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Sean's Character Select Portrait

Sean's Neutral Stance

Introduction

Sean is a one of the most underrated characters in 3S.In 2I he was too easy to play with doing large amounts of damage on his lengthy combo strings.Capcom did the responsible thing and made a original character and not just a ken clone in a yellow karate gi.Well they did it a little too well.Other than being extremely hard to use and situational because of his hitbox placement and frame advantage(Dragon Smash's hitbox is located over his head.So most of the priority is centered over his head.Not in front of him.) On 3S he's more of a defensive counter character. When you play with sean you have to understand he does have alot of good points(like mp,tornado does 50% stun on everyone and SA2 and SA3 are unblockable.)He trades pretty well and if used properly on the right SA's agianst certain match-ups.(SA3 against chun SA2 against makoto).He has an assortment of AAs.(way too many in my opinion)

-cr FP -st RH(steep jump in) -DS(over or near over sean's head only) -Tornado(steep jump in) -Axekick(mid-far jump in.Do not kick into them. axekick with the apropriate range for their jump in) -f+FP -RH(far slow good for angled jump in) -FP(close)

Now try to pull all that together and use them based on your match-up's moveset/hitbox placement.See how hard he is to use? Now if you don't use his AA's based on your matchup's moveset you will struggle.End of story.

Strategy

Chippiness

Sean can deal alot of damage to your Stun meter in small "chips" at a time.You see since he can't combo very well he needs to hit you more over the duration of the match to break even.He's not ranked very high because "chippy"(High/mid damage:low combo ability)character in tournaments fall apart because professional players will not give you a chance to hit them many times and they don't make many mistakes.So try to find ways to chip until you have meter then use your SAs to deal large damage to break even.

Parrying with Sean

You need to parry and parry well to use sean.Jump into/out of parry dash in/dash back into parry.Parry makes Sean a good character. If you do not use it he will suck. A lot of his moves are extremely situational/impractical/strange hitbox placement.

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Combos

Standing close HP, Dragon Smash (HP)

Crouching MK, Tornado (MK)

Standing close HP, EX Dragon Smash

Crouching MK, EX Tornado

Crouching LK, Crouching LP, Crouching LK, Hadou-Burst

Crouching MK, Hadou-Burst

Standing close HK, link Hadou-Burst

UOH, link Hadou-Burst

Standing close HP, Dragon Smash (HP), xx, Hadou-Burst

Crouching LK, Crouching LP, Crouching LK, Hyper-Tornado

Crouching MK, Hyper Tornado

Standing close HK, link Hyper Tornado

UOH, link Hyper Tornado

Standing close MP,HK

Strategies

Additional Notes

• Personal Action: Stun Damage up (Only if Taunt connects), max 3 per round.

Match-ups

Serious Advantage Match-ups

Sean has no match-ups where he is at a serious advantage

Advantage Match-ups

Sean has no match-ups where he is at an advantage

Fair Match-ups

• Remy
• Sean

Disadvantage Match-ups

• Yang
• Akuma
• Urien
• Ryu
• Oro
• Ibuki
• Elena
• Necro
• Alex
• Hugo
• Twelve
• Q

Serious Disadvantage Match-ups

• Yun
• Chun-Li
• Ken
• Makoto
• Dudley

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