mAceOfHearts

It ranks up or down only when you fight people of your own color. If you're yellow, it doesn't matter if you win 100 times against a pink or lose 100 times against a blue. It'll only count your matches with other yellows.

Some of those matches were amazing, so I'm glad this got uploaded as well. Also, congratulations!

I'll have my PS3 turned on from the start of this tourney. Just shoot me a message if you need me to fight.

I had a match fairly recently against a Litchi player in Arcade Lobby. It was pretty laggy, but not completely unplayable. After the match, I gave the guy/gal a Thumb's Up. ´´azreal is for noobs`` I got a good chuckle out of that one, especially since he/she never used Litchi's staff. Immediately dropped at the start of each round, never picked it up or did anything with it during the game.

As someone who's had pretty much every color at least once, I can safely say that this sounds like a horrible idea. I've beaten Pinks and been destroyed by Blues. It would be better to go by number of matches played or something like that. (And even that's not terribly accurate)

TL/DR: Lag is bad.

Doing any sort of link with Azrael is impossible with a sub-par connection. 5B-2C? No way. I really don't see how lag is beneficial to Azrael, compared to, say, Ragna.

I seriously hate the new shortcut for 632146 motions. How am I supposed to learn a new character when half my DP attempts turn into a waste of 50 meter and a 4K punish? (Jin)

One thing I noticed very quickly was that a lot of your choices in terms of movements and attacks were very... Nonsensical, I guess. EG: You blocked the Heart Car and punished using 5A. You started using Sentinel at full screen. I'd advise you to pay more attention to what's going on at the screen, not just what's going on near your character. You Gustaf'd directly into a bubble at one point. (Or did you think Gustaf would break it?) Your neutral in general seemed somewhat awkward too. Half the time you would stand completely still, the other half you'd dash in with reckless abandon. Neither of these are good ideas. A lot of your normals have long range, so use them! Also, don't use Growler as ´´run-up DP``. It has a horrible hitbox and only deals 500 damage. It's not worth the risk. You should also work on your mixup. You have a lot of overheads at your disposal. Frametraps into 3C are nice and all, but you need to throw in a 5D or 6D every now and then. You did start using them later on, but it was still pretty rare. You also ought to use his links more, don't just go straight into 5BB from a 5B. You can get a weakpoint from a 5B by going 5B-2C-6/3D. 5B in general is an amazing move in terms of potential mixup. EG: You can 5B-5D for an overhead or 5B-2D for a low, both of which are pretty tough to react to. You did make good use of your backdash a lot of the time, which I'll commend you for. TL/DR: Focus on your neutral and your mixup.

I sub Kagura. Add me if you're up for some games later, I'm done playing for the day. GGs to everyone I played, had a lot of fun today.

The same goes for 6DC. Oddly enough, it doesn't seem like Azrael's 5C increases hit hurtbox. I've had it phase through DPs multiple times.

Gotcha. Just making sure.

As in "Not even Tager's 2A is slower than Haku's 3C." or "Not even Tager's is as slow as Azrael's 2A."? Because unless the wiki contains faulty information or something was changed after the patch, Azrael's 2A absolutely is slower than Haku's 3C. 9 frames of startup > 8 frames of startup.

GGs to Brendon Heat and whoever else I fought online. Learned a lot about Haku today. Particularly that his 3C is faster than my 2A. Yay.

Yeah, connections numbers can be pretty tricky to figure out sometimes. New pet peeve: Why does Haku's 5D have hitbox behind him? As in, on his back? Same goes for Yukikaze. (I stood behind him and did 5B, which activated it) Also, 2D catching mids and lows. You have 1 frame of startup, you should not catch both. I swear, playing Haku VS Azrael is like like flipping a coin. High or low, high or low, all the damn time. Will he counter my 6D and get 12,5 Heat and deal 1800 damage? Or will he get CH by it, giving me a 3K combo and applying a weakpoint? Place your bets!

A lot of us just don't have other options. More than 90% of the people I meet online have a big, fat 0 next to their names. Besides, I've had plenty of matches with 0's that have been completely lag-free. Just don't skip the intro and you're fine. (Usually)

The only thing he has that makes this MU annoying is j.D. The hitbox is gigantic and it's extremely hard to punish due to Az's lackluster mobility.

Looking forward to this. Tried learning Amane to have something else ready this time, but that didn't really work out. Hopefully my Azrael won't be laser-spammed to death once more.

I don't think I'll ever recover from that.

You could cross out either ´´Mu`` or ´´Mirrors`` and it would apply perfectly to me.

Killed the clone? Good job. Oh, and if you need me to play, please tell me in advance. I might not be able to make it otherwise.

Odd, he's fairly rare whenever I play. Izayoi, on the other hand, is common as all hell.

What can I say, I really like fighting him. His wolf form might be a tad annoying, but that doesn't ruin the match-up for me. The only characters I dislike fighting are Mu-12, Noel, Nu-13 and Izayoi.

Noel is the last character you should learn if you want to get more matches. Honestly, people are avoiding you because of Valk and Izayoi? Izayoi I can kinda get. Kinda. Full-screen teleports are pretty hard to adjust to. Valk, though? He's such a fun match-up! And no-one ever uses him!

I just dislike how it turns every fight against someone of your own colour into a Ranked Match of sorts. I just wanna practise with Amane.