ARCADIA interview with various Japanese Top Players

ARCADIA recently had an interview with some of the top Japanese players about how they will form their team in a 3on3 tournament in AE.

Four questions to each player and here are the questions:

1.)    The character you are using?

2.)    The reason why you chose this character?

3.)    In a 3on3 tournament, what characters do you want to form your team with?

4.)    Reasons?

Answers:

Player: BANBABAN

Titles:

Super Battle Opera 09(SBO) <Arcana Heart 3> Top 8

SBO 10 <Arcana Heart 3> Top 4

Q1.) Yun

Q2) Strong and easy to use, but in order to continue a win streak you have to know the match ups well. However, with strong anti air, you can easily beat majority of the players. I play SSF4 not too long ago (mains Arcana Heart), therefore using Yun allows me to master him faster compared to other characters.

Q3.) Fei Long/ Zangief

Q4.) Both characters are top tiers; on top of that they have strong defense and decent amount of health.  Fei Long is a must because when compared to other top tiers, Fei Long has the least bad match ups and the reason of having Zangief on my team is to use him to counter pick characters like Yun, Yang, etc.

Player: RF

Titles:

SBO10 <GGXXAC> Champion

SBO10 <SF4> Champion

Q1.) Sagat

Q2.) I tried Fei long and Yun in the beginning, but they don’t fit my style, therefore in the end I switched back to Sagat.

Q3.) Yun/Makoto

Q4.)First, I need the best character “Yun” in my team. I can beat other Yuns with my Sagat. And then I need a character that can burst power, Makoto.

Player: Cabbage (Kyabetsu)

Titles:

SBO09 <SF4> Champion

SBO10 <KOF13> Top 4

Q1.) C.Viper

Q2.) Started using her since SF4 (Vanilla), but the main reason is because I can’t control other characters well…..even though Nemo thinks my Makoto is pretty strong….

Q3.) Yun/Zangief

Q4.) Don’t need to explain much about Yun. Zangief wise, in AE, he lost a lot of bad match ups, so I think he can do well in tournaments now. Also, if I don’t use Viper, it’s not a bad idea to pick Makoto in my team.

Player: Itabashi Zangief

Title:

SBO08 <VF5> Champion

Q1.) Zangief

Q2.) It is because it’s my handle name….of course it is also because I like wrestling characters. Another reason is that it’s a 50/50 character so I can play mind games against my opponents. However, he is not really a 50/50 in AE (LOL)

Q3.) Fei Long/Yang

Q4.) If the reasons are same with Fudo’s than it’s meaningless right? If the other team has Yun or Yang, my team can use tier advantage. If somehow their last player is a Zangief player, I can play a mirror match.

Player: Fudo

Title:

SBO05 <VF4FT> Champion

SBO08 <VF5> Champion

Q1.) Fei Long

Q2.) Last series’ Ryu (SSF4) didn’t change much until AE…and Itabashi suggested that I should change and try another character. Since I have to change, why don’t I just choose a top tier? First I tried Yun, but didn’t really like his style, as a result, I main Fei Long now.

Q3.) Zangief/ Yang

Q4.) Rather than saying the characters, let’s say that it’s somewhat Virtual Fighters related (LOL). Itabashi Zangief uses Zangief, and AKABE (another VF player) uses Yang. On top of that, both Yang and Fei Long are really strong, with this team, I think we don’t have a problem against most of the characters/players.

Player: Kyoku

Title:

SBO05 <KOFNEOWAVE> Top 8

SBO07 <KOF98> Top 4

Q1.) Yang

Q2.) In Vanilla I main M.Bison , and in AE I wanted to use a motion command based character. But, most importantly, I have a lot of fun using Yang plus he’s a new character.

Q3.) Sagat/Fei Long

Q4.) Even though it’s a team tournament, but I hope I can OCV all the teams. However, against Zangief I am not confident, and that is a reason why I wish to have a Sagat as a counter pick. Other than that, all I think about are the character tiers.