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So far, I think this matchup is in Jin's favor. When Jin's on defense Kagura's drive mixups are mostly pretty easy to block, the only one you really need to do guess work on is the crouching stance overhead. His crossup/non-crossup drive has a 9f rhythm block timing, and a lot of the time you can jump out of it to make it whiff and punish him. One thing that I really do have trouble with is his non-drive overhead, especially when his B orb makes it harder to see. As far as I know there aren't any real setups for his drive cmd grab, but who knows. I feel like if you don't want to risk trying to go for punishing him mid drive string, it's totally OK to just wait until he's used all 3 and then go in on him, since drive strings will always end with his opponent at advantage. When you're on offense, things can get trickier. Kagura has the best reversal in the game, his flash kick, and good Kagura players should always be looking for you to jump or do a long move like 6B, so they can flash kick out of your pressure and get an easy 2k on CH. I think the best strings to use on Kagura are ones like 2A staggers and throws, since you'll make him have to guess if he wants to flash kick out. If he's only blocking and flash kicking and not mashing much, you can do strings ending in 2B. Remember, if he blocks high he loses his flash kick for a second, and you can do more risky things for a bit. I feel the neutral game is really what puts this in Jin's favor. Jin and Kagura both have kind of a hard time staying in on each other and mixing each other up, but Jin is pretty good at controlling space in this matchup. If you stay just outside his 5/2C range, he doesn't really have many options. If he tries to use his 6D>C to get in, you can jump over it and come down with a j.C CH if you react early enough. If he throws out a B orb(the only one you really need to worry about) you can IAD and punish him, but he might be able to fake you out being doing an A orb and then flash kicking you. If you see him trying to charge, poking at him with 2D is a good option since you know he's not likely to move out of the way, but don't do it too often. Basically, I just play the neutral game really safely and I don't try to go in too often. Kagura's defensive tools are really good, but his offense isn't too hot. Just try not to give up space too much, since Kagura's corner damage is really high, easily getting 4k off of random drives. If anyone has anything to add/correct, please go ahead!

Awesome, that might help out a lot if we could crash at someone's place for UMAD this year, the hotel we had last year was really... not good lol

Hi Tofu! A few of us in Waterloo like going to the Montreal Air Dashers yearly tournament, but going so far for a smaller event is kinda hard :/

Yea I mentioned it to derek, he said he would consider going to the tournament on the 17th :D edit: every time i check this forum, as a glance over the old posts I always read buttura as buttgrass cuz gurass is right below it and im scrolling down quickly

kagura's a butt

are you practicing bb greg?

loool insane worrier BB yesterday was pretty sweet, so many ppl were playing! ggs everyone. Just to confirm things, for the anime only tournament in toronto 2 weeks from now, I'm driving and both Bills want to come(was there another person who wanted to come? I don't remember). If anyone else wants a ride, let me know!

canada hypeeeeee

i might have to do a tactical character switch to have a better troll name

I want a job school sucks edit: Bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHqg0LUOdjA

for NEC: https://www.facebook.com/2BigE3/posts/10151691930615778 edit: NEC is right in the middle of my exams... Dunno whether or not i should go

come play @ main base, we bring our copies there pretty often. I'ma be pretty busy this week tho

WOW THANKS SO MUCH. My combos that im still getting used to are already old GG

yea man, bill and i both have our copies, and a few other ppl are gonna have theirs soon

any1 wanna let me game share w/ them for a day and then deactivate it? I wanna play while i wait for my physical copy D: I'll give u 10$ or something lol edit: nvm ill just tank it/play at bills house also, @kirito: glad to see you want to come out more! Too bad about the ID thing though :/ gl sorting it out! I'm sure that main base will be busy once CP comes out.

it's been way too long since i watched those SF cartoon clips, they're so good

OMG SUPERSCIENCE SHOULD HAVE ENTERED AH3 AS METAPHYSICS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOOOOD

so looks like im probably going to NEC now

nah, I don't even have GGAC right now and haven't been to main base in a couple weeks so I couldn't learn combos

YO ill trade mewtwos w/ u i luv y mewtwo

UGGGGGGGGGHRHGHGHHH I think X fairy type legendary = ez elite 4 champion @Bill: today i learned that Ique isn't straight up faster a lot of the time, I don't know why but it's just especially good for OoT any% mostly. In fact, 100% is faster on jp 1.0 N64! No idea why but cosmo said so lol

I missed it and saw the poverty and didn't want to watch it maybe l8r <_>

@Zeron what bill says is true! Julien, asdf, and occasionally other are playing BB lately. @Bill I might be down for some amnesia sometime

mostly cuz there wasn't enough ppl, I think BB/GG each got like 4 entrants lol

ok also asdfnjdikbrjdkegr, yea I have space! Txt me your address and I can drive you