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hmmmm, you let that Kokonoe teleport out of your Oki pressure for free a lot in that match at the end. Consider, doing 2A > React to whether they teleported or not for a while. If they teleport, punish. If they don't, keep going with pressure. This will make them more cautious about teleporting and once they're cautious about teleporting, you can start mixing in going for your other oki setups.

Finally, gameplay footage of my girl Nanase putting in work. Yes! Also, I like how her gameplay video has my 2 future mains facing off. It's a sign! She's looking like the speedy character that I expected and we were told she would be. Good normals. That normal or move where she projects a gust of wind forward around her arm looks unsafe up close though. Might need to space it well. Also dat console opening with the anime music

Hmmmm, that footage showed some interesting things - The special that pulls people in has a noteworthy amount of startup. You'll probably always want to use Koro to cover the gap in combos and blockstrings or you'll eat a jab or DP to the face. - Now this really peaked my interest because it's a much more subtle point in previous gameplay videos. Basically, after Koro does an attack or if Ken moves swiftly, it takes some time for Koromaru to get back to Ken's side as he's walking back. If Ken gets hit (at least by an All Out Attack, need more footage to confirm getting combo'd in general) during this time, Koromaru seems to stop walking back and will wait until he's no longer in hitstun to continue walking back. This has 3 very interesting consequences as was seen in the video It's possible for Ken to wakeup without Koromaru at his side. May or may not be a big deal depending on if Koromaru has any good defensive tools at his disposal As Koromaru is walking towards Ken, Ken players can catch opponents by surprise by ordering Koromaru to attack Might be possible to do some partial Carl and Nirvana sandwich pressure by dash jumping or quick escaping to the other side of your opponent? Needs more footage and testing Of course, game still in development. They might alter how Koromaru coming back to Ken works in the next 2 months so who knows.

It's over. Now I have to wait a whole year for this to happen again!!! ;.; It's okay. Evo and NEC will ease the suffering of my waiting. And of course TSB in Tokyo. That's going to be godly. But anyway, time for shoutouts. Shoutouts to NY + NJ - LordKnight for getting 1st place in BB, Persona and VSav as well as drinking all those drinks at the bar like a champ. Sad I missed my chance to get wrecked by your Kokonoe but there's always next time. - St1ckbug for being the hypest guy to be around all the time. I hope you had an amazing time while you were here in Montreal. - Zidane for being a hilarious guy and one of the hypest GG players I've met so far. Really hope you enjoyed your stay here in Montreal. - XAQ, didn't get to talk to you much but your Dizzy was hype and your matches in Arcana were great to watch. I hope you had a great time here in Montreal. Shoutouts to Places I'm not sure of - Eshi for that one match I played against your Amane and then my awkward after the match "um, I forgot to get your name and introduce myself." Hope you had a great time here in Montreal - DigitalWatches, I don't think I've ever seen someone move so gracefully after having a few drinks. I'm still in awe about it honestly. Also, dem shoes. They were pretty cool and looked really comfortable. And of course, you're Axl was really good. Your GG commentary was also hilarious. I hope you had a great time in Montreal and at UMAD. Shoutouts to Ottawa/Toronto/Etc. - Dagwood for winning the SG tournament and bodying me in Arcana. Thanks again for coming down to hang out with us! I'll see you again at Evo if you end up going. - Essay for helping us move some of the couches at the end of the night and being a real trooper by driving Ottawa here and back in one day. I was pretty surprised by how well you played in VSav too. I had no idea you even played until I saw your Felicia at the tournament. Keep being a really chill guy!!! - Psykotik for getting 2nd in BB and 3rd in Persona and Arcana. Your performance was really great. I'm actually secretly super sad that I didn't get to fight your Aigis since I don't get to fight Aigis often. Maybe next time. - Bill307 for bopping me with his Teddie in Persona and helping run Arcana. You're such a nice guy ^,^ - Mortified and dat Iron Chef hype!!! And also for busting out the fabled Doujin Archives of legend. I almost died and went to heaven in that moment. Glad to see your hand is healing up nicely. I look forward to seeing you again sometime - Nekoneko and dat Relius that bodied me once again. Your commentary was really good too. - DudeUnderscore, keep spreading the glory of Rachel in your scene and we'll do the same here! - Gatchaman for having a hype Valk and Bullet. Sad I missed the money match with LK and the Jam mirror with St1ckbug. Oh well. Keep rising to the top! - Chachaman for having to go through the Mitsuru gauntlet in Persona. Sad I missed those matches too ;.; Shoutouts to MTL - Pochp for A) organizing the whole event. I didn't think it was possible for UMAD to be even better than last year because last year was an absolute blast but you proved me wrong. Well done, man. B) letting me run the SG, VSav and Persona brackets. It was a pleasure to run and C) bopping me in Persona again and then later in Arcana. - Bibi for handling the streaming. I missed those adorable Makoto overlays XD Sad I didn't get to see more of your Makoto - Kaeru for A)holding down the door all night, B) bopping me in GG in the Baiken mirror match and C) just being the chillest dude ever. - WakeupDP for making BB Top 8. Didn't see it in person but looking at the stream archives, your matches were all pretty solid. Always a pleasure watching your Relius work. - Kazuhiro for helping run the brackets for the main games and for that really hype, really close match against Brice on stream. - DerQ for A) helping run the brackets for the main games, B) wearing those baller shades when you fought on stream, C) j6D being da gawd and D)telling me about the great time you had at the beerfest the night before. It sounded like lots of fun. - AirMaster for running the Gundam tournament and getting second place. The gundam hype was as real as it gets. - Brice for being a godlike host for our out of town guests. Your Tager was especially sexy this tournament as well. Wish I knew enough about Guilty Gear to fully appreciate how awesome your Potemkin is. And that secret stash of lewd material. Oh. My. God. I will forever be kicking myself for not getting a chance to inspect them more closely. - Kirbster for getting 3rd place in BB and being the pride and joy of us Rachel players. Take everything you've learned from this tournament, train hard and do Rachel and MTL the ultimate justice and win Evo!!! - D4rkWolf for doing an amazing job with Bang in the BB tournament and coming so close to making Top 8 and for making Top 8! You're the best!. Also, for secretly having mad skills in Persona. - Steb's Terumi. I only saw what happened on stream but it was pretty great. - Level5 for helping run the Arcana tournament and that BB commentary. CP2 w/ Tsubaki Buffs NAO! - Unsanctifier for bopping me in both BB and GG. Thanks for all the advice afterwards as well. Didn't really get a chance to say this with all the chaos this week but welcome to Montreal! We're glad to have you here! - My first time seeing Raiyan since the Ottawa tournament. It was great seeing you again. I hope you really enjoyed your first UMAD as much as I enjoyed my first UMAD last year ^,^ - My friend SilentFate for A) entering tournaments for the first time, B) getting 3rd in SG and C) teaming up with me for Gundam to form an unstoppable team!!! (Translation: We lost horribly, lol). I'm glad you had such a great time. Shoutouts To those who couldn't make it for one reason or another - The king of MTL GG hype, BladeofJustice. It's really unfortunate that you couldn't be here with all the strong GG players we had under our roof. We miss you, Blade. Come home soon! - The third Bang in the three Bangateers, ReynTime. I just want you to know that D4rkWolf didn't make Top 8 didn't win the tournament because you weren't there with Kaeru giving your energy for the FRKZ spirit bomb. lol, just kidding. Sad you couldn't be there. Hope you had fun in Florida though - The Toronto OGs : Zeero, Deadliest and Roldy. Sad you guys couldn't make it, especially after the chill time we had at Toryuken. - And a bunch of other people who couldn't make it from the US. Shoutouts To Hype Moments - That Brice vs Zidane FT5 on Thursday night and the hype being so loud we had to tone it down - Playing Love Letter with Brice, Zidane and St1ckbug later that night. 360 MLG no scope guard headshot - The Climb the Goat hype on Friday night. Seriously, where did you guys even find that game? - To the birth of MDA | AirMaster. Congratulations on passing the test to get into MDA with flying colors! - To coming over to confirm the result of a Skullgirls match and having a "OMG that's my NPC in the background" hypegasm out of nowhere, lol - USA! USA! USA! And that's it. Thank you every single one of you who came from out of town to participate in UMAD. I really hope you all had a great time and that we'll see you again next year. ... AAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...ok, I'm done. EDIT: Just realized D4rkWolf did make Top 8. My bad. This is what happens when you do things too quickly, lol

Sourenga actually has a post a few pages back that covers the breakdown of preorder bonuses for those interested on where to get what. Still very salty that I'm not getting that Orie poster ;.;

Nothing interested in me in the second set of colors so I guess I'm sticking with Mars Soir Nanase. And of course, Dios de la Muerte Orie. This game is so close yet so far!!!

Sweet. I'm looking forward to getting some hands on time with Xrd May. It would be pretty neat if we could also do a small Xrd side tourny like they did with BBCP at Anime Expo last year, preferably at Evo since that's the one I'm going to.

The 4Gamer article shows off the first 10 colors for Nanase and Byakuya in the screenshots for those interested. Leaning towards using Nanase's palette #10- Mars Soir.

I heard talk of some people might be going to cirque du soleil or might be coming to Foonzo or both. Not sure. Either way, I'm sure if you come to Foonzo, there'll at least be some people around wanting to get some last minute emergency practice in. I'll be swinging by Foonzo around 9-10 tonight as well. Just need to eat supper and do some last minute training mode in BB,P4A,GG and SG for tomorrow first.

Yup. I think Nanase and I are going to get along just fine ^,^

Thanks for all the info Sourenga. So that Nanase special has 2 follow ups. Interesting. I'm having trouble picturing the overhead followup but this might open up the possibility of starting pressure from this special. Also, liking Nanase's VA.

Big Thanks to Kurushii for putting up this scan! That Nanase super/EX move looks good. Time to brainstorm how I'm going to apply it Even better. Narukami with Sword Dragoon bits

Just leaving this quote here with Rise info from the Siliconera Hands-On article.

AchedSphinx pretty much covered most of what I wanted to say about Ken's possible cons. The most important con he covered probably being that the hitbox on his moves might have great reach but might leave much to be desired in space covered. For instance, his DP already looks like it could have dead zone issues. Another thing to worry about is how well these moves will fair in pressure. Some of these moves might be great for poking around in neutral at the right ranges but be terrible on block up close. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm sure someone will mess around with him extensively at Evo. Maybe me if I'm not too busy messing around with Labby-chan, Chie and Rise? My memory is hazy but I'm pretty sure Ken was actually an AI set to max setting. I wouldn't read too much about what you can and can't do with Koro from that

late thoughts on yesterday's stream - Koromaru's bar really is health meter. Luckily, it looks like it's possible to combo both Ken and Koromaru at the same time, at least a bit, which allows for taking off good chunks of meter at a time. Still concerned that this leaves the possibility for people to make infinite blockstrings but I'll be optimistic for now. - Ken's uppercut that launches him into the air has mad corner carry. - Rise's music notes stay on the screen a long time but it's unclear if she has anything to pop them from a distance. Maybe persona normals? Still, this could lead to some interesting oki setups at least. Wonder if it does a decent amount of chip - Rise has a tiny projectile that she can fire, which I'm guessing is Arrow Rain? Only really saw it once so hard to say anything about it currently. Might compliment the green laser persona attack well - Guessing Risette field is the Ouroboros super we saw in the scans. Glad it's not an awakening super because this might prove to be a vital super for her overall gameplan. - Risette: Live On Stage awakening super is unblockable grab and did about 3.3-3.9k when they came close to getting a perfect score on the rhythm game. Seems like it can be DPed on reaction to the super flash though (First Brutal Impact, now this. You just can't let me have anything nice, can you ASW!!!) Starting to form a gameplan for Rise in my head. Still, I would've liked a detailed breakdown for her. Oh well, we'll just have to see what we can dig up at Evo.

sure. They don't actually give a link but it should be on their usual twitch channel

Kirisame still being a Persona elder god is definitely awesome. I just wish there was more footage of him floating around ;.;

lol @ that analogy. It was great. Thanks for once again giving us detailed impressions, Guymam. I very much appreciate it.

Just posting to remind people that P4AU will be on UltraChenTV tonight at 8:30 PM PST (11:30 EST)!!!!

Chie's lack of range options feels like an intentional design choice to me. Don't think ASW will change this. I think they want players to have good movement to succeed with Chie.

Probably don't have time to even further investigate a PC version at the moment. The PS3 version needs to be going gold pretty soon so their focus is probably that right now. Hmmmm, to be honest, I'm not really sure when they're going to get time to investigate a PC version since after the PS3 version releases, they might need to focus on Dengeki's console release if Sega is having them do it.

Nope. Not yet. I'm hoping FB releases a promotional video or does a stream showcasing her before release but so far, nothing.

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Not a single thing has been said in this thread in almost 4 months so here's my first failed attempt at getting discussion going ^,^ Thoughts on the Kirisame vs Tahichi set? The new 2C dash cancel is looking to be useful in certain midscreen combos now.

hmmm, I've been reading this a lot recently about Minazuki and after watching Minazuki footage for the last 6ish months, I have to say that this isn't really an issue. Spoiler tagging this since this ended up kind of long. The Dustloop wiki has been updated recently and pretty much has all the data now by the way. Depends. If you get hit by his Ds that launch you, he can combo into his teleport and he'll get both the combo and then pressure afterwards. The rest of his persona normals are iffy and may have spacing and CH requirements for comboing. But even if the persona attack doesn't lead into anything on hit, they still do a noteworthy amount of damage every time you get hit, making it undesirable to get him by them. On block, they don't lead to anything but to block them requires playing in a more passive manner and playing passively is what Minazuki players want because it makes it even easier for them to play footsies.