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AK L0rdoftheFLY

I hatelove this game
Anyone else mess with him yet? I'm struggling to get damage. I see him as a jumpy annoying zoner that's hard to catch but doesn't get much damage off of combos.

Anyone have other thoughts?
 

scarsunseen

Miley Cyrax®
It takes practice, but you can use 13-db2,dd,1 into an overhead (b2) and/or into a df1 low. In the corner only, you can do the "13-db2,dd,1" cancel twice in the same combo with or without the trait activated. Timing is hard.

B1 is a re-stand. In the corner, you roughly do a 25% meterless re-stand into a guaranteed 50/50, as far as I'm aware. Needs more testing.

F2 is a HKD.

That's what I got so far. Labbed it out a bunch with Kingraj20.
 
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I'm not so sure of his trait other than adding more range to his normals. When I try to do bf3 for the shield charge, it won't work in the blade stance. Could be a connection issue tho as some matches were pretty laggy for me. I would play him more if there was a training mode, until then I use Batman
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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Anyone else mess with him yet? I'm struggling to get damage. I see him as a jumpy annoying zoner that's hard to catch but doesn't get much damage off of combos.

Anyone have other thoughts?
He gets a ton of damage with starter into bounce cancel b3 -> j3 ender of choice. About 50+% as Madzin was demo'ing tonight. Watch his archive if you want to see some combos.
 
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AK L0rdoftheFLY

I hatelove this game
It takes practice, but you can use 13-db2,dd,1 into an overhead (b2) and/or into a df1 low. In the corner only, you can do the "13-db2,dd,1" cancel twice in the same combo with or without the trait activated. Timing is hard.

B1 is a re-stand. In the corner, you roughly do a 25% meterless re-stand into a guaranteed 50/50, as far as I'm aware. Needs more testing.

F2 is a HKD.

That's what I got so far. Labbed it out a bunch with Kingraj20.
13 db2 dd1 connects mid screen?
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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13 db2 dd1 connects mid screen?
Midscreen with trait out people are doing 13 db2 (d) 1 f23 f3 as a starter, for example.

I'm not so sure of his trait other than adding more range to his normals. When I try to do bf3 for the shield charge, it won't work in the blade stance. Could be a connection issue tho as some matches were pretty laggy for me. I would play him more if there was a training mode, until then I use Batman
bf3 definitely works with trait out, has longer range and is meter-burnable.
 
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AK L0rdoftheFLY

I hatelove this game
Ahhhh with trait out. That's why.

Seems like that's a tough thing to get going cause you can't go from zoning to pressure seemlessly. You have to stop and pull out your trait.
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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Ahhhh with trait out. That's why.

Seems like that's a tough thing to get going cause you can't go from zoning to pressure seemlessly. You have to stop and pull out your trait.
Yeah -- there are some knockdowns that will give enough advantage for it, or you can do it at a distance where you're safe when the opponent is respecting the zoning. But it's not cancellable like Nightwing.
 

Sajam

Nightwing In Retirement
This is the first character I really wish we had training mode for. Wanna mess with the float cancels and possibilities with flight more.

He seems fun so far, and has a great projectile but the rest seems just ok. He's gonna take time to figure out I think, he's the least obvious character so far.
 

TheGangstaFace

Psn, Xbox, Twitter: TheGangstaFace
This is the first character I really wish we had training mode for. Wanna mess with the float cancels and possibilities with flight more.

He seems fun so far, and has a great projectile but the rest seems just ok. He's gonna take time to figure out I think, he's the least obvious character so far.
So far it seems like the other characters can do what he does but bettter. But like you said. Definitely the least obvious, so we'll have to see in time what people come up with. I'm excited to see what a good Blue Beetle comes up with
 

CrimsonShadow

Administrator and Community Engineer
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How does his reach with trait compare to other characters?
Farther than anyone except maybe Atrocitus

He has normals that reach father than Atrocitus, but Atrocitus probably has him beat in terms of length of full advancing strings.
 

1man3letters

Alpha Tarkatan - Moderator
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B1 is a re-stand. In the corner, you roughly do a 25% meterless re-stand into a guaranteed 50/50, as far as I'm aware. Needs more testing.
what combo u doing to get b1 to have enough adv for a guaranteed 50/50?
his b2 15 frames or something or u using instant jumping normal as the overhead?

anyway to say what i came in here to post, his walkspeed sexy as fuck!
 

gam224

The world's least hype player
This is the first character I really wish we had training mode for. Wanna mess with the float cancels and possibilities with flight more.

He seems fun so far, and has a great projectile but the rest seems just ok. He's gonna take time to figure out I think, he's the least obvious character so far.
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