RurouniLoneWolf

Transcribed the CMV by Vartra that @gamester posted. When it hits youtube, I'll come back and add video example links for each of the combos http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm27767675 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRpp9NjnMs

Andradite of Binding (AAW) seems to send the opponent flying on hit and wall bounces, giving more than enough time to convert into a combo. https://youtu.be/fgkNkVU5GLA?t=289 An attempt to use her gravity seed-ish spell as oki. At first glance, it doesn't seem good though. The small delay before the spell activates makes it feel like you can easily run/jump out of it. https://youtu.be/fgkNkVU5GLA?t=662

:O Yuuki!!!! Welp, guess there's no need for me to keep playing Asuna with the closest thing to a Yuuki palette I could find anymore. Damn, DFCI has too many great additions XD

Oh. That's pretty nice. Wonder how much mileage we can get out of the resulting wall bounce it causes when you hit it forward. I look forward to seeing how JP players end up using this extra feature of Citrine ^,^ Here's a few more things I noted from newer matches There was uncertainty in the translation of the Famitsu article but Nine's Gravity Seed spell definitely hits the opponents when it knocks them out of the air and forces them to the ground. Might be air unblockable since the Carl player was barrier blocking when he jumped into it before he got knocked down to the ground but he could've just stopped blocking. https://youtu.be/Nw8ipXfzgrQ?t=515 A nice example how CH 214B leads into a full combo thanks to the wall bounce https://youtu.be/j2OIl9D59cs?t=483 Feels like Uvarovite of Destruction has some weak tracking for 1-2 seconds, then it stops tracking and there's a brief delay before the rain of fire comes down. Seems easy to escape on its own but the blast radius is fairly large though. If Nine works in conjunction with it, she might be able to pin them down from the right setups https://youtu.be/j2OIl9D59cs?t=490

Sadly, this feels like the usual pace we get Rachel matches at ;.; Not a lot of people play Rachel to begin with, never mind play on stream. When N-O played her a lot in CP 1.0 and 1.1, the pace was somewhat better because he frequents a-cho and a-cho uploads a lot of footage.

A few things I saw from watching a few of the match vids 3C seems like it could be a good option at round start. Round Start CH 3C > Coral of Anger (Lvl.1) > Aerial Combo https://youtu.be/O5kZwCxOyb0?t=72 Fairy Spell also seems pretty nice for oki. Nice Counter Assault bait by the Nine Player. https://youtu.be/O5kZwCxOyb0?t=112 Amethyst of Massacre seems to have a Sword Iris-ish hitstun effect. Seems like you can convert into a combo if we're close enough but the combo drops in this example. Seems like it's pretty good for controlling ground space https://youtu.be/FiuaTlMQyHw?t=74 Counter Assault is the forward kick from her Exceed Accel attack https://youtu.be/ggjFplf1AMM?t=98

I'm going to answer this question based solely on these three sentences. I think you should: Shift the bulk load of your time committed back on to BB. Your local scene doesn't really care for it? That's fine. Welcome to the life of a Persona, DFC, Skullgirls (in a lot of places), etc. player. It's not a particularly bad situation to be in to be honest, especially since a lot of people do play the games on netplay. You just need to take a lot more initiative in finding games and playing people. Going in the Match Making thread, skype/discord chat, etc. and asking if people want to play is nice but gets inconsistent results. If you're really serious about playing often, you should start talking to people directly, seeing when the best time to get matches in with them are and frequently organize matches with them. Keep playing GG but shift your focus on getting the most out of your matches with your friends instead of just playing the game in general. If I've learned anything from playing a wide variety of games and meeting/interacting with lots of people and communities, it's really that the person sitting next to you or on the other arcade cab is what's ultimately going to make playing the game enjoyable. If you've already got great friends and cool people to play against, you've already met the conditions to enjoy your matches. You just need to shift your focus to enjoying your time with your friends. Don't concern yourself with playing other people unless you're up to it. Those are my thoughts on this situation. Hope it helps in some way.

Nine damage, P1 and P2 values https://twitter.com/ima3curry/status/672428810592096257

She's looking to have some really nice palettes. #6 and #9 are looking like my style right now. Oh really? This is pretty neat. I'm curious to see how it's going to get used. There's another interesting movement tidbit like this in greatfernman's translations that I thought was pretty interesting. Apparently, Nine can follow up her dash with another dash and it has the ability to make her go from the ground to the air and vis versa. Very curious to see this in action. Feel like there might be some nice, cross up/cross down potential here, especially when combined with the right spells. EDIT: Also, there's a stream with a Nine playing arcade http://www.twitch.tv/nanajo_live

More stuff. This time I found Yusa Yusa vs Yatarou (Celica) https://youtu.be/9wwnmYIC3oM?t=8 Wow @ Round 1. YUSA. Chill. You have the option to block on wakeup. H2 Flint Shooter loses to Celica projectile. Race Car vs Yatarou (Celica) https://youtu.be/9wwnmYIC3oM?t=386 Race Car vs Yatarou (Celica) https://youtu.be/EbbPkkQkvsA?t=8 Yusa vs Ponkotsu (Naoto) https://youtu.be/EbbPkkQkvsA?t=424 hmmmmm, I definitely think the height of the flint shooter projectile varies based on heat level. In H2, it gets eaten by Celica's projectile but you can see the H0 one go under the projectile here https://youtu.be/EbbPkkQkvsA?t=212

@greatfernman did an extensive translation of the Famitsu article. Big thanks to him! Going through it very slowly since I'm at work right now ;.; Nine Normals and Spells https://www.evernote.com/shard/s296/sh/5939248f-3136-4266-8407-64278eba0c89/da054378361d14d1bbc8feff8af47956 Nine Specials and Supers https://www.evernote.com/shard/s296/sh/d58336e3-7269-4b3d-ae53-4979e226a931/4ae864d164fc838da92bd6f5188c7c27

An interesting spell. I'm curious to see if we can make use of it for reversal safe oki. Though I guess it depends on how well it'll work against multi-hit moves. I wonder if it'll guard all hits of a multi-hit DP like Kagura's or only the first hit.

There'll be streams. There's always a few streams for BBCF right now but there's no guarantee that the people playing will play Nine. Your best bet is to either hope for a KaoTV episode focused around her like they did with Johnny, Jam, Hibiki and Naoto or to keep your ear to the ground on twitter and catch a tweet about someone pointing out a Nine player on a stream.

j.C being jump cancellable is neat. I'm curious why it wasn't like this from the start though. Guess I'll add things I noted as well j.D > 214D that someone was interested in seeing before - https://youtu.be/JsxYICklGZI?t=861 Command Grab RC Combo route mentioned above - https://youtu.be/JsxYICklGZI?t=365 Picked up back close to corner 623C > 623D With dash 5B https://youtu.be/JsxYICklGZI?t=855 Footage of the return Capture |> 5B in the corner made it from the loketest https://youtu.be/JsxYICklGZI?t=1103 Overall, it seems Futaba is still getting used to CF Bullet so I won't analyze the match itself too much. Something worth noting though is that the new multi-hit flint shooter seems pretty nice in this MU for getting rid of multiple presents, especially the H2 variant. New 5D feels like a mix bag so far for me.

40 minutes of Futaba Bullet. We finally have footage of a notable Bullet players. Praise the Sun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsxYICklGZI

You're breaking my heart, kirbster-senpai ;.;

Let me know what you find if you go back to test. I'm pretty confident just by looking at it that even H2 red lock is slightly negative, which does line up with what we heard in loketests. I'm more interested to know if it's negative enough to get punished on block.

hmmmm, seems like blocked drive doesn't really bounce back far enough for it to be a safe distance like it did in loketest. Not sure, if it's actually punishable from just watching the video since it's possible the Bullet pushed a button but it definitely seems close enough for people to start pressure of their own :S https://youtu.be/7eNsyqMiS5M?t=6338

Well, it's very early on and none of the Bullet players we've seen so far are the usual notable ones so I don't know if there's really anything to take away from these early match videos except specific changes and new tech. On a somewhat related note, this Top 30 Dan rankings that Jourdal tweeted earlier today has a Bullet at the 20th spot. Doesn't mean much because of how early on it is but I'm quite curious about this Mshi Bullet since I've never seen footage of him before. I hope some footage of him will turn up in the near future. 0's Bullet would also be nice footage to see.

Pretty good example of lotus oki in practice in case anyone wanted to see. Also shows 5CC > 6C route from an IOH without spending wind if people wanted to see that too https://youtu.be/2wCQy307xZc?t=371

Not necessarily. It's still pretty early and this is arcade release where people don't get to grind training mode + lack extensive training mode options. It's very possible that they get CHed because they aren't timing their next input right and are ending up - instead of +.

Ok. I see what you were actually originally asking. All right then. Let me rephrase my answer then. Replace winding a pumpkin to hit meaty with having a (winded) lotus bat trying to attach itself meaty and the part where you want to reset pressure with TK Iris and you more or less have the same thing. I think Pumpkin and Lotus are pretty interchangeable in the context of pressure, at least in the corner. You might not be able to do things exactly like how you did it with the Pumpkin but there'll be ways to accomplish it. It's neutral that's more concerning for me. There's too much dependency on having poles out and strategically placed in my opinion. But it's best to wait and see. JP Rachels might come up with some interesting tactics to make this a non issue.

Really? Wow. That sucks. I can only hope that this is heat dependent somehow. Also yeah. 2C > Afterburner's make me cringe right now. I am definitely praying for a breakthrough involving 6B launch combos. I would really like to see some footage of better known Bullets show up in the near future. I'm curious to see how they're making use of the new 5D.

You asked for clarification on how can you keep an opponent in blockstun twice using lotus without spending wind and I gave you what I thought Fonon could mean. Not sure where this conversation of pumpkin oki vs TK Iris came from.

Not sure if it's what Fonon had in mind specifically but I think the first is lotus hitbox when attaching and the second is TK Sword Irising the lotus in a blockstring. But I'm just guessing.