4/9/11
12PM PST - CSULB Smackdown 1.2 [ssf4, mvc3] - 2GoodGaming on Justin.tv
live right now, somebody in chat said combofiend will be there.
Saturday Xanadu stream was GDLK. Spam legs acquire currency. 
Good shit to that dude. Was more hype than recent WNFs. 
I started watching towards the end. The GFX guy from Delaware was pretty solid. He made use of what I guess was an overhead that Spencer has pretty effectively. Unfortunately he always ended up blowing his X Factor early (which is death wish agaisnt D.Phoenix) and never got see her because he had too much trouble fight Wesker also. I dont know if he hasn’t fought a lot of Weskers or what but he got hit by block string to upwards teleport all day. He should have been air throw or jump up counter hitting those. He would always do it right after the c.M. He wasn’t aggressive enough against regular Phoenix either. He would just let her throw homing fireballs all day. That’s Phoenix’s only way to set up a realiable offense and if you’re just gonna let her freely do it then you’ll never get the chance to turn your XF on against D.P. and burn her XF out.
Shout-outs to Hsien-Ko!
Seriously though, her assists made that upset happen. When Combo got her, he made it look free, but when she’s around Airtola controlled the whole match. I was also surprised in his method in getting her out. He would just raw tag Task in and just let him eat the combo, but I guess he just wanted that assist, because it just worked for him
Give Airtola a little more credit than that, it wasn’t just the assist that made the upset happen. Airtola was able to neutralize Spencer’s hyper with Taskmaster’s counter hyper, and he made good use of Taskmaster’s keepaway. Combofiend started feeling the pressure and was botching the chariot - torpedo command and stuff and just fell apart, all in part to Airtola’s solid play of his gameplan.
Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye! Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye! Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye! Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye! Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye! Hmmph AIYA, Bye-Bye!
I didn’t mean to discredit Airtola or anything because he did play solid overall. Sorry if I sounded that way. But yea that counter against Bionic Arm was just too good. He landed it more than once too so he definitely was reading him on those. In fact, the same counter is happening in casuals too. It’s nice how he would dhc into it from an unsafe super too when he sees spencer’s super flash.
Wouldn’t any team with Sentinel have him as their “anchor”, regardless of the position he’s in? A lot of the people I play just crumble if you take out Sentinel early and don’t ever (consistently) make any kind of real comeback. Whereas they can “random” you out at the start with him, or random you out with a lvl 3 version.
It’s all good. I don’t even know Airtola, but I was watching the stream and the grand finals was hype. I guess it’s just a small pet peeve when a win or loss is inadvertently mentioned based on one aspect, when it was more than that on Airtola and Combofiend’s end imo. Just seemed like that kind of undermines both players on accident. I mean, Combofiend wouldn’t lose to just the Hsien-Ko assist, yeah?
Combofiend just got stomped by Hsien-Ko !! WOW !!
No way Hsien-Ko is the worst character in the game, somebody showed it again this week !!
I was telling people about Taskmaster’s counters and no one believed me! Okay his regular counters are risky but the super one is definitely one of the better tools in his arsenal.
It’s not really anymore useful than Wesker’s. Which means the best use is to DHC glitch. All counter supers are going to be useful for stopping obvious offensive maneuvers like naked supers but…the DHC glitch capabilities are still much stronger than what a normal counter super can offer.
This also goes to show that Hsien Ko was pretty much made to be the new Captain Commando.
A really good use of Taskmaster/Wesker’s counter super is aganist Hulk. I’m pretty sure that Wesker can counter super Gamma Crush on reaction. That’s a limited use of it, but I seen a Wesker punish Mike Ross’s Hulk with that before. It was pretty fucking sick…
Yeah anything obvious that is clearly going to hit you its good to have. Gamma Crush is just another super that has an obvious animation that isn’t going anywhere but eventually directly towards your face.
Good player != good character. Hsien Ko is still ass.
You’re missing the point though. Yes, it’s useful for DHC’s. Yes, it’s useful for physical counters (which is actually lot in this game if you spend the time to learn it). The point is, this is a particular tool in Taskmaster’s arsenal. You don’t ignore using it just because it’s easier to use for DHC’s or more powerful.
Well using it for DHC’s wouldn’t be really ignoring it either since you’d be using it to basically rack up death combos easy. As just a counter super it’s definitely something to have to keep people wary but you’re not going to be like using it regularly to counter c.L’s or instant overheads or anything like that. If any one was ignoring the use of it I mean that’s on them.
I’m just saying the use of it to counter something like Bionic Arm should be like pretty obvious. I guess to other Taskmaster players it wasn’t though.
I also agree that there’s a long way to go (that’s probably giving her a bit too much credit even) to have Hsien Ko be like a character that’s legitimate on point. Her assist is definitely alone worthy of having to back up your team but when she’s out by herself she’s really on her CapCom shit.
ofc not because his b+H stuffs it cleanly. Magneto’s have to be very careful if the opponent shows that he can stuff it.
Hsien Ko is still ass despite all the over reactions to one match. She handed a free raw tag punish everytime. Soon as she used the armour hyper you knew she was way to tag out and Combofiend got a big punish everytime. But for some reason Combofiend in insisted on rushingdown instead of baiting and punishing the assist with Bionic Arm or Task Arrows hyper. Two bars and she’d be dead. One dimensional gimmicks do not make a good character.
Especially if the rumor is true and that even THAT gimmick will be taken away from her.