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So I'm looking at the changes, what's does "bloom trigger slide" mean? Is it her old 236D?

lol, yea feel free to unsticky this guide, the info is like 3 months outdated probably. Haven't really cared about BangBlue for a while actually, and I probably won't care for it when the update comes out either. GL to dragontamer and his crew of stronger Noel players.

Don't get salty now Kyle :p

You have two d. 6b's in your combo. Just cut the second one out completely and you should be good.

I'm not hype.

Good times, good times. I must admit, when I first drove into Inglewood and pulled into the casino and saw three cop cars zoom past me, I was skeptical about the venue. However, it turned out to be a pretty chill place. A 5 dollars well spent and worth the hour drive. Good games all, hopefully I see you guys at FFA this weekend. It was nice that there were new players interested in the game.

Tentatively a yes for me, not the most amazing player but I'll support the community. Lets see if more folks post up in the next few hours... Worst case scenario I'll just 1v1 zong for 4 hours lol...get that carl matchup down.

lol

AMERICAAAA

Is it just me, or is Mu's overhead really fucking fast? I haven't managed to react block it at all.

Limekey went back to Guilty Gear to qualify for SBOs. Smart man. BTW, everyone online sucks.

Well I'll comment on this one then...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dssobr5S2Ls since you have trouble with Litchi You're totally not using Noel's drives right. I don't get the random j .4d's and j. d's you try to land...all of them are insanely unsafe after block (j. 4d is just insanely unsafe in general). Whenever you do land the drives, you just don't capitalize on them. Noel's drive combos are pretty easy hit confirms, no reason for you to give up good damage. I didn't see one combo to tell you the truth. 5d/2d, d. 6a, d. 6c, bnb combo of choice...not that hard to do. You seem to mash during Litchi's block strings...which is a good strategy, especially online. However, you're mashing the wrong thing, at the wrong time. Noel's main mash buttons during pressure strings are 2d/5d/4d. Read your opponent more...take notes of when he likes doing staff 3c and 2d counter hit it. Notice when he likes doing 5b and 4d that shit. It helps to take the time to understand the properties of other character's moves, so you know which D attack counters what. To be honest that Litchi was pretty bad...you should not be losing to him with Noel. Noel's can eat scrubby Litchi's for lunch.

that set-up in the back is just awful though

Where you live? I'll be down to host a session at my place in Riverside during the evening (or whenever work lets me out). I'll get Kennyon and Odd03 to come along as well.

Shouldn't be that hard to win honestly, people who have no idea how to fight Noel get owned pretty quick if you know her basic drive bnbs. If people try and play you like it's CT Noel they will get raped pretty bad. Sometimes a random spectator/player here will see me land a couple lucky 5d/3c combos on an overaggressive player and ask me if she's S tier lol. Enjoy winning in the first few months, doesn't take long for people to adapt to our risky playstyle haha. Regarding how to IB Noel's CR strings, I just fish for one, almost like guess-parrying in 3rd strike....now that 2d isn't an overhead it makes it that much easier to just randomly IB her. As long as you're not mashing back you probably won't get hit even if you do fuck up the timing, because her drive strings are still quite slow. She also has some really obvious ques in her drive attacks like d. 6C, and I guarantee you all XBL Noels will be spamming that move. The only thing you might want to watch out for is a d. 6b/6d mixup.