Leixia Videos & Discussion

Sorry for the double-post.

GranmasGotGame said:
It seemed that you just had an unlucky round (or possibly your opponent took advantage of the *awkward silence*). I dub it *awkward silence* because it's a weird time frame where both your opponent and you are either in a neutral stance or blocking and decide to attack at nearly identical times. This is more of a read on countering your opponent by taking a guess at when they are going to attack.
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I do badly in neutral situations; I have a tendency to attack with a predictable rhythm. I explicitly avoid thinking about my rhythm, because if I have to spend mental CPU cycles on something as basic as when to attack, then how am I supposed to think about anything else?

As for advice, I would have either become more aggressive (kick 'em in the face fo disrespectin yo mixup options and attacking while negative)
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I don't know how to do this effectively as Leixia. It feels like when I try to press my aggression, it's just an invitation to get interrupted, and that's what tends to happen, as you noted. I can press my aggression very easily as Pyrrha. But when I do so as Leixia, I just tend to get hit for it. I don't know why. There was one match where I was able to do this with flying colors at Youmacon, against an Ivy player (Ivy normally runs all over me, too), but I don't remember the details of what I did and why, and nobody recorded it. Whatever temporary wisdom I had there is all gone now.

or focus more on defense and look for opportunities to punish negative moves and whatnot.
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I've been trying to focus on movement-based defense for a while. Moving in and out. Because I'm stubborn and refuse to study frames (study *anything*, really... I just don't like to study. I like to pay attention and figure stuff out that way, and it's gotten me through school and everything else in life, but this game tends to punish people who try to do that)... if I get whiff punishes, I don't need frames. I also have a lot of trouble reacting to lows and throws. Even Nightmare 1A hits me consistently offline.

Hope that helped, and sorry if I overstepped my bounds, I find myself choking against high and low level players all the time so your not alone XD.
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What bounds? Anything that helps me figure this crap out...
 
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TiZ said:
I'm not sure how to go about zoning her out. I like to be at 44A tip range, but she can get me with 66B from there. 6KK punishes? Maybe it was lag. I don't feel like I can hit them consistently offline either though. And the only ones I know are A:6 which doesn't actually count and 22B.
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Natsu's 3B is 6KK punishable. It's actually 3B punishable but reacting to it is tough. and you missed the punish on blocked A:6. 22B I don't think can be punished with 6KK.

One of Natsu's weaknesses is her difficulty in closing distance safely. (66K unsafe. 66AB unsafe. A+B unsafe. 66B unsafe) So she has to gamble. You can use 4412B (backdash into 22B) as an anti-run-in tool since the angle makes it hard for Natsu to punish. Or 6A+B which is safe and pushes her back on block. Leixia's 2B and 3K are good pokes to interrupt offense, and 3A will stop her sidestep moves like 22A.

In short, you have to be annoying enough to where Natsu either freezes up, or makes a hard gamble trying to predict your next move.
 
TiZ said:
if I have to spend mental CPU cycles on something as basic as when to attack, then how am I supposed to think about anything else?
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It's not so much something you think about as something you feel. - Example: you and you're opponent go into a neutral situation and you get a hunch that he/she is about to attack and so you attack (generally with a safe move) and punish. Similar to fishing out CH's.

TiZ said:
I don't know how to do this effectively as Leixia. It feels like when I try to press my aggression, it's just an invitation to get interrupted, and that's what tends to happen.
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It's not so much how to be aggressive (although there are different ways) as much as when to be aggressive. IMO as a rule of thumb, one should only be extremely aggressive when the flow is in his/her favor, or when an opportunity arrives to put it into his/her favor; what this means is (for example) when you have a significant health lead on your opponent, you have done significant guard damage on your opponent, or you have established that you are a knowledgeable player and have punished him/her for doing unsafe things. That being said, when the flow is not in your favor (you are being pressured or you are down on health and your opponent is not) there are specific points in the match to look for where you can either get the flow in your favor, or return it to neutral. As for what this would look like, possibly an opportunity to throw in a poke like 3k, or interrupting a string of highs with a TC or similar anti-high's. Simply trying to get your opponent to get out of his/her rhythm will drastically change the flow of the match.

TiZ said:
I've been trying to focus on movement-based defense for a while. Moving in and out.
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I do the same thing where I will often step back to reduce the number of options he/she has when counter attacking (P.S. I like to turtle when it comes to spacing).

As for reacting to lows and throws - it all comes with practice. With some lows you HAVE to guess at whether to block low or not. However, NM's 1A is very reactable and there are to things you can do to improve gameplay against 1A and similar attacks. Just from googling "improve reaction time" there are loads of articles that give advice for increasing recognizing/reacting speed. Or you can do it the old fashion way and just play heaps of Calibur until you get it.

Hope that helped
 
ZeroEffect317 said:
Streamed matches from the Filthy Cup tournament. Lots of Leixia.
Twitch Archive:
http://www.twitch.tv/bifuteki/b/474099035
(1:00) ~ Me vs ShinHiryu
(36:06) ~ Me vs MTFighter (Leixia mirror)
(1:30:20) ~ Me vs JJJ (Winners Final)
(1:47:30) ~ Me vs MTFighter (Losers Final)
(2:00:00) ~ MTFighter vs JJJ (Grand Finals)

Off-stream matches:
MTFighter vs AVN Xerick (Aeon)
MTFighter vs AVN Cross of Ravens (NM)
MTFighter vs KrazySyko (Aeon) - Losers semis
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Flithy Cup has been YouTubed & Time Stamps are the same.
 
Matches from a tournament last night

JDome #9 W1 vs. Jonnitti (Patroklos)

JDome #9 W2 vs. Ramon (Pyrrha)

JDome #9 L2 vs. InsaneKhent (Pyrrha)

JDome #9 L3 vs. JJJ (Mitsurugi)

JDome #9 LF vs. Thermidor (Nightmare)
 
I've only watched your first match against Ramon and it was really good. The 3B whiffpunishment was very nice, and the CE punish on his 3B as well. And nice backtechs after her B-throw, finally someone does it. You got a little to0 step-happy against Pyrrhas 66A at the end, but hey, it's Pyrrha. Well done!

"She's bad because there's all those universal things in the game that just beat what she does.
"The universal things that beat her are damage (JG and blocking)."
Wiser words have never been spoken, haha.
 
Kalas said:
I've only watched your first match against Ramon and it was really good. The 3B whiffpunishment was very nice, and the CE punish on his 3B as well. And nice backtechs after her B-throw, finally someone does it. You got a little to0 step-happy against Pyrrhas 66A at the end, but hey, it's Pyrrha. Well done!

"She's bad because there's all those universal things in the game that just beat what she does.
"The universal things that beat her are damage (JG and blocking)."
Wiser words have never been spoken, haha.
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Yeah, I know. I moved too much... Some of those were supposed to be 22B+Ks, but the window for it isn't that early I realized. Should've just mashed BB everytime he got close, lol.
 
Very nice dude, I especially like the wrAs from standing! I wonder if you could just use wr B against Pyrrha's 66B BE? Looks like you might've got a RO with it at the end there. You probably already knew that but keeping all this stuff in mind in a big match is tough I know. But good job, it's nice to see that sticking with Leixia is paying off.
 
Age_of_Truth said:
Very nice dude, I especially like the wrAs from standing! I wonder if you could just use wr B against Pyrrha's 66B BE? Looks like you might've got a RO with it at the end there. You probably already knew that but keeping all this stuff in mind in a big match is tough I know. But good job, it's nice to see that sticking with Leixia is paying off.
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iWS A really is a great move.

The very last 66B BE (the one that hit me) I could've rung him out, yeah. The one before that the angle was off.
lol, you know what's funny is, I actually thought I was dead after the 22B combo. And even Ramon said to me "Ohh it's over" so I stopped pushing buttons except the X button (for replays). If I had known I was alive I might've tried the regular WS B RO vs 66B BE Since the BE version wouldn't have killed.

But yeah thanks man.
 
ZeroEffect317 said:
iWS A really is a great move.

The very last 66B BE (the one that hit me) I could've rung him out, yeah. The one before that the angle was off.
lol, you know what's funny is, I actually thought I was dead after the 22B combo. And even Ramon said to me "Ohh it's over" so I stopped pushing buttons except the X button (for replays). If I had known I was alive I might've tried the regular WS B RO vs 66B BE Since the BE version wouldn't have killed.

But yeah thanks man.
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I said it's over because you cant tech, block (your gauge would of broke), or attacked. It was the ideal situation after i hit you with that combo. which is why i said game over.
 
Ramon said:
I said it's over because you cant tech, block (your gauge would of broke), or attacked. It was the ideal situation after i hit you with that combo. which is why i said game over.
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Ah ok. Well either way, if the 1st hit didn't break me for whatever reason, that would have been the only angle where meterless WS B would've actually worked.
 
TiZ said:
Slade and I had a FT5.
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There were quite a few panic attacks in that set. Lots of raw CE. I can tell you from experience, raw CE DOES work, but only when your opponent believes you'd be too smart to try it. Slade was just mashing a lot after 4K but by the end he finally figured it out.

It seemed like you had a good feel for what to do. So, I dunno what else to tell you. Was there anything you wanted to know?
 
I was just mashing a lot in general. Kappa
Was I really getting that much after blocking 4K? Depending on who I'm using I like to challenge Leixia's -2 game to try to draw out her YOLO CEs and make her waste meter.

I also remember backdashing into 66BB a lot but I decided I wasn't going to stop until he started to capitalize on it with CE.
 
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