Assassinine

You misunderstand, hes saying hes not bothered by the change to blocked drives because hes already getting punished for blocked drives, which makes absolutely no sense to me.

How exactly are people punishing drives on block? At H1 its +4. Even with instant block you are still at advantage and you have a 6 frame 2A

I must be doing something wrong somehow? Houtenjin is beating 5D / j.D and Cutting Shear safejump setups in training, but not 2C safejumps. Am i performing my safejumps poorly or something? If not, i see no difference between drive safejumps and Cutting Shear safejumps. They both seem to beat pretty much everything but fast reversals like Houtenjin or F-Inverse. If drive safejumps are functionally the same as Cutting Shear safejumps, then it really doesnt make a difference to me which we use as long as we still get our safejump oki.

Judging by that video you dont actually get the heat level until Bullet returns to a neutral stance, so H0 5D snap wont allow you to engage. This seems to be the way Bullet's drive has always worked, as rapid cancelling a drive gives you the heat level immediately where otherwise you would have to wait until you fully recover.

Why not just do the old round start backthrow OD combo? 4B+C > OD > 2D > 6D > 236D 95 heat 3097 damage

Im with you Fogel, this patch almost entirely killed my Terumi hype. -Orochi corner carry gone, 3C 6D link gone. Replaced with a character specific OTG combo -Most raw OD combos removed. -6B crouching confirm is cool but 5C change removed TK loops, so we traded a strong confirm for a weaker, more braindead one. -Orochi mixup can whiff entirely if they simply barrier block the previous move, gives poor reward on hit without RC and OD, leaves you in a bad position on block. A lot of cool things were removed and the new things are either weaker than what we used to have, or plain underwhelming, imo.

http://youtu.be/pV_C6QxKB8w?t=49s (the second taunt combo video) Can anyone explain why this occurs? The video suggests that it has something to do with Ragna's health but that shouldnt have anything to do with Terumi's meter gain, right?

I posted that about a month ago, long before those videos showed up. @HMM: He did OD Burensen, his OD timer ran out, and he cancelled into regular Burensen, which has no bow. The ability to cancel supers into other supers isnt tied to overdrive, its tied to OD versions of supers. The interesting part is he cancelled into regular Burensen after the big kick at the end of OD burensen, which is impossible on 1.0. Im guessing that now you can cancel the final kick into another super, where in 1.0 you can only cancel during the rapid stomp portion of the super, which is wasteful.

Doesnt the 1.1 patch solve jagaku's issue by pushing Terumi back slightly further?

But isnt hitstun entirely determined by combo starter and elapsed time during combo, and completely independant of damage proration? If anything i would think the level increase would make the 5D 6D link better.

The extra hits might make it take slightly longer to animate, which could cause problems with hitstun later in the combo, making some things that work normally cease to work. As far as A Burensen, if it has a variant, its gonna have to do something really neat to make it worthwhile. It has a relatively long animation so it would really kill your OD and combo timers unless done as an ender. It also has to compete with the combo-ability / oki of OD Soutenjin and the raw damage output of OD B Burensen.

Rachel has always had a silly OTG hitbox, dont expect that link to work on anyone else

Wait what? B Burensen is only -1 according to the wiki, is A Burensen horribly negative? Did they change the frame data for B Burensen without putting it in the changelog? Is the wiki just wrong?

I believe you need a total of 6 inputs of C before the second stomp in order to get level 3 version

A quick glance at the wiki says orochi is 13+2 The change to command grab is likely to allow us to combo into AA Renshouga, even if that is a terrible idea.