|| Rachel Alucard || "lolipop lolipop oooh loli loli lolipop"

You can punish tsubame gaeshi if you IB.

Most damaging dp punish is ch 6B -> dash bbl, 236A 4D bbl -> lvl 3 j.2C -> 214A 3C -> end w/ 214B 3C for knockdown + oki or 6C j.C

If the dp whiffed skip 6b obv.

Can get 10k+…

I think the default is L3 for recording and R3 for playback (pushing in the analogs as if the were buttons). At least for 360. You can remap them in button config like any other command so I changed them since I use a stick. They are at the bottom of the list under the easy mode specials. The nice thing is that they are training mode only so they don’t pop up during a real match if you hit the button.

…if you happen to have 100% heat. Which isn’t common.

Normal CH 6b goes into 6cd -> BnB -> frog combo -> corner pressure.

If you only have 50%, then just skip the 236a 4d bbl. IBing and countering DPs with 6b is one of the few situations where you’re actually close enough to do a dash BBL - which is the ideal time to go for lvl 3 j.2c. Even with just 50% meter you’re looking at like 6k damage. It uses a lot of wind but it’s worth it.

If you land CH 6b at max range, then you usually don’t have time to do a dash BBL. That’s why the 6cd combo is more common even when Rachel has the meter to do more.

… okay.

I don’t understand why I was redirected to a thread that hasn’t been touched in four months… but sure, why not?

Me and forum mods just not getting along recently…

My question stands. Does Rachel get murdered at close range? Did she lose all her high/low mixup? Can I pressure bang/tager without having to run away and throw crap like a coward?

That’s the basic question. Running away isn’t my thing. Never has been. I want to know if my main is playable in that light anymore.

Just switch to Tsubaki.

Only advice I can think of, sorry. Unfortunately, all we can do is pray they fix Rachel in the next BB.

Eww… she looks like… some… half arsed blind monk thing though. I’m not impressed ; /

Looks like I’m gonna pick up the dude with the butterfly knives and the chain then. Should be amusing at least enough to make me want to play the thing.

I’m really digging Rachel’s CS art than the sleepy CT one.

Fellow Vampire-Loli Mainers, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you all.

So, this is my first time doing this, so please bear with me and don’t feel shy to correct me on all of the things I’ve probably already gotten wrong.

I’m afraid our dear Rachel has gone from Near-Top tier to absolute bottom tier.

Things that I noticed are different.
Please Note that these are subjective observations based on my playstyle and may not apply to you. Heck, some of them may not even actually be true. If they’re not, please let me know so that I can edit this post as the need arises…
Like I said, this is my first time ever writing a description like this, so please bear with me… ^w^

6C has been buffed a decent amount.

Sword Iris (formerly 22A) is now 214C. I find it easier to work into a combo, some may not be so fortunate…

214A is still my bestest friend, George XIII, and now you can move him with the silpheed (slides on his belly, I’ve overshot it quite a few times already)

236A range seems lower, 236B and 236C are definitively slower on the recovery

I don’t like what they did with the 3C much, I’ve found that I can’t really combo into it quite as easily as I could,

her 6B is now pretty easily techable (Problem)

632146C has been ENORMOUSLY nerfed, which I am highly dissatisfied about…
Just to see, I stuck 3 rods down in the same place, jumped over a rather suspecting Bang Shishigami (Curse him and his newfound Top-Tier Status) and whipped out the Baden Baden Lily. not nearly as effective as it was in BB:CT
New Distortion: 632146B: Unsure of the name (played it in Japanese), but I didn’t really take to it much… It flings a series of things across the screen, ending in a giant frog if your silpheed gauge is full…

Now, Mind you, I am NOT very good at Blazblue, and with the release of SSFIV, I’ve gone back to that…
However, I’m rather displeased at these discoveries…

Well, the Angsty teenager’s rants are going to end right about here, but those are the changes I saw in Rachel…

Night guys…

I’m off to weep deeply due to the torrent of Mac Users doomed to clutter up my TF2 servers…
If you play that, feel free to add me at cakeandcats

Yes, Rachel was hurt badly in her transition to CS. But if, it will give you some hope, there is statement of them doing a re balance for the console version of the game. Rachel might not be down and out quite yet for all of us.

they actually did slight rebalance for console bbct (you can switch it on or off in options, online defaults to on), so i wouldnt doubt that they’d do it again. not too sure if they’d change the game too much, but they’re adding in console char so its whatever.