SF4 Tutorial - Rufus Guide

Hey guys, here's my second tutorial. This time a Rufus Guide, my secondary character. Since I received so many great responses for my Vega tutorial, I decided to make one about Rufus and another about Viper, coming hopefully in january. Enjoy!

Information:
Rufus is a rushdown character and pretty easy to play, he wants to stay close to the opponent and deal heavy damage. Despite his size, he is really fast, has some nice combos and many possibilities to combo into ultra.

I think its very important to learn the Combo Divekick, cl.LK, cl.HP xx HP Tornado. Its a One-Frame-Link and tough to learn at first, but its really paying of. I recommend doing Plinking, more info here: http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=186686

There are more Combos into Super, like Target Combo into HP Super or j.HK into HP Super, but like I stated in the Video, Super is only good for ending a match, meter is just too important for Rufus with EX Messiah, EX SS or FADC.

Also, for all infos about Rufus visit http://forums.shoryuken.com/forumdisplay.php?f=265.

Thanks for watching, I'd be happy if you write a comment!

Music is from the SF4 OST, Copyright by Capcom

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• SF4
• Street
• Fighter
• IV
• Rufus
• Tutorial
• Guide
• Messiah
• Kick
• Snake
• Strike
• Vega
• Claw
• Viper
• Ryu

[CodyTheDog]

Is this still valid for 2012?

[wwmajin]

@CodyTheDog Basically yes, Rufus hasn't changed all that much from SF4 to AE2012. He received some damage nerfs, but all Combos shown still work but the damage and stun values are different. He got good new tool with Ultra 2 and his Target Combo hits all crouchers now. All I can remember of the top of my head. Oh, yeah, you can focus cancel the sucking part of EX Tornado and combo afterwards.

[mattews91]

Man i really need your help please answer me as faster as you can! Do you use plinks for linkin cl.LK ~ cl.HP. i've been seeing some dificult to do it 100%. Please if you do a plink tell me wich one.

[wwmajin]

@mattews91 Yes, I plink this with HP ~ MP

[enjoijjj]

@wwmajin im having trouble with rufus's B&B combo. I really want to master it but the timing is tough. how long did it take you to learn this combo? Ive been playing street fighter for like 4 months on an xbox 360 controler and ive finally made a switch to stick and have been using it none stop for a week, so im comfortable on it. Ive just started plinking for the first time and it seems hard.. but yeah how long did his B&B take u to master?

[wwmajin]

@enjoijjj Just go into training mode and practice only this combo for about 15 - 30 min and do this every day for a few days. Its really easy once your muscles remember the motion. And plinking isn't hard at all, just press HP and MP ALMOST at the same time, just like you're tapping your fingers on the desk when you're bored...

[shogunofyellow]

Shit man, that Blanka section was so long.

-Blanka player

[FranThirdStrike]

talks a lot because he's fat

[TheSubbingMan]

@xc3xc3x I got an asprin. need to borrow it?

[TheSubbingMan]

@wwmajin THX for the guide. I didn't know Rufus was such a very capable character.

[xc3xc3x]

I got nauseous around 5:53 =(

[callanmcgill]

@wwmajin Do you know if HPxxHP Tornado hits on every character? I've been trying to do the BnB in training mode with Guy but the first two hits of the tornado seem to whiff. Or am I just doing something wrong?

[IVISMiLESIVI]

May I just say that, as a guy who just started playing rufus again about 2 weeks ago this video is such a blessing. It has by far surpassed any other video I've seen for rufus. The character match up specific tips are so awesome. I had no idea I can beat honda's headbutt with cr.lp! Thank you so much. Your wisdom is greatly appreciated.