1. Be a DICK, literally.

There's a video out there of Kaqn being a dick to a Pot player by abusing Secret Garden all day (one of those gamechariot vids), and Kaqn ends up winning easily. However, there's another vid of Woshige letting up vs. FAB after he had a fat lead, and Woshige ends up losing the match because his heart thawed, and we all know what happened to badass dicks who had their heart thawed (look at Shin, Juda, Thouther, Raoh, hell, all of the whole Hokuto no Ken villain cast); they start off as certified beasts only to lose the match, and subsequently their balls once they grew a heart. Don't be like them.

2. Stay awake!

See FAB making comeback after comeback on Woshige. Not to mention countless Pot vids where all he needed was one knockdown into guessing game into massive pain into grown men crying all because the other guy decided to stand there and scratch his nuts when the match wasn't over yet.

3. Watch out for Slideheads.

One of those, and you're at a disadvantage already, or are likely dead. Backdash, iad (most likely double iad), jump, Turbofall, or Iron Sabre far Slideheads, jump, TK Bad Moon, TK Turbofall, or block low for close Slideheads. A blocked Slidehead is -11 on block, but unfortunately Millia doesn't have much in punishing blocked Slideheads, so your best bet is to jump it or 6K it whenever possible (as long as you're not stuck in blockstun). Beware that Pot's hitbox during Slidehead changes, causing some stuff to whiff if mistimed, which means Pot gets a free PotBuster if you mistimed an iad attack to try to punish a Slidehead. Usually, the best bet for Millia is to jump to avoid the Slidehead, and find some way to move in close to try to throw him, like doing TK Turbofalls into Throw or whatnot. Alternatively, you can 6K over the Slidehead to avoid the move without putting yourself at risk (like when you're far across the screen and he's spamming Slidehead); instead of jumping, 6K over, and you'll have decent frame time to start up Secret Garden. If you're up close, 6K works wonders as well; if timed right, 6K will prevent you from getting knocked down, then you should have time to launch him on recovery (both Slidehead and 6K will pass through each other if timed right).

4. Stay away from the danger zone!

Generally, I'd like to think of the "danger zone" as the max range of Pot's 2S due to it's unique vaccuum properties as well as the ability to cancel it into Hammerfall Brake, which obviously would pull you in range of his "oh-shit zone", or rather, his PotBuster range. Any closer than that would be his "Russian Roulette" range where you have to deal with his overhead, low, throw, and anti-backdash mixups (pray that the Pot player can't do meaty Slidehead on wakeup or you're fucked for good). Also, the range where he can do a Hammerfall Brake into OTG combo after a Slidehead would probably be called a "uh-oh zone" because while the OTG combo doesn't hurt much compared to his other combos, the fact that it leaves you in his "oh-shit zone" makes you go "Uh oh, OH SHIT! Russian Roulette time!" after you eat it.

In the event you do land in his "oh-shit zone" and "Russian Roulette zone", be prepared to play his guessing game, which leads to all sorts of stupidity. Now, let's see what he can do.

a. Go low. His 5K hits low, and depending on what he wants to do, he can go for an easy knockdown (5K-5S-2S-2D) into another spin on the roulette, harder-hitting easy knockdown (5K-5S-2S-2H-Heat Knuckle) into another spin on the roulette, or cash in for big damage (5K-5S-2S-2H-Heavenly Pot Buster) but no spin on the roulette unless you're already in the corner and in that case you're fucked anyways.

b. Go overhead. His 6K is an overhead, and can be combo'ed into a 2H, so he can either go for easy knockdown (6K-2H-Heat Knuckle) or big damage (6K-2H-Heavenly Pot Buster). Also, his 6K apparently has some anti-throw frames during startup, so mashing throw on wakeup won't beat it.

c. PotBuster. Go figure. Just pray he doesn't have an FRC ready if he lands it. If he does, it's back to another spin on the roulette wheel...

d. Anti-backdash. If he knows that you're keen at doing Reversal Backdashes on wakeup (Reversal Backdash can beat all of the other above options), he can do a 6H to catch you in the recovery of your backdash. Sure, 6H will hurt, but if your back is not in the corner and you're still alive and not stunned, guess what? You're all the way across the screen out of Pot's ideal range, and live to fight another day.

e. Meaty Slidehead. Now this is where the stupidity truly shines if your opponent is any good at doing this repeatedly. Nothing will beat this except 4 things, and chances are, you probably won't have access to those 3 of those things 90% of the time. They are: Burst, Reversal Winger, Reversal Emerald Rain, and Reversal Backdash. Option #1 is probably going to be Reversal Backdash, but if you have the Tension, Reversal Emerald Rain is your best option here because the startup negates the earthquake of the Slidehead and Potemkin gets juggled by all 3 discs, which means free combo for you. If you do NOT have access to a Burst or at least 50% Tension, the round is literally over if you can't do Reversal Backdash cuz Pot can keep doing his Meaty Slidehead loop and you can't do anything about it except pray that your Burst meter fills up before your life depletes to zero. So brush up on those Reversal Backdashes!

And that's not all, he's got some frame traps to keep you guessing if he feels like he wants that PotBuster. For example, he can do 5K-2S-Hammerfall Brake into a guessing situation where he can get that PotBuster if you freeze up via ticks to screw up your backdash input (5P, PotBuster), a Heat Knuckle if you try to jump away, letting Hammerfall finish to catch your backdash (and FRC'ing it into another combo), or another reset into that same guessing situation by doing another 5K-2S-Hammerfall Brake. Same thing with his 6K-2H string; if you guess right, he can cancel the 2H into a Hammerfall Brake like usual. However, in the event that you actually do guess right, your best bet is to FD the blockstring to create some space and backdash to safety. If you have the Tension, you can Dead Angle Attack to defeat the mixup (and plant a Disc or runaway or whatnot).

5. Respect his defensive abilities.

Namely Hammerfall, his backdash, Heat Knuckle, Heavenly Pot Buster, 6P, j.D, and Mash-Buster. When I mean respect his defensive abilities, I don't mean "don't attack at all", I mean watch out for those moves when you're attacking, because each of those moves will either lead to a knockdown, massive pain, or in some cases, both knockdown and massive pain.

In the case of Hammerfall, if Pot knows you're gonna commit to an attack that has some recovery and he has meter for an FRC, you're likely gonna eat a Hammerfall FRC into a Heat Knuckle combo. Hammerfall WILL cut through your strings like a hot knife on butter, which sucks. However, there are some situations where you might be able to do something when your opponent does Hammerfall in the middle of an attack string.

If you're on the ground and he does Hammerfall, you can stop attacking and block the Hammerfall if you were using an attack that has quick recovery (namely, 5P or 2P...), jump-cancel a jump-cancellable attack into a 1-frame FD jump to block the Hammerfall, cancel your attack into a Command Roll immediately to avoid the Hammerfall and end up behind Pot and throw or combo him, or cancel your attack into Emerald Rain if you have the meter, because Emerald Rain cuts through Hammerfall's armor and nets you the knockdown.

If you're in the air (usually iad'ing in) and he does Hammerfall, your best bet is to block, but most likely you're gonna be committed to an attack. Again, if your attack is jump-cancellable (most likely j.K and j.D, but if you were iad'ing, forget about it)), jump-cancel into FD block to stay safe. But, if you committed to any other attack (except for j.H, you're screwed), you may be able to interrupt Hammerfall before it hits you if you were able to do a quick two-hit string such as j.S-P, j.K-P, or j.P,P since the 2nd hit of your string will stop Hammerfall from completing since he used up his armor by then.

With that said, the next thing to look out for is his backdash, since it has the most invincibility frames out of all the backdashes in the game, and naturally it leads to all sorts of stupidity if he guesses right and backdashes your offense into a PotBuster. If you can bait out his backdashes, (usually doing some running and FD-braking stuff), you can punish it with all sorts of shit, but however, smart Potemkin players will use this much like the same way they'll use Hammerfall, so shit is gonna suck. All I can say is watch out for it and don't put yourself in that scenario (like doing blind iad's into his backdash-PotBuster range, or running in and 6P'ing trying to start something only to see the 6P go through Pot during backdash-PotBuster...), even though Millia's game revolves around trying to start an offense.

Next up is his anti-airs. Heat Knuckle leads to stupidity if he guesses right (usually if he knows you're trying to jump to avoid PotBuster mixups), Heavenly Pot Buster is there to keep you from staying in the air forever, and 6P can be used to stop jump-ins (and naturally combos into Heat Knuckle, lolz). Silent Force stops all of the above if used correctly. So ideally if they're keen to anti-air you, fire off Silent Force and work with what you've got off of it. Otherwise, stay at an angle where his anti-airs will whiff or stay grounded (and away from his "danger zone").

For some reason a lot of Potemkins like to use j.D after whiffing a Heavenly Potemkin Buster or teching very high in the air. And for some reason his j.D seems to beat out a lot of attacks (must have buns of steel, I guess) and cause confusion over which side he will end up. Usually you get a free Gold Burst if he ever does this, but if you don't have a Burst ready, you can use 6P, 5S©, or 2H to clash with it (you have to time all 3 attacks somewhat early though depending on the height, but for simplicity I prefer to use 2H so you don't have to worry about side confusion), and do whatever from there.

Mash-Buster should be self-explanatory; if the Pot player is sniffing out holes in your attack strings, chances are he may be trying to mash out a PotBuster to interrupt your string and therefore make you look stupid for delaying your string (intentionally or unintentionally) without having a back-up plan. Therefore, if your opponent is known to try to Mash-Buster at times, you can bait out his Buster and punish it hard by making sure that your blockstrings end at attacks where you can jump-cancel it WHILE still staying close to Pot (a Pot player who Mash-Busters on blockstrings that leave you outside his PotBuster range isn't likely to make that same mistake twice in a match) so that when you do jump-cancel your string and he whiffs PotBuster, you can make him look silly for even trying it. But then again, the rewards are greater than the risks for attempting a Mash-Buster (hello FRC PotBuster...), so I'm sure your opponent is bound to try it a couple of times.

6. So how do I attack?

Follow Kaqn and Nakamura's style and literally be an asshole with Secret Garden vs. Pot. Sure, he can try to Slidehead you in reaction, but while you're lying there not taking damage, Pot has to worry about that big ball before even trying to get in close, and that ball deals out damage while keeping him at bay. Sure, he can Flick it, but the ball will still move and hold him back even if he does Flick it. Hell, you can even use specific patterns that avoid his Flick while still keeping him locked down (like F, DB, F, B). Basically anytime you get a knockdown, summon Secret Garden then rush him down trying to fish for another knockdown into another (you guessed it) Secret Garden. Don't worry about doing combos on him that don't do a lot of damage; your goal is that knockdown. In the event you do knock him down in the corner, that's when you can pull a Nakamura and literally rape his ass with Secret Garden + air-dash mixups.

Obviously Pot is gonna try to take this battle to the air, so what do you do? Secret Garden . Well, if he does get close, try to keep him at bay with j.D's and short air blockstrings like j.K-P-K to try to interrupt whatever he's trying to do in the air. If the string does connect, proceed into a combo that sends him across the screen again (like j.K-P-K, dj.K-D, adc.D or insert an air FB Disc somewhere in there into land, 6H, Secret Garden lolz). If you're not confident in your air game (especially if you do fuck up and Pot gets an air throw, which lands him next to you on wakeup lolz), you can always take evasive measures such as doing Iron Savior to get outta dodge and go under him all the way to the other side of the screen, or you can do a defensive FB Disc to force Pot to re-think his jump-ins (remember, FB Disc does not go away if Millia is interrupted after the disc begins to form after 4 frames of startup, so use wisely!) and buy you some time to get away or do a combo on him if he gets juggled.

Generally, you don't want to risk doing long combos unless you're 100% sure you will get a knockdown. Nothing feels shittier than doing a double relaunch combo only to fuck up and Pot techs in the middle only to PotBuster your ass on recovery into death when you could've done a simple combo that only does a couple points less damage, is much easier to execute, and nets you the knockdown.

That's all I have for now; hope this helps...