Elochai

And so, Giovanni's attempt at organizing a successful netplay exhibition falls apart. It had a good run.

Why not just go the way of a meterless combo like 5D > 5B > 2AB > 236D > stuff, or 5D > j.B > j.A > j.C > 2A > stuff? I mean we get a lot of meter, but I'd rather save it. If you wanna throw out 25 meter in a 5D combo, you could go for sb.agi > 5A ender, then air turn j.D reset. With the exception of the 3v3s (which I only played because I was asked, and I broke even at that), I haven't played the game in three, nearly four weeks. If you wanna run some matches though, and the connection isn't too bad, feel free to hit me up.

First and foremost, you should learn more combos. You'll hitconfirm a lot of 5Bs for example, and never get a lot of mileage off of it except 5C, and at that you'll try to go into a 5D reset (more on this later). 5B is a pretty good combo starter, and with only 25 meter can lead into somewhere around 4k. People get hit a lot, may as well combo 'em. To start out, you can keep the combo route basic with something like 5B > 2AB > 236CD > 5B > 5C > 2C > 214B x2 > j.C. That alone should net you like 3.5k. Also, it's kind of advanced, but you were sitting on 150 meter w/out Thanatos and you 5B CH'd Kanji, you could've done a combo to get all of your persona cards back with 5B > 2AB > mind charge > stuff > mind charge > stuff > mind charge. An example of what I mean. Your pressure/resets need work. I notice that you mostly do 5B/5C/2C, which isn't too good honestly. 5A/2A stagger is pretty good for a rep or 2; you should avoid throwing out 5C/2C haphazardly (like against Kanji, for example) so you don't get persona broken. Furthermore, 5D reset isn't good after the first few times, especially if it's always following 5C. I think j.D is the more versatile reset option, and it may be harder to see coming. Try other gimmicky stuff/resets also, like 2D bait, 2AB > 5D (kinda like s.Lab [4]6C grab setup) or some j.D stuff like 2A (after hard knock down) > 5A > air turn j.D. Also, don't keep relying on Ghastly Wail as a reversal option. Just practice some things, and you'll be better in no time.

I was too rusty, Dante ;_;. Today was my first time playing in like three weeks. You probably could've been more useful to your team than me.

>Get bodied 3 in a row. >Turn on Melty Blood songs. >Win 3 games straight. The key to removing rust is blood, huh? Who would've thought . GGs though.

I didn't mean to come off so abrasively, but I was admittedly a little upset. Dropping combos against you and the Yukiko, and I am already quite rusty as it is. That, plus waiting a while for some games made me kinda upset. Apologies. I just wish I could've done the stuff I wanted to. Yeah, I don't see how you had a 3 bar with me, it quickly dropped to 1 anyway. Maybe my net was acting up tonight.

BGs to everyone I just played. Seriously. I wonder how putting the room on "fast connections" leads to me playing against 1 bar guys. Oh well, at least I didn't go negative .

Haven't played in 3 weeks, I'm gonna attempt to pretend like I'm not rusty. Hopping on now. Edit: Should've expected this , nothing but 0 bars. Making a lobby, room name is akumajo.

That's good to know, I didn't even see that. I was here trying to rack my brain around some combo that I knew didn't work lol.

Honestly, I can't even get that exact combo to work, the opponent techs after 2C. I don't know what's going on, since they are indeed playing on the console version. This is quite odd honestly. I also tried 5A FC stuff > 214A > IAD j.B > 2A > stuff > 214B, and it doesn't refreeze.

God damn, that life steal. Those 6-7k OD combos gave Ragna so much health back. Seems better than what BK healed in the past.

Your main problem is hit-confirming and combos. You could win a lot faster/easier if you just confirmed into a combo, or rather, better combos than you were doing. For example, you get 5A FC in the corner and go into autocombo. I suggest that you grind out garu combos, as 5A FC is easily like 8k if you can do the 2B > j.B > d.garu loop. Once you learn the combos, you'll be steam rollin'. Another thing is that you should work on your pressure. While it isn't bad or horrible by any means, you even said yourself that Thanatos is like a doll. As long as you don't use gattling strings into 5C/2C for every blockstring, you would be saving yourself Persona cards. I prefer to stagger with 5A/2A a few times before throwing out Thanatos. A neat thing you can do if your opponent doesn't have much Liz exp is something like 5B > 2D > punish. Most people will poke Thanatos while he's out from 2D, so you can get a free confirm. Also, you can use 5C (2) OMC in the same fashion. When they go to poke Thanatos, deck them in the face. At 3:42 in the second video, you could have OMC'd the maragidyne. Once it touches Athena's shield, it counts as hitting her (or something like that). Furthermore, Sb.Agi is +100~ on block, you don't need to OMC it if your opponent blocks it. Pressure after Sb.Agi can be something like 2B OMC > j.A/2A/grab, or 5AA > IAD air turn j.C > j.236C. Edit: This totally slipped my mind at the time I wrote this. Against Aigis, you can call out 2B with 236A. You can also use j.D if they're using orgia dash, since they're committed to the air at that point. I hope this helped somewhat.

My apologies, I didn't see the fact that it said XBL. Now I feel dumb lol. I'll be down, I guess. I dunno how you would do this without making it a ranbat, unless you just stream sets or something.

Are these locals, or netplay?

What does Barrel Lotus even do? Is it just a homing projectile?

You guys know you want to play some good ol' Melty Blood . My Liz DP is ready for this.

There's usually someone playing Marvel anyway .

Thanks for the compliment, Shin. I know that I'm da bess .

In my experience, most people come to play anime on the weekend. Additionally, we have monthly tournaments on Saturdays. The next one is on 3/30. You should come and check it out.

These team names are too damn strong.

That looks like it could be character specific to me. Have you tried it everyone else? Good find nonetheless.

What combo are you trying to do?

Just a quick question, have I been mistiming tandem top or is it actually possible to throw Millia out of it? Also, thanks for answering my other question.

Just gonna drop by and say a lot of Compile Heart games are godlike. Shoutouts to Agarest, yo. Also, if any of you haven't played Resonance of Fate, you gotta get on that. It's a pretty good RPG.

Woah, Eltnum is in this game? I forgot .