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Low to the ground GMW is an amazing frame trap. It sticks your opponent in guard stun while you land. It also makes j.2k safe if GMW is executed low enough so landing cancels out the recovery frames. Make sure that you do this low, or you'll be stuck recovering from GMW mid air, with alot of recovery just ready to eat a free combo from your opponent.

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2S is a good anti-air against crossups. You just don't let him close in on your, which should be your usual game plan with Faust. Dizzy needs to summon her fish and bubble to put any kind of pressure on Faust. Use this opportunity to close in on her, kill her fish, and punish her for summoning. (Sorry I accidently edited your post, didn't make any changes, just clicked on the wrong thing)

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I'll add to Akira's comments. Yeah Ky is a zoner, but your zone game is better. Ky can't do any damage if he doesn't come to you. You have full advantage if you just stay back and throw items. Make him whiff his projectiles be crouching under them at full screen, or jumping over. Everything works. He won't get any damage unless he comes in. Thats when you got him! You have amazing anti-airs and ground normals. On the ground 2HS,5S are your best tools here, and in the air j.HS. Ofcourse they are most safe at their max ranges.

It points out a few things you had problems with. Besides that learning to anti-air is all about timing, and partially about setups. 5K has been toned down and rarely cleanly beats any other moves in the game. At best it'll trade or clash. 2K now is the superior anti-air for jump-ins. The worst thing you can do is making it a habit to react 5K.

In this thread I give a basic overview of all the anti-airs. http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3417

Sounds like a super jump install combo. Its just a variation on Faust's B&B. These variation are character specific, you eventually learn the right ones to do from practice.

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Arcades do have a start button, and its used for Taunting/Respect.

This will be in the first in a series of threads I would like to use to create a Faust guide, and ultimately make a useful Character matchup section. Please post only things Faust can crouch under, and if you can please provide a useful counter. Please don't use this thread for discussion, its only purpose is to help me combine the communities knowledge into a simple guide for everyone to use. I'll started of with a few off the top of my head, and you may follow my examples. Slayer: Mappa (crouch walk forward only) > possible counter with 2S > B&B Footloose (normal crouch, crouch forward) > possible counter with 2S >B&B I-No: 5s (Normal crouch, crouch forward) > (2S or c.5S) > B&B, 2S (counter) > 5D ~ 2p (normal, forward), 5P (all crouch) > throw Ky: Stun-edge (crouch forward) > normal throw Baiken: Grappling Hook (crouch forward) > 5S Potemkin: 5P (normal, forward) 5S (normal, forward) 2D > air B&B 6HS (forward) 2D > air B&B Robo-Ky: Bazooka (forward ) > 2S > B&B Sol: Bandit Bringer (normal crouch, crouch forward) > (2S or c.5S) > 2HS > Pull Bandit Revolver (crouch forward only) > (2S or c.5S) > 2HS > Pull Contributors dragonrunner400 Anakron

I don't think theres enough discussion to warrant a new forum. When people start talking more I'll think about it :P

Why don't you whine about it more

I'm not 100% sure what you're wanting to do. Are you saying you need to complete the encyclopedia section, thus you don't have time for matchups, or that you NEED matchup information for the encyclopedia. Unfortunately I think good matchup tips is the hardest thing to produce. There really are only a few matchups that you must play Faust differently than his normal game plan. I'm not confident in giving advice on those because I'm not 100% confident on my own tactics in those cases.

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Hot shit Kyle and R-Bill. You need to make my Faust combos look as good!

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Make sure to get some play in of BlazBlue at AOU Mike! I'm hoping there'll be a character similar to Faust. Try out the new okizeme-system as much as possible so we'll know how it plays!

Update Main Head: I don't usually post filebank vids cause I don't wanna explain how to use it :P There ya go, even though its Defure.

Fyi Marn you should know Capps has been recording tournaments matches at nearly EVERY major. Also, nobody was payed off not to post that vid of you. Me and Nate shared the video encoding work because it was nearly 8 hours of footage. Since nobody kept proper records of the matches outside of the tournament finals, it was nearly impossible to track down. You have to admit that SER-2 went very quickly, and the guys who were help running the thing were very busy keeping everything on track (including all the TN cats, and me :P) We could EASILY record highquality matches, the issue is getting ahold of whoever is running tournaments, getting the equipment setup, and having someone to stand around and monitor the hardware and take records of who plays who.

Update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwqDMek8G4 New Faust Combo video

Those were some sick Faust combos I made, dammmn.

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Don't usually post my own vids, not too proud of my mistakes, haha. Anyway if you wanna see some american Faust. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJAgFzB6FA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFry_VAO_E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjxwHm6TfA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyf-AoXCnbA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoqcxJ9Oho8 Casuals with locals we had a few weeks back.

if your opponent hits ANY button before you after the super is activated, they automatically get the angel. Hope that helps.