How do you beat Seth in SF4 ??

The final round against Seth is crazy. He goes mental and I have tried super combos, ultras, and focus attacks but he just keeps unleashing a barrage of attacks and throws. I have put the difficulty setting on easy and I still cant beat him. What advice can you give me ??

You don't beath Seth... Just set there and watch your character's butt getting kicked.

What worked for me was that I don't attack him, I just set and the other side and wait for him to sonic boom, then just and give him a couple of HKs then run away to other side of the screen. Once I get cornered, I just over him to the other side. I don't even bother doing Ultras with him, he blocks them all somehow.

Have done him with Ryu, M Bison and Chun Li over the course of 5 hours or so.

Ryu was fairly easy, I just full out attacked him from the start with dragon punches, fireballs, super fireballs etc... basically constantly doing quarter rotations with triple punch and cornering him. Obviously most of the time he does you with something but this tactic paid off in about 5 goes.

M Bison was a bit harder, as he hasn't got a great sweep I went with the flying Medium Kick (whilst charging back), couple of light kicks then unleash his kick special move (don't remember the name). This takes off quite a bit of energy so a few iterations of this and he's getting low on energy. Took me about 20 goes.

As for Chunners, the only tactic that worked was resolutely block everything, then when he goes for a dragon punch or something (not the yoga arm as he ends up too far away) hit him with the HK sweep. Don't get tempted to use ANY OTHER MOVE. He will do you! If he does the blatant cheating teleport to right next to you then don't get tempted to try and block the throw - if he throws you then obviously you're dead, but if he doesn't you have a chance. Just be really patient, and keep trying. Probably took me 50 odd goes to pull it off - in the end it was a time victory - the sweetest kind ;-) Oh, and start with a jump in with medium kick to medium low kick, then block and then go for the HK sweep. Again, if this fails, you're as good as dead but this works about 60% of the time. If only they'd built in a rematch option without going back to the character selection screen!! how many times have i heard some rubbish about an Axiom or something...

Weird that Chunners is so hard to beat him with actually, haven't played any two player yet (the weekend is dedicated to that though) - but I reckon she'll be one of the best characters for that. Although in a quick dabble with the online match ups Ken seems to be pwning all challengers

Had a few goes with Abel, didn't succeed but don't think it should take too long as at least Abel dishes out some decent damage with his standard moves, and doesn't take TOO much damage.

As for Sakura, I'd love to know if anyone's done this. She's so rubbish! like Ryu but with all the specials a bit more rubbish.

[QUOTE="-Intellectual-"]Capcom has ruined the Arcade mode by having an ultra difficult last boss fight who is crazy hard even on the easy difficulty. I will try to stay away from him and just do fireballs until I get a super charge and do that super move.mithrixx

challenges are all well and good, but it would have been better if they'd graduated the difficulty a bit through the rounds - the reality is that you beat everyone else first go, then spend 90% of your time on that cheating banker. And it would be fine if you could defeat him through skillful use of combos and specials, but with most characters you have to try and exploit a flaw in AI and keep repeating it till you win.

Anyway this has to be a mistake, predict a patch will come out very soon making him easier. I don't see how he could be any better on 'hardest' than he is on 'easiest'

Generally though I'm starting to love the game - favourite street fighter so far (controversially) is EX3, I thought that series really brought tactics to the forefront by slowing down the game a bit and giving you more space to move about in. I miss Garuda... :(

challenges are all well and good, but it would have been better if they'd graduated the difficulty a bit through the rounds - the reality is that you beat everyone else first go, then spend 90% of your time on that cheating banker. And it would be fine if you could defeat him through skillful use of combos and specials, but with most characters you have to try and exploit a flaw in AI and keep repeating it till you win.

Anyway this has to be a mistake, predict a patch will come out very soon making him easier. I don't see how he could be any better on 'hardest' than he is on 'easiest'

Generally though I'm starting to love the game - favourite street fighter so far (controversially) is EX3, I thought that series really brought tactics to the forefront by slowing down the game a bit and giving you more space to move about in. I miss Garuda... :(

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Deep down I cried for a few hours.

It got to the point kept trying on medium (failed), very easy (failed) and sadly had to beat him on easiest (to unlock characters)

Before sounding like a scrub gamer trying to be better than anyone else go play the game and see seth isnt hard hes near impossible.shadowflare77

[QUOTE="mithrixx"][QUOTE="-Intellectual-"]Capcom has ruined the Arcade mode by having an ultra difficult last boss fight who is crazy hard even on the easy difficulty. I will try to stay away from him and just do fireballs until I get a super charge and do that super move.nethernova

call me a loser if you want, I spent about 3 hours trying to beat with him any character on easiest. I could only do it with about half by just spamming focus attacks. I suck lol.iloverikku11

Yea he does go pretty sick sometimes when he starts warping everywhere. Playing through all of the characters I actually found it easier beating him with Blanka but that was just using some timed attacks with a couple of EX moves.

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hope i've helped.

I whored the Habanero Dash with the Heavy Punch combo and won easily.

Seems that's how I beat all the tough opponents... :|

Edit: I use El Fuerte of course

[QUOTE="mithrixx"][QUOTE="-Intellectual-"]Capcom has ruined the Arcade mode by having an ultra difficult last boss fight who is crazy hard even on the easy difficulty. I will try to stay away from him and just do fireballs until I get a super charge and do that super move.nethernova

exactly there was a thread i was in yesterday talking about how games are too easy and now a challenging game comes out and people complain. i say bring it on i want to try 30 times to beat that guy man. then i will feel like i accomplished a hell of a lot more when im done.

I beat Seth in SF4 with Zangief in all difficulties and it was very easy. It's tough to SPD Seth, but the lariet was the way to go.

He is an offense-heavy character that relies alot on zoning to beat you at a distance. So you'll see that he spams the sonic booms and his low HP. Just find a way to get in close. His defense is actually pretty terrible.

[QUOTE="nethernova"][QUOTE="mithrixx"] Yea. I don't get why they made it that difficult. Took me about 8 tries to finish him with Chun-li. They say that if you unpatch your SF 4 it will become much easier. Never tried it, but it seems like the patch makes Seth throw you more frequently.ufcfan1987

exactly there was a thread i was in yesterday talking about how games are too easy and now a challenging game comes out and people complain. i say bring it on i want to try 30 times to beat that guy man. then i will feel like i accomplished a hell of a lot more when im done.

SF4 makes a giant mistake not in making the boss too hard, but making access to the game's full content dependent upon your enduring round after round of punishment at Seth's overpowered (even for a final boss) hands. I bought this game to enjoy with my friends, not to fight some unfairly stacked odds against computer AI. There are many (and I mean MANY) now including myself that will never enjoy the full game and all it has to offer, because I refuse to torture myself playing the damnable CPU just to play the whole character list against my friends. Very unwise move on the part of the developers. Will deflect a lot of "would be" business. I will never recommend this game to anyone I want to have a great experience.

I never realized so many people struggle with seth. I find him incredibly easy even on the hardest difficulty but then again im am a fighting game freak who has been playing fighting basically out the womb. Seriously though you can beat him with most characters by focus attacks alone. Seth deloys different tactics at different ranges making him easy to predict thus easy to hit a with lvl3 focus or insta crumple focus attack.

Also did somebody say he was overpowered lol. Seth has quite a few down falls and is far from being the best player in the game. His worst trait being his stun stat. Chain 2 decent combos together and bam hes dizzy.