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Persona 4: Arena |OT| Midnight's Just Around The Corner
- Thread starter cj_iwakura
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It's been a whole month since the game's been released. Everyone has had at least sometime to practice it (moving past the wake up Cross Slashes, mashing on 5A, spamming their DPs, etc.) Just who is the best among (PSN) GAF though? Join us on September 22, 2012 at 9PM EST (date/time may change) to find out! You may register for the tourney at the Challonge link here.
- PSN only (Sorry XBL users...)
- Double Elimination
- Each match will be 2/3 (Winners/Losers/Grand finals will be 3/5)
- If you lose a round, you may optionally change characters if you want.
- Unless a stream is provided, I expect everyone to be honest with who wins/loses.
- Prizes include bragging rights.
- I'll also photoshop an image to congratulate you and stuff (I may or may not half ass it though.)
- If I'm feeling nice, I'll buy you a $20 PSN card if you win the whole thing.
- And of course, have fun! =D
Master Milk
Member
hmm, gotta make time for this
You pretty much have to jump Bear Screw and punish because the timing is wonky and tricky on punishing it. Sometimes, your 5A will punish it. Other times, there's enough time for Teddie to BD.
Edit: Haven't really experimented with it, but there is a trick I'm thinking of doing to punish a blocked Bear Screw as I noticed I never bothered to when I first played Busaiku. Maybe you can try it out for me. Since Bear Screw A is 8 hits and B is 9 hits, if you IB after the first few hits of Bear Screw - the quicker, the better, you should be able to consistently punish it more as you have less hitstun to throw out your quick normals faster than his recovery on it in theory...
Well, that's it for me.
Yosuke might be able to do it because his moves are super fast, but most of the cast will have trouble if I'm not pressing a button immediately after (though I usually do).
I totally messed up my registration. And the system wouldn't let me modify/delete it to fix it. >_<
Anyway, I'm excited for this. I didn't get to enter the first one.
When IB right (IB more than 3 hits), it'll be a CH combo before you're allowed to press a button because of your recovery on Bear Screw. The only problems punishing Bear Screw with IB is that when Teddie crossups on the other side, it's not guaranteed if you mess up your spacing/whiff your 5A punish. Chie's also able to do this.
Your PSN is Beats00 right? I fixed it for you. =)
And I actually might be able to stream this after all...stay tuned.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Yep, that's right. Thanks!
Supermanisdead
Member
I might just enter this, lol. Time to get training. When is the last day to enter.
Sign ups are open until the day of the tourney (which is September 22).
Why don't you enter the tourney and prove it?
Ah, misread that as Yosuke and Yu earlier. Forgive me :lol
Edit: Just tested it now, and they both can punish Bear Screw with IB if they mash 5A immediately after. Well, Yukiko more so immediately after IB than Yu because of her slow 5A startup. Yu's 5A has a larger chance of whiffing than Chie's, but he has the same chances to punish like Chie. It also seems that the requirement to punish Bear Screw with IB may even be to IB 4 hits or more. Not sure how to tell the difference if it's a 3 or 4 hit minimum as my execution isn't that precise
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Anyone up for games?
I can play for 30 minutes.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Alright, firing up the pstriple.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Wow. I am suddenly reminded why I hate Yukiko so much.
Zoning type character. Best 5A and j5A in the game. Wat
I dare anyone to try stuffing it (no DP's of course). If she is in range and you attack at all you lose every time even if you do it first.
Good games btw.
Does anyone have a link to frame data for everyone's 5A's plus other moves? I want to check something.
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently it was never released.
Zoning type character. Best 5A and j5A in the game. Wat
I dare anyone to try stuffing it (no DP's of course). If she is in range and you attack at all you lose every time even if you do it first.
Good games btw.
Does anyone have a link to frame data for everyone's 5A's plus other moves? I want to check something.
EDIT: Nevermind, apparently it was never released.
Yup I hate yukikos 5a and I play mitsu. Her 5a has the slowest startup(10 frames) but its extremely deceiving because of how much she moves forward and its wide area of attack. Its also like teddys 5a in that if any part of it touches you you're eating a combo.
I still think mitsu has the best 5a, but yukiko definately gets best j5a for me. With naoto not far behind.
Good games.
I didn't get a chance to do any of the counter/fatal counter combos I've been practicing heh. Yeah they're pretty good, but I think Chie's 2B can beat Yukiko's jA pretty easily most of the time.
Not sure how reliable it is, but some of it's up on Dustloop wiki. Here's Yukiko's. Her 5A has 10 frames of startup apparently.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I still can't believe it. I've never seen it get stuffed by anything at close range save DP's.
Even comparing some of the startup frames for other character's 5A's, I've still lost to Yukiko using those character's 5A's.
This is even worse than Ragna 5B(which I didn't even mind that much compared to this).
BB:CP can't come soon enough.
It's because she moves forward I'm thinking. So a smart Yukiko player will use it when they're slightly out of range, because it automatically moves them forward while going through startup. By the time it becomes active and you try and stuff it, it's already too late.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Thanks Roe, sorry I bailed but I need to get some sleep
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I'll get over it somehow.
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Akihiko's TIGER SUPPERCUT doesn't even do crap for damage.
On the bright side and if you have meter to burn and no lag you can juggle an opponent with the 236A->236236A(UPPERCUT-if not recovered/blocking)->236236A (UPPERCUT JUGGLE level 2 on that character specific meter but no increase in damage)
Akihiko's TIGER SUPPERCUT doesn't even do crap for damage.
On the bright side and if you have meter to burn and no lag you can juggle an opponent with the 236A->236236A(UPPERCUT-if not recovered/blocking)->236236A (UPPERCUT JUGGLE level 2 on that character specific meter but no increase in damage)
SolarKnight
Member
Alright 360 GAF, I haven't had much of a chance to play lately. Who's up for some matches?
"God's Beard!"
Member
Sign ups are open until the day of the tourney (which is September 22).
Why don't you enter the tourney and prove it?
I was too late to enter the last one and now i have effectively no internet connection or I'd be playing all day. I dunno if I'd win though, I'm only at about Q's level of mashing.
SolarKnight
Member
I swear there are nothing but Yosuke's on ranked tonight what the hell
cj_iwakura
Member
I'm going to a tourney tomorrow in Coconut Creek, I better get some practice in.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Raises damage of her fire attacks. Goes up to level 8. Someone may eventually figure out how to use it more effectively.
Messing around in training with full meter and lvl 8, doing awakened super->awakened super->super wipes out most chars lifebars, lol. Not really practical.
Not that I see from doing a mini-juggle-combo on Teddie. It seems to do hella pathetic damage.
Axelstream
Member
I don't think I quite understand. What doesn't do damage? Kill Rush A directly into Cyclone Upper A twice? Raw Cyclone Upper?
What purpose does this question serve?
I'm just noticing that I'm not finding matches as quickly as a few weeks ago, leading me to think people are moving away from online.
That's not what I got from it, but... ok.
It's been a whole month since the game's been released. Everyone has had at least sometime to practice it (moving past the wake up Cross Slashes, mashing on 5A, spamming their DPs, etc.) Just who is the best among (PSN) GAF though? Join us on September 22, 2012 at 9PM EST (date/time may change) to find out! You may register for the tourney at the Challonge link here.
- PSN only (Sorry XBL users...)
- Double Elimination
- Each match will be 2/3 (Winners/Losers/Grand finals will be 3/5)
- If you lose a round, you may optionally change characters if you want.
- Unless a stream is provided, I expect everyone to be honest with who wins/loses.
- Prizes include bragging rights.
- I'll also photoshop an image to congratulate you and stuff (I may or may not half ass it though.)
- If I'm feeling nice, I'll buy you a $20 PSN card if you win the whole thing.
- And of course, have fun! =D
Damn. I'm still so bad at this game. I need to level up. I'm going to think about signing up if I can get promoted a rank by then.
I don't get what was so hard to interpret from what I said. Did you think I was knocking the game or something?
During the first few weeks I was finding plenty of matches, but now I'm finding only a couple, often the same people over and over. Just an observation.
With me being on at random times and missing fight requests with P4A GAF, I'm forced to just kick it in Offline modes.