Rhiya

Wait, what? j.214B>3C works? What is this wizardry? EDIT: With that link, I can get 3874 on Jin for 2k Ignis. 5b>5c(2)>236C>214a>6b>5C(2)>j.b>dj.bc>j.236c>j.214b>land 3c.

... /headdesk I feel really stupid now. Thanks, though.

Anyone have any idea what's up with the 4D enders in that vid? Is it just style points, or is there something legitimately useful in it (since 4D sets the staff with 2D set, which is ideal for Kokushi)?

Thanks a ton for that. I appreciate it so much. Also, can someone test oki setups against Rachel wind teching? I remember seeing a Relius do 3C 236C 214C (which we think of as pretty safe) in a matchvid and the setup got raped by wind tech, so I feel wind tech is a serious concern in that matchup

Can anyone write up a summary of what we got out of the Relius Symposium?

I'm more curious about whether the crossup would rape DP inputs, or if DPs autocorrect. I don't know how BB handles that.

I've noticed you emphasize not overthinking during a match. What're some examples of what you'd consider overthinking? And what level of thinking would you say is right?

Doesn't work like that once they have charge. You're more likely to get a shield rush in your face, tbh. Tsubaki 101 is learning how to not get punished for charging and control the space around you when you're charging. Tsubaki's AA is so godlike precisely BECAUSE she needs to be capable of charging without autolosing whenever she does it. 5B used to be really good for this reason, too.

Late GGs to Bat. Shoutouts to lulzy Itsuu guardpoints Son, you just insulted the closest thing I have to a waifu. You might want to rethink what you're doing here

I play Melty. Godlike game is godlike.

Yeah. When my internet isn't imploding again. I got lucky-ish this afternoon.

Don't practice random shit; practice useful blockstrings and mixups. I just sat down one day and practiced Relius 3C>2D jump [airdash j.B] OR [land 2B] until I was sure I could do that shit sideways, because it's that important. For Ragna, I dunno. Practice cancelling 6C into specials, learn your frametraps and make sure you can do them, have all your useful gatling paths in muscle memory (and a few not-useful ones for surprises).

Let me get in on this shit My internet seems okay for now

One way in which something can be legitimately dumb is that something is hard to beat AND autopilot as shit. Like, let's say your chara has a 16F safe overhead they can gatling for free. Why would you ever /not/ use that shit? You could autopilot it all day and beat people into the ground, and just run unreactable 50/50 high/lows in the middle of your blockstrings all day. A good example of a legitimately dumb move was CS2 Tsubaki's D Shield Rush. It covered shittons of space, practically anti-aired anything in its way, and almost always traded in your favor -- and if your opponent blocked, you were plus. Once you had one charge, every chara had to suddenly watch out for it and respect this fucking massive amount of space. The only thing that kept it from being completely and utterly stupid was the charge cost.

Ignis doesn't change direction once the super starts, so he just has to cross to the other side of Ignis and it'd be free. Probably wouldn't be that hard for him, considering

Make sure no one else is using it and make sure your ISP isn't shit. Not much else beyond that.

I can't even get fiberoptic here

Earlier, it was much more exaggerated. But yeahhhhhh. If I speedtest this at like 1 PM, I get 18 down. This is what I get at peak traffic hours EDIT: And the more relevant part:

Can't. My internet, even when controlled for the traffic on my network, is imploding. WHEN I SPEEDTESTED, MY UPLOAD WAS BETTER THAN MY DOWNLOAD I MEAN SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK.

Anyone want to play after I eat?

Sub.

Not really. Playing Litchi is fun as shit, even when I'm this bad at it. Literally every time I play Litchi after trying to play other charas, I ask myself what the fuck I was on not playing Litchi

GGs. I need to training mode that Litchi pressure so hard. I kept dropping the ball when it was my turn

Let's go.

Who's on now?