But you're not ... you're not really in danger while you're air blocking. And certainly not while you're in the corner. If you're air blocking a bunch of hits against Tian with your back to the wall, there's basically nothing she can do to you until you land. She can't make you guess between...

This is a bit late, but here's the basic idea for lasso follow-ups: Neutral Rope gives you a ton of time to convert into anything, but really only works the one time because of Stagger limitations. Back Rope also gives you a follow-up, but it's much tighter. The easiest setup is to use a jab...

Marie's different forms are weak to different things. Her first form is weak to projectile spam; the floating skulls move slow and get chewed out by other projectiles. Painwheel can spam Stinger (M) > Fly > Unfly (you can also bail out of charging the stinger early if you have to). Peacock can...

Last I checked, Tianhuo forward dash could go under Oleander's air fireball and ground fireball. Because it's a normal dash and not a special movement option, Tian can also block while advancing, so if Oleander drops a trap on the floor or stops shooting to poke her with the book, Tian is still...

Pom doesn't really uniquely break Juggle Decay in a way that other characters don't. Every character can, under the right circumstances, get a pretty hefty juggle going after JD fills up. This is because Juggle Decay is meant to be more of a soft combo limit than a hard one. It ensures that...

I hope this is the right place to put this, because this seems like unintended behavior from the game. I remember old patch notes saying that pushblock guard cancel was removed a while ago. I can still get PBGC sometimes, though. Not always. It seems to be very specific and fickle. I can't...

I'm afraid there might be a miscommunication here? I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "hits high". Normally, "hits high" refers to a move that cannot be blocked while crouching, and must be blocked while standing. I just checked, and you can definitely crouchblock all of...

I don't think that having distinct, separate hitsparks for high/low attacks is a very good idea, though it's extremely close to something that BlazBlue and Skullgirls do. So, for example, in Skullgirls, if you're blocking high, and you get hit by a low attack, an orange "!!" symbol appears over...

Last I checked, dash jump was a universal mechanic. Should be available to everybody. I think the momentum is only applied to a forward dash into forward jump though. Super rusty on the details right now.

I think I have an idea of what's happening here. There should be a short buffer period where pressing one button for the super slightly before the other button will still result in Velvet doing the super. You don't have to push both buttons at exactly the same time to get the super. I'm...

So, in order to get Stomp (H) -> Short hop j. B -> c. B to connect, you want to keep as much of the launch from the stomp as you can get. I got this pretty easily by hopping as soon as the stomp hit (you can jump cancel the stomp, you don't have to wait for it to end), and then I didn't feel...

I'm guessing it's because s. :C: has higher priority than c. :C:. Or at least, it looks like it has much higher priority. Having the red box stick out further than her green box helps you ensure that you beat somebody's poke instead of trading with them, and c. :C: looks like it should have low...

I just checked in training mode. It looks like there is no point after :2::D: connects where the opponent is vulnerable to anything until they recover from the knockdown. In short, connecting with :2::D: immediately ends your combo. It's more of a setup move than a combo tool, honestly. Normal...

If you're talking about Oleander's psychic headbutt, there's a good reason for that. It's the same thing I was talking about earlier, with the horizontal range. To be clear, this is the hitbox we're talking about: Universal anti-air reduces the height of your vulnerable boxes, I think to the...

See, I don't think Oleander's j. :2::C: is too safe. I think it's too big. If you look at the hitbox, its horizontal range is actually farther than her j. :C:, for some reason. If the hitbox were smaller, it would be more reasonable to anti-air her. It would also mean that keeping her momentum...

Bit of advice for getting short hop instead of full jump. Instead of just trying to push :8: for a couple of frames and hoping you let go in time, try pressing :8::2: or :9::2:as your short hop input. Convincing your hand that you've got somewhere else to go right now might help you spend as...

Because it's fast, mostly. That's half of what the "A" button is for. Just remember that, if you have a tilt like this, somebody is always going to complain that they accidentally get a move they didn't want, regardless of what button you put it on, and the answer is usually just to clean up...

"White Mint" was mine. I was thinking of Pearl (Steven Universe) at the time, but I didn't want to try to awkwardly recreate another character's likeness on top of Oleander's palette. I just picked a couple crayons from the same box, didn't worry about replicating all the details or using every...

It's a subtle reason, but essentially, when the universal anti-air input requires you to hold forward, you can't do it instantly from a blocking state. It'd be silly if you could hold back, or even down-back, and then continue holding that direction, and pop an anti-air with such high priority...

I'm gonna try to explain this as I understand it, so it's possible for somebody to disagree with some or all of my statement. But basically, a grappler is a character with a command grab at the core of their mix-up game. The term isn't super well defined, and some people use it a bit...