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Just a tip, but check the original nico video to see notes about the combos and which char it works (a lot of combos there are character specific/need to delay stuff), but unfortunately I don't have time to do that for now. Also the AB2 midscreen stuff works in CS2 as you can see in the video.

Tao Top10 PSR (thanks to Nikki): 1) 787 PSR: Tsujikawa 2) 746 PSR: Izayoi Matoi 3) 737 PSR: Satsuno 4) 726 PSR: Nezumikki 5) 723 PSR: Uisura/Whisler 6) 712 PSR: Pezuneko 7) 707 PSR: Hige 8) 705 PSR: Hage Master 9) 702 PSR: RAN 10) 692 PSR: Sejii Gunsou

The Pink Tao is Tsujikawa

5C->JC->j.5D->RC->air dash->j.A

It's not a glitch, j.B first hit is an overhead while the second is not. If you do it too fast, the first hit miss and you only hit the second, which is mid.

I don't think they changed its hitbox at all. Even if they did, it still doesn't hit most of crouching characters if you don't delay it...maybe it work against Tager or Hakumen.

From Whister/Uisura twitter: (Coner) Air Throw->dash 5C->j.C->j.D~A->6C->4D~A->6C->6C->AB2->6C->6C->HJC->Cat2->etc [~6400dmg] 4 6C in a row, I like it :3

I think he called the combo demoniac, not Tao herself lol.

From Tsujikawa twitter: - 2[C] FC->6[C]->Cat 3->2D~C->Gold Burst->6C->AB2 combo->RC in the last Cat 2->Gold Burst->6C->Cat 2 x3 [~11000dmg] 8k with 50% meter and no gold burst 10k with 100% meter and 1 gold burst

If anyone is curious, Tsujikawa switched to Tao again saying that she's fun now. Anyway, Nikki from our brazilian forum is translating changes/notes/combos/comments about every character (he translated almost every character by now). Probably he will translate Tao's later this week, but I asked him to let Tao be the last character in his list so her jbbs would have more information by the time he translate it.

I already posted that combo route a few pages back and it is character specific (last time I saw, it didn't work against Ragna/Lambda/Carl/Noel/Relius) and only work on standing characters.

It must be from that fake tier list that Circ posted. Right now, Tao is looking pretty weak, not even the jbbs impressions are good.

GC->6[C]->2[C] is what you should do midscreen because the starter of GC combos takes in count the P2 and 6[C] P2 is better than 2[C]'s. However, in coner you have to do 2[C] first anyway...but there's a better combo: 2[C]->6[C]->236[C]->22C->5D~A->loop (dunno how mane reps). A week ago Tsujikawa did a 8k Tao CS2 combo after a guard crush, but I don't know what combo it is.

It doesn't need to be a 6B starter, any stuff you do and your opponent is crouching you can JC->j.D~B->5B->5C (the number of times depends on the starter). Also this is not possible in CSEX anymore because j.D has less untechable time on grounded characters.

Yes for both questions.

Unless you hit a j.C->6A or an air-to-air CH, the only universal midscreen combo that is meterless is 5B->5C->2C->236A->5D~A. Some players are testing a new como route using 5B->5C->JC->j.B->j.2B->j.C->6A, but it doesn't work against some characters like Ragna, Lambda, Noel, Makoto, Platinum and Relius.

5B->6A doesn't combo anymore on standing characters and people who know the matchup usually block high most of time lol.

Midscreen you can't do 5B->3C->236A anymore.

The new coner combos are cool? Yes, but I have the fear the Tao turns into a coner/near-coner only character when she doesn't have a nice coner carry and oki like Valk. Her standing combos doesn't even reach 2k and you have to spend meter for like...3.5k when other characters does 4k+ using meter. However, I still have some hope. If this j.B->j.2B->j.C turns out to be universal somehow, this will open a few possibilities.

5B->3C->22C->5D->j.D~A->land->6C->4D~A>land->6C->Cat 3->2D~C->j.8D->j.C->j.8D->j.3D->Cat2 [4023dmg] 5B->5C->j.B->j.2B->j.C->5B->5C->j.B->j.2B->j.C->5B->3C (2hits)>Cat 1>5DA [2122dmg 25 MG] *I don't know if it's character specific or not, but I think it is. [near coner]6BFC>5C>6C>214D>j.2D~B>6C>5D>j.5D~A>6C>Cat 3>2D>j.C>8D~C>8D>Cat2 [3700dmg] yeah...her coner damage didn't increase at all and her throw midscreen damage went up by only 100dmg.

It having more recovery is fine, but whiffing when your opponent is in your face? That's a bit too much.

Tachikawa video with Satsuno: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPT4Hfm3c44&feature=feedu -j.D CH wallbounce is pretty meh, it was better before; -OMFG, what the fuck have they done to CA? Really, was that a necessary nerf?

@NeoGio0o: He did 9D->Cat2 instead of 3D->Cat2 because of j.2D SMP since he already had used it once in the combo. For the 6A->j.8D~A thing, j.8D untechable time decreased (this was already said in this topic)...so you can only do it one or two times in a combo and some you can't even do it. That pink Tao was good, but he is not really used to her because of the 5B change. My main problem now is that Tao reward on standing opponents is very low in a lot of starters (5B, j.B, 2A, 2B and also is kinda rare to hit crouching people with Tao) and Tao oki and coner corry isn't that good even with 5C->6C on crouching or 3C->tricky edge. Even though j.C still combos into 6A, it's not really easy to hitconfirm it and a blocked 6A makes your pressure options a little more limited. While I think that 3C->236A midscreen needed to be nerfed in this version, I don't really see the reason to take out 5B->6A when the damage after it wasn't that good even with the loop. But Day 02 anyway, I still have some hope in this matter. @Rin: in a few pages back, I wrote all those combos from jbbs and some changes/impressions, but nobody seems to care about it lol

j.C->6A works fine, any D~A->6A only on CH.

I really don't know. For now, I don't see any buff that could allow a new combo route that could substitute 5B->6A midscreen that is universal and works midscreen on standing. We have the JC->j.B->j.2B->j.C stuff, but the problem is that it doesn't work on every character. Well, I still think that Tao will be a good character, but she's looking REALLY boring (even more than CS2 Tao), except for her coner stuff...it's like they are taking out everything I liked about Tao since CT. However, we are still on day 2...who knows what can happen.