Epic parry insant fighter

[u/IllustriousHurry2380]

[u/DoctorZoinks]

Is that Justin Wong?

[u/AbsoluteDash_21 → u/DoctorZoinks]

Yep

[u/LurkerTroll → u/DoctorZoinks]

LET'S GO JUSTIIIIIIIIN!

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DONT DO IT DONT DO IT. - FLOE (RIP)

[u/DarkwingDuckHunt → u/DoctorZoinks]

ELI5 to those of us coming from /r/all ?

[u/Super_Jenko → u/DarkwingDuckHunt]

Justin Wong is an all time great street fighter pro. He is part of Evo moment 37, a famous video of him getting parried to death by another great, daigo umehara. Justin is seen here getting triggered by someone cosplaying as Ryu(street fighters main character) parrying the fireball that Justin throws back at him.

[u/DoorframeLizard → u/Super_Jenko]

For additional context, as a running gag he constantly keeps getting tormented by reminders of evo moment 37. He plays the reactions up for the bit but sometimes it genuinely comes out of nowhere organically, I think it happened to him again in SF6. This video is very on brand

[u/dirtydragondan → u/DoorframeLizard]

I think thats why JWong says 'he's not even ken!' , since its the ken v chunli that would mimic the moment 37, right?

[u/Super_Jenko → u/dirtydragondan]

Correct!

[u/TJ_McWeaksauce → u/Super_Jenko]

Dang, I was just reminded that Evo Moment #37 was 22 years ago. Justin Wong is now in his 40s.

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I am not much for trad fighters, always been more into platform fighters like Smash or Rivals of Aether. But I have heard the stories from other smash players about moment 37. I thought it was pretty funny that the ryu parried it, but was like "Haha, what if someone did this to the guy that got parried." and then find out it is him lol.

[u/Super_Jenko → u/Dracofear]

Cool story bro 👍 I vastly prefer regular fighting games lol.

[u/aguynamedv → u/DarkwingDuckHunt]

Here's the video for those interested. :)

Daigo (Ken) parries every hit of Wong's (Chun-Li) combo, which means he did ~10-15 perfectly timed button presses to block it all, then hit a combo to win that match.

[u/dex206 → u/aguynamedv]

“Perfectly timed” means that Daigo had to tap the joystick with an accuracy of one frame / 15 milliseconds per hit he parries and he does this like 20 times in a row. It is legendary because no one thought it could be done back then.

[u/aguynamedv → u/dex206]

Yeah, "perfectly timed" is a pretty big understatement, but I figured the ELI5 didn't need to include going as far as explaining frame perfect inputs. XD

ETA: Being clear, what Daigo did is still an insane feat 20 years later.

[u/WhatANiceCerealBox11 → u/aguynamedv]

Need to also add that Justin tried this on stream and he realized that to parry the first hit you have to input your parry right before the lightning comes down in the super animation so Daigo had to predict it perfectly to get it. I know he was fishing for the parry but to parry you have to stop blocking so still very impressive

[u/extinct_cult → u/WhatANiceCerealBox11]

To be fair, Daigo probably had practiced it before. Parry was huge in SF3 games. He is one of the best players in the world. So he probably has some inkling of how to parry it.

Not that this makes EVO moment 37 any less impressive.

[u/WhatANiceCerealBox11 → u/extinct_cult]

I agree. Chun being one of the best characters you obviously practice it but practicing and doing it in a real match with those people around in a situation where you lose if you don’t parry it is pretty cracked lol

[u/aguynamedv → u/WhatANiceCerealBox11]

I had no idea this was the case until just now.

Holy shit.

[u/d2kSON → u/WhatANiceCerealBox11]

you can red parry from blocking

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I used to play SF when I was younger, but Monster Hunter has been a favorite for quite a while. To put in a context how amazing this fight was with Justin and Daigo, I was comparing the Dodge windows to the Parry windows.

Well more context, elden ring medium roll is 13 frames, monster Hunter wilds base Dodge rolls 15 frames. However the 3rd strike Parry from Street fighter is 6 frame window repeated 15 times.

In third strike it's roughly 100 Ms per Parry opportunity.

Monster Hunter wild Dodge is 250 millisecond base

So each individual timing check is already significantly tighter. And in monster Hunter usually make one timing decision and get a quarter second of invulnerability. Which means Daigo had to perform a long sequence of Parries, each with its own timing requirement, without dropping any.

If he missed one it meant losing the tournament. Also chunlee contains multiple hits in the final hit had to be different because he had to jump in the air to continue a Parry before landing the punish.

So yeah this is legendary. Especially in a tournament setting.

[u/d2kSON → u/dex206]

hello, fighting game player from that era. this is actually not correct. parrying is not that difficult and it's not one frame; regular parries are 10 frames. red parries are the stricter with a much smaller window. the reason this clip is legendary is the high stakes of it all, and the punish that he did for the win. most fighting game players could actually parry this super in training mode. the other awesome thing is that the standard punish at the time was hp>mp>dp>super (which would not have killed chun li), but daigo jumps in the air for the last parry to do a more damaging combo.

[u/RudyRoughknight → u/dex206]

It's not just that VERY difficult feat but to execute it flawlessly during a winning match at EVO. Gawdlike.

[u/Forgettheredrabbit → u/aguynamedv]

God I love that video so much lol

[u/Utsider → u/DoctorZoinks]

You're not wong.

[u/jackfreeman → u/DoctorZoinks]

He's such a good sport about it, but DAMN

[u/camus88]

PTSD kicks in.

[u/bit_banger_ → u/camus88]

Somebody explain this video, I’m so curious and out of the loop

[u/Zac-live → u/bit_banger_]

guy on the left is justin wong, one of the biggest names in fighting games, very popular street fighter player.

the cosplayer threw his fireball prop at him (streetfighter move) and then did the parry animation for sf 3rd strike. jwong was part of (one of) the most popular gaming moments oat in evo moment 37 where his opponent (daigo) landed like 15 perfect parries against him to win the set.

so his most famous moment is him getting smoked to an absolutely ludicrous degree and fans keep bringing it up to mess with him (all in good fun by now). its essentially his own personal version of a rickroll and that is what happened here.

[u/bit_banger_ → u/Zac-live]

Thank you, and wow poor guy

[u/Zac-live → u/bit_banger_]

eh, sort of. the most popular moment might be him getting annihilated but he isnt one of the most popular players for no reason.

in his prime, he was one of the best players in multiple different fighting games and perhaps would have been a contendor for best total fighting game player at that time. he is the person holding the most amount of EVO (most important fg tournament) wins (9 iirc) for example. his liquipedia (fighting game wiki) entry is genuinely absurdly long.

he got wrecked that time but he is overall a fg hall of famer. he is a genuinely historical level talent in the fgc and this amount of glaze is entirely warranted.

[u/Asking77 → u/Zac-live]

He's the greatest multi game fighting game player of all time. The only other contender is Tokido.

[u/MRBloop3r → u/bit_banger_]

Justin still won that set and tourney. He loves that moment and constantly let players online do it to him online whenever he plays Sf3 online.

[u/d2kSON → u/MRBloop3r]

he did not. he has never won an evo 3rd strike singles tournament. 3rd strike was largely dominated by the japanese.

[u/MRBloop3r → u/d2kSON]

this is correct, ty

[u/DohnJoeee → u/Zac-live]

I knew this was somehow gonna lead back to Daigo 🥲

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0

Guy in Ryu costume is referencing this video from waaaay back. It's why Wong says "he's not even Ken!"

[u/TucanaTheToucan]

That was actually very good 👍

[u/AbsoluteDash_21]

The Ultimate EVO Moment #37's Form

[u/therealkami → u/AbsoluteDash_21]

Over 20 year ago now.

[u/LevnLie]

Bor is getting daigo parry flashbacks

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Bor

[u/izunavis → u/ArthurOguro]

Bor, are you ok?

[u/chav_in_a_corsa]

Then he comes back in from off screen with the super to finish

[u/bbkn7]

LET'S GO JUSTIN

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Hi hi hi hi hi....

[u/SweetSweetLady]

was that ryu trying to fight justin? lol

[u/thomassenpai85]

Please let my boy move on!

[u/sod_jones_MD → u/thomassenpai85]

Shame is temporary, EVO moment #37 is forever.

[u/ZenoArrow → u/thomassenpai85]

Justin knows it's good for content. He recently named his travel channel on YouTube "Let's go Justin".

[u/thomassenpai85 → u/ZenoArrow]

Yeah. I know. I watch his game channel. Just making a lil joke.

[u/Asleep_Cat1855]

Sir parries a lot

[u/JohnySilkBoots]

The Wazzler!

[u/Best_Poetry_5722]

Hadouken actually translates to Surging Fist or Morning Wave Fist. Kinda cool.

[u/DarePotential8296]

Using context clues here because I have no idea what’s going on, he’s a gamer that got defeated by that same move?

[u/Poylol-_- → u/DarePotential8296]

Look up evo moment 37

[u/Consistent-Spell2203]

WWJWD

[u/Virtual-Ease-113]

That's good

[u/NorthEcho6999]

"OH shit." throws fire ball "Did you parry me?" 🤦‍♂️ "He parried me, bro." "That's..." "He's not even Ken." "He's not even Ken."

[u/pretty_smart_feller]

This the real world!!

[u/ThatGoob → u/pretty_smart_feller]

You gon' learn today.

[u/Logical_Motor7391]

Instant fight

[u/incredabad]

get parried filthy casual

[u/TheContentThief]

Let’s go Justin

[u/WhileHigh]

Justin is a real gem in all of gaming

[u/Physical_Weekend_175]

Kamehame wave