Last Arcs?

[Bloodonyourhands]

Ive mastered most of the concepts of melty blood: act cadenza on my laptop, but i cant seem to get last arcs to work. can someone please help me out and teach me how to execute a last arc?

 

[RayKona]

To do a last arc you must first enter blood heat and then EX Shield an attack. Be carefull not to mash the D button, because it will cancel the Last Arc, even if you did manage to EX Shield an attack.

Ciel and Kouma need to be in the air to use the Last Arc ( i believe im missing someone in here ). Every other character will do the Last Arc when they are on the ground.

Btw i believe this is a thread for http://www.meltybread.com/forums/index.php?board=3.0

[Bloodonyourhands]

so as long as im in blood heat and ex shield an attack without mashing any buttons, i should be able to do it except for the chars u mentioned u had to be in the air? can anyone confirm this?

[Ryanbomber]

To do a last arc you must first enter blood heat and then EX Shield an attack. Be carefull not to mash the D button, because it will cancel the Last Arc, even if you did manage to EX Shield an attack.

Ciel and Kouma need to be in the air to use the Last Arc ( i believe im missing someone in here ). Every other character will do the Last Arc when they are on the ground.

Arcueid and Mech-Hisui also need to be in the air, if memory serves.

I think the Necos need to be crouching, too, but I might just be cracked.

[Bloodonyourhands]

okay, thanks guys, do any of you know how to configure your keys for single player? i cant seem to get it right, my configuration program tells me there is an error trying to reconfigure the keys, but i can configure my netplay controls just fine... anyone know if im doing something wrong?

[mewofforcena]

No, necos don't have to crouch. And Len has to be in the air to use her arc drive as well.

[noradseven]

since no one has mentioned this using last arcs is ussally a bad Idea, cause you could be using that blood heat for better things like healing plus try to stay on the offensive while in heat modes, so you can heal and depending on char greif finish a combo with arcs when you are just about to run out, but personally I have only seen a last arc used in all the games I have played, I have seen however tons of ppl attempting to do final arcs and getting there faces pumpled in.

*a few ppl's have good last arcs if you accually connect kouma for instance also aoko cause you can BNB off her last arc.

[Kadoya Akira]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

[Bloodonyourhands]

i actually executed a last arc today, so thanks guys ^_^ i have one more question, what chars need to be in the air to execute a last arc (i heard ciel does, true) someone gimme a list of chars who gotta be in the air, thx

 

[Draku]

someone gimme a list of chars who gotta be in the air, thx

 

Len, Ciel, Mech-Hisui, Kouma, and Arcueid.

[c-nero 5[c]]

Last Arcs suck, don't use them. Whoopie-do shielding is one of the riskiest things to try in MB and you lose all your meter and get barely the damage of a BnB, w00tabitch3z!

[Alfonse]

Last Arcs suck, don't use them. Whoopie-do shielding is one of the riskiest things to try in MB and you lose all your meter and get barely the damage of a BnB, w00tabitch3z!

Unless if you're Arly.

[c-nero 5[c]]

nope chaos last arc sucks as much as everyone else's

maybe if they did 5k-6k damage they'd be worth trying but shielding in blood heat (a time when your opponent is on the lookout for shields) is so incredibly risky it is not worth 4k damage

[Ryanbomber]

Last Arcs suck, don't use them. Whoopie-do shielding is one of the riskiest things to try in MB and you lose all your meter and get barely the damage of a BnB, w00tabitch3z!

Circuit break is kinda cool.

But yeah, Last Arcs are pretty much for fun. In serious angry tournaments, nobody uses it.

[Reiku Tohno]

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

still, weak damage though

[Kelong]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

You can also combo off sacchin's LA.

[noradseven]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

You can also combo off sacchin's LA.

and you can do long ass combo off aoko's as well but it doesn't matter cause the last arcs scale them down heavily and plus its sacchin who has bnb's that do over 5000 you are better off finishing your combo with 2nd arc's instead of using a last arc.  That and they are risky as crap and predicable as anything.

[Kelong]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

You can also combo off sacchin's LA.

and you can do long ass combo off aoko's as well but it doesn't matter cause the last arcs scale them down heavily and plus its sacchin who has bnb's that do over 5000 you are better off finishing your combo with 2nd arc's instead of using a last arc.  That and they are risky as crap and predicable as anything.

In case you didn't notice, i'll bold it for you.

Edit: Also, there's a video out there that shows a lot of characters combo'ing off their last arcs. I'm just listing one of the easier ones.

[V-Kattou]

If the other player is in the air, you can also combo with Wara's LA

[noradseven]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

You can also combo off sacchin's LA.

and you can do long ass combo off aoko's as well but it doesn't matter cause the last arcs scale them down heavily and plus its sacchin who has bnb's that do over 5000 you are better off finishing your combo with 2nd arc's instead of using a last arc.  That and they are risky as crap and predicable as anything.

In case you didn't notice, i'll bold it for you.

Edit: Also, there's a video out there that shows a lot of characters combo'ing off their last arcs. I'm just listing one of the easier ones.

whoopys sorry bout that I was thinking about her 2nd arc, I thought that was her final.

[ಠ_ಠ Dizzynecro]

Warcs seems ok considering it does massive crab, if you pull it out unpredictably while using your bloodheat to heal, considering how much trash her arcdrive is.

[Ultima66]

Yes, I think it's too risky to try doing a Last Arc o.o
And sometimes Arc Drive is even better because some of them has invincible frames(like Shikis' and Satsuki's)

And Tohno's LA FTW!!! The only one in the game that is comboable!!! ~~/o/

You can also combo off sacchin's LA.

and you can do long ass combo off aoko's as well but it doesn't matter cause the last arcs scale them down heavily and plus its sacchin who has bnb's that do over 5000 you are better off finishing your combo with 2nd arc's instead of using a last arc.  That and they are risky as crap and predicable as anything.

Wtf bnb does Satsuki have that does 5000. It's not that stupid j.[C] stuff that you'll never land on a real player that can see the charge spark and then using up like 300% meter is it?

Anyways if you ever get off any last arc you should win. They all do like 5000 damage.

[c-nero 5[c]]

Anyways if you ever get off any last arc you should win. They all do like 5000 damage.

Wrongo. Vakiha's barely does 3000, you can outdamage that with a simple 623 loop. Last arcs suck and noone uses them in serious play.

[abitofBaileys]

You can combo out of Aoko's Last Arc? I don't think so. She can combo out of her AD and AAD, but not her LA.

[Ultima66]

Anyways if you ever get off any last arc you should win. They all do like 5000 damage.

Wrongo. Vakiha's barely does 3000, you can outdamage that with a simple 623 loop. Last arcs suck and noone uses them in serious play.

Well you know what I mean. I wouldn't know exactly how much damage most Arc Drives or Last Arcs did anyways because they generally suck and aren't used with a few exceptions for ADs.