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The 6A in corner 3C>236B>2B>6A>stuff whiffs on Rachel in the corner, but you can microdash 2B to continue the combo as normal. Just a heads-up.

Getting Jin's stage in ranked netplay makes me want to lie down and count to ten.

I need to find reliable ways to reset pressure with Lambda. Otherwise, they'll just be able to wait out my pressure and get a few turn. Stagger pressure will be handy. Is it possible to do a safe-ish (ie not like a 20 frame gap) blockstring into 236D?

I don't have damage or heat gain (I'm at work) but here's a midscreen 6B combo. 6B>2D>5D>jc>j.C>j.2C>2D>5D>j.C>j.2C>2D>5D>j.2D>j.6D>j.D>j.214D Does roughly 2.5k, has some goodish corner carry.

Can we do 5C>6C off of a 5A starter? I've been having trouble getting it.

I'm part of a Nu/Lambda Skype group if anybody wants in. It's both characters right now because it was originally a 1.1 Nu group, and we decided it was easiest to not split up the D spammers. We'll see if people want to split up later on. Please PM me if you want to join. Also, I'm loving getting air ender off what seems like any random standing hit. Really handy, although Lambda seems to also have way better options.

I don't like committing to much in the mirror. You know exactly what Liz is capable of, and you know the key is to be patient and wait for her to overextend herself. The matchup is more about punishing the other's mistakes than opening them up in my opinion. That isn't to say just sit there like a log until you see 5D coming, but do safe/less unsafe options until they've been conditioned to respect you, and wait for them to do something unsafe and capitalize on it. Also worth noting is that you should try to keep Liz from entering awakening if possible. Liz shouldn't have too much trouble killing herself without letting her ever see awakening if you manage your damage well enough. P.S. you can burst awakened SB Bufu in a combo and have time to punish, yay

I guess I'll just ask: Is it hopeless? I feel like I can't do anything in this matchup. I feel like I have to get a lucky hit in and then ride Mitsuru until she's dead. If she gets out, we're instantly at a disadvantage. Between 5A, j.A, and j.B, it feels like nowhere onscreen is safe from her normals. I know we can sweep 5A, but that's about all I know. Is there any way for Liz to challenge Mitsuru in neutral?

I started just doing 5C D Agi or 5C delay 2C to bring Thanatos back to me and keep Akihiko's fist out of my teeth. I'm liking D Agi a lot in this matchup to keep Akihiko in blockstun and not up to hijinks. If we have him in the corner, I think the best option after 5C may be dash cancel so he can't parry out, at least until he stops doing it. Not sure how to outright blow him up to make him respect, though.

What's that option selet Akihiko can do in Thanatos pressure to beat basicAlly all of our options after 5C? 2A > parry? Is there something we can dor to blow it up or do we just have to be mindful during our pressure at spacings where the followup will hit us?

I'm also not confident I have any idea how to play this matchup, but the big thing for me is to keep him away. He has to get in on us, and we should make him work for it. He can't really do anything fullscreen that we can't react to, and once he gets in we're in hell. It's also really important to stay mindful and keep out of the corner, so he can't box you in. Other than that, I'm afraid I've got nothing.

I've got a question about an ender and I'm not sure which thread to put it in. I'm going to go ahead and hope this is the right place, so here we go. In the OMC combo I use (5AA 5B 5C 2AB 236A OMC 665BB 2B 5C 2C 5B 236A 236236C~A), sometimes the enemy will sideswap and Marie will toss out the card backwards. Is this an issue with the hurtbkxes of certain characters being wonky? If so, which ones? It's inconsistently occurring even on characters it tends to (Adachi is the first one that comes to mind), so could it be corrected by canceling 236A earlier and snagging them with the card before they have the chance to switch sides?

Okay, so I'm still shopping for a main/sub in Xrd and I think I've settled on May (almost entirely because I love her nautical pirate aesthetic and her English voice doesn't make me want to tear my ears off) for at least sub. What's her playstyle? At locals, I was playing her as a kind of funky zoner (keeping people out with f.S and her bigger attacks, using janky dolphin/ball setups, making use of her mobility and dolphin approaches to stay moving and hard to pin down, etc), but I was told she works better as rushdown. How I do I dolphin?

I feel like a large part of the reason that we don't have a lot of amazing Lambdas is that she has a serious case of "why would anybody play me when they can play Nu instead?"