Comments on: Five Questions with Peter “ComboFiend” Rosas

By: Wilken

Wilken — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:39:52 +0000

Yeah, Tokido is hard, he doesn’t exactly rushdown, but he plays his Akuma in a way that once he gets a knockdown its over. And about Kindevu, he won SBO, no?

Anyway, u’re right, i guess there are a lot more “normal” players than rushdown players.

By: Maj

Maj — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:09:18 +0000

Haha it’s hard for me to categorize Tokido as a rushdown player, but i guess his SF4/SSF4 Akuma qualifies. Kindevu counts too, but i haven’t heard his name too often lately. Anyway that’s still three players out of how many?

By: Wilken

Wilken — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:04:06 +0000

Err, explaining my coment above; i think we actually have some rushdown players consistently winning tournaments, like Kindevu, Tokido, Alioune Sensei, etc

As someone that live in a place with very few tournaments, i think its actually easier to play rushdown, because you can go to training mode and learn how to beat stuff on wakeup, but you can’t learn good footsies or good blocking against the training dummy…Or maybie i just think like this because the competition here is not as strong as for those guys.

By: Wilken

Wilken — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:09:52 +0000

Aren’t Tokido and ice0age r two rushdown gods in SSF4, Maj?

By: BankBank

BankBank — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:57:29 +0000

great interview, thanks! glad to see the content has not slowed down on the site.

By: Maj

Maj — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:17:39 +0000

JWong is somewhat of an exception. He’s definitely a turtle at heart, but that kid’s so damn good that he can still rush almost anyone at will, except for the very best players. What makes that possible is that he actually has a very solid mid-range zoning foundation, which he probably acquired from years of Sentinel vs Sentinel flight footsies (where it’s all about spacing because blocking is disabled). But if you threaten him, he’s going to back off and test your patience rather than risk attacking.

The truth is there are very few dedicated rushdown players left. The last Street Fighter game that truly rewarded rushdown was probably like Alpha 3. Since then, rushdown only works consistently as Plan B. For example in SSF4, if rushdown is your Plan A, then you can win sometimes and you can even “do well” on a regular basis, but you’ll never win tournaments consistently.

Of all the players i’ve Five Question’d so far, ComboFiend and maybe Edma are the only two i’d call rushdown players. I suppose Clockw0rk fits the description too, but mainly just when he’s got Strider with meter to burn.

By: error1

error1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:21:08 +0000

Good interview, I think playstyle is kind of over stated, for example Wong is clearly a turtle but he commonly is very aggressive.
I have never played to win but almost always play the most turtle character I can find, ( Blanka, Sagat, Guile, Remmy, Faust, Dhalsim, Blackheart ) with the strange exception of sfa1 where I play Guy and rush it down.

By: Maj

Maj — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:38:28 +0000

Photos hijacked from jchensor's archives. Thank you sir!