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akai since you live in japan, definitely hit up ranked play! the local JP connection is really good so I encourage you to also try playing with jps to improve while you're there

Updated the combo section with some more suicide combos. General principle is always either 5B8B(3hit) -> A > suicide or 5B8B(2hit) > suicide in normal mode. In transam, melee 3hit or 5hit rainbowstep forward suicide. you can optionally step into ball -> 5BC -> suicide or rainbowstep 4/6 into 5BC suicide.

Generally, higher cost = front (excluding 2k/1k, 2.5k/1k)

@Oronyx: I'm not actually sure which yellow border you're talking about. Are you attempting to play Ranked? Or Player matches? If its player matches and you're not getting in the game, you need to queue up as well (circle). If its ranked, people are cancelling, most likely because on ranked you will mostly find JP players who will have a bad connection to you. If you can clarify which kind of matchmaking you're doing, it might be easier to help. Since you're from the UK, its helpful to try and understand the delay icons to know who you have a good connection with or not.

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Yeah - I confirmed with some JP players that they think it's pretty useful but at the last sportsland tourney there wasn't anyone who was using it for the most part, so it is still something that needs practice I think.

random note: psycho jammer can be decent at calling out virsago's olba assist, since it will catch him even on the rise, and he basically stands in the same spot during it aside from flipping upwards.

That's actually a typo on my part, which I just fixed. It's more apt to say it stands a good chance against the other comps. It's still not something you'll see in tourney play often, but it definitely can hold its own more so than say, 2K/2K.

You shouldn't really need to eyeball it that much, because it's so slow its rare to need to actually aim it. Generally I suggest using 8 for neutral, as even 8 doesn't go that far, and it helps break up the opponents formation / positioning. 2 is generally the one used for oki (obviously) and it's also useful to use 2 if you happen be throwing it out while expecting close quarters combat (usually off of an amekyan). It's pretty annoying to do this, however, since you have to do 662AC zzzz. 2 is also used for combo'ing into generally (BD melee(4hit) > AC > A > etc) 5AC ends up being the right distance for certain melee enders, noteably 5BBB and CSa if you boostdash to the right. Going for Azzam oki off of CSa enders is pretty awkward and unreliable though, since your camera goes crazy and it's difficult to gauge where they're flying off to, as well as the fact that if you are bd cancelling your CSa, you're probably more concerned about avoiding getting hit than spacing yourself for the appropriate Azzam distance. Especially considering regardless, they can directional ground tech and its not the end of the world for them. Before I forget, it's also worth nothing that 2B has a few frames of startup where the shield is active! technically I think the other melee's have a few frames during startup that have the shield, but it's not really usable for anything. the shield stays active on 2B into the beginning of the leap, however, which can be practical perhaps. I still need to mess around with it in actual matches more.

yeah shield amekyan is fine. Edit: to clarify, the input is actually 2C→8→direction+AC→A (or whatever amekyan you're doing), where the direction is which way you want to slide.

That's sliding, a property that works on certain assists by overlapping your boostdash input with AC - inputting C, AC in quick succession does this. Your technique is performing this out of shield.

you're boost dash cancelling out of your shield.

To everyone who came out to SCR: Thanks so much for coming out and helping represent the scene! I hope everyone had a fun time, and I'm particularly happy with the games we were able to show - the top 8 especially was definitely something to be proud of, and every team in top 8 was definitely earned it's way there! All I can say is that EXVSFB @ SCR was a HUGE success, and hopefully only the first of many to come . Shoutouts: Calgary and Vancouver players for flying out here - hope to see you guys again in the future! HDKirin - thanks for showing up even though your partner couldn't make it! gmcustom - coolest dude by far team sadface - you guys made our day, for real. you guys seriously looked like you were having the funnest time, I really hope you guys keep playing, and we even rewatched your matches in the car multiple times because they were that awesome :D Socal Teams - really loved watching you guys play, it's a real pleasure to see the growth of the players every time I come down Yoyolon / LastInnovator - thanks a ton for coming out! grats on winning, and hope to see you guys next time :D all of the people who came to say hi to me - It means a lot to meet many of you in person, truly, so thank you all shtkn - thanks for being a boss and running a bracket for this game :D kenjiyamato - thanks for being a volunteer and helping out when we needed it

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Note: One of the biggest changes was that he can rainbow brake cancel extremely well now, so rainbowstepping BC into an optional BR is actually a more effective way of refilling boost than BC itself often times (cuts guidance too).

Apparently a bunch of Navi's came out just now.

Note that CS Main -> 8B > BR only works if the Gerobi is 1-3 hits. If it hits for more, it will down after the 8B.

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[placeholder - will have this up after SCR] Don't think anyone else is going to do this so I'll be managing all Gyan-related discussion. Just throwing this here for now so I can put some of my Gyan notes here before I forget: Turn A's main takes the entire shield out in one blow (if they let it grind). Really sucks. Wing Custom's main is also very obnoxious.

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The points required to rank up in arcade were much smaller and I believe losing was less severe in terms of point loss. It definitely felt like that having played EXVSFB arcade and ranking up personally.