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Yeah for the love of god, Arakune isn't unplayable precurse. And while I'm at it, Lambda's close range normals aren't complete trash.

Who is this guy?

2d is punishable on instant block, guantlet hades is punishable on any block. Personally I don't like trying to space out 5c hits because his 5b shuts it the fuck up. 6/4 like most other matchups. He has an easy time outspacing Noel on the ground and wrecks her shit in the air (like most characters). Also most (all?) of his blockstrings lead into some guard primer breaking move, 2d, GH or Dead Spike so watch your bursts and last primer. I do noticed that a lot of Ragnas like to do Hell's Fang + follow up if they have 50 meter to rapid cancel, so if you ever think he's gonna do that, counter assault the first hit of Hell's Fang for a free 3c punish. Fun stuff. Don't know what else to tell ya guys, I thought it was in his favor in CT and it's only gotten worse. :p

I'd drop BB for this, seriously.

Looks like that's character specific, but Bloom Trigger should push them into the corner anyways.

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?9832-XBL-3V3-Same-Character-Tourney.-Shake-off-October-Rust Me and hobbes tore through the 3v3 in Calamity Trigger. Mooyang, let's start playing again. :3

lol

This "combo thread" is severely outdated. The Noel boards desperately need a cleanup because every thread is essentially the same thing. So sad that very few people play Noel at a high level (or even decently). All we have left to represent us are the scrub ass Noel players in Ranked that are an embarrassment to us all. :p

Just sayin. I hope people aren't expecting the patch to come out and BB be completely balanced and perfect.

"CS should fix CT"

Oh yes, the scrub Kune matchup is quite easy. Unfortunately once they learn that Noel has a terrible anti-air and air-to-air game it becomes much harder. Oddly enough, 6a clashes with j.B very often. By no means one of her worst matchups, though.

The problem with that is Kune can play this matchup in the air with almost no fear... as long as he's paying attention. A Noel airdashing towards him should be a free j.B or j.6abc. And for Arakune, chicken blocking in this matchup is amazing. I love reading his IAD backwards and getting my IAD airgrab punished by his own airgrab.

Mash A until you see yourself tech. Stop mashing A. If it blue beats then it was possible to tech. The gap could've been a few frames so your A mash could have missed, but you could've teched. Don't know what else to tell you.

I would pay good money to have a bigger avatar. I must display my love for Platinum in 160x100 glory. Ever thought of Dustloop premium account?

imo Terrible Matchups Bang Litchi Tager Hakumen Bad Matchups Ragna Arakune Taokaka Hazama Carl Everything else is either meh or I haven't played it enough. It's funny because she loses to highly mobile characters (Bang, Tao) because she can't really catch them, also loses to less mobile characters (Tager, Hak) because she needs to be so close to do damage. I wouldn't be surprised if Noel x Makoto ends up being terrible too. Also I've personally shit on almost every Noel player on XBL with Rachel at least once.

Is there any hope to being good with Noel without doing her combos that do damage? no

Pro netplay Ragna tactics by Epische http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gUwPSmbEQk

Yessss! The new Leonil Requiem tier list is out!!!!

lol whoops yeah we play on Friday nights. I'm not 100% sure if everyone is going this Friday but I'll probably head there. And I think I just invented a new quarter screen 50 meter 5k combo. Somebody give me a good song for a combo video!

wait, why?

I just had a Bang player whiff wakeup Daifunka (lol) So I did Noel's ground distortion, rapid cancel, haida loop into corner ending in ANOTHER distortion. 150 meter, 6k damage. Fucking amazing

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