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What did I just watch.

If that's Cake as in the Tao player Cake, you do realize that he's been playing since CT right? Extend would be his 4th BB game. It took 4 games to get there.

If you delay tech, he can punish that too. But it is troublesome since it's yet another mind game on top of the rest. It's definitely better to tech deliberately than desperately though since he'll always be waiting with a 2C or Hotaru for another combo.

Also for the options at the start of the match, what do you make of jumping forward with a barrier or j.C/j.2C, or IADing back as Jin. A lot of the Jins I've fought before did that. Or something like that anyway. Hakumen doesn't really have any straight out punishable moves anymore. Everything is either + on block or can get canceled, and any time you block a 2C there's a 100% chance they'll just cancel into Gurren or 623A. If he has no stars it's a different story though. But 6C is the only move that you have a guaranteed punish... if he doesn't cancel it into Shippu. That and 3C on IB. The matchup isn't really a "block and punish" type but one of revolving mind games, like you mentioned. Oh, I noticed a mistake in your writeup. 6C can't get special canceled. It can only get canceled into Shippu. So if they don't have 4 stars you can go nuts. If you could special cancel it it would be an amazing move. It would be a lot easier to come up with more stuff to mention if we played each other. Oh yeah, Haku's 623A can be used to bait your DPs. Your A and B will go over it, he'll recover before C hits, and the first hit of D will whiff.

It looks good. You mentioned a lot of stuff I do, lol. I can reply with more specific stuff tomorrow. Although I actually have an easier time with Jins who are careful. It gives me more time to breathe and pressure them and counter them; it's the Jins that are random as fuck and relentless that always break me down. But that's just me.

I was just about to sleep too. Luckily I checked this thread. I'll go take a look.

GGs. Sorry for hogging the room. :P I just wanted to get at Ached and then Bob.

My incompletes are always from seeing a 1 bar on ranked and taking a chance on it, only to immediately regret it and turn off the 360 when the game takes 30000000000 years to even get to the opening of the round.

You just have to wait for the right moment and backdash out.

All that talk about more players on PSN was a lie. Everybody is just someone's alt.

Do Hakumen next.

If it's your first fighting game then it's all the more important to expect it to take a while. Experience in FGs carries over for the basics, so people who have already played them can jump into BB and not have to start from scratch. But if it's your first game you're going to have to build that foundation. If they're SF fans they probably recommended it because they like SF and don't like anime games like BB. Also SF has a bigger community. Anyway -- you mentioned fighting a pro. Well, that's why they're a pro. Of course you aren't going to be able to do anything, especially when you still are trying to do your inputs, like you said. If it was that easy for someone to beat a pro then it wouldn't make being a pro anything special. One month is nothing. You should look at a time frame of six months instead. And that's of playing it a lot, not just once a week. I used to play BB when I first got it, four hours a day almost five days a week because I was addicted as hell. I would literally go to sleep and dream about combos, then go to school and daydream about going back and playing. Nowadays I can play it once a week or so because it's all ingrained into my reflexes, but it took a lot of playing to hammer it home. But if you look at it like this, it's going to be overwhelming. You should just play the game and take it one step at a time. I never thought "I HAVE TO BE *THIS* GOOD OR ITS POINTLESS", I just loved playing the game and played it a lot and got better as a side effect along the way. And that's not even six months to get "good" but just semi competent. Anyway, my point isn't that you should be playing 4 hours a day, just that one month is a tiny amount of time.

SSF4AE is probably harder for a beginner anyway. It's much more execution intensive. But BlazBlue has a lot more positioning elements to balance. But it's ridiculous to expect to see progress in just ONE sit down. That is never going to happen. What you'll get out of one session is a chance to see what kind of things you need to work on, figure out solutions, and then test and practice them. And then you have to do it over and over. If you can't see any specific thing to work on but are just overwhelmed then that means you don't have enough general experience and haven't played enough; you need to play more. Would you expect yourself to suddenly rank up from just a few hours of practicing with an instrument? The answer is to just play, play, and play some more.

That's what I figured. When it's laggy like that I don't even bother trying to tech half the time. It's not worth it. That was happening to me too with that one air combo you kept doing. Every time it would blue beat, so I thought that I just wasn't teching early and letting you tack on an extra several hits. But then no matter how much I tried to tech it wouldn't let me. I was most surprised by the 4 seal combo since you were burning through so many nails. I almost wanted to let you complete it just so you would use up your nails instead of bursting and stopping you early.

Well, once you get 4 seals it's pretty much over for me, so it was either that or let you get FRKZ once you got 50 heat which is every round. There was some stuff that I wanted to tell you too, since it looked like you hadn't played any Hakumens lately. If I hit you with 3C and it's not a CH, you can tech. I was getting a lot of free combos because you were not teching. But it might just be because you didn't care because of lag. :P I was having fun watching you try to figure out how to get out of the corner with the different wakeup tricks I was using.

Do you normally go for FRKZ? Or bumper setups?

GGs Zeth. I never thought I'd have to burst a 2k combo just to avoid giving you those seals. Here's to our next session, another 3 games from now.

Did you just give up or something Zeth. I know it's laggy.

double umbrella there it goes all my fucks out the window

oh god 2 frkz in a row

lul Zeth, I'm not doing anything either right now, so let's play now. I might be around later tonight, but I'm definitely around now. I can wait though. What's your XBL name? Zeth07?

Where you at, Zeth. I've come for my pound of flesh.

Jump a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk5GPo9j7cQ

I meant in general, like tomorrow or something. But I guess I could play now if you want. I'm still pretty awake.