I'm beginning to think the Garou videos posted at Combovideos is just some doofus who scoured Howardarena for the best matches he could find and then "uploads" them to CV with some bullshit about his two anonymous friends.
Anyway, I found a tier list off of HowardArena, and there are some surprises!
This as of June 20th of 2005:
1. B. Jenet!!!
2. Gato
3. Kim Dong Hwan/Grant
5. Kim Jae Hoon
6. Marco Rodriguez
7. Kevin Ryan
8. Kain R. Heinlein
9. Terry Bogard
10. Hotaru Futaba
11. Freeman
12. Rock Howard/Hokutomaru Shiranui
13. The Griffon
In fact, Miss Jenet has no matchup below a 5!
You'd think that Gato with his cheesy ass corner launcher kicks and his super that combos off EVERYTHING would be first, but evidentally he's below her by two points because HE HAS A 4/6 MATCHUP against her o_O.
What I'm seeing from Jenet is...her air special kicks are safe if blocked, go at a REALLY shallow angle (Think triangle jumping), almost NEVER get just defended cause the initial hit is so fast, usually trade with people's fastest air moves (jumping jabs and shorts!), and if they land on a standing opponent in the corner, can be repeated into each other ending with a super.
She also has a rush move that can be cancelled and seems mainly for continuing a block chain midscreen to push you into the corner.
Jenet also has an air throw and a float/fly.
In a game where you can't block in the air (but you can just defend), Jenet seems to be one of the few people who can just jump in fearlessly, cause of her special kicks, her throw, and her ability to change her jump trajectory midair.
Her standing normals are also pretty quick, while she doesn't have corner cheese like Terry's charge punching guard crush, she can make do with her 99mph standing jabs and kicks.
Her game is pretty much short hop special kicks, fast normal, rush move cancelled, fast normal, short hop special kicks or rush move cancelled again until you reach corner, right before corner she will usually do the special kicks to get point blank than spam jabs, guard break, win.
Did I mention I've seen all three of her supers used?
Her Chun Li kicks are mainly when standing normals connect on standing people, her dress twirl is usually to finish off a special kicks on counter or against an air opponent (which OFTEN happens, cause NO ONE wants to get hit by the special kicks on the ground), and her weirdo rush super seems to be done usually on just defend cancel.
I'm still sort of calling BS on her being better than Gato though.
A 6/4 match up at that.
That guy is fucking nuts.
Terry's much lower than I thought he'd be, I mean christ he has that stupid punch rush in the corner thing.
Rock's as low as I thought he'd be, he's so one trick, just that it does 80% or so. (Special throw -> ORYAAAAAAA -> Rising Tackle)
I thought Kevin Ryan would be higher.
Jae Hoon's higher than I thought he'd be too, probably cause I have very few Jae Hoon vids of him winning (Then again he fights Jenet)
But his BnB is EASY, does slightly less than a third of your life, and it's comboable from a Jump in or low, so that's pretty nice.
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