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There is also a Sol one: http://myfigurecollection.net/item/198530

All these training dummies, man.

About damn time. Hope Europe will be saved from Zen United, as well.

How does holding the button affect the item toss?

That's the quotes that all characters say in May's IK. Didn't expect them to voice unique lines for that, actually. You know there's something wrong about your posts when the Tapatalk signature makes up 95% of it.

The logos are there in case you've been watching the series and just want to know which one is which. In case you haven't, here's a list (in the voting order): - Voicing "What if" BB lines - Drawing "grimoires" from random names sent by viewers - Various "battles" - Adding missing elements to unfinished pictures - Reading lines that fit Ragna's Astral Heat - Teaching about various fighting game terminology - Discussing possible new modes in BB - Discussion of various polls taken on the website - Discussing and predicting various outcomes of said polls - Again, voicing "What if?" BB lines - Discussing various ideas for goods that the listeners send in - Not sure about this one, never seen it (and there's no description of it on the page) - Similar to the Grimoire drawings, but it's Nox Nyctores instead

...But that's true for every single option out there. I think no one at this point thinks that spamming a single move can ever lead to good results, be it a random drive or whatever. They can simply look at your staff to know what item you have, you know. Sure, most of her items are good against all characters, but there are many cases in each match where getting wrong items just makes things that much harder for you. Imagine getting blown away by Nu's sickle and having hammer equipped (with, say, pan next in line), or getting no bats for the whole match against Tao or Valk. Sometimes your gameplan is simply not good enough without proper items: sure, sometimes you can get a win despite getting screwed by RNG, but that's not too likely if your opponent knows how to capitalize on your shortcomings.

What. Drive is what all characters are built around, you cannot do well if you don't use it properly (with Hakumen probably being the only exception). If you're not using Plat's Drive, you're gimping yourself for no reason. Her randomness means that you're not guaranteed to get those rockets to approach a zoner, or get that bat to get people off of you meterless. Lots of characters can do both at any time, but she cannot, even if these tools are a bit more powerful to compensate. And even then, you can get stuff like the present or the piko-piko hammer, which are pretty useless unless upgraded.

Guess who's the latest addition to the playable roster? http://cdn01.animenewsnetwork.com/images/cms/news/71099/002-copy-2.jpg

vs Hazama: 第94回 a-cho BBCP関西ランバト終了後 野試合(2014.1.30) 【五井チャリ】1221ブレイブルー かきゅん（RG・HZ） VS ウィード（BU）pu [ui-do] vs Jin: 【五井チャリ】1221ブレイブルー 段位制限大会 pu [Juno] vs Nu: 【五井チャリ】1221ブレイブルー レディース大会 決勝他 [ui-do] vs Ragna: 【五井チャリ】1221ブレイブルー かきゅん（RG・HZ） VS ウィード（BU）pu [ui-do] vs Tager: a-cho BBCP　第94回関西ランバト（2014.1.30）

Should've expected multiple options with a single Assist character from those newcomer descriptions, especially Erio's. Weird that they didn't say anything about giving them to Hina, though.

I think that article also mentions that bursts now last longer (have more active frames?).

I think Orie fits your description the most, since she has decent mix-ups along with some obscene oki options. Though honestly, I haven't watched that many UNiB replays yet.

This sounds like every single ASW pre-release loketest, where they're doing lots of silly stuff and then revert it back on the game's actual release. I wouldn't worry too much about all these changes, really.

Huh, there's a lot of cool stuff buried here. I'll leave it to Suzaku or someone with more free time on their hands to translate all of it, but here are the Senate quotes (no idea where exactly in the game they're supposed to come from). Might translate the Bardius stuff too later. "My name is Chronos. I am the leader of the Senate." "We, the four sages, form the Senate." "Most of this world is already under our control." "The plan is proceeding steadily. Everything is fine." "The Illyrian King knows too much. We'll have to bring him down, but it might be too early for that..." "Of the Core Unit, we possess not only Senga, but Ekitoku and Kojouhaku, as well." "When St.Elmo's Light appears, we shall become the gods who oversee this world." "Guiding the world is our mission." (blue) "Humanity's future... Can only depend on us as its true leaders!" (blue) "Soon, the world is going to be optimized by our hand." (blue) "Sol... After all, you have decided to oppose us. We cannot let you to stand in our way any longer." (red)

They didn't allow any footage on any of the previous loketests, didn't stop our informants from recording it. Also, I don't like the "Ram-chan" nickname for Valentine, mostly because it's too similar to Lambda (and she already looks pretty similar to her).

vs Bang: 【五井チャリ】1215ブレイブルー りょーた(BA)10段への道 ダイジェスト [CLASE] 【五井チャリ】1215ブレイブルー りょーた(BA) VS CLASE(BU)pu [CLASE] vs Hakumen: BBCP 1/31/2014 Cat's Eye Machida 2on2 Part 1/3 [sakagami] vs Hazama: BBCP 1/31/2014 Tachikawa Red VS White part 1/5 [Merry / Meri] vs Taokaka: BBCP 1/31/2014 Tachikawa Red VS White part 1/5 [Merry / Meri] vs Valkenhayn: BBCP 1/31/2014 Cat's Eye Machida Red VS White Part 3/3 [sakagami]

You can always leave a post requesting some info there, even if there are no other posts. I'll have to play some games with my local Arakune to say anything specific and not theory-fighting, especially since he seems so different from Extend.

Oh, okay, just checked the original article, and that line is there. Basically just skipped it because I assumed it only describes how her moves look, not how she actually plays.

Well, approaching zoners is actually one of its main purposes, it's just that its cooldown and invuln frames make it easy for the opponent to punish you if you don't space it correctly (i.e., if you don't get a hard read at a very specific range). Even dashing behind a Flint Shooter is more reliable.

Sounds fair to me. I mean, Tager wasn't really broken last time I checked, and command throws have quite a lot of advantages over Haku's specials (can't be blocked, don't cost meter, can't be burst out of).

I'm not sure she makes the teammates attack for her, since the only relevant screenshot so far has a teammate passing the ball to her. Though honestly, that's probably the most obvious way to go about her, yeah.

Around March for the arcades, April 14th on Vita, May on PS3.

I dunno about that: you were one of our main sources of info on the last two loketests, though I suppose more people are going to look for info when we don't have a guaranteed source. So yeah, don't worry, we'll manage.

Spinal's right around the corner, and we finally get a clear shot of Fulgore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycoxJjWRbQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEeDteX2BY