Brother Wind
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- Aug 1, 2017
Once again for you newfags. DSP likes the most efficient characters. Which is to say those with the most damaging moves on paper. This is why in ST he played Vega/Claw, because that asshole's punch goes a long ways across the screen, and does a lot of damage. Same for Bison/Dictator and Balrog/Boxer. All three characters just have dumb bullshit damage on a lot of their buttons or moves. He doesn't fucking care for combos. If he can get them, good. But he only knows a couple. This is the same as to why he plays grapplers. Easy inputs, and throws do stupid amounts of damage and very few of them care about combos.From what I've seen, he'll always choose the largest character. Maybe in Tekken where he chooses Paul and King because he can just mash grapples with King or demoman and Phoenix Smasher with Paul.
This is the key to Phil's wins. This is why he is a skill check in lobbies. Because all this damage is pretty fragile. Usually by being pretty unsafe on block or tons of start up. It's the big trade off. That's why fighting games reward combos so much. New players can take the easy damage, but expert players understand the patience and knowledge of combos. It's also why he gets mad at everything that isn't Super Turbo. Because SF2 didn't really understand combos yet. The game was built around getting in hits. Which is exactly how Phil plays. Nothing wrong with that on the face of it, I like SamSho a lot. But even SF2's meta is about combos now. You just see a lot less of it in the ports DSP plays, because the people who play the meta of SF2 are on Fightcade, and the people playing those ports are just chilling and trying get some nostalgia.
In short; Phil is lazy and wants the most damage for the least amount of finger and brain work. So he picks big burly characters that do that, typically. He can't figure out to better this strategy, which is a good starting strategy to learn, but it's got a ceiling in how good you can get. Thus Phil gets filtered. repeat ad nauseum.