u/keedee3

I used to look at lilies in my garden, such a big gorgeous flower, invading the entire garden with its gorgeous smell. It would make the entire house smell of lilies if you just put one flower in a vase

It shared the top 3 spots as my favourite flower together with roses and ornamental prunuses

Then I noticed that this demon uses them as a hair ornament, and ever since then, I couldn't look at them the same. They are now forever tied to her, and when I am forced to be reminded of this fiend every time I look at them

Why does her touch of death have to ruin the nicest things? Why couldn't she just pick some random common dandelions, daisies, or clover flowers so that when I mow the lawn, they go into composting together with other dirt and shit as they deserve?

Why did she have to pervert every innocent thing?

Broken ass character and I get to look at his smug ass face for 4 minutes

I'm about to reach high plat, lvl 100 on ABA, and it's just the time for me to pick a second main, to spice things up a bit, not get burned out playing ABA, take a little vacation and chill my brain out because I've been labbing her only for so long, and have someone to fall back on in tournaments when I'm forced to face her bad matchups

I've made a rough list of who I potentially want to try out, and I'll give a short reason as to why, but I'm mostly interested in picking up the best character that can complement her bad matchups, because I've started attending some tournaments and I don't want to brute force aba all the time, and would like to have someone I can fall back to

HONORABLE MENTION

• Robo-Ky: I definitely want to try him out, but since he's not out yet, and I don't know what he will play like I chose to wait and see. There will also be a lot of people playing him so I might wait for the hype to settle down

Tried it

• Sol: I liked playing him, I like all the tools he has to his disposal, and his gameplay is super interesting, as well as fun and often hilarious, but he just seems weak, and I don't wanna play yet another low tier
• Baiken: Opposite of sol, she Is strong but I don't find her gameplay interesting for some reason, her attacks are super stubby and I don't like that. I'm used to ABA's 5h, 236k, lunging far slash, and other ways to go in

Want to try out

• Pot: I will definitely main him at some point, it's just that he requires as much hyperfixation as ABA, and I don't have space for both him and her, at least not now. Otherwise I would main him in an instant. ABA just takes up too much space in my brain.
• I-No: I'll be fr, she's only up there because I got her unique skin in the blazing pass and felt compelled to play her because of it. Otherwise I don't find her compelling at all
• Bedman: Always wanted to main him since I started playing, but he seems difficult and too different from all the other characters, otherwise if ABA wasn't in the game, he would definitely be my main, him and ABA are what got me into the game. I just never found time to play him.
• Slayer: Probably the only "spammy" character I wanted to main along the others I mention, because unlike Unika, Elphelt and Jam, he seems like the only honest one among them because he's not as annoying
• Unika: She's only here because I decided I will pick her up once I get good and get her to vanquisher within a week just to prove my own agenda. Otherwise, the only character I'd pick up if I truly wanted to turn my brain off and press shit
• Jam: Seems interesting, it's just that she's new and everyone is playing her, I might pick her up once her hype starts to die down and she becomes less annoying. Kinda like slayer when he came out lol.

Eh

• Ky: Not an interesting character. When I pick a character I'm making a statement, when I pick Ky I'm writing an essay on the subject I don't agree with just so I can get a passing grade.
• Leo: Ky, but instead of being soulless, he's just generic. If Ky is vanilla, Leo is chocolate ice cream. Not as tasteless but still bland without other stuff.
• Gio: The most interesting of the "generic" characters. If I had to pick a generic character, it would definitely be her. Nothing special, but Gio at least feels like she tries to be unique. If Ky is vanilla, Leo is chocolate, then Gio is strawberry. Most unique of the generic characters, but not unique enough to be exotic.
• Anji: If I had to pick a character solely based on strength, it would be him. He's just good, but I've never hit a rock bottom so badly that I considered picking a meta character. Being "meta" just makes the character not interesting, because it feels like that is the only reason you're playing him.
• Elphelt: She still gives me PTSD. Her whole gameplay loop looks like sol fS frame trap but even more funny, I just feel like I would be playing her to laugh at people while I get to get away with doing mixups and laughing because they don't know how or when to punish me. She just feels like "knowledge check-the character", and that's the entire gimmick.
• Lucy: Jack of all trades. She can do everything "well", I feel like she could be played with however you want, but everyone does something better than her. Vanilla character, but with caramel topping.

Interesting but zoners (pretty self explanatory)

• All of them are interesting in their own way. Faust is just fun and gimmicky, not really good. Venom is such an interesting character, very unique gameplay and a very high skill ceiling. Seems like a empty canvas, a 4d character in a 2.5d game. Dizzy I hate her so much. I hate facing her, but I hate myself for wishing to main her. My one guilty pleasure.
• They're all zoners tho, and I never liked the concept of zoners. Their gameplay seems unengaging as a concept, If i were good at them, and could zone opponents out, it would just get boring. Playing zoners well is boring and uninteractive

Absolutely not

• Chip, Goldlewis and Millia Have very unique skillsets that almost makes them feel like playing a different game than the rest of the cast. A very select set of skills that don't interest me too much, and would not translate well into learning to play other characters
• Asuka: If I wanted to play a high skill ceiling zoner, I'd just play Venom
• Everyone else: Either a zoner, annoying, uninteresting gameplay loop or Hitler. You can argue in the comments who is who. (maybe it's all of them at the same time!?)

I have a hard time timing the 14f startup 2h to catch wake up throws and do a counter combo, I often just miss it or they grab me, so I figured doing a f.S after it leaves me exactly +15 which lines up with 14f startup +3 active frames

the missed f.S also looks like a fake whiff so they might be extra encouraged to mash throw thinking I just made a mistake, but it catches them so reliably because they try to do a move inside of a active attack window and get punished every single time

aba overhead

Are all the same. I've never seen a Jam player who didn't play exactly the way I've expected them to play, but somehow it keeps working for them

Is there any more sauce I can squeeze out of the bottle or is this the pinnacle of what ABA can do in Normal Mode?

I've given myself the freedom of using 1rc because if you're at a point where enemy has no burst and you're pulling this shit you will likely have meter anyways, and HKD from air key is always good