VR-Raiden

So...any Sol players got a vita? I keep hitting air hit 6P near corner and wishing I was playing +R... Apparently ill have access to a vita for a bit starting this weekend so I can try stuff for people

P4A (29 entrants) 1. Lord Knight (Mitsuru) 2. Matt Coma (Aigis) 3. Grover (Yu) 4. IPG|Colpevole (Chie) Top 4 stream archives: http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky/b/393854311?t=82m05s GG (16 entrants) 1. Mulligan 2. Coma 3. Shazay 4. 4R5 5. VR-Raiden 5. White Sakura 7. Purifyws 7. Vic Viper BB (10 entrants) 1. Lord Knight 2. Scuba 3. Jin 4. Spin to Win 5. VR 5. Street Walking 7. Sour Patch Parents 7. Avaunt I'll update with more details if I can find them. GGs everyone thanks for coming out.

http://rvatournaments.tumblr.com/post/48509119495/stream-info-semi-finals-and-schedule-for-civil-war-v Stream schedule for finals day, top 4 P4A at 11 on team spooky!

Awesome glad you can make it! Pools should be posted later on tonight, as for a P4A team tourney that would be awesome, I can get sign ups going Friday evening and we can definitely get one going with enough interest, maybe 2v2 could work

Renewed my live, anyone up for games?

The wiki has a good list of some simple combos: http://www.dustloop.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sol_Badguy_(GGAC) There's also this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhzR6rlPP8M What's most important is you get a knockdown from your combo. Unless it's going to kill you always want a knockdown to end it. Usually done with ground Bandit Revolver(BR) after 2-3 SWs, or you can sometimes choose to air Volcanic Viper>knockdown(VV) instead. Sol's SW loops can change slightly based on how close the opponent is to the corner. You have to get good at determining what way you should go for the clean hits based on the opponents position on the screen (vertically and horizontally). Some tips that will help you get clean hits if you mistime certain parts of a combo: - 2H > j.S > SW, you replaced with 2H > j.H(1) > SW for when the opponent is too high after the 2H for j.S>SW to clean hit, but does slightly less damage. - fj.S > SW, you can add j.K after the j.S if you notice the opponent is too low after j.S for SW to clean hit. General SW loop stuff: - using j.D in SW loops will do more damage than j.S but it's more difficult/combo/character specific. - using 2H > SW when possible also strengthens combos, usually as the last SW since they come down very low after the wallbounce from this. and I might as well list a few basic examples to help you get the idea, these are done from starting position on Sol: - 5K > (5S) > 2D > BR/VV, standard knockdown combo for no meter - 2K > 2H > GV(clean hit) > fj.S > SW > dash 2H > fj.S > SW > (walk back) > 2H > BR, simple GV combo from low - WT > fj.S > SW > 2H > fj.S > SW > nj.S > SW > BR, simple 3 SW combo from WT - VV(RC) > dash 5K > 2H > fj.S > SW > nj.S > SW > fj.S > SW > bj.S > SW > BR, combo from VV for 50% tension, example of j.S SW loops near corner allowing 4 SW - anti air 5K > 2H > fj.H(1) > SW > nj.S > SW > fj.S > SW > nj.S > SW > BR, combo from one of the best anti-airs in the game If you have any other questions feel free to ask in the general discussion thread.

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So this could possibly be useful, you can do kinda wonky 5D oki on him from certain starters. Haven't tried it any in matches yet but basically you do 5D at times where if they tech immediately all hits of 5D whiff through their tech, but also still hit OTG if they stay down so you can convert to another knockdown. Some example setups CH 2B air hit 5D 214B dash 5D You still have 5DD to work with so it might let you get some mixups. At least it might trick them into doing reversal B+D once.

Ok cool didn't try doing 5DD there. I'll try that 5A combo too I could definitely see it being easier to get consistently.

I can only go Friday

I was curious about what allowed you to omc from the clash, so I tried it a while back. What it seems like is you can sorta Kara-omc. So cancelling the clash with some normal then immediately A+B+C let's you omc, so you can actually do it off the first clash but that's unlikely if you weren't already ready for it. Just something I found interesting if anyone wasn't already aware.

So this was pointed out to me from the recent Shikki vs Kaicho vids BanchouJP uploaded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bpnxv4WxSs#t=20m2s at 20:02 5D airdash slight delay jB, counter hits her out of reversal B+D > powercharge. I went and tried it and other options she would have and made a short vid about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsyGGOFFdc To me it looks like there's nothing she can do safely if you do airdash slight delay jB. However if she reversal meteors through 5D you have to block it as far as I can tell.

Yeah it's only out on Vita for now. oh boy Not sure, I'm not able to make it Saturday so I couldn't provide a set up for it, maybe someone else can. Friday night there will be P4A casuals going on though with at least 1 set up. I wanna play some GG too. and the same goes for BB, you can play it if people come out and bring set ups for it.

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Interesting, I hadn't heard that before, but I wouldn't be surprised. I get it on pad pretty much every time and I do 1/3 + P/S. It could just be that there's less distance you're thumb has to go to get the inputs, since on a DS2 you're basically pivoting the dpad over/across the down direction.

Awesome see you there. This is the preliminary schedule: http://rvatournaments.tumblr.com/post/47375965551/cw5-prelim- April 19 “Exhibitions, Casuals, & Team Tournaments” 6PM- Doors Open 6PM-10PM Registration, Badge Pickup 7PM-12PM TEAM TOURNAMENTS- 3v3 AE 3v3 ST Pair Play- SFxT Pair Play- TTT2 Pair Play- MK9 IJ:GAU Exhibition North vs South Marvel Team Exhibition. Saturday April 20 “Singles Pools” 10AM-Doors Open 10AM-12PM Continuation/Finish up of Team Events 10AM-12PM Badge Pickup & Emergency Registration (Badge Pickup will be available until 7pm) 12PM- SG, DOA, KOF, ST Character Lock Tourney 1PM- MK9, SF4AE 2PM- BB 3PM- TTT2, SFIVAE Cont 4PM- GG 5PM SFxT, TTT2 Cont. 6PM- P4A, ST Ratio Tourney 7PM- UMVC3, IJ:GAU 8PM- P4A Cont. 9PM-UMVC3 Cont.IJ:GAU Cont. GG, BB, DOA, SG will all be finished Saturday. Sunday 4/21 “Semi Finals/Finals (Tentative)” 10AM P4A Top 4 (Main Stream), KOF Top 4 (Stream 2) 11AM MK9 Top 4 (Stream 2), ST Double Elim Tourney 11AM-TTT2 Top 8 (Main Stream) 12pm AE Semi Finals (Stream 2) 2pmUMVC3 Semi Finals (Stream 2) 2pm IJ:GUA Top 8 (Main Stream) 4pm SFxT Top 8 (Main Stream), ST FInals (Stream 2) 6pm SFAE 2012 Top 8 (Main Stream) 8pm-11pm UMVC3 Top 8 (Main Stream)

ok wasn't sure if FB SW was faster or not. I tried them myself, on the backairdash over jD SW, I get it to work like I thought it would on most the cast (everyone but shorter people like Kliff, Zappa, Faust, May, Millia, Baiken, Bridget) but yeah they have to be standing (or tall enough) or jD doesn't hit early enough for SW to come out in time. No it's not easy to hitconfirm either, neither is going to BR, it's more of a gimmick/trick than a solid mix-up. on the nj.S thing I forgot you can't delay cancel much at all after j.S hits, I was thinking CH instant nj.S delay j.D would work but nah. It's a risky bait option anyway since if they crouch or have a 4H/6H that lowers them you whiffed a j.S or get hit for it. Scratch that idea.

GGs people I played lately

Theres a decent chance I could make this, are GG/P4/BB starting on Saturday?

So 2 things I want to try involving FB SW. Dash jump over opponent, airbackdash jD FB SW. I hit people with this going into air BR RC/FRC sometimes, but I suspect with FB SW you'll be able to hit the jD much farther and it will be less character specific. Instant njS jD FB SW. As a throw attempt punish I could see this working and leading to good damage. and maybe jS fuzzy jS FB SW? I kind of doubt thd FB SW would hit though based on what people have been saying.

Thanks for the input Grover. vs Eshi that Zio was supposed to be a Ziodyne. I smelled a dropped combo/reset/whatever after I saw the OMC airdash, so I mashed it out like the scrub I am. Luckily the execution error worked out, but that was just silly I agree I wasn't being patient enough, I was guessing like mad when I should just block and react to 5D. I was wondering about that maragidyne oki, thanks. vs LK, yeah I felt dumb cause we even talked about not doing so much 2C vs. Mitsuru and I've already been killed for it multiple times yet I was still doing it. vs Chosen Ninja was a disaster. I studied the match up a lot before going but failed to apply any of it. I wanted to crawl in a hole after that wake-up Ziodyne lol...the TK was another messed up input but I fully intended to wake up super like a scrub. as for the overall tips I agree completely. I desperately need to work on hit-confirming and execution.

Can't be there this week but planning to spend next weekend in nova so I should be there next Fri.

Sorry for neglecting this thread lately, thanks for posting more vids Orrax and others. I'll catch up on these and update the first post later today.

Here are my streamed Final Round 16 matches. Already slapped myself a ton watching them again but any input is appreciated. http://www.twitch.tv/sixfortyfive/b/384425234?t=15m30s vs Eshi (Liz) http://www.twitch.tv/sixfortyfive/b/384425234?t=25m08s vs Lord Knight (Mitsuru) http://www.twitch.tv/sixfortyfive/b/384425234?t=41m00s vs Chosen Ninja (Yukiko)

It'd be awesome if you end up being able to make it, hope it works out for you. oops I edited "Side Tourneys" out of the schedule in the first post but forgot to in my original posting of the schedule since it was confusing. BB will start on Saturday and end on Saturday. Friday evening is just casuals for BB/P4/GG. Hope you can still make it for the tournament. I'll be confirming lots more details about scheduling and whatnot in the next few days and update this thread.