TBH, I usually hold back a bit in MvC2 and CvS2. There aren’t any big time MvC2 players last time I was at Tubbys so I usually try out some gimmicky teams for kicks. In CvS2, my characters are really good at running down the clock and I do play like that for tourneys, but in casuals, it just isn’t fun.
Not for SSF4 though. I have to really fight my ass off to win at that game. Everyone’s level is so high around here.
For sure. Though I don’t think I’ll be at Tubby’s tilll MvC3 is out and I don’t think MvC2 will be played there much at all at that point. Dark Knight IV schools me all the time in MvC2. And he’s on XBox Live (wiidikulous, or something like that). If you want to talk MvC2 pointers, that’s definitely the guy to chat with.
Maybe I can convince him to go down to Tubby’s, or even someone’s place if they’ve got games night going on, before MvC3 takes over. One last hurrah for MvC2.
In other news, I just found out I won’t be able to go to EVO this year. Got a wedding to attend out in Vancouver that weekend. Really wanted to go too with the release of MvC3 and AE (hopefully).
Make sure you guys level up. I want to see some Calgary beasting on the stream.
5-5 match up for sure as we were dead even in wins at the end. lol Though if you did best of 3 you had way more wins on me in the end. I always thought you had a solid Makoto but I’m not really familiar with Makoto. I’m just really annoyed at TK Tsurugi because it threw me off guard so much. I go for feint mix ups I eat TK Tsurugi, I go for footsies and pokes I eat TK Tsurugi. It was incredibly frustrating and I wasn’t sure how to approach Makoto when up close so I started experimenting with other normals like far s.RH, and forward RH.
Fierce thunder knuckle all day long. He leaves the ground? Fierce thunder knuckle. He goes for a meaty? Fierce thunder knuckle. He try to reset you? Fierce thunder knuckle. He baits it to punish? fuck it, Fierce thunder knuckle. Then you win off mike’s frustration.
you can try focus dash forward into something. murders axe kick so hard.
viper might be too slow for that tho
also killey I know you get a hard knockdown off your ultra… but I would still save it vs Abel. if your ultra doesn’t kill me it will definitely stock mine up and making my max combo damage go from 365 to 500+ is not in your best interest
personally, the mentally draining aspect of playing 100% all the time sharpens you for times when you’d be drained in a tourney. My own example is I made it to top 8 in my pool at cc after losing my 2nd match. THAT is draining. It felt like I fought an infinite amount of c.vipers, fei longs and roses in losers before I had to fight mark which was the craziest fight of my life. Shit was really brutal.
lol
There was one round where I did just that. He got the dizzy on me because he baited and punished like 4 FTK’s in a row, the funny thing is I got him in the corner landed an Ultra got 1 good mix up and won the round still.
Far s.RH works surprisingly well on Makoto same with forward+RH and far s.Forward. The active frames on those RH’s are so long that it’ll usually stuffs Makoto’s jump attempts or TK Tsurugi.
Yeah, I probably should save it when it’s maxed out instead of blowing it at half but it’s hard enough fighting Abel from mid-range. If I don’t get the untechable KD I barely get any momentum without risking random reversals. Also, sorry about the random reversals yesterday. I got sick of playing defensive and still losing against Abel so I said fuck it I’m going to reversal when I can. lol
Also, good lord Abel’s c.RH is fast and has good range on it. I’m like okay I’m outside step kick range…eat c.RH. FFFFUUUU----
c.rh is pretty tasty when you can land it… hard knockdown and 11 frame startup. The hitbox isn’t too good tho, decent reach, but it tends to lose to a lot of standing pokes.
Reversals are a good bet. Delaying your fierce thunder knuckle from time to time was a smart move too. You gotta go in waves though… there should be an ebb and flow to how many reversals you do because for every stretch where you landed a bunch in a row, there was a stretch where you got baited instead. I’m not sure if the EX burning kicks were intentional or not, but that is one option you should use less than TK and EX seismo. even just regular burn kick is better than EX BK
EX BK’s were intentional I was expecting a mistimed jump or a command grab. I didn’t mind the trade with Abel’s c.Fierce but FTK or regular BK would have been better. I miss Vanilla’s EX BK. I miss Vanilla in general.
i usually meaty with s.rh against viper now … at least i don’t mind that damage trade. the real problem is that FTK throws me across the screen on a trade and all the stun i built up is gone in a flash.
if i get a knockdown off anything (ex chop, sweep, ex dash punch in the corner, backthrow) i can safe jump delay OS sweep and it should beat everything you do (backdash, ex seismo) and still block reversal FTK too.
Mike are you going to keep with Makoto in AE or are you going to pick a different bottom tier char? Jamie has always said Makoto might have more going on than ppl give her credit for… I’m always surprised by the new technology you have to display when we play. s.rh seems like a super buff move, its +2 on the first frame… up to +10 meaty?!
in theory you could meaty with s.rh, combo c.mp xx hayate?
Capcom needs to hurry up and reveal the last 2 characters already. If the leak list is true then the last two character is what I’ve been waiting for since Viper’s reveal.
Those strategies were developed in Vanilla there’s no need to test. If I get the untech KD and you decide to do anything but block you’re going to eat a j.RH combo into Ultra. The only way the DP is going to hit me is if I screw up the spacing.
