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Back to normalcy; Chibi Orie released this time along with an announcement that the loketest was quite popular.

GG, GammaGearJustice. Someday, I will manage to lolinvul through your Astral. It turns out that today just wasn't that day. Shoutouts to coming off of a month long break not that much worse for wear. I'm not entirely certain that says good things about my skill level... Shoutouts to wake up reversal Konig Flug actually working.

If I remember correctly, it still works, but it's stupidly hard to do and not worth the effort. Especially so now that we have an easy [h]j.C > 2A/2B for all our wolf combo into human corner combo needs.

Oh... that's less interesting then. Do they say why there isn't much Waldstein info? Is he just that unpopular?

Thanks for all the movelist translations, SoWL. Now there's a 263 motion? Interesting...

Yeah, that was the other inb4. I just didn't want to make it too long. I know I should be happy that we're getting vids in general for this game, but I'm kinda annoyed at how few we got for this loketest. They must've really cracked down on it this time.

I will agree that they could have chosen a better face for her character portrait though. The fact that it can be interpreted as derpy in the first place doesn't make me all that happy with it. I'm just happy if this game gets a PS3 port that I can import.

It looks like you can at least block specials in the air, like Vatista is doing here, but I haven't seen anyone block ground normals in the air yet. On the note of not seeing things, I don't think I've seen anyone roll tech yet. Neutral get up seems to start immediately after they hit the ground.

Unfortunately not. Seth, Yuzuriha, and Hilda weren't playable this time around.

A 4gamer article confirms that Vatista and Merkava are in the next loketest. Still no news of Yuzuriha, Seth, or Hilda.

Chibi Carmine wallpaper now available. They claim they'll have more details about the next loketest in next week's update.

To beat Tager's backdash, you could try doing [[h]2A~2C] x N. If he backdashes, you'll just whiff the 2A into another 2A and be able to either react and hit him with 2C or keep mashing 2A until you hit him. If he blocks or jumps, you'll get 2A > 2C. Unfortunately, this leaves you open to 360/720. Trying to oki Tager just sucks in general...

There will be a loketest in early-mid June. Not that specific, but I'll take what I can get. Also, there's a chibi Waldstein wallpaper.

Chibi Linne Wallpaper now available.

*sigh* I know I'm just setting myself up for disappointment by hoping that something will actually happen in this one. I'm guessing that it'll be on their UStream.

Chibi Hyde wallpaper now available.

Since [h]236A can be rather easily combo'd off of in the corner at most heights and prorates the combo less, from a practical standpoint, I can't really think of a reason to do 3C > 236B~236B. That would however be interesting to see in a combo video, since 3C > 236B doesn't usually combo in this version of the game.

Hilda Twitter avas this time.

You can find a list of her frame traps in this post. Noel's 5A, 2A, 2B, and 2C are all good pressure tools thanks to them being either plus or very close to neutral on block. Mixing up staggering after any of them and frame trapping to prevent mashing should let you keep pressuring and force the opponent to take a risk to get out.

Happy Birthday, Hyde!

GGs to the people I played today. Shoutouts to xSOnatax for hatemailing twice after every queue dodge on Ranked. I appreciate the consistency.

Partial translation of Hilda's profile, courtesy of Erkz from Melty Bread:

GGs GGJ and OverlordCrimson.

News to me. Thanks, shtkn~. So from the sound of it, she's Lambda-esque?

It's probably just them making a joke about making Orie the main heroine instead of Linne due to Orie's overwhelming popularity at the loketests. If you look, they even replaced Linne with Orie on the main site banner.