Astaroth136 Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Yo, Alabama tournament on Aug. 4 (details in the works). Some of you a-holes should travel once in a while. It's only about 2 hours away, and with a car full, you don't really lose gas money.
Seiki Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 I would love round robin guilty gear!! @Uri: have you thought about Elisabeth? She has great normals, nice command throw and cross-up set-ups, can nullify projectiles all while building meter, and a great ability to convert stray hits into good damage (which is HUGE in KOF since it's rare to get nice clean hits). Also, she fits very nicely on your team in the order of Mai/Elisabeth/Mature. She is probably one of the best second positioned characters because her combos are not drive dependent, unless you want to go the extra mile, and her anywhere juggle properties on her super and great anti-airs make use of meter very well. Plus, I know you like the ladies ~_0 If you want in depth information on properties of each character's moves i suggest the dream cancel wiki. There are a lot of subtle properties to them that you won't be able to tell up front. http://dreamcancel.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_King_of_Fighters_XIII#Characters
Urichinan Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Oh yes, I forgot about Elizabeth. She seemed very well rounded, and I enjoyed watching her. But she seemed kind of wonky to me, but then again, everyone does since I've never played it on console. @Astaroth: Tell me where I can find the details and I'll look into it.
Jackie Chandler Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 I would be okay with this. So long as he doesn't drag me down as hard as he did during that Bomberman side event :P
Milln Posted July 9, 2012 Author Posted July 9, 2012 Yo, Alabama tournament on Aug. 4 (details in the works). Some of you a-holes should travel once in a while. It's only about 2 hours away, and with a car full, you don't really lose gas money. I second this and add an expletive. Elizabeth is indeed a good character and everyone flocked to her when the game first came out. Had really easy hit confirms and everything Naimat said. The wonkiness you feel may be because she kind of, in mine and another Cookeville player's opinion, has to work pretty hard compared to most others. However, she's fun to play and fun to watch, and has a great command grab and all the setups it comes with. @Jackie: if you have time to make that, Skullgirls better be uploaded or uploading.
Astaroth136 Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 @Astaroth: Tell me where I can find the details and I'll look into it. Details are still being hammered out, but I'll link it once it's up. Sadly, they just told me it's only going to be AE, KoF, and Marvel. @ Chandler: Hmmm, I might need to make one called "Is Astaroth good at this game?" What program did you make that with? Looks like Paint... lol
Seiki Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 So, next MTN I'm bringing DBZ Budokai 3 a.k.a. Marvel 3 Director's Cut (for those who saw the evo panel). I'm so glad I found this game randomly in my garage. It's like tekken with fireballs and the ability to fly and teleport.
Milln Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Just noticed I grabbed 6000th post. Sweet. 1st match. They've never played each other, so they're guessing what the other's going to do. I'm assuming Bala expects Duo Lon to 6A(stretch arm) so he does a crouch stick move. MadKOF throws all caution to the wind and just jumps in on him with j.D and combos. Reset and hits him with a mixup and combos again so he's at half in under 4 seconds. Absolute solid play from MadKOF and simply doesn't let Bala create any space with Billy, which kills him. He PERFECTS him. Bala's Takuma puts MadKOF's Duo in the corner and catches him pressing a button on wakeup and uses his full drive meter and 2 bars (that he gained during the combo itself) to Stun combo and almost perfect him right back. Chin vs. Takuma, Bala avoids a reversal EX punch by jumping, but comes down on an attack and gets HD combo'd. MadKOF drops it, coming out of HD, but kills him anyway. Bala's Shen hops over a sweep punches Chin in the mouth. Bala guardpoints the F out of an EX Come Get Some(Hangetsuzuan) with Shen's Far C, but gets hit by another one in a combo. THen he's in the corner against a Kim, which sucks. MadKOF misses a hit confirm to HD, but Kim in HD mode is scary with the priority of his attacks and high mobility, now cancellable specials. He gets rocked. Then he switches Billy who got DESTROYED with Ralf. It starts off shaky, he lets him get away with some Rekkax3 > Shadow Dashes that Ralf can punish with far.C, then gets combo'd, reset, and presses the wrong button to lose Ralf. Bala's Takuma comes in and gets a command grab on Duo Lon in the corner and gets a good Takuma combo, but screws up the special cancel from 6B and lets him walk and gets combo'd for it. Bala misses a big punish on MadKOF Rekkax3 > Shadow Dashing in the corner, takes a bunch of unnecessary damage and ultimately has a to burn a stock on an EX Kick to get rid of him. Against Chin, he gets punished for ending a block string with Takuma's kick fireball. MadKOF EX Rollpunches under it and knocks him off the screen. Bala's Shen j.D's on Chin's counter and takes 100 damage for it, then gets HD Combo'd. He recovers and HD Combo's Chin back from mid screen into the corner, Power Up Max Cancel Jersey Fist but doesn't kill him. He jumps straight up to avoid wakeup EX Head Dive and picks him off with a couple 2B's. Shen starts off shaky again, MadKOF screws up a combo by doing B flipkick instead of D and Bala just goes in and punches him in the mouth, rolls to avoid a wakeup Jayoku cause Koreans DP all day every day, combos and wins. Bala's Ralf gets the momentum on Duo Lon and takes him down to 100 hp with lots of good reads, jumping over fireballs with j.CD and such, then screws up, thinking MadKOF was going to press a button out of the blockstring and does a hella unsafe 1-2 Punch(Charge back, forward punch) and gets wrecked for it and loses lots of unecessary health. Bala recovers and wakes up with EX Gutpunch that has guardpoint all over it to take out MadKOF's 1st character before he loses one for the first time. Chin comes in and opens Bala up by STANCE DUCKING UNDERNEATH A VULCAN PUNCH before it happens, but doesn't convert and Ralf makes explosions happen. Chin gets a couple counters off before MadKOF sees his j.CD and Ex Punches it. Takuma comes in, HD's, and gets rid of the problem. Kim comes in and it looks really good for Bala. He gets two solid, corner EX Kick combos before MadKOF flash kicks him to make some space. MadKOF catches him with a low, combos, but then stands too close to Bala on wakeup, who does Ex Command grab for the win. Bala's Ralf and MadKOF's Duo Lon mix it up, both making good blocks and plays, then MadKOF gets a good shadow dash mixup and gets like three combos out of consistently screwing up Bala's guard, who only punishes like one shadow dash. Then Ralf gets one solid hit and HD modes (1st round, by the way) and GETS RID OF THE PROBLEM. He knows MadKOF's Duo Lon can't be on the screen any longer or he will lose to the mix up game, so he tosses him. He'll be up a character, so it's okay if he burns the resources. Chin comes in, after some footsies, gets a good combo full of links and bumps Ralf out. Takuma comes in, and both players whiff a couple moves. Bala expects an overhead, but MadKOF dashes up with a low and gets HD combo'd to the corner, but MadKOF drops the HD Combo again, maybe even on purpose since HD ran out, then Bala super combos him back and makes it even. MadKOF gets three great reads and is in his head by now. He knows exactly when he's going to go for a hop and Ex Punches him out of it twice in a row. MadKOF makes a wrong guess and gets blocked for Ex rollpunching, Bala gets a good hitconfirm into super combo and back to neutral. Bala gets a blockstring off without getting punished for doing Kick fireball, then MadKOF rollpunches underneath a hop attack, then EX Rollpunches underneath a Takuma kick special for the win. Really good answers for what he's sure Bala is going to do and he does it consistently. Bala's Shen comes in and slaps an old geezer out. This is match point for Bala. If he wins, he wins the whole thing 3-1. Shen vs. Kim. Footsies, MadKOF gets an EX Come Get Some combo, gets Guard cancel Blowback'd away then flash kicks Shen's j.CD. Takes him to the other corner and Kim's fantastic normals are just so good, Bala can't do much. Kim jumps back and fools Bala into doing a j.CD to knock him out of the air. MadKOF EX Flipkicks for the win. 2-2 Bala switches Ralf out for Clark, It starts off looking GREAT for Bala and he gets three great great reads into command grabs all in a row First time is on a reset, second he catches Duo Lon pressing 2A, third he catches him blocking. Bala makes a mistake, doing 2C which MadKOF hops over, and gets combo'd into the corner, gets out, and then makes ANOTHER mistake by being too far away for command grab. Luckily, MadKOF doesn't convert the stray hit, but does land another Rekka combo into mix up. Bala blocks two shadow feet, jumps over a third one, then lands on an EX one and gets j.CD'd outta there. Duo Lon comes in, get Guard Cancel Blowback'd, but then low profiles a j.CD with 2B for a combo into mixup. They trade a jump-in vs. anti-air, then Bala FINALLY punishes a shadow dash! Ex, nonetheless, with a command grab, converts to damage and gets Duo Lon out. Chin comes in, gets a couple drinks, Bala can't get him to sit still so he can set up. Chin worms his way in and fakes an overhead, catches Takuma with a low and backfists him off the screen. Chin gets a fake overhead grab, Bala nails a good hit, HD's, becomes the king of Jersey, almost jumps onto a counter and kills Chin. Shen vs. Kim boils down to Shen going for a sweep that MadKOF jumps over with j.C. Bala doesn't whiff cancel and gets kicked into EX Ranbu super. and MadKOF resets the brackets. Bala puts Billy back in MadKOF continues setting the pace by countering everything Billy does, pretty much. Bala makes a mistake and 2C's the air, to which MadKOF gets a good punish. Bala messes up again and ground CD's a butt poof for some reason. Duo Lon counter j.CD > j.CD's him into the corner, lets out a butt poof and just rushes in. Bala takes the bait and jumps straight up and attacks and hits MadKOF, yeah, but he lands on the butt poof. He does it AGAIN and Bala jumps forward. MadKOF expects it and just 2C's him on prediction. Takuma comes in and Bala both misses a punish on a Shadow Dash in the corner AND command grabs the air. MadKOF making so many good plays and puts a lot of damage on Takuma. Chin comes in, takes no damage, but Chin is old and knocks him out. Shen comes in and gets a good combo, resets and uppercuts MadKOF's jump. Chin has like 30 hp and gets guard cancel Blowback'd down to 20 HP. AND THEN MADKOF BRINGS IT BACK WITH SO MANY TRICKS. Throws, and then crouch stances to make Bala's attack whiff, throws him in the corner and combos off of it for the win while having no health. Bala is very upset about this and is definitely not in a good position. MadKOF keeps throwing off Bala's rhythm and won't let him breathe. Like someone won't leave you alone and keeps tousling your hair. Bala puts Claw Iori in. And starts off good, gets a good frame trap off of a block string, but MadKOF really doesn't care. He just keeps going in and puts him in the corner, pressures him before Bala finally gets out, gets a hit, combo, but messes up a follow up, gets Rekka'd in the face, then EX Stomp'd. Takuma comes in and manages to avoid a 6A, hops over a Stomp, then sweeps for the kill after getting hit by the butt poof in the corner trick again. Chin comes in, gets two good combos, one off of a throw, one off of a counterhit j.CD and then gets rollpunched. It's like Bala doesn't believe in MadKOF's Chin, he keeps trying to do something but gets stuffed for it, usually by an EX Punch or EX Rollpunch. Shen comes in and gets pressured, MadKOF consistently crouch stance punch links for pressure and EX Punches when Bala presses a button. His Shen just can't do anything. He finally gets a good j.CD, but then Chin counters on wakeup and gets hit and loses the round. He keeps backdashing against Chin, it's almost like he's scared of him. He starts shaking his head and doesn't look very good. \ Bala puts Benimaru in and puts Takuma in the back. Misses a hitconfirm on Iaido Kick and then gets rocked for screwing up and whiffing a drill kick. Bala just keeps jumping around, he keeps making mistakes and lands on a 2B and gets rocked again. At 10 Hp, he jumps over a buttpoof and drill kicks, EX Command Grabs and is looking pretty good, but flubs his crossup spacing twice and gets 2A'd out. Shen comes in and Duo Lon BAITS A GUARD CANCEL BLOWBACK, then combos Shen into the corner, lets out a butt poof and runs in, Bala j.CD's and ON REACTION MadKOF 2C's him back to the ground. Bala whiffs a Solid Snake Uppercut expecting a hop and MadKOF combos, sees that he just got 2 meters from that combo and EX Supers for the kill. Takuma comes in, hits with a 2B poke, but then doesn't block incoming Rekkas and gets reset into the corner. MadKOF guesses right on an EX Command Grab, jumps it with j.D and gets a full meterless combo. MadKOF lets him out of the corner with back Shadow Dash and Bala finds a good hit, HD Cancels off of it, and gets Duo Lon out. Chin comes in, MadKOF reads a back dash but misses cause of distance. Bala jumps over an EX Punch and then drops his combo, probably cause he didn't get a full charge time on Kick special. THEN BALA PROCEEDS TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT. He 2B's an EX Punch into a combo, gets a drive bar at the exact point he needed it, drive cancels, then gets a meter stock one move before he needed it and uses it to knock Chin out, very well done. Kim comes in and Bala 2A's an EX Come Get Some(WHAAAAT?) then gets flash kicked and crossed up on the wakeup. Hops and gets flash kicked again, but then back dashes and avoids a sweep completely. MadKOF's Kim activates HD Raw and then 66P's, misses and gets punished for it but Bala DROPS THE COMBO with a whiffed command grab. Kim has enough time to hop and get a j.D, but MadKOF apparently forgets he's in HD mode and does a regular BnB. This gets really intense really fast. Bala blocks the incoming mixup, j.CD's Kim away, gets a block string, Kim gets hit by the kick fireball, Bala EX Special Kicks, gets j.D'd, then DOES IT AGAIN, corner combos, THEN F'S UP THE DRIVE CANCEL FROM THE PUNCH HITGRAB. Kim wakes up and does nothing. Takuma stands there. Nothing happens. Then MadKOF gets anxious and Ex DP's. Whiffs. And Bala close C's him and wins that round. Next match, Benimaru finally punishes a shadow dash with Iaido kick. MadKOF's Duo Lon pushes him into the corner and keeps him there for half life. Bala fulljumps straight up and comes down with a drill kick. Duo Lon's 2C whiffs cause he did it early and Bala gets an EX Command Grab combo. Duo Lon jabs a hop and then Bala stands in front of him and Iaido1's twice. MadKOF 6A's the second one and combos. Puts him in the corner, butt poof shenanigans, then backs up and lets him out. Benimaru catches a great hit, Ex Raijinken supers and leaves Duo Lon at 30 health. Duo Lon rushes back in and almost 2A's, trying to low profile Beni's hop j.D, but it doesn't happen and he gets clocked in the head. Chin comes in, Bala gets a good EX Command grab off of a reset, but no combo. He instead jumps over him to change up where the screen is so he can cross up drill kick, but messes it up and gets thrown. Shen comes in and gets like 3 counter hit j.CD's, a couple 2B's, reading every single attempt MadKOF does and just plain beats it all out. He gets a good hit and combos into uppercut, then goes for a reset. MadKOF doesn't really care and steamrolls him in HD Mode cause Bala didn't block a low into crouch stance. MadKOF drops the combo, then misses an overhead link. Bala rolls outta there. Three big jumping attacks later, Chin kicks Shen out. Takuma comes in and tries to bait something with 2B. MadKOF EX Rollpunches the recovery frames. Takuma gets a good command grab and combos the old man into his rocking chair. Kim comes out. Bala tries to EX something, I can't see what it is, but gets stuffed by a standing Blowback from Kim into the corner. Kim comes down with a couple overheads, all blocked, then takes a step and a half back and fakes him out. Bala stops blocking and MadKOF 2B's for a combo. Two more overheads and MadKOF hops back and Bala takes the bait AGAIN and gets EX Flipkicked into Flash Kicked. Bala manages to get out of the corner with a Special Kick, tries to hop j.CD, but MadKOF sees it and Jayoku's. Bala wakes up, blocks the first overhead, then tries to 2B. MadKOF hops again, j.D's, 2B's, and wins EVO. Very very hype set. Easily gets both my biased and my unbiased vote for hypest set of the entire weekend. MadKOF was just crazy on point, making incredible reads and predictions, getting into Bala's head and forcing mistakes out of him. Bala did really well and almost pulled it out in the first set, but just let it go and couldn't seal the deal. Edited July 10, 2012 by Milln
LastStarSaviour Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Woz, why is it that we end up playing the same characters in every game, minus BB?
Grimstar Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 For now what are we running Gear on? PS2 or 3? I has no PS2 stick.
Urichinan Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Woz, why is it that we end up playing the same characters in every game, minus BB? Because we're the most amazing guys of all time, obviously. XD I just bought KoF, so Milln, time to get to writing. :P
Jackie Chandler Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 @Jackie: if you have time to make that, Skullgirls better be uploaded or uploading. ... I knew I was forgetting something. They're uploading now. @ Chandler: Hmmm, I might need to make one called "Is Astaroth good at this game?" What program did you make that with? Looks like Paint... lol I used Gimp- it's basically the cheap man's Photoshop. But don't worry about it, I already whipped this up for ya:
Urichinan Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Jesus, Mai is awesome. I've already figured out some really basic BnB's in training mode. (Yes, yes, I know, practicing combos should be the first thing I do. :P) I also really like Mature and Elizabeth, but Robert and Duo Lon are fun too. So I'm going to try and find one other character I like and try to learn all 6 of them.
Milln Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Jesus, Mai is awesome. I've already figured out some really basic BnB's in training mode. (Yes, yes, I know, practicing combos should be the first thing I do. :P) Stop it. Stop it now! >=O Messing around with what links into what is cool, but don't get sucked in to practicing long, meter dependent combos or HD shenanigans. That is a mistake. So is trying to read frame data and other such stuff. That kind of thing doesn't -matter- to you right now. Get used to the system, learn how to move, learn how drive cancels work, feeling your normals out is very important. Nothing else matters. I'll write up a bit in a bit about some bits. I have company over and we're going to grab some foodses. Also, no matter how much I write, how in depth I go, how informative it is, it won't help if you don't understand. It's one thing to read, it's another to do. @Pretty Grim-lookin' Star: Ps2. I have a ps2 stick I'll be bringing with me to tournaments that i'll loan out for eight bucks a game. Edited July 10, 2012 by Milln
Astaroth136 Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Mr. Milln, when is this July weeaboo gathering with tournaments? EDIT Holy mother of Zeus, Sevierville is further away than the Alabama tourneys. Edited July 10, 2012 by Astaroth136
Urichinan Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Stop it. Stop it now! >=O Messing around with what links into what is cool, but don't get sucked in to practicing long, meter dependent combos or HD shenanigans. That is a mistake. So is trying to read frame data and other such stuff. That kind of thing doesn't -matter- to you right now. Get used to the system, learn how to move, learn how drive cancels work, feeling your normals out is very important. Nothing else matters. I'll write up a bit in a bit about some bits. I have company over and we're going to grab some foodses. Also, no matter how much I write, how in depth I go, how informative it is, it won't help if you don't understand. It's one thing to read, it's another to do. I've been working on links for like an hour. I hate links, so, so much. Even something as simple as Mai's 2LP > 2HP is really difficult for me. @_<
Milln Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 Mr. Milln, when is this July weeaboo gathering with tournaments? EDIT Holy mother of Zeus, Sevierville is further away than the Alabama tourneys. This weekend. July 13th-15th. Click on the Opening Post image. I've been working on links for like an hour. I hate links, so, so much. Even something as simple as Mai's 2LP > 2HP is really difficult for me. @_< I have no strong feelings either way on links. Two of my characters link their stuff constantly, one links off of a particular combo. =O
Klein Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 I'll keep my stick with the setup too, unless I need it for something else, which I doubt
Papstr Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) I'll keep my stick with the setup too, unless I need it for something else, which I doubt Don't come cryin' to me when you need a stick for somethin' else though, since you just hate mine soooo much :P EDIT: Lol at milln's reaction to combo practice. It's not like he doesn't have a point though. Feeling moves and stuff is always most important. There may not always be a chance where you can hitconfirm into a combo; but there's always a time you can poke somebody successfully. *sagely nod* Plus it's not like "press a button twice and then cancel into a special (like cr.B cr.B FLASHKICK)" isn't enough to get by early on anyway. :U EDIT: Goddamnit Naimat. Edited July 10, 2012 by Papstr
Seiki Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Don't come cryin to me when you need a stick for somethin else though, since you just hate mine soooo much :P I read this in the gayest way possible. You two love touchin each other's sticks and bootyholes.
Alphakami Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Woz, why is it that we end up playing the same characters in every game, minus BB? I don't, but I'm both old and awesome. For now what are we running Gear on? PS2 or 3? I has no PS2 stick. How for we run GG on a system that it's not yet released for? There will be multiple loaner sticks, no worries ho-sauce. Yo, Alabama tournament on Aug. 4 (details in the works). Some of you a-holes should travel once in a while. It's only about 2 hours away, and with a car full, you don't really lose gas money. I"d like to try to go, and I have room for passengers. Alot of the Bama players are super cool guys. Phil, we should really go just to talk to some of the bama guys about gear. I bet Darius, Wes, and Issac would play. I dunno if Ben is sill alive. Gear Round Robin Ranbats seems like the way to go. I'll be happy to shoulder the responsibility of running it and making sure we've got at least 3 setups for it. Chandler, I'm going to IK (astral) the FUCK out of you, so hard. My only regret is that it will kill you instantly, which prevents me from doing it to you twice per round.
Urichinan Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Well, I'm really feeling Elizabeth. Her normals are solid and hit confirming with her isn't too hard. Her combos are basic and don't require a large amount of meter. I'm trying to get down her links now. The easiest thing I've found so far is Normals > 6LK > 623HP > Hop j.HK > 2363214P I'm trying to figure out her links, but I can't figure out what connect into what. Her HP and HK normals are so slow. @_@
Papstr Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) Chandler, I'm going to IK (astral) the FUCK out of you, so hard. My only regret is that it will kill you instantly, which prevents me from doing it to you twice per round. So much malice. DAMNIT, its too long for a signature. one more thing, Tad, I'm going to VV (inferno divider) the FUCK out of you, so hard. My only regret is that it won't kill you instantly, which forces me to do it to you twice or more per round. Edited July 10, 2012 by Papstr
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