• nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    wait, no, I thought of a better analogy. China is spamming a difficult-to-block combo and obliterating the US who is just button mashing, and the US is holding back tears while screaming YOURE CHEATING, THATS CHEATING

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      A bit of a correction: combos are performed after a character is launched by a combo-starting move, at which point they can't block anymore.

      • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as combo, is in fact, true/combo, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, true+combo.

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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          8 months ago

          That is what is almost always referred to as a 'combo', though. Non-true combos are just a result of players failing their knowledge checks in specific cases and are entirely eliminated if you read-theory

    • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      8 months ago

      Here i got u. Marvel terms.

      After aerial jousting for some time China has finally made the US block in the corner. The US attempts a pushblock but China read the late pushblock and responds with a late empty trydash into low. After a 30+hit combo America is let out only to be hit by meaty Doom missles post-back tech (a terrible tech direction in the corner). China uses the missle pressure to tri dash high twice and empty dash 1 frame grab. Pops x factor and kills. Now to see what mixup they do on Europe's incoming.

      The US is still saying "...I was holding back..." in disbelief as Europe eats a 4 layer incoming mix.