OneWingSephiroth
Smash Journeyman
Daigo was using alot of the core fundamentals of Guile that has been present since SFII, and simply just incorporating alot of the aspects into SSF:IV. Alot of things like Sonic Boom trade with Hadouken then Backfist Ryu, or Sonic Boom for buffer and bait, they jump, you go up and Air Throw, etc, etc. Guile also does better in SSF:IV due to the fact that everyone else got toned down, which helped, and his Sonic Hurricane looks to be viable up against projectile characters.
Regardless, Guile looks solid, but I still feel to this day, that they should have improved on his normals more then what was presented in SSF:IV, which was all that Guile would have needed to push him to become a very strong contender.
On another note, Valle has always been an aggressive player, and I feel that had he resorted to zoning and playing footsie more with Ryu, he would have won over Daigo, even though it came down to the wire. He jumped in imo more then he should have, and allowed Daigo to beat him out in the projectile war on more then one occasion. Not saying that I'm on Valle's level or that I would have been a better contender, however I would have opted to have zoned and footsied Guile to force him to come to me.
I loved the OG Hurricane Kick to stuff Sonic Booms that's one classic Ryu vs Guile tactic...however, I wonder if you can punish things like c.mk on reaction with sweep in SSF:IV, lmao, that was the Guile **** Tactic back in the OG SFII days used by the absolute Elite Ryu players.
Look to 20934802394823903428 people now jumping on the Guile bandwagon now simply because Daigo used him and had success. My say is this to anyone who will jump ship from watching this video is that unless you have super fundamentals, you will not create the same scenario with Guile.
Also, I "should" go buy this game so I can play it, but then again, I probably won't have alot of time, sigh...I wished I was 15 again like I was back in the 90's, then I'd have more time to be messing with these fighting games. Lastly, my theory take on SSF:IV, "potentially" more balanced then SF:IV, and I'm vouching that Ryu is still Top-3, if not Top-2 in SSF:IV. Yes, I'm calling it now, hahaha.
