The Official Fighting Games Topic - Page 8

Each player chooses a "groove" for their team. Here's an explanation of some of the most important properties of each groove (or at least, the properties that I still remember ).

C Groove
- Rolling (explained later).
- Alpha counters. This allows you to use 1 level of super to hit your opponent after you block an attack. The attack is very weak, though, so it's usually not worth it.
- Can block in the air. This is the ONLY groove that lets you block in the air (although you can parry or just-defend in the air as well: see below).
- Can use levels 1-3 supers.
- Can cancel out of level 2 supers to use either a level 1 super or a special move.

A Groove
- Rolling.
- Custom combos, like in Alpha 3. You're invincible just after activation. If you get hit even once, your custom combo stops but you get to keep your remaining metre (unlike Genei-Jin in 3s).
- The strongest groove. Some characters can deal ridiculous damage with custom combos, even more than Yun in 3s.

P Groove
- Parrying. Basically the same as in 3s (see EscPlan9's post ), but with stricter timing.
- Level 3 supers only.
- The 2nd-worst groove.

S Groove
- Running (self-explanatory).
- Dodging. Dodging has zero vulnerable frames, meaning you can block immediately after the dodge ends. You can't be hit while dodging, but I think you can still be thrown, so you can't just dodge all match.
- You need to charge your metre using a special charging move.
- With not-low-life, a full metre gives you a level 1 super.
- With low-life (flashing life bar), you can do unlimited level 1 supers,
- Sounds cool in theory, but it's the worst groove .

N Groove
- Rolling.
- Running.
- Alpha counters. Uses 1 stock per counter.
- You can store up to 3 stocks. You can use a stock to power-up, increasing your attack damage for a limited time.
- You can use 1 stock for a level 1 super at any time. If you have already powered-up using 1 stock, then you can use a 2nd stock to do a level 3 super.

K Groove
- Running.
- Just defending, aka JDing. This is somewhat similar to parrying. Instead of pressing forward/down to parry high/low attacks, you press back/down-back to JD high/low attacks. Like parrying, JDing gives you metre. Unlike parrying, JDing an attack usually doesn't allow you to counter-attack. However, JDing an attack prevents you from taking block damage, and it also gives you back a bit of life.
- Once your super metre fills up, you get "raged" and your attack power increases dramatically while your metre counts down. You can also do a level 3 super during this time.

Rolling and roll-cancelling (RCing):
Rolling in CvS2 shares some similarities with rolling in Super Smash Bros. games. You're invincible for most of the roll, but near the end you can be hit by low attacks or thrown before the roll finishes. An important "bug"/"feature" in CvS2 is "roll-cancelling" (RCing). Basically, if you do a roll and then immediately do a special move, your character will do the special move HOWEVER you willl be invincible for part of the special move! So whenever you see a C/A/P groove player do a special move and it passes right through an opponent's attack, it means the special move was RC'd.

Games 1 and most of 2:


The rest of game 2 and game 3:


(note: at the time of writing, the remaining games have not yet been uploaded )

Part 1:


Part 2 (the best part, imo ^^):


Part 3:


Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8