Mashing does work in Street Fighter 4 due to the high reversal window. Even pro players do it sometimes to escape block strings and dropped links
No,....
SF, has the only weighted counter and no mashing is helping you in sf.
Mashing is for players who really don't know that engine and is an excuse.
If you are mashing you don't recognize space time and reaction in that engine.
Plus, you don't know the striking capabilities of the characters in the actual game.
Which means you not owning the computer in the most difficult.
Plus, in most difficult you don't win any rounds and make to many mistakes.
I know, so....
I have played sf with so called newer players and don't own a new console on the newer console and still was moving the game along on the hardest setting.
Making dominant wins, on hardest look systematic.
While these dudes struggle and were being pulled into emotional threshold against the computer to readily.
Mashing still on this engine does not best real of skill players.
I, watch those muken tournies and those players don't be masters of the engine at all.
Nor, do they have consistency in moves at all, either.
Like this nikka used dan had him in a funny suit but still could not do any moves consistently.
That even if you are dan,...
You should have a consistency throwing strikes and specials that dominate any character not named ryu, Ken, akuma.
Plus, if you consistentally have sound mechanics with the trinity of Ken, ryu, akuma.
Then, using dan it would show rather clearly on screen.
I saw this guy use no mechanics and show no mastery of someone who knew and mastered Ken, ryu, akuma.
No turtle offense, poise or defense, no fireball distance mastery and turtle lock offense at all. No dragon punch mastery or traps whatsoever. No just plain strike and counter mechanics, and no mastery of recognizing strikes and using the f,m,l, system.
It is all on screen and we even saw a contest where they were I the scale.practice board where you get to recognize all these mechanics on screen during battle and he never capitalized ever to systematically move the player he was competing against into any structured play or pro player based offense.
Plus, he uses the low tier players because he is a random weak player.
I would murder this dude,....
Art Barr