#combotober

#combotober Day 14: Your Favorite Other ArcSys Game

Catching up! Had a little trouble picking my Favorite Other ArcSys Game -- it was either BBCF or Sailor Moon S (see my Neptune), but a few other people did Sailor Moon S.

I like a hot femme fatale witch (eg, I-No), which ironically means I mostly don't play BlazBlue because I have a lot of trouble looking at the character select screen and not going for Nine -- but she seems so complex, and my brain just has not absorbed what she does on the handful of occasions where I tried to learn her. Her buttons are "magic blast", "different magic blast", "still different magic blast" and my Tekken brain is like "ok but which limb is she using…"

Maybe I ought to try Izayoi (she has a hoverdash like Morrigan and I-No!) or Susano'o… or I could just appreciate Nine respectfully while mostly playing other games.

Or maybe if I spend a little more time messing with her… here's Combo Trial 5 for Nine in BlazBlue CentralFiction.

#combotober Day 27: Combo that does not physically touch your opponent

Tekken Tag Tournament 2: let's get back to the grounded realistic martial arts action that Tekken is known for.

… I kid, but I actually really like Angel (as mentioned before) and Unknown (she's Jun but with goop). So here's Unknown hitting with the Mystery Goop Full Of Skeletons, and Angel hitting with heavenly lasers, as one does.

#combotober Day 31: FREE SPACE

It's Kazuya Mishima.

The raw CH df2 PEWGF. It's one of the greatest things possible in Tekken. I can do it in practice mode sometimes. But if you're just a little clever about your frame situations you can fish for trades on your df2 that give you more frames for the pickup. Like this…

- be Kazuya at +4 and they jab… CH df2 (trade) ewgf ewgf microdash df+3 df+1,df+2 T! ssr4,1 (heatburst) df+1,4 W! cd+1+2 (wallbreak) ff+2~f (heatdash) iwr3

This is a reminder to myself to try to fish for trades like this more often.

combotober Day 25: Combo in a non-fighting game

Shadow Over Mystara! It's one of the two Capcom D&D beat 'em ups! I love the collection; I have pretty vivid memories of a Tower Of Doom cabinet at the minigolf place of my childhood. (shoutouts to Putt-Putt Golf behind the mall!)

This game is way deeper than one might imagine. Really involved item system, so many different spells… and fighting game inputs and combos.

I main Elf in this game; she is definitely 100% Not Deedlit From Record of Lodoss War, and I am super fascinated by the interaction between western D&D/LOTR fantasy and Japan.

Anyway. Elf.

#combotober Day 18: Your Favorite Guest Character (pt 2)

My other favorite guest character is HEIHACHI MISHIMA in Soulcalibur II. Oh y'all have swords? You're talking mad shit for somebody in wavedash range…

I love him so much. Guard Impact with his bracers is so satisfying. They really made him a Calibur character; it's significantly different from his Tekken self -- compared with, say, the Devil Jin moveset in SCV, which feels very Tekken.

(most of my SCII time is with the PS2 version -- this is recorded on the PS3 HD Online version)

#combotober Day 11: Free Space

If you wanted to see a little more of the higher-execution T8 Kazuya stuff, here's…

wavuwavuwavu ewgf ewgf deep dash ewgf microdash df+1,df+2 T! dash ssr+4,1 SAT! 2+3 dash df+1,2~f (heat dash) cd+1+2

… on a Small Body because I Got Those. For me this is not (yet) match-practical but there do exist Kazuyas who staple this… something to work towards.

For context, combos that start with 3 EWGFs were hard enough to be impractical in Tekken 8 until Kazuya's df1 got a small buff about halfway through Season 1. And then they just became… hard but plausible. Back in T7, a Kazuya with reasonably good execution would typically EWGF EWGF deep-dash EWGF b+2,1 S! and that was significantly easier than the combo above. But not trivial; you still had to hit a pretty clean dash-EWGF to do it.

#combotober Day 10: Your Virtua Fighter Main

Maaaaan I love VF5 so much. I've been playing a fair amount of REVO and I'm elated that there's finally a good PC port, and that it's got good netcode, and it's about to have crossplay! Just fantastic.

And Lau Chan is my guy. I love an angry old guy so much. He's imperious. He's a morally grey Shaw Bros wuxia movie antagonist.

Here's you a combo.

(Kokei stance) 6P+K (guard break) 46+P P 2P+K (bound) P 4P+K,P+K