Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 11 Oct 1992 20:52:46 CDT
From: <U58505@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.games.sf2
Subject: Re: No Simgle Balance in SF2:CE

Well, I'm no Guile studboy but I think these that you mentioned:

1.  fierce, fierce, sonic boom
2.  jumping fierce, standing fierce, fierce sonic
3.  3X fierce
4.  3X fierce combo

are all the same combo.  My friends and I call it the fierce, fierce,
sonic boom.  It is one nasty combo and was an auto-stun on classic.
I'm like, Jesus, how in the world do players discover shit like this?
This is a three hit combo and what you see is a jumping fierce,
standing fierce, and finally a fierce sonic.  And, ooooh, is it nasty.
The best time to practice it is when your opponent is dizzy.  Now you
have to gauge the distancing right on this.  You should be about 3 or
4 inches away from your "dizzy" opponent.  Jump towards him and
IMMEDIATELY bring the joystick straight back to the "back defense"
position to charge for the fierce sonic boom (DO NOT put it to the
defensive crouch position).  Now you DO NOT want to jump over your
opponent so that you end up on the other side of him.  Then when you
are still in the air and just about on top of your opponent start
tapping the fierce button like crazy (don't stop tapping no matter
what).  You will see a jumping fierce then a standing fierce (both
will hit, connect, and do damage).  The instant you see the standing
fierce come out, you push the joystick you had been charging in the
"back defense" position to the "forward" position.  This will give
you the fierce sonic boom.  If you have the timing right this will
connect too.  Now it is important to realize that while all of this
is happening, you are constantly tapping fierce.  DO NOT worry about
trying to mentally correlate each of Guile's hits with each tap of
the button, it just doesn't work that way.  Even though this combo
gives you only three hits I suspect I am actually tapping the fierce
button maybe five or six, possibly even seven, times.  Not too sure
really.  Getting the fierce sonic to come out is the hardest part.
You don't want to push the joystick to the forward position too
quickly, maybe just slightly slower than the speed you normally
would do it.  Once you have it down you should be able to pull it
off consistently.  When I was still learning the character (ooh,
I was a Guile virgin), well I'm still learning him actually; usually
only the jumping fierce and the standing fierce would come out - sigh,
no sonic boom for me.  But don't be discouraged cause it does take
some practice.  Now you might ask, "Won't Guile start walking
backwards the instant he lands?" or "Won't the second hit be a fierce
backfist?"  Nope, neither will happen; so don't worry about it.  Well
that's how I do this combo anyway, not sure if there are other ways
or if there are guys out there who have the timing down so precisely
that they only need to tap the fierce button three times.  Hope I
was helpful, not too sure on any of the other stuff you may have had
questions about though.  Oh well.

The X-Man Cometh
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