This is probably the best Street Fighter match I’ve ever seen. Judging by the picture above who would you think will win the match? Chun Li (Justin Wong) or Ken (Daigo Umehara)?
This video was taken during the Evolution 2004 3rd Strike losers’ finals, Daigo’s Ken makes a dramatic comeback against Justin Wong’s Chun Li. In the final round of the first match, Wong manages to reduce Daigo’s health bar to just a few pixels.
Wong attempts to win by using a Super Art 2 (SA2), which would reduce Daigo’s health bar even if he blocked the attack - a tactic in fighting games known as “chip”, or cheap damage. Seemingly ready for this tactic, Daigo parries all fifteen hits of Chun Li’s super, including an air parry on the last delayed hit, and combos into his own super (SA3) for the win (the number of parries is sometimes confused, since a chun li SA2 hits 15 times mid-screen and 17 times in the corner). The large audience that witnessed this live erupted in cheers and shouts.
This video was first released on shoryuken.com (the main tournament organizer for Evolution), but has since spread to many message boards and video clip sites across the Internet.
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