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No way, you don't get stars easier. IB nerf means less heat gain for one, and star gain is slower too.

Neutral game is the part of the match where neither of you have the advantage. You're both trying to jockey for position and land some hits. Think of when the match starts.

I laughed.

First Makoto, now this. Nobody escapes my grasp. Nobody. Anyway, if you want to take a crack at it, go ahead. I just listed it by starter since I figured people would want to see what they could do off each move, and would put together the common strings from just common sense / observation. Plus with all the different starters you have different meter gain and uses and damage... so my head exploded trying to figure out how to convey that all in one batch instead of separately.

Maybe he meant it as a link.

I wonder what would happen if you set bursts to infinite in training mode and then just did like 4 gold bursts in a row and then a combo.

> hazama combo what happened to repeat move proration :P

I wonder if those 5C combos would still work if you started with j.2C > 5C? 5C wasn't used as much in CS1 but that's because there was less incentive for it, with how much damage you could get off 2A and 2B... I saw it used a lot more in CT, along with j.2C as a starter. And now the combos you can get off 2A and 2B are not as damaging, right? Still, I like just that you can get good damage off 3C, though it looks unlikely.

oh my lawd

Granted.

I don't disagree with you Stickbug, but I don't think anyone is trying to say anything about winning majors with low tier characters. For me, anyway, my goal isn't "win a major." If you want to say you're holding yourself back, you have to ask, "Holding yourself back from WHAT?" In which case, my objective is just to be as good at this game as I can, as a player, and be good with Hakumen. So using Hakumen or not using top tier doesn't hold me back from anything in that case. If I win a tournament or whatever as a result of getting good, then it's just a lucky bonus. Most people don't play the game with the mindset of "ALRIGHT I am going to win a major and every move I make is going to be aimed toward that goal" but of "I'm going to play this character I like and get as good as I can and see where that takes me." And I would totally be like Goku.

Use it to make people afraid to autoblock low and to beat out 2A mashing and such. Alas, it did the same job in CT, but you got a combo for your effort.

If I wanted to play SF I'd play SF.

I'm skeptical the game will be any different. I expect people to be complaining about how CS2 is ass in a few months and how good the next installment will be. But we'll see. :P

I know. *hint hint* ;p

What about Hakumen?

There's no reason for Haku to D through it though except to troll since he still gets magnetized.

Nothing will save you.

*uncorks champagne*

lol they keep making his combos worse and worse. Pretty soon his combos will regenerate the opponent's health.

Nobody was blaming their character for their loss. <_> Nini you sound like you just found Sirlin. :P Nobody is talking about their characters holding them back, but just becoming a better player in general, regardless of what character you use. You know, the fundamentals. Just having solid basics. ie., how Tokido won with Bang without really knowing him. Someone just trying to justify their ass getting kicked by blaming your character is just a scrub. You should be able to tell the difference between that and someone who is legitimately good though and just gets owned because of an uphill battle. That doesn't mean they are going to blame others for it though. You just take it as part of your character. That also means there are some characters that have advantages over the rest of the cast, but it isn't somehow demeaning your own skill level by pointing out the power differences. Trying to pretend like it doesn't exist is not that different than trying to pretend it's all there is to it.

A good player should be able to figure out his mistakes and what he was doing right. You don't need winning to simply determine that; it's not like we're flying blind here and any possible move we make could be just as good or bad as another one and the only way to tell is if we win the match when we do it. It's also pretty hard to nail down what specifically may have caused you to win since there's so much stuff going on in each round. If you want to determine who the better player is all you have to do is look at how they play. Whether they win or not is a different story. I'm sure everybody's experienced situations where someone playing dumb or braindead managed to win over you just because their character gave them the power to do that. That doesn't mean their win was illegitimate, but you can still tell from how they were playing how much of their win was from their character and how much was from their own approach. Besides, switching characters is just dodging the issue. You're not making YOURSELF better by doing that, you're just using a better character. It's possible to still improve your game doing that but that's not what is making you a better player. If anything, just switching will make it harder to determine if you're playing bad since you can get away with a lot more mistakes. If someone asks, "How do I become a better driver," you don't tell them "get a better car." I'm pretty sure if you were running red lights and almost plowing through trees with a beat up minivan that it wouldn't magically go away once you started driving a ferrari. Now if you just wanted to win races, then getting one would be a good start.

He's not talking about winning more, though. He's talking about being a better player. Those are two different things.

Sometimes just getting the magnetism on them is worth it though isn't it?

I thought that was a real combo video