Okay, I'm sorry, it's been a while since I last looked at this thread. I just now watched your fights with Xx_Mr_Topper_xX and ChrispyCream7, so here's my thoughts on those videos.
vs. Mr_Topper - haha, the guy reminds me of myself, being such a roster whore...except he uses Jax while I don't. Anybody who can use Jax deserves some skill points in my book.
vs. ChrispyCream7 - oh GOD, I could just feel this guy's pain! Did you see how often he did Sonya's 1 1 Arc Kick? How he kept doing a naked 1 1 4 without cancelling into Stance and dropping his divekick combos? The character's so execution-heavy, it makes it even harder to be good with her online. Poor guy, haha. Still, he did very well in spite of all the dropped inputs...as did you.
aj, I noticed you like to do Fan Cutter on Wake-Up as a habit. Personally I wouldn't do that. I mean it works sometimes, but the Cutter can be ducked and punished, so it starts to become a weakness if you get too crazy with it. You don't always have to do a Wake-Up upon getting up from a knockdown. There are other routes you can take for strategy.
You also do the f4 1 overhead string quite a bit. I do not trust it at all. It may hit overhead, but it can easily be fuzzy-guarded AND a low-poke can interrupt the string before the overhead hits. You should know you can use f4 b4 as a low-hit variation, but it's still not something I'd get comfortable with.
About Wake-Ups...stop trying to snuff them out so much. Thanks to the previous patch, invincibility frames have been raised from five to ten if they are timed right, so more than likely your attacks will get beat out. You want to
bait out Wake-Ups, not try to interrupt them.
You've passed up on quite a lot of damage for whenever you got the opportunity to punish the opponent. You can do
so much more damage than what I saw you do in those fights. Usually you can do an f2 1 or 2 1 Fan Lift and go from there. Gotta work on the muscle memory.
I'll keep watching the rest! Good stuff so far.
