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[P4U2] Pet (Adachi) Vs Dai-chan(S.Naoto, Ken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drv3OFnKrHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPLockcEyE0 [P4U2] Pet (Adachi) Vs MAD (Teddie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9AIEIzERg [P4U2] Pet (Kanji) Vs Damosou (Adachi/Liz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4dgweYVVg

Finally I get to see Kubo's Ken

Well I guess in Victory Cry it doesn't matter too much with losing health as Junpei has the fastest blue health regen in the game iirc. Also watching those Sorashido matches confirmed some things for me: -Home Run super with hard slide follow up can link into the reverse Home Run super(where persona throws fireball) - Junpei can reflect Naoto's r-action shot with All-Out-Attack. This might mean you could use AoA freely on her without much to worry about if opponent likes to respond with r-action frequently. -Max range 5B can activate Yosuke's DP without hitting Junpei. Now I'm just wondering if fireball super has a followup hit to make opponent slide on the ground.

2 Junpei matches in a row vs Mitsuru/Narukami. Junpei matches throughout almost the entire set

The thing I'm wondering is: How strong is the reflect fireball? For example; Naoto shoots all 5 rounds and you reflect the 1st bullet. Will the fireball go through all of the bullets or will its durability run out before it hits her?

IIRC They actually had to patch Junpei's reflect ability. Older footage shows reflecting projectiles still counted as a strike on the baseball meter. I initially thought this ruined a big portion of his neutral game and looked to other characters to play. Now that I've seen it fixed in these recent sets, I'm much more optimistic about Junpei as a whole and want to play him even more. Lately I've been thinking: "Can Shadow Junpei work well at all?". I think to be a good Shadow character you need to have a few things to make up for having no burst: - Effective ways to open the opponent up - Fast full screen super for Shadow Rage punishes into a full combo - Ability to chain same/different supers together without specials moves in between(so opponent cant burst) S.Naoto/S.Narukami/S.Kuma are the only ones that fill these requirements pretty well from what I've seen. I'm wondering if Junpei could do the same. Victory Cry health/SP regen would be nice to have. It builds slowly but every bit helps. Tricky mixups aren't really his thing so I'll move on to full screen punishes. His SB awakening seems perfect for this. Problem is if he can loop supers or not as I'm pretty sure SB awakening super only does the multiple wallbounce thing and not a sliding hard knockdown. Any ideas on S.Junpei stuff would be appreciated.

douchebag setup: 236C/D xx Sukukaja, 66, 2A, 222CD Panic ailment ends just before IK hits them. Not at all practical. It's just something to troll with.

Yes going for the combo after Throw>OMC is the better choice. Using 236D after throw is almost strictly a round ender when the opponent has little life and a burst available to them. Also when the opponent does burst, Yosuke can follow up with a combo(236B, 236A~Ax2, J236D) since it's a blue burst. If your enemy can gold burst, Tentarafoo was late.

When catching an opponent in a throw, you could OMC>dash up>combo. However, using Throw>OMC>Tentarafoo is viable as well. This technique creates a tick grab with a very small window to escape. Bursting seems to be the only consistent option to get out. Using 236C yosuke will be caught by opponents burst. Instead use 236D only Jiraiya will be caught by the burst. Useful bait to end a round with.

Your friends list is full. I'm usually on in the evenings with a room up.

.....and the AH3 DL thread rises from it's grave. Anyway, most of the competent players don't frequent online much cuz of the lag. I usually get 2's with TX/MEX though. It's playable I guess but I wish there were people that were closer to me. My connection is pretty bad due to my area. If anyone is willing to play sometime online, I'm up for it. Usually playing arcana in the evenings.

I know. I'm just saying it's hard to people to stop pushing buttons in this game. Maybe the shiny meter bars make them wanna press shit and use random supers.

In this game it's hard to just stand there and try to block on wakeup. Since I mainly fight very good players, I've had to learn just to block. Time/Dark give stupid oki. Also most setups leave me backwards so trying to DP will just make me throw a "Ground 10" card. Long startup/recovery for that move. Even if am facing the right way, lag might make the input too slow and i'll get caught in something else. Even after all that is said, I still do a lot of very stupid things in this game like not dodging Heart's air unblockable all the time.

If you noticed what I said along with learning combos is movement/spacing. Defense is a huge part of the game as well. If you have no people offline to play with, that's when you go to training mode and use record. Start recording strings. A normal A > B > C combo is a good place to start. Do this with different characters. Figure out when it is optimal to use 4 Guard Cancel or 6 Guard Cancel and then what you should do after it. Since characters have different timing to their moves, you don't wanna GC and get caught in another combo. Test other things such as your characters crossups/clashes/otgs etc. There is a lot to experiment with.

Man, I thought having PSN down for almost a month would of made people actually learn combos and proper movement/spacing. Looks like I was wrong.

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I'll fight you. I'm in the same general region. Just send me a message for when you wanna play. Those are some of the best arcana for Kira. Also, Evil works very good as well. Water arcana is good for Kira or bigger characters in general. Trust me. There is a way to use it right. It's good point just aren't as obvious as other arcana.

Are there any good mixups involving hazama's drive? Yeah, there are the A/B/C followups already in the game but, I'm talking about other things. I've been trying to figure out good ways to fake out my opponent. Stuff like using using 2D~D quickly, then doing J2D~D immediately after and attacking. I know it wastes drive meter but i want my movement to be more unpredictable.

Think I'll grind arcana today. I gotta find even more useful mixups for my main.

4D will save your life a lot against those two. You don't wanna eat Fiona's Excalibur super or Maori's nee-san move(421X). Kira has problems with her sluggish normals so you have to be patient on stay on you toes for Maori.

I have crushed the Saki army that has appeared en masse before me. They have fallen to the power of the Poker Goddess.

Metal is the most common arcana for Kira for one reason basically: ~623C>236236E. You'll see many players abuse this because it's easy and does great damage. You can do well with Metal for her but other Arcana for Kira are Evil, Earth, and Thunder. In my experience with Kira, I really like using Halo with her as well. That Arcana does so much work for you. lol If anyone else has questions, just ask.

Furix we should finally play each other in AH3. lol