LunaKage

Nigga.

It's a bit of both, for some characters, you can only follow up with Dash 6C if they are REALLY high up, on those characters you can Dash 2A > 6C for a modified bit of damage, on bigger characters or characters with longer hitboxes you can follow up with Dash 6C pretty easy though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgFotQA_v8 How you need to follow up a 4D fatal on Rachel, I could have done 2 more reps but I got lazy and knew the combo would kill anyway.

This man is my hero, and it takes a lot for me to say that about an Arakune player. I don't really know the Lingo on Ara's end so it makes it a little harder for me to explain things :C

The matchup has changed, but it's the same basic deal: Chase Arakune and hope to Jesus Kick that you somehow beat his j.B. Except now Noel is better at it, it's probably still Noel's worst matchup but now she actually has tools to deal with it. I can't say I know everything about it however since SKYE IS ALWAYS DODGING CASUALS.

Which is why I said use it for recurse. And CA is a good tool, but I wouldn't call it the best, even if we go through your stuff, we still have to deal with an onslaught of bugs still falling from the Sky, Makoto's parry I'd place as Curse mod god tier. You can bait her CA with the D bug, and it will actually CH us out of CA, her CA has recovery, it's not instant as soon as we pass through you, hell Skye has hit me out of so many CAs I usually only use it once in a blue moon now out of fear of getting smashed by an 8k combo. But I mean, keep at it I guess, you don't have to follow my advice, I'll just keep winning then :3

I agree with Skye's post mostly, except I'd place the matchup as even at worst, and at best 6/4 in Ara's favor, sure we do a ton of damage but one mistake and we're cursed, and Noel can't handle being cursed. A bit of advice though, if you have Noel cursed just be a primer monster, she's only got four and Curse lockdown makes gobbling our primers easy, even if you can't break us by the end of curse we should have one primer left and no barrier, in which case break us just as curse ends and get in Dat FoG for recurse. I'd like to note no Arakune has don that on me, despite my advice other-wise ;w;

2D > d.5C > d.6A > d.6C usually works, from there go right into muzzle filter or Optic Barrel, not exactly max damage, but if you normally do 2D > d.5C, by that time you can usually confirm that you would need that 6A to get closer.

When Magnetized you have 3 options 1. Jump 2. Don't Jump 3. Run Up And Grab 1. Jumping will cause Noel to fly to the other side of the screen, the only thing that will really beat this is Atomic Collider, which makes Noel cry when she is in the air. 2. Not jumping will work against Atomic Collider, and is much safer than the third option, however if Tager uses 6A, you are now right where he wants you, as well as the rest of his drives and command grabs, so if you aren't jumping, be ready to block. 3. This beats Atomic Collider and his 6A, but is extremely dangerous since it straight up loses to everything else. You can also use 2B as a substitute for grab if you prefer. Above all else, fucking pray.

If your 5A isn't 5 frames, you're doing it wrong ;3

Expect me to start posting matches of my scrubby Makoto soon, I made a promise to a friend that I would learn her.

Fighting the computer is a terrible idea if you have live opponents, it would only teach you more bad habits, since the computer(especially on 100 difficulty) isn't gonna bother blocking, Bolt's biggest fault is that he doesn't know when to attack, and how to hit confirm when he finally does. Fighting the CPU with the difficulty that high is only gonna make that worse.

Omniswell is a real dude, you'll get to see him when the vids come up.

I reviewed a couple of matches, and it was funny when Axis said I was "Dropping staggers", I lol'd because I thought if anyone knew what I was actually doing at that point it would be him, but I guess I was wrong :C Yeah I'll upload the vids, we only missed three matches, and they were just a few squash matches anyway, the only one I was bummed that didn't get recorded was me and Jay, because I feel like I show off my non D side the most in Jin matches.

This thread says season 6, I thought you said it was season 5 Toasty, who am I supposed to believe? IRL Toasty or DL Toasty? Also what were the placings of the round robin on Friday? I need to list them in the videos since the winners wouldn't be obvious just by watching as in a real tourney set up.

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?11200-CS2-Noel-Tutorial-Video-Thread.&p=962504#post962504

lol OK Killi.

There are character matchups and then there are player matchups, both are completely different and equally important in the long run.

LK, how do I deal with people hating on top tier?

Yeah, I think that is likely how Saya will be portrayed. The alternative could be Noel using Mu as a super form, like during the final battle Noel faces Litchi, and in an effort to lower Noel's resolve Litchi places her panda between her breasts and taunts Noel with both assets. Noel has a BSOD and turns into Mu and kicks some ass.

Judging by the ending of CS, Nu is coming back.

I like the second statement alot. But the first statement makes me sad, Ve you should play Noel a bit against players that know what they are doing.

Yeah but Ve's idea would be just as good for that, except you would need to follow up with a normal instead of having an auto attack. The reason I really like the idea is because I wouldn't be forced to go into panic mode every time I push the D button and it didn't hit.

You're thinking j.4D, I wouldn't miss that move, I'm saying her j.D where she fires the guns downward. Like it could be her air knockdown move, if they improved the hitbox a bit, and made the recovery on landing less. Alternatively they could make it a j.2C input so it wouldn't mess with her Drives not being attacks anymore.

I'd be cool with it, my only complaint would be that she would do next to no damage, her drives and drive followups are crucial to her combos, even if the starter is not a drive. So I guess if they buffed her specials in certain ways, like allowing RB to combo on normal hit, and thus have it be a standard combo linker, maybe have her air moves do better damage. I could deal with no attack drives. Perhaps keep j.D because the move is awesome. But if that happened, what would her CA be? like her normal drives would be limited dodges but her CA would be a perfect dodge?