Season’s Beatings 6 inspired quite a few players to try out Sakura, so long-time Sakura player dragonballjoseph has released another combovid dedicated to our favorite Ryu fangirl. This one features tons of hard links in SSF4 Arcade Edition, often leading to extended dizzy combos.
highlights:
SSF4AE Sakura 743-damage combo vs Dhalsim at 0:45, Sakura midscreen crossup ultra at 2:13, Sakura fancy corner juggles at 2:43, and Sakura pushing buttons at 2:59
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soundtrack:
MvC3 OST – Magneto Theme
PianoDensetsu – A Schoolgirl’s Journey
transcript:
0:36 Sakura’s meaty Tatsu is at most +8 on hit. Add in the +3 extra frames from a counterhit, and you’ve got a one frame link into her ultra-1!
0:45 Dhalsim hurtbox goes out pretty far during hitstun, allowing Sakura to do an extra crouching fierce. This combined with the strong version of her Shouken and counterhit level 3 Hadoken provides more than enough stun points to actually stun him. The most damaging Sakura combo in the game?
1:17 Being able to get hit by Sakura c.MK xx LK Tatsu loop 3 times and having the lowest stun in the game is not good for Akuma. Though she is barely able to get the stun on him.
1:45 Sakura continues abusing Dhalsim’s hurtbox once again. This time, she does a Satan combo. 666 damage! ^_^
2:13 This combines two of Sakura’s AE buffs. Increased frame advantage on her close strong and a cancellable far strong. This only works on characters with a wide upper body hitbox. FADC into ultra for that extra flair. Also a tribute to how one was supposed to do her ultra when she was first revealed.
2:23 This combo also integrates AE changes, making it possible without the need for counthit close strong, using the twins’ hitboxes. Once again, since meaty Tatsu is +8, a super can be linked afterwards.
2:30 Abel also suffers from a huge upper body hitbox, allowing for her far jab to reach him after a Tatsu string. This setup uses a meaty fierce on counterhit, which is at least +3 (I think it should be at max +5, but I couldn’t get it to work at the moment), so a jab can be linked afterwards into a special. Though if canceled into an EX Tatsu, the second hit tends to miss occasionally and Abel is able to block the remaining hits. This combo can also be done with far short on characters with wide lower body hitboxes.
2:43 This combo works on characters with wide lower bodies. After the fireball follow-up to the EX Tatsu, one can either do a strong Shouken, or FADC into the fierce version as shown.
2:54 Balrog is yet another character who suffers from a huge hitbox, so this is easily linked.
2:59 A series of meaty setups that work on the twins and the different follow-ups to the meaties.
3:21 Sakura’s Taunt #3 takes her pretty low to the ground. ^_^
originally released on November 4th, 2011
Thanks to dragonballjoseph and Snoooootch for providing a full transcript. Combo explanations are always helpful.