Sephiroth Builds

[Zephyer]

@Zephyer I'm not trying to be bad mannered here, just trying to read more into the game. And no, I didn't play vs 7 year olds.

Both LXD and I are saying that your strategy won't work, at least here it won't. We not saying Godspeed is on the same level of uselessness as Ring Holy, but all other Air options for Seph and better and synergise well with eachother. All I see is that you blatently slap down anything that LXD is saying with something that can and most likely will be read and punished.

[Galadín]

I still think the best thing you could do now Archy, is to look at some of the replays posted here on the forum. I would recommend you visit DanneD's replay thread.

[Archy]

Well I'll try the build out including SF, Scintilla, and Hell's gate, but it still looks like you have massively spam SF to get anywhere with your zoning. I guess the prob of SF is that you have have mid range followup once your opponent dodges. You just sit there spamming and DCing until your opponent gets close enough fro Sudden Cruelty or Oblivion. And the whole part of Scintilla covering your dodges.....you can do that with a normal block(granted leaves you open to HP attack but so does the scintilla delay) and leave less time to be punished by an attack after the huge delay of the scintilla animation.

[LXD92]

I still think the best thing you could do now Archy, is to look at some of the replays posted here on the forum. I would recommend you visit DanneD's replay thread.

Nah, he sould go checking out RDFs youtube channel, not sayin Danned is not good but i belivie RDF is way better then him

(yeah Danned, i think so live with it)

Well I'll try the build out including SF, Scintilla, and Hell's gate, but it still looks like you have massively spam SF to get anywhere with your zoning. I guess the prob of SF is that you have have mid range followup once your opponent dodges. You just sit there spamming and DCing until your opponent gets close enough fro Sudden Cruelty or Oblivion. And the whole part of Scintilla covering your dodges.....you can do that with a normal block(granted leaves you open to HP attack but so does the scintilla delay) and leave less time to be punished by an attack after the huge delay of the scintilla animation.

Seph is top (3rd) tier b/c of Shadow Flare

Scintella comes out faster then a normal block after a dodge... you cant block a dodge punish normally b/c the block is not that fast.

[Zephyer]

Well I'll try the build out including SF, Scintilla, and Hell's gate, but it still looks like you have massively spam SF to get anywhere with your zoning. I guess the prob of SF is that you have have mid range followup once your opponent dodges. You just sit there spamming and DCing until your opponent gets close enough fro Sudden Cruelty or Oblivion. And the whole part of Scintilla covering your dodges.....you can do that with a normal block(granted leaves you open to HP attack but so does the scintilla delay) and leave less time to be punished by an attack after the huge delay of the scintilla animation.

Scintilla has a mid priority block, while norrmal block is just low. You can block anything except HP attacks with Scin and Scin does brv damage before the HP hit.

[Stevie]

Well I'll try the build out including SF, Scintilla, and Hell's gate, but it still looks like you have massively spam SF to get anywhere with your zoning. I guess the prob of SF is that you have have mid range followup once your opponent dodges. You just sit there spamming and DCing until your opponent gets close enough fro Sudden Cruelty or Oblivion. And the whole part of Scintilla covering your dodges.....you can do that with a normal block(granted leaves you open to HP attack but so does the scintilla delay) and leave less time to be punished by an attack after the huge delay of the scintilla animation.

you can use shadow flare without spamming it, I tend to use it as a pressure tool when i'm far away from the player, and then air dash in as the opponent recovers it also good for comboing after an assist right up at the roof (Assist - SF - HL) it also good as a combo starter (SF - Assist - HL or OS) soo it has it uses, but yes i can get annorying if it spammed soo I tend to not spam it all the time as SC or O is a great dodge punisher

[Cipher]

Scintilla has a mid priority block, while norrmal block is just low. You can block anything except HP attacks with Scin and Scin does brv damage before the HP hit.

Actually it just has low-priority block, but like LXD said, Scintilla comes out much earlier than a normal block would when covering a dodge.

[xXxMikeyy]

My response will be suggestions and recommendations based on a PvP setting through Ad-Hoc Party. You don't have to take any of these as they are my thoughts, but I believe it'd be in your best interest to consider them. My personal thoughts and responses are in bold as the things that I believe you do not need are struck-through.



That should cover everything. If you have further questions, let me know.

Thanks a bunch for the detailed help, which seems exactly what I needed. My Sephy game is alot better now, and I've been practicing alot with action-style in the last 12 hours.
Also, you were right, I had plenty of CP left over, so I put it in auto-chase, I just seem to have trouble nailing 100% of X presses. I may take Auto Chase off soon just to see how I am in action style with it, but at least it's extra CP and not taking it away from something overly-important.

Thanks again ^^

[kewldude475]

you can use shadow flare without spamming it

lolno.

Scintilla has a mid priority block, while norrmal block is just low. You can block anything except HP attacks with Scin and Scin does brv damage before the HP hit.

Scintilla and normal blocks have the same priority, which is mid.

Actually it just has low-priority block, but like LXD said, Scintilla comes out much earlier than a normal block would when covering a dodge.

low-priority block=magic block I.E. Squall's Aerial Circle/Terra's Blizzara.

[kewldude475]

The offensive abilities are decent, but Black Materia is awful, and I'd recommend only having Transience as a bravery attack on the ground, since Sephiroth is mostly an aerial character.