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Video/Tutorial - Tarkatan Reversal Option Select and how it beats up Tarkatan bad

Dizzy

Dizzy

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Hello all,

I made some videos as I noticed, specifically against Tarkatan Alien that people are not using reversal option selects (a.k.a. defensive option select or OS armor).

This has always been in the game and had varying degrees of usefulness against the cast, depending on how punishable their strings are.

I made a quick video of what a defensive option select is along with an easy example here:


This will be old news (I hope) to most but its there for whoever needs it. Watch the inputs for an idea of how to input this OS and pause the video to read text whenever you need to, because my editing skills suck.

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Here is what people actually are interested in though, how to use this technique to get a punish every time Alien does a rekka to you while you have a bar.


By using this technique, the only time you will block the third hit of rekka's, it will only be the low or grab version (cannot jail with overhead) and will be heavily punishable, allowing an easy punish with a fairly quick string of choice.

@Kitana Prime @Pig Of The Hut @Madzin @Tom Brady

Tag your friends that have trouble with Tarkatan Alien.
 
Invincible Salads

Invincible Salads

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honestly i don't like doing this option select garbage, why even have rekka's if this is a thing? lol, nrs needs to patch that OS shit out *completely*.

other than that tho, great vid, definitely helpful for beating the character, but i don't think ill be using this kind of tech :(
 
Dizzy

Dizzy

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Invincible Salads said:
honestly i don't like doing this option select garbage, why even have rekka's if this is a thing? lol, nrs needs to patch that OS shit out *completely*.

other than that tho, great vid, definitely helpful for beating the character, but i don't think ill be using this kind of tech :(
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This is in every 2D fighting game that has reversals and absolute guard. For sure in KI, SF4/SFV, KOF13, etc. If the opponent does a true block string, reversal won't come out. If you don't do true block string, reversal does come out. In SF4 people accidentally did this by playing Zangief and churning the butter during block strings, any blockstring that wasn't a true blockstring SPD would come out and punish the opponent.

The only difference is in MKX game it's harder as you need to have an idea of what the blockstring the opponent is doing and can't mash it out.

Also, this was not in MK9 due to no reversals window.
 
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Invincible Salads said:
honestly i don't like doing this option select garbage, why even have rekka's if this is a thing? lol, nrs needs to patch that OS shit out *completely*.

other than that tho, great vid, definitely helpful for beating the character, but i don't think ill be using this kind of tech :(
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These kind of option selects will always be a part of any game. It's not a bug or a glitch, it's just simply how the game engine works and using it to your advantage.

Every single 2d fighting game has option selects similar to this.
 
Invincible Salads

Invincible Salads

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JesterSMX said:
Note to self... Pick Tarkatan Alien against Invincible Salads...
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go ahead, ill learn to beat him like you would have to if OS reversals didnt exist in the first place....like they shouldnt in mkx.


edit: so wait, every 2d fighting game has OS reversals then?, but they don't exactly involve armor like this do they?
 
Invincible Salads

Invincible Salads

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ugh, its just, i hate how this kind of thing can completely invalidate certain characters offence, i don't play tarkattan, its just that....what is a tarkattan player supposed to do now with this tech?
 
JesterSMX

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It's too laggy to poke...
Invincible Salads said:
ugh, its just, i hate how this kind of thing can completely invalidate certain characters offence, i don't play tarkattan, its just that....what is a tarkattan player supposed to do now with this tech?
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Hit confirm or take the risk of the 50/50 at the end of the rekkas. The armored gaps provide balance to the move so the alien player can't abuse it. I hear what you're saying but that's the game.
 
Ze Dingo

Ze Dingo

D4->F2 = unblockable. Ice Clone = unpunishable.
Invincible Salads said:
other than that tho, great vid, definitely helpful for beating the character, but i don't think ill be using this kind of tech :(
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That's an incredibly scrubby attitude that'll cost you matches and maybe even tournaments.

Invincible Salads said:
edit: so wait, every 2d fighting game has OS reversals then?, but they don't exactly involve armor like this do they?
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Ever try to oki a shoto and eaten a face full of his fist? Invincible, breh.
 
Invincible Salads

Invincible Salads

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Ze Dingo said:
That's an incredibly scrubby attitude that'll cost you matches and maybe even tournaments.



Ever try to oki a shoto and eaten a face full of his fist? Invincible, breh.
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i mean i guess if i were to go to a tournament i'd probably use it, just i don't know, at least in casuals i'd try to avoid it.. They should at least make it so that his rekka's can stagger but still jail to the point where the grab would be -6 but the 50/50 would be full combo punishable.


and no i havent started SF yet, but i plan on it, it doesnt bother me if other games have it, it just feels so out of place in an nrs game, mk9 didnt have it, and i don't think injustice quite had anything like this either did it?
 
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Scott The Scot

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Invincible Salads said:
i mean i guess if i were to go to a tournament i'd probably use it, just i don't know, at least in casuals i'd try to avoid it.. They should at least make it so that his rekka's can stagger but still jail to the point where the grab would be -6 but the 50/50 would be full combo punishable.


and no i havent started SF yet, but i plan on it, it doesnt bother me if other games have it, it just feels so out of place in an nrs game, mk9 didnt have it, and i don't think injustice quite had anything like this either did it?
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Injustice did have them. You could option select so Martian couldn't do his 22b3 on block but you'd block his 222/22~Scoop etc
 
The PantyChrist

The PantyChrist

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Nice work. I had considered something like this early on but never really got around to testing it
Invincible Salads said:
i mean i guess if i were to go to a tournament i'd probably use it, just i don't know, at least in casuals i'd try to avoid it.. They should at least make it so that his rekka's can stagger but still jail to the point where the grab would be -6 but the 50/50 would be full combo punishable.


and no i havent started SF yet, but i plan on it, it doesnt bother me if other games have it, it just feels so out of place in an nrs game, mk9 didnt have it, and i don't think injustice quite had anything like this either did it?
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People need to stop thinking how the game should be and start looking at how the game is. The OS is built into the engine and game knowledge is never scrubby.
 
Invincible Salads

Invincible Salads

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The PantyChrist said:
Nice work. I had considered something like this early on but never really got around to testing it
People need to stop thinking how the game should be and start looking at how the game is. The OS is built into the engine and game knowledge is never scrubby.
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of course i could always move on too. Another game that is, if i don't agree with the games final state. But we'll see
 
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