MOST ICONIC Moment in Fighting Game Community: Evo Moment 37

Evo Moment 37

The fighting game community (FGC) has a long and storied history, with many memorable moments that have helped define the scene. While opinions may differ on what the most iconic moment in the FGC is, one event that is widely regarded as a defining moment in the history of the community is the "Evo Moment 37" or "Daigo Parry".

Evo Moment 37 is a portion of a Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike semifinal match held at Evolution Championship Series 2004 (Evo 2004) between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong. During this match, Daigo made an unexpected comeback by parrying 15 consecutive hits of Justin's Chun Li's "Super Art" move while having only one pixel of vitality.

In the final round of match 1, after each player had won a round, Daigo got off to a weak start as Justin was playing conservatively, slowly chipping away on Daigo's life bar. Rolling Stone described Justin's behavior during this match as "the antithesis of Daigo 's aggressive approach" and stated that video of the match shows that Justin's turtling was effective in "getting under his [Daigo's] skin." Match commentator and Capcom employee Seth Killian commentated that "this is rare footage of Daigo actually angry ... Justin's turtle-style now on the verge of putting Daigo down." Daigo's Ken was down to his last pixel of vitality. With 26 seconds remaining, Justin had the option to run out the clock, but he was eager to end the match.

At this point, any special attack would knock Daigo's character out if connected, since special attacks deal a slight amount of damage even when blocked. To win the round, Justin attempted to hit Daigo's Ken with Chun-Li's multihit Super Art II move; the Houyoku-sen. However, instead of avoiding it, Daigo chose to "Parry", a high-risk, high-reward technique which allows the defender to block an incoming attack without losing any health, but requires moving toward the opponent's direction in the same time a hit lands, within six of sixty frames of the impact animation – about a tenth of a second.

Daigo had to predict when his opponent would start his Super Art Move, essentially making the first parry before the move even started, and then perform the same split-second timing on all 14 of the remaining hits. Daigo did so, and went on to counter a final kick of Chun-Li in mid-air before launching a 12-hit combo, capped by Ken's Super Art III; Shippuu Jinraikyaku, winning the match.

Though Daigo lost the grand finals to Kenji Obata, the clip of him parrying Justin's multihit attack became hugely influential and has been compared to famous sports moments such as Babe Ruth's called shot and the Miracle on Ice.

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