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I've spent the past 10 days after school in the arcade. On the first few days, I lost every match against this Hazama, now I can defeat him with my Rachel.
I didn't actually play alot, but I watched the regular pros for 2 hours everyday, then play a few coins just to keep myself familiar with Rachel. Then at home, I'll watch a few of Matsu's fights. Now I'm alot more confident with Rachel and actually like how she is now.
In all 10 days, there's only one other Rachel player and its not his main, he is one of the top players around. His Rachel isn't very flashy, he has like only 2 combos that he kept using, but he won like 15 times in a row against other pros until he let a female player win against him. It was from him that I realised that Rachel really doesn't need much to win, just keep with all the fundamentals and utilise the tools well.
I find myself much more careful and reacting faster, I use the lightning rod as long as the opponent touches it, I throw a pumpkin into them as long as there is a chance. Because her damage is so low, you just keep doing anything that you have a chance to do. None of my wins are by time over even when my average combo damage is like 1.5k. My combos are also very basic BNBs, the BNB Tiny Lobelia combo, Frog combo, air combo. These 3 are enough to kill opponents, the rest is just creating and grabbing opportunities.
Tiny Lobelia is incredibly spammable now, you get all you poles in place in no time. Once they're in place and you have zoning control, you summon a pumpkin and throw an air frog. As long as the opponent isn't closing in I'll just keep throwing rods and lightning bolts. When they rush you you move your pumpkin or block and wait for a chance to counter, if not, use the electric chair. I find the zoning game very fun and Tiny Lobelias very addictive, you throw one at the end of every combo.
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