Brushstr0kes 101: The Amaterasu Thread Mach II

whats ammys best air to air move vs sent?

Uhhh, rosary? Rosary jump can break through sentinels armor. And if you use it on the ground along with papercut, it does a good job of zoning him because almost everything he does goes right over her. Call an assist once in awhile and you’re good

does sent even have armor in air?

I don’t know for sure but i doubt it. Was just explaining why rosary is good against sentinel period and not just in the air

problem is rosary has problems just comboing on the fly so if you’re going air to air, rosary won’t really deal any damage, just kinda annoy him till he gets that one hit and kills you

I think air to air just a simple j.L would probably be the best thing, and easy to hit confirm to combos in sword and shield

Brushw0rk is too fucking good. Doom covers any move Ammy makes all too well. And Sent…is Sent. :rofl:

Do you really even need Doom? I find that just calling out Sent’s Drones every fucking chance I get works most of the time.

IMO, Ammy/Sent is working out to be the new Strider/Doom.

medium paper trap with sent in the corner = dead sent

Same here, I feel Sent covers Ammy’s mistake better than doom as well. Drones are ****ing stupid lol. I almost never use Jam Session assist unless I’m in the corner, because Sent has everywhere else covered. I’m actually considering switching Dante to Dorm because Dorm can be pretty good and has more health, and I’m kinda crappy as Dante, plus Dark hole assist is great. (From what I’ve seen).

Btw, Ammy has got to be my fav fighting game char EVER.

Well I actually made the videos like I said I would.

Glaive runaway/keepaway
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Amaterasu Trish shenanigans
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The other video I have of Amaterasu running around the screen is 9 minutes long and in my android phone format i need a free converter for mac that turns video to formats. Help?

You present a persuasive argument here. The Power Slash has one low priority durability point, meaning a lot of projectiles will blow through it. I’m guessing you recommend this type of runaway strictly for people who are intending on rushing you down and not other projectile spammers, correct?

Correct. You can actually cancel her :m: into paper to kinda “follow” them tho. The range on her normals is crazy good. I had someone trying to backwards jump and the M paper caught them in air blockstun as she dashed forward. This was just more or less showing how you can deal with people who are trying to rush YOU down.

But I am completely convinced at this point at Amaterasu can rush your ass down properly, especially with Sent to get in and Trish to keep them out.

Which brings me to the whole thing about her really utilizing her air mobility.

I’m telling you shes going to be toast without it! I need to upload this other clip.

Dorm Dark Hole is HELLA good with Ammy rushdown. There is almost NO way out of reflector blockstrings with that and drones, getting pushblocked is almost not even a problem. I def have Dorm taking Dantes spot now.

Why didn’t I think about picking this dog sooner. I have never seen a combo with one button involved so much o.o

Unless you count tekken :P, thanks for the combo going to work on it now

Personally, I mix in Morg-A for my GTFO me assist since it leads to OTG hyper setups with Sent on point. That, plus the range and speed of it.

I found something pretty cool with Amaterasu’s f.H Reflector series. If it hits against a non-cornered crouching Chun Li or Storm (and only those two; I tested everyone), it actually crosses through them on the second hit. As far as I can tell, this isn’t common knowledge yet.

Against Chun Li, the second attack (which is likely your third heavy attack in the combo) will hit and pass through her. You can combo to launcher here and try to do air combos, but the spacing is usually pretty weird after the super jump and makes doing normal combos hard so if you want to do a normal launcher combo, you should stop after the first hit and then launch. This attack recovers way too slowly to actually do any sort of mix-up after a cross-through, but it can be special canceled with Power Slash L being the only feasible choice. Even better, when you do this on cross-through, Power Slash L hits Chun Li toward Amaterasu instead of away so Amaterasu can combo s.L which means any normal that hits fast enough to combo will hit. Also, according to the guide, neither f.H nor Power Slash are affected by hitstun deterioration so this is probably a really long combo (it won’t drop until you can’t cancel normals into f.H and combo anymore). Even when it does eventually get ready to drop, no doubt you can go for resets out of the cross-through situation or just combo into Okami Shuffle from the last Power Slash L.

Against Storm, it’s less fun because that second attack passes through but doesn’t hit while doing so. It may be possible to combo Power Slash L anyway, but so far I haven’t managed (but my execution isn’t good enough to be sure). If you can, you could probably do some dirty stuff to Storm with it as well. If not, the cross-through behavior is probably a bad thing for Amaterasu in this match-up and will force you to avoid doing more than one hit of the f.H reflector move against crouching Storm.

I hope some people are able to make use of this quirk I found (quite by accident, to my detriment at the time). If nothing else, knowing about it should be handy since dropping a combo as you f.H off into the distance behind the opponent can be pretty match losing.

Random info of the day…

Amaterasu can’t call assist while doing a stance switch. So d,d+attack+assist wont work. You’ll have to do something like d+assist, d+attack. This kinda sucks seeing how quick the stance switch is, they’re practically instant.

@strangevision

That was pretty cool, can you show us a whole match sometime if its not to much trouble? Just like to see when you run and when you go in for the combo. Also this exact same thing but with the trish air trap could be good since if it lands its a free combo.

That glaive runaway is too good. Now I dont wanna fight you TSA. You’ve been cooking shit up in the kitchen.

I can never seem to get that combo (LP, MP, HP>HP, HP HP etc…) to land on people, but people always get me with it :confused: shit is aggravating. I can do the combo just fine, it’s just getting it to hit somebody I’ve yet to get anybody with it!