Earlier today I encountered the strangest opponent ever.  
I might as well start out by saying, that I merely consider myself as an average SSF4 player.

I joined a one-on-one endless match and encountered an opponent that consistently: 

• picks Cammy
• Starts each round with a "spiral arrow"
• follows up with another "spiral arrow"
• and then executes a "cannon spike"
• repeat

Sounds like he learned how to play from the AI. 2000 BP isn't much though, I'm sure he could've gotten away with a bunch of 1-round wins against trash players.

Chip damage really shouldn't be that big of an issue when you're not down on your health that much.  Try to learn to evade specials and not simply block them. 
 
Also, 2000 BP really isn't that much.  When BP actually demonstrates a presence of skill is when someone has about 6000-7000 BP, and even then it might just be because the person plays a whole lot.

BP shows nothing about skill as you can only gain it, not lose it. So by playing alot you'll eventually win. 
 
Also, blocked spiral arrow is negative a million on block, puuunniissshhh that shit.

" BP shows nothing about skill as you can only gain it, not lose it. So by playing alot you'll eventually win.  Also, blocked spiral arrow is negative a million on block, puuunniissshhh that shit. "

Also, another reason why BP and such shouldn't be taken seriously, is that people fucking boost with their friends. Ranked matches should be anonymous to avoid that kind of cheating.

Sounds like bot behavior.

" @Plasma: You can lose BP, and spiral arrow is safe if you space it correctly. "

PP is the one you can lose 100+ of for a loss vs a lower ranked opponent. People with like... 3000-5000 PP are usually pretty competent. BP is just a character-specific grind-o-meter. For instance, I have 11,000 BP and still lose to every Rufus ever ever ever.

Spiral Arrow is completely safe when executed at the correct distance. Assuming he knew this, then you would not be able to punish his Spiral Arrows. Cannon Spike also has invulnerability, so it will punish almost anything when executed after a safe Spiral Arrow. That said, he likely did not know that you could make Spiral Arrow safe and was merely spamming it because you didn't know wtf to do.

Even PP is not a good measure of quality of a fighter, Ive gotten as high as 2500-3000 as my Rog, but when I try to play around with Honda/Fei Long/Rose for fun, my PP will get destroyed in 5 or so loses.  Only way to measure a fighter is to fight him

I have like 3,000 with Adon and suck out loud,.

" @sofacitysweetheart: Damn straight. I was trying out my Akuma online (which is damn mediocre) and I fought a 'gief with near 8 or 9k BP (though he had like 1500 PP, which explains something) and all he did was lariat into Green hand (sometimes EX), which I just kept punishing with sweeps and some bnb combos.   Dude picked Ken, and did the same thing with Shoryukens across the stage. I wanted to break my controller over this kind of stupidity.   Endless Matches for the win.  "

" Also, another reason why BP and such shouldn't be taken seriously, is that people fucking boost with their friends. Ranked matches should be anonymous to avoid that kind of cheating. "

" @SirOptimusPrime said:

" @sofacitysweetheart: Damn straight. I was trying out my Akuma online (which is damn mediocre) and I fought a 'gief with near 8 or 9k BP (though he had like 1500 PP, which explains something) and all he did was lariat into Green hand (sometimes EX), which I just kept punishing with sweeps and some bnb combos.   Dude picked Ken, and did the same thing with Shoryukens across the stage. I wanted to break my controller over this kind of stupidity.   Endless Matches for the win.  "

@sofacitysweetheart said:

" Also, another reason why BP and such shouldn't be taken seriously, is that people fucking boost with their friends. Ranked matches should be anonymous to avoid that kind of cheating. "

...I'm pretty certain that Ranked Matches can only be anonymous. "

" Ahem. I'm pretty sure they're not. but thanks for the input? "

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" Ahem. I'm pretty sure they're not. but thanks for the input? "

I've not actively looked, but I've never seen the option to invite someone in a lobby for Ranked Matches.  Have you actually tried it? "

"    Dude picked Ken, and did the same thing with Shoryukens across the stage.  "

" @FluxWaveZ said:

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" Ahem. I'm pretty sure they're not. but thanks for the input? "

I've not actively looked, but I've never seen the option to invite someone in a lobby for Ranked Matches.  Have you actually tried it? "

You can't invite someone but you can easily choose who's lobby to join if you go to custom match. So they're not open to invites but they're not anonymous for sure. "

Just on the mention of chip damage and totlly unrelated to the post: check it out on Blanka's ground version of U2. 
 
Pessh and I were playing a week or so back and it hit a stale-mate. He had a small chunk of health left and I a sliver - nobody moved. So I just humped out the ultra and it actually took him out. Obviously it was fucking daft (jumping would probably have saved him) but its still an interesting little bit of knowledge to have and it did in the region (or looked to have) of about 100 or so.