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I didn't say it was flawless, dude. That's why I'm posting my general strategy. I NEED ASSISTANCE. Excuse me for not know the proper notations, as I just kinda started taking the Soul Calibur series seriously. I'm not some cool 8+ year veteran of Soul Calibur like everyone else here. A little slack would be a appreciated, bro.
My best advice is to drop the flowchart thing as soon as you can. Flow charts give you an okay offensive perspective and a terrible defensive perspective. This is especially true for Raphael, where all of your defensive options are exceptionally risky and can spell disaster if done at an improper time. You need to look at every situation as a unique one, and weigh each option on its merits at that moment. Flowcharting with Raphael just makes you predictable, and a predictable Raphael is a dead Raphael.
I think the idea is that entering Prep carries a risk (it is hard to exit) and commits Raph to keeping up pressure/evading a repost. Also, ~AB is supposed to be the higher damage option for 3(B), which would be less appealing given BBBFendante said:Why Prep BBB is NCC. I mean you can only get all three hits on CH, meaning your Prep entry move must be blocked or on whiff before Prep BBB connects. It would be nice if it's NC and you can do all three hits after 3B.
This seems to be one of the safest exit to Prep, since , Bb(BE), AB and K are bad on block. Has anyone been using single ~B to exit prep? It seems to work well as a string mixup, B in particular due to ~BBB.Leonyx said:On using Prep BB instead of Prep B(B).
I think the degree of flowcharting is one of the issues here.SA said:On flowcharts.
Do you think we need a notation guide specific to raph here ? I always thought the universal one in the tactics thread was straightforward + the partisan tutorial video helps.Speaking of notation, maybe an explanation could be added to the first post along with the shorthands to Prep and SE, since it seems we have decided on:
i. 3(B)~BB
ii. 3(B)~PrepBB
iii. 3(B)Prep~BB
its faster and catches step
This is what I keep hearing, but I've had it stepped a ton of times.
earlier i saw someone doing the ab low hit without doing prep, he did it multiple times so its no one time glitch can it be done?
1K will only catch the left reliably.Gojira said:This is what I keep hearing, but I've had it stepped a ton of times.
I was more concerned with the notation for prep, I somtimes use ~ to mean input into prep out of habit, and there are a few variants that show up.WuHT said:Do you think we need a notation guide specific to raph here ? I always thought the universal one in the tactics thread was straightforward + the partisan tutorial video helps.
http://8wayrun.com/threads/preparation-glitch-discussion.13142/william said:Is there a Prep A+B glitch? (I assume you mean A+B since it is the low)
It wasn't me who gave the link. I think Mr. Hai did.
The opponent's guard animation + your spacing may require that grabs need a tell-tale dash forward, which is frustrating.
If you're way up close, then its a simple grab (loses only to TC) or 236B mixup (loses to step)
Far away is trickier, because your opponent has a number of options as you dash forward, but mentally not every player is willing to take that gamble.
If you 22B into 3K (and it actually connects) you have standing options instead of wrB options, so you may get away with standing grab vs 3(B)~prepAB.