Saiki (Pre-release)

[VicViper]

Drive cancelling into fireball on his DP is so absurdly difficult because a lot of the time I'll end up super cancelling instead of drive cancelling.

Anybody figure out a good way to do it consistently?  Putting the stick back at neutral sounds like the way to do it, but I haven't figured out where exactly to do that yet.

EDIT:

Nevermind, just figured out I could tap the button after the DP to drive cancel in to it.

Boy KOF XIII sure is nice about this stuff.

[Saitsuofleaves]

Well, after playing Saiki a bit, he has great stuff as I thought, however he also has a ton of crap that has very precise inputs.

His Roundhouse Kick and DP followups are a pain (the DP moreso than the Roundhouse Kick).

His Fireball DM though is just dirty.  I can see some nasty setups coming from it.

I assume you're not talking about the joystick motions, because those are easy.

So what do you mean by that, then?

I mean the button input you hit after Roundhouse or DP in order to get the followup.  The Roundhouse Kick isn't too hard to get the followup after practice, but the DP is annoying as hell.

[Ryudo]

How exactly would you guys categorize Saiki as a character. Is he a zoner, rushdown, mixture etc. I was looking through his mission mode today and doing some of the combos seemed pretty interesting wondering whether i should pick him up or not.

[Saitsuofleaves]

He's a decent zoner, good DP, Fireball, a psuedo-Fireball to cover the air, a Fireball DM that hovers in the center of the screen.

[marchefelix]

Well, after playing Saiki a bit, he has great stuff as I thought, however he also has a ton of crap that has very precise inputs.

His Roundhouse Kick and DP followups are a pain (the DP moreso than the Roundhouse Kick).

His Fireball DM though is just dirty.  I can see some nasty setups coming from it.

I assume you're not talking about the joystick motions, because those are easy.

So what do you mean by that, then?

I mean the button input you hit after Roundhouse or DP in order to get the followup.  The Roundhouse Kick isn't too hard to get the followup after practice, but the DP is annoying as hell.

Oh, you mean the follow up!

Yeah, I can see how that would be annoying. You have to HOLD the button to do that, right?

[Saitsuofleaves]

Huh?  We have to hold it?  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, I did NOT know that.

[Light]

Scrub question how do you unlock saiki

[Sikemopko]

Scrub question how do you unlock saiki

If you got billy already choose him on your team and play doing as many target actions as possible, he should challenge you. It worked for me

[THE ANSWER]

This should be on the first post BTW, maybe we can get a mod to add it.

To unlock Saiki you need to complete 50 target actions by the end of your third match, then defeat him once you face him. If you average 6 target actions per round you should be able to unlock him.

[Light]

thanks guys

[Kane317]

This should be on the first post BTW, maybe we can get a mod to add it.

To unlock Saiki you need to complete 50 target actions by the end of your third match, then defeat him once you face him. If you average 6 target actions per round you should be able to unlock him.

Done.

[Aenthin]

Actually, I think it's points. Target Actions just helps a lot in raking points. You could also rake points by doing perfects, straights and finishing matches with DMs and Neomax. (To that last bit, I found this guy who was just really good with combos and almost always ended his matches with DMs and he got to Boss Saiki everytime when I normally had to use Target Actions to get to him).

[Saitsuofleaves]

I really wanna break down and explore Saiki before NEC, because I think he has a ton of potential.  Unfortunately I seem to be ass at any extended HD combos.

[GuamoKun]

I really wanna break down and explore Saiki before NEC, because I think he has a ton of potential.  Unfortunately I seem to be ass at any extended HD combos.

I started messing around with Saiki and he does have so many good tools.

Same here about the extended HD combos, I usually go for 2 or 3 hd cancels into a DM to a max cancel. Easy to do with many characters and it does a huge amount of damage.

[Saitsuofleaves]

I'll have to find a decent HD combo for Saiki because he doesn't have any hitconfirms from lights.  He might need those HD combos in the end.