Rufus!

I got bored of playing Akuma and Chun-Li in casuals, so one night at UFO, I picked the only other character I had an idea of how to play: Rufus.

The unexpected thing was that I started winning a lot more. It was suddenly way easier to win than it ever had been with Akuma or Chun-Li, so I decided to stick with him for the next week or so and use him in the two SF4 tournaments at UFO this past weekend.

I didn’t do too great in the regional, but in our Ranbat, I managed to take 3rd Place. I lost to Sinister-X (Dhalsim) and Viet (Ryu). My play was really sloppy, I missed a lot of Ultras and generally didn’t know what to do in a lot of situations. Nonetheless, when I actually got in, I managed to get enough damage to win a round. I could pretty consistently do the dive kick B&B of 5lk, 5hp, HP Galactic Tornado which a lot of people have trouble with. This combo just came naturally to me after coming from Akuma, because I learned to plink all of my combos with him as well as doing the plink to make Raging Demon come out faster.

I’m going to study Rufus more and stick with him for the remainder of vanilla SF4.