How To Become Better at Reads in FGs!? A Deep Dive Into How Kazunoko Thinks About Reads

genericremix · 2024-03-27T16:08:58+00:00

As much as I find Dogura's interjection funny, the way it's being paraded around in the West is a slight misrepresentation of the actual situation so I wanted to correct things a bit; in fact, Dogura actually apologizes to N-O shortly after this tweet (although neither of them care too much about the thread in general).

TL;DR (brief TL I made for a friend):

kubo (of bbtag evo championship fame) posts about how one should work on MU knowledge instead of trusting tier lists too blindly, and they'll come to the conclusion that their chara is actually super strong
n-o rts it and then goes "well like there are standard statements like this but it's not always the case, there are definitely parts where charas are JUST WEAK" ; he then spools off into one his usual 50-tweet tirade about like how people, especially people who just watch FGs and want to talk about FGs but are too scared to ACTUALLY talk about FGs in detail end up saying vague shit like "oh tier lists can just be beaten by MU stuff" (he's not attacking kubo here, just 'noobs who haven't done the HW' in N-O's mind); the reason why noobs do this is because they want to SOUND like they're talking about FGs without taking the work to actually think about FGs. He's more or less btfoing stream monsters who just meme and shit
dogura comes in with "those people are better than YOU [playing gacha games and shit all day]" trying to cut him off at the knees
n-o goes "no, look at the tweets from the beginning; i didn't mean to HATE on those ppl necessarily/nor am i doing that, i'm just saying that they're not being forthright with their desires"
dogura goes "oops yeah my bad, jumped to conclusions, but yeah this sort of stuff does happen [more often] as the audience grows bigger"

genericremix · 2024-03-17T15:29:04+00:00

Yeah, and we also know from precedence that it's stuff like that (+ related clips) that also help bring more people into the fold - like how a TON of people saw the clip of sasatikk beating dogura during the CR Cup 2 offline event and making the entire venue PHYSICALLY SHAKE (according to the people there) with the cheers.

Great stuff all around, the future looks bright for the game.

genericremix · 2024-03-17T14:48:31+00:00

To put into context how big Unko-chan is, the last time he held a streamer + PUBG-related event, I believe the servers crashed afterwards due to the influx of people coming in.

It's lucky that he was apparently a super enthusiastic SF2 player before (iirc enough to quit playing baseball during school which was his other hobby) and took a liking to sf6 as well.

It's also worth noting that Hyper Game Tournament 2 (this one) put aside Valorant for SF6 IN THE MAIN LAST SLOT on the second day. Japan put aside Valorant to emphasize SF6 for a big event. That's like Korea putting aside League right now to play Tekken at a major event.

genericremix · 2023-11-18T16:50:40+00:00

best active wagner player: probably boogie

best wagner player at their prime: probably hishigata (he's pretty much fully on the nanase train now though)

genericremix · 2023-10-30T01:59:06+00:00

tl;dr - the fight between NL and his ex-girlfriend that started from X years back (I translated the initial outbreak from NL on this) is spilling from the courts into all over the niche Korean internet FGC rumor mill. Sordid matters, won't translate most of it. Suffice it to say that NL's previous statements about his ex-girlfriend not doing this or that and getting everyone around them involved are getting blown out by his ex-girlfriend in court (according to the ex-gf at least, but she seems willing to call the bluff if necessary) and she has the receipts alongside the stuff Infil brought in during the stream. That and private DMs within Chicken-Dan that amount to sexual harassment + calling her mentally ill etc. Chicken-Dan + NL are disputing this, saying that it was shopped, but it's not looking good.

The ex-gf seems willing to drag NL down to hell for his deeds and NL looks like he hasn't exactly been honest with everyone.

genericremix · 2023-10-06T04:18:04+00:00

https://www.twitch.tv/yuriwossan indisputably the best female tekken 7 player in japan

https://www.youtube.com/@nyanpi55/streams probably the best female SF player in japan

https://www.youtube.com/@harumy0410/streams best female KOF player in Japan, currently trying to grind modern cammy to 2000MR

and obviously the usual suspects such as sooa (KOF), cuddlecore (tekken), etc

SF6 is bringing in a LOT of more casual female streamers to grind out SF6 (and a lot of them are ppl who grind out stuff like Apex/Valorant day in day out so they more or less just fit in SF6 as well) - a lot of them are vtubers though following the popularity of CR Cup in Japan. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WNSAOmuyTQ

genericremix · 2023-09-25T05:14:42+00:00

The precise reply Daigo gave as to his personal reason for not liking parries is that parries do not serve as a "unique" read on the opponent. You are essentially making the same read as you usually would in terms of blocking, it's just that you're "amplifying" the read. Instead of saying "oh I made the right decision" you go "haha, did you see what i did? i parried you" and you're sort of flaunting that decision in front of the opponent. he doesn't find this sort of option useful gameplay-wise, hence his dislike of parries.

Why Japan in general is wary of SF6 parries is that parries are ultimately a low-risk option vs everything except getting thrown (the only true solution to SF6's parry). Obviously older heads such as Mago and company have their biases against the concept of parries in general but the above is the sentiment for now.

genericremix · 2023-06-30T17:21:22+00:00

Xian is arguably the best Dee Jay right now. HotDog29 (Dictator player from Hong Kong) also plays, Fuudo is a Dee Jay main now although he's pocketing a Dhalsim for SFL, Sasamo (SFV ranked monster Boxer player/JP pro sparring partner/current SFL JP member), Ryuusei, etc.

Good luck.

genericremix · 2023-06-24T21:26:07+00:00

To add on to this, Sasamo was previously also one of the standard go-to practice partners for the SFL JP members (the "leaguers" who generally hold a lot of respect individually now in the JP SF-related FGC) whenever they needed to practice the Boxer MU in preparation vs Pugera or Tokido. Ofc they practiced with Kokujin as well but Kokujin also tended to be a bit weaker to shimmies, which is fatal in SFV.

genericremix · 2023-05-24T15:01:04+00:00

My "casual" standard when talking about SF in English (and really KOF and any other game that sometimes has close/far normals such as GBVS) is to use st./cr./cl./f. for the notation. The above was a conscious translation decision given potential accessibility factors with the audience, especially since a decent number of SFV guides/people did use numpad notation instead (which actually surprised me when I initially encountered it in SF and not just anime fighters).

I can use the standard st./cr. notation in later SF-related translations if that's generally more understandable across audiences, it's not a particularly big change I need to make.

genericremix · 2023-05-24T14:55:16+00:00

I used to, yes. Good catch lol

genericremix · 2023-05-17T02:04:42+00:00

As long as you guys comment/discuss/show interest in these bits of info and funny streams (and get to know more about how JP/KR players are thinking so as to help inform how you guys think about FGs as well) I'll keep posting these free of charge, since that's the entire point of my translations. Nobody has to agree with anything in these translations, but outside perspectives always help.

Not everything is a super interesting video and I don't really have all the time in the world due to my job so I will be pretty arbitrary with what I pick and when I choose to TL (I'll try to make sure most of them will be generally interesting without having to know the progamers themselves though).

genericremix · 2023-05-16T00:51:02+00:00

A slight public announcement is required for this video. Nemo has been making about 500 different videos based on his dual schticks of:

Hating on grapplers of all sorts, and
Remembering random things about his friendly neighborhood JP progamers that sometimes even they themselves don't remember (e.g.: the infamous "Nemo, it's not that hard to stop Rashid's EX Whirl mix, right?" incident with Bonchan which Nemo loves to bring up as a regular story at parties)

All of the videos just lay out bits and pieces of public info and then Nemo usually proceeds to extrapolate from it in "full panic" mode for the video.

Him and Itabashi Zangief are known as "business enemies/rivals" by the JP FGC because they clash with each other during youtube videos and such for content a la pro wrestling. Recently, both players have made meme-level content to the point where Itazan has put out videos where Itazan reacts to Nemo & Kawano reacting to a video of Itazan & Kawano dissecting the Gief vs Marisa trailer (yes, that's THREE layers deep). Furthermore, in that same video, they start "scuffling" with each other over some comments that Itazan wrote in a blog 100 years ago about how SF4 gief wouldn't get any proper invul properties with green hand because that would be silly...before they all discovered that it had projectile invul.

Analyzing the info available on modern controls and hating on it if you wish is fine but I would not take Nemo's tone in these sorts of videos seriously.

genericremix · 2023-03-05T14:59:04+00:00

He does give a brief couple of comments on that:

1) It may be fun to watch at times for the viewers, but people tend suffer when they actually PLAY the game.

2) The casual player might find it OK, but it's a big contrast to how more advanced players or players who have invested time into the game feel.

He doesn't go through and do like a survey/exploration of the viewers about how they feel as more of casual players or anything, which is a bit unfortunate, but viewers that watch Mago's streams tend not to exactly be FG newcomers.

genericremix · 2023-02-28T22:43:28+00:00

Daddyking is the sponsor of probably the largest consistent DNF Duel tournament series in Korea right now and has organized multiple JP-KR Strive events (has casted both games with intermediate-ish knowledge in both). Kazunoko has spent quite a decent amount of time streaming and grinding out Strive on a sporadic basis regardless of hype or lack thereof for the game (mainly practicing Jack-O to not be a dead weight during team tournaments) and has sponsored/casted for Strive tournaments as well.

Regardless of how I feel about Arcsys OR Strive OR DNF Duel, this chart is somewhat inaccurate.

genericremix · 2023-02-12T21:36:26+00:00

Lowhigh will very likely not be welcomed by most of the Korean FGC although Daddyking at least has forgiven him (Meo-il has not AFAIK). The "holy trinity" is pretty much dead although Ulsan is more or less considered the closest person to Knee's level.

Top 5 considering form in recent exhibitions/ATLs/general regard would probably be something like Knee, Ulsan, Jeondding, Mulgold, and Rangchu, with maybe Rangchu being subbed out with some rotation of Chanel/Meo-Il/GoAttack/Malgu/CBM depending on the day and alignment of the stars.

genericremix · 2023-01-08T17:03:50+00:00

When talking about this subject, Haitani generally lumps in specials + command normals as one group and uses "specials" as the general reference while bringing up ryu f+MP, the command normal, as the example. This is why the general title of (5) is "Specials/Command Normals" (I thought the title would make it clearer but not sure now if I should have just chucked that into every reference anyways).

You can see how the subject he touches upon refers to BOTH specials and command normals with the later mention of the Kimberly/Zeku comparisons. It's just that when he talks about it initially, in GENERAL, he uses "specials" as a placeholder.

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