Ross

Whattttt that outfit is the best. My favorite color by far.

The thing is zappa gets meter pretty quickly because of the speed of his run, or at least thats how it seems, and really if he has dog, which is some of the most annoying pressure he has there is a good chance he'll have a few orbs and if you fuck up at all he'll get summon rc summon, raohuppercut. At least thats what happens in my experience. The way to play against raoh is to block super carefully and look for something to punish or a way to run to the other side of the screen safely. Don't ever try and out anything him though like crimson disaster says because one mistake could mean a huge part of your life.

make sure get good at CH DOT those slideheads... DOT is the key to this match I think really. Runaway and poke alot with all your good shit. Avoid being slideheaded and look for CH DOT options.

true. But IF you IB it you should have time to see the cancel and IB that as well. Or not IB it and punish him for being dumb.

if you IB zappa's dust (pretty easy) you get free counter hit bbu... or CH DOT if you want.

well yeah you could, but this combo is much cooler and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have to be done on KY i just said without rcing... Plus it looks hella fancy... mappa feint in combo!

Well basically if they don't faultless you hit the ground first and it's a guard break... haha or I'm misunderstanding you.... if they do faultless you can sometimes stop punching let them drop and go for a bite right away. I'm confused : ( when they foward tech the bounce right into an airthrow it's like foward teching the cr.hs

Yeah, that mix up is good, if you are in position to get it.. I also sometimes like to j.p to the ground and go for a guard break or let them fall and throw/bite.

I really like RC pilebunker combos... sooo (tested on ky) Basically in corner pilebunker RC, st.hsxxP mappa feint, st.p. jump k, 2k, j.k, land, s.S, jump finish with aircombo.... -Ross

I just laugh as she trys to counter a quick move and then standing punch... haha. But yeah if its JCable jumping and faultlessing is awesomest.

which of these are actually guaranteed on block.. as in the opponent can't block?

Well I can't do it reliabley at all.. But if you can OMG its hella useful. Being pressured in the corner by axl BDC DOT owned... React to baiken doing crazy chain move, bdc dot to avoid that annoying clash! Basically if you can do it you get crazy bitches on counter hits.... (TRADEMARKED BY BELLRESIA, i think)

also character dependent but I've gotten it on Jam and AXL, the normal IAD D 2k, k combos work.

There are amost no realiable ways to "setup" a mappa combo. Just do it.. haha. I mean basically anytime you hit a 5k when ky is in the air you should be able to juggle at least 1 mappa.

it works much better on ggpo now.. I don't have any problems. Also I saw Villainous running shop on there...

Always do it into c.s... IMO. I was just fucking around with this shit today.... and you know maybe my opinion doesn't matter as much as mr.DIGIWA but, c.s is also jump cancelable and special cancelable and has hella good gatlings off it (like 5hs) and if you manage to get a ch 6p it's really stupid easy to see the 6p hit, jump cancel the c.s into like j.k, j.d, combo of your choice... or if your sexy just into j.d into combo of your choice.

depends... I normally see it clash. Then just like mash on it again and you might get a counter hit... or you can switch to a faster normal like K and get an air combo. On a side note: At A-cho there is a may vs. Slayer match. I haven't watched it yet, but it might have some good tips. The Slayer is Dogura, I haven't heard of him but there are alot of slayers in japan this game revision...

Well, it's not like that kind of guess... its more like a hypothesis or an educated guess or whatever... I know my opponent likes to backdash after certain strings or in certain situations and so I wait around a pressure them into doing it. You can react to a backdash and punish with DOT in certain situations against certain characters.... But its hard. Also yes, I DOT when I feel like I'm out of options and need that counter hit super to win the round. Not the best strategy but if it works:yaaay: Also as for the wake up super thing with may. Definitely watch out for that.. the one where she spins her anchor around in a circle is really fast and does lots of damage. I was watching some random casuals after evo and jamie hit some people with that like five times... ahah. Just remember its there.

Also Dead on time that shizz... I DOT people's backdashes, but usually it's off a guess that they are going to backdash, so make sure to have that frc ready.

This may have been posted or already known on Axl near corner combo into pilebanger rc, wait just a hair, 5hs, j.hs ~ j.k, dj.k ~j.d. (does like 228 dmg or something I could quite read it because of the background colors in england) hopefully that makes sense. I'm really close to finding away to get a dangerous relaunch off of this, but thats the simple way. Very easy. Didn't test on more characters. Yayyyy Slayer.

Dandy should be mostly avoided at lower levels and then slowly incorporated into your game as you learn what its for. It's not the be all and end all of moves. It's useful for specific things, and for those things use it, and don't let it get predictable because everyone can retaliate on a Dandy if they expect it.

Jesus christ man. Way to be my best friend ever. When you going to come down to portland? We are going to have another tourney in the summer before evo just so you know.

oh yeah I know. But thats not fancy. If your gonna play top tier might as well be fancy.

Has anyone tested what could be done with JI'd dead on time... my execution isn't the best on this but Im thinking st.k, st.k, ji'd DOT, 6frc6 HS, 5hs into combo of choice.... would look pretty hot. So far all I've gotten is DOT 6RC6 air dash k... ahha but i'll keep working woo just got it to work once.. does nice damage and does look very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYh8z1aPNwM I don't know if this was posted before sorry. I found it a while ago and then forgot about it. Its a video about Sol's Fafnir, seems to be talking mostly about its throw invincibility.. But I can't read Japaneses so I don't know for sure. At first I thought it was talking about some sort of crossup fafnir trick heh. But yeah kinda cool to see all the funny things fafnir beats.