nivek vs afoxygrampa set thoughts:
nivek showed a lot of good stuff. in fact, when he was up 3-2 in the last set, i think he had very good opportunities to win, and just dropped things. same with the final game when it was 3-3; he had good opportunities in the first and last rounds, which foxy barely took back.
last round in particular; nivek scores a great anti air and converts and foxy breaks. foxy then tries to apply pressure with run, but no stamina; nivek was too scared to press a button to punish the dashes that foxy was doing. (note that if you try to run w/o stamina, you get a dash if you press block later, or block if you press it earlier. and foxy was getting dashes)
first round of last game, nivek did a slow reaction ex superman thru a hat, got punished on block, and broke the combo immediately, dumping 3 meters on a bad reaction. he had the lead too, i think he was a little too exhausted by the set.
he also jumped a bit too much, and broke the ex spin anti air combo when he could, but i think breaking that combo isn't worth it because it does like 25 damage for a bar.
so yeah; i really like how nivek played when he wasn't on tilt, he 7-0'd foxy and had very good opportunities to close it out. nivek will be a HUGE threat if he ever goes to another USA tourney, very very solid.
important things he did: anti air with good converts, and confirm TG strings into extended combos.
also, TG strings into df2. Im not sure if it's a blockstring so if it's not they might be able to duck or crouch attack the df2 since it's a high, but if it's a blockstring then there's no real reason not to do it except for when the opponent expects it. it's an extra -8 move building a little more meter and can catch them trying to do something too early.
it is a little tricky to do since you have to release 2 to do df2 and the TG hold string is weird like that.
really good stuff, too bad about the chokes.
