Flying solo this week, skisonic sits down with DRS Masta CJ to get the story behind his meteoric rise to the top-tier of Marvel 3 players. Find out his history in competitive games, his take on Ultimate’s changes and best characters, and his explanation behind his so-described “auto-pilot” playstyle.

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00:00:00 – Shoryuken! Guest intro by Nick Accristo

00:00:42 – Skisonic Opener: Keits Away/Moving to Chicago, Skisonic Solo

00:01:21 – LG SSFIV Tournament: MCZ|MRN|Wolfkrone Winner of Console & Phone Versions

00:01:56 – LG SSFIV: James Chen DLC Sound Pack Introduced

00:02:13 – Western Wolves: Laugh, Infiltration, F-Word, Chocolo Added

00:03:00 – Capcom: Dawgtanian Joins Capcom UK as SFxT Community Manager

00:03:35 – SFxT: 6 Characters Revealed Yesterday

00:03:54 – TxSF: Harada Allowing For Character/Mechanic Suggestions on His Twitter

00:05:01 – Day[9] Daily #400: “Eliminating Assumptions” (Uses MvC2 Yomi Examples)

00:06:03 – Skisonic Throwing a Tournament on Feb 11 in Wheaton, Maryland

00:06:52 – “He Stands Up for SSJ3 Status, It’s MastaCJ!” (With Excessive Static Noise)

00:07:42 – MastaCJ’s Fighting Game History

00:08:12 – SSBB: His Start in the FGC (He Sucked; Played for Fun)

00:09:01 – SSF4: Next Game in the FGC (He Sucked; Played for Fun)

00:09:18 – MvC3: His Love for Fighting Games Blows Up

00:10:43 – MastaCJ’s First MvC3 Tournaments

00:11:52 – Continued Sessions at The Break, Guard Crush/Big Two & 8 Bit

00:12:16 – MastaCJ’s Recollection of NerdJosh Adding Him to East Coast Team @ EVO2011

00:13:17 – His First Major (East Coast Throwdown; Placed 5th)

00:13:49 – “I Love the Community…” (Catch him on SRK, Mahvel Reddit, Youtube)

00:15:00 – Skisonic & MastaCJ Discuss Going to the Tournament Scene

00:16:31 – How MastaCJ Found & Traveled to Tournament Locales for SSF4 & MvC3

00:17:35 – “I Used to Be a Stream Monster”

00:17:56 – What MastaCJ Does Outside of Fighting Games

00:19:01 – MastaCJ & His Electric Guitar / Internet Spammer

00:19:42 – As an Afterschool Teacher

00:20:21 – How the Pad Warrior Started and Maintained Pad Play

00:21:42 – Musicians & Dexterity in Fighting Games (Desk, MastaCJ, MarlinPie)

00:23:48 – MastaCJ Playstyle Inspirations (MarlinPie & Chris G; Demon Hyo)

00:28:16 – MastaCJ’s Ideas On Auto Pilot Play

00:30:05 – Skisonic’s Salty Runback from EVO 2011

00:31:09 – “If You Can’t Block It, I’m Going to Do It”

00:31:35 – MvC2 Yomi; Winning Strategy Discussion

00:34:45 – Dormammu: Damage Output / Incoming Mixup Strategy

00:36:50 – Guard Breaks vs Mixups

00:38:13 – MastaCJ’s Experiences at APEX 2012

00:38:38 – “If it Was the Worst Tournament I’ve Been To… Oh Yeah, it Kinda Was”

00:39:46 – His Toughest Opponent, AG|Demon Hyo (And Other Match Ups)

00:41:25 – Magneto & Wesker, the Real Characters Behind MastaCJ’s Win

00:42:10 – X-Factor Discussion

00:43:17 – Using Snap Backs to Rearrange Team Order & Control X-Factor Strength

00:45:22 – MastaCJ’s Outlook on the New Characters

00:46:18 – Doctor Strange: “Mix Up Potential Similar to Dormammamu”

00:47:04 – Nova: “I Think He’s Godlike” /Bad Anchor, Great Point Character

00:48:02 – Nova: Rewarding Grabs

00:49:54 – Changes in Ultimate vs Vanilla MvC3

00:51:58 – MastaCJ’s Ideals on the Top Tier Characters

00:52:14 – “Everyone Knows That Wesker is the Best…”

00:52:48 – “Spencer & Zero are Top Two”

00:53:46 – Doom, Vergil, Super Skrull, Wolverine, Dormammu, Dante, Nova (or Iron Fist) + Viper

00:56:53 – Doom: “You Never See Doom Prior to Ultimate… It’s Dat Footdive”

00:57:32 – Nova w/ Doom Rocks

00:57:53 – Player MastaCJ Believes Will Come Up: DragonGod (RayRay & Fab as others)

01:01:20 – MastaCJ’s Other Fighting Game Interests: KOFXIII, MK9, Skullgirls, SCV

01:03:37 – Other Games: Diablo III, Heroes of Newerth, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, other RPGs

01:05:21 – MastaCJ Shoutouts

01:07:15 – MastaCJ! Out

01:07:25 – Taking Comments

01:07:41 – “How Can You Not Respect Viscant?”

01:08:01 – “Love Love Love These Theory Fighter Podcasts!”

01:09:34 – “How Could Guys Not Have Asked About Iron Fist?”

01:10:38 – Team Tournaments (2v2) & EVO 2012

01:12:04 – “Every Week They Only Talk About Marvel” /”100% Marvel vs Capcom 3″

01:13:21 – “It’s Not ‘Wrong’- It’s ‘Mahvel’!”

01:15:34 – I Swear, Ski, I’ll Never Shake Ur Hand!”

01:16:05 – How to Listen to Wake Up SRK

01:16:18 – Closing Comments

01:17:05 – Dat Skisonic Motto

01:17:31 – KO! – Out