Although the focus on which option selects were important did change from SF4 to SSF4. That’s always bound to happen, at the very least. Anyway this goes to show you that you never know what to expect.

If you want an example, throws in SF3: 2nd Impact were performed by pressing F+HP like oldschool Street Fighter. They were changed to LP+LK in SF3: 3rd Strike. Of course that dramatically shifted the entire option select flowchart at close range.

Little changes like that can change everything, so you just never know. If the next guy after Ono decides to make Street Fighter more offensive and makes it impossible to tech throws while crouching, the whole option select flowchart will change instantly.

So it’s up to you how you want to spend your practice time. If you only care about being good at one game, then learning option selects is a good use of your time. If you want to play three games at once (SSF4/MvC3/ST), then you’re better off learning how to avoid throws the fundamental way – by focusing on out how to predict them.

Maj :
The reason i made the SSF4 remark is that these nuances are the most susceptible to change. That CvS1 trick doesn’t even work in CvSPro, and it definitely doesn’t work in CvS2. Even if every SF4 character stays completely unchanged in SSF4, i guarantee that over half of SF4′s option select gimmicks are gonna be gone.

I’m legitimately asking this as I’m curious – so was this correct? Did they all go away? I don’t know enough about OS to really know myself, but I figure you would.