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I'm picking up Lambda for this reason alone. I smell a Lambda forum community combo video, using our new theme song.

Lamb Chop was also the name of a spunky and witty Lamb on PBS way back in the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTxr2NJHa0 Good shit.

Ah, who knows what EVO is thinking.

OH! Scrub of me. Sekkajin, I stop mashing when I reach 6 or 7 hits. It runs in set intervals.

Commas and punctuation helps others understand you. Spelling helps too. I've never heard of this, but I was pretty damn sure CS wasn't gonna make it, so I'm not shocked.

That's pretty weird to focus on sounds, I've never heard that before. I stop mashing when I see the move I'm mashing comes out, but I only mash for air combos, because sometimes they don't work when I do it. It's probably my inability to time it right, but when I jump and press a, damn it I wanna see a j.a and if I don't see it on the first attempt. Well, try again.

Hey look, your forum icon changed! Discuss.

Combos serve more purposes than damage, they serve a purpose of resets, damage, and more importantly positioning. Having general real estate of the field puts you in a far better advantage, and that is determined to non-zoning characters by you and your opponent's position and combos help properly position your opponent for what is field advantage, momentum, pressure and more combos to keep the flow. Arakune is special, since he's a zoner with plenty of setups his opponent's positioning isn't as crucial as pretty much any position is useful to Arakune, after that he needs momentum to get started, which depending on his opponent is a bit harder than it needs to be, but once he gets in a combo, damage is very important, but for Arakune (and this was told to me by most other Arakune mains), the more important tool for his combos is :the answer to your question: the recurse. Here's with the 6C loop, you get damage and recurse, which allows for everything I mentioned earlier. Advantage in positioning, real estate, pressure, momentum and further combo opportunities. I think. :P

Try 1c bug > 5b > 5b bug > 6c loop > recurse. I say 5b, because that low to the ground, 5b will come out when trying to get the 5b bug out, unless you negative edge it far in advance, it's still a legit combo. The damage won't be as spectacular though.