After playing Helena for the first few days and switching exclusively to Leifang (and a bit of Mai atm, lovely character), I want to give the Grand Dame of DoA another chance.
Yesterday I got my ass handed to me and fell back to C rank, but it looks like I finally got to a positive win ratio again.
There are still times where characters with fast frames and especially those with gap closers like NiCo and Ayane can overwhelm and destroy me.
1)
Probably a weird one, but how are you guys using Teishitsu to evade mids? Does anyone know the frames involved with Teishitsu, the training mode doesn’t show how long it takes to be able to evade mids and how long that state lasts? I’m not sure if you can use it on reaction, I certainly can’t. It feels like mids hit me most of the times if I only duck once. I haven’t watched that many Helena gameplay videos yet, but I noticed that its common to duck twice. Visually it looks like the time where you can be hit is quite small and in training mode it feels like I have more success evading mids if I duck twice.
Is that just a placebo effect or does it make sense to use Teishitsu more than once? You obviously have to be careful of low throws, but I don’t intend to duck five times in a row.
2)
Any general tips against fast characters, besides the obvious ones? I try to get my turn by using high crushes, throw punishing (common mid strings on fast characters seem to be throw punishable) and slightly get out of P range to whiff punish and starting my own mixup hell. Is there anything else you can do if you have a Nico, Ayane, Kasumi or similar characters right in front of you. You can always hold if they are predictable, so there’s that.
3)
The most annoying characters are the fast ones with good spacing. If Ayane or Nico get a life lead and they want to play for time, it’s getting stressful for me. 66K can be decent if you space it well, but if the opponent knows what you’re doing you can easily eat a fan from Mai or a Thunderbold from Nico. What’s you guys strat in those situations?
