Not a great BBCF day, to be honest. Was probably a bad idea to play while still being murdered by arthritis. Got advice, fought some even matches, got obliterated by a Jin/Hakumen after they finished warming up. Would love to get more matches with them, but I won't put their name here so SEO doesn't air out my dirty laundry, because when I search them I only see Ghost's VOD vs their Ragna.
TL;DR :
Work on 66bb, 9bb, 96, and 6a jc confirm.
Full Notes :
Some notes from those matches:
- Hakumen thrives on predictable stagger. Either keep things tight or keep things intentionally not tight to catch him on his counter's recovery.
- Try to mix up high/lows if I am being predictable in my stagger so he has to choose between countering high or countering low.
- Watch today's saved replays from that Jin/Hakumen.
Other thoughts:
- Still need to get better at 6a.
- Practice immediately jump cancelling into the air combo. I'm losing too much by defaulting to 2D and whiffing.
- Still also practice 6a into [6]b to have it if I ever have the reaction to realize I've counterhit without expecting it.
- Lab out better expected 6a CH combos with 2D. My [6]b combo shouldn't be doing more damage than it.
- Practice 6C -> 22CCCC -> OD -> 66D -> 6321466D . I shouldn't be dropping it this often and it's VERY important.
- Practice microdash 2c or just straight up 2c instead of trying to microdash 2a all the time.
- Watch more DGF/Zander and see how they do oki. I'm still not timing my (hit) -> 6C -> 236D (whiff) right. I'm getting either mashed out or grab countered, which is besides the whole point.
- Zander said my pressure is still linear. Keep an eye on my habits when I make my compilation video to see if I can spot it. (Already I know I have the habit of doing a low -> 2 mids -> high ; the hakumen beat the shit out of me for it.)
Things I gotta just grind out in practice mode:
- Dash barrier block.
- In the corner: 9 jump with immediate BB.
- 96 dash. I keep doing 766 which is way way way too predictable.
... Yeah I definitely need to cut down this list and pick one particular thing to worry about. Executive decision: Ignore the Hakumen-specific MU notes, and instead focus on my movement (66 bb, 9bb, 96) and 6A usage.
