stinkymonz

Our team (with Blackstar subbing godofwar/Omnipotent) should be good this Sunday too.

You would've felt a little empty inside afterwards, don't deny it. (GGs.)

Before I went into the slew of dirty Akihiko-related titles I tend to make, I was quite proud of "Bastard Hipster Reprobate".

Yo Dante, you ok if we sub in Blackstar? (Blackstar, are you ok to play sunday?) [because then we can be Team Black Stinky Poo, of course.]

A lot of it is experience imo. Like, being comfortable with persona timing and spacing and learning to play around it for maximum ambiguity. But to start, you could experiment with the various ways she can crossup/fake-crossup with the laser/5C (jumps/normals/evades and their dash-buffered versions) and, more importantly, to practice timing them at the last possible moment. practice spacing them too. Like an early (probably running) iAD could still work as a crossup if you did it from farther than half-screen. Just familiarise yourself with those dynamics and find something that works for you. And think if you can integrate high/lows with the jumps/normals as well. And then the other half is conditioning of course -- but that might go without saying. Also keep in mind to be safe while misdirecting -- which sort of feeds into why I air turn a lot. 9A+C 66 crosses up just like a regular iAD but recovers so much faster -- so it semi-universally saves you from bursts and DPs if they do it at the point of crossup. that said, experience tells me it's still pretty vulnerable as you jump and as you land (since back airdashes seem to have a slight landing recovery), so late and early DPs/bursts can fuck you up. it's also vulnerable to immediate airthrows or Kanji's anti-air throw (thanks XVII). Otherwise, it helps me multi-task keeping mobile and buffering a persona move (A+C) although that's not strictly necessary. Sometimes, I use it to control my mobility (forward airdash is much better at creating space, back airdash is a little safer to use to advance) and also to abuse the fact that j.B starts up faster behind her.

LOL sorry Gio, I got reeeally frustrated dealing with someone who had the exact same mobility and normals as me lol. I think you did improve quite a bit actually, since the last time we played during the 3v3. I'd say generally, you should work on misdirection on oki. A lot of times, you gave away which direction you'll be going and I knew which way to block. Otherwise, you had a better mindset today -- you knew when to ground yourself and when to be on the move. I'll have more when we play again -- I'm a little sleep-deprived and in all honesty, so many times I just went, is that my persona? is that my meter? my lifebar? who just awakened? lol. I also felt I was so reckless today -- omg, all those whiffed DPs wut. And Tectal, just don't airdash, lol. Honestly, I pretty much auto-evade most of your iAD anything. And most of the time, it's a better reaction than trying to anti-air it. aaaand I just understood your sig, XVII, lol.

in all honesty, if Omnipotent really can't play indefinitely, um, I guess we would need a new member? Are you truly suspended till further notice, Omni?

Unless Omnipotent's work schedule permits, our team's doing only Sundays -- so yeah, put us against Tectal's team for Sunday.

Sure! I'd be happy to help.

Honestly, I'm considering putting together a general anti-Slabs primer -- just like general mindsets and solutions to her gameplay. [At the same time, it also doesn't help that there is a decided lack of Teddies or Mitsurus or Chies to naturally curb the power of Slabs on XBL.]

GGs to everyone at the exhibition tonight. GGs to Audio33, XVII and blackstar as always. XVII, it's such a shame our connections tend to be flaky -- our matches always get intense but it seems like the intermittent lag just screws us both up. and oh whatever, blackstar, we always go back and forth.

pretty sure your team isn't up, Tectal.

lol oh hi. I just needed to know if you got them.

eh, Omnipotent knows it's today I think, but he hasn't replied my PMs.

Yup.

Oh? I don't remember if there's been any confirmation of matchup for Sunday yet. But anyway, my team's up for Sunday as well.

I pick Godofwar7. AND WE ARE TEAM GOD OF STINKY POO. (or Team Dies to One OMB Combo holy shit.) Elochai gonna be jealous of our non-game related team synergy, calling it right now.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd say 50% of the reason I picked Ciddypoo is so I can have "stinky poo" in my team name. edit: yes, I'm twelve.

I am fairly certain you can't draft another captain.

Ciddypoooooooo

Kurumster, I can't actually react to your mixups with our lag, lol. Oh well, GGs still -- gotta learn to deal with your 2B/5C poking; hopefully will be less exposed next time. Kobayashi, I WILL deal with your persona pressure better lol. GGs. Blackstar, how/why do you have a HD recorder?! [perhaps a better topic for the off-topic group, ADD ME TO THAT.] Aaaaand GGs nevertheless to anyone else I've played and unfortunately do not recall.

yo stay free! In all seriousness, good games. and this is the XBL GG thread! I said GGs in the results thread! and our moral support would be... uh... indisposed, to say the least.

Write me in, good sir.

yo, there really are A LOT of Slabs on XBL these days lol. I have nothing further to contribute.

shoutouts to my first offline tournament EVER as random semi-competent Slabs. Truly an awesome (whoa I am blocking overheads on reaction!), if nerve-wracking (...where is my j.214A...) experience -- I kind of can't watch the stream archive... I can SEE how nervous I was. All those weird 2Bs and dropped aircombos. Good games to everyone all around, wish I played more casuals (*cough*Elochai*cough*), hopefully I'll be back less sleep-deprived and more solid. thanks and yay to well-run tournaments!