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Of course there are. Even if there were zero system differences, having different characters will automatically change neutral.

Under what circumstances can you do the 2BB crossunder? I'd like to add it to my repertoire, but I'm not sure when it works.

Whatever you feel comfortable with, unless you expect to ever play offline with anyone, in which case, fightstick.

There is.

Platinum is a somewhat more straightforward character, and is probably somewhat less executionally challenging, but unless you have played a lot of fighting games, it will still probably not be particularly easy to get your Platinum up to the level of your Rachel in a short period of time. I would not, generally, recommend this change if your goal is to win more. On the other hand, if you are not enjoying Rachel, or feel frustrated with your execution, then maybe the change will be worthwhile just for the perspective it grants.

Yeah, I definitely felt weird and off playing it yesterday. This is SUPER ANNOYING to me because I'd REALLY prefer to able to practice this game without stealing the PS3.

Oh. Also, for me, four is the Right Number of Buttons.

I'm pretty sure the Nazis wore trenchcoats, not robes. :P

Yeah, I'm guessing "input error" but this isn't the first player I've seen doing it, so I was/am confused. (I believe I saw it a couple of times in here )

You can be the judge. It happens a couple of times in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSWvEW5wDKY and I've seen it some other places as well.

Next random question; All of a sudden I seem to see people doing a lot of tk j.214D (or maybe other buttons?) and I have NO IDEA WHY. Thoughts anyone? It seems like a really risky thing to try unless there's something weird going on...

I think you're understating the case - it's not that you "don't" use this in neutral, you CAN'T use it in neutral because you need to be pretty close to your opponent to dash through them, and if you're at that range, it's not neutral anymore. At best, it's a scramble. And anyway, using it as a mixup on someone in blockstun doesn't actually make it any less faster than any other tactic that gets used in pressure (like Rachel or Izayoi instant overheads.)

OH; Okay. So Growler is really fast now. That makes the most sense. I had no data on that startup. That said, it's probably reactable. His dash is 20 frames long unless they changed that, so even factoring in the JCC shaving off 5 frames or so, those frames come back in the growler startup, so it's fast but not insane fast. There's no way his dash only takes 9 frames to cross up, which is what you'd need in order to beat a Rachel j.A with wind or something.

Oh! So you're doing Growler because you're doing a Jump Cancel Cancel to get it to come out faster? And IIRC, you can't JCC into a normal. That would explain it.

So what's the deal with dash-through "crossup" Growler? Does Growler have some sort of non-projectile invulnerability again? Why would you do this instead of some other crossup move? It's not especially fast compared to, like, dash-through crossup 5B, so... why Growler?

How are you doing it now? I'd start with the basic wineglass, if you're not doing that already.

So I have a question that maybe someone more analytical has figured out. Sometimes after 22D, I see people doing 3CC, sometimes 2CC, and sometimes 5CC; Any idea why the variation?

Is that the 5CC > 5D > Dash x 5 one? That is the most hilarious troll combo ever, but yeah, completely not useful.

Wait, it's also a buff? That's super random.

Terumi doesn't have any safe reversal options with 50 meter though. :P I guess the real non-question I am asking is "What about this DP, in combination with this characters' other tools, merits it being plus on block?" Which is not really a question I expect anyone to be able to answer, because no one here works for ASW. Thanks for the info on how it works though, that was helpful for my understanding of the character.

That's... still a pretty strong set of options compared to a lot of the cast.

That seems...kinda insane. o.o What are the restrictions? I know she needs to have an element stocked, but isn't that "pretty much all the time except when you just finished casting a spell"?

How negative is her DP? I haven't seen it punished?

Elegant and awesome.

They didn't "gut Nu to bring back Lambda"; Nu is top tier in this game. o.o Or are you talking about next game? Because if it's next game, they gutted Nu because she was dumb. :P The rest of the advice is good except that you didn't actually list any characters, so I'm not sure what list you think might be out of date?