tofurr

OH MAH GAWD. The God himself is going to be at EVO. ;-; <3 Who does he play in P4U?

Ooooooh hell naw. I believe he's comparing them based of their play styles, not what they are/their characteristics.

GGs to anyone I played yesterday, though I think ThunderboltZ is the only person I played that posts around here. Thanks for putting up with my super rusty, terribad Rachel, my fighting games have been collecting dust over the past year, lol.

#byefelicia

All day everyday.

The rest of the 2nd a-cho video didn't have any Rachel.

The dash after landing from the j.B?

Ha ha, thanks for answering that. I deleted the question because I decided I wasn't going to be lazy and was going just go find out for myself.

I know what you were thinking... ._.

Where can I still buy the LE? Also, if I get this version, will I need to make a Japanese PSN account?

I thought that fixed that hitbox for us though?

Looks like Azrael is one of Rachel's toughest matchups. The projectile immunity on that "growlah" move really limits her neutral game since it enables him to stock up mini Spark Bolts. You can't even use 5b and 2b safely because those normals have projectile properties. What are the properties of that move? Does it have frame invulnerability on startup? Is he completely invincible while projectiles (i.e. George) are hitting him during that stance? N-O seems to use delayed 6b at a distance to bait out that move and avoid using George for oki. I'm trying to wrap my head around why that's necessary. Also, that dashing punch is like a safe Hell's Fang that enables him to very easily close the gap and prevents her from summoning or shooting arcing lobelias safely. Since Rachel was always cornered, this made it extremely difficult to get damaging corner combos and establish oki. From Azrael forums:

It's so inspiring watching N-O play. Has he always played Rachel? I don't remember anything before CP. It was always Matsu, Sesu, Rin-Hime and Kure Hane.

Barrel Lotus effects horizontal wind. So far it's been used for amazing corner carry, zooming George and lobelias across the screen, and if you use 3CD, it'll carry Rachel across the screen incredibly fast. Bezel Lotus effects vertical wind. This one isn't used very much, if at all. When you hit an opponent with 3C8D, it pushes them up very high. There haven't been a lot of uses found for it yet. Both cause pumpkin to auto-home in on the opponent when winded around and when they are attaching to an opponent, they can hit and do a little damage.

Yeah, I saw that one. I figured the other lotus would be better for something like that in the corner, but I guess using 3D would work too with the one N-O was using.

I was more interested in when N-O was trying to do CT into a lv2 j.2C (That's what it looked like at least). That Tsubaki kept bursting and DP mashing out of the corner though, lol.

I wonder if we would lag on PSN Eevee.

Dustloop account name/XBL Gamertag: tofurr/tofurr Character: Rachel State/Prov you are located: California I've played some of the people in your Current Standings list that are EC and have never really experienced bad lag with any of them (except for Eevee), but it's been a long while since I've played and I've gotten a new ISP since then. I'm free till 1PM or after 10PM PST today and 5PM PST Friday and Saturday to test my connection.

Don't know if any of you saw this, but it looks like you can block Rachel's Astral now.

[2/16/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) VS Jin (Mefisuto), Bang (Kurosu), Bullet (Chisakura) [2/16/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) VS Ragna (N@O), Jin (Nepunepu), Hakumen (Clock) [2/16/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) VS Azrael (Crab), Bullet (Mikami), Bang (Kabe) Rin-Hime OCVs for his team, lol. To be fair, his opponents didn't really seem that experienced though. Here's the rest of this one: [02/05/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) Vs Litchi (A-Chan) [02/05/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) Vs Nu-13 (Naga) [02/05/2013] Rachel (Rin-Hime) Vs Litchi (A-Chan) There's some Nico videos with Zero that still need to be put up on youtube.

No, their main purpose is the changes they make to wind. Check out this combo video, it shows some uses for Lotus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HiW8v2qTgU @Gamester: I think you're talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ixxznpV_xvY#t=9747s

There are two different versions, Beruza Lotus (22A) and Barrel Lotus (22B). One affects horizontal wind, the other vertical (can't remember which is which though). When pumpkin is out and you wind it with lotus(s) out, it auto-homes in on your opponent. When one is summoned it can hit your opponent once for very little damage that's barely noticeable and very little hit stun.

I do that too. One day I'll play this game again.

I thought Shadow has been playing Amane exclusively? I guess he switched back to top tier? Keep this on topic, that combo video was great! Rachel's combo routes have changed enough to get me excited about playing BB again.

I loved the changed to the intro and the violins were great, but yeah... It kinda got screwy towards the middle.