THE all inclusive Blackheart thread

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I knew about this for a while.
I remember trying this out in M vC 2 after seeing the vid.

Sorry this is probably a dumb question, but how good is jumping fierce demons? The blackheart tutorial vid says to use it against trijumping magneto/storms and the first page of this thread says that super jump fierce demons are much better than superjump hk demons. But everytime I use it, I still get owned badly. I’ve also seen match vids of other blackhearts barely using jumping fierce, but they still do pretty well.

It really depends on the assists that you have. You can do fine without the FPs against the average players. But if you’re playing against a skilled opponent, who knows how to get around all the flying shit, you need to know how to get space with his pokes and keep them with the FPs.

I recommend (until you get a better idea of all the ways you can use them) that you do not use the j.FPs UNLESS they’re a full screen away and too slow to dash under the demons b4 they form. You can omit this caution if you have a good ground assist to stop their ground dash.

Another time to use j.FPs is if they’re in the air and more than a half screen away (or way over your head around super jump height). You want to throw them out so that you can just block as your opponent is coming down on top of you (with your demons returning to hit them from behind). I do this as a “trap” to catch them off guard should they come down attack.

As far as sj.FPs go… I like to do one of two things.

I’ll either throw a sj.FP at the peak of my super jump and hold off on using the dash (letting the demon do there thing) until right before I land. This allows you to react to what they’re doing instead of coming down with them under you.

Or I’ll sj.ad.B to instant FP so that I float backwards with the demons trailing far behind me. This can be seen in the tutorial.

I’m busy at the moment but I’ll find some match clips of me attempting to do this so you can get a better idea of what I’m talking about.

Cool, thanks. What you rate Blackheart’s learning curve now, compared to say Strider or Spiral?