Death by Degree - The Nina combo thread

Yea its sweet! Less Damage but stylish non the less. Right now i’m doing j.hp/cr.mk - H. Geyser / L. Geyser - M. skull splitter — cr.HPxx h. Geyser — Ivory cutter, then charge blonde bomb for counter hit. Most of the time roll away behind me so i usually dash back then do another ivory cutter from afar or st.mp cr.mp.

How much damage is your combo? With j. in hk.

I forgot but its close to 400 or 400…

I found out that Nina has an (useless) infinite. I mean, at least I think it’s an infinite, I failed to execution at about 40sec into the combo. If you have pandora gems, I suppose you can squeeze some value out of this, but I don’t really own the right ones to do it with, so I wouldn’t know.

Input: EX-Skullsplitter, Left Right combo, rinse repeat.

after two geyser kick you do ivory cutter to ground bounce but you have to tag in your partner.you also end 2 geyser with jumping heavy kick instead of a sweep but you get no hard knockdown.if you have them in corner for 3 meter you can do two geyser kicks to cross art does serious damage deepening on partner and gets rid of health .

you can combo into cross art from 2nd geyser anywhere on the screen.
full combo from j.hk does 600-650 dmg depending on partner.

I am making a video compilation of every character’s most damaging grounded punish combo as reference tool for the community. Nina is one of few characters I am somewhat lost with. There seems to be some debate ITT about her combo options.

Can anyone here tell me definitively what her most damaging meterless punish is?

Eh, probably Alioune Sensei’s one. It’s pretty difficult to do in non-corner, but it is undoubtedly the most damaging combo:
J.HK, C.HP xx H.Geyser, Left Right combo xx M.Skullsplitter, C.HP xx M.Skullsplitter, C.HP xx M.Blonde Bomb

Here’s a video link in case you missed it;

That being said, some players may not want to end their combo with blonde bomb, but with an ivory cutter (overhead) for counterhit charge setups.

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Since I didn’t know to either put this in the Hwoarang thread or here, but this is my super duper 3 bar Hwo/Nina reset combo. You can get it off of with a j. :hp: as a hit confirm or go straight into Hwo’s overheads and can be performed midscreen and carries into the corner. j. :hp: , :mp: + :lp: chain, cr. :mk: xx :hk: Hunting Hawk, tag cancel, Rolling Dash xx Backhand slap, cr. :mk: xx :lk: Geyser Cannon, cr. :mk: xx :lk: Geyser Cannon, Ivory Cutter, Tag Cancel, cr. :mp: xx :hk; Hunting Hawk, Tag Cancel, Rolling dash xx Backhand Slap, cr. :mk: xx :lk: Geyser Cannon, cr. :mk: xx :lk: Geyser Cannon, Ivory Cutter. Nina with 1 power gem and 1 meter gem you get around 1K- 1.1K and can build 1 more meter for the sure kill for 1 more tag cancel back into Hwo. Without gems and confirm off of overhead you are looking at 900-1k damage. Also when tagging off of Hwo’s Hunting Hawk you want to grab them on the bounce of the last hit. And by the second tag you will be in the corner and on the third tag you will want to back up with Nina so you have space to get the rolling dash into backhand slap.

on that. you can do a 2 reset 2 bar “combo” (obviously not a combo) that will kill just about every character. im sure any nina player that spent any time in training can figure it out. there are a couple of variations and i am having more people counter my resets so i think there are more people using her resets now. heck you can do a 2 reset 1 bar combo that kills most characters. now if i were just a better player and could put the time in … oh well.

Haven’t seen anyone mention this, but this is a good combo that starts with a standing jab.

st. LP, st. MP, st. LK (target combo) HP skullsplitter, cr. HP, Geyser, Ivory cutter.

Easy to hit confirm and you get a nice 325 with either a charged blonde bomb/tag cancel off of some simple jab pressure.

you can cancel st.lp-st.mp into mk geyser, why even bother with st.lk combo scaling

Thanks for pointing that out, I thought I tried that at some point with no success. Must have been doing it wrong, lol.

Surprised that hasn’t been posted, considering jabs are used so heavily.

The cross art following geyser x2 works fine midscreen.

On another note, does anybody know the juggle count to CH Ivory Cutter? Or is it so low that its better to just snap some arms from it.

arms is the way to go i believe. may be wrong tho, as i was in lab testing all this stuff about 4 months ago, but arms were the best choice as i remember.

best punish combo no meter, best punish combo 1 meter, best combo off of a DP tag cancel, and best combo off of a boost combo ?

I would really really appreciate any help. thanks a lot guys <3

Ok thanks. Maybe a second Ivory cutter for a tag cancel or CH store? Hmm, Nina has so many options I could NOT play this game without her.

the combo I use for no meter would be: j.HP,cr.HPxxHK Geyser,mp skull splitter xx st. mp xx skull splitter xx cr.hp xx blonde bomb. It’s rare I use meter with nina, but if I do its for ivory cutter tag cancels.

So does anyone know what the optimized combo is meterless?
With one bar?
And ending in ivory cutter?