General Tactics
For more information on Nine, check BasedTuxedoMasked's Guide or Kasha's Guide on Becoming a Certified Nine
Tl;DR (For Beginners)
Important Moves
- 4AGuardAllStartup6Recovery10Advantage-2,4BGuardAllStartup6Recovery10Advantage-4,4CGuardAllStartup6Recovery12Advantage-6: Essentially Nine's jabs, makes certain long posts safer
- Kunzite of Keep Breaker [WFF]GuardHigh/Air, AllStartup21RecoveryTotal: 40Advantage+6: Pressure reset, tracking overhead
- Tanzanite of Torment [WWW]GuardAllStartup10RecoveryTotal: 35Advantage±0: Useful for comboing into spell of choice for oki.
- Taaffeite of Temptation [WWF]GuardAllStartup90RecoveryTotal: 40Advantage-: 'Fairy' Oki tool.
- Crimson Raider (214A)GuardAllStartup13Recovery22 (27)Advantage-2: Ground combo extender, air combo ender, relatively safe on block.
- 214D: Meterless Reversal (With spell stored)
- 236236AGuardAllStartup1+(56 Flash)+16RecoveryTotal 166Advantage-22: Distortion combo ender
- 6AGuardMidStartup11Recovery23Advantage-8/6CGuardMidStartup13Recovery25Advantage-10: Anti-airs
Nine is a strong character with massive range and a variety of spells for setplay. She can control the screen by polluting it with all sorts of spells and attacks, and once she's gets a knockdown she has a variety of mixup options. Nine's versatility comes in how you can play with her spells and her range; You can zone out certain characters, play at the midrange to challenge their movement, or a mix of both. Nine's movement is unconventional. Her teleport dashes can be used to dodge certain oki, frustrate her opponent, or set up left/right mixups.
Blockstrings
Nine's blockstrings are unique in Blazblue because of her open gatlings. If she has not used a 4X button yet, She can gatling most of her normals straight into a 4X normal in order to make herself safer. Additionally, depending on the blockstring you can instead use a spell to reset pressure or make yourself safer. Some of these pressure resets may change depending on elements that you have before starting a blockstring.
Okizeme
Good Spells for oki include:
Uvarovite of Undoing [AAF]GuardAllStartup145RecoveryTotal: 40Advantage- (Uvarovite, Meteors, Fire Rain)
Taaffeite of Temptation [WWF]GuardAllStartup90RecoveryTotal: 40Advantage- (Fairy)
Morganite of Malice [AFF]GuardLow/AirStartup(Until Seed Lands)+26RecoveryTotal: 40Advantage- (Seed)
The spells you choose can change depending on your current elements, your priorities, and the current combo at hand.
Tanzanite Freeze
Tanzanite's freeze gives Nine enough time to build elements for nice oki or even restand situations! Freezing is good for situations where your current elements don't lead to good oki. Below is an example of an Ice Restand:
Uvarovite
Uvarovite oki is less effective at midscreen but still useful for mixups and lockdown. Nine can reposition, set up spells, and generally apply great pressure while Uvarovite fires off. Below is an example of using Uvarovite oki with Tanzanite:
Fairy
Fairy oki gives Nine a good amount of time to go for mixups. It has much less startup than Uvarovite, though it provides less lockdown in place of strong mixup potential. You can high low (j.2A IOH/214C)/(2X/3C), or use your teleports to create left right situations. You can also bait out jump attempts with other spells/normals/frame traps. Fairy oki is also effective anywhere on the screen, making it viable if you can't get corner positioning. The video example below shows a setup using Fairy oki:
Tips and Tricks
- Many of Nine's normals don't have big hurtboxes. Exploit your range whenever possible
- Nine's dashes are invuln to projectiles on frame 1. This includes her forward dash. Use it to get around projectile based oki!
- Nine's spells don't require her elements to be in a certain order
Fighting Nine
- Use Barrier and IBB actively. This will push Nine out of range so she can't close the gap. You can also cause her to whiff certain normals so she can't set up spells as easily.
- Try to make Nine whiff her attacks. Despite her range, they all have long recovery.
- Experiment with delay tech. Some of Nine's options are blown up simply by delay teching instead of emergency teching.
- Force Nine to commit to movement options: By staying outside of certain ranges, you can force Nine to try to approach, and punish her for poor teleports.
Video Resources
These guides are a good introduction to Nine. They were created during Central Fiction 1, so some information is outdated. However, most of it is still useful and carries over into CF2.