Current Events > I never understood how to use 'charge' characters in Street Fighter

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Characters like Guile and Boxer, how do you work them? How do you press the attack and hold back/down to charge moves at the same time?

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Charging is basically blocking in the direction it says then you push forward when you want to do the attack.

Its simple to do in practice but a lot harder to do in a real match. Good charge users have it on lock so good its crazy.

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You hold a direction for a certain amount of time, and after that time is passed you press the attack button

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you hold back for a few seconds and press forward and the attack button simultaneously when you're ready to attack, iirc.

so like, <- a few seconds, then -> + b, for example

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But the charge doesn't hold the charge, right? You can't hold back for the 2 seconds and then do a big combo and then hit -> b. Unless you can, and that's what I don't understand

I see people go in and do a big combo and finish with a Sonic Boom, are they holding back the hold time to charge it?

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Bad_Mojo posted...

I see people go in and do a big combo and finish with a Sonic Boom, are they holding back the hold time to charge it?

I don't know anything about street fighter, but in general, good fighting game players practice things to death until their inputs are close to frame-perfect. If it's remotely possible, they're gonna be doing it.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

But the charge doesn't hold the charge, right? You can't hold back for the 2 seconds and then do a big combo and then hit -> b. Unless you can, and that's what I don't understand

I see people go in and do a big combo and finish with a Sonic Boom, are they holding back the hold time to charge it?

Ive gotten into the game recently and i am maining guile. basically yeah or at least like 1 second before they set of the sonic boom.

basically im crouch blocking for most of the game lol. that way i have my flip kick ready and sonic boom ready but man do i suck and think i might be holding back a bit too much lmao.

Bad_Mojo posted...

But the charge doesn't hold the charge, right? You can't hold back for the 2 seconds and then do a big combo and then hit -> b. Unless you can, and that's what I don't understand

I see people go in and do a big combo and finish with a Sonic Boom, are they holding back the hold time to charge it?

afaik it does hold.

you wont walk while youre using attacks, so if you use a combo, you could be holding back the whole time without it affecting your spacing very much, if at all.


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You are charging as long as you are holding back. So as along as a move doesnt have any issue with that you can be holding back while doing the combo to end with a charge move.

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AlisLandale posted...

you wont walk while youre using attacks, so if you use a combo, you could be holding back the whole time without it affecting your spacing very much, if at all.

This is what is strange to me.

Let's look at a basic combo. LP, LP, HP, QCF LP. This sets up a basic combo into a Fireball. If you do this with Guile, for example, then are you holding back during the LP, LP, HP part of it before you throw the -> LP? That is way too complicated for me, so I don't understand how people do it, lol

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Bad_Mojo posted...

This is what is strange to me.

Let's look at a basic combo. LP, LP, HP, QCF LP. This sets up a basic combo into a Fireball. If you do this with Guile, for example, then are you holding back during the LP, LP, HP part of it before you throw the -> LP? That is way too complicated for me, so I don't understand how people do it, lol

Yeah, you start holding back at the beginning of the combo. Since your attacks aren't altered at all by holding back, it lets you do the combo while charging so you can finish with a charge move. So you're basically doing: (Hold back) LP, LP, HP, -> LP

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Yeah its somethign like that. His back HP and forward HP are different attacks to standard HP

so you would probably start holding back on one of the LP's or even the HP then sonicboom after it

Holding back on LP i htink would work anything cos Back HP would be an out reach punch which will help connect when you start moving back slightly. and if you are like me and miss the sonic boom, his forward HP would still connect I think since its a long reaching punch too lol

Okay, thank you!!!

Way too complicated for my brain, but now I finally get it

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where it gets REALLY complicated is when you buffer the charge during movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3ko71EFlU


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