Kokomi
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As much as I try to refrain myself from posting this right here (and not knowing if this is the right place to post), I would really love to get some advice from any competitive players out there between these two ladies.
Embarrassing to say, I am a B- ranker, who has trouble deciding between the both. Initially, I had always intended to main Hitomi if I ever got my hands on DOA5. My previous game was DOA2:Hardcore, thus, from DOA3-DOA4, I never had the chance to try out Hitomi until DOA5 was made available to PS3.
Disappointing to say, when I first started out, I had trouble with Hitomi from her basics to the juggles. At then, I decided that if all else fails, Kokoro would be my secondary main. Kokoro, imho, was much easier, due to her lenient command inputs. I was able to juggle with Kokoro within a few days of gameplay, but with Hitomi, the only options I used juggling was ppp, because I had a tendency to screw pp6pk or the rest of her command inputs and risk giving away a beautiful juggle.
When 1.03's patch came out, I decided to drop Kokoro, considering the fact that perhaps Kokoro being hit with a nerf bat was a sign for me that I should go back to maining Hitomi (this has nothing to do with the Kokoro being weak). Ever since then, I dedicated my time to perfecting Hitomi in any way I can and sure enough, I managed to do better with her through practice. BUT, ironically, I feel that as a B- ranker, I lack the proper gameplay a Hitomi player should have.
Earlier on when I was rank-ing again, I got defeated by a players that were below my ranks, mostly C rankers, but also one B- ranker who used Rig. I'll talk about the Rig player, during the first match, I used Hitomi and was subsequently defeated in a 1-3 round. On a second match, I decided to use Kokoro and sure enough I emerged as the victor. I proceeded to meet a few B- thereafter and continued to use Kokoro just to gauge my abilities as a Kokoro player after having not to play her for 2 weeks. My basic juggles were still there, I pressure better as her than Hitomi and I certainly spammed less as Kokoro.
Don't get wrong, I'm not saying that just because I defeated a few B- rankers, I think I'm better at Kokoro. My victory could have been a sheer of luck, rather than skills. But I always felt that Kokoro was certainly easier for me, than Hitomi was. Correct me if I am wrong, but allow to me highlight the difference that I have observed between the both of them.
Kokoro
- Heichu stance
- Preferable for aggressive players
- Despite nerf is still pretty good <3
- Kinda short
- Main thing that stands out between her and Kokoro is, imho, her 66kkk/p, which is useful if you want to attack while running, aside from your 236P/K.
- Limited juggle options compared to Kokoro
- Free Cancelling intensive due to many of her punches and kicks ending on a mid
- Taller
- A character who can constantly keep a steady flow of offensive pressure in fights
- Doesn't require much free cancelling unless really needed
- Beautiful juggles <3 (Even during fights, JUGGLES MUST BE BEAUTIFUL >)
- Prefers kicks over punches
- Outputs damage through juggles/mix-ups (to me, both Kokoro and Hitomi seem to need this)
- Lenient command input, doesn't require much directional action
- To compete competitively. By this, I hope that, if I do make it as an S ranker, I hope that I can hold myself against a few good players or play as well as some of them like Vanessa/Master or Electrified Mann but not enough to play in any tournaments. This means that, disregarding player capabilities, who is more likely to perform better in terms of competitive gameplay.
- I wonder whose the prettier between the two
To people whose wondering, why can't I just main both? Well, my answer is I tend to do better if I focus on one character rather than two, if I divide my attention equally to both characters, I'll end up at nowhere and I don't really enjoy that.
Before I end my post, I would just like to apologize if the post is at the wrong section, because I tried skimming through each discussion section and found no one asking about "who to main" threads, so I figured this is where the topic should go if I were to ask.
And also, if I were to go back to maining Kokoro, I would just like to say sorry to Raansu and the rest of the Hitomi players, who helped me out quite a bit when I was training Hitomi and for disappointing them.
