From: wwallace@ucrengr.ucr.edu (wayne wallace)
Newsgroups: alt.games.sf2
Subject: Re: Dhalsim strategy guide: computer
Date: 24 Jul 92 07:01:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

Ok, your guide covered CE. Here's some info for classic, then CE.

For Zangief in classic, just walk up to him, press fierce, and you've
thrown him. Do this 4 more times. You win. You have a perfect.
Occasionally, if the difficulty level is higher, you won't get a perfect,
but will still win.

For Chun Li, in classic, 3 medium kicks worked. In CE, you need five or more.
Once I killed her with fifteen (15) medium kicks, but she never once got
stunned. Sometimes it'll take five (5) consecutive medium kicks to stun her.

For Ryu/Ken, if they start dragon punching when there's about a half-screen
distance between you, and repeat it, just fierce punch as they come down and
they'll eventually die.

Guile is a big problem in classic. I have never beat him, yet I watched a
friend who has been playing dhalsim only a short while destroy guile in
two consecutive battles. I still can't do it, but guile is beatable in CE.
Watch out in classic because sonic kick does WAY too much damage.

E. Honda is a sucker for throws and being fierce punched when he lands from
a jump. In CE he's much smater, luckily.

Blanka was decent in classic, and tactics for fighting ken/ryu worked well,
but now he has a tad too much priority on stuff. His bite-face maneuver
seems to beat out dhalsim's fierce head butt or throw.

Versus Balrog on classic: I never did foot slide until balrog on CE stole
my quarter. On classic, use fireball and fierce punch when he jumps the
fireball. use the slide-kick, headbutt, throw for CE.

Vega: Really annoying. Everyone finds their own tactic. Mine on classic
was to jump and do fierce punches as I came down, and mix in some
other moves. I'm lost on CE and try new tactics every session. Some
work, some don't. At least I can slaughter most of the human vega
players.

Sagat: slides, headbutts, and throws, with the occasional head-drill since
he's so tall. not TOO much of a challenge, but don't get cocky.

M. Bison: the pattern here is medium kick just like for chun li, except
here, bison dodges the first, then gets hit, and repeats until he dies,
with you throwing in a few throws when he gets stunned.
IT CAN WORK ON CE!!!!!! I did it once, after the 12-year old vega player
slaughtered me and my friend the chun li expert, and he lost to computer
bison. Here, bison dodges three, then is hit, and then it repeats.
This didn't work when I next tried it, some months later, in fact bison
slowly ADVANCED on me!!!! And he dodged ALL my kicks! I suspect that a low
to medium difficulty setting allows the medium kick trick to work, and
if it's a notch higher, it won't work.

On CE, Ryu takes new tactics for every battle, but ken is cannon fodder.
He ALWAYS opens with helicopter kick and then dragon punch. just block until
he comes down from dragon punch and double head butt him. He'll take both
hits easily. Repeat, but watch out if he comes in to kick. You should be
ahead in health after the initial head butt, so if he wants a fireball war,
give him one, or even jump repeatedly if you can't fireball reliably.

Everyone got a tad more intelligent in CE, and the rest of the dhalsim guide
applies. The hints on fighting humans were good too, but remember, if a
human sees you repeating a combo, he'll catch on, whereas the computer
probably won't.

Quick hint on fireball: finish joystick moves BEFORE hitting punch, otherwise
you have a crouch punch, and guile's sonic boom just hit you.

Wayne

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