Volt Charge through your lasers kinda wrecks your keepaway game.. And stein setting has recovery, so the next time you do it because you want more lasers, you'll eat a spark bolt.
And B sledge isn't the only sledge. A sledge works just as well.
If Sledging wasn't related to damage, I could sledge Miami. But I can't. So if you can do a certain amount of damage to him you can knock him out of it. Same thing as you having to sledgeRCsledge through Baden Baden Lily. The first sledge doesn't hit, it's to eat the damage then the second one counters.
Anyway, 3C and 5C are your best normals in this fight. And this fight sucks. Tager will get in, and your DP isn't going to save you. Tager baits DP and then you die. If Tager gets hit by DP, he takes 1k damage. Whoopee. He's coming back at you.
Synthesis is right in saying you have to bait sledge and punish. Because that's all you can do in this matchup. Your moves are slow and unsafe, everything is 720able. Hell, if Tager blocks j.2C/6B it's a free 360B.
Exploding stein are bad. Say you explode them, but you get countered with B sledge for it. And they explode. Tager air techs and continues the combo. Exploding steins are worthless.
And yeah, Volt Charge has no damage threshold. Just the 8 frames of CH after charge. Also, you can't reduce his primers while he charges. Lasers do nothing.
Why the hell is Tager sledging from 2/3rds screen?