EVO Update: Top 8

The most interesting thing that happened at EVO, I believe was the complete shift in the meta-game. If you didn't catch it, I will explain it. Speed, aggression, damage.

A lot of the matches that I saw come down to the most aggressive players having the balls to press buttons in situations no one would dare. The Japanese are very aggressive always have been. If you watch them play tekken same mindset. A mind set that would have gotten them raped in the previous series of soul calibur.

However SCV rewards characters with speed, has more 50/50 chance situations, and it rewards aggression. Shining Decopon, literally stood in front of his opponents faces and attacked at disadvantage. Mind fuck. His reactions were on point to. But I thought the most notable thing was just standing in front of his opponents, and applying a pressure I have never seen before. Yeah you can punish him for attacking at disadvantage, but his combos can make up the damage.

I can't say he was the strongest player, but I can say no one was prepared for that kind of style.
 
KingAce said:
The most interesting thing that happened at EVO, I believe was the complete shift in the meta-game. If you didn't catch it, I will explain it. Speed, aggression, damage.

A lot of the matches that I saw come down to the most aggressive players having the balls to press buttons in situations no one would dare. The Japanese are very aggressive always have been. If you watch them play tekken same mindset. A mind set that would have gotten them raped in the previous series of soul calibur.

However SCV rewards characters with speed, has more 50/50 chance situations, and it rewards aggression. Shining Decopon, literally stood in front of his opponents faces and attacked at disadvantage. Mind fuck. His reactions were on point to. But I thought the most notable thing was just standing in front of his opponents, and applying a pressure I have never seen before. Yeah you can punish him for attacking at disadvantage, but his combos can make up the damage.

I can't say he was the strongest player, but I can say no one was prepared for that kind of style.
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This kind of style is actually what won MK9 as well. I noticed the same thing in SCV, Decopon was on the offensive most of the time. I think it was partly because he knew Tira was underrated and no one would know how to fight her, but even the one's that do probably still struggled. He also made some godlike reads to even out his odds, which was great.

I still think it really depends on the character you play, but i believe we will be seeing more aggressive play in the near future.
 
Frayhua said:
Patch 1.04 is going to fix the broken stuff. Also I hope Hilde gets overnerfed.
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theres another patch coming? holy shit DLC yun seong there is still hope somehow..... if only he was there my life would be complete..... and tag team battle would be nice too.....
 
No, there is no other patch, at least not yet.

Can we please get back to talk about EVO, there are 456463416 threads about tiers and patches, and useless stuff that won't make any of these crybabies win a tourney.

Back on EVO, Sora said he had good footage of some fights during the EVO that we didn't watch, can't wait to see those casual fights, they are usually even more fun than tourney matches.
 
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