From: s2842276@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Wanderer)
Subject: SF][ce: Using Vega (was Bison's Flame)
Organization: the Elves of Briton
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 08:56:51 GMT

st1el@rosie.uh.edu (Jensen, Douglas J.) writes:
>scott@athena.mit.edu (Scott D Bradburn) writes...
>
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>>Bison's torpedo, and how to stop it:  Don't give him a chance to set it up!
>>If you're playing an idiot, he'll do it at times when you can counter it.
>>A smart person won't.  It can be used as a jump-attack defense, especially
>>against Ken, Ryu, and Guile.  A smart person, after knocking an opponent down
>>does it as the player is standing up.  When their opponent is standing the
>>flame is already halfway through their opponent so it *can't* be countered
>>only blocked.  You'll take 2-3 small chunks off for this.  The worst part
>
>One observation: if Bison does the flame-spin thingy, and you look like you're
>about to be hit: JUMP or TAKE THE HIT.  If Bison hits you 4 or more times with
>the flame, it takes off less energy (on the average) to just take the hit.
>
>I think so, anyway.
>
>---Doug
>

Especially if you're in the corner, because Bison *WILL* through you afterwards
I find the best thing to do is hit him to keep him from doing it.

Ok, on a different topic...

Has anyone been able to beat the computer on one credit using the new guys?
We've only had our machine here about 4 days, meaning I've played it twice.

(Spent about $30 already between me and my friend...)

Anyone getting good with Vega? Against the computer I seem to be running
into problems with Zangief. Sometimes I can jump in drop kick jump out,
but often he just SPDs me. Basically he's not too much trouble. Honda,
same thing, not too much trouble, but a pain in the ass. Ryu, I can get
by jumping over the fireballs and kicking in the face a lot. Ken can be
a mean foe, his uppercut comes from out of nowhere, and if he spin-kicks
I'm history (can't hit it once it's over me, and he'll throw me or uppercut
me once he lands). Guile Blanka and Chun Li are pretty much the same, slash,
slash, standing slash, slash slash etc... That leaves Dhalsim... :*)

I often let Dhalsim win the second round, just cause he's so easy to beat.
We did it today with *all* arial backbreakers, why? because we could...
I kept trying for the arial toss too, got it on occasion, but it's very hard,
I find I have to jump first, and come down on them, while they're still on
there way up. It still looks sort of like Chun Li's arial but much faster.

Against the four "bosses" I didn't have too much trouble, Balrog will keep 
punching above you and you can sweep him at will, very very very easy, so easy
in fact that I purposely try other things. Against Sagat, did lot's of Combos
and against Bison, jump straight up and kick him, jump at him and kick him
crouch and kick him, plus again lot's Combos (Pizza flavour, the best...).

I haven't fought against human opponents since I figured out how to play him.
Basically what I do is play against the computer until someone comes up and
takes Bison, if they do I take Guile, and boot them from the machine, if 
*they* take Guile, then I take Blanka and boot them from the machine.
:*) :*) :*) then it's back to Vega... of course this assumes that they beat
my Vega completely, now that I have a clue I don't think I'll be beaten
quite so easily.

Does anyone have any helpful hints for playing Vega against computer versions
of Zangief, Honda, Ken, Chun Li, or Bison? these are the characters I have
the most trouble with, the rest are pretty easy.

*--*
the Elf