Inthebookoflife

I meant both. All grabs on fear are untechable! Although megidola would give us the damage, it can be grabbed before it comes out(Happens to me all the time). The upside to normal grab is that it gets you at neutral at your opponents face, if their feared then you probably have one free shot at a fatal counter(which could be megidola). Since fear is a status the only way to get out of fear is letting it run out or hitting the opponent. The hard part about playing adachi, at least for me, is actually getting in their face. The normal grab at least gets you there. I use the normal grab just to get my opponent still. Whiffing normal grab is far less punishing than whiffing megidola. I feel like doing megidola outside of the setups like 5AA or during their wakeup is suicide. I wish normal grab didn't do such lame damage but thems the breaks... BTW A fatal 214a can lead into 665b>5c>Heat Riser or 665b>5c>2AB>214AB then do the the normal short hop combo. Which you could do after normal grab or even short hop and jb

Id definitely agree with actually using gold burst with adachi. I find the best times to gold burst are during delayed techs and when my opponent dashes at me. Having heat riser accessible and activating it can pretty much guarantee you get burst back. Which would leave you with 100 heat if you got into awakening giving the access to the mandala to potential unblockable set ups. I think if you already go into a match with the mindset of only using burst on defense then you've already assumed in your mind that your going to be outplayed by your opponent. I understand the frustration with adachis lackluster defensive options but if theres anything we can learn from the matches we've seen so far (like Asura's matches) is that patience is extremely required with adachi. Asura pretty much gets all his wins from counter hit 2b. What I have yet to see is fear being used effectively, which is understandable since opting for fear leaves you almost fullscreen from opponent. I think adachi's access to fatal counters could close matches outright if we learned to apply it properly. I mean who wouldn't want to utilize our access to nontechable grabs, Especially in the corner where his command grab on fatal is comboable w/out meter. It also brings a mindgame into play, I find that feared opponents start to do really dumb things just because their scared of command grab. From my week of use with Adachi I've found that he has lots of different tools accessible to him and its all a matter of remembering how and WHEN to use them. I think another overlooked tool adachi has is his stance cancel. You can get some really sneaky stuff off it. if you 2AB>236a/b you can then go into AA, DP or short hop (for overhead), gun shot(low), or command grab or grab. The only thing to worry about if you do this is a dp or if they jump. Although on jump you could stance into 5c or shorthop grab to punish. If you condition people to stance cancelling though you can use it to bait the dp. Stance cancelling works for me but I'd like everyones' feedback on its practicality. The REASON I bold when is because a lot of the times I think we get into a routine with how we "win" with whatever character we choose to play, and then immediately throw away the other tools that could potentially help and make us better players. I think Adachi is all about knowing when to use the little things he has(like his awesome ziodyne unblockable setups!). If we start to rely on just earning victories from getting beat down until we get awakening, then we might as well be playing Elizabeth.(might be slightly exaggerating lol) Once we figure out how to make adachi dangerous the entire match and not just when he is awakened I think people are going to respect this character A LOT more.