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Because it messes up your spacing and brings your hitbox into range.

Something's wrong with that boy...

No picture posts.

Neither of them can do squat without their resources.

the secret to beating SWD revealed

Dash out of the way.

Yeah guys, get back to talking about Extend. Not wishlisting. I will delete any posts after this point that don't.

No speculation. Analysis only. Final Destination.

@SWD: What about Hakumen.

I get mad at myself in those situations for not having the confidence to commit to the bait.

Nah, getting just one win doesn't mean you necessarily improved. A lot can happen in the match and a better player can lose to a worse one just because they happened to guess wrong that one time. It's only if you show a consistent improvement that you improved. Anyone will lose one match eventually. You should look at your performance in terms of ratios and trends.

I can't leave on a single win. I have to prove I can beat them overall or it feels like conceding that I know they'll win if I stay.

you know where to find me

i hope youre talking about nu and not mu

i never got hate mail ever except from arakune players ayy lmao arakune

So how did they fix her.

It's not about playing "simple." Hakumen is a simple character. But you still would use every tool you can to your advantage. What you're talking about is just wasting your opportunities, because each time you don't use one of those extra options when you could have is giving the opponent a chance to beat you when they might have lost instead. And you can bet that as you climb the ladder of opponent's skill that they'll be using those things against you too, so it's like an arms race. You might be able to win against some people without using all of your options, but that's just selling yourself short for when it really matters against a player that's going to push you to your limit.

Yes, there's a difference between analysis / information and just complaining about it. When you write your post, think of how you might be writing if you were adding to a wiki. Ideally new players going through these threads should learn things from them instead of it just being a sounding board for whoever is on at the time.

Yeah, pick a different topic.

Here's a post TD wrote about Rachel VS Hakumen. DISCLAIMER: did not spell check!

its gotten worse every game

No, no I mean, after you immobilize me, you still have to do mixup to hit me, right? And when you choose to do a mixup, it's because you are guessing (hoping) that I will get hit by it. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to do that off of your oki. So it is not an automatic process, it still involves judgment and an exchange between the opponent where they can influence the outcome. And so once again we're back to execution not being the only factor. So basically what you just said in your second paragraph about burst / yukikaze, etc.

Welp, time to pull the Errol card. See, the risk reward in my view is actually stacked against me. Because I only do my 2k combos instead of 6k. So if I am beating someone it means I had to outplay them to get a lot more mistakes from them than I would normally otherwise need to get. With that in mind, your risk/reward is pretty good. But you can play that game forever. That's what I meant by, "Well I can just say that I only lose because I'm not doing optimal combos," and that it's not really a good enough reason. Your defense is fine. I know all about how Rachel's oki works. Know thy enemy, son. Also I totally agree that screwing up your oki reaction loses you games, I just don't think it's the main reason. There are plenty of matches where you pull it off fine but lose anyway. For Rachel pressure, I pretty much block all of it since you always do the same up-down-up-down airtight string, but inevitably get hit by jA anyway. But it's still worth not getting hit by a low. What do you mean by Hakumen not being able to escape if you go for a low? As for the Haku/Nu/Tager thing, I actually find it way harder to deal with Nu than Hakumen and Tager. At least with Hakumen and Tager, it's a guessing game. That means you can outguess them and it comes down to purely mindgames. But with Nu, all she has to do is tag you once with a random sword while you try to jump, knock you full screen, and you're just fucked. Now she has the life lead and you have to play her game of chasing her down while she keeps capitalizing on every random hit she can. It's pure neutral and you can't just read her mind to get the answer. Anyway, I know we are not going to agree on the points, but I enjoyed talking about it nonetheless.

Talking about our matches is pretty much what this thread is for. And I don't think Mucky is over the line or anything, he is just using "FUCKING" a lot to emphasize his words instead of calling errol garbage or something. Unless errol thinks otherwise.

Nah, we were talking about a set we played and waiting for TD to repost the essays he lost.