Understand THIS To Win Shield Wars In Melty Blood Type Lumina 

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Finally someone talking about no followup shield

Thanks for the video as always! I'd love a video explaining oki and meatys in a deeper sense. Coming from strive which is much slower paces, its really hard to get the timing down and figure out what really are my best options

This shit gets so crazy, but I'd be lying if I said it aint satisfying as fuck to beat someone at a shield war

"The way to win the war is not to take part of the war" -Sun tzu

my friend shields very often and i've been getting better at shield cancelling my approach options just in case. this has led to some over 10 turn shield wars that have been silly as hell pulling us across the map

This makes sense why Shiki always picks scissors during the shield (rock) RPS situation lol. I learned from all every other Shiki online that it is indeed the right answer every time because you can't be scared to stab a mf.

Nice video, you're the first youtuber I've seen bring attention to pressing nothing after shield. Very important

the beginning step of structuring your offense in this game should be trying to convince your opponent that shielding out of your pressure is a bad idea. once theyre afraid to shield you can really go ham with any character.

This was incredibly helpful, best tutorial on the mechanic I've seen so far.

A bad relationship is when you shield war but your significant other refuses to initiate back.

Thanks for the vid! Shielding this way is a new mechanic I’m getting used to and the tips about engaging in shield war or disengaging were helpful!

yo this was great. thorough, clear, and quick. gonna be taking that last 3c tip for a ride later with Ciel

This was incredibly helpful, thanks.

A distinction that I think needs to be clarified is that you can only switch shield positions between high and low AFTER blocking at least one attack. You cannot change the position of a freshly activate shield that hasn't absorbed an attack, so players who do nothing on wake-up can fatal counter you on reaction if you press shield, or attack you when you release it. Also, the B+C follow up costs half moon gauge for both the offensive and defensive player. It only looks like the player shielding spends 1/4th meter because when you successfully shield, you are rewarded with an additional 2 moon gauge bars at the end of the current shield interaction (i.e. when you release shield, cancel it, or get hit out of it). If the player who executed the shield and blocked the attack has less than 50% moon gauge, they cannot use the B+C follow-up, even though they will be rewarded moon gauge for landing a shield afterwards.

Thank you very much, my friend loves spam shield to every single move and I didn't know how to response to that, specially when he teleports behind me. I play Red Arcueid so it's annoying when he shield my projectiles or C attacks

To be honest, im not a fan of how powerful the shield is. This is only off about 12-15 hours of play time. I seem to be able to cheese people with shield and get a free small combo into a grab on wake up cause the opponent was wake up shielding. Just my opinion though.

My boy, the growth on this channel and how fast. Beautiful. Keep it up king....where's the facecam

This video is great, very informative and easy to learn. I play Miyako, so after I shield and then I see my opponent shield, I grab and get a full combo off that. It’s such a mind game cause I get scared I’m gonna get launched

I was just watching your movement guide. You have great timing. 💯

11:58 new to fighting games, in this situation how can I counter 3C then? Because I can’t get close to the opponent if opponent keep shooting projectile to keep the distance if I’m playing melee such as Shiki. If I keep dashing whenever I try to stop myself I will take stagger duration that I can’t block or shield so it leads to a full combo on me. Pressing B it’s a guaranteed hit from opponent by 3BC. Ciel, Roa, Vlov they both has tendency to shoot projectiles rapidly. It’s kinda desperate to deal with them every time going against them (yea so I dodge them a lot…). You just can’t B them otherwise you just get hit it’s so busted.

surprisingly the A shield follow up can actually reach the b+c follow up, though its only from the corner

I played witha vlov earlier and idk how much of his projectile i shielded but didnt initiate just because, and the fact that the vlov is shielding from pretty much fullscreen more often than not in response to that is kinda funny to me

Great video Daiken!!

Really informative video, lot I didn't know yet thank you

You are awesome. Awesome video too.

Cool video. I learned some tips with shielding since that part always messed me up. I'm curious tho, what is the outro for this video? It sounds nice

Turning Input Display on in tutorial videos are a great help for newer people that don't have a deep understanding of FGs. It's also easier to see exactly what are you doing and when you say "See? In this situation I'm locked in and can't do anything" it's very clearly verifiable. Oh, you did turn it on halfway through. But there was a situation before it that having it already on would have been yet another way to solidify your point that you can't input shield after a Moon skill/EX Special.

Not gonna lie, shield is one of the things preventing me from enjoying this game, along with the lack of buffer and the auto combos.

I really hate shield

No matter what I do I ALWAYS lose shield battles

Anyone on PSN want a training buddy? I'm coming from Strive and DBFZ, trying to wrap my head around getting better at Melty and fighting games as a whole

You missed the grab.

I'm going to be honest, I hate the shield mechanic. I find all of the rest of melty blood's gameplay great but I hate the shield mechanic.

This was very helpful, much appreciated.