Friday
Jun282013
ATP LIVE! - Episode 8 ft Kayyal, RunitBlack and Rickstah
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Aris ON Friday, June 28, 2013 at 12:11PM
Aris ON Friday, June 28, 2013 at 12:11PM In this week's show I welcome on Kayyal, RunitBlack (per the chat's request) and Rickstah. Topics covered are EVO, Tournament rules, Japan's lack of presence at EVO, as well as Tier lists in TTT2 towards the end. I would also like to congratulate the winner of the first Eightarc giveaway, Emil F. From Sweden. Thank you for your continued support amigos. Play on.
Reader Comments (4)
I'm not sure fixing the technical "bugs" or whatever would make this better. It was pretty funny. You aren't taking yourself too seriously, whilst being high tier.
Mad respect for everyone keeping their cool when RunitDad came into the picture and not giving him shit about it. Was a fun episode. Albeit fucked up. But fun as hell nonetheless.
I like how Aris kept calling Kayyal for 'Kabal' during the whole podcast. Without anyone even commenting it once!
Aris always fucks up names. Like last time when he kept calling Tekken Revolution for Tekken Resolute or whatever. Funny!
Also, the tier list debate; My opinion is that tier list are different at different skill-levels. Like for scrubs to intermediate level characters like Law, Steve, Hwoarang, Lili, Lars, Feng, Bryan etc. would be high tier. Because you need to 'actively' defend against those. You can't just hold back and block, you need to know where to duck and how to punish properly or else you're fucked. This is especially true for the noobs. Intermediate players are vulnerable to other setups, like frametraps they don't know about, throws and slow lows they can't react to. Characters with lows that trips or strings that are safe on block or leads to more cheesy setups get to be higher tier for those players at that level.
Then you have advanced players that don't fall for all the cheese, they can break some throws, they have good spacing and movement so they don't fall for the gimmicky strings and whatnot. They also tend to have good reflexesa and can react to lows and interrupt strings and sidestep and punish properly and whatnot. Then Mishimas, Nina, Bruce, etc become higher tier.
Your knowledge of the game, your movement, spacing and defensive skills, and your reflexes pretty much dictate which characters are high tier for you.
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