How the Street Fighter GOAT Found His SFV Main | Analytics Behind Daigo’s Guile

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Daigo entered Street Fighter IV at a crossroads, unsure if fighting games were his future. He left it as a legend, one of the most revered players in Street Fighter history, and the history of the Fighting Game Community at large.

He was dominant across every one of Street Fighter IV’s updates, a most consistent force as he won two Evos and made top 8 at every single Street Fighter IV Evo held from 2009 through 2013.

2016, though, signaled the start of a new era with the release of Street Fighter V, an electric update to the series that included some key mechanical changes that severely hampered one of the tools that defined his Street Fighter IV play – the Umeshoryu. After Season 2’s changes, if Daigo wanted to Umeshoryu his way through an opponent's grab or attack, he would have to spend meter, a limited resource that gave him a powered EX Dragon Punch. But in spots where players previously had to respect Daigo’s ability to interrupt their offense at any given moment, in SFV they now no longer had to respect his character as much.

Daigo used Ryu at his first Capcom Pro Tour event of 2017, Final Round 20. He finished 33rd, tying his second-worst placement of 2016. That's not even a particularly fair comparison -- the previous 33rd place finish was out of 5,107 entrants, the largest offline tournament Street Fighter has seen to this day. At Final Round 20, Daigo finished 33rd out of 468 players. He had only one comparable result in 2016, a 65th place finish at Japan Cup 2016, an outlier which he immediately followed up with a pair of top four finishes.

He had seen enough, and Daigo had his eyes on another. Those who watched Daigo’s stream in early 2017 would be treated to exhibition matches between The Beast and some of his top-level friends, and occasionally they would catch him giggling about a “Perfect Character.”

That perfect character? Guile, a character whose Street Fighter V kit gave Daigo all the tools needed to reclaim his form and make a run at qualification for Capcom Cup 2017 that put him back on track to remain one of Street Fighter V’s premiere competitors. Dive into the analytics behind Daigo’s 2017 resurgence and CPT chase, watch some iconic Daigo SFV CE Guile play through SFV replays from key tournaments, and explore another chapter in the rich history of the Street Fighter GOAT in this latest episode of Fightalytics.

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