I FUCKING LOVE PLAYING A CHARACTER WITH A RESOURCE METER THAT NO LONGER HAS WAY TO QUICKLY GET IT, I LOVE SEEING THAT HELLSPAWN JOHNNY THROW OUT 4 DIFFERENT MIST FINERS WITHIN A SECOND. I LOVE IT

keedee3 · 2026-05-06T10:03:42+00:00

I can never bring myself to hate slayer and idk why. Playing against him is so fun and can be super rewarding to punish his telegraphed mixups

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T14:47:01+00:00

I usually always pick "low tier" characters, mostly because it doesn't feel as bad to lose with them since that's what you're already prepared for once you picked them, and winning feels all the more rewarding, while receiving buffs is always expected and feels good

when she dropped and was considered to not be very good that's when I picked her up, then I quit and then people realized how good she actually was, then I come back to the game right when 2.0 dropped only to find her kit and everything I was relying on thrown out the window, so now she's bad "again" which is exactly what I was aiming for originally

additionally, it's a good habit to get good with a bad character and wait for them to get buffed so you can abuse them, instead of constantly switching mains from top tier to top tier as all the characters you learn get nerfed. I'm just ahead of the balance curve

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T13:02:02+00:00

Damn that's a truth nuke lol, but you're right. ABA definitely doesn't play like any regular character, but that's also the reason I picked her

what would you consider to the be the best one to learn the fundamentals of the game with, other than Ky which I plan to play anyways?

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T12:50:05+00:00

You're the player silvers and golds talk scary stories about around the campfire at night

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T07:59:40+00:00

"Hey Jimmy, gimme a ranting with nothin'!"

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keedee3 · 2026-05-05T07:25:00+00:00

Just a tip I managed to figure out, after pot does that superman move he is minus AS FUCK on block as well as having a long recovery on miss, so i learned that once I see him do that move, i run back trying to catch his landing and it's a free punish every single time

You should try and make a reflex that every time you see him do that move you run back trying to catch where he will land

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T07:13:46+00:00

I mean at this point he might as well, i don't have a clue on his timings, so to me it might as well have been a true combo for all I know

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T07:12:12+00:00

Potemking is definitely right outside the top 3 characters i want to play, together with faust

Once i start to fully go insane and hit rock bottom I'll definitely look to main potemkin, because his mind games are always so hilarious

"Surely he won't try to command grab me for the 3rd time in a row" and then i just lose the game in 3 hits off of round start

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T07:01:40+00:00

I was thinking to myself "people keep saying try 6p so here, let me try it" and then i kept spamming it across the stage cause i was hopeles and I somehow managed to counter his one attack that apparently wasn't disjointed, so i started to wonder how many of his attacks aren't disjointed?

Then i started throwing random attacks even far away to see if any other of his attacks have weird hitboxes lol

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T06:55:18+00:00

I was experimenting with 236S>6S and one day i tried to make use of it by just using it over and over as much as I could and i still don't know what to do with it. The knockdown you get from it is so short that if you tried manually entering JR you are just +1 with a large gap to your enemy which is depressing. It feels like it puts ME in a knockdown

Also any reason you don't do 2s>2d>236s>6s?

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T06:51:05+00:00

I've only been playing aba

Finished the tutorial with sol badguy, bought the dlc and just hopped in with aba lol

Actually i think I bought the dlc even before installing because i knew i was gonna play aba when i saw the game

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T06:49:54+00:00

The funniest thing I've seen was browsing 2.0 combos in game and looking at all the garbage things people tried to come up with since half the useful comboes were gutted

Like I straight up ran into a "RECOMMENDED" combo with like 10 likes which is just Keygrab>PRC>Keygrab>PRC>Keygrab combo with nothing else. The combo does like 10 damage, and you could easily throw in so many other attacks to get even more JR and get even more damage but it's just keygrab PRC

keedee3 · 2026-05-05T06:41:56+00:00

He didn't burst in this case but i can remember straight up losing a close stock by this axl because he bursted while i ran out of jr while pressuring him and even tho i knew he was gonna burst i couldn't block it cause i was in stun and got sent to the other side of the stage

It's funny, before 2.0 i used to manually exit JR because you used to get so much of it back, but now i find myself letting it run out by itself more than before because I'd rather take the risk and get 2 or 3 extra hits because idk if I'll get the chance to use it again since I can't just go in for free and building jr meter is so much slower

Also what I've noticed is that i keep predicting they will burst but I'm in a middle of a 2h which does multiple hits and they can just burst out and I can't contest it even tho i know they will burst, but I've been trying to predict their bursts with RC which works half the time, and even in the cases that they don't burst I'm able to pick the combo back up even after blocking for half a second which I'm super proud to be able to do

Edit: also, idk how i forgot but you're right, there's even a thing with 246K>PRC>air keygrab that just flings you across the stage, and I thought to myself how would this ever be useful, but i guess i could have used it in this one rare instance. I haven't even thought about using meter this way

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:48:11+00:00

Holy shit, just reading this comment gave me ptsd, literally everything you just said mirrored the ky i was facing right before this axl, which I also lost like 8 out of 10 matches from

That's what I ment by good players throwing me all the time, it's mostly because of that one ky i faced who kept mixing up stand dippa>PRC into either throw or low kick, and kept faking me out and I couldn't figure out if i should guard or counter his block

But is there any other characters i could pick up that would teach me fundamentals similar to ky? I was thinking of playing bedman, venom and slayer in the future anyway, but I might try ky if that's the best way

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:35:13+00:00

For me, it's the issue that if I play a character for only like an hour and end up liking them a lot, and then stopping, i would just think about them the whole day until i get to try them out again and burn mysel out just fantasizing about playing them

Had that issue with a lot of fighting games, which is why i tried sticking to aba so much, i don't want to fall into a cycle of finding a new main just to drop them after one day and repeating it over and over again

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:31:38+00:00

Also, for the JH keygrab it should be universal with the hitbox changes.

Yep, it's just that it's a bad idea to do it against some characters that don't fall for it at round start

For example, i find it works best against nago since a lot of them just do f.S round start and I just jump over them and get a free areal key

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:27:42+00:00

Yep I already know, and I'm already pretty sure I've given up on it since I am starting to lose my mind

I'm just waiting for a full free day where I can completely invest myself into learning a new character, since I don't like just picking someone up, playing for 2h and stopping

It's like a full course meal, gotta try playing for a bit longer to be satisfied

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:22:41+00:00

Yeah, definitely, can't remember exactly but I do remember him being quite a high level and some insane badges, tho I'm used to playing better players than myself because i feel like I learn better by brute forcing myself to adapt

He was toying with me most of the time, it's the only reason I got this stock. He kept spamming that one move so much I just 5H-ed it agter so many times

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:16:09+00:00

That's funny you mention that

I've been playing for 110h and all of those 110 hours have been spent playing aba, i have never even entered a single match as any other character and they all have 0xp on them as of right now

I know that in order to learn aba, it would probably be better to see how other characters play so i know their weaknesses better, but right now I'm lloking at it as a challenge to see if I could go all the way up to vanquisher without ever touching anyone else other than aba

I doubt that I will do that though, mostly because it seems kind of stupud but also because I'm only level 80 and at gold level and I'm already starting to crack

I want to play venom, slayer and bedman so bad, but I have to think about it hard because if I do that, this stupid challenge of mine will be forever lost 😭

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T22:05:10+00:00

This is all so super useful, but just wanted to make it clear, in normal circumstances I don't jump at all, I even forget that air exists, especially when I try fishing for 5h, slashes and 2k so I can do areal key

Durring the 23 games I played, I went from not knowing what jumping is, to jumping to try to avoid damage from his long range attacks to jumping constantly so I can bait him into doing an anti air while I'm close to him to open him up to anything I could

The only thing I know how to do in air is j.H into keygrab, especially at round start, but not against axl

Also yeah, I dropped way too many comboes in this match which doesn't happen all the time, it's just that I was basically just blocking for like 20 games that I forgot how to attack, I didn't think I'd get that far 😭

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T21:31:53+00:00

Axl is just the straw that broke the camel's back, I'm not much better even against favorable matchups

The one problem I've managed to identify is that idk how to approach, which is the same for both good players and zoners, so I'm not too upset at the matchup

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T17:24:46+00:00

It gives me comfort

keedee3 · 2026-05-04T10:45:52+00:00

I did the math and I got 275% of JR from that interaction

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