Tuesday 28 January 2014

Welcome back to Xian's Academy Again !! For people who actually missed last week stream ,, You can watch it here.. 




Tomorrow is wednesday but however i am going to travel again , So i will be streaming tomorrow afternoon 3PM GMT +8 instead of 9pm , but it will be rebrodcast at 9pm as well ..So hope everybody is cool with that !! So sorry due to the busy schedule .. It was a little last min though ..Tomorrow Xian's Academy the topics i am going to cover will be news on



-- ESGN TV show , first episode 1 is air yesterday of me vs mike ross , i will be proceeeding and if you wanna watch more , dont forget it will be air everyday from now also at 21.30 European Central Time .. Next Episode will be me vs FChamp !! More information please check out http://www.esgntv.com/tv/main/main.php

--Xian's Academy of course , I will be teaching more stuff and answering to more questions that i received from feedbacks and stuff .. The topic tomorrow will be either on Escaping Vortexs or Understanding options (Definiting 50/50) , All these topics may be similiar in some way or another if you really understand , this is one of the most important aspect you could learn because you could apply it other fighting games as well..

--Also not to miss out play and troll session on XBOX live .. Playing online and learning at the same time on training mode.. Questions and answer also avaliable but not too much due to limited time !!

Thanks for watching Xian's Academy , hope if you guys like it remeber to subscribe to my toughcookietv channel , Donations greatly appreciated too if you could send any bit to xian749@hotmail.com through PayPal ^_^ 

https://www.paypal.com/sg/webapps/mpp/home

Signing off for now , see you guys tomorrow on stream ^_^

Monday 27 January 2014


ESGN TV of Street Fighter 4 Fight Night will be live in less than an hour !!
It will be shown at 21.00 European Central Time which is about 50 mins from now..
Check this Me vs Mike ross in this exciting sets at

http://esgntv.com/tv/main/main.php


Thursday 23 January 2014

First episode of Xian's Academy is now up on Youtube ^_^





I started the first 20 mins talking about Xian's Academy .. Bascially showing you what i have been talking about DEFENCE .. escaping Ibuki Kunai .. 3 button tech .. 4 button tech .. Crouch tech plink jab and etc..

Hope you guys like Xian's Academy ^_^


Tuesday 21 January 2014



Yes i will be start streaming once again !! ^_^
It will be on EVERY WED at 9pm GMT +8 ..Every week for about 90mins..

www.twitch.tv/toughcookietv 

Tomorrow will be my first time streaming after so long again..
Topics i will be covering is the recent Poll on www.eventhubs.com of the top 10 players .. Xian's Academy Session where i will be explaining and showing more on the topics i have covered on my blog recently regarding DEFECE.. 3button tech.. 4 button tech.. crouch tech (lp+lk) and etc..

After that i will go Online on XBOX live to play as long as explaining what is going on in the matches .. Hope you guys like it , will be sharing more tech so everybody can improve together with me ..

Thanks for watching Xian's Academy

Signing off for now ^_^

Monday 20 January 2014





Welcome to Xian's Academy Again !!


    I already covered most of the topics about DEFENCE , if you understand my previous post and knowing how to apply flexibilty..There are still people who dont understand crouch tech ( by plinking lp+lk) .. So today i will give more examples and why it is useful to put into 1 of your defensive options..

Crouch teching by plinking (lp+lk)..
Instead of the usual crouch lk coming out .. Crouch Lp will come out instead .. It is especially useful for some characters because some characters have a 3 frame crouch jab but a 4 frame crouch LK..

Example of characters that can put this to good use.. Ryu , Barlog ..
This is a very strong technique even though we hardly see alot of people using it.. Imagine Ryu Crouching Teching with 3 frame Crouching Jab coming out .. It will actually makes frame trap alot alot more harder .. It bascially turn into a little bit comination of DEFENCE option of pressing 3 frame and crouching teching.. If till this point anybody doesnt understand please post in the comments .. i will try to explain clearer..

Yup and besides the 9 options , thanks for the feedback i did forgot about one of the important DEFENCE option like jump backwards.. which is really crucial for charge characters .. Because Charge Characters wants to have their charge.. So blocking between block strings and hold up+back can be a very strong DEFENCE too..

Thanks for seeing Xian's Academy .. I hope you will reread the few DEFENCE post together and strengthen up your DEFENCE .. mix in your options randomly or choose wisely what defence options you need to do when you are under pressure..

Next Topic i will cover is DEFENCE against vortex .. Which is much harder where everybody see it as a 50/50 .. By knowing how to Defend against vortex will actually make you alot better overall as a player.. See you at the next Xian's Academy Post ^_^

Friday 17 January 2014




Welcome to Xian's Academy , today i going to elaborate more on the point 3 button tech and more details about DEFENCE Options I believe everybody already understands more about DEFENCE , so i will be explaining about 3 button tech today..

Whats is a 3 button tech?

Its bascially Crouch teching with more than 1 more button besides lp+lk .. I believe already alot people knows how to do it .. TIming is a key to using 3 button tech , People who cant tech properly with 3 button tech is usually pressing it too early , Basically timing to 3 button tech a throw is the same as a crouch tech , all you need is go training mode and practice..

The best example on when to use a 3 button tech is against Rufus.. Imagine you are always under pressure with the dive kick , Guessing between a throw and another dive kick.. 50/50 .. 3 button tech bascially helps to eliminate the 50/50 and will be a game changing for you.. 

Example ..
Fighting against Rufus with Ryu , After blocking a Dive kick .. If you use a 3 button tech with either (lp,lk+mp) or (lp,lk+hp) instead of crouch tech , Rufus is not able to pressure you with another dive kick because crouch mp or crouch hp will comes out instead and hit them away in the air..

This is a game changing technique so i believe everyone should have this as a priority technique especially against character like rufus ..

Note..

That doesnt mean with this technique , Rufus can never get 50/50 you again , however rufus can switch into frame trap style , using delayed stand mp to go for a counter hit  or even a delayed ex messiah kick to catch your 3 button tech.. Therefore..

OPTIONS
is very important when it comes to defence , imagine you change your defence options between this 3 button tech , backdash , focus backdash , jump back press button immediately , pressing 3 frame(for ryu this case its d.lp) and invincible reversal..

The next time you face a rufus ever again , you will never be afraid... Think of all the options he has , and the probability of hitting you with it..With all the defence options i list to you .. you have probably at least minimum 6 to deal with rufus.. While rufus only has maybe 3.. Lets count who is at the better edge after rufus gets in with a dive kick..

Rufus Options After Dive Kick

Frame Trap
Dive Kick Again
Delayed EX Messiah
Throw

Ryu Options After blocking Dive kick

ALL of the above that i name..

I wont elaborate more about this , just think about it.. Creativity is important in fighting games .. So if you think about all the options that Rufus has to guess if you mix and blend in your options randomly.. You will realise theres nothing much scary anymore.. Just dont be predicable and get downloaded ^_^

Wednesday 15 January 2014

Taking a lil break today , gotta go for a facial and grooming... Thanks for the invitation from We Need A Hero..This is actually my first time in Singapore coming to a Male Grooming Shop , i dont remeber there is any other in singapore.. I am really surprise by the services because they were all so friendly !!











Taking pictures of myself ^_^



Really like it when they put these on my face.. feels so good 


                              
                               Customer service was on another level , Godlike ^_^



Haha yes taking more picutres because somehow i feel i look better after the facial..





This is definely one of the few shop i am really impressed in singapore , i really like the idea of man grooming .. i shall be heading back soon hehe love it sooo much..This is the website if you wanna visit , its just located near tiong bahru









Today i am going to explain more about the 4 button tech .. Since there are not alot of people who understands 4 button tech.. This is a video ( This is not done by me credits to Team4thDimension )




I am not able to do video this 2-3 days , Ibuki focus video will try to get it up by next week..


I will add on information about the topic DEFENCE , basically i will list all the different ways you can defend against your opponent

1) Stand tech
2) Crouch tech ( lp+lk )
3) Crouch tech with jab as priority ( plink lp+lk , lp slightly faster than lk )
4) 3 button tech (lp,lk + any other buttons )
5) Backdash
6) Focus Backdash
7) Invincible Reversal
8) First frame airborne move ( Juri stand mk and Rose stand mk)
9) Block

What most of the average players is lacking in their defence is they most probably only use stand tech , crouch tech or invincible reversal and maybe backdash.. But look at the list of defend options you can actually really have..

From here you should realise that , there are so many different ways to defend against your opponent , no matter when he is trying to frame trap .. vortex or pressure... Mixing up your options or choosing the best 1 (depending of situations is one of the key to a strong defence)

I will elaborate more on each sections day by day , Hope everyone like it
Feedbacks are welcome

Thanks for seeing Xian's Academy

Tuesday 14 January 2014

Tips on becoming a better fighting game players

Tips on becoming a better fighting game players

Alot of people have been asking this question , so exactly how do you think you can improve yourself in fighting games? Today i will going to answer in it in simply , for Street fighter 4 Arcade Edition 2012 ..

There are a few keys that you could summarise it into but today the topic will be


 DEFENCE


I am going emphasis alot on Defence because i felt this is the key to becoming from a average player to another level itself ..

Lets quote some example of what a group of average players may be talk about defence , or advices from generally people i have heard ..

1) You need to block properly
2) You need to be doing 4 button tech 
3) You need to do more backdash
4) You need to mash jab and just block
5) Stop doing so much reversal , just block
6) Its a vortex character , you played well but you lost to the character
7) Start using delay wakeup

I believe many of you guys have friends around which gives you advice like these when you came to certain stage where you just doesnt know how to improve anymore or you just couldnt deal with your bad matchups or to say vortex character generally..

So the question is which of these 6 answers are correct?

Well the truth is every answer is correct at some point of time , there is no wrong in any of the answers , but what i will be doing here is elaborating on what all these answers means exactly 

So a friend of mine have been losing to Ibuki kunai vortex and no matter how hard he tries , he just cant block or do anything to it.. So i gotta list a conversation type explaination to let you understand it even clearer..so he says 

I tried blocking the kunai , but i always block the wrong direction..

Does it makes any sense? Nope because its just a 50/50 , theres something you must be doing wrong thats why you always get hit by it consistently..

Problem (What my friend was doing wrongly)

Alot of people like moving their joysticks from left to right , or right to left while thinking they are reacting to block the kunai,  But remeber when you are moving the joystick like this , it actually has a period of time your joystick stays at neutral .. so that is the reason why even when you are on a lucky day , you cant block the kunai more than people usually would..

Solution 

Either move the stick really fast from left to right or vice versal , or just let it start from neutral , and move left or right to block it..

Problem 
So now you learnt this , but its still a 50/50 .. how do i even get better in blocking this? this is so unfair..

Solution 
Yes 50/50 is still too much , because ibuki gets this kind of situation almost off any kind of knockdown .. thats why focus attack comes to key .. However this requires practice , because the timing to focus may not be as hard as parry , but is still tight .. but its definely possible with practice.. Using focus dash or backdash to escape from it..

Problem

Oh i managed to practice that focus timing down , but however i am not able to know which direction i should be dashing or back dashing to..

Solution

I will be posting a video to show you which direction , its actually pretty obvious .. because if you doesnt know which direction you can focus dash into, its probably going to be really obvious it hits the front , or really obvious that its a crossup..

Problem

Wow , it works but however he is able to punish my focus attack with a sweep and repeats it over again ..

Solution

He is actually commiting himself in doing the sweep , because sweep itself is very hard to link unless the kunai is really meaty , with this information you already can see that he is not going to get a full combo no matter the kunai is blocked or is hitting you..
there is also another way you can deal with this that is to hold on to your focus attack.. then do a really delayed backdash making use of the backdash invincible frames to avoid the sweep from ibuki (not advisable for mid level players due to strict execution) 
               
Conclusion and Summary

Options are very important when it comes to defence.. Just by holding down+back to block doesnt mean your defence is very strong.. This post teaches you that mixing up your options can make your opponent confused about how to go about punishing you..Leaving him a much harder time..

Well if you already know all these , Another even better tips at mastering the blocking of ibuki kunai is to replicate all the different knockdowns with kunais that look really ambigious , you will start to realise its just a setup that always hits the same direction but doesnt look like it.. When you really find it too unfamiliar to block , thats where focus attack comes to your mind , I will be explaining these with examples even more clearly on my twitch stream every wednesday..

Thanks for reading Xian's Academy 
^_^