Sanchez, someone here says that there is a 600 damage combo with Rufus that uses only 1 bar. I don’t doubt it, I’ll try and post it when I find it out. Hope they’re not just blowin’ smoke.
-Tha Hindu
even with 3 power gems activated at the same time i dont think that would be possible!
Big damage combos in this game will be fueled by tag cancels. If your solo combo is using 2 bubbles, chances are you can do a lot more damage by tag cancelling.
Well I picked up the character yesterday and have done 525 dmg with 1 bubble.
Opponent has to be a third of the way from the corner.
Divekick -> HP -> EX Tornado -> HK -> HK -> Snake Strikes
I’m not putting very much effort into Rufus right now. I’m worried about my girl Asuka. Outside of the corner she does no damage 
Man Rufus is really strong. Maybe he seems so because he’s pretty scrub friendly and the game is at an early stage, but I hate him currently.
Wesker level of hate.
what gems are you using for rufus?
Oh I just did this combo without gems.
But with Rufus I am using the Tag Cancel immense power + opponent blocks 5 normals immense power and an onslaught gem.
I tried doing the launcher gem but the wearer has to be the one that does the launcher. So I was doing random combo into launcher -> Asuka random hits -> tag cancel back to rufus but I couldn’t break 450 damage although I didn’t really try for very long. The launcher gem grants +20% damage which is pretty big. The your partner does a launcher gem grants only 10. Essentially, if you’re smart about it, you can save a launcher combo which usually doesn’t do much damage for mid game when you can tag cancel back into the guy that did the launcher and do huge damage.
oh ok i see. i dont have the game yet so i have a question to ask you. is there a lot of hitstun on the divekicks?
Too much hitstun. You can hit them near the top of their head and combo.
oh wow sounds pretty over the top but they arent instant anymore right? it has height restriction now correct?
Yes some height restriction.
have you tried st.lk st.lk st.hp link? if so is it still 1 frame or is there more of a gap to it ?
I didn’t play SF4 much I wouldn’t know
oh ok cool ill test it out then when i get the game.
525 damage with one bar!!?? That’s insane! What can he do without Gems is the real questions since you aren’t always going to have them. So how powerful are Rufus’s mid screen and corner bnb’s without gems btw?
Why? He was top 5 in SF4 vanilla and he was bottom 5 in terms of use. You won’t have to worry much about Rufus. Count on it.
Correction: It’s HK -> Fragrance Palm -> Snake Strikes. It does do the damage I said though
awesome, rufus is stupid good.
dive kick, blah blah, hit confirm into ex galactic tornado is too good.
people still need to respect ex messiah kick.
dive kick has a height restriction now, but it crosses up a lot easily now and combos easily into anything due to the big frame advantage.
hes still the monster he was in sf4
Doofus! A little vid I made.
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Damnit derrace, I was just coming in here to post some of that stuff… Lol!
I’ll be using Rufus as well.
Did I just see cr.lk combo into st.FP in that video above?