Xtra_Zero

There are some situations where Nu gets frame advantage even after Act Pulsar.

Nono, like, I go to arcade, I play gaem, gaem feels different. I don't think CS has Negative Edge either. Though I didn't explicitly test for that.

Something ... feels .. different about CS. Things feel snappier, more GG-like. Did they ditch the stupid buffer CT had?

About 6B, can someone confirm that it doesn't chain into ANYTHING anymore? Before it was useful in combos to do a little more damage and to space properly for lobelia after CDC, but when I played at AI it seemed like you couldn't do ANYTHING after it...

Joking dude. Chill. Pumpkin is SUPPOSED to do that. It's Rachel's ONLY decent approach. It's supposed to be really good. The trick to beating j.2C (or almost any overhead for that matter) is not to block and punish, but to predict and beat it out. I can't think of any other character that has a punishable overhead. Characters with good head-invulnerable moves can beat it cleanly even in the tightest Rachel blockstrings (Hakumen 6A, Ragna ID, Jin DPs, etc.).

Know what Rachel needs? Lobelia and Sword Iris FRCs.

Alright, so let's talk basic Rachel gameplan now. Right now my plan involves running around, nickeling and diming the opponent with Lobelias, random j.B/C hits, airgrabs, and avoiding cqc. Running out of wind = you die, but it's very hard to conserve wind now because making opponents block George COSTS wind to send him in. 6A feels REAL bad now, it's slower and the range sucks, from what I could tell you might have better luck anti-airing with 236a. You can't really charge in with it anymore. Which basically leaves shitty pumpkin -> dash in -> 5B. Which doesn't even work that well as an approach. I'll mess more with pumpkin today but god pumpkin feels so risky now. I almost don't want to use it because wind is more important for other things.

So how about that CS Carl matchup? Seriously. You can't rush him, you can't zone him, you can't wait for him to approach you. How does Rachel even have a shot in hell?

Their hours of closing are pretty ambiguous. Usually the owner lets people stay there for quite some time after the doors are locked. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to find a day where people aren't swarming the BB machine what with CS just arriving, but friday saturday and sunday are the busiest days from what I've seen.

God damn it that means it's on that damn Samsung. That display can suck it. It lags through the entire match! The lag on that screen is worse than the vast majority of my online matches. I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this. We should definitely tell the operator about it, maybe ask him to check for a "game" mode and turn off some postprocessing bullshit. No, he means the screen. The screen lags like mad. Occasionally, yeah, the buttons on P2 side will drop an input, but that rarely happens, and I'd attribute it more to not timing the input right because of the lag on the screen.

What type of cabinet is "The Ride"?

Wait what? I thought wind recovery stopped while she was attacking?

Digging Rachel's new voice. Also digging the fact that she managed to keep a variant of my favorite IAD combo.

Wait A Lobelia is faster?!!!?

193D6 swoop seems to be the optimal IAD here. It allows Rachel to clear Nu's 5D and hit her with j.B quickly without the risk of overshooting her or not falling fast enough and being forced to revolve into j.A proration. Also allows Rachel to land before starting the attack (IAD standing 5B!) and I haven't tried it yet but maybe even a CH 6B if you're fast enough but I doubt it.

I too am under the impression that he can do as many D cars as he has meter for.

God I hope 6A 63214D6C still works. Otherwise Rachel will have even less reasons to use meter. Did we ever figure out if it was the frog that prorated the fuck out of BBL, or is BBL just shit for damage now? Both? Anyone got the numbers for raw BBL damage?

Hahaha yeah I meant removing A wind bar not THE wind bar. Yeah that would be so broke it would be hilarious.

I still think nearly all problems are solved by removing a wind bar.

I think what happened was that in CT, Rachel was able to be really awesome and fun to play as a rusher by accident. Now Arcsys is like "We didn't mean to make a character this cool and incredibly well designed, we're going to put limitations on her so that she drops down to the level we initially had in mind." Yep.

I think it's worth pointing out that this combo works on every character (including extra pole damage), it's just easier to land on Ragna and for some characters you have to modify things a little bit (Nu requires a + 6B after the 5B, Tager requires an extra wind (63214D6C) if you want the extra pole damage, you have to delay the lobelia longer for some characters, etc.). If you find you don't have enough heat for BBL, you can substitute [j.B] j.C [j.B] j.C 236A.

I like it.

I think you mean instead of both lol.

Srsly that BBL at the end of that combo in the video did like 300 dmg.

In the Rachel VS Jin vid, BBL gets mad prorated from something, probably frog.