Aoi Dojo!?

are there any Aoi masters out there? because there doesn't seem to be much on her on VFDC and i find that really disappointing...anyone gonna try and make a dojo for her or whatever anytime soon? or something?

 

I'm thinking of writing a really brief Aoi guide. It'll basically ignore frames (as I've never studied or looked at a frame guide, even once) and focus on some tricky combos and ways to do some serious damage. Stay tuned.

 

I consider myself a decent Aoi player, but since I can't find any Archade around here with VF4, I really hadn't any practice with real player yet, but depends on what you want, I may be a little helpful

 

Re: Aoi

Clip 5 /versus/images/icons/cool.gif
Check out the Aoi who fights a good fight against a savvyJacky B. ( 70% wins). Then check out :
VF3 Aoi Beginners guide oldie moldie with some value for <font color="pink"> Aoi </font color> players and an excellent model of VF Aoi flowcharts! /versus/images/icons/wink.gif Looking forward to reading GP thoughts on Aoi. <font color="33ffff"> Shang</font color> from Boston VF Crew is a quite an accomplished Aoi player. I hope he contributes here too. <font color="33ffff">

 

Finally some aoi players, I think my most effective combo that works on the computer is,,,low risk ground attack or ground throw after that, plus everytime you knock down the com always go in for the low reversal unless they're highkings. /versus/images/icons/grin.gif

 

After you execute the double stop-> knee, jumping kick, you can punish the opponent if s/he techrolls by dashing forward and performing ++,. This results in a back stagger. Aoi can follow up with +. It's more damaging, the CPU opponent always techrolls (highking, 10th kyu, and everyone in between), and if the opponent hits the wall a ground throw is guaranteed.

 

Actually wrote a guide -- just waiting for Myke to get back to me on how I can have it posted... other than the forums.

 

Re: Aoi Dojo!

<font color="9933cc"> deep bow</font color> hope you will indulge us with your take on clip 5 which is linked up a few posts here in <font color="ffff33">Aoi Doji </font color> discussion. thx /versus/images/icons/cool.gif Jiriwat once wrote: <font color="33ccff"> "It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."</font color> and <font color="33ff66"> " Aoi is probably the most underused of characters; and justifibly since she is probably the most underpowered..."</font color> <font color="black"> Guard cancels, evades, sabakis, reversals and throw escapes are all part of thefascination with this ultra-light fighter. <font color="purple"> "She wears a coat of colors. She is loved by some and feared by others"</font color> - <font color="brown"> CreeD</font color> <font color="black"> (lyrics from CD)

 

awesome, and muchos gracious in advance. hopefully it'll get published before this friday.. gonna be bashing on the ps2 this weekend with some friends of mine.

 

Hi GhostDog,

I didn't understand the ++~ part: why cancel the spinning strike attack after your opponent does a TR?

THanks.

Fokfu

 

You don't cancel the spinning strike after the opponent TRs.

The spinning strike-elbow (++, ) is useful in punishing opponents who techroll from the face-down, feet away downed position. ++ causes a back stagger, but if Aoi continues with , the opponent will be knocked down. Cancelling the elbow (++, ) will cause a back stagger and put Aoi within range for a followup attack, like +.

Try it out in the VF4 training mode. Set the training dummy on "crouch", and manuever to his/her back. Then perform ++, but g-cancel the elbow. You should see that the spinning strike (++)will cause the training dummy to back stagger, and g-cancelling the elbow () will bring Aoi within attacking range.

 

In support of what Ghostdog is talking about...

The second elbow in ++, will whiff in some back stagger situations (setup/timing) making it extra valuable to just G-cancel the second elbow and followup with something else.

++ is a great (and consistent) backstagger tool when your opponent is foolish enough to tech roll in the face-down head-towards position. (I say this despite my stubborn habit of using sidekick where it's a 50/50 chance after the tech roll--IF they techroll)

-Chanchai