Redefinition

Probably two things you should be looking at. One is this article, and the other is this thread, or at least the first few posts. A lot of the information in the second link will be outdated come +R, but since it's not out on consoles yet, it's still relevant.

Combo at 2:30 is valid though, and it's more or less the same. Maybe it's Faust specific, but I imagine if he hit the ball vs. Pot it would be valid just because of their similarly enormous hitbox. I dunno. We'll have to see when we can practice ourselves.

Hah, yeah, I remember being super impressed at 6:08. Scary, scary shit. re: 15:53 I think that if he delayed the j.K just a moment, that would have comboed. Pot has a really fucking tall/fat sliding hitbox, so doing it too early made him hit Pot before the ball. Also, I'm wondering just how high Venom can be for that all to combo. I highly doubt that there's no maximum height to the air throw FRC combo, but it DOES seem like you can be REALLY high up there for it.

20-ish minutes of Fino's Venom. Two mirror matches here, both vs. HEVEN at 4:56 and 16:52 Combo at 2:30 vs. Faust looks stylish as fuck. 2K > c.S(3) > 6K xx Pball > dash j.K > j.S > j.H > j.D (Hits ball) > 6K xx Hball > dash f.S xx Sdub xx warp > j.K xx H MS

a wild HEVEN emerges at 4:24 Seems like standard fare Venom play, tbh, not that that's a bad thing.

I'm pretty sure there were quite a few things that changed from loketest 2 to release, and I'm pretty sure that loketest 2 was the last to release notes on what changed. Once we get our hands on the game we can figure out all the changes not mentioned there. But, yeah, it seems to knockdown from much higher up than it does in AC now.

Man that Venom really likes hitting buttons on wakeup, damn.

1:38 (corner) Throw, c.S(1), 6K, carcass, c.S(1), 6K, S ball, c.S(2), 6K, dbc. 14:02 Throw c.S(1), H ball, c.S(1), 6K, dbc into ball summon for a nice three-ball set. Not sure how much of that first combo works without the burst, but if that combos that looks like it'll be our BnB in the corner. Nothing else super interesting to note in the recent vids, in terms of combos. Also that fucking clip with FB carcass, lol. EDIT: 1:08 (corner) FB MS, c.S(1), 6K, carcass, dash, j.K, j.S, j.H, j.D, land c.S(1), j.S, j.H does about 40-50% on Dizzy with a very moderate amount of guard bar. 3:08 proof that throw, dash c.S(1), 6K, carcass works midscreen. 7:26 DBC loop still works On a different note, the Venom player in this video looks really, really good. Anyone have any idea who that might be? 3:55 6K can combo off of c.S(3) [into carcass, etc.] (What's with Sol in this video having George's voice?) (By the way, if the length of this post is a little unwieldy, I can always just make it so that the vids are links instead of embedded.)

Honestly, the only thing that's remotely difficult for Hazama is the timing for the 5C 2C 6D>A 4D>A j.8D>A 623D, j.6D part of his big dayumage combo. Nothing else is much of an execution problem for him, and the only reason that particular part of his combo is difficult is because what time you delay which attack/what direction you jump/how close you need to be for the 5C/whether you have one or two hits of 5C is very character specific (and fucking picky sometimes, like in Bang's case).

Something that helps quite a bit: During a blockstring that you're using normal guard for, you can let go of guard once you guard the last attack, then tap and hold back before the next attack. This way, if you instant block, great! Punish with whatever you can/want. If you don't get the instant block, you'll get a normal block instead.

^Sig'd for truth.

Far more useful than 6B in CS1, at least. 6C gave some foot invuln, and had SOME use. Just not a whole lot. Don't know what to think about new combos. :/