Match Footage Skarlet[Moonspell] Vs Cyrax[Kosu] Session 1

[Saltea Moonspell]

Upon earlier consultation with Eddy Wang I'd like to share with You all my Cyrax experience.
Session Recorded on Monday 19th of Feb.
Note:
Lots of drops over there from both sides as we were pretty "High" while playing.
1-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZgf4ici700
2-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4dFXmjPGk
3-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0QNMlY_md4
4-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShTt-9UuH4
5-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNhum48x7I
6-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRSexozm7E
7-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEchIVMJk7s
8-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4T8Ej-ldTc

More coming soon.
Feel free comment.

 

[SLy]

Good matches..Your Skarlet is very entertaining to watch

 

[Saltea Moonspell]

Thanks, to be honest i didnt want to share those fights are there are funny things going around, however Kosu wanted me to share.

 

[Ninj]

You seem to get flustered in pressure situations and seem uncertain how to capitalize on pressure and openings. You'll space him out but not utilize the reach of F4.

Also, you use EX air daggers sometimes for no reason...waste of a bar if it's not being used to win the match, get the first hit, or some other specific situational purpose.

Practice the timing of your BnB you use midscreen, I saw a few times you dropped the reset. An easy one to do for ~38% is F4,DF3,B2 xx U3,DF1 xx F4,DF3,B2 xx 1,1,2, which you may consider using instead.

If you can do them, iaBD's are your friend.

D4 on hit vs standing up close leads to a free F4 check if the opponent doesn't have armor. Keep that in mind.

 

[Eddy Wang]

you need to work on your reactions skills as well, the faster you recognize a setup, the faster you punish.

Do not let him be inside F4 range without being punished, this prevents any character to simply get in and start to string or poke around in the opening.
You also have slides do whiff punish these pokes and keep them in check. Control the airbone as well, some players find it viable to jump over skarlet setups.

DO NOT LET HIM THROW BOMBS, you're too away from cyrax, don't get too close, but don't get too far either, you need to anticipate those bombs and Crimson Dash Trough it and Upslash while Cyrax is still vulnerable, it takes times but is really required to prevent him to attack freely.
If you can't do this, at least being able to Spam iaD (first try must connect) to avoid the screen to be filled with bombs and give your advantage to create an opening.

Practice more your combos and make sure you know the propriety of each normal or special you can start a combo from it. There is some situations you should F4 and you used standing 1 and was whiffing on cyrax Net.

Sometimes, he dashed inside the F4 range you simply crouch blocked.

Nice counter read with ex rd~ds after dropping that combo on the first video, that was a real good read and very well timed, its reads like this that you need to be able to do it more than once, and use it well.

My two cents.

 

[Saltea Moonspell]

First of: thank You guys.

Normally I have better performance, however there are still things I am learning about Skarlet.
I will upload some more videos later on
Thank you all.

 

[GLoRToR]

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Do you obey e-bay?

 

[Rampage254]

I only saw the first match but your Skarlet looks to be coming along nicely. Ninj and Eddy already summed it up. I would stay away from the F3,3 string. Also like Fly said earlier in another thread, Red Dashes in the neutral game can get you killed by 1 net. Use them after he throws a bomb. It also looked like you were having trouble building meter. IMO blockstrings and iaD are the best ways to build meter in this MU. and I would mainly use meter for EX Red Dash and breakers.

 

[AssassiN]

Rampage254 RedRaptor10

MoonSpell
I liked what I saw for the most part.
Ninj and Eddy covered pretty much everything.
You got a few bad habits with her that you need to get rid off and practice her combo's a bit more. Seems like you haven't reached the level where you're comfertable changing combo's for dynamic enders.
Like ending with F43 in the middle of the combo and whiffing the 3. Even though I don't really get that, you're fighting Cyrax. You want him to break.

 

[Saltea Moonspell]

Well, lets say that at most part i played my game, however at times I was so away with my thoughts that i was doing random shit. We were just havin good time and doing some freestyle stuff.