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Btw I'm a little curious, if you all don't mind me asking. Whenever it is Rachel's Birthday, do you play as her against all the characters on versus as a tribute almost? I must admit, I find it quite fun to celebrate her birthday while browsing Deviant Art for lovely artwork

Thanks [sPA]Relentless and Herbal Grey for your feedback on where I need to improve as a Rachel player, I'm glad I asked here for advise for I couldn't seem to see where most of my mistakes were and everyone else there at that tourney doesn't play as Rachel at all. It seems odd as well for I've been playing since CT, mind though, only been playing BB itself for about a year and 4 months but didn't realize I've been making these mistakes all along. BlazBlue is also the only fighting game I've actually wanted to put more time into than others so I'm glad I've joined up here and got some advise for I love this game, mainly for the story and Rachel I'll mess around on training for a good while in my spare time with the settings mentioned and work on my mix-ups and how I control myself generally. Combo wise, I went back to CS2 recently and kept practicing challenge 9 as that utilizes the J.2C lvl2 technique that I've seen been performed of various counterhits, it looks useful midscreen and in the corner but need to get used to it. I'll be sure to check out the Rachel combo thread and read/see what I might be able to do and work on. I'll try to sort out my confidence, concentration and patience as well for that would probably help with all of the above advise. Thanks again, I'm glad I can talk with fellow Rachel players here

I must apologize in advance for my Rachel game is terrible tbh but I've somehow manage to make it to 2 finals and loose, this is a local tourney I attend close enough every month. The video's are on YT where I then use them to study my mistakes and try to improve from there, I do have a self-confidence problem but even so my Rachel game needs work and I was wondering if I could share these videos with fellow Rachel players and ask for opinions Sorry about the long intro, still not sure how things work here quite yet. First video is from December where I was against a Lambda player back on CS2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIF5RXKIa7Q Second video is from last month where I was against a Bang player on CSE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95wOGTuwgbk I've had great fun whenever I have entered though, which at the end of the day is the important part I say. Sorry about my lack of skill though, I must make Rachel look bad. Part of the reason why I joined dustloop was to see if I could improve here and there and share my findings and experiances while playing as Rachel in general.

Sorry about writing Dash Cancel there, I didn't realize that xD Thanks for the feedback/info though, I've put what you've told me into practice. I went back into training mode and tried changing how I tackle this combo. I cut out the part where I did 6A after 3C onwards and instead replaced it with 4B > 5CC > Pumpkin or I sometimes just used 5CC > Pumpkin. Still does around 5K damage. It keeps me on the ground and more prepared to keep them in the corner though. I also checked that it can help build around 29-30 heat and regenerate wind resources/stock by around 3-4 wind. Talking about guard crushing with Rachel. I can only seem to do something like J.2C lvl3 when my opponent is blocking frog in the corner and 4B when they are blocking frog in general. I try not to use 2C when they block as I would more than likely forget to use Rapid Cancel and leave myself open for attack.

Sorry if I may be going off the current point of discussion, I thought I'd bring up a combo I quite like using in the corner that I feel might have something that isn't quite right. I must apologize in advance, I'm not very good at explaining things in general. I'm also getting used to the Dustloop forums. Here is the combo that I use in the corner, I'm not quite sure if it is good for building heat or leaves me open for attack after I have used it. I might have written it out with a few problems like explaining Jump Cancel in the format like (J.c). 5CC > 236B > Dash Cancel > 6A > BBL > Frog > (wait till they fall and catch them with) 3C > Frog activates (during 3C) > 6A > 5B > J.c (Jump Cancel) > J.B > J.C > J.c > J.B > J.C > J.236A Doesn't require wind and but does use BBL. Can't remember the exact damage from memory but it does around 5k whenever I've tried it. I feel that near the last part of my combo, on the 2nd jump cancel, I could probably try J.2C instead to not hang around in the air and instead come down to the ground with my opponent. I use this a fair bit when I can but not sure if this combo has some problems with it.