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[CP] Rachel vs. Hazama

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For one, you have to play this matchup VERY patiently.  It's hard to keep pumpkin out since you'll be blocking his chains a lot.  I would advise to carefully zone him out and try to make him waste the movement on his chains.  Space your rods out so you can catch him with Sword Iris as he tries to zip around the screen and make sure to utilize j.236A a fair bit.  If for whatever reason you're unsure that he'll get hit by something, don't go for it as he'll chain you for punishment.  6A works nicely to beat a lot of his chained approaches and you can pick up a nice CH combo off of it, but be careful of baits.  He'll usually bait this by moving in a direction away from you or not moving at all, so be sure to read your opponent properly. 

 

If you have him locked down and he's without meter, feel free to go fairly ham as he doesn't have any good options out of it.  When he has 50 heat, get ready to bait his reversal- you'll get a nice punish for doing so.  Also in regards to his meter, get ready to block high if he has you on the defensive with it.  Hazama players love to go for his 6A into Houtenjin and it WILL HURT.

 

 Make sure to be careful of summoning pumpkin in the air since between his chains and his AA out of his stance it's easy for him to hit you while you're summoning it or while you're trying to come down for an assault.  Also, if he's doing stance shenanigans, you don't want to deal with it and have the room/wind for it, use a winded backdash to get yourself out of there.  2C can also work if you see the overhead out of it coming, but again, be careful of him moving around to bait this.

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