Free Step Dodge

.. sort of a teacher/reader type I think? Christie is a noobstomper rushdowner apparently easy to use against low skill and gets gradually harder to mix up when the opponent is better at the game. Not sure about Tina or Sarah they seem very hard to use atm.

What can you tell me about them?

Hmmm are you asking me about Tina & Sarah? Or everyone in general?

Well for Tina, I use her as my strategy character. She is the slowest character that I use so when I use her, I pay close attention to what my opponent is doing. So I'm basically on the defensive side MOST of the time with her.

For Sarah, I go CRAZY with her. Haha I don't let my opponents breathe when I pick her. She is very quick and she has a lot of mix ups. So she is capable of pressuring her opponents and poking them to death! Sarah is a BEAST! =]

Everybody.

Christie, she is a quick character also. If you abuse her 2 or 8 P+K, you will be fine because she can go low, mid, or high and she can crush her opponents guard with back P when she is in her stance.

Yeah Christie's mixups are the shit. She's this game's best rushdowner, even sacking Zack as I see it

Out of all of the characters listed, I feel like Ayane is the most difficult to use just because she has her turtling moves, back turn and all of that. And she likes to go mid a lot so she is kind of predictable..

Lei Fang is WAYYYY better in this game now. She has a lot of fake outs that are implemented in her moves AND she has guaranteed hits. For example after her mid kick counter, she has a guaranteed grab. Very useful for a cheap Hitomi player.. =]

Kokoro is a bit faster in this game and her hits after the pull in grab is very good. Her launches are good because she can launch her opponent with a high punch, mid kick, and a mid punch. 7 or 9 K, 7 or 9 P+K, and her 2 P+K

Lastly Kasumi, she isnt as fast like she was in DOA4, however she can be very difficult to beat. She has a "Parry" (disappearing) that she can use. She can teleport after her backflips and her 7 or 9 PK. When picking her it is very important to be quick on your feet. Plan out your moves ahead of time before doing them so you have some alternatives on what to do when a move fails.

Funny that you said "cheap Hitomi players". I was fighting some dude on the PSN the other night. It ended with 22-2. He beat me because he started using the parries into the grabs on my 3H+K and mid punches a lot. lol

See and Hitomis tend to do that forward kick & then down kick a lot.. Smh.. Who did you use?

hitomi lol XD. you mean the knee and then the sweep? Yea people aren't fast enough to catch that apparently. Then again I haven't fought man good people on the DOA5 PSN except DrakeAldan, Allan Paris, Kaedia, and a few others who's names slipped my mind. PL, DrDogg, and most others are only doing online private though... which sucks for me.

Ohhhhhh so you are the cheap Hitomi player? Lmao Haha yeah I haven't seen any popular names online either. They are probably hiding. Lol But yeah but dont be cheap with Hitomi okay! lol You only play it on PSN though? =[ Xbox is where its at!

I use playstation too.

Playstation is weak.

I don't know about that, I never asked it to lift me up. lol. Do characters have a "fast punish" or a set of fast punishes in this game like in Tekken?

Hm. This is where you lost me. Punish as in critical hits?