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What is the best character to practice against?; Personal experiences and opinions wanted
Topic Started: Dec 16 2006, 09:18 PM (566 Views)
Red_Essence_24
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There's just a little something that I've been wondering about so I can improve my skills in SC3. I know that the CPU uses different characters in different ways, and some characters are better controlled by the CPU than others. But overall, who is best to practice against if I want to best learn some good attack and defense strategies?
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Use Olcadan as a well rounded practice character since he seems to pull of more combo chains and works better as a A.I plus he can switch to different character weapons leaving the hassle of using every other character
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Sounds good to me. Let's see what some other people have to say as well.
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Im not sure. Personaly, id choose Nightmare anyday :lol:
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Personally, I would say Setsuka. Fighting her sort of forces you to find new ways to defend and attack.
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Yes, I would agree that Setsuka is pretty fast as an AI. I've practiced against her on Extremely hard before. It wasn't too bad, though there are some longer weapons that would require different reactions to.
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Actually...Voldo is way harder as a A.I on practice then Setsuka is i.m.o

he's too quick and unpredictable but at least you can improve on reaction timing and blocking ;)
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Yeah, that's true. But how many people use Voldo? Actually, right now I'm practicing against Talim to master her discipline with my CaS Lust. She looks so good and her voice is good too, I'm proud of her. :D It's the closest thing you can get to her, anyway. That reminds me, I just got done watching the entire FMA series and the movie this morning. It took me about three days! Heh. Not as much sleep but boy was it fun! That's an awesome anime series.
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If you come across a voldo player then

your doomed :o
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Dec 20 2006, 12:50 AM
Actually...Voldo is way harder as a A.I on practice then Setsuka is i.m.o

he's too quick and unpredictable but at least you can improve on reaction timing and blocking ;)

I agree, Voldo is much more unpredictable than Setsuka. I hate his guts, literally.
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Yes, but tell me what human is going to have such complicated chains like that, and with such accuracy? Voldo's style is very complex and takes lots of time to master, just like any stance-changing discipline such as Maxi and Siegfried. Most of the time the CPU uses characters differently than a human would and therefore the only real practice is against another human.
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Dec 26 2006, 05:28 AM
Yes, but tell me what human is going to have such complicated chains like that, and with such accuracy? Voldo's style is very complex and takes lots of time to master, just like any stance-changing discipline such as Maxi and Siegfried. Most of the time the CPU uses characters differently than a human would and therefore the only real practice is against another human.

Good point, Setsuka then. :P
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Yeah, I think of it this way... practicing against standard characters is best to prepare for the Vs. and World Tournaments, while most human players are going to be using their own CaS creations, so the best thing there is to practice against your own CaSes or the bonus characters. It makes sense, doesn't it? CaS is the best feature of SC3 in my opinion, and in general it turns any game with preset characters into something I can control. It's what keeps me playing games time and time again. Now until the day when we can do things like take pictures or somehow allow our game consoles to read pictures from our computer and then use those as CaS parts or something to that effect, it will never be perfect, but oh well. I've seen the ability in the past, this old baseball game on PS2 that let you take a picture of your face with the old PS2 camera. Something like that. Well, I got a bit off topic here, but I'm always full of ideas. Lust's hair in this game is not quite what it should be, and her clothes aren't perfect, but I'm enough of a fan to not care about coming more than as close as I can. Heh. If you think I'm crazy here, you should see me watching Fullmetal. Haha.
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Setsuka is pretty good, but I find her pretty hard to master.
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Yes, perhaps. I'm too big of a CaS fan to have much practice with many of the standard characters, except "Soul of" CaS disciplines such as Maxi or Zasalamel. Besides, the only real differences I notice with the standard character and CaS movelists are less throws for CaS disciplines. Oh well, there's way more important tactics than landing a throw anyway. Good combos and guard impacts are far more important.
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