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You should watch the SBO 2004 finals. (They're #R, not ^C, but what makes each character irritating hasn't been changed all that much.) Yukinose's Bridget plays keepaway like the others have described, Imo's Zappa gets into a ridiculous campfest against Sharon's Baiken, and...well, Matsu's Millia shuts down Nemo's Faust aside from the first round, but you can find RF's Faust anywhere else on YouTube for a better example, even at Accent Core. Granted, these are some of the best players in the world, but the core aspects of their irritating gameplay can carry down to intermediate play (which is I guess where you are, like I probably am now after being months out of practice due to college), and I find Zappa annoying even when newbies pick him up.