LordPangTong

Greetings again, SoCal Anime players! The tournament run at everyone's new favorite pizza spot in El Segundo, CA is hosting its second tournament on April 16! Spread the word and follow me on Twitter for updates about the event! You have 3 weeks to plan out how to get here. (Twitter: twitter.com/lpt_actionwoman ) Tournament name: LA Battle Royale Address: Ugly Pie Co. - 2161 E El Segundo Blvd, El Segundo, CA, 90045 When: Sunday Feb 21, Venue opens at 11 AM, tournament times listed below Venue Fee: $5 Tournament Fees: $5 Stream: twitch.tv/lordpangtong *If you can bring setups, let me know ahead of time and your venue fee will be waived! Games: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax- Starts 3 PM Under Night In-Birth- Starts 4 PM Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend- Starts 5 PM Guilty Gear Xrd- Starts 6 PM Pokken Tournament- 5 PM Just a few extra notes: Parking at the venue is free. (There is a small lot) It's located in a small plaza with a Farmer Boys and a 7/11. If you're taking public transportation to get here, take any metro to the either the Aviation Blvd stop or the Nash St stop and you'll be in walking distance. After paying venue fee, the Ugly Pie Co. will have discounted pizzas for everyone at the tournament. Take advantage of it! I only have two setups of my own so please let me know if you can bring anything =D If you plan on bringing a setup, let me know ASAP so that I can add you to the list of providers. I will be cutting this off after a certain point this time!

Greetings SoCal anime players! I'm going to be hosting a tournament for the above games at a restaurant in El Segundo called Ugly Pie Co.! Below are some details: Tournament name: LA Battle Royale Address: Ugly Pie Co. - 2161 E El Segundo Blvd, El Segundo, CA, 90045 When: Sunday Feb 21, Venue opens at 11 AM, tournament times listed below Venue Fee: $5 Tournament Fees: $5 Stream: twitch.tv/lordpangtong *If you can bring setups, let me know ahead of time and your venue fee will be waived! Games: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax- Starts 3 PM Under Night In-Birth- Starts 4 PM Blazblue Chronophantasma Extend- Starts 5 PM Guilty Gear Xrd- Starts 6 PM Just a few extra notes: Parking at the venue is free. (There is a small lot) It's located in a small plaza with a Farmer Boys and a 7/11. If you're taking public transportation to get here, take any metro to the either the Aviation Blvd stop or the Nash St stop and you'll be in walking distance. After paying venue fee, the Ugly Pie Co. will have discounted pizzas for everyone at the tournament. Take advantage of it! I only have two setups of my own so please let me know if you can bring anything =D Any questions, post here, DM me, or message me on Twitter! (@LPT_actionwoman)

In terms of combo scaling j.a> j2c. I actually couldn't figure out a good combo off j2c (even level 2), including the combo that works off ja. Not sure if George still slightly unscales your combo like in CP, but as of right now ja is better in most situations. J2c is windless instant overhead option but other than that not so good. That said, j2c -> 6a 4b no longer works. The best I could get off of it was jbc jbc lobelia apparently there are new combos that involve mid-combo ivy set? Sounds hella good, I'm gonna test some time after NEC because I'm worried it will mess up CPEX execution lol

So this is a video of my playing from Round 1 in SoCal this past weekend against some Nine player. It was early in the day so my confirms were kinda crap. :X Anyways this version of Rachel is really solid feeling. Definitely a lot of fun to play. Was thinking about posting up some matchup analyses once the game has been out a little longer. Let me know if you have any questions or want to hear more about BBCF Rachel!

^ webs set post 623C are super charged. They don't get disarmed by things that normally would, so currenlty everyone is scared to move/poke when he puts you in the corner or else they get hit by webs lol yay Byakuya!

This is something about Byakuya: https://twitter.com/ohittou/status/601635616875360256 send help.

Socal team is: brkrdave, LPT, KFL, Kizzie_Kay, iPhail, Huey and 1 more

So this is actually going to be the location where the SoCal vs NorCal UNIEL clash is taking place! There will be a 7on7 as well as a singles tournament ($5 entry, not $1) Any UNIEL players, please make it out to this!

P4U2 Labrys actually troubles me. While the new gatlings/hop cancels help to improve her pressure, I don't think this makes up for the fact that her default axe level is now blue axe. Current P4U Labrys could spend 25 meter and bring herself up to red axe, which is where Labrys wants to be. Now, It seems the only way to go from blue -> red in one combo requires at least 25 meter plus a burst. Without that burst, the most you will get out of a 25 meter combo is yellow axe, which doesn't quite cut it. Her okizeme got a huge nerf with the removal of held sword trap so it is tougher for her to maintain momentum off a hit. Even moreso than in P4U, Labrys has issues holding her axe levels which severely limits her damage. All just my opinion, but after all's said and done considering she has worse oki and spends less time in red axe, I'd say Labrys got worse.

@papermarkis- Yes, the new auto combo is OMC-able. It is in fact the most common place where players are bursting the unblockable maragi setup. Haven't seen any JP Yukikos OMC'ing on reaction to burst there, however. If you hard bait without the reaction, the loss of damage would be huge. I'm pretty sure their mindset is that if anything, it will force the other person to use their burst after getting hit by 5AAA. @Etherlight- 5AA is jc-able, but I don't think 5AAA is. (No video has indicated so thus far) Some players do burst after 236D is input, but the 236D is active enough that it punishes the burst with it's second hit. Yukiko can't combo it obviously, but I think this may deter some people from bursting that point. On the note of Shadow Yukiko, I think the general consensus on her is that she's flat out inferior to regular Yukiko. Yukiko's new auto combo is an enormous buff because it leads to the unblockable setup that does large (and easy) damage. Plus, she has a burst to work with. Shadow goes back to the old auto combo, so she has no braindead unblockable to run. I have a hunch that she has untapped potential in shadow rampage mode that we haven't seen yet, but I don't know that it makes up for the loss of her unblockable in regular form. Luckily, I will soon be able to test her myself when I move to Japan in a little over a month.

@Toronto Where's K2?! And what the heck. I already signed up for BB but I'll fraud it up in GG as well =D edit: Are we running P4U teams? We should. And it should be 3on3

I'll play BB too!

Thanks for talking to the TO, SuperJ! Just a bit of my personal input regarding a few things you mentioned: -system should be PS3 since the majority of our P4U players play on that system -70/20/10 it standard most places so I think we should split the pot accordingly -I would personally prefer Saturday over Sunday to run P4U, seeing as I'm pretty much travelling to GUTS exclusively for anime games and it would be nice to have more than just casuals on Friday/Saturday -If you need help TO'ing anime tournaments at all, talk to me and MindGam3 And a quick question: can we stream?

This tournament was a ton of fun! Big shoutout to Daiandoh, Biscuits, LI Joe and everyone else on the staff who made the event run smoothly and possible! Another shoutout to Bibi and Sp00ky for streaming! Having top 4 on the big stage was hella hype. Level 5- Your Tsubaki was too ham for me. I gotta pay more attention to some chars in that game obviously haha. Tsunna- GGs in tournament and gratz on takin the BB tournament. Nasty Bang color too strong. Zealous- good job making top 8 man! Pretty cool seeing another Yukiko make it far =D Sucks we had to play a mirror on stream though. GGs! VR Raiden- great meeting you and fun tournament match. You'll qualify out of your pool next time I promise lol Grover- Why you so strong? Good stuff takin the P4U tournament Daiandoh- Yo, just so you know, abbreviation for Yukiko is (YK) and Rachel is (RC). As it is now, it looks like I play boring protag characters >=( Roku, Colpevole, Ril, Pochp and everyone else I saw over the weekend- great seeing you all again!

Hey guys, go to GUTS and play fighting games imo. Info thread here -> http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?16418-Game-Underground-Presents-GUTS-2-Boston-MA-June-14-16-P4A-BB-GG&p=1502499#post1502499 P.S.: Millia's new hat is pretty okay