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ye, by aimed I mean air. Most hazama I've played weren't a problem, to the point I didn't have to contemplate the matchup. Not many good ones around where I am I guess.

Well aimed ice swords. Don't air dash much if at all, or you eat FC flash kick. Hazama's really have a hard time moving around. His air dash blows, his walk blows, his dash blows. And most people so far don't have a good sense of where they'll end up after using his D moves. I like to run around and make them struggle. It works for me. Trolling or actually effective, I dunno, lol.

When are you using 2C? I don't think it'd work too well unless the hakumen you were fighting did nothing but IAD.

Makoto is a bit of a PITA matchup to me. She's like Noel, with more emphasis on resets and less on move startup speed. Her moves have tons of blockstun, and her 2A comes out fast as hell. She pretty much stuffs out everything Jin has at close range imo, cept jC and maybe jB. She gets a ton of meter too, and her almost-fullscreen punch super is safe as hell, fast as hell, and can get you during random things like backdashing, jC zoning, and even during jump startup. She can combo into her astral from any charge level 3 D move. Her j2C (I think... her tail drop move) has a GIGANTIC hitbox. Don't bother DP'ing after block, you're definitely at disadvantage. Not even Rehyou beats it, it just clashes and she continues coming down onto you. You can 2C it for delicious FC though. Methinks this is a "play getaway" matchup.

With random ice cars and freeze shaking-off and everything? Ah, those were the days. I remember just doing a random ice car to save the match, and doing black beat combos.

Aw, you missed our glory days. It's ok. At least you won't have reason (or know a reason) to mope.

I think I saw gaga pull off a IAD grab cross up. He IAD past a Mu as you would for a IAD j.236D, but instead grabbed Mu from behind him when the Mu tried to jump barrier the crossup. How successful is this? Risks? People obviously won't fall for IAD j.236D all the time.

haha. Compared to what Jin could do during R&D i.e. fresh release of BBCS, 3k is a godsend. Meanwhile, a litchi does 4k meterless to me into corner with godly oki afterwards. Fun stuff~

Methinks j236D is one of his greatest tools still, even from nerf. Prevents people from rushing in to you brainlessly, and good for getting through that stubborn blocker when used as crossup. It's 3k dmg for 25 meter, which u mostly get back after a combo from it anyway.

@demonicZERO360: his best poke is, as you probably know by know, his jC. 2A is decent one, and can be actually used as an anti air, or for stuffing out moves from a decent distance. It's got quite a hitbox. I would not try to use j2C often in block strings. It has a bit of startup. It does have good blockstun though, especially on counter hit. Use it sparingly. I'd rather use jB.

Dash super jump works wonders. Can get you to places pretty fast and out of range, plus you got an extra double jump just in case. Watch out when you land though. He's probably expecting you to land with an attack, so he'll try to drive-counter you. 2D works too on turtling hakumens, and outreaches his ground poke. Like always though, be careful with 2D use.

You shouldn't even wait for it...

2A is one of jin's best ground tools. 5B is decent, but gets beat by a lot of things and has slower startup. You use it to start his basic 5B(B) >> 2B >> 5C string.

You can try to minimize it as much as possible by using a VGA connection and turning off a bunch of post-processing features (assuming you're using an HDTV, not a monitor). Also, Game Mode; most HDTVs have them. Another thing is, while cabs may have huge HDTVs, they're also using commercial-only models i.e. you generally can't buy em, and they're really expensive if you find one. They have virtually no input lag. You'll just have to get used to it and make do I guess. I always have to make "calibrate" myself with a few warmup matches on whatever display I end up playing with. Earlier, I couldn't pull off Mission 8 at a friend's 40", but the moment I get home on my 22", I get it down on the third try.

If it's any sort of projection display i.e. old school CRT, tube TVs, etc. there's virtually no lag iirc. Flat panel is where they're at. From what I've read and remember at SRK, the bigger the panel gets, the more input lag there is. 22" inches and below have a .5 frame~ lag. 23"-28" have 1~ frame lag. 32"-40" have 1.5~. 40" plus have 2~ and above. Those are my estimates from what I can remember... I play on a 22" Samsung that actually even has less input lag than the Asus 23" they use at EVO so ye. It's practically a cab until I hit online.

Playing on a lagless display also helps. It's a night and day difference. Sometimes I 66 5B so well, I whiff be 5C cause they're too high.

j2C is more failsafe at the end of a long [not yet frozen] combo than jC. If you have execution problems, go ahead and jC>jD, but I would suggest practicing j2C>jD in the long run. Sometimes I do jC > j2C > dj > jC > jD anyway because the combo looks tighter. Whatever, I like tight looking combos.

It was cool tryin out Makoto before release. Thanks for being there Aksys!

That gaga jin is fucking fearless. My playstyle is pussy in comparison.

Combo vid - Break A Mirror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9z1N9muAU&feature=related Not sure if posted elsewhere on this site, but good stuff to keep here nevertheless.

Funny, I can imagine you doing it Daifunka has full invincibility from projectiles right? Wouldn't the increased recovery from j.236D not be enough to block Daifunka in time? Most players would only j.236D from mid to close range, and that's very Daifunka-able to me.

Okays.... -You need to learn how to block better. You were getting countered everywhere when you should have been blocking. Know when you can and cannot attack for sure and don't blindly keep trying to. You need to up your defense. -Learn to hit confirm better. There were some 5B > 5C hits you could have confirmed into 214B knockdown, but instead you auto-pilot'd into 5D keepaway-game. -You jump too much, and that bang has you all read. Learn to appreciate Jin's ground game too. Work on your ground footsies. Try training yourself by vowing to never or jump as least as possible in casual matches. Overall, that bang was very rush down. Don't rush him down too if his rush down is better than yours, because as what happened, you ate a ton of counters. Adapt to the match. If what you're currently doing isn't working, stop, rethink, and adapt. You should have that down by the end of the first round. lol that bang is ready for CS.

Things I know so far: -You can punish his fire punch through IB. Ragna can do simple 5B, I dunno about Jin. Maybe 5B or 2B, maybe 3C. -Don't DP every air dash in, otherwise he'll bait it with a drive. -I am not sure if his 2D can be punished by 5C > 6C. It obviously can on whiff though, so look for that from D-spam happy Bangs. -I think jump barrier is the best option from defending against his D move if you got too far into his guard points. -j.236D can be beaten out by mere shurikens. This sucks balls -Don't do fireball zoning. He'll D teleport. I'm not very successful at all in this matchup. All I'm doing so far is keeping them at bay with jC and looking for counter hits.

Derp, nevermind, it *is* greyish. I was looking at the Reply page. But general text content has a grey background, which is good.

The post, post reply, quote, QR buttons are still Sol-red though. And hmm, I think I'd prefer a more grey-ish approach. Black is so... extreme. We'll see if it's intuitive in the long run. Also, it's a bit hard to differentiate between Unread and Read threads. That's my critique. Otherwise, yay blue~ Everything I have is blue. My laptop is blue. My sticks are blue. My flashlight is blue. My drinking glasses are blue. Shit. I just noticed I'm like the 'I'm blue' song. Oh well. But yeah.