Combo creator Desk has his parry skills on point. We’ve seen the exceptionally talented content creator pull off all kinds of difficult to execute parries across a variety of different games, and even seen him recreate the legendary Evo Moment 37 parry sequence a few times too.
In his latest showcase, however, Desk takes a trip back to the past to dig deeper into the first game in the Street Fighter 3 series: New Generation. With this being the vanilla version of the game, there are all kinds of crazy things you can do that may not have been fully intentional, and the combo wizard’s mission this time around is to parry every super (that can be parried) in the game. Spoiler alert: Desk succeeds.
The very first sequence that Desk highlights here is one that sees Dudley parrying every hit of Elena’s Super Art 1. The initial two hits of the first kick are both parried, then the second two hits, and finally the third kick (which deals three hits) all gets stuffed before Dudley fires into an insane juggle using multiple reps of the final hit of his light Machine Gun Blow and two supers of his own.
Now, a straightforward super like Elena’s SA1 probably isn’t too tough to learn how to parry. Something far more difficult to stop, though, is Oro’s Tengu Stone Super Art 3, and Desk does not shy away from it here.
The Oro portion of the video begins with the hermit activating Tengu Stone, then simply hit standing heavy kick repeatedly to not only kick with the attack, but also send the floating pans and bricks flying at his foe. Yeah, Desk stops all of that, and while it may not seem like a lot is going on here with Oro and Tengu Stone, the parries happen repeatedly and very quickly, which likely requires some pretty strict timing to make happen.
We also see some more humorous interactions thrown into the video for good measure. Sean’s super 1, for example, is just a single big fireball that only needs to be parried once, so Desk has two Seans essentially throwing these fireballs at each other trading parries before one of them wins out.
You can check out the full, crazy parry exhibition below.