Thelo

Pokémon style is the bad way where the second player on the team plays way less than the first player.

Oh man, I'll be there for that GGXX mashfest thing on Sunday. But... 2v2??

Actually, I'll probably be there on Thursday, though I might get to Foonzo a bit late. Going to flex my Ottawa-conquering Axl a bit.

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That was me in 3rd for Persona. :p Added the characters played for Guilty Gear and Persona.

I'll probably be at the Ottawa tourney thing for some Guilty Gear.

Hi there, I'm considering coming to the Algonquin tourney advertised here, but I'd like to have more details about the schedule, especially for Guilty Gear. "10am to midnight" is a pretty wide window of time, and I'm coming from out of town (Montreal), so I wouldn't want to miss things!

I'll bring my monitor, though I might not be there right away at 11. :china:

Cool, thanks!

Cool, thanks!

Beep boop, do we have a schedule for Nemesis yet? Looking forward to some GGXX and Persona action.

Also do we have any actual schedule for this? Wouldn't want to miss my games or have to lounge around for 382470 hours of SF4 / Marvel.

Oh hey, a tourney! I'll be there to shake off the rust in Guilty Gear and Persona.

Never mind, I managed to download it through xbox.com. It didn't let me download the demo ("This offer is not valid in your region") and I never found it through the in-console menus, but going through the website finally let me do it.

Can someone confirm this? I live in Montreal and still cannot download the game.

I did lose my last two local tourneys to S. Labrys, ugh. It's really hard. I'm incredibly wary of claims like "literally unwinnable" though.

Cool, I'll be there.

Do we have the full results from yesterday's tourney?

Yeah, I tried staying on the ground a bit longer, and that just got me thrown. Perhaps I must delay the tech just a tiny bit, but still tech before the grab gets active...

Haven't tried that yet! I'll try delaying tech next time.

Ok, correction: the S. Labrys actually does a very early, while-rising jump A, itself canceled into jump B if the A didn't ram into Dia. So that actually is waterproof against both jumps/hops AND Dia. So uh, what can I do here, once I'm in that vortex? It's like a giant recurrable option select of doom.

There's one Shadow Labrys setup I just can't understand how to defeat. She ends some combo with air guillotine, which means I wake up next to her. She sets her persona grab such that it will grab me right on wakeup if I don't jump or Dia, while she jumps over me and does either jump B (if I jump / hop) or airblock (if I Dia). Then both options result in another air guillotine to reset the mixup. What am I missing here? Is there a free ticket out of this or should I resign myself to hoping the Shadow Labrys messes up their jump B / airblock reaction, and coinflip a jump / Dia?

Oh huh, I didn't realize there was a tourney this weekend. Sweet.

A fun zoning trick with fans is to throw fast fan -> slow fan (6B4B) to cover the maximum extent possible. The first fast fan locks him down before he can jump, then the followup slow fan gives you plenty of time to prepare the next phase of your zoning (and sometimes works as anti-IAD once in a while).

Oh also, I suggest almost always using fast fans when zoning, not slow fans. It's really important to get that counterhit on the opponent as soon as possible since that makes all their projectiles disappear. I've been burned (literally) too many times by trying to be fancy with a slow fan that barely didn't reach the opponent in time before I ate a Maragi or something.