IxisNaugus

I feel like the matchup got a tiny bit better for Azrael in 1.1, but it's the same deal, really. Preserve neutral, see how the Azrael responds to steins and go from there. If they hang back trying to Growler initial lasers, don't get flustered, you're not losing any space, so there's no real need to panic. Azrael still has to approach at the end of the day, because Phalanx doesn't help him against j.xD's, just don't autopilot grounded steins so you don't get caught with your hand in the cookie jar. If the Azrael is trying to Growler initial lasers on anticipation, one way you can bait it out is with 214D just before the initial lasers are scheduled to fire, this way your commission prevents the lasers from firing, and Azrael gets a meaningless Growler whiff which may be punishable depending on how close you are to him. IADB j.C isn't something Azrael can really deal with properly either, and j.C in general ruins j.2C and beats his other aerials when spaced well enough. One really important aspect of this matchup is that Azrael can only hard bait 623C. He can only punish the move on block if he's close enough to get a proper hit that can be followed up reliably, and this is reasonably difficult because he doesn't have a natural forward dash. His 6A can cause a clash war, but our 2B beats his 6A, so that's an option to "win" clash wars, provided he doesn't use 5A, which beats 2B. IB > 236C works against most of his pressure. Azrael also lacks a good midrange poke. Any kind of distance where we can get him with dash-2B, he doesn't have a strong answer for. fullscreen-midrange Gustaf in neutral can generally be beat by pre-emptive dash-2B's if you anticipate it, or by 236C on reaction.

Thanks, I was pretty pleased with my performance overall.

31/5/2014 Milan Fighting Rave 3on3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9HkqLmvc8&t=4m00s IxisNaugus vs Elmestre (Litchi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9HkqLmvc8&t=8m39s IxisNaugus vs Kevab (Makoto) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms9HkqLmvc8&t=13m21s IxisNaugus vs Thunder (Taokaka) 1/6/2014 Milan Fighting Rave singles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvbo4Zrl9c&t=1m19s IxisNaugus vs Nemo (Bang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cir-wwwvzoA IxisNaugus vs Sacred (Noel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCUYuMj_xqE&t=0m50s IxisNaugus vs Champ (Relius) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tjvbw_82pw&t=2m53s Auredo vs Dennis (Kokonoe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsIOaWFvFCo&t=0m23s IxisNaugus vs Nemo (Bang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVcpPVxhsI&t=0m35s IxisNaugus vs Sacred (Noel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRK7QoDLV0&t=1m1s IxisNaugus vs Champ (Relius) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33lZJJrk1I&t=0m26s IxisNaugus vs DragonLordZ (Bang)

Shame it didn't save, but thanks for putting in the effort to recreate it manually. And of course thanks again for hosting!

BKD is it alright if you could you potentially post the brackets?

I see, well that sucks, oh well. Is there anyone in particular I should look out for? I'll try and play as much as I can, in any case.

Oh good, thanks for running things. With entry fee being $10 at the door I can afford to play CP as well. I don't know any local US players though, would be nice to have another Mu player to talk to when I'm actually distracted from Smash. Is C0R going? I hope so. I like C0R, he knows his shit.

A long shot, but are any Mu players going to Apex in Jersey, Somerset, two weeks from now? I know this is gameplay discussion but... yea...

I'm not sure if this has been picked up on by you guys, but did anyone else notice that all deployed steins vanish when Mu's OD runs out? From what I observed, it doesn't seem matter when the stein was deployed; if it was active during OD, then it will disappear when OD is over. Likely not a big deal, but I find it odd.

Fair enough. Exactly how does the calculation work? It definitely looks like some players are having a hard time figuring her out, I'll concede to that. Gotta disagree with your edit though. Lambda became a lot less focused on primer breaking in CSE and she was still powerful thanks to high damage output, great movement and excellent mixup. These all seem to be generally improved for Nu. Jump cancel 5D, low hitting sickle, Act Parser and aerial Act Parser mean she's far less predictable than Lambda. Faster drives makes them more difficult to react to, and at least in Dia mode, she's uncommitted, which is pretty big. 4B got slower and lost its first hit, which can be seen as a plus and a negative, but at the very least its a more practical overhead now; I think the Lambda's confirmed a midscreen 5K combo off it, and it might have been meterless. Supra Rage guarantees good oki anywhere on the screen, and Face Lift is almost a built in rapid which allows for confirms that wouldn't otherwise exist without the aforementioned cancel. I honestly think primers may not even have been enough of a price to pay for what Nu can do now over all CS Lambdas.

I was referring to the table in this post, specifically. I couldn't find the original source for the life of me, I'll link it when I find it.

Well this one is certainly better than speculative tier lists of the past. This list doesn't have Relius in S tier. Still looks off to me though. I completely disagree with Nu's placement. Has nobody seen the woman's data? She's certainly better than Lambda ever was at her peak in CS. probably all those terrible Nu players like S putting people off the character...

I feel the new midscreen oki and reset options that Ikutachi introduces are very welcome trade-offs for the mild loss of damage and other nerfs. It looks to me like Arc wanted to weaken her [over]powerful trap game in favor of more reliable confirms and sequences.

That move actually gives her some proper midscreen combos without rapid lol. Best part is, she now has a midscreen combo off her grounded overhead that's more than 3 hits! :D Why can't I just use my X360 controller and be happy? I don't want to use a butters arcade stick! ;____;

Based Tsubaki god Kiba? To what do I owe this honor? Haha, but yea, frequent activity here for me is a long time coming, especially since I've been watching and playing since CS1. Hell I still vividly remember watching you play at local ranbats that Fuzzy used to host back in the day. I hope we can play offline eventually.