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This Weekend:
 

 
Notable Players:
 
Affi
Angry Bird
Aziz
Bonchan
GO1
Irissia
John Takeuchi
Luffy
Mr Crimson
Oil King
Packz
Problem X
Shivryuken
Takamura
Tyrant
Verdoyance
Verloren

Live Stream Schedule:
                          
Saturday

Sunday

 

This Weekend:
 

 
Notable Players:
 
Affi
Angry Bird
Aziz
Bonchan
GO1
Irissia
John Takeuchi
Luffy
Mr Crimson
Oil King
Packz
Problem X
Shivryuken
Takamura
Tyrant
Verdoyance
Verloren

Live Stream Schedule:
                          
Saturday

Sunday

 

This Weekend:
 

 
Notable Players:
 
Affi
Angry Bird
Aziz
Bonchan
GO1
Irissia
John Takeuchi
Luffy
Mr Crimson
Oil King
Packz
Problem X
Shivryuken
Takamura
Tyrant
Verdoyance
Verloren

Live Stream Schedule:
                          
Saturday

Sunday

 

Give up on SFV and its dumb grapplers.
 
There is only one (low-tier) grappler you need:
 

LOL

Yea it definitely looks like fun. Unfortunately most pro Laura players think VT2 is useless. But we'll see what people can do with it after the patch. ;)
 
I read that 801 Strider will probably drop Laura for Kolin. I don't and I can't judge him as someone, who played less than 1000 matches and never went to tournaments. Fuudo might drop Mika as well.
For me the changes don't really matter. I played Laura in S1, where she was considered a bottom 3 character and still had fun with her. Because using a "better" character won't change anything, if you still have major flaws in your gameplay imo.
 
The only thing which could be problematic right now are the Cammy buffs imo. Not from a player perspective (because as I said, I lack experience to judge about their balance decisions), but as a viewer it could get pretty boring if you buff a character who had the most representation in top 64 of the last few tournaments.
 
I don't see it as problematic with Menat. QoL changes are nice and could mean more people pick her up now but she is still hard to learn and Du's impressive pocket Cammy showed that her amazing walkspeed counters Menat very well.
 
Also the Pro Tour already started. Most pro players probably want to have someone as a pocket character who is quite easy to learn so I could see a lot of them having a pocket Cammy for some matchups.  Menat requires more time to be tournament ready.

Laura VT2 is fun. I've broken it out now and again and I've always thought it had some applicability in certain match ups just because it gives her something resembling a reversal option. 
 
My biggest gripe with VT2 with her is how slow everything on it ends up being. Dodging anything that doesn't have a lot of lead up (slow attacks, jump ins) is tricky and its hard to react dodge fireballs. It may be better with the dodge not actually taking VT timer, and maybe its just something I'd need to practice more. I do like it for being a 2 bar if nothing else. 
 
The real question at this point is that if there will be any Laura players left to discover tech.  I've seen a lot of life rafts departing the Laura discord.

Tonight I cry myself to sleep over the loss of a good friend of 25 years.
We had a great time together, Gief.

Laura seems slightly buffed. Might try out her VT2 now (haven't messed around with it at all).
Mika about the same I guess, but more dmg on command throw is not really something she needs imo.
Biggest buff for these two are probably the Abigail and Rashid nerfs.
 
And I think I might drop Chun and Juri as side bae's and pick up Menat as third character. Because her QoL changes is exactly the stuff I need to not fuck up her v-trigger combo on P2 side. This should really help me out and I could use a heavy zoner to complement my two grappling ladies.

@GetTheTables I'm gonna let you peek at few bars from @TWINBLADES_SRK first single off his new album The UnbeREEEEable Ice Queen
 
I got that surefire tech to assure my victory
Jump Hardkick, V-Skill, hit dem with the REEEE
Akhos match analysis, I don't need that fam
Jump Hardkick, V-Skill, cause' I don't give a damn
Hail setups and vanity steps don't get the job done
Jump Hardkick, V-Skill, Ima have some fun
 
Side note: I need help fam
 

DiasFox definitely delivered with this Rose commission.

lets chuck some wud boyz.
 
Oh damn diego umejuarez time

It was ET's Laura. He's one of my favorite KOF players

Such a great one.

Chris T and Samurai's match was fun 

Tokido with the reverse Wong Factor. He's got players killing themselves.

Nephew gave game one a way. He had NO reason to go in on Tokido.

Death pools for NCR start in about 20 minutes.
Every pool has like 4-5 players who usually make it out of pools. It will be a blood bath.
 
https://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters
 
 

damn that demon.
I like Samurai's Akuma.

damn that demon.
I like Samurai's Akuma.

Death pools for NCR start in about 20 minutes.
Every pool has like 4-5 players who usually make it out of pools. It will be a blood bath.
 
https://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters
 
 

As someone that's put in like 16K matches into SFV I can say with great certainty that unless you have balls of steel the nervousness never really goes away. The higher I've gone up in points the more nervous I get when facing someone new. You guys haven't experienced it yet but when you start running into Vets and well known online rank players it gets even worse because in your mind you wonder if your BS can phase them. I've ran into PR-Rog, Chris T, Brent is Cool, Justin Wong,  Aruto & Gllty just to name a few and have gotten cooked by all of them. It's exciting but nerve wrecking as hell because it's like one of those "it's all led up to this moments" Like you are fighting the Elite 4 lmao!
 
But that nervous aspect is also what's made it fun to turn the game on and see what you're gonna get. 

Apologies for the double post. I am a caveman and cannot figure out how to add a quote to an edited post.
 
I hear you about the nerves. I get nervous before I play pretty much every time, even BL sets. I haven't been able to come up with a great solution. I just call myself a bitch and play through the nerves.  I think it does get better the more you get exposed to the game and the more things become routine, but the core of SFV is also pressure and feeling pressured so I dunno how much that ever really goes away. Of any of the FGs I've played online SFV has been the most stressful by a good measure.