SF4 US National Tourney Championships. Daigo (RY) vs. Iyo (DH)

SF4 US National Tourney Championships. Daigo (RY) vs. Iyo (DH)

[@2Sor2Fig]

4:40 I was wondering why he was throwing out shoryukens at such long range. A few seconds later, it all made perfect sense, and all I could do was scream and cheer along with the crowd.

[@azadahmedkhan]

I had rewatched that section in slow mo @ 0.5 speed & figured out how shoryuken was effective in throwing Dhalsim

[@Subzero2281]

The fighting system in SF4 was super smooth!!

[@jp3813]

4:22 Setting him up w/ those missed shoryukens and hadoukens.

[@Delajovi]

There are certain moves that only Daigo can perform.

[@StrifeHighwind]

Amazing! This is the best match that I've ever seen. I love the crowd intensity which makes this vid even better! 5/5

[@jaimao999]

2021 and it's still awesome

[@sl11tenderhand]

It's not only that he did the impossible, it's that he did it at the optimal moment.

[@isurus0]

thanks for the vids! good quality!

[@GeneratorOfChaos]

@duckie258 The Shoryuken motion can be input as Forward > Down > Down Forward > Forward +punches. Notice the last 3 motions(d, df, f=QCF) are the same as the first three motions of your super (QCF). When you do a shoryuken motion, you've already buffered half of your super, so if you input it again right after, the super will come out automatically. It acts as a basic option select against Dhalsim while "fishing" for limbs.

[@1blueeye]

EPIC MATCH. Gotta be one of my all-time favorites.

[@youngien]

I love how both of these dude standing up there all clam and emotionless....

[@DGQ]

One of the best SFIV Vanilla matches of all time. I remember i was extremly impressed then.

[@zhizian]

Daigo seems to work well under pressure... He is really a comeback kid.

[@MAV81MAV]

what a great video... thanks for posting it....

[@caseyj789456]

A piece of the legend Daigo...

[@mikedunworth]

I'm watching this aswell, years on... Still the best match. So much technology of the game shown and this was like weeks after the game was released... Incredible.

[@efTSjakie]

WOW DAIGO. I JUST LOVE how he's throwing hadokens to just think about what he's gonna do. Its a great way to calcutate everything. Most amazing sf4 player on earth :)

[@SoulWarriorSF]

I love watching and playing fights this intense.

[@spikeyguy777]

Thank you!

[@user-yw6vl9pd7t]

なんという勝負強さ！

[@LiangHuBBB]

Daigo is amazing and this match is still 1 of the best SF4 matches I have ever seen.

[@1MCElias]

That was great.

[@binky3000]

Epic fight. Iyo's Sim is great. Changing up the gameplan and adapting well. Daigo's reflexes are unbelievable though, 4:47 was nuts!!!

[@MBurrow08]

one of the best SFIV fights I ever seen

[@UltraDavid]

wow watching high level dhalsim play from 1 and a half years ago is really cool. it's much more active, much riskier. lots more jumps, more moving forward, more attempted antiairs, etc. very different style. seeing a game's strategies evolve over time is pretty interesting.

[@vvanishv02]

that was epic. get comeback and i love the double flying kick for the last match.

[@KHANHcept]

daigo's reactions are amazing

[@kronica]

simply amazing...

[@duckie258]

@topdawg122 lol. just asking, how does he cancel it? i've done something like this sometimes when i just mash all the buttons and the joystick in the arcade (send a hadoken and a metsu together) and i just dun get how i do it too lol.

[@SengdaoBoutsivongsakd]

Best exhibition of the SF4 era!

[@wakigatame2010]

@Cynosurewtf Is there a video of Arturo playing? I've heard a lot about him but can't find anything.

[@andrevader]

Just one word can express my opinion perfectly: EPIC O_O 5/5

[@BlueRaizen]

Awsome match!

[@mrappens8256]

i thought at the end, reaching to pocket, more insert coins

[@KenSF4EKB]

One of the best matches I've ever seen...

[@BombusQuadricolor]

What an amazing Dhalsim :D Thanks for sharing!

[@gouki74]

nice! thanks for sharing!

[@Dyrus]

oh shit that 5th round was close.

[@Lolololololololololo123]

I didn't know you played Street Fighter lol.

[@madafacaboypls2748]

Wtf dyrus

[@lilmurfer]

One word; EPIC!

[@Battousai7O1]

always seeing that double hurricane kick ex is NICE!!!

[@mincereth]

probably the best match I've ever seen and it's a few months old now

[@mikesmithsupersaiyan]

4:47 Maybe the most awesome thing I have ever seen done in a video game. That is pwnage and mastery...

[@ebahtimaikata]

amazing

[@ffzrayzart]

amazing!!!

[@jonzo99]

One of the best matches i've watched so far, Iyo sim is sik and daigo's still a beast

[@sillyskeleton]

Damn, what an incredible match. 0_0

[@tanyuj]

indeeed! it was amazing this match, much better than the finals.

[@alexanderegrt]

I just realised Daigo didn't have this super bar fully charged at 4:24 and 4:25. I'm guessing if the shoryu lands, it woulda give him enough to charge up the bar. PS: Just look at how fast the shinku followed the shoryu. Nobody in the world has such amazing reaction times unless it's an option select.

[@MBurrow08]

I play this game everyday, so hopefully I can make it one of the EVO tourneys. It's amazing just watching the pro players.

[@cameronstoeppel7075]

Have you?

[@xainvoid]

Have you?

[@michaelabuladze9216]

Have you?

[@TheElvenFish]

Have you?

[@unslept_em]

Have you?

[@lolmouf]

I am so in love with iyo's dhalsim. ITS SO GODLY PLEASE GIVE ME THOSE DH SKILLS!!!!!

[@JuL3r]

what an impressive level of skill shown here. good stuff!

[@PewpewFighter]

Epic Match.

[@AEXTREME73]

so epic!!!

[@davidjeske6952]

Damn edge of my seat these two mastters of their fields

[@Blackdragon79]

one hell of a match

[@UBOAF]

@UltraDavid lol agreed.....thats y i went back to check this out...reminisce

[@DGQ]

One of the best SF4 match I've ever seen. Both players are amazing. Daigo is a beast, & Iyo is a god of Dhalsim

[@funglip]

Best match to watch of the tournament.

[@Kyubi888Naruto]

I don't understand, what happened in round four at the end (I don't play SF4)?

[@julianoluz]

this is the best fight ive ever seen

[@wakigatame2010]

I didn't think that anyone could use Sim well in SF IV. Glad to see there are indeed people that can.

[@KaalVeiten]

lol at Iyo being a new face. He's only been playing since SF2CE, and he's a CVS2 legend.

[@LiangHuBBB]

EPIC

[@permintcuzzi]

this match is awesomeness

[@whsiao]

Epic.

[@VergilX20]

another epic match

[@DAVEENGENEER]

Crazy as hell! This guy is SF GoD

[@bumbaraz]

you made me lol also couldnt agree more!!!

[@GeneralGhost]

You gotta see more of Daigo's matches. This dude is the truth.

[@Kamurotetsu]

I know the trick, it is from SF III when you break a Special move to a Super art, Thanks for the info, now I admire Daigo much more now!

[@eagledriver21]

holy shit, that was epic

[@MVPlayer123]

great match!!!

[@Cash1234mar]

were is iyo is he retired or is he comming back if so when? also where can i catch more or his fights?

[@iEpikz]

Timed that shoryuken so perfect.

[@clrndalvare]

4:54 Daigo daigoing, priceless.

[@tanyuj]

4:47 just kills everything!

[@Kyubi888Naruto]

oh ok. Thanks a lot.

[@Killcycle1989]

By far the best street fighter 4 fight I've ever seen.

[@jideoz]

wow, Exciting to watch. makes you wonder is Daigo learning and teaching in the heat of this match, in like 7 rounds? Dude is really a dangerous mind! Dude wins across different games, almost predictably, always elevating the most chosen, some would say scrub-friendly, character, Ryu, to tournament status, still gets respect, remains someone to watch. Speaks only Japanese?, but speaks the universal language of beat-down quite fluently, in several dialects.

[@Kardeckk]

The beast was unleashed on the 7º round. =]

[@iimiboy]

Remember when this happened, great match

[@chikeedoo]

its over 9000!

[@IncognitoDies]

Damn good match

[@utbigred]

This fight was so much better than the Grand Finals between Daigo and Justin.

[@LiangHuBBB]

Watched this match now about 30 times and it never gets boring.

[@regulator302]

sim is one of the hardest character to learn man because he's got really low hp, super slow, and must live by zoning. it would take years to get as good as iyo with the pokes and zoning. iyo played sim since sf2

[@Inware]

iyo is just a master at dodging and weaving those hadokens, i wish i could play like that

[@Marceles45]

4:48 was straight pro, damn he has good reaction skills

[@GattoriSancho]

i remember when this game came out i so kicked ass in the store lol but know everybody plays awsome!

[@ahcho000]

you may see the mistakes made but it's also the mentality daigo placed in iyo's head that made iyo do the things he did and the mistakes he made. it's a lot of mind games going on that are beyond just execution and reaction.

[@Takarimon]

Yes, because everyone with a tag with 'daigo' or even 'diago' in it is the Legend himself :)

[@dfwmonkie]

down to the wire ...that was a badass battle !

[@natedoggrevolution]

@CrazyBeatboxer Some of the shoryukens are being used simply as a deterrent for spacing purposes, others in an attempt to out-prioritize Dhalsim's regular attacks.

[@Gustave154]

best matchup

[@namewastaken360]

That was awesome. I want to learn Dhalsim now - even though he lost!

[@Djinn408]

one reason is because the Japanese and Korean players play mainly in the arcade which meant they had to practice at all against those extra characters. But to be a bit more fair they shouldve at least allowed akuma/gouki at least since hes available in the arcade.

[@alexanderegrt]

@FiveEcho Yup it's not luck. I think, in my humble opinion, it's called option-select. Basically, Daigo inputs a light shoryu and then a shinku hadoken immediately after. Two things can happen after this combination. One, if the shoryu didn't land, then the shinku won't be executed and Daigo will just do a light shoryu. Two, if the shoryu lands, then the shinku will immediately follow. This explains the numerous 'random' shoryus that Daigo's been throwing out at 4:24 and 4:25 and 4:46.

[@rsaran1288]

Best Sim in the world. He won the Japanese SF4 tournament and almost beat Daigo in this one! He definitely is the best Sim in the world, bar none and a pleasure to watch!!

[@khmerboyz1]

WOW MASTER

[@HalfAsianGuy]

Wow! I had no idea that you could double Ex Hurricane Kick in a corner like that!