Month: March 2015

Gouken’s been through a fight or two in his day. He may not be quite as fast as he once was, but he’s not about to start letting the faster fighters run circles around him. He’s still got all the right tools to shut down little rapscallions like Yun who come in with their gravity-defying divekicks and their skateboards and their what have yous. But knowing how to apply those tools in Ultra Street Fighter IV, well, that’s where this video from Sebastian Rikk comes in.

The first thing you have to do, as you’ll see below, is stop Yun’s approach options. Gouken has all sorts of normals that poke out at just the right angle to handle dive kicks as well as EX lunge punches, so with a little practice, those shouldn’t be much of an issue. As for the rest of Yun’s neutral game, Gouken’s got plenty of decent buttons of his own to use as counter-pokes when he sees Yun sticking out limbs..

The real trick, as with any match-up, is making sure that every connected fist leads into the most damage possible, so be sure to stick around until the end of the video to see plenty of optimal punishes as well as some safe jump options to help apply your own pressure.

Source: Sebastian Rikk