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Akiha Vermillion / Replays and Advice here!

« on: May 26, 2008, 07:37:41 PM »

Hello people! Here's a few replays of me losing to my friend Small (until recently, his Chaos was the only one capable of kicking my ass reproducibly, now his Kohaku has gotten better and he's using that cheap down+C thing when I'm OTG). I'm winning consistently against both his characters at the moment, I'll post some replays later so you guys can see whether I'm going about the right way. I'm going to use a new fingering that places my index finger on top of the shield button, since it seems to be a very useful thing in high level play, so I'll be losing probably from now on.

Feel free to post your stuff here too. I want to see how others play.

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Akiha Vermillion / n00b here and his advice (worth a dime, at least!)

« on: March 16, 2008, 03:21:41 AM »

I can own pretty much anything my friend plays, except for his Nero, with whom he completed the Arcade mode on difficulty 5. So yeah, I'm still struggling in stage 2/3 in Arcade mode now.

Here's a few things I learned since I've been playing this:
Flametongue on the ground (QCF+B,C) is useless.
Pit's nice, but I get hit way too often.
Shield is useless.

And complaints/things I'm not sure of:
My reflexes don't allow for blocking. Good players, I think, block instinctively. Is that correct?
I am producing something valid on the screen, but I'm really mashing (repeating the combo sequence) the buttons until V. Akiha jumps after knocking the enemy into the air, for instance. I should play more cleanly. What do you guys think?
I can't pressure Nero when he's on one side of the screen, and me on the other side with him spouting reindeer and crows and ground monsters in my direction.
I cannot for the life of me pull off a Bunker Cancel. (insertmovehere)+QCB+D+(insertkeyhere) right? It only worked 5 times for me over a span of 2 hours. Are you supposed to be able to pull it off reliably?
EDIT: hehe... finally got to stage 4 in arcade mode.