Quick Action Button in Tournaments?

[Squeakychu]

Hello. This may be a simplistic question, but do tournaments use or allow use of the quick action button? I ask this because, thanks to a super tight frame window, I can't ever seem to execute a throw using A+D, and the Q button remedies this problem.

Also, does MBAA have the quick action button? It would only make sense that they do, but I just want to make sure so that I don't have to adjust too much when I go to an arcade center with this game. Thanks.

[LoliSauce]

Yes and yes.  Q is your friend.

[Squeakychu]

Sweet! It's nice to combo into a throw without having to time button inputs. Thanks for the prompt reply.

[LoliSauce]

Not a problem.  And yeah, quick action is a savior for me as well.  It's nice to be able to one button throw, heat, and evade.

[Ultima66]

The official button layout (for a 2 person cab) is:

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Player 1 side                      Player 2 side
7 8 9       A B C                  7 8 9       A B C
4 5 6       D   Q      S    S      4 5 6       D   Q
1 2 3                              1 2 3      
Where D is shield, Q is quick action, S is start, and numbers are the joystick.

Note that MBAC PC has a 6th button, which works like Q but doesn't activate heat and I'm not sure if it dodges. I don't even know if there's any players that use it, but it's there in MBAC PC and not in any arcade versions of MBAC or MBAA.

EDIT: You should probably learn some macros anyways, even if you have trouble hitting 2 buttons at once. It's not only the functions that Q replace that have important macros. Q mainly just makes throws more accurate and there's no reason to not use Q for dodges. Holding 1 or 4 and mashing A+B+C (just B+C works in MBAC but I think you need all 3 buttons in MBAA) is the safe way to wakeup heat. If you just mash Q, then there's a chance it's not timed right, and you get hit before the heat starts. If you're holding 1/4 to block and you mistime A+B+C, you'll just block and nothing will happen. And if you hold 1/4 and mash Q, you'll attempt to throw and probably get counterhit. 6 A+B is also really useful because it's faster to hit 2 buttons than it is to double tap the stick for some things that require a fast dash (it can help speed up instant air dashes is the main use, also it keeps your directional influence in the air to a minimum for more accurate air backdash and prevents you from accidentally jumping or something). It's also much faster to do baits where you dash in to provoke a poke/heat and dash back out when you use A+B, at least in my experience. Manually I can do it fast enough to backdash most of the way through a forward dash (for someone like Kouma). By doing 6 A+B 4 A+B, the backdash cuts the forward dash off at probably less than 1/3 distance.

[Squeakychu]

Thanks for the advice everyone. This has been very helpful to me. I'll practice what Ultima66 suggested to me when I get home tonight. See you online!

[Dragonthorn]

Wow thanks for the tip. Especially for safe wake up heats (4 [1]+<A+B+C>). That's golden.

[c-nero 5[c]]

Macros are usually banned in tournaments (except for pad/kb players), the obvious exception here is that Q is a macro button present on the actual arcade machine, and so is allowed in tournaments using the PC version.

[Zaelar]

Multiple button presses mapped to one button via in-game button setup are usually not banned in tournaments, and even when they are people use them anyway.

Fixed.

[Lane]

Multiple button presses mapped to one button via in-game button setup are usually not banned in tournaments, and even when they are people use them anyway.

Fixed.

oh rry

[Zaelar]

oh rry

Based on my experience, owl.