset" video.

the mashed SRKs and ultras are the main reason,why i F*CKIN HATE this "autochange of direction" in this game.

scrubfriendly sh*t -.-

[flytai45]

@amigdala85 theres autocorrect dp in older games too -.-

[Blizarg]

well if you mix-up but do not atack you can block the shoryuken and later punish

[chz420]

Nope, they just guessed the correct side, if they are incorrect with which guess you will land on, then a light medium or fierce punch will come out instead, which are beaten by Sakura's lk. Also, Its best to buffer a throw break into your lk as they are coming down, as in hold down and press lk + lp.

[DeeLiciouzZzZ]

Wait till SSF4 comes out and she gets her shinku-hadouken :P

I'm so satisfied with maining Sakura although she has low stamina and doesn't have a big damage output (as long as you don't get those resets going).

[chz420]

Yup... Ex tatsu still gives Sakura advantage on block Mr. Valle (and 99.99% of the SFIV population)

[imcoolsinger]

wow valle got mind fucked so bad, that look like he was mashin dp and got a super lol!

[2Digitalism]

haha the win quote

[cso2040]

Wow! Valle got PWNED!

[ZenTrickz]

That was the sickest Sakura. Where do you block?!?!

[SakurasOtoshi]

Nice match!

[SaBr322]

lemme just clear something up. the corner double crossup i used in round 3, was in fact, brand new, at that time. I discovered that trick a week before evo and kept it secret til then. no one on srk knew about it. its bs if people think that setup is old, cuz it wasn't. the other stuff was week 1 shit, everyone knew it. i just had it all spaced just right that night to make it harder to see.

[UltraSimon007]

@SaBr322 Well played, bro :3

[supbabys530]

@SaBr322 double crossups might be new to sf4 but we've seen em a bunch in games such as ST and 3S. Very nice work, Valle has a hard time guarding on wakeup I guess...

[SaBr322]

@supbabys530 never said double crossups arent new, i would be an idiot if i said that =). i just said that specific mixup was new, and that it was a double crossup

[93alvbjo]

@SaBr322 scary thing is people have come up with even more scary shit XD

[HyourouSen]

@SaBr322 Yea man good shit u are deff. no joke

[MohamedZero]

@SaBr322 Your awesome.

[fauxx82]

@SaBr322 that was nuts, fucking beastmode. watching your shit was what got me into sakura

[RagingForce]

@SaBr322

goddamn you kick ass

[cmysharingan]

@SaBr322  Best Sakura EVER!!!

[Guywithair2]

@SaBr322

You the best. I like your cody too :D

[strawwberryred]

@SaBr322 just wanted to say that you have the best sakura i have seen!! your gameplay is so on point!! nice match

[vVSkyZaVv]

@SaBr322 hey sabre u rule, btw i found another trick in the corner xD

[antzenpro3]

@vVSkyZaVv too late now o_O he dropped sakura already

[vVSkyZaVv]

@antzenpro3 oh well, Uryo inspires me to be sakura then xD

[MrBoom891]

@SaBr322 yeh, best sakura i seen, i seen some good guys play sakura, but more conventionally, them cross ups are a head f**k

[wildreams]

@SaBr322 There is something I have always wanted to ask, in the second round where you stopped your combo and tatsued over ryu's super, was that intentional? or was that a coincidence?

[RajmanGamingHD]

@wildreams He didnt stop his combo, he was trying to link a lk tatsu after the standing lk but it whiffed...and because Valle must have been mashing DP out came his Super going under the tatsu.

[flytai45]

@RajmanGamingHD st. lk doesnt link into lk tatsu......

[Denshuu]

@flytai45 Look at the date on this video. It's from the 2009 version of SF4. So yes, st.lk did link into lk tatsu.

[flytai45]

@Denshuu you can see for yourself that st.lk didnt link -.-

[TheNoobKiller]

@SaBr322 You going to pick up Sakura back in AE? She has a lot of strengths now.

[RainbowRandolf]

IS THAT MAGNETO?!

[generalvivi]

b e a utifle

[azn80149]

Coming from a street fighter newbie, is it possible to avoid/block those resets?

[lordofultima]

@azn80149 Of course, resets aren't combos so you just have to guess right and block correctly, or reversal with an invincible startup move.

In SF4 resets are harder to trick people with, because of the game speed.

[curiousenver]

god DAMN

[TheRyanNation]

ohhhh gotta love the fuckin resets... Sabre PwNs

[Crescendo8o8]

Damn..crossed up like clockwork

Nice match, Sabre got in Valle's head real well

[shempi81]

1:40..BITCH GOT OWNED!!!!

[TPHxItachi]

actually its not picking poison..its actually using ur eyes and seeing what way she's going to land..this was new back then so im sure many players didnt see this coming n were frozen to this style..but now this is common knowledge to the ADVANCE players n will be easy to see coming

[MartijnMumbles]

@TPHxItachi cause, you know, Valle's not an "advanced" player right? /sarcasm

[BStokes06]

@ mumbles....

he said it was new then...NOW it's part of a mix-up that people know about...stop acting lilke a fuckin fanboy

[MartijnMumbles]

That was in no way, shape, or form new at the time. Even back then every Sakura player used that mix up. What's amazing is the perfect execution, not Valle's inability to stop him.

I like how you throw the term fanboy around like it proves a point. Pathetic, did you learn that at Internet Debating 101? Troll school graduate right here.

[BStokes06]

@MartijnMumbles AGAIN! if you don't expect her to do this then how would you know to block it....you'd have to expect it before you can just block some stuff you don't know about....say some one discovers a cross under trick that nobody ever done before as rufus....HOW are yo ugoing to block it without knowing about it DUMBASS!!!..

BESIDES THAT....SAKURAS LINKS ARE EASY!!!! I'VE BEEN PLAYING HER!!!

Put it like this...if you think you'RE SO good I'll body you I'll send you my gamertag THE END

[MartijnMumbles]

@BStokes06 Rage more buddy. Even the SRK clowns knew about these long before Evo. Sabre is just the only one that can pull this off on that high a level.

I'm by no means amazing and I've been pulling off those resets long before the video. He gets completely in Valle's head, that's why this video is so sick.

[BStokes06]

@MartijnMumbles why is it rage? I'm in no way angry... you going to fight of not....take your scary bum ass down the road lol....

[MartijnMumbles]

@BStokes06 You think that'll some how prove your point? Seriously? How old are you, really? I live in Europe, the lag would be impossible.

It's pitiful. A generation of gamers that actually thinks this is how you prove a point. I'm embarrassed to even share a hobby with people like you.

[ggxxslash]

I hope she still has her reset and EX mix up game in SS4.

[BStokes06]

why would she not?

[ggxxslash]

@BStokes06

I duno... Capcom might decide to be mean to Sakura and give her the crossover and improved projectile game she need, but remover her reset and mix up. But I haven't seen anything saying that they removed them so I guess shes good!

[r0q]

This video is the definition of shenanigans.

[SaBr322]

yeah we heard you the first time when you posted this.

[greatcaptainusopp]

That was dope.

[Galkatokk]

Alex was just mentaly broken by the end of round 2. He didn't even see that crossup.

[joespankitgood]

you mean the one at 1:27?

[DaisukeXYX]

Holy Shit ! sooo gooood ! love sakura ^^

[Schpunken]

shitty game. Good riddance.

[Urbanart90]

Bullet time hurricane kick over the super.

awesome.

[OmegaNitro]

Match Of The Year!!!

[mcBeast]

Lol at Marn yelling "Is that Magneto?" (Sounds like him at least.) Lol.

[Indigjudgement]

yup am stealing his sakura right now lol in training mode.

[RajHDGaming]

Wow I remember watching this on the live stream

[budojon]

great match. sakura has some nasty combos !!!

[realbodizzle]

Sakura dodged that Shinkuu-Hadouken like the matrix.

[pookiethegamer]

HELL YEA (sorry for my mouth)

you can be good with any fighter, it just takes more practice for it. Most players are just lazy, and go with Ryu, Sagat, Blanka, etc

but fighters like Chun-li, Fei long, Gen, Rose, in this case Sakura can also be taken to the next level.

Best Fight of the under dog

[thejunkmanlives]

chun is way better then blanka, the only way blanka can win is by playing lame.

[SonicFlash122]

I dont think Chun Li is a low tier character though...

[pookiethegamer]

She isn't.... niether is Fei Long or Rose.

my point was in most tournaments I've seen, i never see a Fei Long or Gen or Rose in the Finals (something like that)

must tournaments I see Ryu, Sagat, and maybe Barlog.

and Junk man, I was never comparing Chun-li to blanka.

both of yall missed my point....

and WTF, my message didn't even say "low tier" or "match ups"

[Urbanart90]

that's because in most tournaments they use the Arcade cabinets. Which don't have Sakura, Fei Long or Rose in the game.

And I think Fei Long is considered a decent character as far as tiers.

[pookiethegamer]

I never said Fei-long was a bad tiers.... I didn't even mention tiers in my message.... my point was, "characters like Fei long, Rose, Gen, and Saukra are tournament fighters too"

but! i did not know must tournaments are arcade cabinets.

that sucks

[ThePieIsFalse]

MAG FUCKING NETO

[PlasmaEXE]

Sakura at her best o.o, wins coming from her are deserved and no SRK properties abused to get out of block strings <_<.

Valle's great too, but he must have been psyched out by that play.

[hardgayramen4ever]

best match off the year my arse SRK, biased american voting.

[Spud388]

I find this match entertaining

[terrork08]

s-rank sakura!

[SarenN7]

pure unadulterated raep sauce

[hoonyo]

alex valle searches for his name on srk

[tzBIGWORM]

@hoonyo LOL!!!

[WildTengu]

That's Sakura pressure. Official Sakura pressure right here.

[Stimchi]

Evil Sakura......

[StreetTrooper]

mixups from hell

[glaive616]

Why cant he block ?

[RevGoodWill]

Every time SabrE resets Valle from an ex-hurricane kick, Valle has to guess which side SabrE will attack next

[daddyshere1]

lol @ is she magneto?

[PLEEZENinja]

This match won Shoryuken's Match of the Year 2009. congrats Sabre.

[snipingdreamer]

Sakura's win quote is so perfect for this match.

[etherealrhythm]

Nuts.

[Matsute]

I remember nearly falling out of my chair when I watched this on the live stream!

SAKURA FOR CURLY MUSTACHE TIER

[AlexiixelA]

CURLEH MUSTACHE!

[NoxisTemptum]

I bet valle freaked out , you dont see top ryu player starting match with backjump everyday lol

[kareemtitojamar]

y did he not guard or the side switch was 2 fast?

[VYP3R22]

exactly, sakura switching sides is crazy, u can only guess most of the times, even pro have problems with that, v fun to watch tho

[kareemtitojamar]

@VYP3R22

darn my friends dose it but because i use chunli i may not find it that bad but can't imagin how hard it must be for a ryu, and that was valle's.

sakura is a MINI BEAST o_O

[shiningwizard327]

Fa sho, Chun-Li has EX bird that can get her out of mix-ups like those.

[Graftin2006]

its the mix up, he has an option of a cross up, clk, grab, a juggle and the chance of dashing under the other player for a cross up that way, so it just got in his mind and messed him up really.

[boyonweed]

@kareemtitojamar It's a combo reset, you cant block that shit =/

[Super7826]

You can block combo resets...

it's just a matter of guessing where the opponent's going to strike next.

[XZerosr388X]

Best sakura ever O_O

[Krost]

too sick

[8SetMeFree8]

VALLE GUESSED WRONG EVERYTIME. Those dirty corner resets, just crazy.

[samuraikatana1]

hell yeah, don't underestimate sakura.

[Q80Warlock]

Gr8 moment, Sakura's juggle reset confused the hell out of Valle. Great performance by Sabre the setup is really risky against Ryu but he took the risk.

[gjones015]

Damn!!!! I didn't know Dark Sakura was in this game.

[thejunkmanlives]

lol at ryu trying to mash out a reversal and geting a super.

[thejunkmanlives]

LOL i got neged for telling the truth. Why else would a super come out in the middle of a hit string? He was mashing srks and fucked up u know it LOL.

[SaBr322]

it wasnt a mash, any pro player knew exactly what he was going for. unfortunately for him, my s.short comboed.

i already explained the situation on why it wasnt a mash. if you watch the entire match, you can see his gameplan after every short hk, the matrix one was no different.

any pro can see that. not a mash at all

[thejunkmanlives]

dude, daigo mashes reversals LOL, they all do that shit with sagat and ryu. ANd honestly, at the pro level he should know that sakuras hurri kick arc goes over the super.

[SaBr322]

thejunkman: that reply just shows you do not know what valle was going for. you still think it was all about the super.. since you cant see what he was going for, ill tell you.

he was going for dp xx super after my short hk. the problem was is that i comboed my s.short after short hk. he was doing the dp motion at this point, by the time s.short hit, he was already inputting the super. its really obvious. the entire match he was dp'ing me after a short hk, it was no different at the end

[thejunkmanlives]

Dude, ur telling me he couldnt get one dp out? ANd then when he goes for the dp super cancel he doesnt get a dp? That shit makes him look even worst. Cmon man, no ryu has any business loseing to sakura at any level, and mind u we are talkin about one of the better ryus in the country. U know that shit is sad.

[RainbowRandolf]

He can't get DP's out when she does here mixups. Even if you mash EX dp's. Sabre times his links with no errors. The Sakura chain is blockable, you just need to guess right and just trying to DP out of it is a scrub move for serious.

[prof21]

@RainbowRandolf

Uh, no. Valle could've srk'd on the reset every time. Why he didn't, no idea and he paid for it. But meaty's out of resets lose to a mashed dp every time.

[SaBr322]

sigh, you dont understand whats going on im afraid. he doesnt get a dp cuz i COMBOED the s.short. . he was going for a reversal dp after the short hurricane kick, looking for the gap where i have to do a strictly timed link combo. i comboed the s.short(where he was trying to dp and hoping i would fail the link so he could get the free counter), so obviously he never got dp, and its too fast to react to whether or not it came out and stop yourself from doing the super motion followup.

[SaBr322]

also, to add. he didnt dp cuz hes not a spaz. dp doesnt always work. is it risky for sakura? of course. but the scrubby auto correction dp crap in this game doesnt always work. also, the corner crossup trick was unknown to everyone. i came up with that trick a week before evo, and that was the first time unleashed on anyone. and that mixup is very hard to get dp's on.

alex thought it was better idea to guess right blocking and regain his superior spacing game. but he guessed wrong