Having recently picked up the game and started playing Amane, I could use some advice for dealing with rushdown. Now, I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm probably just bad at BlazBlue, but when facing certain characters (Notably Makoto, sometimes Kagura and others) once they force me to block, it seems like the block strings go on forever. Even when I succesfully block the mixups, they seem to be able to repeat the same string over and over without any obvious gaps for retaliation until I screw up.
I know there has to be a gap somewhere, so I occasionally try to throw an attack where I think there ought to be a gap (typically either a 2A or, if they're a little far, a 5B).The results of these attempts can be broken down thusly: About half the time I eat a combo for having the audacity to press a button. 30% of the time the block string actually pushed them juuuuust outside the range of 5B, so I whiff then eat a combo (Tends to happen with Noel and Litchi) . Maybe 20% of the time I actually hit them, but I'm so suprised it worked that I fail to capitalize on it meaningfully.
So, I'm sure there has to be a better way to deal with this, I'm just not using Amane's tools effectively. Any thoughts?
On a related note, I seem to have a hell of a time even touching a halfway decent Rachael. This is not news to anyone, I'm sure, but suggestions for this would also be appreciated.
