That's only because of the games mechanics. Akex is still trash.

@@bigshorty4855 Still, it's impressive

​@@bigshorty4855...and? So what? You sound like you're trying to rain on their parade.

@Wellepay I thought my comment spoke for itself. Alex is bad, but thanks to system mechanics, he can still hold his own. It's not that difficult to understand.

Are you... in love?

Shout outs to j. Mk. Might as well be a full screen air normal

Wait so Alex is only like…mid tier?

@@carlbloke8797 straight up low tier actually. But as said earlier, he does well against lower level players. His gameplan is straightforward and he does a lot of damage and stun, so he can snowball rounds if the opponent makes a mistake in neutral.

I like how it faded from day to night time.

Alex got a really good reception in 5 and he's a big rep for 3s, so I feel like his chances of getting in 6 are pretty good

Rock Howard says hi.

Lmao they learned their lesson with the next timb rocking blonde guy tho

@@BknMoonStudios Now that’s an interesting coincidence.

Lol. At least they preserved his image. Unlike Necalli who was hyped up as the next biggest monster since Akuma, and despite being playable, doesn't accomplish anything in the story except get his ass kicked.

"At ease, loosah..."

WEAK

You can't escape!

in 2i he sounded like michael jackson

HOOooWAGH!

yeah he really has almost nothing to go into light chop lol, medium punch and close medium kick i believe

His throw is also probably the second best one in the game overall behind Urien’s. Second highest range and damage with the same amount of recovery as his mp and it leaves them close.

Exactly; unlike necro and Elena where they’re just pretty mediocre and have no major problems they just don’t have major strengths for the most part, Alex is a fantastic character with atrocious downsides that level him out to be just an ok character. Alex just needs 3 changes to be comparable to Oro at least: Target combo is consistent cMK special cancels Light chop super cancels. This makes his overheads way more threatening to go for, let’s hyper bomb be a fantastic super because light chop back turns instead of being a bottom 5 super, and overall helps his stagger and confirm game enough where his weaknesses are fair instead of being clear signs they didn’t finish him.

@@Neogears1312 Hello again. Yeah we talked about what we each think Alex could benefit from being buffed in our previous discussion, a bit on the Alex video and mostly on the Twelve video, by Big Yellow 8 months ago. (I found the comment on the Alex video when I recognized you but I can't find the conversation on the Twelve video) Our difference in balance ideas comes down to the fact that I want him to be Ken-Makoto tier in strength, but you seem to want him lower at Oro level. I'm still of the opinion that fixing several of his gimmicks to actually be legit would be one of the best ways to buff him. However I also agree that your changes would definitely help as well, the crMK being a very important one. Making his low threatening enough to enforce the grab mixup is key for him. For example IMO rather than making hyper bomb work because of a specific link that forces it to work, I think it should just grab before the freeze frames like other functional grab supers like Hugo's, so it works all the time and can be used for tic setups and such. I think it would also be amazing for him if EX slash wasn't a 2 hit, but instead a 1 hit and make it -2 like light slash. If the pushback wad lessened as well that all of a sudden makes it a great burst pressure tool to close the space and push the opponent into the corner where he wants them. Some quality of life stuff like power bomb doing more damage and having better oki especially for the lighter versions would also be great for him as again his reward really needs to be there to be good. Other QOL like fixing some whack hitboxes or frame data on certain moves that don't match very well, or are absurdly - for their reward like headbutt, standing HK, etc. I could see decreasing the charge on his charge Specials as well, or maybe even removing the charge if he was still weak with everything else buffed. Removing charge would be a last resort if after everything else both of us have listed he still was only mid tier. I wouldn't want to remove the charge moves as I think it is part of his identity to an extent.

@@Saskaruto16 I don’t think it’s a want per say I’d probably do more as I’d want everyone around Dudley’s level. I’m just saying what he needs to at least be that good and it’s very simple.

@@Neogears1312 Yeah that's fair. I'm more on the side of if something going to be fixed it might as well be fixed properly rather than bare minimum. To me his kit is cool enough I wouldn't want to screw with it too much like making it into SFV version or something. However I think more minimalistic changes like your ideas, or even an extended version of that like 4rd strike, still leaves him with several useless/broken moves that could be really cool/strong if they worked at high level.

part of me suspects this is a test run for future sf6 vids on the channel

SFV is currently in the works and will be up shortly before SF6.

​@@ThatBlastedSalamicool to hear you will continue with sf.but no sf4?

He just doesn’t get a kit that supplements them. Oro has 2 top 10 supers but would anyone say they’re good if he couldn’t use close mp to get unblockables and juggles? Probably not. But Alex is actually living that hypothetical so his supers become worse just do to that.

And the fact that it's really easy to fix, maybe something like Critical Combo Attack as a new SA, or simply adding vacuum effect on Boomerang Raid alone easily makes it top tier. But no, they didn't bother to fix him for 3 games straight xD

Imagine him with a Hogan stache

Firstly don't low block it because its an overhead. You're probably just getting crossed up by it. If you parry with proper timing, you will either parry or block, depending on what side he's on, so learning to do that consistently will protect you from ambiguous crossups. The move is -3 on block and on parry you get whatever punish you've got. It's the kind of move that blows up people who don't know how to deal with it but becomes significantly less useful against more well prepared players.

Thanks@@megapussi, I'll practice this move, since the players who use it have fun spamming this attack repeatedly. Thanks dude for your advice, I appreciate it. 🙏🏾

The Simon Viklund remix from 3rd Strike: Online Edition

@@ThatBlastedSalami I play 3rd in arcade, so I didn't know these impressive musics. Thanks! Your vids are great to watch. I subscribed.

It’s third strike online editions remix of it.

It’s a 2 frame grab with one bar. He has good ex’s so that’s last ones obvious why it sucks but it goes from ok to atrocious with the first part because that means you can jump out of it on reaction. Once you know that it should never land.

it didn't go anywhere!

You can play it online right now. It didn't go anywhere

There's never been a better time to pick up 3rd Strike! Scene on Fightcade is very active.

You can play it in SF 30th Anniversary collection, the HD online version on PS3/360, or fightcade.

i love sa3 personally, such a great feeling to land スタンガンヘッドバット!

Actually i was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of the series with how many characters were labeled as strong. But the truth remains that this game isn't exactly known for well balanced character strength

It kinda is tho

No less balanced than most games from this era lol

The mp thing is pretty irrelevant. You don’t low parry Alex he has no lows. In actual practice you’d always try to mid parry him at that range for mk.

Also he does have a strong throw game. His generic throw is a top 3 throw. It outranges some Kara throws without a Kara and barely even looks like a throw whiffing while hitting second hardest in the game and leaving them close.