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Welcome to my Dee Jay tech journal, an ever-growing archive of tips, strats, hacks and tactics that I have developed over a decade-plus of playing this character in USF4 (long after most other players had already abandoned him). Keep in mind these journal entries are based on my personal experience with the game and may not gel with your own. In other words, your mileage may vary. This journal is not meant as the final statement on all things Dee Jay; rather, it is meant as a starting point for your own Dee Jay explorations and (with a little luck) to help you improve your own success with the character. 

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, here are a few quick housekeeping items before we delve into the truly juicy stuff:

1) I often switch back and forth between old and new button names in these articles, seemingly at random and for no apparent reason. For those who may get confused, here is how they match up to one another . . .

  • Jab = Light Punch
  • Strong = Medium Punch
  • Fierce = Heavy/Hard Punch
  • Short = Light Kick
  • Forward = Medium Kick
  • Roundhouse = Heavy/Hard Kick

2) I also tend to engage in the same sort of nonsensical naming sins with Dee Jay's special attacks, so here is how to make sense of them as well . . .

  • Max Out = Air Slasher
  • Dread Kick = Double Rolling Sobat Kick (or "Sobat" for short)
  • Jackknife Maximum/Special (or "Jackknife" for short) = Upkicks
  • Hyperfist = Machine Gun Punch or Machine Gun Upper

And lastly, I should state that I have been adding sporadically to this tech journal for many years now and assuming that everything in it is accurate and makes sense. I do try to update it when I notice something is not clear (or, worse yet, is completely wrong), but it's still possible that something slips by me. So, if you find a better way of winning with the character, run with it and just grab what you can from my coverage to supplement your winning plan.  

Really, I started this journal to keep the complicated details of USF4 Dee Jay's game mechanics straight in my own head (I remain convinced that he is one of the most technical characters in USF4 and that most people missed this because they reflexively believed all the memes and negative hype instead, thereby denying themselves the opportunity to explore his true depth in detail). 

After a while, there was so much gathered here, it only made sense to start sharing it with others who could potentially benefit. If you have found your way to this humble site through one of these channels, I hope you come away with something more than when you first arrived . . . and, if nothing else, get to reap the rewards of whatever insights you find here. One can dream.   :)

Enigma Saint


TABLE OF CONTENTS (46 Articles to Date)

Here is a quick Table of Contents for reference so you don't have to click through a ridiculous number of pages to get to the content you actually want (easier for me to put it here than in a cumbersome side bar). Happy reading!

  1. Why Most People Suck With Dee Jay in USF4
  2. FIX #1: Know Dee Jay's Optimal Ranges for Attacking Success (Because You're Probably Not Using Them)
  3. FIX #2:  Always Be Charging (AKA Quit Standing Up, Jackass)
  4. FIX #3: Eliminate Poor Offense (AKA Stop Writing Cheques That Your Ass Can't Always Cash)
  5. FIX #4: Be Smart With Your Meter (AKA Don't Piss Your Options Away For No Good Reason)
  6. FIX #5: Stop Throwing Out So Many Goddamn Moves (AKA Nothing Will Get You Killed Quicker Than Optimistic Stupidity)
  7. FIX #6:  Optimize Your Damage (AKA Know How to Beat the Shit Out of an Opponent With Dee Jay Combos When It Counts)
  8. Final Thoughts on General Dee Jay Play (AKA Don't Cry, ADAPT)
  9. Additional Topic: The Dreaded "Maul" (AKA How NOT to Play Dee Jay in USF4)
  10. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Max Out in USF4 (AKA The Projectile I Never Knew I Always Wanted)
  11. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Dread/Sobat Kick in USF4 (AKA How to Billy Blanks Your Opponent into Oblivion)
  12. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Jackknife Special in USF4 (AKA How to Anti-Air Like a Mofo)
  13. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Hyperfist in USF4 (AKA How to Machine Gun Punch Without a Machine Gun)
  14. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Sobat Carnival in USF4 (AKA Don't Look A Super Gift Horse in the Mouth)
  15. Additional Topic: How to Use Dee Jay's Ultras in USF4 (AKA How to Combine Jamaican Power with Jamaican Style)
  16. Additional Topic: Using Dee Jay's Focus Attack (AKA How to Turn a Shit Sandwich Into a Full-Course Meal)
  17. Additional Topic: Underexplored Properties of Dee Jay’s Jump Short (AKA How To Be King of the Ass-Owning Jumping Light Kick)
  18. Additional Topic: How to Get Super Meter to Maximum in a Single Round (AKA How to Become a Street Fighting Bad Ass in 99 Seconds or Less)
  19. Additional Topic: The Dee Jay “Kinetic Rhythm” (AKA How to Use Purposeful Randomness to Fuck With Your Opponents and Increase Your Rate of Wins)
  20. Additional Topic: How to Be A Jamaican Force of Nature From All Distances (AKA The Art of Whiff Punishing Dee Jay Style) 
  21. Additional Topic: How to Upgrade Your Beat on Cross Up (AKA Maximally Minimizing Starting Hits to Make Your Combos Count)
  22. Additional Topic: How to Always Keep The Dee Jay Beat (AKA Using Charge Buffering to Nail Charged Specials In The Shortest Time Possible)
  23. Additional Topic: Exploring the Nuances of Dee Jay's Front-Based Mix Up Game (AKA How To Focus Less on Cross Ups And More On Winning)
  24. Additional Topic: Maximizing Use of Dee Jay's Thrust Forward Kick (AKA How to Break the "No Standing While Poking" Rule When the Rhythm Calls For It) 
  25. Additional Topic: The Seldom Seen Standing Forward Kick Heavy-Hitter (AKA The Dee Jay Option Select To YEET All Other Dee Jay Option Selects)
  26. Additional Topic: Exploring the Power of the Instant Focus Technique (AKA How to Make Your "Inst-Foc" An Integral Part of Your Rhythmic Footsies)
  27. Additional Topic: Exploring Dee Jay’s Best Cross Up Combo Options (Spoiler: It’s Not His Back Charge Ones)
  28. Additional Topic: From Light Kick to Heavy Damage Hyperfist (Maximizing the Beat on the Machine Gun Upper)
  29. Additional Topic: Upping Your Machine Gun Upper For Multi-Hitting Success (AKA How to Hyperfist from Optimal Cross Ups Like a Jamaican Rockstar)
  30. Additional Topic: From Max Out to Jack Knife Punish (AKA How to Upgrade Your Upkick Charging For A Better Projectile Game)
  31. Additional Topic: Forward Dread Kick Cancel into Crumpling Level 2 Focus Attack (AKA How to Put More Punch In Your Kicks . . . Literally)
  32. Additional Topic: Further Combo Explorations of the Dee Jay Low Fierce (AKA How to Make a Shitty Normal Much More Normal and Much Less Shitty)
  33. Additional Topic: Further Unravelling the Puzzling Mystery of Dee Jay's "Shitty" Fierce Punch (AKA What If Dee Jay's Heavy Attacks Didn't Suck Ass As Much As Everyone Told You They Do?)
  34. Additional Topic: How to Be a Jumping Jamaican Nightmare (AKA How to Perfect the Ambiguous Cross Up for Ultimate Dee Jay Success)
  35. Additional Topic: Exploring The Potential for an “Ume-Jackknife” (AKA Learning the Hidden Art of the Psychic Upkick)
  36. Additional Topic: Putting The Heat On In "Dee Jay Corner" (AKA How to Keep Your Foes Pinned and Cooked For An Eternity)
  37. Additional Topic: How to Get the "Maximum" Out of Your Fight Buttons (AKA Don't Fuck Up Your Gameplay and Fingers Like I Nearly Did)
  38. Additional Topic: Hitting Like a Smooth Criminal With Your Fight Stick (AKA How to Manipulate Your Joystick with the Least Effort and the Highest Results)
  39. Additional Topic: How to Roll Pause Like A Master Roll Pauser (AKA WTF Is A Roll Pause?)
  40. Additional Topic: The Ultimate CLIMAX Method to Your Jamaican BEAT (AKA How to Reliably Perform the Infamous Forward Dash to Ultra 2 Technique Like a Rhythm Loving God)
  41. Additional Topic: Landing the “Fab 50” And Other Multi-Hit Marvels (Exploring Further Uses of Dee Jay’s EX Hyperfist in General Footsie Play)
  42. Additional Topic: Making a Weak Hit a Starter For Strong Offense (AKA How to Counter Hit Your Way to Further Victory with Dee Jay)
  43. Additional Topic: Finding the Rhythm Through Perfect Charge and Perfect Input (AKA How to Use Multiple Advanced Techniques At Once To Become A Dee Jay Counter Machine)
  44. Additional Topic: Preserved_Roses7 - Promising Dee Jay Contender or Diamond in the Rough? A Lengthy Analysis
  45. Additional Topic: Which Version of Dee Jay Was Better and Should We Even Care? (AKA Recognizing When Our Past Memories Trip Up Our Present Experiences . . . Sometimes Into the Future)
  46. Other Useful Rhythm Tidbits (But Too Brief To Be Given Their Own Damn Article)