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Strategy Ermac's combo after overhead!

QjonPL

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and if they tech roll the u4
...then of course b3 whiffs, I've written this in the video description and that first, month old forum post when I explained this setup in details.
You can also techroll that b2b1~Lift "reset" and it still gets the hype of being useful, so... ; )
 

STORMS

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in the corner... you can get the 9% from U4 and then up to (what I can find with B3,4) is 38%.... so possibly 47% easily in the corner? Hell yes!

Props QjonPL ... I might've seen this by accident before but it never clicked that it would actually work. We should get this tested though with human players.
 

Metzos

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in the corner... you can get the 9% from U4 and then up to (what I can find with B3,4) is 38%.... so possibly 47% easily in the corner? Hell yes!

Props QjonPL ... I might've seen this by accident before but it never clicked that it would actually work. We should get this tested though with human players.
Oh... So wait it actually OTG's them if you do the U4 in the corner ?
 

STORMS

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Oh... So wait it actually OTG's them if you do the U4 in the corner ?
Yes, there is a specific window of time where you can connect the B3 in the corner after the U4... it's "as they are getting up"

Dummy is set to ducking and always blocking... works everytime.

Though, it suffers to wake-ups so far
 

Metzos

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Yes, there is a specific window of time where you can connect the B3 in the corner after the U4... it's "as they are getting up"

Dummy is set to ducking and always blocking... works everytime.

Though, it suffers to wake-ups so far
Yeah but it can probably win against weak wake ups, like Sektor's for example. I didnt know that. Nice find STORMS.
 

QjonPL

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I did test it when I first discovered it:
http://testyourmight.com/threads/ermac-key-strategy-mix-ups.8463/page-6#post-336427
It will work only on drowsy opponents who don't hold block, lol.

After u4 knd at wall b3 doesn't have any special ability to beat WA invincibility, it'll beat let's say Sektor's TP only when his invincibility wears off, so it'd be better to use 3,1_1,2~Lift, because you can at least try to confirm Lift from the string, whereas in b3 case the cancel has to be commited immiediately.
 

STORMS

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QjonPL Metzos

Also, I tested U4 in the corner against wake-ups attacks and there are only situational ways it works... example... NW's reflect, Jade's baton (U4?), Smoke's smoke port, Jax's gotcha grab (most of the time)... etc. I stopped with Sonya... against her wake-up Kiss of Death it works to use B34... B3 whiffs and B4 connects.

Although, I never realized this but it's risky as hell... if you do U4 and KNOW they are going to do a wake-up attack... if you just do Ermac's teleport and hit them from the other side.. it hits them.. again, risky as hell. :(
 

Metzos

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QjonPL Metzos

Also, I tested U4 in the corner against wake-ups attacks and there are only situational ways it works... example... NW's reflect, Jade's baton (U4?), Smoke's smoke port, Jax's gotcha grab (most of the time)... etc. I stopped with Sonya... against her wake-up Kiss of Death it works to use B34... B3 whiffs and B4 connects.

Although, I never realized this but it's risky as hell... if you do U4 and KNOW they are going to do a wake-up attack... if you just do Ermac's teleport and hit them from the other side.. it hits them.. again, risky as hell. :(
It still can be used as an "anti" wake up attack game. You can easily bait wake up attacks and punish accordingly with this. I m gonna start using it tbh. Props to STORMS for making the video and ofc to QjonPL for posting it.
 

QjonPL

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So it seems that everyone's enjoying this combo and all these ghetto resets, so to add fuel to the flame, much older video:

(this action wasn't found by me, so I don't take any credit)

As you can see, you can "combo" off of Ermac's sweep (of course only if the opp doesn't hold block/roll/wakeup).
YAY, Ermac has 50/50 low/OH combo mixup!
Kappa
 

STORMS

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I may have found another OTG... I have the dummy on "ALWAYS" blocking.. and yet, this combo works... but we are talking about the great MK9 training mode so I'm not sure of the validity. I'll try to get a quick video of it up tonight
 

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I may have found another OTG... I have the dummy on "ALWAYS" blocking.. and yet, this combo works... but we are talking about the great MK9 training mode so I'm not sure of the validity. I'll try to get a quick video of it up tonight
The block from the cpu doesn't take into effect immediately.