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Black Canary General Discussion 2.0

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
Yeah I don't really mind more people playing her. I guess there's an allure to playing a little-represented character but it doesn't actually change whether the character is fun or not.

My guess is we'll see a huge bandwagon and maybe a "she's broken" thread which we will blow up, and slowly the numbers will settle down as bandwagoners move on to whoever actually emerges as the next big thing in easy wins.

I think Canary is very very strong now, but she's not some S tier auto-win machine that takes an hour to lab and just does whatever she wants.
 

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Yeah I don't really mind more people playing her. I guess there's an allure to playing a little-represented character but it doesn't actually change whether the character is fun or not.

My guess is we'll see a huge bandwagon and maybe a "she's broken" thread which we will blow up, and slowly the numbers will settle down as bandwagoners move on to whoever actually emerges as the next big thing in easy wins.

I think Canary is very very strong now, but she's not some S tier auto-win machine that takes an hour to lab and just does whatever she wants.
She's not S tier either. She's only as strong as her opponents character. In 5-5 or 6-4's she looks like the best character in the game. Against the other 8-10 characters she looks helpless :( but hey. Idrc I will play her from day 1 to day 10000.. She's my Wife
 
She's not S tier either. She's only as strong as her opponents character. In 5-5 or 6-4's she looks like the best character in the game. Against the other 8-10 characters she looks helpless :( but hey. Idrc I will play her from day 1 to day 10000.. She's my Wife
Who's her worst 3 matchups? (post patch)
 

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
She's not S tier either. She's only as strong as her opponents character. In 5-5 or 6-4's she looks like the best character in the game. Against the other 8-10 characters she looks helpless :( but hey. Idrc I will play her from day 1 to day 10000.. She's my Wife
Sorry I worded it wrong, I didn't mean she was S tier. I think she's A+ personally. But def not S. I do think she has a case for top 10 as things flesh out. But the lower half.
 
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First time posting in the black canary thread, but been playing her a while. Saw sonic do this mix against honeybee, has anybody seen this or experimented with it? I had never seen it before and thought it was interesting/sexy as hell lol.
It was sexy, but the specific way he did it wasn't a mix, it was just quick and unexpected. Honeybee seems to be learning the matchup.

At that position in the corner, Sonicfox didn't have to cross after the MB bf2. He could just go neutral into the j2, then neutral jump into another j2, into either db3 or b1(into db3). That would've been a true 50/50 reset. It's one of my favorites.
 
It was sexy, but the specific way he did it wasn't a mix, it was just quick and unexpected. Honeybee seems to be learning the matchup.

At that position in the corner, Sonicfox didn't have to cross after the MB bf2. He could just go neutral into the j2, then neutral jump into another j2, into either db3 or b1(into db3). That would've been a true 50/50 reset. It's one of my favorites.
Do you mean db2? Or are you talking about the db3 meterburn?
 

EntropicByDesign

It's all so very confusing.
Can anyone explain to me why jump 3 is so hard to cancel from? I get like 5% of the time
Cancel into a string? The key with j3 and a string seems to be to slow it down. Normally in Inj you input the string like it's part of the jump in, so like j2112 or whatever, but with j3 there's a hesitation. You hit j3 and have to pause before continuing. The timing is closer to jump-ins in games like Street Fighter if you happen to be familiar with SF at all.
 

WiseTree

Best Of Worst
Cancel into a string? The key with j3 and a string seems to be to slow it down. Normally in Inj you input the string like it's part of the jump in, so like j2112 or whatever, but with j3 there's a hesitation. You hit j3 and have to pause before continuing. The timing is closer to jump-ins in games like Street Fighter if you happen to be familiar with SF at all.
I meant cancelling into air db2. Or is it not possible? I get it quite easy on j1 and j2, but on j3 I only get it if I input db2 very late, which suggests that you can't cancel j3?
 

Pleasa

#NerfMisterChief
... you might make the input too early. wait for the hit-/ blockstun.
This!

When using J2 we are used to doing/queuing the DB input right as it connects ... J3 you literally have do the input after it connects... a good rule of thumb is to let go of the dpad after the jump in and not start the input until after the J3 connects...
 
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Compbros

Man of Tomorrow
Anyone else been kinda abusing her F3? People know Canarys like to handspring into d3 so they are blocking low but I've been doing it into F3. Caught SylverRye with it a bit in our set earlier. On top of that I've been doing B3, F3, handspring, F3 when they're on their second life bar and I don't want the clash. A lot of people like to roll out to avoid her oki but it puts you at a perfect distance for the tip of F3 to hit.
 
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