A compilation of Central Fiction Combos and OD changes.

Confirmed Changes(Thanks to Sourenga and SoWL for the first batch of info):

Loketest 1 (July 19th-20th)

Short clip of her new D3 and healing in the first PV

• Exceed Accel: Puech Vapeur (A+B+C+D when in Overdrive)
• New System: Recovery Capability - Whenever a special superarmors through an attack, a blue gauge called Recover Cap appears on Celica's health bar. Whenever you finish a Drive combo (Ex: 5D>5D2>D3), the Recover Cap amount you gained will automatically transfer to Celica's health, healing her. Recover Cap healing will only happen when the 3rd D attack in of her Drive combo hits the opponent.
• You can only use the charged versions of Marteau Flan (214B), Lance Quiche (214C), and Armure Sorbet (632146A) by consuming Recover Cap.
• Drive attacks and and the above specials now have guard point to go along with the new Recover Cap system
• 236C now has superarmor. Most likely from 1F. Can take hits and any damage taken becomes blue HP
• 2C pulls in opponent on hit or block, still plus on block

Closed Loketest 2 (August 24th) and Open Loketest (August 28th-August 30th)

BBCF Closed Loketest 2: Celica vs. Hakumen (Sound desyncs near the beginning of the match and fixes itself later on

• 6B has a new animation, Minerva does the same action but Celica now covers herself with her cape. Looks cute.
• 5C has a new animation, single hit now. Minerva does the same action but Celica puts her arm forward now. Jump-cancelable on hit.
• 6C has increased range. Combo'd from the tip of crouching 5C. 5B>5C>6C>665B>6B>2C>j.B>j.C>jc>j.C>j.214A worked from max range and did 3.3k.
• 3C has increased range, a smaller cancel window and less recovery.
• 6A more untech time. 6A(2)>2B works now (assumed midscreen). 6A>2A>5B>6B>2C>j.B>j.C(both hits)>jc>j.C(both hits)>j.214A did 2539 damage.
• 236B startup and projectile speed are much faster and now go full screen. Still has high recovery but can't be punished if projectile is blocked.
• 214B bounces away on hit, if midscreen can only follow up with super. Allows for pressure afterwards midscreen, and can follow up with 5B in corner. Seems to be slower now? 214B>5B>6B>2C>j.B>j.C>jc>j.C>j.214A did 2.9k damage.
• Powered up 214B is basically current charged 214B, but without the charge. Seems faster than regular 214B and goes farther.
• 214C now has projectile guard point around the time active frames kick in. Damage taken becomes blue HP. Powered-up 214C looks seems to work like current charged 214C, but with less hitstun.
• 236C's guard point likely begins on 1F. Damage absorbed turns into blue HP. Launches opponent more diagonally now.
• 632146A (Healing super) healed all of Celica's blue HP and some extra. It also seemed a lot faster imo. Maybe it'll have actual use now? Probably can do it after D3 for a nice HP gain.
• 632146B has faster startup but no invul
• 632146C has less recovery and is now single hit on block. GCOD cannot punish it
• All air normals and j.214A are unchanged. j.C>j.D combos now however.
• D strings only have one finishing move now, blows away on air hit and slides on ground hit. You gain blue HP from attacking the opponent with D moves, whether on hit or block. Also from superarmoring through moves with 236C and 214C.
• Blue HP does not go away even if Celica takes damage.
• Self-healing animation will begin after new D3, can special-cancel before the healing starts though. Can do D3>236B for additional damage and run up to start pressure afterwards.
• Self-healing after D3 converts her blue HP to 10% of her total HP (assuming that's 1000). If you let yourself heal, you don't get any pressure on opponent wakeup midscreen.
• All D1s and D2s are the same, but have less recovery. You won't get punished for ending a blockstring in any D2
• All D moves are now special-cancelable
• 214C's thruster property has changed, unknown if it can still be looped
• Blue HP also powers up 236C, 214C and 214B. Once a powered-up special is used, all blue HP is gone, meaning you can't use powered-up versions repeatedly
• Overdrive healing is faster and you also gain blue HP for free. Powered-up specials can be used repeatedly.
• Throw doesn't cause wallbounce midscreen and wallstick in the corner anymore, instead it shocks them like Rachel's lightning and they float. Can be followed up with 5B. Couldn't immediately follow it up with 632146C midscreen, probably have to delay it.
• Now has pushblock on B and C normals. 2B>5B had a lot of pushblock.
• 214B has head and body guard point.

So let's go on about things she's gained/lost. First off, she's a lot different. She gains blue life by hitting the opponent with drive on hit/block. If you do the 3rd hit of drive (no matter what the first two are, the third one is always the same) and it hits, she will charge a little and gain up to about 15% of her total lifebar back (if you have more blue life than that, it remains). Also, she keeps the life when she gets hit. You can cancel out of that last hit with any special after it hits as well. Do also note that if you do 214C, 214B, or 236C, that her blue life will go away and those moves will be "powered up". 214C powered up means the opponent goes spinning on the ground and allows for a combo after a grounded 5B 5C in the corner. It also makes hitting with the flames only a lot easier. 214B powered up gives the move a bit more range it seems and it bounces them higher allowing you to do a combo in the corner easily or just a 214C midscreen. Whether this is good or bad, I'll voice my opinion on later, but this is just how it is now.

Things she's gained: 

- 236C absorbs hits instead of just getting hit out of moves at the beginning. This is pretty nice because it means im less "oh crap im in the corner i die now" than before, imo.

- 2C pulls the opponent in on hit/block, making it easier to combo opponents that are a little far away. Also good against opponents in the air.

- 5C is only one hit now (neither good nor bad?) but it's now jump cancellable on hit.

- Can manually input special moves during Celica's drive.

- Can heal a bit of damage by doing drive moves on hit/block. 

- 214B doesn't need to be cancelled to combo in the corner

- 214C doesn't send the opponent flying as far, so you have better wakeup.

- Heal super heals all blue life and recovers very quickly.

- Overdrive heals regular life and gives a lot of blue life. This is her strongest change by far, and the only reason I can even win with her.

- Ground throw doesn't shoot the opponent far, they go in front of you making it very easy to combo.

- 6A might be easier to combo with midscreen? I dunno that move is bad and I wish she just didn't have it because 9/10 times when I do it, it's unintentional and I get hit.

- 236B seems a little faster? Not terrible but still doesn't go fullscreen.

- j.214A trajectory changed so it's easier to hit after j.C

Things she's lost:

- [214C] - This is such a huge loss, it boggles my mind how they let it happen. She used it in combos all the time, and they took it away and there's really nothing "replacing" it, she just gets less damage.

- [214B] - This one to a lesser extent. Not used as much as 214[C] but still nice to have for some combos.

- Any of her 3rd hit drive moves. While you can cancel out of her drive moves into specials, you can only do it ON HIT. I used to bait my opponents with the 3rd hit of 5DDD, and because of how (5DD)2D slammed, I was able to get combos off of things like j.D5D2D dash 2A 5B 6B 5C 5D 6D 6D for a good 2800 damage or so. Now that's impossible. Her 3rd hit of drive isn't terrible but it would rather actually have options instead of being stuck with that one move.

- 632146B isn't invulnerable anymore. It was invul and it was a great tool to be a little safer in the corner than 632146C, but now it has 0 invul and i got hit out of it just about everytime. It used to be good to stop things like full screen Tager ball, jin projectiles, rachel super etc. Now it's just kinda garbo.

- 632146C doesn't do a bunch of hits on block anymore. It seems less safe and easier to punish now, I noticed my opponent able to move very quickly after blocking it.

- 236C got improved hitbox wise, but on counterhit, my opponent flies all the way up in the air and i cant do anything. If i had a mini "on my own no meter can heal" thing, that would be great, but she doesn't have anything like that. It used to be great for getting damage but now it just sends them flying away and is kinda "meh". Especially because a lot of other characters can still combo off of their DPs.

- Overall lower damage. j.DDD has low damage, even if I can combo from it in the corner, I only get about 1700 and a bit of healing. Drive moves do practically no damage. 2B 5B 3C 2D 6D 214B 5B 6B 5C 5D 5D 5D does about 2000 damage. Her damage is pitiful. The second hit of 5DD used to do a lot but now it barely does anything. This is the biggest issue so far. 

- j.214A into rapid into combo is gone. They bounce out now. One of the few ways she had to deal decent air to air damage is just gone, even if I rapid the only thing I've been able to get is a single j.B. It can still combo into a move after hitting a ground opponent and using a rapid but an air opponent can just tech when they hit the ground. Another nerfed damage point.

- You can barrier her moves and she moves away now. Before if you barrier'd against her, only 2A and 5A cause pushback (because that's actually celica hitting). 2B 5B 2C etc caused no pushback because it's the robot doing the hits. This was huge for her pressure game. Especially helpful because she has terrible range. Now it's easy to just pushblock her away and not have to worry, and the celica player is now forced to act a lot faster than before with offensive pressure options.

- Second hit of 5D2D has barely and pushback and is now punishable instead of being the "safe" option.

The problem I have is a lot of the issues I wanted fixed with Celica weren't touched. Things like j.214A being unsafe on block (cmon, just make it a little safer?). Things like the second hit of j.5DD whiffing sometimes on opponents. Things like 5B 5C 214C not connecting because despite the opponent being at the tip of the moves, they were a little too far away for 214C, which doesn't help cause she has poor range anyways. A long range option that doesn't suck would be nice (hence why i want j.214A to be safer). A little more range on her 5D to make it easier to connect against opponents. A low/mid drive mixup. Her airthrow not being a stupid wall bounce. Nothing. Not a single problem fixed. They took something that people didn't ask for, and tossed that in the game.

In addition to that, things that I had issues with about other characters are all still in the game. None of those other characters got nerfed or seem to have stuff taken away. Celica has so much thats just gone, yet a lot of other characters are unaffected. Things like hazama snake into air throw from behind, relius simultaneous dodge/doll punch, azrael backdash being complete invul, and his forward dash being too fast to react too, his j.C having a huge hitbox that allows you to hit pretty much anywhere with it and then combo. Then they added new characters that have way more tools/damage. I struggle to get 2500 damage, and a lot of characters are easily hitting 3500 no meter.

Anyways, enough complaining. Some more random things:

"Big damage" only comes from 5B 5C 214C (corner and you need blue life, which is pretty hard but whatever) and anything that goes into 6C. I can get 3000 damage on a counterhit if i do CH5B 6C 5B 6B 2C 5D6D 214C (only if you have not-full health, and only on some characters, this is the from behind flames hit, not the actual hit) 5B 6B 5C 5DDD or whatever ender. Hopefully a better combo is found but despite hitting with flames only 214C, but yeah.

Midscreen ending strings in the 3rd hit of D to 236B is strong, but she recovers decently fast in the corner so its generally worth it to just heal and then pressure. 

Third hit of drive is safe on block. Does a lot of damage on counterhit and if you can rapid just that and dash up 6C or something, you can get decent damage. Not gonna happen that often, though.

Here's how I played Celica:

I would hope to hit them, get them in the corner and then pressure and gain life. If I got hit, i wouldn't burst, I would just do overdrive. On wakeup it's a pretty good option, even for her at half health. If you can get around 6 seconds that's generally enough. If you can get away because of overdrive or even hit your opponent, you're in a good spot, as you can heal a lot. If you hit them a couple times with a drive finisher, you can recover a lot. If you get a lot of blue health and didn't recover it, then doing her healing super from far away is great, doesn't take too long and feels good to get all that health back. Because of the weird system that allows you to sometimes get burst back quickly because of something you did, you can do this multiple times in a round if you're lucky, and play well enough to not get hit during the overdrive. If you manage to heal back your health multiple times and hit your opponent, then you're in a pretty good spot. It's mostly just a game of footsies then "ok im gonna heal now" when you're at a low enough life (anywhere around half your bar gone is a good time to overdrive, and if you hit your opponent and you don't have much life left, overdriving is a pretty good option. It means they have to chase you down and if you can hit them, then you're in a really good spot as you gain a lot of health back. This is the best part about this character, as it can be really hard to kill her, and if she gains enough life, it can be really demoralizing to have to do so much more work to kill her.

She doesn't have much damage so you just kinda have to hope you can heal a lot and hit your opponent enough that you can kill them. She still feels very weak and I feel like the stuff we lost wasn't worth the goofy "im gaining life with overdrive" game that she's all about now. She was more fun in CP imo, but it's still early. I don't know how balls deep I want to go into this game because it seems like a very uphill battle for a lot of matchups but part of me is still holding out hope that she's not actually really bad, and her damage isn't ACTUALLY that low...

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Apologies for not so good quality, dont have a capture card.

I'm still fairly new to Celica (and Blazblue as a whole) but Ive been using her the most and I have a decent grasp on all her moves. I haven't mastered too many long fancy combos.

Here are the vids:

So I noticed compared to most characters pages in the Dustloop Wiki for Blazblue, Celica's has much less information.

I don't mind adding in the actual information to the wiki but I just want to make sure information is accurate and run by everyone here.

Hope we can all get stuff together so people who are interested in playing Celica or want to know more about her can refer to the Wiki Page.

Some things that we need to fill in.

1.Overview Beginning Paragraph

Basically just one paragraph about her lore and one paragraph about her general playing style. First one should be easy (and I could even do it myself) the second one is how she's a fairly simple well-rounded character.

2.Sprites for every Move

I have no idea where to look for these.

3.More Fully updated Frame Data for every move

Where would we get info about this?

4.Paragraph Explanations for Each Move

This info seems scarce even in other Character Pages but it seems to be a general idea of how useful the move is, when to use it, and what moves it can connect to.

5.General Strategies to do when on the Offensive or Defensive.

For offensive include things like basic Block Strings or BnBs  like 5B > 5C, or approaches from the air, etc.

For Defensive I'd bring up her pretty good anti-air 6C and her projectile (236B).

6.Combos

I'll probably just refer to what's confirmed in this topic:

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/index.php/topic/9594-cp20-celica-a-mercury-combo-thread/

Unless someone has other things they can bring up.

If anyone can input and post things that could be used to help me put info for Celica's Dustloop Wiki page, that'd be great. 

Thanks!