Kuroda @ SBO Finals 2009

A compilation of Kuroda's (Q) matches at the SBO '09 finals in the JCB Hall, Tokyo.

[@rjacksonm]

Kuroda is the reason I play with Q. Low-tier characters can still shake the top-tiers.

[@jenisia3600]

Preach

[@JackSkulls69]

Talk about precision timing..imagine if he played a high tier 🤔

[@dariang4725]

@@JackSkulls69 He does lol. He plays a ton of characters, but his Akuma, and Q are very good.

[@SawedOffLaser]

Q just EATS your damage. Also, his supers hit like a fucking truck.

[@PlanetJohnny]

Q delivers hits like a slab of concrete, takes hits like a slab of concrete (even without taunt boosts), and moves like a slab of concrete. Q is an animate slab of concrete in a trench coat.

[@SawedOffLaser]

ImTheDruggernaut That's probably true.

[@Q__666]

........

[@sundowniseeu]

I love this guy. Goes out of his way too one of the worst characters in the game, and still comes out the victor in top level play. All while trolling the fuck outta his opponent.

[@kaimisawesome]

i love Q's animation after the standing parry, it's like he's saying "ew"

[@Q__666]

........!

[@Aflay1]

2:38 at 0.5x speed is a real treat.

[@dkblade27]

10:19 Kuorda parries, waits a tiny split second to see if Makoto supers. Makoto doesn't, Kuroda quickly command grabs Momochi respects Kuroda's timing so does super after the initial frame pause Mindgames

[@stefanroche3052]

I love Q's Kara grab.

[@Aflay1]

Just grab them like “BITCH?” then uppercut the fuck out of them.

[@cleangoblin2021]

0:38 this is Kuroda 6:41 what a come back from that fatal taunt round opener

[@grantisshananaa4906]

Dat come back

[@MHellboy]

6:10-7:00 Amazing...

[@JantjePaki]

this made me moist

[@Aflay1]

All the Yun combos in the world can’t save you now.

[@clayvision]

i am not praegnat

[@patmcroin]

kuroda sold his soul to the devil for mad 3S skillz, the devil just didn't count on him becoming an immortal GOD

[@patrckhh20]

I want Kuroda to win a tournament like this with Q so bad.

[@AplusDubstep]

Rofl I love the way Q the first round vs Remy when he just dashes 3 times and smashes the ground with his palm.

[@fp45]

that fucking yun comeback was GODDAMN LEGENDARY

[@Dadflaps]

wow, how have I not seen this before.

[@renattodeza5439]

6:32 huge comeback

[@drewswrst]

I love this game

[@dduran8804]

Competitive Q makes me W E T

[@sg-hunter]

look at the spaz out by kuroda at 3:56. hes like " you think you can out turtle me lol?"

[@maxsilva2676]

YES! So glad they're keeping Third Strike alive over there!

[@TrueBluesProductions]

+Max The Scrublord This video was 7 years ago

[@maxsilva2676]

TrueBluesProductions True, my comment would have been more warranted on a newer Third Strike video.

[@diabloii4549]

+Max The Scrublord Nope, 3rd Strike is dead. Most if not all of the pros quit. The newbies cannot play this game at high level simply due to its difficulty. Nonetheless, it's a great game to watch and play casual online.

[@dkblade27]

+Diablo II Surprisingly this year will have the absolute strongest players in U.S. history all clashing in a titan battle.

[@maxsilva2676]

dkblade27 That sounds awesome! I'm sure it'll produce some hype matches!

[@shwiegnutt]

Still the best

[@dxmakina]

kuroda is the only player that i love to see turtle

[@jenisia3600]

Fantastic

[@Go.el_Hadam]

I love to see high level Q play

[@GRyoyoguy]

that match with yun was so fucking hype

[@yELoHQ]

Wow he actually went for 2 1 bar supers in 1 round... this guy is Buddha playing video games.

[@0Genosuke0]

Y'know playing w/low tier makes you learn subtle nuances of the game such as frames and other character specific things. Reason I play Q, it takes more skill so winning means a little more when you do it.

[@zezuntxiduntxi]

Q is so cool! Shame Capcom doesn't do nothing with him

[@backlash81]

Kuroda's comeback against yun was ridiculous

[@fohstick]

4:21 - i love this combo

[@fohstick]

that's one sick remy

[@CHOCOLATEMAKER33]

WOW awesome come back against Yun Kuroda is the best SF3 player

[@gamersupreme793]

Idk if they already but his defense gets a huge boost. 3x's is the max after that all your hits do half damage just about. and its permanent till the end of the round

[@shorty235z]

Taunt increases his health. After just 3 taunts, he literally has "twice" the amount of health as Akuma (or so I've heard?).

[@margaux8604]

Even more than twice LOL.

[@cheeseUout]

considering kuroda played Q, he pretty much won the entire tournament

[@raekm]

Kuroda's team had "only" two players, right?

[@kingofthenoobs]

that boss match was a lot closer than i remembered.

[@EternalBooda]

@LordPhunbaba It is tactically sound. You see Kuroda takes a lot of risks, but he knows the odds. This is most evident in the Remy match, as he throws those supers out knowing Remy doesn't have much damage he can punish with. SA2 is high risk, but if you show you're willing to throw it out, it keeps the opponent thinking. If the opponent waits and watches for those high risk moves, they're just giving Q throw opportunities, and Kuroda takes advantage of that.

[@ecomlyfe]

sick match. wish we had some better Q players in our crew.

[@Aflay1]

3rd Strike is Japan’s melee.

[@clayvision]

how does he do the 2 straight dash punches in a row after a command grab, i can only do it with overhead and then straight but not 2 straights in a row :(

[@Banthis89]

that was some intense makoto pressure

[@aurielconaa-riir3508]

Whoa, Remy @ finals

[@KikiDaiso]

I wanna be like Kuroda!

[@armand4116]

Grandmaster Kuroda.

[@SunJiano]

This Q player has good techniques.

[@bondelavega7614]

The next few seconds after 6:42... damn.

[@theaznfishy]

@yahoo1o1 uh just try to remember that Kuroda used mainly 2 characters in SBO. Gouki [the least defense character] and Q [the most vulnerable and slowest character 2nd only to Hugo]. In the first case he won SBO with.

[@Quake2815]

@knowledge561 this is the series he's from.

[@playtoyx]

@C3gamingchannel I gotta ask who are the characters youre talking about. I know he has the best Q there's no doubt. Who else is he "best" with.

[@MomentsReprive]

lol Kuroda read those frames six years ago, son!

[@gamersupreme793]

He was facing Makoto he jumped so he couldn't get command grabbed that's how she dos most of her damage she doesn't really have an anti air so it's the best defense against her fighting style of rush down.

[@chau2k5]

9:09 lol they're hold hands damn momochi's rushdown is nasty

[@amphitheatre]

how do you do the monkey flip > st.mp Yun thing? 6:30

[@cmonconan]

Is'nt Q a Tezuka character? i thought i saw his body double in metropolis.

[@fuzzydunlop1753]

Faultless defense game is tight.

[@kingj521]

were do u see Q @ in my statement

[@ribbon98]

@DrummerFromColdplay god I'd love to see hayao vs kuroda hugo mirrors, there haven't been any great hugo players since these two

[@kubiori6808]

Kuroda won sbo 2009 with q?

[@6Diego1Diego9]

yes it is... the last match is momochi vs Kuroda. YOU ARE WRONG SON

[@ereon6]

I KNOW!!

[@sg-hunter]

Q's jump jab is incredibly safe! abuse!!! abuse!!!

[@Iceman2890]

Holy fuck Momochi has a sick Makoto. I can't wait to see if he picks her up in SSF4

[@dkblade27]

so what is Q vs makotos matchup for Q? 8-2 makotos favor??

[@6Diego1Diego9]

that makoto ended up winning the tourney

[@yahoo1o1]

a lot of people abuse sf4 players saying they have no skill. but here you have a sf4 player beating kuroda and knocking out his team

[@6Diego1Diego9]

is there more Kuroda matches on the DVD?

[@LordPhunbaba]

In the first round I guess Kuroda got tired of owning people with blocking so he tried owning with jumping instead. AND IT WORKED. Then he gets obsessed with using crouching fierce as a meaty attack, which actually works later on. Also, did he pick SAIII against Momochi? Is that tactically sound, or does that only work if you're Kuroda?

[@123GreenBird321]

what is with Q's high HP?

[@Teknanam]

@SeventhSun I'm not even that big a fan of 3rd Strike and was just dropping in, but was that flamebait to a 7 month old post really neccessary? I mean, what did Kuroda being asian have to do with the post you are responding too?

[@knowledge561]

I never knew Yun was in a previous Street Fighter.

[@derekmok]

That Makoto is Momochi.

[@thesch2867]

Wait what version of the game is this? ps2?? and why Q theme is playing 2:55 is it possible to do that?

[@JohnSheppard1]

Arcade PCB. Q's theme plays in Event Mode (one game then game over) on P1 side, which they used for tournaments.

[@Bonkler__]

S.C.H 2.8 This is the arcade version and yes, Q does not have his own stage so his music will play at Dudley's stage.

[@fuzzydunlop1753]

Afaik tougeki was always arcade boards.

[@AneurysmXX]

I thought u meant the first Makoto in this video.. NM then.

[@EternalBooda]

6:46 I accidentally mid-screen 6:47 I accidentally the corner That's how it looks, but we all know he knew what he was doing.

[@EliosMoonElios]

SFIII the game where the winner is determined by the player's skill not the character tier.

[@Aflay1]

In games such as these, it can be argued that the lower the tier, the better the reward for skill.

[@EliosMoonElios]

2 bad characters in SFIII is not the same as 2 cheap characters beating the rest of the cast in SFV. In SFIII half of the cast can be champions in the proper skilled hands, in SFV underdogs with cheap characters win tournament constantly defeating legends with decades of skill experience, that is real unbalance.

[@juliododd860]

@@dkblade27 I dunno about Sean,but i think twelve is unrecoverably trash. i mean,Jesus,he has a super that literally just transforms him on his opponent for a fixed amount of time

[@SnakeversoGames]

What are you talking about kid, tier list is everywhere, if it was true, daigo was winning everything becuz SF V Guile is in toptier list

[@kubiori6808]

I don' t think s0.tier list still br important in 3s

[@Crazycuban561]

wonder if daigo and kuroda have ever played eachother

[@TsukiPanda]

@.@ how come Kuroda looks soo much different from the clip when vsing justin wong

[@stretchypants123]

I think Kuroda maxed out Q's true abilities there~ =XD it was just a matter of tier-level that was preventing him from winning~

[@sg-hunter]

funny how yun tried to save his genei jin for the next round and got owned :)

[@RoastedPheasant]

Alas poor Kuroda.

[@nightmarebooster]

I can't believe he tea bagged Yakkun and Nuki with Q, *sigh* thats when you know someone is a bit tooooo good

[@Dobble007]

・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・！。

[@KikiDaiso]

@yahoo1o1 Just FYI, but that match-up is approx. 8.5-1.5 in Makoto's favour.

[@guest2007]

cool

[@the805paradox]

@123GreenBird321 its increase his defense with every taunt 3 taunts being maximum boost

[@derekmok]

Go to 8:03 to see a theoretically impossible Q rushdown against Chun-Li.

[@waya121]

lol the yun was trying to save the SA for round 3 but he got owned xD

[@XexorZero]

6:44 - 7:04 Fuck yo' couch... gotta love them confidence comebacks

[@yahoo1o1]

@Lawlz0rz you're right but was he known for 3s? i cant find like any videos of him playing 3s other than this sbo. no 1 ever talks about him in 3s. im not taking anything anyway from kuroda, he is a great player. he didnt lose to the player, he lost to makoto bs that takes 70% and leaves you stunned. my main dislike about 3s

[@jelaninoel]

the way he beat chun li was the best. mashed potaTOES

[@starfireprincess]

3:55 lol

[@VacuousTerminus]

damn Momochi really scrubbed out a win here. Kuroda was always thinking ahead, but sadly lost for it.

[@6Diego1Diego9]

i wanna know who disliked this.. who would do that? WHO ARE YOU???

[@FPSWordle]

Makoto vs Q is so broken.

[@hismit3rd]

Why do Q players always do cr.LP after landed SA2, before juggle with a dash punch?

[@mrwigyea]

hismit timing

[@uberlephrad8218]

Third strike is such a well balanced game, even the low tiers can compete.

[@mochilaavila]

twelve sa3: i do not exist

[@TheBIackstar]

@TheGosu No they aren't. They're exactly what you say in your first sentence: a legitimate way to describe a character's advantages and weaknesses. They aren't a crystal ball or a fortune cookie that foretells the outcome of every match, but they do provide a relevant relative ranking of characters in a game. The tiers basically say at equal skill levels, this is roughly how the matches tend to play out. Of course someone who's just better at the game can win with scrubby characters.

[@Linkcrc]

single elimination; thats harsh.

[@Linkcrc]

in Japan it is...SF3TS died elsewhere.