Nini Heart

Makoto has risky and gimmicky mixup yet it's blowing up Japan. What's your point? And why is the high/low out? Jin can combo off his overhead in CS1 without meter and he can combo off his low too. And he can combo off his throw too. And his jumping cross ups are ambiguous since he can do fakes and make them relatively safe with Ice sword.

Yep his reset potential and J.236D gimmicks and ambiguous j.d crossups and shit make his mix up decent. Honestly, I like chou's list a lot except for Hazama and no details on Haku. Seems pretty spot on to me so far except for those two.

6C shippu. 4k. 2 hits. TROLL CHARACTER.

Loses to Jin's D Ice sword and platinum's missiles. It also loses to Void and Distortion projectiles.

He's not talking about baiting. He's talking about bursting a DD or move with invincibility and a lot of recovery to avoid it and get a free combo.

You're not supposed to be dropping combos with Bang though. EZmode char is EZmode

LK, I wanted to ask you about bursting. I've recently changed my bursting game completely and it's changed the way I play. I used to only green burst when I was gonna eat a big fat combo or when I was about to lose a round, but a lot of times, I got burst baited and still ended up dying, or burst and still lost the round, making my opponents have to worry about one less burst. And I notice that a lot of people still do that, making for easy burst baits. I noticed that a lot of high level players liked to bait my bursts. So I stopped bursting and noticed that many of them were expecting me to burst and dropping their combos/pressure allowing me to perform a comeback(kinda). Another thing I've started doing is using gold burst as a poke / reversal. It's a bit risky but I can get 5K off a gold burst. I figured that instead of bursting out of combos, I could prevent those combos from happening by gold bursting and going into my own combo that would force them to burst. As of now, I only green burst to regain momentum(aside of rage bursts:v:), I.E, someone in corner hits me(not gonna be a big combo), I burst to put them back in the corner + orb oki. Also I've discovered some burst tactics and I was wondering if there were some more that you knew that you could share with me. One of the burst tactics I recently discovered came from a rage burst. Vs ragna, get hit by I.D, burst instantly, I.D. invincibility frames absorbs the burst, you recover before he lands and can proceed to punishing him. Vs jin, in corner, jin hit confirms 5C, he's gonna go into 623B for corner combo, you burst on the 5C, 623B invincibility absorbs the burst, you recover before him and get a free combo. Anyways, I wanted to know your views on bursting because I feel this is one important mechanic in the game which has not been talked about much or discussed as deeply as it should (or I haven't seen the discussions about it).

No one seems ridiculously strong so far. If you've played CT and CS1, just compare those top tiers to CS2's current top tier and you'll agree that there's nothing ridiculously strong about them. CS2 seems pretty balanced so far. People are just having a hard time getting used to Makoto. I can see her drop a notch on the tier list in a few months though.

Makoto vs Tager is gonna become a joke with I.B. nerf. Can't wait for CS2.

I know for sure I get at least 4.5k from my basic gold burst combo. Gonna see whether I can't get more when I get t.v back.

Still free.

Makoto can get 5k.

Tao's worse but wtv.

His list seems accurate to me. Tao is really beast. She doesn't seem to have any bad matchups.

What did Chou's list actually look like?

Why is Tao not S tier BTW, SBO aside? Only thing wrong with her as far as I can see is that she doesn't handle pressure well when she has no meter. Or is there something else I don't know about? That seemed to be her only flaw when I played XDest. That and she gets no damage from jabs. Meh I don't really care about anyone's position except Makoto and Noel TBH, just wondering about why Tao's not S tier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zCn2p1ld2U Noel mirror in this one but it's kinda scrubby. I think there was a decent one in one of the a cho vids

Pretty sure I agree with Chou and would have Tao up there with Litchi and Bang,

-_-. Why am I Linear? I think that should be vice.

Isn't Xdest from Toronto? He plays online too!

Me on some netplay ish last night. Didn't know they were recording the gamez. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67jWmy7bYQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkWFQzoN5zY Too many dropped combos, too much mashing, too much randomness(J2C spam) :/ In my defense it was 4 am and I was kinda high . Will post some hype mirrors once I get to recording them.

Lol my super scrubby Hazama got recorded too? Yay xD

Cakehh

BTW who is Linlex? Is he on dustloop? You should try getting CAKE in your tourneys, he's in BC too.