Shorthand used in Street Fighter

thelinked

Normals
lp or Jab: Light Punch
mp or Strong: Medium Punch
hp or Fierce: Hard Punch
lk or Short: Light Kick
mk or Forward: Medium Kick
hk or Roundhouse: Hard Kick

Position
s. = standing
cl. = close
c. = crouching
j. = jumping

With both of these we can now describe what we are doing in shorthand! For example...

Standing fierce = s.hp
Crouching forward = c.mk


Different movements you can do on a pad/stick for special moves.
QCF: Stands for Quarter-circle forward. ↓↘→
QCB: Stands for Quarter-circle backward. ↓↙←
HCF: Stands for Half-circle forward. ←↙↓↘→
HCB: Stands for Half-circle backward. →↘↓↙←
360: Stands for doing a full 360 degree circle. →↘↓↙←↖↑↗
Srk/dp motion: The Shoryuken or dragon punch motion. →↓↘

Note: In sf4 you can get away with just ↘↓↘ for the shoryuken motion.



And now for writing Combos

+: means at the same time, ↓↘→ + hp for a hadoken with ryu.

XX: Stands for cancelling a move into another. This means that you interrupt one moves animation into another move. DOESN’T REQUIRE STRICT TIMING but can only be done with certain moves. Normally used between a normal and a special move.

Linking: Doing another attack just as your current attacks animation finishes. STRICT TIMING here, you might just have one or two frames to get the second attack out.

BnB: Stands for Bread and Butter. It’s a combo that is used a lot due to its effectiveness.

Now for an example of a full combo, one of ryu’s BnB combos in sf4 is two crouching jabs followed by a linked crouching strong then cancelling into a Hadoken or we could write...

cr.lp, cr.lp, cr.mp XX →↓↘ + hp

I've left out some stuff like charging and FADC but thats about it.

Dreddybajs

Any reason you just wrote "Street Fighter" and not "basically every 2D fighter"? :P

thelinked

I don't have experience with any other 2d fighting game and I'm not going to second guess their fighting systems.

Doctor DooM

Dreddybajs wrote: »

Any reason you just wrote "Street Fighter" and not "basically every 2D fighter"? :P

Not really... although some other fighters (SNK ones come to mind) use rather more complex controls than the SF games.

Dreddybajs

True, though SF4 seems to be going that way too with Viper's superjump and Gief's kara short hop... ;p

Cunny-Funt

superjump or whatever was something everyone had in 3s. I miss it Although it prob wouldnt work for sfiv. Yo the linked, how did you type those arrows there?

thelinked

I used word for the arrows. There might be a keyboard shortcut for them but I'm not sure what it is.

D4RK ONION

Sticky maybe, as the shorthand is going to be fairly prevalent around this forum?

CodeMonkey

If you've done Ken and Gouken's trails, you've probably noticed they have combos that requires you to do cr.hp, →↓↘ + hp

This can be tricky to do with a pad but you can use shortcuts and buffering commands to make it easier. As thelinked mentioned in the original post, you can substitute →↓↘ with ↘↓↘ for a shoryuken motion.

To do the combo then you can do: ↘ + hp, ↓↘ + hp

Explanation: When you are doing the crouching punch with ↘ + hp, you are effectively buffering the ↘ motion. Hitting hp doesn't use it up. Then ↓↘ + hp finishes the shoryuken motion.



Buffering also lets you do something that's pretty impossible otherwise such as blanka's forward hop transition into ultra.

← (2), → + kkk, ←, → + PPP

L31mr0d

Good glossary of fighting game terms although it's still a WIP

http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Glossary:Fighting_Games

Jim

Another way of writing directions is using numbers;

789
456
123

^ representing the range of movement.

So for example 236+lp would be a slow Ryu fireball.

K.O.Kiki

Jim wrote: »

Another way of writing directions is using numbers;

789
456
123

^ representing the range of movement.

So for example 236+lp would be a slow Ryu fireball.

Except that system gets FUBARd if you're into Tekken, where some people use:
1 2
3 4

for
Left Punch|Right Punch
Left Kick|Right Kick

So combos are written as:
f,b+2, f+1+2, f+1, 3,3,4
The space is also important, as it differentiates individual moves (the above is Bryan's Jet Upper, Side Step Elbow, Forward Jab, Anaconda Riot BnB)

Sagat06

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Except that system gets FUBARd if you're into Tekken, where some people use:
1 2
3 4

for
Left Punch|Right Punch
Left Kick|Right Kick

So combos are written as:
f,b+2, f+1+2, f+1, 3,3,4
The space is also important, as it differentiates individual moves (the above is Bryan's Jet Upper, Side Step Elbow, Forward Jab, Anaconda Riot BnB)

My head hurts

Jim

Sagat06 wrote: »

My head hurts

SHORYUKEN!