Jett Vs. is back! Sort of. Last time I ran this series of posts, they were universally ignored by readers for any number of reasons. Because the readers weren’t there and these posts take a lot of work to create, I decided to stop running the series. However, over the past few months of leveling up and working towards world domination, I’ve compiled what I think are some pretty good match videos worth sharing.
In this post, my Cammy faces off against Niysx’s M. Bison.
About the Cammy vs. Bison Match-Up
Historically, this match has been considered to be even, as neither character has any major advantages over the other. However, my track record indicates that I have a lot of problems fighting against any M. Bison. I have problems dealing with his Scissor Kick pressure, his super fast standing heavy kick and the head stomp that’s really hard to punish in air-to-air situations. Specifically in the Cammy vs. Bison match-up, if Bison sets the offensive tone of the fight by putting on the pressure, I’m generally screwed.
My answer to that as a Cammy player is to score a knockdown. Bison’s wake-up options aren’t that great, and Cammy’s okizeme options are really good thanks to her dive kick. If I can get Bison into a vortex situation where he’s repeatedly guessing wrong on wake-up and is eating full combos as punishment, I will win more often than not.
Round 1
Niysx makes it very clear to me from the start that he’s not looking to rush in. He’s content with maintaining his charge, waiting for me to come in, and attacking with relatively safe options. I bait him out with a light Spiral Arrow early, and hit him with the Cannon Spike as he tries to punish the whiffed Spiral Arrow, which is one of my signature Cammy gimmicks. After that, there’s a lot of staccato hits and movement for awhile.
Where the match breaks open is at 0:33 when I throw him into the corner. Once I’ve knocked him down, I take advantage of the okizeme situation by pressuring with dive kicks. The first dive kick was an EX one that was timed and spaced in a way that I could finish with a full Cammy combo afterwards. The second dive kick is a regular one that hits high atop his head. He may have thought it was going to cross up. He eats that one too and takes a full combo for guessing wrong. The third time he wakes up, I’m thinking that he’s thinking I’m going to try and dive kick again. Knowing this, I hit him with a crouching light kick instead, which he wasn’t ready to block. This puts him in a dizzy state and I finish him off with a nice combo.
Round 2
Niysx is playing even more defensive now than before. I bait him out again with the light Spiral Arrow into Cannon Strike at 1:20, which pushes him back into the corner. From here, he just eats an onslaught of dive kick pressure as he can’t find a way to get out. He ends up getting dizzied and is finished off shortly after.
In Hindsight
I’m really proud of that match, as I executed my game plan perfectly. I also connected the majority of my combos. I find that with Cammy, if you’re unable to complete your larger combos, you’ll have a hard time winning, as her moves outside of combos don’t do much damage. As for Niysx, I think he would have had a much easier time against me if he was dictating the flow of the match. Instead, he’d get knocked down and be forced to fend off my offensive pressure, which didn’t work this time.
In Third Person 
You mention that you didn’t receive a lot of attention surrounding your personal matches. I wonder if it could be anything to do with the quality of the videos that you post?
Invest the $70.00 – $90.00 and take your production levels up a notch. It would probably help make your aspiring blog to be taken more seriously by the hardcore gamers. Not to knock what you’re are doing, as I stumbled across your review of Skyrim and have enjoyed a number of articles that you have written.
I just have a hard time wanting to watch a video when it looks like you recorded it on your mobile phone?
Thanks for the comments!
For the record, I’m recording using the web cam built on my MacBook š
I wouldn’t say that the production quality is the biggest reason the matches aren’t watched, but the production does suck. I’ll be the first person to tell anyone that. I have no video editing skills, no video capture hardware/software, and a computer with less than 5gb of hard disk space left. Even if I had the technology, I have 0 experience with video editing. Sure, I could throw money at the problem and put time into making the production suck less, but does that bring people in? Probably not.
I think what would bring these types of posts more attention are matches with high-profile players and/or matches with in-depth analysis to help teach someone something. I’m not a high-profile player myself, and up until recently, I don’t think I could have put up any sort of fight against a Daigo-like player to make for an interesting video. As for analysis, it’s a lot of work and the matches have to at least be interesting, which most of mine aren’t.
We’ll see how my hypothesis pans out. Sherryjenix is absolutely a name that holds weight in the fighting game community and I think she’s worth a look. I also will be posting a set I recorded against the #1 Guy player on PSN in a few weeks.
While I would love to provide better video content, I don’t make enough videos, people don’t watch the few I have and the video hardware and software won’t pay for itself. I will make due until I can build a business case for stepping my video skills up.
Just out of curiousity, where did you get the $70-90 figure from? Is that a capture card? Video editing software? Something else?
That $70-$90 is for a higher end capture device, though you can certainly go much higher.
However, if you want to field the issue of quality with your regular visitors, why not try: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002H3BSCM?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=sel057-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002H3BSCM
It’s very cheap and so long as you have your matches stored you can switch back over to your analog instead of HDMI connection and split it so that it goes to both your tv and the device. Though so long as you have some kind of capture software you should be able to preview the current output so you don’t need to split the stream. You’d only really need to do that if you wanted to record your matches live.
I was going to say that I wouldn’t really waste my time watching low production videos, but I guess you proved me wrong? It was more due to the content, as I have some tough times against high level Bison players and their corner pressure.
However, if you were selling the same movie on your site, one in VHS and one in DVD format, which would sell better? I still think more people would look at the video posts if they were in higher quality as it just helps lend itself to the credibility of the source, aka you.
Like it or not, your content is geared towards topics I enjoy, so I’ll be stuck watching the webcam videos in future. Begrudgingly of course ><
Thank you for the pro tips.
I’m not denying the fact that better produced videos would get more views. It would, but in broad strokes, I think better content with weaker production quality would get more views than better produced content that isn’t interesting. There’s also the fact that I can control the quality of content with what I have, while improving production quality through buying new equipment and learning how to use it all isn’t the best option for me at this point in time.
At the very least, I will try and export my videos in a higher bit-rate. Most of the videos I already have lined up still look terrible, but there’s at least one video with a high-ranking Super Street Fighter IV player that I saved at max quality. Granted, it’s max quality from a built-in web cam, but it’s an improvement.
P.S. Nice match. Round 1 was kind of dull. It looked like a long feeling out process. Round 2 was much better, as I certainly enjoyed watching Bison take a dose of his own medicine.