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I have piss poor reaction skills. I pretty much just guess everything I do, since I don't trust I'll react to anything in time.

It's not that I don't want to block low, but I keep expecting instant overheads, which results in me eating 2B. Though a couple of the times I get hit by lows might be due to me using stick, I don't even know anymore. Some might also be me attempting to DP, but failing miserably.

GGs to Star, Errol, and a couple other people I played today

GGs people I played, I guess. The more I play stick, the more it enrages me. I get so many missed/awkward inputs it's become more hilarious than aggravating.

Wish I could input DP and 236236 as well as I could with TK 214 motions. I kinda gave up on using DPs because I'm almost never able to get them out.

Well, with Hazama and OD, you always do more damage than, since you're also draining the opponent's life. If you do a full OD combo when you're at like 20% health, you'll probably be draining like 1K from them. But I guess that's aside the point.

I don't get how this is possible, but the results seem to show it that way. Maybe it's because I suck at dashing and 236236 inputs.

GGs Errol. I had to stop because my hand was starting to cramp from using stick.

Don't the Houtenjin OD combos need you to be low health? I don't think I've done any above 35% health that gain 50+ Then again, I haven't really worked on Haz in a while, so I'm not really sure

Easy, play Terumi I don't think Hazama has any combos like that, due to the new combo system with the heat deterioration stuff.

GGs Errol. I think I need to sit in training mode more and work on getting inputs out. I keep missing the 4 and 6s in a lot of my inputs. Btw, when are you gonna start mixing in empty wind jumps > lows? I don't think I've seen you do any yet.

For the most part, I use a wineglass variation, the shaft being between my ring and pinky fingers. It might just be being used to pad, but double taps just feel real unnatural and a bit hard to get out at times. I'm still experimenting with grips, but it's the one I can say feels most "comfortable." Outside of grips, I keep hitting ABC and missing the D, so I get an RC instead of OD cancel, which makes me real sad.

GGs Errol. Stick's doing fine. Using Jin, because I sorta wanted to try someone different while using stick... Though I'm having a lot of trouble getting a lot of stuff out with him on stick. Double taps like 22C and dashes are killing me. Overall, though, I'm doing a lot better with stick than I was.

That's fine. I was about to pull out my pad again, so I could actually input astrals, then I remembered that I pulled out my stick because I lost it.

As soon as I'm able to input Hazama's astral (and jayoku)......... GGs Errol. Why do I even have taunt macro'd

GGs. The road to learning stick is a tough one. Hardly any of my Jayoku inputs came out, but strangely I can do orochi burensou more consistently..... Also, I love long sets. Most people I play only stick around for maybe an hour or two tops and it just doesn't feel like enough.

Goddamn it, it took me a long time to figure out the tier list.

I think I finally found your weakness.

Oh, he did. I had to pay attention to the barrier gauge to notice.

By air blockable, I meant that you didn't need to barrier block it.

That setu- wait jakou is air blockable now?!

Guess that's why they showed it in his challenge mode.

Well, I'm probably gonna stick to Gashou, at least. I still haven't gotten the full timing for Jak. Zaneiga yet and Gashou feels overall easier anyway. Plus in a game with characters that have health that hang around the 10k mark, a couple points of damage isn't gonna make much of a difference Inb4 I get unlucky and have a match where I could have won with that extra couple points of damage

Wouldn't Jak.Zaneiga > 5C > 6C help add extra damage to it? I doubt it'd take too much time off that the combo would drop. EDIT: I tested it and I got... 4754 damage lol. Gashou is probably a better path to go.

Why do challenge 30 with golden Tager if you can do a combo?