IT WAS SO WEIRD, lol. The meeting last night lasted from 7 PM to almost about 12:30 AM. I paid the $10 to enter the Double-elimination tourney, and I believe my record was something like: Won-Lost-Won-Won-Won-Lost, lol. Major opponents characters being Betty, some Strong Rekka-Kyo, and... well, I could deal with other people's Saiki's better. It was nice to fight some strong Joe, Terry, and even Mai players, however.
I got some pointers on things I don't do, but should be doing (like holding df while dashing to advance with a stored Moon Slasher with Leona... I always just advance with Grand Saber from full screen distances...), and got enough Saiki Matchup to develop a whole "Maxima can special cancel guard points! REMEMBER THIS!" Strat going on, that's risky, but pretty rewarding.
I swear by the end of the night, by joystick felt like some of it's directions were getting loose on me, but I hope that's just the difference of playing with it on my lap VS constantly on a level table...
I was the new guy who plays characters no one else does, ha. I heard a surprising amount of "I've never fought a good Leona / Maxima / Chin" before, and that was pretty much all my main team (With Hwa taking Chin or Maxima's place part of the night.) Many of them also seem to have XIII as their first / most serious KoF, where I have been playing the series since seeing 94 and 95 on the premium cabinets of one of our local, dead arcades...
And they have a bigger meet Saturday morning this week too! I might not be able to make it to that one, but if so... this'll be one crazy KoF Week for me, haha.
I told them to make a mention of these meets on DreamCancel... It's surprising to hear they've been doing this about a year, and yet I couldn't find on real info online about it.
Yeah, Saiki has that special difference to him for projectiles and zoning. Glad you found yourself a way to get revenge, and hopefully more offline competition.
It's especially disorienting because I was able to jump in on many other Saiki players, haha. Encourages bad habits, like over-relying on Chin's overhead mix-ups.
My vengeance didn't go as well as I'd have liked (I still lost to the guy lots, haha), but definitely made some progress. Guy has some of the sharpest movements of the group, really perfectly fit to counter many of my general fighter weaknesses with tight execution and movement.
I got destroyed by Raiden at my last tournament lol. Just had no idea what to do against the character. That's good you have weekly meetups to go to, it'll help you improve a lot. I need to try to meet up with my friend who plays every week over the summer.
It's great when you meet someone who uses a character in a way that just makes you sit there and say "..... What?!?", though I'm much more used to DOING that to people, rather than having it done to me! I don't think I fought a single Raiden, either... doh! As much as I've seen of his play, I might be kinda lost fighting one, too, haha.
At any rate, it's kinda surreal, walking into a place, and seeing 3 KoF XIII Setups, MVC3 and SFIV pushed to one screen corners, and a TV that looped between Injustice and Guilty Gear... Surely, this is the kind of Ratio I'd set for my own arcade!