Moroha

Damage is hot on her ID, and depending on what you do, can also lead to a good knockdown instead of just a keygrab knockdown.

I've got some of my matchvids from SBII up. My matches against SH_ and Zinac were recorded from far away from the TV, and you can't really see the screen :|. I'll upload the other two Chickenfat matches when I get a chance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtb8iUa0a7s Moroha vs. Yo-Yo Holla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3q9bX1MCX0 Moroha vs. Chickenfat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2yB7RWM7g Moroha vs. Floe Pt.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3JTsC0hJus Moroha vs. Floe Pt.2

Apparently ABA's bar is actually more like 3.1 knockdowns.. who knew. I've been playing ABA for about two years now, so I have a pretty good idea when a knockdown will probably leave me with like five seconds to get the fuck out or else, and on countless occassions have had opponents hop into IK mode hoping for the best, and wind up losing the round. This is one of those cases, I guess the ABA should've just SJ'd or something in the opposite direction. He could've avoided that one. And while your remarks on j.D are true, I absolutely cannot ignore the size of j.D's hitbox and the knockdown potential when fighting Millias, it's too dangerous to not respect.

Scorewise, I was pretty happy with how I did against SH_, I lost 2-1 2-1 so neither match was really out of my reach. By the same token, he's a real tough Baiken to deal with and I need more experience in that matchup. Also, I don't think I'll be making that CO tournament. It's during my Winter Break, and I'm thinking about vacationing someplace other than Colorado.

4th place. Read my blog update, it's in my sig. And I updated the 101 FAQ with more general information on ABA's Moroha mode throw.

So guys, Combofiend has made the switch from ABA to Slayer. I spent some time talking to him about it, just sounded like he likes Slayer's style more than ABA's. Whatever. Nobody's perfect, and apparently Combofiend is no exception! Just kidding. ;p For reals, nice guy. His Slayer's gameplay seemed solid, but he was dropping combos (lol, Combofiend). I think he'd only been playing him for about two weeks anyway. Despite having a real fucking solid outing at Seasons Beatings this weekend, I can't help but feel like ABA vs. Jam isn't in ABA's favor like the tier lists (And Flash himself, for that matter) suggest. Maybe I just need more vs Jam experience, but Flash is averaging like an IK on me a match. Maybe Flash is just crazy and I need to shut the fuck up and be a better player. How many of you guys are out there traveling with ABA for GG? Furix/TageProto/Metsuke/ABAcando/FaultyDefense/anyone else? Wondering if I'll be meeting up with any of you guys on the Evo2k8 trail. I'll be at NEC and Final Round for sure, I might be trying to hit Texas Showdown if I'm feeling particularly crazy. And Recna, I'll have to give that a try tonight or tomorrow, that sounds pretty funny.

Well for one, you can't really use it for oki. I never really use the delayed one, since I rarely do a third hit anyway. I don't know, I usually get hit when I delay Dangoku, but that might just be because I haven't really bothered to experiment with the delay on my own time. I don't really like it, but I can play around with it the next time I get in a good casuals session. And when ABA is out of life, you really don't want to danzai. You can, just.. don't use it to trade with stuff.

rofl, he shouldn't have gotten IKed in round three. Round two he got rocked by the godly j.D.

5-0

6:24, could've killed him after the RC'd Butt/2hit orbs with an sjK combo, but who cares, you won the match at that point anyway. After watching it over again whiffing the throw combo didn't kill you, the dead angle did. For some reason I'm only consistent with that throw combo on one side, I'm real iffy on the other, so unless I'm really trying to be funny I'll just combo throw into one of a million other things. ABA's got a ton of great options out of throw, besides like 5S 2S into sj combo/keygrab, you can dash delay 5S 2S Butt for some funny dash jump oki which is pretty scary, you can 2H 1hit Danzai etc to eat burst attempts, and of course you've got even more when they're in the corner and/or have a cranked guard gauge. But to be fair, dash j.p throw combo does look tight. Not much to complain about though, looking solid. The two unblockables you hit didn't do much for you, try to set them up so you're closer to him if you don't have any tension. You'll probably at least get a mixup if he's good enough to shake out. I guess try to be a little more aware of your opponent, especially for your 2S. I used to never use it at all, but that move absolutely dominates air, so try to work that into your game if you can, it's really a great move. Other than that, probably need to practice those FRCs (don't we all though). And lol @ 40 seconds in, 2x shadow galleries. Good shit.

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I'll update this later, but the main thought in my head after watching that fight against Testament was DONT EVER FUCKING GO FOR THE DASH JUMP PUNCH FANCY PANTS COMBO OFF THE THROW :O! I saw that P whiff and I cried But seriously, that honestly cost you that round from what I remember. Unless you can swing it 100% guaranteed, it's not worth the negligible damage. Anyway it's real early in the morning and Im hungover I'll watch it again later.

No EDIT: Are you coming to Seasons Beatings? :O

My basic non-corner throw combo is throw, dash in close, 5K, 6P (1hit), 2S, sj K, sj S, Keygrab. I haven't found a member of the cast that it doesn't work on. The launch part works fine on everyone, and while you can sometimes follow up the sj S portion with sj H, sj D etc, sometimes depending on your character and the jump they might float away and you'll miss the keygrab. The lone S pretty much guarantees the grab. We get together when we can. We sometimes do casuals Thursday afternoons/evenings. The next few weekends for me are going to be pretty busy, with Seasons Beatings II next weekend, C3 the weekend after that, and then VTyme the weekend after that. But we'll figure it out.

How's it going Ddrcata, welcome to ABA. I still need to update that thread with intermediate/advanced combos. Since we had to get ready for SE-R2, and with school and other things, I've been really busy (And I'll probably be at Seasons Beatings II next week, too!) Anyway, that combo is a basic combo designed to get you used to FRCing the Rekkas and also net you a keygrab. If you find 2K 5S 2S sj K is not connecting, 2K, 6P (1hit), 2S, sj K generally works without fail, at least off a throw (throw, dash in 5K, 6P (1hit), 2S etc) and I don't see why the same wouldn't apply here. (Untested atm) But anyway. You beat stupid dorm Kys by blocking low, and then blocking high on reaction to greed saber or dust (Though they're probably not dusting and probably are greed sabering). You punish greed saber and murder stun dipper. You can win with ABA by cranking dat guard gauge and cracking it with a single hit (2k/throw/overhead/unblock/outhit), which, if you're pressuring well, you can really set yourself up for at least one of these to succeed. Sometimes people don't like blocking, which ABA likes even more, since she's got some of the most serious normals in the entire game. In summary (obviously) figure out what you think will be the best way to get those dmgs against your opponent and take a stab at it. We had two State vs. State tournaments at SE-R2, Maryland vs Alabama and Maryland vs Kentucky. We lost to Alabama 6-7, BEST JAM ALIVE!!! aka "jam so hype she has two vaginas" Doren2K ended up being their hero, and we beat Kentucky 7-5. There are no arcades in the area. However, as 4r5 mentioned, we do have a Guilty Gear community at UMBC. Every wednesday we run free tournaments to get people experience against a wide variety of characters in an outside-casual setting. It's good times - you should show up this wednesday! And get out of my forums 4r5, stop telling ABA players how to ... beat ABA. ;p

Made it even better. :D Shit was too good.

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There's Bama vs. MD (6-7 Bama) and Kentucky vs MD (5-7 MD), go watch your match vs Yohei right now, it's got your amazing gold burst run up get thrown and your amazing FRC whiff without the crowd noise.

Get sidebets ready for this shit Final Round = Hype five months in advance

It honestly depended on who I was fighting. In State vs. State and 3v3, sometimes you're afforded time to guess if your opponent will try to be passive or aggressive vs you at the start of a round. Obviously normal mode is armed with options for both of these stances. In singles however, you have no such luxury; you simply have your guess at the start of a match (HUGE) and a burst (ALSO HUGE). The more I play, the less I like bursting (blue) in normal mode. It's rarely a guaranteed safe transform anyway. The way I play ABA, if I see an opportunity to pack I'll usually take it. I've seen ABAs like Combofiend and Damian who will pressure in normal mode and go for that keygrab. The quick transforms were not anxiousness..but the dropped combos were. ;p

Yeah, I've got a class in an hour I need to get ready for and go into the vids a little bit more later, but to address some stuff; WTF Halloween ABA is tight! Get out of the forums. ;p I switch up between Dio ABA (Purp Key Pink Hair), my old Slash ABA (Black key red hair), Pink ABA, and Halloween ABA. You can have all the rest. Kugler I think wants to keep his blueberry ABA (Reload HS) ;p I like to give me opponent 'tests'. One of them is the second hit rekka test. If they don't bother to shake out of it, I will absolutely take the recombo. Second hit recombo into 2H into 2x Keygrab is fantastic. If they DO shake out, I'll have them back in blockstun continue pressure, and won't recombo again - I'll just do the third hit and go from there. However, I was a dumbass and disregarded the fact that Majin shook out of it like every time I did it. Young (Kumiho) pointed this out as well. As far as using 5S 2H (1hit) Rekkas too often, what do you mean by that? If you mean off connected 5S, doing 2H immediately afterwards gives me an extra hit to both confirm a block or hit and combo appropriately, while at the same time giving me access to combos for every level of tension (Tensionless-2H launch; 25% tension, 1Hit 2H Rekkas FRC, etc) The only problem I've had is sometimes if I'm at max range 5S the 2H won't connect, where I should have gone straight into rekkas. Don't worry about offending me man, I've been playing ABA since the day Slash came out but I'm still new to travelling and the hype of fighting games. As I said, this was my first real out of area tournament. I've gone to plenty of MD/Northern Virginia monthlies, and I run casual weeklies at my college, but this was an entirely different ballpark. I'll take any criticism. ABA vs Anji is now in ABA's favor, or at least even. It was pretty gross in Slash, but he has to work to knockdown now, so it's not so bad. Those Fujins going thru my f.S I think in my first match against the Anji really threw me off at first. I'm pretty sure I dropped my ID combo on Anji every time, and I don't think I did a single dash jump j.S mixup (2K vs JC j.S etc) in any of my seven MM's outside of Boss Slayer's. lolol. Edit: And oh yeah, I really, REALLY need to work on my matches vs. Potemkin and Jam. Jam is very winnable for ABA, I'm just inexperienced still, but goddamn, Raekwon's Potemkin is a fucking machine.

Thanks Kurumster, I appreciate it. I'm not entirely sure what place I got in singles..I lost to FlashMetroid and Kumiho. I think I got like somewhere between 13th and 7th. Casuals, as with the bulk of all players, were strong. This was the farthest I had travelled for a tournament, and my nerves were in full effect when shit was on the line so forgive garbage decisions like RUN UP DANZAI LOL, doing the wrong combos, and also having a stupid amount of dropped combos. SER2 was TOO HYPE! I recorded 3 of my MMs before I ran out of camera space. Sadly my MM against Boss Slayer was not recorded, that was easily my best and most comfortable one, and it would've been a good ABA exhibition for you guys. Oh well. The State vs State was also recorded, I have a few matches in there so when that's posted I'll check that out. I need to learn how to fight Bridget, Jais got the best of me there. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=sephzer0 Me vs SilentShinobi, Alphakami, and MajinSSJ6Goku Again, forgive the scrubbyness pls :<. My ABA will be scarier than ever at NEC! Looking forward to seeing you there, TageProto.

Orb Loop > Butt Loop generally speaking. Taken from the ABA 101 thread:

An ABA player in some recent japanese matchvids who, oddly enough, uses the same color as Dio (Might be Dio?) likes aircomboing you into j.S j.HS j.D Orbs, but times it slow enough so you fall pretty close to the ground with the last set of orbs, enabling him to rebound off the ground and keep the combo alive and linked with an sj.K. For instance. Off an air to ground CH j.HS (groundslide.) Run up, 2K, 5S, 2S, sj slight delay j.S, slight delay j.H, slight delay j.D, Orbs, land, sj.K sj.S ladadadada Have fun with that Oh, while I'm at it, if you're out of tension, not in the corner, and want a chance at a double keygrab, 2HS, IAD S, HS, land, 5S, Keygrab, and if you make it to the corner, continue with OTG Keygrab. Going to test this on characters as well, cannot confirm on the whole cast.

It clashes with SRK's. I'm not sure about Sol's, definitely Ky's, if you time it correctly. If they just block, you can then proceed into Rekkas, or IAD afterwards.