Tari

The first thing that came to mind was jumping very high at around 15 seconds, floating on a j.cc, then doing a j.2c, landing, bursting, and jumping back into the sky.

That. While I've learned to ignore her since, she was not a good first impression for the game, haha.

Tsubaka! Be like all the other (or maybe just Californian) Rachel players and choose her! But yeah, I chose her because her sprite looked cute. I don't even like her portrait art in CT, lol.

At this point, I feel like I've basically done everything I can without actually playing the game, soo... I just want to play it, now. D:

Think we're all agreed on that point. Most of the wins I've seen from Rachels in the new game involve running away and spamming out wind. Also, proof of concept in the IAD j.b j.c j.214c land 632146c combo. Can possibly be used for refrogging in a corner frog combo, with some adjustment (ie: 214a 66 2b 5b 236a1d 5b j.b j.c j.214c land 632146c).

Ew.

Do it in reverse! Did see someone pull out George first in some video, though. Looked like he was able to wind the pumpkin down afterwards fairly quickly, too (though still slower than CT).

Yeah, I saw that, lol. Still wondering if aerial pumpkin summon is better than the grounded one, though.

Don't know. Doubtful, though. It doesn't break (or barely breaks, forget which) 4k in CT, so I doubt it breaks 3k in CS. Same with alternatives, like 5cdc 214a 66 2b 5b 236a1d 6c3d j.c 632146c 214a 3c. Also doesn't break 4k in CT. There are a bunch of alternative fillers with air combos and air iris that might do more damage (though their usefulness outside of the corner is questionable, and they might be techable), but I can't test those at all.

I believe blade has tested that one, and that it works. We can sorta break 3k whenever/wherever, with sj 8d dj j.2dc into a frogged or BBL'd opponent, but yeah. Lots of wind use, and it requires a decent setup.

There is a cooldown timer for George, hence why the refrog BBL combos have so much filler in them (and do less damage than normal BBL combos ). Looks like it's around 1-2 seconds, in the videos. It's just a tiny bit too long for 5cdc 214a 66 2b 5b 236a 6a32146c 214a 3c to work. Instead, we have to do something like... 5cdc 214a 66 2b 5b 236a1d 6a 214c (66) 6a32146c 214a 3c, which extends the amount of time taken after George vanishes.

UFO. It's safer than a normal j.2c, now, since you can escape after doing it. Too bad we lost the easy 3-pole corner setup, though. 236a is apparently a little faster, so 5cdc 214a 236a 236a is potentially a possible setup for two poles into continued pressure, but I don't really see how you can guardbreak and force them into a third pole and BBL, at the moment. Maybe you can pull a pumpkin out while George is going.

Ah, neat. Any chance you tested it from 0 charge, too? Also, was wondering if air-summoned pumpkin was faster than the ground summon. It almost looks that way in videos, but it's somewhat hard to tell. I'm going to have issues trying not to summon pumpkins all the time. She has loli damage. I would laugh so hard if you could juggle Tager with something like j.2c 2c shenanigans. Of the three 'top' characters right now, the only one I can vaguely play is Ragna, and I wanted the new game to come out so I could stop using him. So I'm still going to be subbing Tsubaka.

I was actually wondering whether cancelling from barrier into a special or DD would work, so it's definitely nice to know it won't. Thanks for that.

Somewhat unrelated, but if either of you guys (kro and soniti) get a chance to go test her again, blade mentioned that her wind actually seems to recharge faster from an empty meter than from one or two charges. There's apparently a fairly lengthy delay on the recharge when you've got one or two left, but significantly shorter a delay when you have none. He wasn't very certain about it, so more impressions about it would be nice. :P

5a spam v Tager is horrible, though. He outranges almost everything. j.a spam, on the other hand~.