Dictator Combo Thread: He rules with an Iron Fist...of Energy!

So I was watching a video of a Japanese player, possibly Haritsuka an, and it looked like he linked into st.hk from a standard hit-confirm.

I think it was along the lines of j.hk, cr.lk, st.lp, st.lk, st.hk? I’m not entirely sure - I haven’t been able to find the video again, but I just wondered if anyone could confirm and tell me the link. I’m guessing its a 1-frame job?

yeah s.LK links into s.HK.

Yes the cr.lk to st.lp Is the frame trap, this is very easy to hit confrim. The st.lk to st.hk is 1 frame.

I’m having trouble getting the s.HK to come out fast enough to get the c.LP, s.LK x2, s.HK combo, but the heavy kick keeps coming out too late so it only does 3 hits.

plink mk so you get the extra frame or atleast mk to combo or double tap hk

I saw a vid of Haritsuka an recently and i saw him do a combo that involved cr. short st. close fierce cr. foward and sk.

Now i tried to do this in training mode but i couldnt get the fierce to connect. Can anybody else do this?

That’s a counter hit frame trap.

After landing HS what are the two most reliable moves/ bnb combos to follow up with. When I say follow up I mean to keep the combo going and not reset then combo but didn’t want to make it confusing.

You can’t combo off of HS, unless you hit it high as anti-air, in which case you can juggle with EX skull diver.

If you meant what are reliable combos off a connected skulldiver, I usually try to go for c.mp, s.hk.

I would just fly back away after hitting with HS

I’ve been fooling around with cr.lk, st.lk, cr.mk, hp.pc lately as a way to increase damage off cr.lk. I figure cr.lk, st.lk, st.hk should be useful as well.

It’s seems plinking cr.lk+cr.lp for both crouching and standing lk may actually make this combo easier.

I’m bored of low damage cr.lk combos.

You can’t plink s.LK, you just get a throw.

But yeah, I think c.LK, s.LK, ___ combos are going to become more important. Dic needs to take advantage of that extra damage.

My mistake, I should have been more specific - I meant plinking the first input, cr.lp+lk, seems to make the second input, st.lk, a bit easier to time, almost like double tapping. I don’t know if it’s actually the case, it’s just how it feels in training mode.

I was messing around and jab dr in the corner comboes into super really risky and situational but neat find regardless.

style points are always worth it in my opinion =)

Hit confirming super

Anybody play around with hit confirms to super? Playing with other characters made me realize that Bison has trouble getting 400+ damage off his bnbs.

Yeah I know Bison depends on his EX moves. But I’m still surprised by the lack of super usage in scissor loops.

c.mk xx lk scissors is safe to throw out, and its pretty easy to confirm into super. That’s 400ish damage off what’s otherwise pretty safe. c.mp is easy as well.

I mean at a certain point, you’re rarely going to be in a position where you have charge and be in range to throw those pokes out. But these can easily turn into counterhit setups.

cs.hp, c.lk xx lk scissors xx super does another 400ish damage, not including the counter hit damage.

I can’t hit confirm off a jab or a short, and damage scaling kicks in too much as you add more shorts. I would say 400 damage is about the point where I’m willing to sacrifice meter.

Just wondering if anybody else had thoughts on this.

Yes, I’ve been kind of messing with using c.HP to punish crouch tech spammers and followup with super. It’s hard as hell.

There’s also some occasions where I’ll try to keep an eye on the meter and look for a nice opportunity to drop a Knee Press Super cancel.

Yeah I tried hit confirming off of c.hp, but I don’t have the reaction speed to do it. Hit confirming off of an lk scissors cancel is pretty easy and safe.

The only problem I see is that if you buffer the super motion, you lose charge time for a blank scissors afterwards. That’s not necessarily a huge loss though, IMO.

use far standin strong to hit confirm supers
it catches a majority of techs
and its very stylish

Whats with you and style all of a sudden? lol