Taskmaster combos - Anything you can do I can do better!

Cheech_Wizard · September 23, 2011, 8:42pm

There was no need to delete the video stark.Yours was in better quality anyways.

Thanks to both of you for finding it though.

Duck_Strong · September 23, 2011, 8:59pm

Yeah, you could just mention the other guy’s vid and all would be fine.

We_Are_Venom · September 23, 2011, 9:11pm

Stark:

So for the first time in a long while I went into the lab with Taskmaster. My Taskmaster was falling behind my other characters and that’s a bad thing.

I fight against somewhat small characters (in particular zero) a lot, and it’s a real annoyance when if I hit them from a moderate distance with my initial poke I can’t go into a combo because web swing will just go over them. And sometimes when various screen effects are involved I’ve found I don’t always hitconfirm correctly and going into a web swing when they actually blocked it is just terrible news. So I wanted to go into something else to start combos. And I remembered the “relaunch from charging star midscreen” that was going around just before evo, and used the concepts behind that to make this. Because of that I suspect that I am not the first person to do this, but hey, no one’s posted it up here, that I can tell.

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The ender of the first part is really just me styling. The second part is more practical. Regardless, :d: :h: :h:, hold :uf: and immediate sj., very slight delay j.:f::h: j. j.:h: :qcf:. Depending on the height the opponent ends up at (which can easily vary depending on what character they are and the exact distancing and timing you used) you may be able to then connect :h: :h:, but if you can’t you can just do :h:; it’s only 27.1k less. And then the ender everyone is familiar with. Sometimes you’ll get three arrow hits, which is slightly more damage still.

It’s a significantly less fragile combo than the nappydude basic combo it’s derived from, being able to be used from all the assist hitconfirms I tested as well as from j.:h: :d::l: :d: :h: :h: as a starter, and it also works on every character. Although, it’s notable that because it hits different characters in slightly different ways and because of arrows, you can’t reliably use it if it catches both the point character and an assist.

Nice combo man. How are you connecting the arrows after the MH in the air? Can’t seem to get it to work for me. Also which arrows is that? Parabolic or horizontal?

Adelheid · September 25, 2011, 9:49pm

SRK IS FINALLY BACK UP

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Been waiting to post this

Shiro_420 · September 25, 2011, 11:14pm

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Noble_Cactus · September 27, 2011, 11:19am

Dammit, I pop in this thread to post that video and I’m beaten.

Oh well. Air Hyper Tasky Beam gogogo

kensanity · September 28, 2011, 5:00am

amazing.

debs · September 29, 2011, 6:52am

well damn.

Adelheid · September 29, 2011, 7:25am

Hey, now it’s on the front page

How nice.

Gunstar · September 29, 2011, 10:40am

Heres an unblockable setup using dorm that I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere before (and I’m surprised I haven’t). Also a video reply of the same setup but easier if you don’t need the full damage from chaotic flame to kill a character.

Honzogonzo · September 29, 2011, 8:31pm

turn advance guard on

Duck_Strong · September 29, 2011, 8:50pm

Pretty sure that if Dorm isn’t on screen anymore, advance guarding the Stalking Flare does nothing but lessen the chip and leave you in block stun for longer. I think this is a legitimate unblockable setup.

Gunstar · September 29, 2011, 10:24pm

Unblockable setup AdAdAdvancing Guard edition.
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The stalker flare left on the screen belongs to dormammu, so pushblocking that projectile pushes back dormammu. But since he is no longer the point character he cannot be pushed. Same thing applies to round harvest and as far as I know anything else you could leave on the screen and tag.

Pushblocking doesn’t move taskmaster out of position but it drastically changes the timing of the setup. Also I think it looks like akuma is in a free state for a few frames falling from the flare to the dark hole but I wouldn’t personally know what to look for to tell the difference for sure (that and the quality is horrible dear god).

Hanging yourself in the air with a pushblock at the very end of the flare could potentially throw off timing enough to mess up the setup and escape. Eating the flare and getting knocked away from the setup could potentially also get you out, but I’d have to play with it more and see if tm could follow that up with anything meaningful. At the very least eating the flare + vert legion arrow is a far better option than losing your character.

Edit:
Played around with escape by taking the hit. Over time I will keep playing with this setup (and other things!) and upload videos with my comments/musings on my channel. Though I am getting tired of playing on my giant tv in 4:3 sd and getting some of the worst quality videos on this crappy laptop. Will eventually get a real hd recording setup (late oct maybe sooner).

Video and comments are here.

Edit2:
I’ve uploaded a video about using this setup twice in a row, usage of x-factor, and the order of your team. Video is here.

Windu25 · October 4, 2011, 1:50am

Here’s a combo I started using recently.

cr. st.:h: :f::h: j. j. j.:s: cr. st.:h: :f::h: j. j. j.:s: st. st.:h: :h: :s: sj. j. j.:h:(2 hits) j.:f::h: j. j.:h:(2 hits) j.:s:

Does about…600,000, builds almost 2 meter, and goes full screen. Couldn’t do Duck Strong’s combo consistently, so I tried to change it up to make it easier to land. I tend to delay the second swing just a tad to make it easier to land, though I doubt it’s necessary. Just thought I’d share.

I’m assuming the easiest thing to do would be to pop X-Factor and just do the arrow super follow up to kill. But, saying you’ve already used X-Factor, do you think it’s possible to wavedash after Sent and get a jumping combo before the first super? And if so, will hitstun still let you do the second?

Gunstar · October 4, 2011, 2:33am

To the best of my abilities its not possible to wavedash from one corner to the other after sentinel. You can see in the video I dashed once and then tk legion arrow lm and that barely reaches him before he recovers.

nappydude · October 4, 2011, 4:31am

Can the player x-factor out of that when the reach the ground? Does it have any space between the dark hole and task doing the unblockable?

Gunstar:

Unblockable setup AdAdAdvancing Guard edition.
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The stalker flare left on the screen belongs to dormammu, so pushblocking that projectile pushes back dormammu. But since he is no longer the point character he cannot be pushed. Same thing applies to round harvest and as far as I know anything else you could leave on the screen and tag.

Pushblocking doesn’t move taskmaster out of position but it drastically changes the timing of the setup. Also I think it looks like akuma is in a free state for a few frames falling from the flare to the dark hole but I wouldn’t personally know what to look for to tell the difference for sure (that and the quality is horrible dear god).

Hanging yourself in the air with a pushblock at the very end of the flare could potentially throw off timing enough to mess up the setup and escape. Eating the flare and getting knocked away from the setup could potentially also get you out, but I’d have to play with it more and see if tm could follow that up with anything meaningful. At the very least eating the flare + vert legion arrow is a far better option than losing your character.

Edit:
Played around with escape by taking the hit. Over time I will keep playing with this setup (and other things!) and upload videos with my comments/musings on my channel. Though I am getting tired of playing on my giant tv in 4:3 sd and getting some of the worst quality videos on this crappy laptop. Will eventually get a real hd recording setup (late oct maybe sooner).

Video and comments are here.

Edit2:
I’ve uploaded a video about using this setup twice in a row, usage of x-factor, and the order of your team. Video is here.

Gunstar · October 4, 2011, 5:05am

XF into invincible reversal will escape during the dark hole, however if you are willing to burn your own XF (you know your opponent knows how to escape and has an incoming character capable) you can actually call the dark hole early and make them block the setup in the air then XF the headbutt and combo them. It may be possible to do the link in the air without XF but I havent had any luck using s.L or c.L.

Edit:
Uploaded a video of this here

Also for your second question that I forgot to answer, the space between when dark hole does its last hit and when your headbutt comes out is down to your own execution. It can hit them after they leave blockstun giving them however many frames to try and use an invincible move to get out, it can hit them while they are still in blockstun, and it can hit them before the final hit of dark hole hits and they will eat that and tech roll out…

In my personal opinion it is almost always a good idea to xf for this setup. Since it is one for incoming characters after a kill, doing so will either leave you against an anchor with xf on or it will win you the game killing their anchor.

Edit2:
While playing around with this more today I encountered something very interesting. Sometimes my target would be blocking a dark hole, block swordmaster, and then be hit by headbutt but CONTINUE BLOCKING. Its very clear when slowed down that there are hitsparks and the other tm’s health takes a small dent (headbutt is only 30k) but never stops blocking. I got this to happen about 6 times in an hour against she-hulk and taskmaster.

Vaxtin · November 12, 2011, 8:34pm

I’m not a Master of moves or anything, but here is a small combo. I did it while testing recording quality for HD-PVR

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Tandem_ChaoS · November 17, 2011, 6:30am

anyone find an new bnb for task in ultimate? also, could someone tell me if there is some trick to the relaunch with OTG with heavy arrows and the shield charge? one of the combos in the guide say to do that as well as i saw shady k do the relaunch in the video the other day, but i don’t know if i have the timing off or what.

Windu25 · November 17, 2011, 9:38pm

I’ve been using cr. st.:h: :f::h: j. j. j.:s: cr. st.:h: :f::h: j. j. j.:s: :h: :s: sj. j. j.:h:(2 hits) j.:f::h: j. j.:h:(2 hits) j.:s:.

Does around…510k I think? Got to delay the launch after the :h: to get the full combo after. I’m sure this isn’t the best combo to use, though.

The arrow relaunch is finicky to me. Got to get all three arrows to hit. I’ve hit it on Wolverine a couple times, so it’s possible. But I wasn’t very consistent doing solo relaunches in Vanilla, anyway.