Eh, i played with the SHGL crowd for like three years straight. If i could hang with those guys, i know i don’t completely suck.

Then eventually i discovered that my real talents lie in figuring out game engines and doing creative things with that knowledge. That’s what i focus on now because it seems like the best way for me to serve the community.

But i mean, i’ve spent a lot of time thinking about strategy and trying to beat very good players. All that dedication doesn’t disappear instantly, you know?

Don’t get me wrong, if Valle decided to launch a strategy website tomorrow, i’d link to every one of his articles. But that kind of thing doesn’t really happen in our community, so someone’s gotta do it.

I know that i don’t know everything, but i can usually find one or two insightful things to point out – so i’m gonna keep doing that until someone comes along and does it better.

Yeah, high-profile players like Valle definitely have that effect on people. Plus he’s very hard to read. He’s been around long enough to develop solid fundamentals, but Valle has always been an unorthodox player at heart. He plays Shotos so everyone assumes he’s a standard Ryu player, but not a lot of people could tell you what his actual gameplan is.

You also have to remember that it’s pretty rare to see a match where both players look really good. It’s easy to nitpick in hindsight, but like MvC2 has taught us: Everybody gets shot.