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Wong, playing as Chun Li, was demonstrating one of the reasons Chun Li is still considered one of the best characters in Third Strike. Chun Li’s attacks all have massive priority, meaning they had short startups and great range. This meant that a Chun Li player could simply wait for the other player to rush in and punish whatever attacks they attempt. This tactic was so effective that even Daigo, known as one of the world’s best Street Fighter and general fighting game players, was starting to play recklessly to break down Justin Wong’s defense.
Eventually near the end of the match, Chun Li had a stock of super meter ready and Daigo had almost no life left. This meant that Justin only needed one clean hit to take down Daigo or he could use a super and kill whether Daigo blocked or not. On top of being downright deadly in terms of power and priority, Chun Li has a killer super that zooms in on her opponent and does massive damage should it hit.
Daigo, of course, knew about Chun’s super and instead of rushing in as he was before, began tapping forward over and over again. He could have waited and jumped at the right time to escape, but instead he chose to face the super head on in a gamble at both winning the match, and demoralizing his opponent enough to take the set in the match afterwards. Justin must not have been paying attention to Daigo, because he readied up the super input and then the super flash happened. The first hit of Chun Li’s super is incredibly hard to parry, but if you input the parry motion before the super flash as if it were a direct attack, you will automatically parry the first hit of the super even if it’s outside the normal window, and this is what Daigo shot for. Daigo knew that super was coming far in advance and Justin didn’t even see it. After that Daigo followed up to perfectly parry every single hit of the entire super combo, one of the longest and most erratically patterned series of attacks in the game. This was completely unprecedented in the history of fighting games. More than just a block, it was a perfect block; the riskiest possible action he could take in that circumstance in a mad gamble to mentally destroy his opponent.
At the end of Daigo’s parries, he jumped up, parried the last hit (which would normally be a launcher that Chun Li can follow-up into an air juggle using her headstomps) and came down into a jumping attack. He followed up with a crouching medium kick, canceled into a shoryuken, then super canceled into Ken’s super combo, securing the victory and forging a legend.
Eventually near the end of the match, Chun Li had a stock of super meter ready and Daigo had almost no life left. This meant that Justin only needed one clean hit to take down Daigo or he could use a super and kill whether Daigo blocked or not. On top of being downright deadly in terms of power and priority, Chun Li has a killer super that zooms in on her opponent and does massive damage should it hit.
Daigo, of course, knew about Chun’s super and instead of rushing in as he was before, began tapping forward over and over again. He could have waited and jumped at the right time to escape, but instead he chose to face the super head on in a gamble at both winning the match, and demoralizing his opponent enough to take the set in the match afterwards. Justin must not have been paying attention to Daigo, because he readied up the super input and then the super flash happened. The first hit of Chun Li’s super is incredibly hard to parry, but if you input the parry motion before the super flash as if it were a direct attack, you will automatically parry the first hit of the super even if it’s outside the normal window, and this is what Daigo shot for. Daigo knew that super was coming far in advance and Justin didn’t even see it. After that Daigo followed up to perfectly parry every single hit of the entire super combo, one of the longest and most erratically patterned series of attacks in the game. This was completely unprecedented in the history of fighting games. More than just a block, it was a perfect block; the riskiest possible action he could take in that circumstance in a mad gamble to mentally destroy his opponent.
At the end of Daigo’s parries, he jumped up, parried the last hit (which would normally be a launcher that Chun Li can follow-up into an air juggle using her headstomps) and came down into a jumping attack. He followed up with a crouching medium kick, canceled into a shoryuken, then super canceled into Ken’s super combo, securing the victory and forging a legend.
