Breakman6

XBL: Breakman6 West Coast, attempting to pick Makoto up, but still new to her.

Since this thread isn't up yet I guess I'll start it. Interesting matchup; Rachel may be F-tier, but she can play a very annoying keep-away game with her electric wallz. Anyone have any thoughts?

I started out as a Noel player because the idea of "fighting guns" amused me. Also because she's hot I then switched to Tager because I'm lazy and would rather do a 5 hit combo for a sizable chunk of life, rather than a 20 hit combo for the same. I also discovered my play style is definitely taking advantage of mistakes, and Tager is awesome at punishing. But I became a one trick pony in CT; I literally couldn't play anyone else except Tager. So when CS came out, I vowed to pick up an alt. I had already made a list in my head on who I was going to try. As predicted, Mu-12 and Makoto were characters that really meshed with me, as they're both (hot) interesting and new. As a previous poster also stated, I too am a huge fan of boxing characters, so Makoto was a must. I picked up 12 so I can have a character that is capable of zoning, but can also have close combat competence if needed. If Valkenhayn is anything like Slayer, I'm definitely going to be giving him a chance too.

I've definitely been using the Big Bang lv3 against snake spammers. This matchup is really gross imo, though, as I feel I have to work twice as hard. One mess up and I'm getting DP'd by snakes all day er'day. I've been trying to bait with the 214A~D, but it's a little risky. Though admittedly it might just be me, as I'm really new to playing any other character aside from Tager. :/

Thanks for the help, I'll give all of those suggestions a try.

Is there any "safe" way to approach in the air with Koto against Hazama? I, too discovered the 3C was okay, but the Hazama learned and just started poking me out of it.