Destin

Because we enjoyed playing guilty gear.

I can fight faust in any version of guilty gear.

Double elim is only consistent to the top 2 if you assume that if A > B, B > C, then A > C. But this is not always the case. Sadly round robin is far and away the best way to decide. A 50 man round robin tournament, would be awesome lol.

I would love to see a matchup chart. I want to see if balance is tightening or slipping for AC.

Lies he was amazing and fun, perhaps incomplete, but not dry and boring. But I will drop it, just can't let this slash hos libel go unanswered!

HOS has a very strong corner combo off throw in slash, just fyi. His trouble is getting damage off lows, which he also has a bit in AC unless you can do decently difficult combos. And if you can do the difficult combo in Slash, he can get damage off his low there too. I wish there was a way to put handicap in GG generations though, throw hos a bone.

Guilty Gear generations is the new hype.

You guys should make a different thread for japanese vids versus american ones.

You are probably not using enough 2c.

This doesn't work because V-13 can air dash off her 6D to continue pressure, get more space, and maybe even mixup. All while working your guard and gaining meter. Jumping and blocking certainly is important, but like anything in one of these games, you don't want to be to predictable. Run forwards into fd block should also be used. One interesting trick I use is when landing do the jump D cancel to get a 214D out. Can cover alot of space with a good amount of invul.

If you guess one sword right, you are in. This is important, obvious, but very important. If you are not thinking about this, you probably should now and then.

Super easy combos, all purpose pokes, fantastic speed, and braindead zoning. You don't even need her offense. I picked her up in like an hour and was beating regulars at the game. She is just that easy.

Balls easy

I like to judge people when they are playing their best. A bunch of tournament wins does not impress me, playing some rounds very well does, wherever they are at. Oh just read more of the thread, nobody has ever proven shit to me by winning a tournament, or even a few of them.

Understanding Options B and the C is paramount to playing the game well, and that is usually the hardest part of watching the videos, understanding why they did not do things you consider effective. You really have to consider the opponents options, and what they would be doing that makes your selected option less effective than the Japanese one. And WUT I think these SBO's may not be that exciting because the game is stagnating a bit, at least with hos imo. It was fun to watch in the same way that super turbo is fun to watch, you aren't really learning anything (unless you are watching mattsun), but its neat to see the ideas applied so perfectly. Well actually, thats just the feeling I get, maybe yous just too good.

To me it matters when I am comparing various conflicting tactics. If I have a player who is generally considered better, I can attempt to understand the differences with better information. Well, I don't know how much things have changed, but when I was over there, they pretty much were as good as they looked in the videos (this was 3 years or so ago). And I was shocked to find during the SBO qualifiers that nobody seemed phased by pressure. The japanese aren't unbeatable, or anything of that nature, but the things you see in most of the videos is what is actually happening in your average matches all over the place. You pretty much need to be somewhere near that level to beat their best players. I hate doing this picking apart of posts, and I generally like what you write so I didn't want to trash it or anything, but I'm just on the opposite side of the fence on this one.

Anyone who switches to testament for sbo then goes back to order isn't interesting enough for me to watch. If i had to put inoue on the list though, he would be above kzo. (I did it just for reaver.)

0 Kaqn Sanma ... ... ... ... ... Kzo

Sanma is great, but he is just not top level like 0 or kaqn.

Say what you will about reaver's combo, but at least he's sticking to his guns. That dp after CH 2h was so reaver I almost clapped.

Learn to block the unblockables.

When did I say it was bad? Fuzzy mixups are great, near impossible to block on reaction if you time it right, I just haven't run into too many good people who haven't seen that setup before. If I had to choose, I would take starting my fuzzy off a j.D anyhow (although this depends on where you are on the screen, overall, j.d is for me.) Oh, and for Caen, I'm not really sure many of those mixups would work, as I don't think you can 2k after a 5S, and alot of people just IB bandit's and throw, if you frc and don't air attack, they just throw. Thats why the jump S into the fuzzy guard helps a bit. Still though, you really don't see too much bandit FRC into throw these days because it seems alot of people have fail safe options for it. In fact, now that i think about it, what would be pretty cool is doing the frc, without the jump S, into a double jump straight up at the last second H.