Played Steve this morning a little bit.. I doubt anyone has been paying attention to my ramblings, but originally he was who I wanted to main, but felt he was too difficulty to play/understand/implement for me, and I said Id revisit him eventually..
Played a guy I met a while ago (not a member here) on PC. Genbu Bob and Josie, gold something or other DJin and Kaz. Good player. We played for a bit this morning and I was getting mopped of course.. and not the mopped where you're still enjoying yourself, but the mopped that's just frustrating and annoying. I was already tired, so I was gonna call it done, but decided to play Steve, purely on a whim, for a match or two just for the hell of it.
Sadly, this isnt a story about how I magically powered through to victory! or someshit, cause he still mercilessly beat my ass. My movement is crappy at the best of times, but it was triply awful this morning.. but still. Got Steve out - havent had a chance to practice Paul enough to be comfortable with him - and started to mess around.. Steve's movements just clicked nicely for me.. I felt a fluid and fast and tricky, and I was able to set up, but fail miserably to capitalize on, some great whiffs and missteps on his part with my BDCs and Steve's weave stances, backsway and general SS. It was just...fun. I realized after that I can actually play Steve now, lol. I didnt feel just gridlocked with possibility or confusion but I could make better sense of my own offense and how I could flow into and out of stances, and like I mentioned before, I was able to set up some nice scenarios that once I grind out some combo stuff and am less rusty on Steve, would have turned in to very nice damage won me a couple rounds, and at one point, would have one me the only match I almost took, lol. I managed to hold on after losing two rounds and bring it back.. his back was to the wall and we were both around 15% health, maybe a tad more. I was poking a little and back up, trying to fake a low attempt but he wasnt biting, so i came in and staggered a couple flicker jabs, using fear of the mid extension to keep him standing (as low as we both were he couldnt afford to risk that mid), then backdashed, whiffed into flicker into backsway. He came out swinging to catch the whiff, but he whiffed due to the backsway, then I botched the followup and he won the round - but I was so proud of that sequence I went away smiling.
Shrug. TL
R - Ima play Steve and Paul when I find myself Tekkening, along with leo of course. Going to need to spend some time with Steve though getting some of my routes down, cause currently im missing TONS of opportunities.
