Street Fighter Champ thinks the culprit gear is more worth its time

Over the weekend, Victor “Punk” Woodley qualified to compete in his fourth Capcom Cup, the developer-supported event that serves as the highlight for each year. Street Fighter V competetion. But when asked how he plans to prepare for the top tier tournament, Punk was as straightforward as his in-game name suggests, making it clear there’s no way he’s playing. more. street fighter than absolutely necessary.

“I’m just going to play Guilty equipmentPunk told Capcom Pro Tour hosts, eliciting puzzled expressions from both commentators in the fighting game community and a humorous barrage of emojis in the chat. I’m in the Capcom Cup, there’s no reason for me to play [Street Fighter V] more. I don’t like the lag so I’m not going to force myself to play.

Punk added that even though he likes Street Fighter V as a fighting game, it’s not worth its sanity to keep playing in an unstable and inhospitable online environment to competitive play. He much prefers to focus on a game with a competent online implementation (i.e. Guilty Gear, in which he also enjoyed early success) than to keep playing something that understandably tilts him.

These comments are not surprising, both because of Street Fighter Vlong-standing problems with online gaming and Punk’s own history of criticizing the game. The playing conditions have certainly improved in recent years, but the bad owner form of cancel network code known as “Kagemusha” has been a point of dismay among competitors since Street Fighter V spear all the way back in 2016, resulting in unnecessarily slow online action.

Unfortunately, Punk’s competitors are often caught in the fires of his anger for Street Fighter V. After losing a match to rival Derek “iDom” Ruffin in another online tournament last week, Punk called out his opponent “fucking patheticFor luckily getting a win when the game, Punk says, was affected by the lag. His argument was that since the game’s poor online infrastructure had caused it to give up an endgame combo, iDom should have done the “honorable” thing and abandoned the game.

A similar explosion in last year’s Capcom Cup qualifiers, Punk was immediately placed in the loser category of the next tournament for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.

Over the past few years, Punk has positioned himself as a sort of villain, happily playing the confident and arrogant heel. to his namesake WWE as he accumulates victories. Sometimes he may need to choose his targets better, but when it comes to criticizing Street Fighter Vis online, Punk is one of the few top players willing to call on Capcom. And in that regard, it will always have the somewhat reluctant respect of the fighting game community.