Kuuhaku

Luf- how do you feel about the Blue Exorcist anime making Amaimon a hamster?

After trying that crap out with Lambda, Rachel will likely never get a true reversal. Also, CS2 cat chair is much better than Ragna's DP (which is kind of messed up). I'd personally like if TD was invincible on start up... but for all the other crap it does (safe, breaks up to two primers, and regains crazy wind), I don't think that's going to happen. Lessee... DP if baited will get you killed. If it hits you get 1k. Cat Chair if baited will get you killed, but gets like 5k+ and summon oki if it hits... Cat chair can also break a primer and is safe with setups outside of RC. Pretty much the only thing better we could ask for would be CS2 Noel's 2D and 4D. :V

Considering that we probably won't be seeing CS2+ for another year, I think it's worth still putting out the tutorials.

More like at least we're not Ragna and only get 1k.

Poor Rachel. Someone takes her loli niche and now someone takes her twin tails niche. :<

You'd think they'd actually stick on topic. But what about the topic creator saying community collection for SRK front page?

EVO 2k11 BBCS Teams Tournament http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaQ-OZ3d-DU&list=PL76C2C7259639CCE4 For those who didn't see teams, there's a lot of footage of wuku playing Rachel here since. There's also one video of Jason D. >3<b Good job to everyone who came out to participate.

I dunno... I think seeing almost every Noel mirror begin with 2D trade was worse...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76C2C7259639CCE4 Why yes, they were. Sorry it took so long.

Evolution 2011 Blazblue CS2 Teams Top 8 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76C2C7259639CCE4

Cat Chair damage is too high in CS2. For example- Matsu's 7k+ combo which can probably be optimized to do 8k. 5.2k is also really high mid-screen since it also gives full wind regen + summon oki. In the corner windless you can do almost 5k and get back all your wind at the cost 50 meter. I think it's fine with the damage reduction and with the hitstop change it's actually harder to bait in CS2. If it's back to CS1, then I am also okay with that. It's still very high damage mid-screen for what it is.

I think it should beat 4D too, but doing throw after knock down is kind of sad. And if she didn't mash D and techs, that's the end of your pressure (and you lose your summon). Oh. You can also 3C pumpkin and wind it while blocking... but you kind of still have to guess 2D or 4D (unless you get some kind of funky angle that hits both... I tried 2D and 3D and it didn't work). Plus if it fails (you miss and have to block D) it's also the end of your pressure. The biggest problem from this kind of scenario in my opinion is Noel's damage from D mash. It'd still be kind of sad if you're the one who has to guess after getting knockdown, but it's even more sad that her reward is way bigger than yours when you're the one going for oki. It's actually very similar to being in a Rachel mirror and Rachel mashing cat chair. The only thing is you can meaty cat chair with 5A/2A and if you block, it ends the other Rachel's pressure and you can kill her for it. If you block Noel's D mash, you can't punish her for it and she gets to start her pressure from there. Noel also gets way more damage from drive mash than cat chair mash. So... yeah. Best way to go about this match up is corner carry her and kill her there. Noel actually can't do much about 5CC frog oki other than block frog and attempt to Counter Assault.

No. Meaty attacks that don't hit high enough get shit on by 2D which is lower body invulnerable on frame 1. Hence trying to do 2A oki is a bad idea (meaning 2A oki after j.2C is actually not safe). 4D is also invulnerable above the knees from frame 1 which shuts down a lot of other meaty options and 5D is head and body invulnerable on frame 3. This is really the problem when trying to summon oki Noel. If 2D didn't have this property, then meaty 2A after summon should shut down D mash. I still have to try and see if 5A meaty after summon will shut down D mash (I think it'll lose to 4D though). 5B after knock down into summon is not really meaty (it will not meaty on frame 1) and Noel's 5D is head and body invulnerable on frame 3. So even if you do 5B which is the safest option after summon... you will get 5Ded. So you're kind of forced to guess whether Noel will mash 2D or 5D (5B will shut down 2D and 5A/2A will shut down 5D). The only problem with this guessing game is if you land an attack your choices are very butt compared to Noel's 4-6k+ damage. Her risk v. reward scenario if you summon on knock down is actually better than yours if you try to go for oki after summon. So there's pretty much no reason for her to not mash unless you're about to kill her. 5B with no summon is the best oki option in this match up IMO because 5B is one of Rachel's best starters and if Noel blocks, all your pressure starts from 5B. Also, as a meaty it will shut down all D mash options and I think it's the only one of Rachel's normals that does this (the only other maybe would be 5A). The way other characters shut down D mash is by doing a meaty with a normal that hits everything. Rachel does not have this outside of 5B (if it weren't for 5B, she wouldn't have a real answer to D mash). 5B will actually be meaty after 3C knockdown so it is 5D safe, it hits low enough to stuff 4D and it hits high enough so it'll shut down 2D. So it is 100% D mash safe. To expand a bit on Gli's list of other meaty options: 2A- 2D beats it 5A- Will possibly lose to 4D (I actually haven't tested this yet) 2B- 2D beats it 6A- will beat 2D, but will lose to 4D 6B- will probably lose to 4D 6C- will probably get 4Ded 5C- probably 4Ded and she blocks, you're now at the end of your pressure. All you can do is 5CC cannon or 3C 5CC- will hit everything, but is also the end of your pressure. 2C- she can block and then kill you 3C- 2D beats it 4B- hard to make it meaty because of how slow it is and you'll probably get 4Ded out of it So... yeah. If you're going summon after knockdown, you'd better be very brave or hope Noel guesses wrong every time.

If you do the whole combo, you should still get 4k, so that's actually not bad.

I know you guys are mostly talking about this in the general thread, but I figured this might as well be here just in case. I'll keep track of things as I hear about them. Also feel free to post changes as you hear of them here. Recent Known Changes Buffs: j2C - Can now special cancel in the air on hit. Normal and special cancelable on block after landing. 6B - Wallbounds on counter hit. Using wind after wallbound allows for easy followup. 6C - Damage increased for using wind to land multiple hits. Nerfs: 2C - P1 proration weakened, decreasing combo damage from counter hit. 6B- no longer jump cancellable (needs confirmation) 5CC- no longer breaks a primer

6B IAD BBL!! Yeah. 2C and j.2C doesn't matter too much. Now j.2C is just for combos again and trololololol CT Oki.

More the merrier. :3

236b 5a(1) jc 2d dj2c(lv2) Uh... how would this even work? Are you missing stuff? I'm pretty sure 5A alone doesn't have enough untechability time to let you combo into level 2 j2C afterwards. EDIT- Aah. Unless that jc is supposed to mean j.C and not jump cancel. Then that would make sense.

The scene interview is mostly because there are lots of people who lurk on here and don't go into the Match Finder forum and some scenes get little to no exposure, so I figure this would be a good place for them to start. I do also agree that we need to branch out to other communities. The EVO highlight video is being made to post on the front page of SRK and there was some talk here about preparing more stuff to get put on SRK. I think what you're doing is good though. Keep up the good work.

Thank you. I appreciate it. I do agree that tournament and going out to spend time with the community is very important. However, doing promotion to get out the idea that we do in fact exist can't hurt either. I'm spearheading something that was suggested here- Scene interviews and I'm also working with C0R on the article + evo highlights video to get to SRK. Though, I would like to say that if you have a good idea you should mention it and if you can do it you should. The more people that chip into this sort of thing, the easier and more successful it is.

I'm sure some are going, but with this late of a notice it would be kind of difficult. Aside having to pay really high for airplane tickets, there's also the issue of whether passports can be issued/renewed in time. But... there's nothing that can be done at this point. Good luck to those who manage to go.

Lol. Yeah. We have spaghetti nights when we can since spaghetti is cheap to make for a lot of people.

Yeah. We're having a new recruit show up today. At the last con we picked up people, but none of them stuck around...

Welp... so much for asking nicely.

How about we actually keep this on topic instead of fighting over who is in who's fanclub? :V