It is estimated that many players today do not know who "Daigo Umehara" really is!
After all, his most active period was in the last century, "Super Street Fighter 2X", "Demon Warrior", "Junior Street Fighter 3", "CVS" are his better hands, as well as the "Street Fighter IV" of previous years. After Street Fighter V, it was much more low-key.
Daigo Umehara has single-handedly created countless miracles, won the world championship many times, is an idol of countless video game enthusiasts, and created many classic cases of blood and blood killing at its peak. Many of today's world-class masters once had their biggest dream to defeat this man known as the "Fighting God".
In 2020, Daigo Umehara won the "Esport Award" Lifetime Achievement Award, which should be the highest honor for a video game master, and he became the first player in Japan to receive this award.
For years, players have thought that Daigo Umehara's epic bloody counterattack in this life came from the 2004 EVO Street Fighter 3 World Series. This time Daigo Umehara is facing former U.S. champion, known as the first person in an American fighting game: Justin Wong.
It was in this battle that Daigo Umehara made the whole world boil and staged a classic 15-time Block super kill operation.
When it comes to blood counter-killing, this is too common in "King of Fighters 97", and even silk blood anti-three is too normal.
The reason why Umedara Daigo's counter-killing became epic was because its difficulty had exceeded the scope of human beings, and as long as there was the slightest deviation in the mental endurance, it would collapse on the spot, but this man did it.
There was once a master player who broadcast live to restore this move of Daigo Umehara, but many consecutive attempts ended in failure, even if the previous attacks could be prevented, but the rhythm of the last few strokes was too weird to be reached by manpower.
Even many years later, Daigo Umehara said in an interview that if he let himself operate again now, he could not guarantee 100% success.
This test is not only the player's micro-operation, the grasp of the rhythm, the familiarity with the phoenix fan, and even the need for considerable reaction ability and psychological endurance, as well as various external factors.
People who don't understand the system probably can't see any way! You will also question: Why can the phoenix fan be completely blocked without a trace of blood?
This brings us to the unique system of Street Fighter 3.3: Blocking.
Simply put, click "Front" as soon as your opponent attacks you, or "Down" if it's a down-and-out attack, and when you succeed, your body will flash and eliminate any damage. Blocking's offsetting ability is not once, it can be used continuously, and any move (non-throwing) can be eaten as long as it is properly operated.
As shown in the following figure:
The moment Chun Li attacks, Ken clicks "Before"
This move can be achieved even in the air, and at the moment when Chun li kicks out, click "Front" to play the "Blocking" effect
When attacking the next order, click "Next"
Xiaobian tried to use "Blocking" to counteract the vacuum fluctuation punch, and even archived dozens of times to read the file before barely succeeding once, and the difficulty is really very imaginable. It needs to be cancelled five times in a row, and each time it needs to be extremely precise.
And Umehara Daigo counteracted Lao Wang's "phoenix wing fan" 15 times in a row, and the frequency and rhythm of the attack were constantly changing, even if it was a TAS operation, it took a lot of energy to do it.
In the key round of this game, Daigo Umehara was already bloodied, and it can be said that he died with a light touch. As someone at the scene called out "Let's go Justin!" Lao Wang directly saw the opportunity to directly hit the "phoenix wing fan" and wanted to grind Umehara Daigo alive. Unexpectedly, it was right in the middle, which was the only condition for Daigo Umehara to have the opportunity to fight back, so there was a classic scene of continuous BLOCKING.
The most critical point is the last move of Chunli's "phoenix wing fan", Umehara Daigo has no need to block at all, and can also hit extremely high damage.
However, in order to maximize the damage and continuous segments, he deliberately ventured to block a bit, so he had one more jumping attack, followed by the continuous segment plus super kill, annihilating the old king in one fell swoop.
During blocking, the surrounding players have begun to agitate and even cheer.
The average player is easily affected by this kind of scene, and the psychologically strong Umehara Daigo completely ignores what is happening around him, focuses on Ken and Chunli, and successfully completes all the BLOCKS.
During the "Street Fighter V" period, although Daigo Umehara's performance was still eye-catching, he never won the championship.
In fact, it is not difficult for us to look at the threshold and difficulty of "Street Fighter V" to find that the game has been relatively close to the people, although veterans can still hang novices, but the gap between the strength of many top players and professional players is no longer so far away.
Of course, there is also a part of the age reason, after all, the people who play the game are still younger and more advantageous! In fact, there is a certain reason for the old to be afraid of the young and the strong. For players, it is still hoped that Daigo Umehara can one day win the championship again.