Balrog Icons

[Reveal]

Anyone know the fastest way to unlock Balrog's icons? I've got titles but I am not sure how to get the icon. Anyone know?

[Pimp Willy]

Beat normal and hard training modes. I think thats the only way to get them for all the characters.

[heysteve]

im stuck on hard trial #4. cant connect the lp, lk after the ex upper :(

heres a video of both normal + hard trials completed with boxer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuid4Qbna9c&feature=related

[supreme jd]

damn that video would have helped last night. but yes, the only way to unlock his icons are to complete both normal and hard challenges

[Reveal]

I only have 2 more trials to do for the icons, too bad I get a torpedo punch instead of an upper most of the time. Just makes it that much harder when I can't even do the correct move.

[heysteve]

it took me all day to finish the hard trials #3-5 but im so glad thats all over with. now i have an ugly lego balrog face icon :D

[mgdamitri]

I only have 2 more trials to do for the icons, too bad I get a torpedo punch instead of an upper most of the time. Just makes it that much harder when I can't even do the correct move.


I'm doing the same thing where either i get a standing lk or torpedo ....

[Reveal]

yeah it's a load of crap. I can't get my flashy Balrog icon until I pass the last 2 trials. ASS!

[Dr. Deelite]

I'm doing the same thing where either i get a standing lk or torpedo ....

Couple suggestions:

When going from a down-back charge to forward, go to back very quickly first so you don't risk rolling through down-forward when you hit the button. Also, most charge characters don't have charge moves that end in down-toward, and can't get their normal back-to-forward moves fudging it by ending in down-toward. Try doing combos with Guile's Sonic Boom, Vega's Crystal Flash, etc. so you get a feel for combos into moves ending in toward on your controller...if you're accidentally ending in the down-toward spot like you are with boxer (assuming you aren't just rolling through down-toward when you hit the button, before you arrive at toward), the moves won't come out.

Once you're more precise with the charges, start ending all the motions in down-back again just as you hit the button to activate the move. This way, you're already charging for another move while one is in progress.

[ssjbrydon]

thats not the worst part of combo....its getting the headbutt out after you do lp, lk. theres just not enough time it seems like. i can do everything in that combo pretty well except landing the butt after that last 2 normal links.

[SpiderCrawl]

ssjbrydon, do the headbutt just as the the lk connects. Did the last two this morning. Once you get the rhythm down it's much easier. Trial 5 fell in like ten tries because I was still in the Rog rhythm.

Rog is my alt so I don't use his icons or titles though, Dictator for life.

[LittlePud]

Heh, the only hard trials I've got 5/5 are Boxer & Dictator.

[rexyaresexy]

the BOXer ìs the best!

[Mr. X]

ssjbrydon, do the headbutt just as the the lk connects. Did the last two this morning. Once you get the rhythm down it's much easier. Trial 5 fell in like ten tries because I was still in the Rog rhythm.

Rog is my alt so I don't use his icons or titles though, Dictator for life.

Lucky. Took me a couple of hours to get hard trial 5 :/ I would always mess up Ultra after headbutt in that set. I would either do it too late or just not get it to come out at all. But I got it eventually and now I can do the j. HK, HK c. LK Dash whatever with ease.