The BlazBlue Thread: all the imports!

[Minato]

Too bad Minato knows to attack Ignis, forcing me to try to play carefully. Ruining all my fun.

It's what I do :3c

Also, Seph's going to be back if we're all still playing by then.

Edit: Also, I'm sad you blocked my cross up air DP mixup lol

 

[Rutger]

Zoning with Relius turned a terrible night with BB into a really enjoyable one.
For me anyways. :3

GGs everyone.

It's what I do :3c

Man, seriously, all the time. None of my shenanigans work against you.

At least I almost won a couple of those matches today, that's a victory as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Yo that one match though Minato, that was hype.

Edit: btw Zoning Relias is mean.

 

[Crusayer]

Eh. Accidentally disconnected the cable. Oh well. GGs.

Back to waiting for my keystick =/

 

[sakuraZaKi]

Since CP won't be here for a while, I'm willing to go get Extend, lol.

Need some experience with BB before then, I guess.

And I feel left out whenever you guys get together.

 

[Minato]

GGs, guys. Started using Rachel only towards the end on Seph, but it was fun using Ragna too.
I think people need to use their bursts better. Too many people ignored my starters or didn't see if they were hit crouching or standing.

Often people bursted way too late in the match when they were one hit away from losing, or bursted too early depleting primers, or when my starters were 2As. Plus I know people want to avoid getting in the corner, but a midscreen combo with no meter isn't worth it to spend a burst.

I think I'm getting the hang of BB again. And it's fun to IB blockstrings to punish any gaps.

 

[Minato]

I legitimately couldn't think of more than 1 instance (and I struggle to even think of that) where I j.4D'd after air tech. Yeah, there were a couple of instances where I did Revolver Blast raw, and one or two instances of 4D though. That being said, I swear I wasn't hitting anything as I was blocking other than A+B in attempts to barrier block. Not sure on the occasional running 6A as an anti-air thing though, other than well, it's supposed to be a quasi-anti air as it is, and it's not really like there's much choice in cases since literally everything Ragna does beats everything Noel does in what seems like every situation. Plus, I'm pretty sure she just doesn't have an attack period that's faster than his 2A so it's not like I can counter that.

I was just feeling way out of it and off about things for some weird reason tonight, and sorry if this sounds mean or disrespectful as it's not meant to, but after 5 games or so, my mind just was like "okay, not today, I can't do this tonight" as it would feel like "oh, I'll punish him and he'll still get 4k" or, "I make one small mistake and take 5k meterless with nothing I can do but burst". Was weird tonight. Not like, "oh ugh, I never want to play this again" weird, just...odd weird.

I just saw this so I'll break it down. j.4D after air tech wasn't just today, but on our past lobbies. As for 4D after I did Hell's Fang in mid screen, it happened quite a bit. Run up from full screen and then do 6A is what I'm referring to, same goes for on my wakeup. I'm just saying there are better buttons to be pressed. I already said last time that your gatlings after 6A basically reset the match to neutral which is in Ragna's favor. And the reason why it seems like I'm beating everything you do is because I'm pushing the right buttons to counter yours. Ragna has ways to beat wake up drive and also Option Select to beat rolls, you're going to have to just learn to block until it's safe to escape.

Only saying this because you can't just take the easy way out and find the right button to press on wakeup. You're going to have to block that high and low mixup. For my damage, I don't think you know how Ragna's combos work. I can't get a lot of damage meterless unless you're in the corner or your crouching. My 6B overhead is pretty bad. It's slow, I have to do it close if I want good damage, and it doesn't force crouch state like Noel's. Gauntlet Hades is even worse. Standing combos aren't that strong for Ragna and his mixup game isn't that great to be honest. He's a footsie character too, it's all about punishing mistakes. If you whiff drive, you can bet I'm going to try and go for CH 5C into 6C.

 

[Lythium]

I'm bummed that I couldn't play with you guys, I had to get up way too early this morning.

Also, Livewire. You're doing that thing again. Stahp. :<

 

[sakuraZaKi]

Will head out for a haircut and get Extend, lol.

 

[LivewiresXe]

I'm bummed that I couldn't play with you guys, I had to get up way too early this morning.

Also, Livewire. You're doing that thing again. Stahp. :<

*sigh* Well, it had to happen at some point where I vented a little, Lythi, lol.


With regards to what you said Minato, yeah I know there's no easy way out and I have to block. I'm not going to rant since well, I already vented a bit so I'm just going to let you know I get what you're saying and that sticking it out to try and figure out the matchup is better in the long run than sort of giving up for the day is.

 

[sakuraZaKi]

Less heart, more brain, lol.

 

[Kuraudo]

All this talk has me realizing that I've missed playing with the PSN crowd. I'm hooking up my PS3 and firing up CSE when I'm off work today. Anyone whose up for some games, bring it on! I wanna play me some Minato and do some BK combos.

Anyone who wants to hop on, lemme know. I'll go between the 360 and PS3 versions for whatever.

[EDIT]

I'm off work at 4:00 PM Mountain Time. I may try and get off work early, we'll see.

 

[Minato]

I'm up for some games. I'll be on when you are.
Now I'm worried on how I'll do lol.

 

[Kuraudo]

I'm around and getting set up right now! Also, your fundamentals are better than mine. So it doesn't matter what I do or not do, you'll probably win more.

... I'd like to think I got better though. XD 'Kay setting up right now.

 

[Minato]

Sure thing. I've already sent the invite, so just join whenever you're ready.

 

[Kuraudo]

Oh lordy. A zero connection? Let's do this. FFFFFFFF

[EDIT]

...on second thought? This ain't bad actually. It's lying to me. That ain't 0. XD

[EDIT #2]

...crap. Shoulda used Carnage Scissors instead of DbD. SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK.

 

[LivewiresXe]

Yeah, it'll do that sometimes. On occasion I'll get a 2 or 3 connection that feels more like a 0 than the 0's I sometimes wind up with are.

 

[Kuraudo]

I think there's something wrong with my D and A (X and Square) buttons on the stick. I'm dropping Hell's Fang like crazy. x.x

[EDIT]

Yup. It's the D and A.

[EDIT #2]

Great games, Minato! You went on a beast streak during the middle of our collective matches. XD

6A is so damn sweet as an anti-air and counter starter.

 

[Minato]

GGs, Kuraudo. Too bad about your arcade stick.

I'm not sure if you're trolling like I do sometimes, but there are some weird habits that you have that can still be fixed.
Lag wasn't too bad, but enough to mess both of us up quite a bit. Fun games though.

I'll be back on later if anyone wants to play. I need to get food. Haven't eaten since breakfast.

Edit: I'm so bad at getting 6A on you. I failed like 5 matches and got hit by your j.C that I said forget it lol

 

[Kuraudo]

It doesn't effect me too much to be honest. I just have to be conciously aware of hammering down hard on D and A to make sure the inputs come out. ^^

Our Belial/Gauntlet/Hell's spam matches were hilarious though. especially the Belial Edge spam matches. And what weird habits are you thinking of? Like the occassional time I would do 5B -> 5C -> ...nothing when I could Hell's Fang? At times? That's the stick.

Though if there's anything else, feel free to lemme know.

[EDIT]

Oh and there were so many Dead Spikes that were supposed to be Blood Kain. XD

 

[Minato]

It doesn't effect me too much to be honest. I just have to be conciously aware of hammering down hard on D and A to make sure the inputs come out. ^^

Our Belial/Gauntlet/Hell's spam matches were hilarious though. especially the Belial Edge spam matches. And what weird habits are you thinking of? Like the occassional time I would do 5B -> 5C -> ...nothing when I could Hell's Fang? At times? That's the stick.

Though if there's anything else, feel free to lemme know.

[EDIT]

Oh and there were so many Dead Spikes that were supposed to be Blood Kain. XD

Nothing too bad. I think it's mainly be careful of spacing 6A when I'm grounded. Sometimes I just did 5C max range to punish your whiff. I noticed you did 5B or 2A after blocked Deadspike sometimes. It's plus on block, but I failed to frame trap you so that wasn't really a bad thing. Other than that, it was all pretty solid. Just don't burst if my combos had some 2As or something, I don't think it's that worth it. If you practiced whiff punishing more, I think the set would've been even closer.

There was one time where I was going to punish your whiffed Hell's Fang. Totally forgot you can do the followup on whiff and I died lol

Thanks for the matches though. I realized I made some awful bursts and I'm trying to find ways around up-back Barrier Block. I also need to man up and do 2C Fatal on obvious punishes. I didn't go for it today since there are times I buffer dash into 2C and 3C comes out.

 

[Kuraudo]

My usual notion for bursting is that if I'm getting pushed into the corner, regardless of the starting hit, I'll burst if I can. But I get where you're coming from (guess I'm practicing for Chrono Phantasma where I don't lose primers XD) Ragna wants to stay neutral or corner somebody after all. The pattern started with us going even in matches at first, then the long streak of you beating me, then at the end almost the opposite. I noticed that whenever I fatal'd your whiffed c.ID you would burst it almost every time. You caught on as soon as I caught on though cause you didn't do it every time in the later matches. XD

Also, stupid question to ask maybe since you probably already do it. But when I buffer dash into 2C, have you tried inputting 1C instead since it reads as 2C still? Just in case it suddenly reads as 3C or something.

 

[Minato]

Ah, I see. Overall, I realized I couldn't really let up against you. If I was too careless, I definitely lost badly. I also held onto my bursts way too long. Also you taught up to stop backdashing and to make sure to Barrier Block if I jumped. So many times your 5B caught me.

And that's what I should (or rather try to) do. My inputs are just sloppy and I do things too fast, but I really need to just do 1C to make it easy on me.

I'm pretty lucky for having decent fundamentals thanks to SF2, but I think you know BB stuff more than I do. There were things that I didn't punish well enough or things where I made bad decisions (like predictable bursts right after 2C)

 

[Kuraudo]

Yeah that's what I mean. Your fighting game fundamentals are more solid so that's the reason why your win ratio is higher (and also why I got CREAMED facing you in Marvel when I used to play LOL)

You IB more than I do, that's for sure. I'm too scared of taking a hit instead of buffering IB. You pull off ID reactions way better than me. Especially whenever I'd occassionally throw in Gauntlet Hades and you're just like "BAM!" Also if you get slammed by my Fatal and if you've gotta burst, my personal recommendation is upon my 5C or 6C because I can't cancel anything about that so I'm forced to eat it and fly back.

But for real, if I trained up on SF2 or Marvel or whatever else, the results would be the same if not even more significant. I'd get owned. XD Maybe we'll play some more later tonight if you're up for it.

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AS FOR THE REST OF YOU. GET ONLINE AND PLAY WITH US!

 

[Rutger]

Why did I not punish the heart car!?

The hell was I thinking?

I forgot Platinum even exists, I don't remember how to fight her at all. :/

 

[LivewiresXe]

I'd have been on earlier but I had a really bad headache, and I just woke up on my couch 10 minutes ago realizing "I've been asleep for over 90 minutes now". I'll be up for one over the weekend.

 

[Minato]

I'd have been on earlier but I had a really bad headache, and I just woke up on my couch 10 minutes ago realizing "I've been asleep for over 90 minutes now". I'll be up for one over the weekend.

Well, we're still playing if you ever change your mind.

 

[Rutger]

GGs everyone.

I wish I could anti-air on reaction like Minato, I always get hit out of my 2C. :/

At least I beat his Rachel once today!

Now I need to stop getting hit by 2As after I land an airdashed j.B, among a lot of other things.

 

[Kuraudo]

Is anyone still on and wanna play? I just got back.

 

[Crusayer]

I GOT MY PARTS.

\o/

Hope I can get everything working by Sunday (weekly sat smash tho)

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

1 min ago​

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he just wanted that AH​

Minato Danny
He just wanted to do that
yeah
lol

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He's being more Sephiroth like than Cloud like​

Minato Danny
lol

just now​

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Willing to risk it all for just to toy and play some more​

Cloud would have went for the kill​

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Minato Danny
Exactly

 

[Minato]

GGs, guys. Would've played more but feeling tired.

And I'm playing the wrong game lol. I'm going to enter a Persona tourney this weekend, not BB.

 

[Kuraudo]

Thanks for the games, Sephiroth and Minato! It's kinda funny. Sephiroth is farther than you are from me and yet he's the one who has a 2 bar connection. Ah well. Doesn't make a difference really. The connections were great.

I gotta take on your Rachel again sometime, Minato.

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It kinda surprises me. How they don't have a Cloud palette yet for the stereotype in big swords. ...oh well. least they got Ichigo in Chrono Phantasma.

[EDIT]

... good lord, Seph. You're so right. XD ...or maybe it's because I'm your "clone". ohlolololololol

Actually, to be honest, I didn't want the Astral. I wanted to try and practice more Blood Kain combos. Any time I got the opportunity though you had the burst. Such is the life of a Ragna.

But yeah. Real Sephiroth-like of me. I'll go all out Cloud next time.

 

[Minato]

My Rachel is pretty bad on netplay, but next time I'll try though.

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Nah I'm closer by about 600 miles.

 

[Kuraudo]

Nah I'm closer by about 600 miles.

Welp. Never said I was the best map-person-thinger.

 

[Minato]

Thanks for the games, Sephiroth and Minato! It's kinda funny. Sephiroth is farther than you are from me and yet he's the one who has a 2 bar connection. Ah well. Doesn't make a difference really. The connections were great.

Oh, that's because ArcSys does something weird that I never realized until now. The connections are the signal strength to the host. So if I invited someone that was a 4 bar that lived near me, it would say 4 bars in the lobby for you as well.

 

[LivewiresXe]

Oh, that totally makes sense. Always assumed it was like a rounded thing or whatnot.

 

[Deleted member]

So, lately. I've been running through the arcade mode with all the characters to kinda get to know them all better. I've got a couple left, but two REALLY stood out to me so far.

Bang and Litchi.

Both are incredibly fun to use.

Also, I was surprised as to how quickly I beat arcade with Bang. I literally tore Boss Hazama a new asshole with him. And Boss Hazama is usually a class A ****.

And Litchi man, Litchi's friggin awesome.

 

[Lythium]

Brackets for Arc Revo: http://www.hitconfirm.com.br/2013/05/10/arc-revolution-cup-divulgacao-das-brackets-dos-torneios/