-Papercuts

Even if he got more solid in CS, he still lacks the tools he needs to do much aside from punish mistakes.

I think that's a change in tager's hitbox, not 360A, but yeah it won't work. I usually start the match just by walking backwards, that way you avoid a match starting 4D or something, and avoiding getting magnetized is always good. Also, I buffer 720 a lot but try not to confirm it with C unless the other Tager has less than 50 heat. Punishing a move with a 720 only to have them do the same and make you lose to the second super flash suuuucks.

I only watched the Jin and Lambda fights, but one big thing I noticed was you always do 6C after spark, which doesn't connect. Use 5C > whatever instead, you need to try and maximize damage when you actually land it. I have no idea what the jin was trying to do with his bursts and taunts, but atleast with the Lambda I noticed you constantly walked backwards, even in the corner. You need to instead think, "I'M TAGER BITCH" and just walk forward and punch her in the face. She was constantly in a position to get sledged but you just kept blocking/walking back and only really got damage because for whatever reason he went rushdown lambda and you kept getting 360s.

I love making a lobby and having unlimited characters on but never using them until I have a full lobby. Then I use Unlimited Kune and see if I can get them to rage quit. Here's 2 videos from me doing it last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYGGw9FpEc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVnDOK7CqJY His instant kill bag is hilarious, especially in the first video when you see how someone who never saw it before reacts. Also I'm mashing like the wind in all of these!

I think you forgot "What the christ happened" tier and put Tager in C instead.

Yeah, this one makes a lot of sense. The Bang one I could maybe see a little more in his favor depending on FRKZ...it seems like all Tager has against that is spinny and sparkbolt. If by some miracle you magnetize him and you try to atomic collider him when he jumps around, then you can only cry in dismay as it fails horribly.

Haha, even assuming he sat there and took it I'd imagine most people would atleast be more cautious and use Nirvana to eat the sparkbolt(which makes me cry when it happens). Why not tech the grab, though? It seems like you're screwed either way. But yeah, I could use a lot more Carl practice. I fight one of the top ranked Carl people quite a bit and he doesn't do the loop...or maybe he just doesn't do it on me() and it's hard enough for Tager to just fight Carl by himself.

Oh, so there's the Carl that kept destroying me tonight. It seems really hard to not get sandwiched between the two considering the match starts out with Carl getting right behind Nirvana, then it's like Honda vs. Honda where it's just a stare off. The biggest difference here is it's waiting for Tager to do something and commence getting assraped.

One thing to note about 5D -> BSledge in particular is you can use it to bait the backdash 360B. After they backdash the sledge you can backdash and do a 360A while their throw whiffs. If they backdash 720 you'll obviously get beat. It's also pretty dangerous in general since they can IB 360/720 after 5D but it won't hurt to know. I would've messed with it some more but recording the CPU Tager doing 5D > Sledge > backdash 360 sometimes made him jump up and poke the air after I backdash his sledge.

I do it on the 360 dpad fine. I pretty much have no problems doing it out of any of his moves aside from 5/2A.

Haha, I do that a lot too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEngFfNTcNA I only recorded this round of the match for the lulz of it. I got my ass completely beat here but that saved me, people mash on tech after spark bolt a lot, so I have a surprising success rate with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3RtTwuRXts Actually this one is better for pure traps, but I still like the first one for the complete comeback version.

Haha, wow; I'll keep that in mind.

Yeah, I really hate that. Magnetizing Arakune helps a ton, but it's really hard when they can backdash away from all of his slow magnetism attacks. Best options seem to be j.D and sparkbolt, but it's also hard to land a spark bolt if they pay attention...not to mention easily baited with all the stuff he can do to suspend himself in air.

The characters with Astrals in the arcade can do it, but nobody else. IIRC that is Ragna, Rachel, Hakumen, and Nu.