I’ve been working on a Pandora compilation of things that happened to me in ranked matches online on PSN. Once it’s finished I’ll post it on youtube with a link here.
A few things I’ve noticed while learning to use Pandora.
If you’re not prepared Pandora will feel useless. I have two combos that I’ve practiced over and over in training. Whenever I activate Pandora I mostly use one of these two.
Keep your Pandora combos simple, but damaging. You are going to have to use them at the drop of a hat. No time to think.
My Pandora combo with Cammy is: EX SBF -> wallbounce -> cr. Hp -> super. Very simple combo with total possible damage: around 900.
If you play with a char that can cover a great distance with meter, I.e. Cammy’s hooligan, it can even be worth it to activate Pandora even though you can win without.
Once you activate Pandora most people will RUN AWAY. Sucks if you use Zangief.
If you don’t use the Pandora extend gem don’t use super arts. My main Cammy has a 5 sec super art. Pandora lasts only 10 seconds. 3 of those seconds are the Pandora animation. 7 seconds to hit confirm a super art? Don’t count on it.
Gems can REALLY make a difference. I use a Pandora extend gem on my backup char and a 30% Pandora damage + 20% super art damage gem on my main. A 448 damage combo can become a 700+ damage combo with ease. If you’ve done at least some damage to your opponent you can kill almost the entire cast.
If you activate Pandora in the corner you can stay ultra close to your opponent and not teleport far away.
I’ll see if I can upload my Pandora compilation. Still working on it right now.
Well I don’t know if you’ve read this thread or watched the videos, but we kinda know pretty much everything you said, haha. Can’t wait to see your Pandora compilation and I’ll be sure to add it to the playlist. I do advise that you read Vulcan’s initial posts and check out the vids, cause it’s to do with everything you said, plus you’ll learn some new things
I actually had this work recently, using Cammy. Punished with super art but left the opponent with a magic pixel… I had enough time to react to their roll and DP for the win.
Juri’s is one that actually is pretty quick to execute, and can be used as an AA and you have time for one more mixup afterward… I’ve ALMOST gotten this to work.
Nina is mean even without using her super in Pandora, but the fact her super hits low then high can catch people off guard. Same kind of deal as above - first super was blocked except for the ending KD; soon as they woke up I super’d and they didn’t block low, and I stole one away (just barely made it though, had like .2 seconds left lol).
I’m going to try to record these this week, but I DO want to get permission from the gentlemen I played before posting them.
Nina with full stock…oh god…Nina with Recharging Stock…da fuck guys? Nina+Pandora Extent Gem+Power Gem…why didn’t you just kill me…
I think this is what people are going to start thinking when Pandora is being widely used in competitive play…
-We have to treat it like Rage…kill them before they can activate it…I don’t want to get killed in a 500-900+ damage combo because I failed to finish them off.
Question, Has anyone tried to Run away from a Pandora Vega…I want to see what that looks like…lolz
Roknin’s right about the super thing, it works just for some characters in some cases. Jin can’t do it, his is WAY too long, but Lars, Kazuya, Ryu can (my characters obviously). Watch the videos bro
I did read most of the posts. I just figured I’d give my 2 cents. And a bit of a recap maybe of some of the stuff that was already found out.
The video is processing as we speak. (Still 4 hours to go, wtf??!!) The video quality is OK since I recorded straight from my tv using an HD camera. I don’t have a capture device so this is the best it’s going to get.
To be fair: The video isn’t meant as a display of my skill. Just a fun compilation of some fun and random stuff. I don’t actually have any real skill. Just time on my hands and some luck once in a while. I hope you all enjoy.
Nice to see a fellow Nina player. Roknin, any thoughts on using Nina to combo into Pandora? The only way I know of is EX Blonde bomb, which is just terrible. lol.
Oh and I don’t know if anybody’s seen this, but it’s pretty good:
Here is my Pandora compilation video:
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Took quite a while to compile. And as I said earlier: To be fair: The video isn’t meant as a display of my skill. Just a fun compilation of some fun and random stuff. I don’t actually have any real skill. Just time on my hands and some luck once in a while. I hope you all enjoy.
Pandora extend gem is fucking scary stuff. Me and Don Wulong are having more matches end in Pandora mode lately lol… One match he pandora’d to counter my pandora (because Pandora Extend Julia took Paul from full health to 10% with two supers and time to spare for one last mixup), clever bastard.
I’m uploading that tomorrow ASAP.
Hmm… IIRC right now I’ve been practicing using her cr.hp xx HP geyser (P!) Juri super, since she lunges so far forward and Nina launches so high off of geyser. I’ll have to retest the full combo and get damage numbers with and without gems though, it was just something I was playing with late last night.
I imagine the same thing could work off of Ivory Cutter’s ground bounce, but you’d need a super that covered ground very quickly.
Keep in mind I’m a week 2 Nina player, so my Nina is at super-duper-moony-I-just-learned-her-command-grab-timing level. ^_^’
you can pandora from ex-skullsplitter for example, but the thing is: nina does SO much damage on her own that its pretty much worthless to do pandora.
and as for gems, i’ll rather have more hp/more meter rather than a slight chance to pull off very situational 1 hit KO
On page one of this thread it was suggested by JusticeSoulTuna that characters have different Pandora lengths. I just rewatched the Pandora compilation I posted above and I just noticed that the Pandora bar stops draining briefly at the very beginning of a super art animation. Perhaps the beginning of a super animation is different for different chars and that’s why it feels as though chars have different Pandora lengths.
Don’t know if this is known. I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. Or I just missed it.
Eh, I kinda’ agree and kinda’ don’t. :razzy: It’s more a difference in playstyle preference IMO. For gems, I always had one that was somewhat redundant (I run mostly power gems on my anchors and meter gems on my points), so sacrificing one for the standard Pandora power gem wasn’t too big of a deal, and instantly added to that threat. With the super gem added on, it gives me an option for whenever I’m down in a match to take it back pretty quickly. I like having a situational tool in my back pocket like that.
Plus, with the super gem, whenever I do a super I get that power boost as well, so it’s still pretty useful.
It is character-dependent too, so perhaps with Nina it isn’t as useful (though I’ve found it to work really well for me so far). Julia is obnoxious with the super gem though.
The Extend gem - you kinda’ have to set it up and have a plan for it. It can be pretty gimmicky (the two slot requirement sucks), but definitely has its uses. I’m going to keep playing around with that setup as well, to see just how far I can take it in-match.
It might have something to do with it, but I was referring more to how it genuinely looked like Jin’s Pandora drained faster, haha. Anyway, I watched your vid and I cringed at the part where you did the super when the Pandora was running out =s Just the other night, I made the mistake of doing a super when I Pandora’d just as the game timer ran out, when I should have done triple ex DP. And there was another try where I tried to ex dp, but the Pandora time ran out. sigh Despite all these tech videos I’ve been so unlucky when it comes to actually killing someone online with Pandora. Anyway, the playlist’s been updated:
That bit with Ibuki made me think; what if someone Pandora’d to try and super someone but they mis-timed it and the other guy Pandora’d to punish the other guy’s super? Yooooooo, that would be so hype
Sorry btw I’ve been away from SFxT for a while. I decided to play some Borderlands 2 while I wait for the 2013 upate (I play another game but I’m still on Pandora lol).
Glad you watched and enjoyed the vid. I’ve actually had Pandora run out on me a few times. I decided to only include one of those times in the video. It can get old real fast to watch fails. Don’t want to make you cringe too much.
And thank you for adding my Pandora compilation to the playlist.
