It lasts until you are knocked down, unlimited punches.
Kick interrupts throws I'm pretty sure, though I'm not in front of my game to double check.
Edit: beaten like a throw spamming ninjara v. Min min
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Kick interrupts throws I'm pretty sure, though I'm not in front of my game to double check.
Edit: beaten like a throw spamming ninjara v. Min min
TheGoreMagala
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People who use the boards on skate park at rank 14 should know better
I did a GP4 and got about 30 coins in Party Mode before calling it a night. Probably right around an hour, maybe an hour 15 of ARMS with 2lb wrist weights. It definitely got my heart rate up and for a little over half of it I was standing up which makes a big difference in the intensity. Definitely recommend that as a big point for anyone interested in the fitness potential here. Sitting down, you will too easily keep your arms from bearing the weight subconsciously (i.e. by resting your elbows on something). Despite the added effort the time went extremely quickly, hehe.
During Hedlok, I did break into a legit sweat. It also took me 4 or 5 tries to down him whereas the last handful of GP4s I've done I got him first try, so it will definitely handicap your movements/play a bit. But placebo or otherwise, I felt extra spry in the one party match I did before bed after taking the weights off (and won it), so it might actually help train performance over time!
All in all pretty good, I think I will start to include doing a "weighted GP" as part of my requirement to graduate to the next GP level, and will often keep the weights on when just messing around in party mode for some extra burn. If you don't regularly do any cardio, it's definitely going to feel pretty legit if you play for a while standing up with wrist weights, you will sweat. I really want to try it for a 1v100 match tonight.
edit: Even before this experiment I'd had some potential concerns about the impact of sweat on the Joycons. Just ordered these to give a try: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKT1M5K/?tag=neogaf0e-20 can't argue with the price at least.
During Hedlok, I did break into a legit sweat. It also took me 4 or 5 tries to down him whereas the last handful of GP4s I've done I got him first try, so it will definitely handicap your movements/play a bit. But placebo or otherwise, I felt extra spry in the one party match I did before bed after taking the weights off (and won it), so it might actually help train performance over time!
All in all pretty good, I think I will start to include doing a "weighted GP" as part of my requirement to graduate to the next GP level, and will often keep the weights on when just messing around in party mode for some extra burn. If you don't regularly do any cardio, it's definitely going to feel pretty legit if you play for a while standing up with wrist weights, you will sweat. I really want to try it for a 1v100 match tonight.
edit: Even before this experiment I'd had some potential concerns about the impact of sweat on the Joycons. Just ordered these to give a try: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKT1M5K/?tag=neogaf0e-20 can't argue with the price at least.
donkey show
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Crazyorloco
Member
HOLD UP...MIN MIN CAN KICK?!?
4 hours of playing this game only with her and I didn't realize that lol pretty cool.
lol literally just made this reference on the discord, good stuff. ��When you drop into Party Mode afterwards:
Her dash, unlike anyone else's is a flip kick that interrupts arms. It's quite tricky to use intentionally IMO but I admit it has saved my ass by accident numerous times.
I use the forward air kick pretty aggressively, it's a lot of fun to push forward without throwing an arm out.
Been goofing off with Ninjara, I think I love his block teleport. It still makes me wish even harder for a better block button though.
Good point, I love that about Kid Cobra as well. I should play around with the kick in training.
Yeah, it can be great and brutalize certain arms and particularly Rushes. After relying on it really heavily early on, I have gone too far the other direction in learning to play more aggressively with him, and now find I leave myself open sometimes when just simply guarding would completely throw my opponent off. Need to find the right balance.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
AI Min Min kicks my shit like mad. Can that interrupt grabs? Because I think it can. She would just go to TOWN on my attempts to hit her.
donkey show
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TheGoreMagala
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He's talking about Min Min not Kid Cobra..
I had all upgraded arms with Helix, so I said screw it and decided to spend my 2,624 coins to get them all upgraded for everyone else too. If you're using someone who can't gey any more ARMS it'll be evenly distributed and if everyone has every arm it's essentially skillshot by yourself.
Yah it definitely can. Random25 confirmed above and in hindsight I've definitely seen it happen.
AI Min Min will try to pin you down from afar with the charge arm. For a good many characters it can pay off to just rush her shit and apply constant pressure. Who are you using?
A photograph was taken of this confrontation in personWe should have some motion control battles later on.
Oops sorry for being unclear....
"it's a lot of fun to push forward without throwing an arm out."
I love that quality, which can also be found in Kid Cobra as well. In Min Min because of the kick, in Snek Boy because of the multi-dash sliding under arms.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I've been using Twintelle, but I haven't settled on a main yet.
Also, I got a good number of disconnects last night after about 6-10 matches of free play or whatever. Anyone know what's up?
You won't believe this method to get ripped playing the new Nintendo game!
your avatar is so freaking relevant in context lol
Twintelle's good yo, haven't used her much myself though.
I have been getting frequent disconnects too. Apparently the Switch Wifi in general is not particularly great.
Funny there's also an image of someone playing on an exercise bike up there haha
WrenchNinja
Member
Man fuck hedlock and fuck this game
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Can you do custom lobbies? It'd be fun to get a group of GAF folks playing matches together. Or hell, some of my friends who are picking this up.
Mega Man's Electric Sheep
Member
I found single player level 4 to be rage inducing, I was screaming at the screen. But the last 2 battles were soooooo easy, they barely touched me. In a way I'm glad it made me learn the game better, but it was overall an unpleasant experience I'm not sure I want to repeat. I absolutely suck at fighting games, so anyone who thinks they can't finish level 4, keep banging your head against the wall for a few hours and you'll get it!
We have GAF lobbies regularly! A lot of fun but also a lot of good players. (Heck, I lose more than I win and I'm rank 8 now and feel pretty good.)
Keep throwing punches and try to destroy the guard shield. Eventually, you will fill your super meter faster than them and be able to cause some damage too. Then, when your opponent is expecting more punches, close in and grab.
Defensive players are very effective in the game, but you can beat them by being unpredictable, causing some chip damage, then landing a few good hits and backing off until time expires.
Just keep your distance and keep throwing jabs. He's really easy when he's far away.
Don't go for the powerup drops to heal or fill your special gauge. He will punish you if you try to get in there. He's very easy when you keep the match a long-range fight.
It's not a placebo. Your perception of the masses at the end of your arms relies on the same sensory pathways as your perception of fatigue. Motion controls rely heavily on your body's ability to perceive additional mass, and essentially updates its internal representation of your arm plus the joycon to account for the wrist weights. When you then remove the weights after your body has updated its representation, it has to re-update to the original joycon mass. Not only do you accurately perceive it as lighter, but you should also perceive swinging your arms as "less fatiguing."
There's an old anecdote about hiking where if you're tired, but you still have a long way to go, you should pick up a heavy rock and carry it for a few miles. Yes it will increase your suffering in the short term, but when you eventually drop that rock you'll feel great.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
How do I get involved with this magic?
TheGoreMagala
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There's a link to GAF discord at the bottom of op!
Jon Carter
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Thanks for the advice.
I'm using Mechanica with Revolver arms. I sucked in the Testpunch until I tried those.
Fighting Hedlok in party mode, activate my rush attack and another player grabs him, wasting my rush. Further into the match I get another rush, activate it and another player (don't know if it was the same guy) hits me, interrupting my rush and making me flinch into a bomb, which kills me.
Later I get in a 1VS1VS1 fight against a Ninjara and a Kid Cobra. Right from the start the Ninjara guy starts grabspamming me. I knock him down a couple of times and decide to go after the other guy, who was just watching. But nooo, the Ninjara guy is still going after me. I try to ignore him and continue attacking the other guy, hope he'll see that he's still almost at full health. I unleash a rush attack against Cobra and Ninjara saves him by grabbing me. He didn't get the message and the match turns into a 2VS1 against me. I die not before leaving Ninjara with a sliver of health, as I'm falling down I see Cobra killing Ninjara with a single hit and winning the match with 3/4 of health left.
This game is going to beat the world record of MK8 of salt producing in a single week.
Later I get in a 1VS1VS1 fight against a Ninjara and a Kid Cobra. Right from the start the Ninjara guy starts grabspamming me. I knock him down a couple of times and decide to go after the other guy, who was just watching. But nooo, the Ninjara guy is still going after me. I try to ignore him and continue attacking the other guy, hope he'll see that he's still almost at full health. I unleash a rush attack against Cobra and Ninjara saves him by grabbing me. He didn't get the message and the match turns into a 2VS1 against me. I die not before leaving Ninjara with a sliver of health, as I'm falling down I see Cobra killing Ninjara with a single hit and winning the match with 3/4 of health left.
This game is going to beat the world record of MK8 of salt producing in a single week.
TheGoreMagala
Member
It seems at the highest level of play right now, the game is populated with Ribbon, Twintelle, Cobra, and one lone Helix
JStein0222
Member
Just hope I'm not in the lobby
Humble.
We're supposed to get Max Brass in June, right? Not much time left, will be fun to try out a new character and, presumably, a few new arms too. I'm looking for it, but can't find what they said would be in the July update?
Spectator mode in June. Max Brass in July.
Spehornoob
Member
I dunno if it's optimal or not but the motion controls in this game are fun as hell. I think i get into it a little too much.
I kind of ended up raising my fists in the air yelling "I AM THE CHAMP" in my empty apartment after beating some tough fights.
I kind of ended up raising my fists in the air yelling "I AM THE CHAMP" in my empty apartment after beating some tough fights.
JStein0222
Member
Ah thanks, that's a shame, I want to play as Max!
TheGoreMagala
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When I make those remarks I'm more playful than anything, I never actually mean it, hence the emoticon.
As for the second post, I was merely stating my observations, especially considering I haven't seen any other Helix yet
I win a match as Barq and Byte and I break into a robot dance. GF thought I was crazy lol.
I think Spring Man is shaping up to be my nemesis matchup with Ninjara. I just don't have a good handle on him and if I dominate suddenly he's in that damn <25% permacharge and just fuuuuu.
Thing is, if you keep playing GP4 you will improve dramatically and it will feel prettayyyy good to think back to how much trouble it used to give you.
That makes sense and absolutely matches up with my experience. After removing the weights I felt like I could play at the same level with less effort, and then push to a higher level of play that I couldn't reach with the weights if I exerted more effort.
I definitely am thinking I'll play at least a little bit with them every day.
Yah there have been lobbies every night I believe. Be warned that some of the regulars are REALLY REALLY REALLY good
I encourage anyone who wants to play with fellow GAF folk to hop on the discord I left my Switch at home... such a rookie mistake.
Thing with Party Mode... it's like... there's nothing resembling balance going on. It's just chaos (with the occasional fair fight thrown in to mix things up). You have to just roll with it and take the silly shit like described above in stride. Try to laugh it off when ridiculous illogical crap happens due to the actions of randoms, because sometimes it's gonna be compleeeetely out of your control, and the mode becomes pretty damn fun.
Fuck max, when do scrubs like me get access to headlock?
JStein0222
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Gore was not programmed with humility functions, watch for future firmware updates
I'm curious, are any of the arms that Max Brass or Hedlok use not currently in the game? I'm not sure what the purple fists are or if the fire fists are basically one of the other existing arms.
Yes
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WrenchNinja
Member
I'll give it another shot when I get home
I dont think so, the in game model looks different. Looks more like a gauntlet than a glove. Then there is the violet arm what element is that and what does it do? Haven't been hit by it, I played keep away and won on time every time.
I too believe that to be the best arm combination right now, and I'm working on my Spring Man. Only I don't have either arm for him yet, but I tested it on Min Min.
There's definitely a hammer with explosion element. And I suspect the purple is a whole new element that's yet to be introduced to players.
JStein0222
Member
I can't tell if the purple thing is a new element or just the same thing that happens when Master Mummy charges up his megaton.
Hard to say for sure since we don't really know what his ability is, right? Maybe it's a function of hulking out lol.
But it would be weird if he didn't have 3 distinct arms for standard play. It's not like you'll have to unlock him, so he should be fine for tournament rosters and such
CharminUltra
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Yup. I was rather surprised when I beat him on my first try this way. He's so intimidating-looking I just tried to keep my distance, and before I knew it I had beaten him with most of my health still intact.
Very very different arms with different applications and both great. Different implications depending on the character you're playing too. No simple better or worse IMO.
Acutally... the more I play the more impressed I am that almost all Arms do seem to have at least some viability.
The exceptions IMO are Cracker (is it just "worse popper" or am I missing something?) and Guardian which I cannot make heads or tails of.
Even Homie and Seekie which I imagined to be pure gimmick have their uses, especially on a single arm paired with something versatile. Access to that sweet Rush explosion, sogood.
So a few days ago I managed to reach rank 9 (tornado) in ranked play. I seem to be doing alright, but I'm curious: what do you guys think are the best, most dangerous loadouts?
Currently I mainly use Ninjara with That Electric Bird thing, the Sparky, and that green Slapamander (I prefer the red for damage output but I don't have that for him yet), and Mechanica with a Slapamander / Chakram (need to get a Ramram for her lol) / Whammer.
Thing is, I'm sure there are better loadouts than these! I'm particularly interested in Helix loadouts since from lurking this thread, people are saying he may be broken? Not gonna lie, I do tend to gravitate towards broken stuff if possible
I'll take loadouts for any characters though. While Ninjara and Mechanica are technically my "mains" at the moment, I feel like that's subject to change as I experiment some more!
Currently I mainly use Ninjara with That Electric Bird thing, the Sparky, and that green Slapamander (I prefer the red for damage output but I don't have that for him yet), and Mechanica with a Slapamander / Chakram (need to get a Ramram for her lol) / Whammer.
Thing is, I'm sure there are better loadouts than these! I'm particularly interested in Helix loadouts since from lurking this thread, people are saying he may be broken? Not gonna lie, I do tend to gravitate towards broken stuff if possible
I'll take loadouts for any characters though. While Ninjara and Mechanica are technically my "mains" at the moment, I feel like that's subject to change as I experiment some more!
Hey Hawkian are you going to flip out like this for Splatoon 2? I just want to be prepared.
I think Cracker is the best arm so I must be missing something. It's 130 damage when charged, whereas today is the first I've heard that there's juggling. Yay Mortal Kombat.