Offline Taokaka is infinitely easier than online I found last night (blocking OVERHEADS and CROSS-UPS!). Played a Taokaka last night in casuals for about 15+ matches (this guy took me out of a CS1 tourney a long time ago lol).
Don't have to rush anything in this match. If you play patient, blocking all of Taokaka's pressure, you can spot an opening sooner or later. Her 6B overhead I could 2C on reaction but the way I won with it was to make him think it was safe to throw out 6B by blocking it a few times first.
6A is definitely the go to normal to use if you don't have rods to scare off drive approaches.
My plan against him was basically:
- you do enough damage to win off of 2 or more good reads so you can afford to play patiently.