CV Spotlight: SF4 Combo Video Rally

What can i say? The SF4 combo videos keep on coming. I guess everyone’s trying to wrap up whatever they were working on in time to prepare for Super Street Fighter IV.

SF4 Combos and Music 1 | Combos and Music 2

Out of the blue, desk is back with not one but two SF4 combo videos, in addition to an expanded edit of the first one showing the more complicated setups in full. His band even recorded the background music for the first installment. Both are very fun to watch, with snappy pacing and high-quality content. If you’ve been waiting to see some advanced M.Bison material, you won’t be disappointed.

-SFIV Combo Lab- Subject: Seth | Subject: Gouken

Combonauts team members Tigre III and Krusan have put together two excellent combo videos featuring two of the most fleshed out combo characters in SF4. Check out that first Seth combo against Blanka with the perfectly spaced c.HP juggles. Or the corner LP DP combo against Abel at 2:15. There are plenty of great minor details too, such as the smooth teleport transition at 3:32 and the way Seth knocks off the wing at 5:52. And again, the whole Gouken video is just plain fun to watch.

Breaking the Rules of SF4 | Part 2

Newcomer Smileymike101 has put together an insanely thorough combo video focusing on a handful of rarely explored characters. Don’t let the capture quality or video runtime fool you. This is extremely innovative material, both in terms of the results as well as the methods he devised to achieve them. I love this video because it reminds me of the videos i was making around this timeframe of CvS2’s evolution.

Guide to Impractical Street Fighter 4 Combos

Finally, error1 brings us a light-hearted narration of different approaches to constructing exhibition combos in Street Fighter IV. He explores a wide range of characters and styles, ending up with some very creative tool-assisted combos. He even expands on the Seth dizzy ultra setup demonstrated by Smileymike101, adapting it to work with Sakura and Ken’s ultras.

11 thoughts on “CV Spotlight: SF4 Combo Video Rally

  1. Maj Post author

    Man, so many great videos being released over such a short timespan lately. Some weeks i gotta write up three or four videos just to keep up with these spotlights. And i’ve still got at least three things i need to mention over the next week or two, without even considering what else will appear unexpectedly in that time.

    This is fun.

  2. N00b_Saib0t

    what in the hell was the el fuerte shenanigan in desk’s second video? command grab->OTG s.lk->super?

  3. IC IO IM IB IO

    I saw that too N00b_Saib0t… i think its because of the combo engine used in this game and the frame data for each characters super move.

  4. Maj Post author

    Um, that El Fuerte trick has been around for a while. Like, first month of console release or something ridiculous like that.

    You can even dizzy with Propeller Tortilla and still OTG without causing them to recover. But instead of standing them up, the OTG knocks them down in dizzy state so you can’t connect anything else until they stand up again.

  5. N00b_Saib0t

    huh, i guess i dont keep up with el fuerte tricks enough then. i only recently learned the point of EX run, lol.

  6. Maj Post author

    No lie, i’d still have no idea whatsoever what that guy was doing if i hadn’t been forced to record an El Fuerte TACV. The first SF4 match i ever lost was against an El Fuerte player because i had no clue what was going on.

  7. Smileymike101

    Sakura’s,Ken’s and Seth’s ultra take place no matter what happens to the opponent during them, this includes getting stun.

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