CopperDabbit

Thanks for all the games guy! Good shit from everyone involved, I felt like a lot of people got a lot better in a short amount of time. This makes the... 5th? Tournament in a row I've placed 2nd in? *Sigh* Next time... next time..

I'll be there james!

Thanks Rin!

i hat you so much.

I meant on my hard drive, jerkass.

Why can I not find that &$^#ing picture of slowpoke when I want to find it?

Wooooo! Singles ranbat! Get Hype!

Bah! Tager can get a good 3-4k off of 5A! ...assuming he has spark bolt and 100% meter, but that's besides the point!

Rin: You're not a bad player. Your problem is that you're comparing yourself against all of the best players in norcal, some of whom are some of the top players in the country. If you take a step back, you'll see what I mean. Dacid: I was only talking for that ONE TOURNY. Next time, I'm getting quadruple perfects on you. Plus an astral or two. And, the hug was my idea. It was YOUR idea to hit the camera. Scott: Many thanks for running the tourny. If you ever need help I'm more than willing to lend a hand. Willy: That was an awesome match. I barely won it by a hair. Pretty soon you'll be beating me regularly Qwerty: I AM DISAPPOINT. John: We need to get you a different job, so you can actually join the tourny's. Everyone: You're all awesome and have so very much potential! Keep practicing! Sleep time is now...

Great games all around! Dacid, I bow to your superior bang skills. You are a man to be feared. Tourny was hype as fuck. Next time... next time...

I get irony.

I love you render.

Not too much has changed. The biggest different is her 5D being incredibly useful anti-air against arakune's air pressure. Her 5D will go right through a dive-canceled j.b and punish for a full combo. She can also use it during gaps in block strings like 6A > 5D for a CH into big damage. The best thing I've found to do against her 5D is to cross-up with it, so if she's getting up off the ground and does a reversal 5D, she moves forward and you cross behind her. The timing is really difficult and you need to be a bit predictive, but it does work. Double jump to bait and then j.b as you're landing works fairly well, in addition.

That was loads of fun! Took freakin' FOREVER to get done tho. 30 entrants? At a norcal ranat? The hell? Gratz to Goryus and Willie for 1st and 3rd place, respectively.

I say, use their reliance on the black hole to your advantage. I can't tell you guys the number of times that I've cursed a hakumen, and he's just standing in the hole waiting for my meter to run out (confident it will just eat all of the bugs) and I hit him with a j.D. Or if the black hole is up high enough, you can 2D to push him out of it. It's also fairly easily (though risky) to bait a hakumen trying to slash a projectile. For example: let's say you have a 6D out on the screen. The hakumen player is going to try and do one of two things: 1) 2C it, or j.4C it. In either case you can dash forward or j.6C to hit him preemptively. If he prefers to say on the ground, 3C him as he's trying to kill it. Depending on how much meter hakumen has, the risk v. reward can be really bad. Since he can combo off the BH for massive damage (with lots of meter), be careful about doing this too much.

There are actually some better tricks you can do against lambda when it comes to her act parcer cavalier. For example, if you're on the ground, no matter what she hits you with she cannot combo into from max distance, EXCEPT off of a counter hit 5D (regular sword along the ground). However, this cannot be hit confirmed. So, if the lambda you're playing against is poking for a counter 5D into cavalier, simply throw after the 5D and you'll grab her out of it. Beam super works well too, however.

I'm down.

We won't hold it against you, that's for each man to decide for himself.

FOR THE RECORD. Mike Z tore me a new nothing. YES, I did lose, but they weren't that one sided. GGs everyone! That tourny was so much fun. Gratz to Calvin on coming in second!

Sorry, I meant 6A > 6B.

The primary use i've seen for 6B is two things: 1) That actually combos on block so if you're fighting against an uppercut character they can't DP in between hits and 2) a low attack while Arakune is still standing. It would be awesome of that combo did work but oh well. I just wish I could get 6B > IAD dash cancel B > 5a > 6B > j.d would work. Haven't managed to get the dash cancel B to work tho...

Thanks for all the games guys! That was so much fun and it was great to be able to see the lot of you and meet some cool new people. Took forever but totally worth it

Guys, I'm lazy and don't feel like moving all of these posts. Take all combo discussion to the combo discussion thread, ok?

The start up times on all of the bugs have been increased fairly substantially. So, I don't believe that it's possible to combo with bugs in that particular setup. You also may not want to, as the damage scaling at this point could potentially be bad enough that you're just wasting meter...

Wow, great job on this thread Skye! Just keep it updated