Sounds like I need to learn hakumen
Uh, unless you mean “LOLgood” you haven’t been watching him in CP; He does 3k from WTFever for no meter.
Of course I mean good. Son of a bitch is hitting like 3-4k midscreen meterless for free while Valky mains are barely getting 3k in the corner.
Carry on then. “LOL” is a somewhat ambiguous term. 
DUmbest thing about Hakumen right now is that there is really no reason to not OD off the bat to gain 50% meter.
I don’t even play Hakumen, either. Never touched him in Extend. I much prefer fighting Hakumen to Hazama. As sometimes I genuinely feel like I lose to the character and not the player, Much like I do with Ragna.
Hakumen got nerfs. But he still looks very strong. One of his biggest strengths is the aforementioned OD right off the bat. Literally no reason not to do it.
Your friend complained about Hazama nerfs?..Seriously? What Nerfs?
SALT.
I swear they TRY to nerf Hazama, but due to his character design, they never really affect him negatively.
It does seem like that sometimes… so glad I don’t main Bang these days.
I do main Bang ;_;
But I’m looking to swap him out for Azrael. I’m getting beyond sick and tired with relentless changes to Bang that nobody needs, wants or asked for.
I kinda hate it when people say things like this; Like the whole “Litchi will never be bad” because of her design argument. There is no such thing as a design that magically protects your character from nerfs or from being “too bad”. The problem with Hazama is that for some inexplicable reason they always seem to give him buffs to “compensate” for his nerfs (he got tons of buffs in CP), even when they don’t extend the same courtesy to other characters.
Hakumen “off the bat OD” is moderately strong, yes, but it also means that if you can land a strong starter in the next 30 seconds or so, he can’t burst it, so there’s some sort of tradeoff there.
On a related note, you can’t really “frame trap” Hakumen’s counters. Even the shortest duration of his counters lasts for 8 frames, and when you’re leaving a gap that big, it’s no longer a “frame trap” since he could literally have 2B’d you during that space. Frame traps are small holes. Leaving a 9 frame gap in your string is baiting, because you’re doing something that leaves such a large hole that he actually needs to be out of blockstun for 8 frames (really, you need to leave 9 to avoid 6D). While there are technically moves that you could do that would leave that kind of gap (Valk could do like, 5B > 6C or uh, 5A > 6B but not much else.) any gap you leave that’s big enough to bait a counter leaves a gap that’s big enough for you to be jabbed out of, so you might as well actually -pause- your blockstring instead.
I was really liking what i was seeing from this game on Youtube. Then i find out it’s only on the PS3…smh
It’s just on the PS3 in Japan because 360 is pretty much dead over there. There’ll probably be a 360 port of it over here.
Hazama is supposed to be the best cause hes a boss character…or something like that >.>
Oh and he really only gets crazy mid-screen damage off of clean jump ins, its not something he can combo into off a 2a starter or hell even a 5b (unless you have really quick reactions and can combo into 3c) otherwise he settles for his 1.3-1.5k stuff which is average. His DP also isn’t safe anymore since it doesn’t push him back so yeah. He gets less damage off Houtenjin since they nerfed the proration again. Not trying to say hes bad or anything but they didn’t go full retard with the buffs…ok yeah back throw wall bouncing into 3.6k midscreen is a little much lol.
But hey they buffed him and gave him the sick “Smooth Viper” alt. I’ll be rocking that day one.
But how can I pay tribute to Blazen comics (RIP) if I don’t have Good Hazama alt?
On a side note, I’m glad that Rags has an alt that I actually care about that’s not his Sol color. I just wish Noel kept her Seras color.
Can’t remember exactly, but it had something to do with making a few moves non-jumpcancellable and a Houtenjin nerf.
I play against a really experienced Hakumen player and damn is that character infuriating at times. That’s where my salt stems from. Not that my main isn’t, though; Valky is practically unblockable in wolf mode.
Pretty much this. I tend to opt for 6B midscreen and 6C in the corner. Pausing my blockstrings has been a huge thing that I’ve been doing as well.
It’s a Christmas miracle!
Agree with his normals. j.B is a ridiculous move.
I have more troubles with fucking Carl. Don’t get me started on that fucker.
Well, Carl is quite annoying (unless you’re Hakumen :rolleyes:), but atleast he has that glass cannon status.
If I touch the little bastard once I know he is going in the corner, and then he is in some serious trouble.
But yeah, really good Carl players (the ones that don’t runaway and hide behind Nirvana all match) can be quite oppressive with their offense.
Thankfully he also has an execution barrier as well.
Anyone know who the top Nu players are at this moment in CP?
Gah…I feel like I should know this since I’ve seen a number of them so uh…I’d kinda like to know too.
So, does Noel get any good damage or setups from her OD? I believe it makes her drive faster, so does she become CS2 Noel or is it even faster?