Skye

Imma bring some kerosene to GY.

First the brackets fuck me over, now the TO directly hinders me? Shits not fair.

:< I wanna play Valkenhayn at the tourney...

So you're advice, is to not get +5 on guard and some much needed meter to boot? This guy understand the game on a level that we can't even fathom.

Belief is only in the unknown or a variable. I know mine is better.

I'm getting ready to upload stuff now, I was renaming vids and I need to know who was fighting in MB playing what character?

ShardZ, what was the MB match I recorded, do you remember?

I vote to allow him.

Casuals isn't the best resource for learning match ups unless specifically organized like that. Tournaments is where people go all out and do their best, casuals is a place to chill and sandbag and troll.

2c is the crouching crescent kick. 6c is the sideways kick that you can't do anything about after blocking it. See, this is the "ask around" part, go to match up threads, go to the Valk boards and see if someone will fight you. How will you ever get match up experience if you ban him in the most viable learning method you could. So just ban him until.......what? You get lucky and fight enough people in CS' terrible netplay? If you were serious about learning the match up, you have all the resources you need to come to know all you need to know long before Saturday.

Match up experience is character specific. However general footnotes are not and can be noted without experience, for instance, I don't need to know the Tager vs Ragna match up to know to avoid ID. So as far as Valkenhayn goes: Look out for 6c Look out for j.c Look out for 2c He can't block in wolf mode He has 4 primers Again, it's not like the knowledge isn't available there are plenty of resources to take as many notes as you can, if I were to travel out and play Arakune in a tourney, they should ban Arakune because they lack the match up experience?

Match up experience is relative to the player. If the player don't know how to play Valkenhayn and the other player doesn't know how to fight against him, then that's even ground. However anyone can lack match up experience for any character. But if you have the knowledge, or a general idea on what to do, then that can be helpful to the match up. This also applies to any character.

The reasons would be valid if Valk just came out for both consoles, if you don't know the match up, hit up some match up threads and ask around until the 18th. It's not like the knowledge isn't available.

No. I main Valk in the way you main Lambda, you play the character enough to pass for a character you actually play.

You can't vote against him because of his pressure game. And I do count.

General look at nerfs, buffs and indifferent changes Buffs +f.g (homes in, comboable, 100% curse) +*You could be able to backdash it, but it's strict +Forward dash is faster +6c, derivative 5c, derivative 2c, grab and air grab all do more damage +j.b has less knockback (easier to combo with I assume) +2a > 5a, 5a > 2a gatlings +5a's increased attack level +5a's hitbox can hit crouching opponents +j.a's increased attack level +5b > 6b gatling +D bug hits Mu on the way up Nerfs -Dive, j.236c, 6c rekka, 5c and 2c all have repeat move penalty. -5f jump -2c and 5c Fatal counter combos. (what is nerfed about this?) -Slower back dash (you can see and 5a it) -Corner Teleport (j.44 in corner) is much slower (like 3 times slower) -Command Teleports are slower -2f landing recovery after air grab (Thanks Hiago) -Curse time seems to drain faster than CS1 when Arakune is taking damage (Daifunka drains a lot of Curse meter, Makoto corner combo drains 90% curse meter) -6a is slower -5a, 5c, and dive all do 1 point less damage(confirm?) -Cloud only lasts 6 seconds, more start up (Hiago: he can use cloud right after his beam super) -j.c's *startup (thanks hiago) is slower -j.b is weaker. -f.g hits low. -All bugs seem slower (except D bug) Indifferent changes oD bug descends faster (but it gets less hits in, less hitstop) oC bug > D bug is harder (nothing specific is stated, probably related to D bug's speed) oOld 6b is 4b oParty bug is summoned further away (falls faster) o(5a >) 6b is now standalone 6b (start up is fast) oCombo rate is now 80% Edited to include jp wiki changes and optimized for Henaki. http://www14.atwiki.jp/arakune/pages/74.html

Arakune's 5a has an increased attack level (fuck yeah). 6c CH > 5a > jc > j.a > j.6b > j.a > j.c > j.d possible.

Good quick cross up is just tk j.214cd point blank.

That's me in both vids.

Fucking love Sonic Shuffle. EDIT: My GF said Souja Boy "looks like mexican." I lol'd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0vd4askdXk#t=1m19s

Any detective VNs?

Assholes got me scared to play VNs now.

Must be moonspeak for "yes we are".

On paper, he seems pretty solid. In videos, it's a bit mixed, need more time to see proper implementation.