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K. Item a) Stop trying to 'get in', litchi is NOT a rushdown/pressure character in CT. You're going to be fishing for pokes (5B, 6B, j.B, j.C, 2B) and hopefully CHs of those same pokes or tsubame. That's also how you 'get a damn hit', Staffless has some mixups between 2b and 6a and things, but mostly you're going to want to fish for your hits with the staff on you. Item b) Raping IAD spammers is.. well.. that's actually a strong point of litchi's. You have several options.. including your airthrow, which is the longest reaching (tied with tager's) airthrow in the game. Also viable options are early IttsuuA, Tsubame, 5A(depending on character), j.B, and early j.C. Item c) As far as getting advantage goes, well after you get those random hits, you need to be able to do your combos, because litchi's combos carry FAR and her 'advantage' position is oki in the corner, and most of her combos will carry to the corner off of almost any of her hits. I've said this before, long time ago, but her basic game is 'Fish for a poke hit/ch' -> Combo without dropping it into corner -> Corner okizeme. So her neutral game is not to try and establish pressure, it's to wreck the other player's pressure with litchi's great pokes and then corner whore them to death.

I feel bad for not noticing this question until now.. hopefully you look back and see the answer, but I'll answer it anyway. When you do her third super, Daisharin (Great Wheel), there's a.. pause.. much like a regular super screen freeze, but at this point putting the stick in any direction (i.e. anything but 5 (neutral)) and hitting D will queue a command for the super. You can queue up to 6 (iirc) and you will hear a little 'ding' every time. So 63214D[M] (3D 9D 3D 9D 3D 9D) will have the staff go downforward upforward downforward upforward downforward upforward and then do the end of the super (which is where it flies up off the screen and then comes back down a second or two later). As to greyfox's question (which I doubt will ever get seen) make sure that jump BC is staffless. If the staff gets back to you before you do those moves the combo doesn't work, which means you're either not the right distance from the corner, or you're doing it too slow. Also... Tempest... are you asking for CT or CS?

As far as CT goes.. what else are they expecting from a litchi.

Either those or just wing something like 5B 5C(1) Tsubame 6C 3C.

Oh I'm aware of the differing hitboxes, just for that particular ItsuuC works about the same on everyone but tager/rachel and carl, tager/rachel being extremely easy do to their hitboxes, and carl being tough since he's tiny. It's slightly different for each of the rest of the cast, but from doing the combo myself if you get it down for one of them the same thing works for the rest.

The character itself doesn't really mean anything... it would still work easily on tager and rachel though at that point I suppose. I believe it's once again positioning. And unfortunately I couldn't easily tell you exactly where that positioning problem is. It really does depend on your spacing to begin the combo, how well you jump chun, whether you neutral jump or forward jump or back jump for j.chun or j.bcd, and whether you compensated by putting in a little dash input before 6C. It's all quite weird. But I would try different types of jumps, and trying to fit in a slightly dash before the 6C.

That's exactly your problem. If the staff is coming back too quickly it means you're either too close to the corner and should be using a different combo, or that you're not linking quickly enough. Litchi's combos are extremely dependent on the distance between yourself and the corner. She has about 4 BnBs that you have to learn for varying distances from the corner.

The entire post was a giant troll. Basically read it all as sarcasm.

Probably not, and Individuals you're just a whore most of the time anyway so does it really make that much of a difference? :P I mean my group of friends who play with me (I don't think any of whom have ever beat me in a tourney, or finished higher than me, though a couple have come damn close) have started calling me a tier whore already.... but they did that in CT too because I picked Litchi and Nu to learn... But granted... I also got Fiona banned in Arcana Heart(1) cuz she's 'top-tier', so I just think they don't really care who I'm playing, just if I'm winning or not.

Well considering this is the Calamity Trigger litchi thread and not the CS one it was off topic from the start, so I figured what the hey.

Always has always will, if you're ticked at the people runnin Litchi in CS imagine how the melty blood people are feelin right now with the giant rush on people picking it up just for Evo. (Ok slightly a lie, the entire melty blood crew is still ecstatic over getting into evo... so worthless comparison is worthless)

Hahaha, You keep thinkin that. We will see we will see.

Or the ridiculous pressure/corner trap that is a properly controlled Daisharin.

Yes sheee caaaan. Just wish we still had massive combos off of a regular tsubame fish... now we gotta CH iirc.

No don't worry, I got that, I also assumed that. After individuals proposed marriage to me a while back I just assume that people are sarcastic until proven otherwise at this point.

Haha. Bang was the worst character in CT? I hadn't heard that news. :P But yep, I'm ok with being a whore, makes things interesting.

Drat... I'm a tier whore for playing litchi since CT release. *snap* Actually no... I think I'll be ok.

I'll probably throw in for T6 and BB.. maybe SF4 to see if I can repeat the miracle of that 3rd place at FF.. soo.

You forgot me.

I have to say I was quite worried over the fate of litchi in the first changes announcement.. But I'm becoming less and less worried as I keep seeing more changes. Still probably going to at least try the new characters but switching off of litchi doesn't look like it will happen anymore. And yeah.. the special cancel to haku off of 6C gives us a much better mixup chance, lookin forward to that. Most of what I've seen so far is Tsubame is being replaced by Kote Dash... which is meh.

Blah. Man.. Ok so Me... since I've been lurking the last few weeks. GT: faelirae Location: Southern Ohio Notes: I haven't played in a few weeks unfortunately, real life and girls and all that have really cut into the blazblue time, along with the fact that I don't own it yet. I'm not 100% on execution, but I am capable of doing all her combos, but I still drop them and miss all-green inputs in matches. I'm much better of an info guy than a player in general, though I've been doing well around here (haven't been able to go to an arcade legends event yet unfortunately). If lag gets bad online I might go nu-13 for lolololololz instead of hating myself for looking bad with litchi.