I mained Bang in CT but now I feel like my gimmicks won’t work cause he is top tier and the tricks are well known now.
I’m trying to main Mu and finished all her challenges but I still feel like I’m not good with her. Like I don’t have a gameplan going in and just try to get 6C counter hits. Even though that move is so unsafe that it comes out by accident a lot when I dash and try to do a combo.
I’m trying with Hazama but I still suck at combos with him. It’s funny cause I played other Hazamas and yea, they can do a combo but they don’t use the snake as much to keep people at bay while that’s about the only thing I’m good at. I tend to win those battles though, seems spacing beats combos. 
Fishing for 2C counterhits is safer and easier I think, but 6C isn’t really punishable (at least by most characters) as long as you get in the habit of canceling it every time. Use :hcb:C or a D move when it touches them and you’re back in the clear, plus you’ll have another attack about to come out to keep the pressure up Just make sure you never whiff 6C. Nothing can save you when that happens.
Figured I’d drop in and say Makoto is up on XBL right now, as well as the patch to update for her. (If you buy her, it’s the same file.)
The file is something like 84 or so megs. 560 points, unlocks her, her 12 base colors, her 12 additional colors, and her challenge and strat mode stuff.
I never knew she had a Parry. Hmmm. And a CROSS COUNTA outta parry by pressing D. Fun stuff.
Anywho, just figured I’d mention it, incase it gets pulled off Live or something for showing up early…
sick, I’m checking on that right naow!
EDIT: Got her. She’s pretty cool and so far the challenges aren’t too bad (I’m on 7). I like her style and didn’t know she was a charging char, the different damages thing I mean. I’ll do the other challenges a little later.
Unlimited Makoto Footage and challenge mode.
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loving makoto, feel like i wasted my time with tao now.
Guess i’ll learn Mu or kune as 2nd’s
What do you mean by charge character? Does she charge up like Tsubaki? Does Arcsys have many characters in their games with charge inputs? May from Guilty Gear and Freed from Battle Fantasia, are the only ones I can think. I wonder if Platinum or Valkenhayn will have charge inputs.
she can charge up the power of her D attacks by hold down the button slightly longer. There are 3 lvls the timing is strict tho.
Yea, what he said. The regulars aren’t that strict and if you get the first one, the rest gives you plenty of time to just look at the bar and do it as opposed to trying to memorize the timing. The one for the end of her qcf, qcf, D special is extremely strict though and I doubt I’ll be able to do it consistently no matter how much practice I get.
They haven’t updated the ranked version yet and as a result you can’t play her in ranked.
I am really not liking this new character.
Does anyone play Jin? I noticed alot of his bnb’s start with a 6c but how does Jin actually land a 6c in a real match besides counter hit? Right now it feels like Jin is reliant on counter hits for damage.
I may be entirely wrong because I haven’t got the chance to play Makoto yet, but from the vids I watched today she seems like Tsubaki minus the need to stand around charging, plus a useful super.
I’m having some issues with the Makoto DLC. I downloaded both it and the system update, yet I couldn’t find her anywhere in the character select screens. I redownloaded her and went back to the title screen like it said, but still no luck. It gave me the extra achievement slots and all but am I just doing something wrong here?
shes at the bottom left on the select screen
Nevermind, restarted the console and now she’s showing.
You can connect 6c in an air combo (opponent not you) and if they’re crouching so it’s fairly easy if you’re rushing and happen to catch him while crouching.
Yea, guess you’re right also minus the clothing. I played a few player matches and of course I lost the first 2 but after that I started getting the hang of her and managed to actually rush down and connect some stuff. Time to search for some Makoto match vids to give me more ideas but I like her so far and don’t feel cheap like when I choose Kune.
Stuck on Makoto challenge 9.I cant get the second charged punch to connect. Pressing D immediately after 214B it doesn’t come out so I have to delay it. But its only connected maybe once or twice.
Also unlimited Makoto is Dudley.A+B is acorn throw. She gets his taunt counter,machine gun blow which takes one primer if blocked, rush upper and her 100 DD is rolling thunder. She also gets 3S Makoto’s Abare Tosonami(sp?) super. She loses her mixup teleports though but she isn’t tournament legal so its fine.
Machinegun blow, Abare Tosonami,236236D combos for I think 8-9k. I can’t get the last super to hit but talking with a friend he got it to land.
If you still haven’t done 9 look at the sample for the timing on the second charge hit. You pretty much do the ball, launch it, and a little after the ball hits the guy a second time that’s when you’re supposed to put in 214B, you still have to delay the D button after wards but that’s how I’ve gotten it consistently. The dashing forward B was my problem but I think I got it down for the most part now. On to 10!
EDIT: 10 finished, it’s a lot easier than 9 that’s for sure.
makoto’s getting nerfed to the ground.
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So do you guys think Makoto is worth the money? because I’ve been thinking of buying her but I wanted a little more info first