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  1. Jo

    [AC] Johnny AC Discussion

    Snap. We should play if you do-- I'm pretty sure I saw you there last year but I didn't get a chance to play you. It seems I'm going to Devastation though-- so.. whoever else is going to that, I'll see you there. I'll rep teh JO in AZ for Rialto. Anyone been working with Johnny lately? I've been messing around with a few tricks (in my head) so.. let's see how this goes.
  2. Jo

    [AC] Johnny AC Discussion

    Sol is American too. At least that got this thread a little active. Any Johnny players heading to EVO09?
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    [AC] Johnny AC Discussion

    Why did any of you guys ever pick up Johnny to begin with? I used to play Chipp back in GGX and didn't really like him in XX. When I heard what Johnny's mist did, that's what pretty much did it for me. "Unblockables? FUCK YEAH!" Back in the day when I heard "Johnny mist cancels", I thought people were talking about canceling his normals with.. the mist. I was like "Why is this good? This sucks." Ah, scrubbin' it.
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    Nah-uh, I don't play. I did play once upon a time but yeah, it's #R so who cares? Plus I could only play on pad. Stick doesn't register well at all for some reason on my PC. D:
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    I'm not going to Devastation. :/ Metroid? Wtf is that. Do you still play #R PC online, Free?
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    What's a female version of Master Chief doing on page 58? What's up Dustloop SoCal? ...apparently nothing... GET HYPE FOR DEVASTATION AND EVO!!
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    Sounds like a trap... ..fuck it. Might as well post since I have this window open!
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    ..wtf is up with your avatar? lol. HAVEN'T YOU GONE TO CHINA YET D:< and.. why aren't we talking in IM instead? I think you mean feat. If we tried what you said then we might get banned for spamming.
  9. Jo

    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    Shut up ajinkris. Guys, we have to catch up to NorCal. Their thread almost has like 700 pages. Let's do this. lmao. Fucking Hellmonkey
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    @Equalizer: Against faster characters like Millia, Johnny has to be a lot more patient. You're gonna have to choose your battles against Millia, Chipp, etc. You may have to resort to waiting out their pressure and punish their mistakes (if any). You'll need to learn what to watch out for (for Millia, watch out for her 6K overhead; also if they are fancy, look for the slide FRC into falling j.K aka dirty overhead). Try not to start a combo when Millia force breaks a disc. You'll just get counter-hit and combo'd for your efforts. Don't forget about Millia's roll. Try to bait and punish this by intentionally leaving big gaps in your pressure to make it look like it's safe to roll. I had some casuals against a Millia back in March. Here's the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMPojKVX_0&feature=channel_page You can kinda figure what I'm trying to do in the vids. Use it as guideline of what to do/what not to do, etc. My advice though.. block. A lot. If you can't block then you better learn it. Nowhere better to learn defense than casuals.
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    lol, well thanks for the input. I was kinda just posting the videos just to contribute to the thread. I don't mind the criticism at all but I'm pretty sure I know what I have to work on (aka combos, everything in general) to cement my style. I don't know how many of my videos you saw but uh, yeah. I love to mist cancel. It's just fun. Thanks again though. ;D
  12. Jo

    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Hey, I'm bored so I'll throw some feedback your way. Although it is one match and I really won't be able to get a good grasp of your habits but uh, we'll see how this goes. At the start you air-dashed at Sol! You wanna die or something? lol. That's prime VV position. You're lucky he air-dashed back, haha. Sol players tend to start the match with a 5S. My advice would be to defend at the start but I am a stickler for trying to take the match as soon as it gets started. If you want, you can beat Sol's 5S with a 2P. Though you won't be able to follow up with anything. Maybe you can dash and throw while they are confused that you actually beat their (supposedly safe) 5S at the start of the match. If you would have started the match with a 6K, you would have had a good start but don't sweat it. 6K is really risky unless you believe you can read minds. Since he air-dashed backwards, he wouldn't have any tension to FD even if he wanted. Might want to keep this in mind against any character you fight. Air dash back = Free 6K. Most of the time. Anyway! When Sol knocks you down, get ready for the fun part. His jumping mix-up is too good, especially against Johnny because Johnny has no real wake up game. My advice is to try to block and keep the panic to a minimum, lol. FDing Sol's rush down works pretty well since he has to get in so close to begin with and you're just pushing him off of you which means he'll just have to work more or have to start throwing out command grabs to keep you from FDing. But back to your play-style.. ouch. Jackhound right into gunflame for a Sidewinder loop combo. Not a good look. I honestly don't feel Jackhound fits the SO/JO match-up. There have been very few times where I've been able to pull off landing this move outside of a random ground combo. Sorry, I'm just critiquing as I go along, lol. I am LOVING that one hit ensenga you pulled off in the corner off of a coin > 6K though. Fucking awesome. Good shit there. That'll teach Sol not to install dragons. ..VV. Ouch. lol. See? 5S at the start. D: 2P that shit for confusion. Defend to be safe, though. If you wanna be safe. Haha, I caught a little problem, too. You tried to do 6K like 3 times in a row. Third time you FRC'd. It did land you a combo but you might want to not repeat the same move over and over. Your opponent may catch on and punish you royally for it. Be careful. At 1:59, you could have 6HS > Jackhound or something to keep the combo going instead of going for a coin. You might want to work on watching when your opponent is crouching-- you'll be able to land a 6HS most of the time. If your opponent is crouching and you go for a mid-mist finer, you'll probably whiff right over their head. That shit has happened to me plenty of times. You counter hit his VV! But the follow up was kinda.. bad, lol. It's okay though since you still won the match! ;D Oh no, now you jumped backwards instead. It seems like you really panicked that last round. Don't lose your cool-- if you lose your cool while playing Johnny, then you aren't really playing Johnny. You always have to be cool. One thing I noticed is that you bursted pretty early in your matches. It's difficult to choose a safe way to burst on Sol, I can barely think of any off the top of my head. Try to keep an eye on your burst and the situation you're in. Don't burst right away! That's really all the advice I can give you for now. If you had a small batch of vids or something then it'd be easier to get in your head and see what you're trying to do. Hope this advice helps you out. Don't get discouraged! Just get better. ;D Edit: Whoah, I typed a lot. lol. Edit #2: Uhh, now that I realize.. this post would have been more useful to you what, 25 days ago? lol. Good games.
  13. Jo

    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Hey guys. Long time no post! Uhh, apparently there are some matches of my casual play up on youtube from last weekend. Figured you guys may be interested in checking them out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfnfqRglm0&feature=channel_page On the right there's a bunch more. Feel free to have a look, lol. ;D Mist Cancer. As MCR would say "Black beat is black."
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    I back tracked a few pages. Hi, I'm Jo. :D Red Baron EXTRAORDINAIRE! I've been TKing everything since before Jesus was born. I should wear a button that says "Ask me about TKing." That mix-up wasn't near impossible as you claimed it to be, when you get right down to it, it's cake!
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    Hey TGS-- wtf? lol. why so temporary
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    [AC] Johnny AC Discussion

    Yo'. A safe option would be to throw a coin before you do divine blade transport into your potential mix-up. Another one would be to knockdown in the corner, mist cancel and go from there. Just make sure you bait properly for wake-up uppercuts, supers and even dead angle attacks. Good luck.
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Killerwatt! Back in action, I see. SORRY I didn't add more to my post from last time. I really wanted to add more stuff but I get lazy and now it's like 3 pages later, lol. ALL RIGHT. Time to watch your matches. vs OR: Omg, lmao. That run up sparta kick was too good at the start. Sorry. I just had to point that out. Hrrm hrrm, looking decent here but your defense is lacking! In the air!! OR could have had you if he would have jumped in on you instead of gun blazing at the end. FD man! That or at least recover forward? Also, you bursted really early at the start of the round. Don't do that, lol. I know it's a tough habit to break (bursting out of stagger/counter hit stagger) but you'd be better off flailing the controller wildly than wasting your burst that early into the match. Overall, I don't think you look too bad. I notice you aren't divine blading for fun anymore which is good. Savage Fang'd. Fuck. Hrrm, interesting. I see that you're doing some mist cancels but almost always throwing a coin right after? Huh? Why are are you doin' that? lol. Don't sweat it, though. If you're doing that then you would be better off just canceling HS with your coin. You'll want to stop doing this, d00d. In the third round, I saw that OR was all over you with jumps and such-- yeah. You're gonna have to get used to this. I've got experience in this match-up and I can safely tell you that Johnny can't do shit to OR when he's in the air. It's pretty damn safe for OR to jump in from so damn close. You can only do so much (and most of that is too slow) so unless you're an air-throw god, you're just gonna have to wait out his KOF hop fest with some strong defense. 6P vs Gunblaze? Wtf, lol. I see what you're talking about the super jump instead of Ensenga because you could have potentially killed OR at the end of round 4. No worries. Just practice your control over your character. Nothing you can't work on. You seem to be using Johnny's OD a lot in this match, too. I'm not saying that's a bad thing (especially when it's gonna hit like on that Forcebreak OR tried) but you'll probably want to restrict the use of your super to when you know for sure it'll hit. Other than that, you're not lookin' too shabby. You can only improve more. Work on your air combos after throw-- cuz you're gettin' black beat. Things to consider: Be weary of OR when he has meter. That Forcebreak is pretty damn quick and it has a lot range, probably as much as Johnny's low mist finer. It can net him some nice damage. OR with a level 2 charge can pretty much instant savage fang anything-- so you'll want to keep that in mind too. Don't forget that OR's 2HS is an overhead! Don't be intimidated by this match-up! It's just a primitive Sol. vs FA: In the first set, I noticed that you're doin' a lot of air dashing on FA. Nooooo. You may want to drop that habit. He was getting a LOT of free hits on you with crap that shouldn't land in the first place (spinny thing). Also, you tried to divine blade at the start of one round. Haha, I'm all for unorthodox but uh-- yeah. You can't block in this position! Especially when you don't have meter at the start of the round. Free counter hit for FA, too. He was slapping you down a lot with that Forcebreak, too. Product of your air dashing. Defense, defense, defense! You can never get enough. You seemed to hesitate when you landed a good combo opportunity, too. You mist canceled and just kept the stance. Were you expecting a burst? In the second set, you're lookin' a lot better. At the end of one of those rounds, you bursted when FA had really low life and he landed a dust combo. Try to watch when you burst and such. You really didn't have to-- you had plenty of life to spare and judging from FA's earlier dust combo, you didn't have much to worry about in terms of damage. Like I said before, I don't have much exp in this match-up so someone else can throw up their expertise here but yeah-- watch out for that 6HS (overhead) and command grab. Try to find a safer way to start your rounds off in this match-up, too. I find a simple coin suffices most of the time. I'd rather get a level 2 and get knocked down by FA's 2D for a trade than have to work for landing that coin later. Try it. Keep practicin'! Most of your errors seem to be more technical work than anything.
  18. Jo

    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    What's goin' on in this thread? Yo' Killerwatt! Watched your matches and I've got some input. VE: All right man, from the start I noticed you used a f.5S at the start of the match. Then after that I saw you doing a 2D and eventually it came down to you divine blading into heaven. I'm a pretty firm believer of getting a headstart from the very beginning of a round and I had no idea what you were thinkin', really. From my experience, Venom players usually use a 2S at the start of the round (good range, JO's f.5S whiffs completely which is probably one of your quickest moves; sorry, not a frame whore) or backdash to start setting up. Sometimes they'll throw out a 6P or even a 623S if they're that desperate. Usually it's one of the two first options, though. Also, what K2 said-- way too many DB's. I mean, I miss this move's awesomeness just as much as the next player, but you've just gotta let it go, man. Especially if you aren't FRCing! I can't gather a lot about you from just a couple of matches, but I recommend working on your defense (air FDing and even instant blocking) will help you out a lot more in the long run. Try to keep yourself on the ground, also. If you're in the air most of the match, then higher level players are gonna read you like a book and take you down with no sweat. RO: From the looks of it, in the first round you were trying pretty desperately to outpoke him on your wake up. Not a good look, man! It seems you gave that up and just went for blocking, which is a much smarter option. Watch out for that standing dust. It's RO's only overhead outside of TKing his forcebreak. Be careful with knee-rockets. RO players are pretty good at predicting when Johnny will go into the air. Keep your cool and stay on the ground if you don't have meter/don't want to FD rockets. You don't even need to Jackhound rockets-- your 6HS will hit RO just fine. Assuming you're in range, of course. This RO player didn't really command grab you much. Which is something you have to keep in mind. RO can command throw you! So watch for those tick throws inbetween his rocket rush-down.. ...tricks. Also, I wouldn't really risk going for a wake-up OD on RO. It just usually doesn't work what with his 2K and all. Try ODing his standing dust or something laggy. Good luck with that. FA: Haha, you jumped in on this guy a lot and the problem is that he let you! FA's standing kick will keep you in your place, so try not to get too comfortable with doing that. If it works on your friends it's all good, but if you wanna improve, you've gotta keep this in mind and restrict yourself to a stronger ground game. Honestly, I do not play against a lot of Fausts. The only FA player I played recently was Elvenshadow at EVO08, we only played once and I honestly don't even remember how that match went. I remember seeing him do the handslap forcebreak on wake-up which is something you may want to keep in mind also. It was pretty fast and it actually got me. I was looking for it but by the time I realized he had meter to do it, I already stuck out a 2K on his wake-up. Yeah. Overall, I think you've got potential, just like any other player. If you're willing to get a lot better and maximize that potential, then you've got a long road ahead of you. I'm not trying to discourage you or anything, I'm just being realistic. Johnny is pretty crappy, but if you've got the wits and technique (not to mention STYYYYYYYLE) then you should be all right. So up your ground game, polish your mist cancels, hit those FRC's in training mode and practice your defense! Good luck d00d.
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Yeah, I know about the crouching hitstun for sure. Hitting people while crouching is usually one of my most favorite things to do with Johnny. Maybe someone can test this blocking thing. render definitely knows what he's talking about 99.99% of the time, though. The 00.01% is when he thought Samuel L. Jackson wasn't in Coming to America. For shame, sir. It's like that with Chun-Li in 3S. I think she recovers quicker from her crouching defense than her standing one.
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Damn, I didn't know Johnny recovered faster in his standing guard than his crouching one. render too smart. If you have the tension, you can time it so that you can overdrive through slidehead. You won't hit PO, but at least you'll have enough invincibility to avoid getting knocked down again.
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Haha, Mike Z is awesome. I do play stick, but I used to be a pad warrior back in my earlier days. I could play practically the same me thinks. Man, I really wish some of my matches at EVO were recorded. Especially teams! I had some really epic matches. My greatest performance to date!
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    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    render! I have a few AC videos of me. Well actually, it's just one or two. Copied from TGS's Summer Casuals post in the Guilty Pleasures forums. June 28 Casuals (Part 1): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1333814372786769740&hl=en Warning: 1 hour long! Matches in order of appearance w/timestamps: 1:47 - Jo (JO) vs. SirPhobos (JA) 5:00 - Jo (JO) vs. Mike Z (PO) I lose to Mike Z. Then there's this other one that was a casual tourney at pulsr's. It's WC casual madness 2. Click on the right under "More from user" to get to it. 18:10 me vs MCR (VE) 41:18 Hellmonkey (BA) vs me 59:00 pulsr (TE) vs me and 1:05:10 me vs shtkn (KY) That's if you can stand the wait for the second vid, haha.
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    California Love: The SoCali Thread

    All right guys. I think it's time to get serious. Here comes Jo with his crazy fucking schemes again. Maybe this'll get this thread pumpin' once more. LET'S REVIVE GUILTY GEAR WITH A SWIFT KICK TO THE BALLS!!! /hype I know how you all miss AI ranbats and how we would just get together, play some Guilty and chill out and well, I think it's been way too long since we had some fun at ARCADE INFINITY. Maybe Ranbats were a little too serious back then-- or maybe they weren't serious enough. How could we cure this? BI-WEEKLY TEAM TOURNAMENTS! At first I was thinking "Maybe bi-weekly team ranbat tournies?" But what the Hell fun would that be? How would you even keep the same team through the ranbat quarter? That shit does not rock, no sir. We could probably have 2v2 teams (3v3 anyone?) to have some mix-up and variety between all players. WHO WOULD PAIR WITH WHO? Who are YOU gonna bribe to get on your team?! I DON'T KNOW!! It would be simple, single elimination just like old times but with teams, I think the competition would be more fun and interesting. Obviously gas is gay right now and our GG scene is seriously lacking (wtf, you're picking up BlazBlue over GG? Better kill yourself) but maybe we can draw people back in with this shit. Hell, maybe it would be possible to convince Ken to switch Guilty Gear to the two 3S cabs at the side (since AI now has SF4.. well.. who needs 3S anyway? Shit was practically barren last night) so we could have more room. I don't know guys. To me, this sounds like an awesome and ULTIMATELY FUN idea. Let's get this BLOOD FLOWING AGAIN! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS THINK!! I am down to run things again. A small list of pros and cons: PROS Reviving love of Guilty Gear Ken I back in action Teams for instant fun; plenty of variety gonna go down! Hanging out just like old times, having fun Reviving our tournament scene; possible influx of (serious) singles tournies also(?) SF4 stragglers might consider GG after seeing our HUGE tournies CONS Gas is gay but not as gay as it was earlier this year Ken I back in action SF4 now at AI making for super crowded area AI Parking ...AI Parking .....AfuckingI Parking Talk to me SoCal. So as to avoid confusion-- NO, you don't HAVE to stick with the same team for the tournies. You can switch every tournament if you want. One tourney you'll probably feel like pairing with Mike Z and the next one you'll probably want to pair with Stromlocke. ANYTHING GOES BABY! Cross posted from here: http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=132398&page=111 Post here or at SRK with your thoughts. HELL, POST AT BOTH!
  24. Jo

    [AC] Johnny Video Links/Video Discussion

    Woo! Question time. Fellow Johnny players, I am seeking a video of awesome proportions. I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that there's an (AC) Johnny video out with combos that are level 1 exclusive. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I heard there's BIG DAMAGE! Edit: Scratch this, it doesn't exist! Sorry d00ds.
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