Can someone (possibly North) please place this in the top menu for people? Currently it is kind of hidden.
I'm hard pressed to think of any situation where use of Flashy Thing is actually reccomended.. Maybe if you had super high risk, or wanted to stop the opponent from GC spamming your FA spam…
And at 3 EX, the cost is too high for such marginal usefulness. Better to use it on, say, Judgement Javelin, at a low level, and at higher levels, it's 3 'castings' of Mystic Eyes
I mostly talking about battles when u trying controll both spins and enemy's risk, more less often it is hard for me to control my risk. In average for me difficulty battles I rather successfull use combination of: Practiced and Flashy Thing, other 2 slots for "farming" like Hit Confirm, Discerning Eye, Royal Wave, etc. 2nd reason for me can be love to use AC when opponent is dow to 1/3 hp and I reseted skill uses to be "new as a baby" and do not look at -1 or 2 ranges and finish harder. Flashy Things is cheap skill to learn that helps me prepare more different variants of moves depending on opponent's behavior, roll luck and so. FA and then spam TP is perfect advice, but only one algorithm do not garantee 100% wins, I think better describe for Flashy Thing for me is less power but big reserves to stay versus most powerfull computer's conter-attacks… OPPONENT CANNOT WASH! His uses are with him and even 1-2 risk in late game can break all his plans, luck with rolls, MikuMikuPhi, etc. I can wash and make clean wins :)
P.S. Of course at higher fields I'll use something else and try all advices in battle practice, but right now it is what I've met and muli-checked :)
"Turfs 7-8 Strategy (Dramatic Cliff and Traintop)
Charge, Hunter's Chain, Weight Weapons(c-c-c-combo breaker or roundhouse)"
"Weighted Weapons Frame Advantage gets +1 Spin"
If we scare Dark Whirlwind and shouldn't have spin higher than opponent, we shouldn't advice Weighted Weapons as part of set, counting that it can be stealed/leaned at Traintop only and so can not help at turf 7-8 as players weaker to use skill slot for Hit Confirm or sth. I'll fix it in few minutes.
Once you can get Weighted Weapons from Traintop, though, it should immediately be equipped.
And once WW is equipped, there's no need to be scared of Dark Whirlwind anymore, as your Spin will still rise faster than your opponents.