An SFV Guile Win On A Move That Will Bypass Your Hadoken
By TJ Denzer ·
Guile is a versatile character in his Street Fighter V iteration for more than a few reasons. Watch this player use a lesser known secret of one of Guile's signature moves to finish an unsuspecting Sakura.
When it comes to Street Fighter V, the all-American agent Guile is stronger than he's ever looked in most other iterations of the game. He’s got great normal strikes and his specials, EX moves, and V-Triggers make him a potent force in the hands of the right player. It’s likely a part of why legendary pros like Daigo Umehara main him. But he’s more than just a good moveset. Guile has some tricks and nuances to him that put him an even further cut above – convenient when you discover them unwittingly and deadly if you use them at the right time as the video below will show.
Player Turbogamerz had the match dominated on his Guile play to begin with, but it’s the way he finished his match against opponent ScarletFirefly on Sakura that makes it spectacular. Just like combatants in fighting games, projectiles have hitboxes that move with them. For multiple-hitting projectiles like Ryu and Sakura’s Hadokens, you might think that these things would simply cancel once another out, and you’d generally be right. However, Turbo managed to bank on a special quality of Guile’s EX Sonic Boom when it met with this Sakura’s EX Hadoken: Guile’s Sonic Boom moves far faster.
Though the Sonic Boom projectile chips a hit off of the Hadoken, it moves fast enough to take its hitbox past the Hadoken and continue on towards an unsuspecting Sakura. Thinking she has the shield of her Hadoken ahead of her, Sakura steps right into the last hit of the oncoming Sonic Boom and eats it, giving Turbo the final victory. Whether Turbo know what they were doing or not, it’s things like this that prove why Guile sits dangerously near the top of the pack when it comes to Street Fighter V and it’s a victory earned, devious or not.
Want to get behind the mind of more devious play? Check out this Tekken 7 power play in which a dominant Claudio player ducks just in time to completely stuff a comeback!