NemesisZeru

I've been having trouble finding a main. I went into BBCP wanting to main Izayoi, but playing her is, well, suffering...I love the design and the character, but whenever I play her I get utterly wrecked. So I switched, tried to learn other characters...and no matter who I play, I get wrecked(occasionally I win one match, then go back to getting wrecked) and basically perfected. This leads to me doing worse, feeling worse, and it's just a downward spiral from there. I always sorta thought that if I found the right character, it'd sorta...click, and I'd have a natural affinity, but the more I think on it, the sillier it sounds. Anyways, I've always valued strong netural in my mains, apparently: I mained Mu/Ragna in CS2, and Relius/Mu/Lambda in EX. I initially tried to find a neutral character with strong defensive tools, but they've never seemed to help even when I have them(Although a hard answer, I just need to get better at blocking and finding openings, I suppose), so I'm just trying to find characters with particularly good neutral games.

A question for other people who have Kagura: When I do his throws, the camera sorta...stutters when it follows the enemy up. It's not smooth like his other knockup moves, like say...6c. Is this just me, or has anyone else noticed?

Some chapters/episodes/whatever in story mode have stars by them. Any idea what it means? Thought it meant cleared parts, but I have them on ones I haven't done yet. @_@

Ah, so I'm not crazy! Thanks. :3

I seem to remember there being some input problem in BBCP, particularly around DPS. Maybe I was just bad last night, but for example, Amane's 236C came out 95% of the time when I did the DP motion. I'd attribute it to several other factors, but I actually recall seeing a topic on it around here. Anyone remember it?

Fanart? Alright. Wanted to do a non-oc for once, so sprited Izayoi. Colors are a bit off, but that's mostly because the colors from the actual sprite looked eh at this scale. >.>;

While I'm entirely sure this is false, it makes me wonder: Does Rachel even have parents? I thought Clavis was like, her grandfather or something, but I don't remember any mention of a mother or father or anything like that. Not really important in the grand scheme of things, I guess, but I'm still kinda curious.

I may not be an expert, but didn't the Wheel of Fortune drama CD thing say Nu killed Tsubaki? Like, Nu saw her, and thought she was trying to steal Ragna from her and attacked. That's what I heard, at least. :V

Well, I was told this can still be used as discussion for non-CP versions, so here I go... After talking with some dustloop people, I want to give Mu(CSE) a shot. I really like the idea of using Steins to lock down the opponent and pressure them into mistakes...but I have no clue how to do that. I mean, I've learned a few things from the dustloop wiki(Like 6D>Explosion for a long ranged poke, and a.2d is apparently an OTG laser), but I'm still not exactly sure how to use the other Ds for locking people down. If anyone could link me to a topic/post where how to properly use steins is discussed, or can in general help me out, I'd really appreciate it. :3c

Oh, I can? Alright then. x3 Also, Tao sounds pretty interesting now...maybe I'll look into her, too.

Well, I'm not quite starting out(I have like 180 hours in CS2, lulz. But I haven't actually done anything more then "Derp around in training mode for maybe 5 minutes" in ages.), but some stuff like IADs and TKing give me trouble at times due to my controller, yeah. xd I've never hugely thought of trying Tao, really. Along with Arakune and Litchi, they're the three character's I've never really seriously tried out. My extent of knowledge on how Tao works is "Kawaii derpy catgirl who jumps all over the place" , pretty much. As for Mu..I really like the idea of using Steins to lock down the opponent, putting on the pressure(I'd like to say getting them to panic a bit and take advantage of that, but that's a bit of a strong word.) to increase the chances of them making a mistake I can punish them for. I'm not really sure on how to take advantage of the Steins though, and with the advent of CP, it seems all the CSEX topics are getting moved to the archives(Can you even still post in archive topics, or will that get me in trouble? xP ), so I'm not sure where to ask about that sort of stuff anymore.

I've tried Hakumen a bit now and then, but he has a weird flow in terms of combos and stuff, it seems. He does seem to have really strong pokes in the form of 4C and J.C, though. Really, that weird flow compared to the rest of the cast was what put me off him initially, really.

I tried out Litchi a little last night, actually(Basically just doing combos I found on the Dustloop wiki...well, trying at least, lol), but she's a little tricky to wrap my head around so far(Being one of the two characters I've never explore in the past, her staff shenanigans are odd.). Still, I'll definitely give her a try and see how it turns out. :3 And yeah, I know practice will help way more then changing characters, but I sorta figured Lambda wasn't the same kind of poking I meant. It'd hard to sorta describe, but it didn't quite feel right, which I think helped contribute to my losses just as much as my lack of skill. :P

Oh wow, no posts here in months? Huh. If I'm somehow posting in the wrong topic or something, sorry about that. Well, with the whole CP thing, I'm trying to get back into BB, but having trouble... I know what character I like to play, I think(More of the poking type. For an example, I play Raphael in SC5, but that's a whole different type of fighting game, really. Just trying to sorta show what I'm trying to find, I guess?), but when I try, say...Lambda, I'm getting destroyed. Maybe it's just the combination of Hell AI, rustiness and bad matchups(I always seem to get Taokaka. :B ), but I'm just getting demolished. I can do some of her more bnb ish stuff...sometimes. I'm really bad at TKing so far, it seems. and IADing. I suspect this is as much a controller thing(360 controller. :B )thing as me just sucking. Anyways...rambling aside(I tend to do that all the time when I don't sleep. >.>; ), are there any characters who have this more sort of playstyle? I remember trying out everyone but like, Litchi and Arakune last I played, but that was many months ago(Well, looking by my last post in this topic, about 9 months ago. lol. I'd like to think I've more decisively figured out what I'm trying to go for in playstyle now, at least), and my brain is horribly rusty. xP Again, I apologize for the rambling. xP

Oooh. And here I thought it was something in japanese. lol. Thanks for clarifying. :3c

Well, watching Azreal's ending a few times, seems like he's saying *Something* Dragunov Level 2. That fits in with his weaponry-themed move names, so I don't think I'm mishearing it. I know this isn't really helpful at all or anything, but I figured I'd note it. Also, am I the only one who noticed Azrael's tattoos seem to vanish during his astral? I was thinking that was the limiter that was mentioned with him, but maybe I'm just crazy. Wait, nope. I'm probably crazy either way.

Aren't we only on like the first loketest still? It sucks, yeah, but there's a pretty good chance it won't be final. :V

Dat Granzon. :3 Yeah. I need to work on defense too, I think. A problem I've noticed playing on line is I'm no good at dealing with pressure. Like, people push me on the defensive, and I have a hard time getting back on the offensive. I think part of it is that I've never really used 5a 2a and stuff until recently. I usually tried to start combos with 5b, which is harder to do. I did notice I had an easier time hitting once I started using As, though. And airdashing, sadly. Stupid 360 controller reads my 6s as 9s sometimes, lulz. Sorta annoying when I'm trying to do an IAD D nail, but I end up double-jumping instead, lol. It actually worked on that Hakumen a bit, though. I think he was expecting me to IAD too. :B That said, I have a ton of problems...but, even after getting my ass kicked, I still wanna play Bang. That counts for something, I think. Feeling more dedicated then usual, at any rate. :D

Ended up 0/12 on my first online outing with bang. Fought a Hakumen who just steamrolled me a lot of the time if I lost the momentum. Took me half the matches to realize, "Oh, hey, Instead of doing 5a 5b 2b 2c, I could do 6c instead of 2c". >.>; Derrrp. Gotta remember that. My brain's just autopiloting 5a 5b 2c 623b, which is messing me up. xd I won a few rounds, though, and usually did pretty well. He switched to Makoto and perfected me the last round, though. lol

Thanks! :3 My biggest problem so far is just controlling FRKZ with this derpy controller, lol I guess I'll try some random matches online. I doubt I'll win, but playing a live opponent is probably better then playing the CPU, right? :V

Well, after a few hours of trying to do Bang's challenge #15, I've learned FRKZ is for more then just running. ;D So, considering trying to switch over to him from...the rest of the cast, lol. I've always been a bit flighty with mains. I may not be able to do anything fancy yet, but 4k midscreen's pretty damn good, I think....even if controlling FRKZ on a 360 stick is a pain in the ass(seriously, I always dash forward when I mean to do 6a/b/c/d/whatever, and it's annoying. lol). I'll probably never be good enough to play him(Seriously, playing as anyone but like, Ragna online gets be smashed down pretty hard. :V), but who knows? Maybe I can learn how not to suck, lol.

Two hours of sleep, forever ruining coherent though. xP

Wait, wha? Still trying to read through the thread to catch what I missed, but Amane is stylish mode-only? What? I wasn't really interested in playing him, but if that's true, I never will. xP

And...I have no idea how to do like, any of that. I'm still trying to get down even the basic junk like that 5B 6B 5C Cantabile(22D) 5C(2D) J.B J.C (2D hits) down. lol. Have to use J.A J.C most of the time for that. Edit: Oh hey, I can go into a Volante combo from that. I know this is a newb as hell combo, but I can actually kinda pull it off! 5B, 6B, 5C, Cantabile(22D),5C(2D), J.A, J.C (2D hits), Vivace B, 5C(Volante) j.B, j.C (Volante hits) 5C> air combo ender, I guess. 3.3k is the best I've gotten so far midscreen. Still trying to learn allecan and the timing for a dashing alle still(Although alledash>gear super looks slick as hell). lol Edit 2: Oh, hey, that works! The timing for the superjump is kinda weird, but then again, I suck at them. Pretty cool. Thanks! :3 Edit 3, since I'm pretty sure double-posting is not allowed. Is there any trick to landing the J.2C after 2D? I hit too high most of the time, and 5C whiffs... xP