Zeromus_X

I'm totally down as long as it's a Friday or on the weekend.

One thing I really liked from those matches was the way Denpa covered setting a trap with falling or airdash jA. It stopped the Chie players from just mindlessly pushing buttons to beat out a trap set almost every time. Denpa is truly our savior, and it's awesome to see new footage of him play, but those Chie and Yu players were pretty herpaderp imo. I want to see how Denpa handles the Chie, Yu, and especially Teddie matchups against higher level players.

GGs everyone, was nice to mash with everyone at an event again. And Ryan, I'll still play Persona, but it's annoying to lose because of Naoto's bad normals and stupid matchups against the top tier. It's a fun game but I dunno if I'll really take it seriously competitively. I'm ready for +R and BBCP anyways.

@Freedom_Pulse: Naoto is pretty fun, except when you have no anti-air and people just herpderp into your face. I like Gatecrash, but after five+ hours of Magic, I was like "no more...please...". From a Limited perspective, I like it a lot more than RTR.

Gatecrash prerelease is at 6 Fffuuuck

On my way to PCP now.

I'm totally down Mikey. And I'd honestly rather see Skullgirls over Melee, hopefully it keeps the lead in donations.

Ruben usually hosts on Fridays, just not this Friday because he's out of town. Speaking of which, I have work off on Fridays now. Anyone wanna hang at PCP tomorrow?

CP looks to be shaking things up a little bit with cancels - like Ragna's 22C dash/special cancel or Mu and Tsubaki's D cancel after some special moves, for example. But yeah, it would be nice if there was more variety than the typical gatling into special cancel stuff, lack of things like FRCs kind of limits BB in that aspect.

Welcome Sam, nice to see a new face in the AZ thread. It would be great if you could make it to one of Ruben's gatherings in Tempe sometime - we promise we're even weirder in person not as weird as we're portrayed in this thread. 4 pack of Red Bull at the CVS on the strip was like $16...and those were cheap prices

Yeah Chris, all my paychecks are coming in on time now. I'm totally down for another EVO trip, as long as we buy food and stuff from Walgreens or somewhere beforehand, Vegas convenience stores are straight up robbery. I want to try the Coco Loco this time

Marq, it's the ASUS VH236H. It's the official monitor of EVO due to it's supposed minimal lag compared to other monitors. I hope P4A can still get some turnout at the HazBats, but yeah, animay games always take backseat to Capcom fighters.

Is this in CSEX? TK Habaya is good in blockstrings, pretty safe if you space it right, can extend your pressure or do throw bait shenanigans. Not sure about CP since it looks noticeably slower but we can probably get away with using it occasionally. It's also good to mix in your oki, like knockdown > charge stein > TK Habaya. At this point, the habaya forces them to block, while allowing you to still recover in time to block if they commit to a reversal, and a charged laser giving you a chance at mixup. This is just one example, you can get really creative, and again, this may not work as well in CP. Airthrow > TK Habaya is pretty good too, gets them scared after you've already been doing 2B meaty/crossunder(or not) setups. If they neutral tech, the Habaya is super meaty and you can do whatever you want.

Updating the video thread would certainly be appreciated, even if JP Naoto footage is pretty scarce nowadays. And frankly, most of them only win a few games, look like they're hot shit, and then lose to some random Chie/Aigis/Yu player anway. Still, you never know when there'll be a good video of a matchup you don't see too often.

Great stuff Diarmuid. Only a couple things I want to ask about, what other characters does the jA fuzzy guard work on besides Yu? I always thought he was the only one it worked on, it would be great if it worked on other chars too. Also, what is the input for the throw OS after a safejump? Do you just input throw before actually landing? Would be great for chars like Elizabeth that just want to dice roll DP/quick escape/2B every single wakeup.

GGs to you too. Yeah I'm surprised I did half of my Tsubaki combos without dropping. Also going back to BB after playing P4A so much, all my dashing 5A/B/Cs become dashing 6A/B/Cs. Yeah I thought you might be getting frustrated against Mu so I tried to play Rachel, but then I couldn't even do a level 2 j2C combo lol. I think you should try to throw bait and TRM me more to open me up, I'm really free to throw baits and I actually OS barrier a lot lol. If you're gdlk, throw bait into DP D for crazy damage (for Jin anyway). But yeah, Jin is apparently silly in CP so that matchup should be more even then. Omg this happens to me all the time. I haven't really messed with it yet, but apparently if you OS a counter assault with 6A+B+C, you'll get a throw instead of a 6B or whatever if there's a gap in the opponent's string.

Omg Steve. Can't wait to hit by ice swords. Also does anyone here know anything about SFxT 2013? Like, is it actually a legit game now? Also hoping GG gets voted in as the mystery game.

So how bout dat P4A at EVO

Is anyone planning on going to the P4A side tourney at UAT on the 2nd? Also Ruben you should totally make an EDH deck

How could I forget?

Ruben are you hosting tonight?

GGs RockVolnuttX and Dropped_Inputs. Those were some pretty good games until my room imploded. Anyone else having trouble with PSN right now?

GGs to Nerdchill. It was super sad/hilarious when Yu's DP went through my burst.

Yeah, meaty attacks or backing up are the way to go, also it's totally free to meaty throws.

Oh man, I can't believe I haven't heard of this already. I can't count how many times I've tried to counter assault, but a small gap in the opponent's string makes me do 6B and get CH instead.