Your Touhou Arch-Nemesis

[Zengeku]

I guess its not just Koishi now... Kanako too. VoWG Lunatic... the only spell of hers i can't capture.

[Garlyle]

LLS: Yuka.  Even when I know its coming, LAZORZ

MS: Yuki and Mai.  Actually, I often suck worse against Shinki, but I love fighting her so it doesn't matter to me.

EoSD: Nobody?  Oh, wait, Flandre, for the sake of Argh.  Also, Sakuya's Misdirection on Easy/Normal is, for some reason, much harder than on Hard/Lunatic

PCB: Ran.  I should honestly be able to beat her by now.  BUT NO.  Oh, and Youmu.  Why does everyone complain about Chen?  I hardly even notice that fight.

IN: Hourai Elixir can go !@#$ itself.  Nevermind Kaguya's last spells.  Everything else is fine... oh, maybe Keine being a pain, or Mokou's Fujiyama Volcano for always costing me SEVERAL bombs/lives

PoFV: SIKIEIKI ARGH I COULD BEAT LUNATIC BUT FOR YOU.  And Aya for bullcrap corner-locking due to walls of aimed bullets.

MoF: The Entire Game.  I don't get along with MoF.  Specifically?  That Waterfall.  Not even Aya, but the freaking stage itself.

SA: Orin.  Orin Orin ORIN D:< I COULD BEAT THE GAME BUT FOR YOU.  Oh, and Parsee's opener is a bit bull.

[theshirn]

Mokou's Fujiyama Volcano for always costing me SEVERAL bombs/lives

I used to have that problem.  I can send a replay of me clearing it, if you want.  Once I figured out how to do it, I started capping it around 2/3 of the time.  (The other 1/3 is because I suck.)

Oh, and Parsee's opener is a bit bull.

Wha?  My friend has horrible issues with Parsee's midboss opener too, but I've yet to find either that or her boss opener remotely difficult, even on Lunatic.

[Garlyle]

Wha?  My friend has horrible issues with Parsee's midboss opener too, but I've yet to find either that or her boss opener remotely difficult, even on Lunatic.

Mostly the boss opener, due to how far down it reaches before stopping.

I used to have that problem.  I can send a replay of me clearing it, if you want.  Once I figured out how to do it, I started capping it around 2/3 of the time.  (The other 1/3 is because I suck.)

Please do T.T I can capture almost every one of Mokou's cards... except that.

[RainfallYoshi]

(My first post after awhile of lurking, rawr!)

It's hard to pin-point one for all of Touhou... I'll just go by game. I play on Normal.

EoSD: Sakuya. Gawd she is a pain. Her mid-boss section is just hell on me. I always end up bombing quite a bit on her spell cards too. Especially Clock Corpse and Marionette.

PCB: The Prismriver Sisters. I always end up stuck against the wall with notes smacking me in the face. It's mostly their non-spell attack patterns that screw with me.

IN: Eirin. Seriously, she's so much harder than Kaguya. All of her spell cards give me issues.

Now that I think about it though, I think Sakuya takes the cake for my arch-nemesis. She really just knows how to send a knife right into my face.

[trancehime]

PoFV against a human player + that human player is using Reimu = you auto-lose

goddamnit Reimu is a bitch and a half even on Normal, somehow, I can defeat her on Lunatic, but it is /really/ difficult. I mean ohshit.

[Vile Lasagna]

Now that I think about it though, I think Sakuya takes the cake for my arch-nemesis. She really just knows how to send a knife right into my face.

That's her favourite sport, it would seem.

[theshirn]

Please do T.T I can capture almost every one of Mokou's cards... except that.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3301

Enjoy.  Maybe I'll put up a SA Stage 2 Lunatic run later.

[Zengeku]

Oh, you are supposed to pick a Nemesis for all the games hmm? Well, why not.

1-5: Don't really play these much at all but Yumeko's a real bitch.
6: Flandre. Mostly due to laziness i think.
7: Yuyuko. Her "anything from start to finish" breaks my heart.
8: Nothing really but if it had to be its got to be last words.
9: Shikieiki. The few times i have tried fighting her i always have to use continues. I don't know what goes wrong. Guess its phantasmagoria.
10: Kanako. VoWG. Its awesome and horrible simultaneously!!
11: Koishi. Most of the stuff i can think of is not allowed here but she can go somewhere where dark and very scary and evil. She can come back when she have gotten rid of the heart-missiles. And maybe the pointless filler spells such as Danmaku Paranoia and Youkai Polygraph.

[Vile Lasagna]

Oh, you are supposed to pick a Nemesis for all the games hmm? Well, why not.

That was some guy's idea since he is too indecisive to choose between man or womane all the bosses. As OP I can assure you, a single boss is more than fine since for being only one it must have a particularly dense portion of your boundless hate caring love

[Zengeku]

That was some guy's idea since he is too indecisive to choose between man or womane all the bosses. As OP I can assure you, a single boss is more than fine since for being only one it must have a particularly dense portion of your boundless hate caring love

While its caring love for most, in the case of the nemesis bosses its more of a feeling of friendly rivalry.

[RainfallYoshi]

Ok, I have a new arch-nemesis and her name is Patchcouli 'effing Knowledge.

So... much... rage...

[untitled servent]

Almost anyone level 4 and up is the bane of my existence due to my failure at touhou. Specifically Sakuya as I always run into the side of her knives or she freezes time while I'm grazing a knife and decides to flip it into my hit, Youmu for the existence of that ball opener, and that random fairy sub boss on PCB level 3.

[SONIC BHOCOLATE STRIKER]

Youmu.

[Zengeku]

Youmu is moe... except in PCB where she is an asshole. Thank you so much for slowing time. That will surely help me getting past a wall. Let alone that slow-down gag messes up my movement speed to beyond the point of redemption. I can be in the middle of some tricky movement and then when she un-slow the time i'll be flying all over the place as i don't see it coming. I know the background is supposed to hint you to when she is unslowing the time but it doesn't really help me much.

And those openers don't help much too. I know you can do some trick in order to make it easier but it still sucks.

[SONIC BHOCOLATE STRIKER]

Youmu is moe... except in PCB where she is an asshole. Thank you so much for slowing time. That will surely help me getting past a wall. Let alone that slow-down gag messes up my movement speed to beyond the point of redemption. I can be in the middle of some tricky movement and then when she un-slow the time i'll be flying all over the place as i don't see it coming. I know the background is supposed to hint you to when she is unslowing the time but it doesn't really help me much.

And those openers don't help much too. I know you can do some trick in order to make it easier but it still sucks.

THIS.

Also, now I know why people above the surface don't like Satori. <_< Especially when I use Marisa/Nitori, which is worse.

[Zetzumarshen]

Letty.

She had been nipping the bud of my score runs.

[Zengeku]

THIS.

Also, now I know why people above the surface don't like Satori. <_< Especially when I use Marisa/Nitori, which is worse.

Depending on the difficulty i would say that Marisa x Nitori against Satori isn't that bad. Except for Extending Arm. I have always hated that card. I am much better at it now yes but its still not fun one bit. If i had to pick a bad Satori match it would be Marisa x Alice vs Satori. The 1st recollection spell just seems so unfair.

Letty.

She had been nipping the bud of my score runs.

Just what seems to be the problem with Letty? If you would be able to make a score run you should also be well capable of utterly destroying Letty. If it weren't for Rumia and Wriggle she would be the easiest stage 1 boss overall. She have nothing compared to Yamame and Nazrin. I would mention Minoriko too but she is only hard when she decides to play bullshit with you.

[Zetzumarshen]

Just what seems to be the problem with Letty? If you would be able to make a score run you should also be well capable of utterly destroying Letty. If it weren't for Rumia and Wriggle she would be the easiest stage 1 boss overall. She have nothing compared to Yamame and Nazrin. I would mention Minoriko too but she is only hard when she decides to play bullshit with you.

Often, Letty's normal attacks pushed me to bottom of the screen. It was random, so sometimes i haven't had an escape route. Also, in my strategy, i had to withstood 5 wave of those normal attacks, without focusing. And it was stage 1, somehow my concentration was at its worst at stage 1(my bad). PCB lack of movement precision were also a huge contributing factor.

Yamame's first normal attack was also stupid, but it can be captured 100% eventually because it was always the same pattern (and no PCB button lag). Minoriko's last spell can be bombed for minimum score decrease, if she decides to play dirty. Wriggle is fun, and so does Rumia. I haven't fought many times with Nazrin.

[Vile Lasagna]

Depending on the difficulty i would say that Marisa x Nitori against Satori isn't that bad. Except for Extending Arm. I have always hated that card. I am much better at it now yes but its still not fun one bit. If i had to pick a bad Satori match it would be Marisa x Alice vs Satori. The 1st recollection spell just seems so unfair.

I still think the worst one is Yukari recollection. Always sends shivers down my spine. But yeah, Nitori who is kinda trivial in her own game becomes really tough when used by Satori.

Just what seems to be the problem with Letty? If you would be able to make a score run you should also be well capable of utterly destroying Letty. If it weren't for Rumia and Wriggle she would be the easiest stage 1 boss overall. She have nothing compared to Yamame and Nazrin. I would mention Minoriko too but she is only hard when she decides to play bullshit with you.

I dunno. Letty is really easy on normal but on H/L I always feel her last card becomes kinda tough. But yeah, if you're going for a score run why the hell are you troubled by the first boss?

[Pako]

My first archnemesis is Ran, BECAUSE SHE TOOK ME A DAMN 170 TRIES.
Yukari took me 130 less tries.

And mine second archnemesis is: Koishi because she is the last extra boss I have to beat, Subterranean Rose is the biggest trouble maker in this case.

[dustyjo]

Kanako.

The game doesn't seem all that hard up until that point, then suddenly HOLY BALLS.

[nintendonut888]

Recently my arch nemesis is more Youmu than Satori. Youmu's gotten much softer since I became serious about perfecting her and learning how to do most of her fight, but HELL GOD SWORD is terrible. It has ruined so many perfect runs it's worth making Youmu my arch nemesis.

[Thyried]

Aya. Or Momiji. Or even the whole stage 4 of MoF. Even with MarisaB, I always end up losing most of my life at stage 4.

[Nuclear Fusion]

Satori!!! :rage:

3 deaths on BoWaP! 3!

The first death was on the first round of bullets, even.

EDIT: GOD DAMN IT SATORI STOP IT!!

I can get to her with 5 lives, and then I'm down to 1 after she's done. Satori, I will murder you.

[Gambit]

I've finally decided that Sikieiki is my arch-nemesis because she just will not freaking lose.
Meiling gets an honorable mention. 

[Nimono]

LLS: Yuka.  Even when I know its coming, LAZORZ

AGREED. This ALWAYS happens to me, and it ALWAYS ruins my runs, even more than Hax-Reimu and Hax-Marisa do. :< Forget Double-Spark, I can't get to that because of Yuka's "IT'S A TRAP!" Master Spark that I see coming. (Maybe Yuka's a miniature Death Star, considering she shoots that expected-yet-not laser.)

Also, Sakuya's Misdirection on Easy/Normal is, for some reason, much harder than on Hard/Lunatic

Same here, though I don't play it above Normal...or below. Seriously, Misdirection is just a big SDKJGFDHJSGF NDHJSFG for me. I heard from one person that you're safe if you stay below Sakuya during it. Well, no matter what, I HAVE TO BOMB THE CARD OR GET HIT. Oh wait, what bombs? I always waste them on her NONCARD RIGHT BEFORE IT. She ALWAYS hits me with the second wave. ALWAYS. Ugh. >_< It's why I can't beat the game AT ALL. Forget a 1cc- Remilia, Sakuya, and Stage 4 beat me up just enough to force me to lose all my CONTINUES, meaning yes, I have NEVER beaten EoSD before. Ever. Ugh...

As for everything else:

PCB: Prismrivers and Stage 4. Period. This stage is the absolute TOUGHEST for me. Forget Stage 5, Youmu, and Yuyuko- they're easy for me compared to Stage 4 and Prismriver Sisters. Seriously. I hate their last two spellcards, but to be honest, those are the EASIEST parts... Oh, this is on both Easy and Normal, by the way. (I never play higher than Normal, sad as it is.)

Fun fact: I almost had a 1cc of Easy once, but Yuyuko killed my last life. Grr.

IN: Reimu. Reimu, Reimu, Reimu. Marisa's easy for me, Reimu's ALWAYS the hax one. Well, at least... She USED to be incredibly difficult for me. Until I realized that Reimu's orbs were familiars and thus could be completely avoided by Focusing. Now I just worry about her spellcards. And her card spam. Still...

PoFV: MEDICINE FREAKING MELANCHOLY. I hate her SO much. When I see her stage, I'm like "HJDFGVHJDSG  NO! NOT MEDICINE! ANYONE BUT MEDICINE!!" I HATE her poison clouds.

Also, Shikieiki. Stupid Hax Yama. She ALWAYS outlasts me for at least ONE match. Maybe even TWO.

Never played anything past PoFV, as my laptop is too stupid to run SA and UFO, so I'm assuming it can't run MoF, either. I seriously need a better one so I can play those games.

[Vile Lasagna]

For misdirection:
Yeah, I used to have a though time on that, but it got better when I stopped panicking. I think the important thing is NOT trying to go and hit her, pick a spot and STAY there, on either side of the screen cause it's where she likes to spend time. When she's going around like crazy and firing red knives MAKE YOUR BEST EFFORT TO NOT MOVE, as doing so will get you trapped and killed. When she stops and fires the blue ones THEN you move to dodge them, since those are actually quite aimed at your sorry face. Get it out quickly and sit on your happy place again. Repeat until the timer runs out or either of you die.

[nintendonut888]

AGREED. This ALWAYS happens to me, and it ALWAYS ruins my runs, even more than Hax-Reimu and Hax-Marisa do. :< Forget Double-Spark, I can't get to that because of Yuka's "IT'S A TRAP!" Master Spark that I see coming. (Maybe Yuka's a miniature Death Star, considering she shoots that expected-yet-not laser.)

Okay, seriously. I see this everywhere, and I will never understand it. Master Spark is very easy to see coming. Once she moves on to her second attack pattern, it alternates between that and master spark. Not only that, but she stops moving, turns invincible, and gives you three whole seconds to get out of the way. It's entirely understandable to get hit the first couple times, but after that there's really no excuse.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

Reimu in IaMP. I honestly cannot beat arcade mode because of her. She's just way too good at zoning for my Meiling to get close.