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In case someone still hasn't seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing:
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In case someone still hasn't seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 https://youtu.be/JzS96auqau0
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In case someone still hasn't seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 https://youtu.be/JzS96auqau0
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In case someone still hasn't seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 https://youtu.be/JzS96auqau0Wow, how did they do that!? I guess if you can pull that off, parrying is the best.
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Wow, how did they do that!? I guess if you can pull that off, parrying is the best.Caveat: I don't play fighting games, but I coke to EVO moment 37 every now and again for the frisson it provides me. From what I've gathered from folks who are in that community, this fest is _even more_ impressive than you might realize, because he had to begin parrying that move _before_ the screen effects begin. You can even see his character sort of twitching back and forth before the super pops, anticipating the directional inputs necessary to pull the parry off. So, not only is it practically frame-perfect reflexes and timing, but it's also an incredible display of metagame knowledge to guess that is what is coming.
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Caveat: I don't play fighting games, but I coke to EVO moment 37 every now and again for the frisson it provides me. From what I've gathered from folks who are in that community, this fest is _even more_ impressive than you might realize, because he had to begin parrying that move _before_ the screen effects begin. You can even see his character sort of twitching back and forth before the super pops, anticipating the directional inputs necessary to pull the parry off. So, not only is it practically frame-perfect reflexes and timing, but it's also an incredible display of metagame knowledge to guess that is what is coming.Once again, Wow! I would probably be panicking too much at that point to even do normal moves correctly.
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Wow, how did they do that!? I guess if you can pull that off, parrying is the best.Just wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin's Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage. So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won't be able to use parry for the next 23 frames. So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li's attack, he'd die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying _every single hit_ of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second), which doubles the difficulty. And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn't recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment. If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don't even know who won it.
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In case someone still hasn't seen it yet, this is what the first picture in the article is referencing: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=JzS96auqau0 https://youtu.be/JzS96auqau0
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Just wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin's Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage. So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won't be able to use parry for the next 23 frames. So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li's attack, he'd die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying _every single hit_ of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second), which doubles the difficulty. And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn't recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment. If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don't even know who won it.Thanks for the details and the video.
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Just wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin's Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage. So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won't be able to use parry for the next 23 frames. So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li's attack, he'd die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying _every single hit_ of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second), which doubles the difficulty. And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn't recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment. If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don't even know who won it.
