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That would be so badass AND I wouldn't have to deal with rush hour traffic.

I hate public transportation. To an insane degree. And like I said, getting me to go out anywhere is the hardest thing to do. Some of my coworkers have been trying for years now. I'll mostly be lurking/posting for a while, get to know folks a bit, and then maybe. I'm like that.

Maaaybe. Getting me places is the hardest thing to do, and I hate the parking situation in Montreal in general. But maaaybe.

I've been told to report in. I'm a scrub and I'll most likely lurk most of the time but uh... Hai!

My experience with sticks is pretty limited, but I'm using that one, OP, and I love it. Inputs are great, feels comfortable, works great on my PS3, PS4 and PC and even has L3/R3 buttons, which is great in training mode.

Woohoo! Landed it! Now I'm off to grind until it's more than 1/50 successes! I don't know if it's the command grab setup that made it easier than my previous one, but changing worked. Here are a few things I identified I was (probably still am) doing wrong. I think my IAD wasn't as clean as it could be. I noticed after grinding for a bit that I managed to get slightly lower IADs, so that probably helped a ton. My j.K was also not coming out I think, I hit that too early. Other new players, learn from my mistakes! So thanks a bunch Omicron, that was great help!

I'm using 96, so I think my IAD's clean. I fly just over Sol's head in training mode. Then again, possible I'm doing it wrong while trying to do the loops, so that's definitely something to keep an eye on. As far as the setup goes, I've seen this video which does it using 5H, so I think that should work? Or was that changed? I saw it was done quite differently in the combo video on the forums, but figured this would be easier to get me started on the actual thing and I can move to converting into combos later. My standard training dummies are Sol, Elphelt and May, and my problem in all cases thus far has been that they recover before I can get to them, which is why I thought I might not be jumping as soon as I could. I,ve yet to actually land the kick to follow up anything. And yeah, you're correct on the delay for j.8D, but I'm still trying to find the timing on that.

Figured I'd update a bit and ask for some more stuff! So I've gotten better. Much better. I still suck, but much less than I used to. I actually win matches now, and I've even begun to land combos for real. My bursts are bad, but I at least remember that I actually have a burst. I still need tons of match up experience with most characters and I need to stop being so free vs Slayer. He gets to me for some reason. RCs are also a thing that still elude me, I gotta figure those out, or at least throw them out randomly so I can remember to use them. I still mash some too, but that's very slowly getting better. Where I need some big ol' help right now is on the dust loops. Most combos and setups I can just see them, practice and get a feel for them on my own, but the dust loops completely elude me, and I've given them a couple hours in training mode. It seems to me like I IAD too late, but I seem to be back in the air as soon as I land. Am I landing earlier than I think and not jumping as soon as I could? Any tricks to learn/practice the dust loops?

I'm in the same boat about being still pretty new to the game and I've been doing player matches. Sometimes you get destroyed, sometimes you get good matches, and I learn stuff in either cases. Getting a bunch of sets in against someone of similar skills is a total blast, but I've found that my defense gets better as I face people that destroy me and I've gotten better at mashing less. My few escapades in ranked have been long periods of failing to connect to people followed by a single match, that ain't as fun. Another option is to find people on forums/streams that'll wanna play with you. I recently found such a person myself and we're super even, makes for awesome fun matches where I can practice and I feel much less pressure from them, so I learn better.

Oh my, feedback! I'm assuming you were the Mr Bedman I faced today? The "delay" had nothing to do with me failing to block. My defense is pretty poor in general, but on top of that, I have NO clue what Bedman does. I almost never get to fight one, and when I do I usually end up in the same panicked scrambled I did today. That's why I was not pressing any buttons after a few matches, I was making a poor attempt at learning to work on my defense and learning where the next hits might come from. My mixups are also pathetic. I'm still learning combos in training and have yet to land a solid one in a real match (current goal, along with throws!) and haven't really worked on those. My best attempts at mixups are probably just switching my strings around, but all I get from those are corner pressure and no real combos. Thanks for the video though, that oughta help me on that front, even though some of those look waaay above my current execution level. And thanks for taking the time to post here!

I think you underestimate how bad I am! :D

It does appear that Ram's command grab has the tiniest rage advantage over a standard grab, so that's good to know. Guess I'll just go in matches and do nothing but grabs until I figure that thing out. Let's see if I can catch a train out of Suckville!

I understand the inputs, it's more how to actually get them out. Seems that if I'm attacking someone on wake up, they're able to throw me every single time, whereas no matter how hard I try, it's impossible for me to throw them on wake up despite them being point blank on me spamming jabs. Likewise, people often dash in my face and throw me despite me hitting buttons, but no matter how hard I try to do the same, I'll just get jabbed right out of it. So really it's less "How do I grab?" and more "I do I use my grab?"

Hello! So I'm a fairly new player to fighting games in general. Been watching them for years, I've "played" a lot of them, but I've never actually tried to get good at them until now. I picked Xrd, I picked Ramlethal, I suck, I get my ass kicked, that's a work in progress. Where I'm hitting a huge wall, however, is with grabs. I can't figure them out. I get grabbed left and right, whether it be as I pressure people in a corner, because I mistime an attack on their wake up or countless other reasons. Yet I cannot seem to grab anyone. At all. Ever. Unless it's on accident, in which case it generally just plays against me. It also doesn't help that, as Ram, I'm under the constant pressure of leaving myself wide open if I mess up a grab and summon a sword instead. Any tips to up my grab game from veterans out there?

Wow! Thanks so much, that's just the kind of info I need! Half the battle has been won, now I just need to practice a lot and stop sucking!

Hello fine folks of Dustloop! I've been watching fighting games for a few years now, I'm fairly familiar with them, but I never made an honest attempt at getting into them. I got really hype about Xrd and decided I wanted to get good (why not pick the most complicated franchise, right?) and Ramlethal was the character to catch my eyes. (Why not pick the hardest character to play in the hardest game, right?) My stick having finally come in last week, I started grinding training and matches equally. I'm having a blast, but I'm getting destroyed. It's a good sign when you're having fun getting destroyed, but I'd like to improve and get destroyed juuust a little less. For example, I just spent a solid 30-45 minutes fighting a Sol and I did not take a single game off of him. I'm not even sure I took 5 rounds total. Naturally, my execution needs a ton of work. My combos are few and far between, my dashes are often failed (and let's not even talk about my air dashes), my jump cancel are all purely accidental. Hell, I sometimes panic and let go of my stick entirely. Honestly, I'd need a mentor to even get good at the basic of fighting games, but I feel that's all stuff I can work on at least reasonably on my own. Where I really need help is more with her neutral and her options. I've heard her neutral game is fairly weak, any tips there? What should I be looking for as far as pokes? The Sol example above, I felt I managed to poke fairly equally, but his pokes did much more damage, whereas I struggle in dishing out damage outside of combos. (And even then, my execution being what it is...) What about her wake up? I feel completely at the mercy of anyone who manages to get me down. Seems I'm forced to just block on wake up, and I really envy the characters that have invincible DPs. Speaking of DPs, any option to snuff out my opponent's wake ups? I can't seem to find anything on that front, aside from backing up a step and hoping they do something unsafe. What about safe pressure? When I get my opponent in a corner, I try to alternate her various punch and kick strings to get some pressure in, but I was having issues there as well where Sol would just beat me with his normals. Dauro also seems pretty unsafe to me, as I keep getting beaten by various normals, specials and throws. Finally, her sword summons are also causing me some major issues. I have a very hard time making them (relatively) safe. I manage to get a good summon here and there, but it seems to be more due to pure luck than anything. So, dear people who are much (MUCH!) better than me at this game, I realize I just basically asked for an "How to Ramlethal for scrubs" guide, but any pointers you could give me would be much appreciated. Loving the game, loving the character, but my level of suck is pretty fierce.