Media Rag

First up Sagat takes more damage now, I heard that it's the same as Ryu's now so it's not that big an issue, on the plus side it just means you get your ultra quicker. While we are talking about his Ultra, Sagat's fireball super from the Alpha series, the Tiger Cannon, is back as his second Ultra. The charging of the fireball animation is exactly what you'd expect from a a fireball ultra, with Sagat drawing his hands together at chest hight and throwing it out. Honestly I'm a little disappointed with the Tiger Cannon as it does very little to change his core fight style. The move hits off of anything the Tiger Destruction (TD) did only it does a lot less damage, even in the corner where his 1st ultra rarely hits for full damage it still does less damage (this is still the same so far in SSF4). While the game is still unfinished, from what I've seen his new ultra does not even fully hit on a juggled opponent, which makes me wonder what practical use it's going to receive as I can not see the pros in using it out side of a slightly stronger fireball game (which he doesn't need anyway).

His Normals are nearly all the same, he has a new animation on his lk which also hits twice when close. His combos that worked in SF4 still work now so double --> RH into his ultra still hits for just as much damage as before. His Tiger Uppercut however has had its damage tweaked a bit as it now hits for slightly less damage, not that using this uppercut was ever central to his play style so this shouldn't affect Sagat players too much. Now to slightly......make up for this he has his Tiger Charge back from the alpha series. In case you never saw this move (like me) what it does is power ups his next Tiger move. He never had much use for it in the alpha series, probably wont have much use now, though I just heard that apparently the move now takes 1 EX bar away and also acts as a dodge like move, sounds interesting now.

Overall Sagat seems like his core game play won't change too much, he's just as strong as ever, though I look forward to seeing what his new moves bring to the table.