Trying to find good point characters for asuka and lili

Classic Fighting Games Street Fighter x Tekken
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Aside from Cammy/Juri (Which are my mains atm) what characters do you guys think would go well with either Asuka or Lili. I tested a few characters that I thought would work but they all seem pretty meh aside form maybe 1 or 2 teams.

The characters I’ve tried so far are as listed

Rolento/Both (Just a good point character overall)
Law/Both (Not so great with asuka but amazing with lili with standing resets and 1 bar supers)
Hwoarang/Lili (Another great team. Problem is that I can’t play Hwoarang at all…)
Ibuki/Lili (Nothing special about this team aside from High tag-in damage)
Julia/Asuka (My current team with Asuka. Good damage and a nice wake up game)

I’ve been wanting to try out poison and the rest of the DLC cast (If they ever come out on PC), but I don’t have any experience with them. Do you guys have any suggestions as to which characters might be good for either Asuka or Lili?

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IMO, the best point characters for Asuka are:
-Juri: Insane synergy… I shouldn’t have to go into detail on this one :smiley:
-Nina: Strong point with a practical standing reset and ability to setup things nicely for Asuka
-Cody: General scumbag character, and asuka can do some cool stuff off his overhead and criminal upper
-Julia: again, general scumbag character with good setups
-Hwoarang: High damage, terrifying oki team T.T
-Alisa: compliments Asuka with strong a strong zoning game and solid ways to tag in at a distance (fullscreen boot into chainsaws D: )
-Xiaoyu: Only because songi somehow makes it work… >.>

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I run Julia/Asuka as my main team and they work pretty damn well together, off Julia’s overhead, they can net 500+ damage and Julia’s raw cr.hp xx hk dp tag cancel Asuka j.hk < st.hk xx oni < cr.hk does insane damage.

Julia also makes up for Asuka’s non existant neutral game and can tag her in off hk dp tag cancel on block/hit.

Juri is definitely one of her stronger partners, basically all the characters Dark listed works pretty well with Asuka and I like to add a few, also don’t pair Xiaoyu with Asuka >_>

Sakura - Great normals to play with, can confirm to launcher easily with her gdlk fast lights, hp shouken tag cancel on block provides Asuka a free mixup and a huge combo on hit, Sakura also makes up for Asuka’s neutral game.

Anyone really with a good neutral game and good tag opportunities works well with Asuka.

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Lili is a bad character, she doesn’t play nice with anyone.:coffee:

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Xiaoyu can be a good point for Lili but you have to play her differently than if she was an anchor. She has some long range standing normals but startups can be brutal on her (10f st. mp, 14f st. mk). The reward of running Xiaoyu on point: 320+ damage with minimal scaling. Lili will literally have 80-70% damage to play around with when she gets in and that is a beautiful thing. Also Xiaoyu’s Phoenix Talon can allow Lili to use Lk feisty rabbit twirl > rabbit thorn for a free meterless wall bounce following a switch cancel. This leads to huge damage and a stylish combo. Her standard post launcher Cr. Hp, Dendrobium, f+mk, hp still works after any of Xiaoyu’s standard combo enders as well. Both Lili and Xiaoyu convert huge damage from anti-airs so take advantage of jumps and feel free to switch cancel anti-air combos for upwards of 450 damage.

Downsides to this team are both girls are going to be fighting over that meter to do their jobs. Xiaoyu needs meter to punish fireballs and other oki related tricks. Lili needs meter for her oki/fireball punishes and solo combo extenders. Also Xiaoyu’s neutral game is not for the faint at heart, very high risk/high reward stuff and you need to learn how to use Xiaoyu’s Cr. HK as an anti-air or you’ll be free to anyone who decides to jump around like an idiot. Overall a very high risk team since Xiaoyu is extremely free on wake-up.

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Depends on your skill level with Lili. I’m very used to having Lili win it all by herself but when she does she at least has meter. She’s very meter reliant and you have to consider that when you are looking for a partner. Lili’s mix up is fast and fatal. I play ken with Lili. Ken brings automatic synergy to any team he is in because he provides solid anti airs, okay fireballs, and a tatsu that stands up your opponent and hits continuously. The pair is a match made in heaven. A good point character and a solid anchor, what more could you ask. Ken and Lili can get one bar combos for easily over 50%. The team does some great damage. Lili’s ideal partner would be someone who has a fireball and can build good meter and balances out some of her tougher match ups such as gief. You won’t have to worry about jack-x so much since lili rapes the hell out of him.
Just consider the composition. Lili has every tool in the game beside a fireball and command throw. No character exists on the roster that can chuck plasma and command throw.

If i were in your shoes i would consider picking up chun-li. She might not have enough hp but she sets up to lili with a nice amount of meter plus she is lame as hell to deal with when she has a life lead. Fast and solid pokes and she sets up to lili with some good meter. Damage wise it’s low but it’s a solid team other than that.

Good luck with your search for a partner. Oh and don’t forget Lili works well as second in any team. You just need to provide her with what she wants.

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Juri/Lili has some pretty good synergy (though their re-stands as a team are fairly impractical, sadly) - Juri doesn’t need much meter so she can just stock it all up for Lili to use. They can tag off each other pretty easily too, and for the time being (until the patch sadly), Lili’s unscaled launcher is fantastic for Juri too.

Not to mention with both of them on the same team, jump-ins will almost completely be a thing of the past. Juri and Lili put in mad hours in the AA Quality Control department - both get nice damage off of it, too.

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I’ve tried playing with juri/lili a while back and they didn’t seem to work that well together. I replaced Juri with Ibuki because she does the same tag in damage and has an easier time launching lili in. If I only knew how to play Hwoarang…

As for Asuka, I need to wait for the DLC to hit PC so until then I’ll stick with Julia. I’m just Iffy with Julia because about 95% of the player base gets caught with pc or ex pc.

Any thoughts on poison? I thought someone here played a poison/lili team

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I play a Poison/Lili team as my 2nd team.

I think Poison is one of Lili’s better partners, Lili’s one of the few characters that can combo off Poison’s DP tag cancel, Poison builds meter really fast for Lili to use, Poison’s forward throw gives a safe raw tag and this along with her throw game being one of the best, can provide many opportunities for Lili to get in, she also has great normals to confirm to launch with to get Lili in. And Poison can really lame it out to give Lili time to recover health if she needs to, Poison doesn’t really need meter, she can hold her own in fireball wars, so all the meter can go towards Lili, also Poison’s rekka counts as 3 special moves so it’s worth giving her the meter gem for doing 3 and 4 special moves to really build that meter for Lili to use.

I’m one of those scumbags with all meter gem on Poison and all power gems on Lili D:

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If that’s being a scumbag then I’m a scumbag… all meter gems on my point character (usually Juri/Cammy/Julia/Law), all power gems on my anchors.

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Only scumbags use those “pay to win” meter gems. I call Will08 out on it daily. Those gems are way too good at the moment and sadly only CAPCOM side gets the good activation requirements which is bullshit.

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Not to take this too far off topic, but… which meter gems? I run the “on launch”, “on partner’s launch” and “connect with x number of specials” usually.

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Check the gems that are called “RESOLUTION” and “MOTIVATION.” When you see the descriptions and activation requirements (SF side only) you’ll be like “WTF?!” Seeing them in action is even stupider. Will08 was able to consistently activate 2 cross assaults in each round of our fights, downright stupid.

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Oh those gems. Yeah they’re pretty wacky.

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Try my team out.

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Kaz works with Asuka. She needs someone that’s top tier along her side imo.

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I know that I can’t make much of a strong proposal as others on this thread but hey I’ll do it anyways.

Shotos work really well with Lili but if you want some high-risk high reward action, play Akuma.

‘UGGGGHHH!’ I hear most people say but just hear me out.

Akuma arguably provides one of the stronger set-ups in the game for Lili in the form of his :hp: SRK. The thing hits real slow, it’s invincible unlike the other set-ups and it leads to some good damage for her to take advantage of.

You can get 474 maximum off of a single grounded :hp: SRK whilst providing a knock-down situation for Lili to take advantage of. This is without cancelling any normals into it beforehand.

Take this into account, quite a bit of stuff in this game is -3 on block so you’ll gain access to a -3 punisher that does up to 474 damage with one bar of meter and NO gems attached!

Or you can get slightly less but you can bring Akuma back in should she be low on life by doing a aerial launcher after her combo.

The combos I’m talking about here off of a tagged :hp: SRK

:qcb: :lk: > :hk: > st.:hp: > :qcf: :hp: > :f: + :mk: > :hp: for 474 damage.

:qcb: :lk: > :hk: > jump > :mp: , :hp: air target combo > :f: + :mk: > :hp: for 472 damage BUT you can stick a raw launch after the air target combo to bring Akuma back in if you so choose to.

Akuma can also LAME it out big time in comparison to other characters in the game. He doesn’t necessarily need meter to be effective but you can use it to augment his other strengths such as his zoning game as well as switching off of his overhead to bring her back in to do more damage.

I haven’t even mentioned the demon flip set-ups Lili sets up for him as well as Demon set-ups and the DAMAGE these two can do!

Unfortunately, and this is where everyone comes up and corrects me for this, Akuma’s health SUCKS, seriously someone with worse health than Lili!? So putting him on point is a very risky thing to do. You’ll have to build your meter quickly and get him out A.S.A.P so that Lili can go to work.

Both of their health limits aren’t very good either so simple hit confirms into Super can mean game-over quickly if you aren’t careful.

Of course there are also other weaknesses in the fact that you are susceptible to comments for those who have really sick minds in the fact that you run a relatively old man whose meals consist of beating the crap out of most people and living in a cave all day and a rich, french teenager together in one team…yeah you can kind of think of the things that people say to me sometimes when I go into endless lobbies from time to time.

Haven’t really messed about with an Akuma x Asuka team but I’m assuming that it is the same set-up quality wise. Just that Asuka has slightly higher health to make up for Akuma’s low health.

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I completely forgot akuma was in this game. I’ll try him out.