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That is funny you said that, our Johnny player mained Baiken for the longest time until he finally decided that the play style didn't suite him. Which one did you have trouble pressuring? I know I couldn't cross up our baiken because he air grabbed like a mo fo....

Yeah, I did say there were some exceptions. I usually just poke and hit confirm like a mad man with the sword. To my knowledge though, I play with a johnny and a faust all the time. Both of which who have attacks who can beast through it. Both of them have told me that in the corner they do not have enough time to pull off their attack and I get CH. Not to mention that is where the whole mind game aspect comes into play.

Zappa = God, end of story.

The sword spin is amazing, just add 50% tension. The 236S with the sword has fricken sick mix up! I mean after the 236S connect you get a low (2s), a high (6hs), and a jump stuff (sword spin). I mean their are exceptions, but for the most part this is ridiculously solid. It is one hell of a mind game. Rock, Paper, Scissors anyone? Oh yeah, not to mention the hit confirm on these moves. 2s: 2s, 2hs, 63214 hs frc 66 c.s, 2hs, j. s dj. sd 6hs: 6h, 63214 hs frc 66 c.s, 2hs, j. s dj. sd sword spin: sword spin rc, 66, 2s, 2hs, j. s dj. sd This is hype fo sho. I still think the sword is best used as a poking tool. This is definitely a viable option though.

Zappa has an average throw range. Also, his j.d is pretty much a free grab for your opponent on block all day. Althought the CH is fricken sweet! Jumping is bad in general for zappa though, not to mention his j.p is kind of asking for a punish. It doesn't have much priority at all.

Interesting, I suppose it is just the characters I have to play in my local area. I have a Faust, Baiken, and a Johnny. All of which beat my ass for using 5k.....so I just never used it. Thank you for clarifying though.

That is very interesting, I never really let my combos with the dog get that high unless I am doing the 2hs crouching dog loop. That would probobally be why this problem has not occured for me yet. I will definitely mess with this when I get home from college though. I don't see as to why the 2d would not link in the combo if not executed early enough though. This is definitely worth looking into. Thank you for the feedback. ^.^

What would these situations be? I was not aware of this, I have never had a problem performing the 2d unblockable loop on bridget or baiken.

Good shit I like it. I just have a few critiques though. When you have the dog out and get an unblockable set up, you always use 2hs which is odd. I know if you do 2d, 2hs that you get an aerial j ks jc ks. It just loses your opponent, I believe it is more efficient to use f.s or j.p for a few reps. It is free orbs, and a good way to get them to throw out their burst. Then you could simply end with a 2hs before you lose them into an aerial. This is just my opinion though. I was just curious as to why. Also, with ghosts, why don't you frc your ghost throw after a 2d? You still get a recurse and it adds extra damage with an aerial j ppp jc ppp 236hs. Not to mention you then get a reset as well or they get pushed into the corner depending on how they tech. Your raoh is epic though, I really liked that. It was good shit. Also, this is more of a question. Why do you kick so much when naked in the dizzy match up? I have never seen a zappa do that, I use a kick transition in my naked instant raoh combo so I am not sure if their was reasoning in that. It is something I am just not used to seeing and was woundering if you pr someonecould clarify why you do so. Overall I really liked these videos, these will help me out a ton in my Dizzy matchups. Thanks for posting. I will try and post some local match videos soon. Due to college it has been hard for us to meet lately. I will definitely post some though as soon as possible.

I thought this was very interesting so I thought I would share. I am on some crazy tiger knee sword spin hype because I believe it has a lot of potential. When my crew was recording some matches last weekend I actually tiger knee sword spun over a gun flame and punished him with: 2369hs (rc second hit) 66, c.s, 2hs (two hits), jc s dj. sd Now by no means am I saying this is practical, I just found it very interesting so I thought I would share. On top of that, I also ran straight through a gun flame and got a summon gate off of it. I seen the start up and dashed head strong and did a running dp through the active frames of the gun flame and got the punish. Also, not a very practical tactic. The Sol should know better than to do a gun flame that close, but still. Just thought I would share. ^.^

My bad for the double post kiddies. I found out some cool shit with the sword. Check out these sweet tiger knee sword spin combo's. Very flashy, not to mention the damage isn't bad. 2s, 2hs (first hit), 2369hs (rc third hit), c.s 2hs j. s dj. s hs: 181 damage vs sol Corner: throw 2s (LOW!!!!), 2hs (first hit), 2369hs (rc second hit), c.s j s dj. s hs: 121 damage vs sol

College is a bitch, I will post a ton soon.

Check this shit out guys. A new zappa player in Japan just rose up and is devastating. His tag is Mitsurugi and he is sick. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7759421: Mitsurugi is only in the last match. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7797075 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7797566

Blazblue is jenk. Preach on.