Shawnobi

Thanks for the help guys. I know all you can provide is general feedback without me having footage, so I'll set up my hd capture card one of these days.

I want to throw it out there that I was winning by double, because I put more time into the game, but it was annoying that he was able to keep up just with Hazama's reversals, lame game, and day 1 bnb's. So I'm here to just see if there's something wrong with my methodology.

I won't deny that I do spend alot of time air dashing in. Its a fault of mine. Half the time I forget that I can't barrier guard cancel my air dash because I try to bait the flash kick and end up doing a j.B on accident. Dash 5B doesn't work for me unless I instant block or chicken guard with barrier. When I was complaining about 5C being an unblockable anti air, however, its not because I jump in alot, its because he'll end his combos with reset attempts in which he forces me above him, j.C's, land's before me and 5C's me while I'm just barely in the air, so I have to barrier guard. After my barrier, its his free mixup. When I caught on, I started ID'ing his mixup attempt so then he started throwing in the bait and destroying my whiff. Furthermore, my biggest problem isn't Hazama's damage output, its how insane of a reversal character he is. Me and my friend play offline, and his reactions/reads/yomi level are actually pretty godlike. I can't mix him up. His defense is outrageous. Here is what I try at the wall. Mixup 1> 2B,6B, 6A Mixup 2> 2B, pause, 2B Mixup 3> tick throw Mixup 4> After a wall stick combo - 3C, jump cancel, j.C Mixup 5> After a wall stick combo - 3C, jump cancel, empty jump, 2B (I see SKD do this alot) Mixup 6> 2B, 5C, Gauntlet Hades Mixup 7> 2B, 5C, 2D And finally, 2B, 5D, Dead Spike, wait to see what he does and inferno divide whatever the F##K comes out!! These all worked at one point, but after a few rounds, his adrenaline was pumping and nothing escaped his eye, making this matchup ridiculously hard. His neutral game is so strong, and Jabaki ruins me. Positive Frames, Sends me flying, puts me just the right distance to make him safe from my normals on block. I was a broken man.

I'm posting this here because I consider it self improvement and some of the stuff I need help with is all around and not just specific to Hazama. Alright, so I was using Ragna last night, and my friend plays with Hazama and I realized how tough of a matchup this is for me. Can someone give me pointers? Its hard for me to apply pressure or to win the neutral game against Hazama. Here's Why. Hazama's flashkick move has an insane hitbox, has invincibility frames, is air unblockable, and I cannot punish with any of Ragna's normals (Hazama goes waaaay too far back) when barrier guarded in the air. In fact, I can't punish anything of Hazama's because he goes way too far back on block or his moves leave him on + frame. This is the only matchup where I have found Ragna's appendages to be very unsatisfactory. Well, nu-13 is hard for me, too, but not this hard. Speaking of nu-13; that character just wins against me for free. Hazama has air to air superiority in every way against Ragz. Hazama's rapid j.C beats out EVERYTHING, even if he's below ragna, above ragna, same height as ragna and I do j.B, j.C, j.D, belial edge, and blood scythe, it doesn't matter, Hazama's j.C is godlike, and when he mashes it and lands, his 5C is air unblockable, too, so now I gotta watch out for that, and I can't even punish it afterwards because he'll either cancel into stance or 3C beats all my normals. Hazama's D movement is a pain in the butt, too. I was 6A'ing the hell out of it at first, but he got smart and started changing the movement, and baiting me with empty D attacks, and going behind me instead. I have no idea how to punish the behind attack because it happens so fast and it messes up my command input. I try Inferno Divider, but it does not auto correct sides and I end up whiffing and getting punished. The fast movement (I'm not familiar with Hazama's moves) started stuffing my 6A because it came out way too fast to react to after the snake bites. Also, I had to really think about the Anti Airs, because he kept poking with D and retracting them instead of moving so that I would whiff. God, and after every match its so much disrespect when Hazama pokes Ragna's dead body and talks about my sister. -.-; Someone please help me, how do I (in the words of Ragna the Bloodedge) "Kill that Sonnuva B####!!!" ?