OMG its a duck

nah

It's a running joke because the match-up forums are usually really bad and there's usually always one guy who says "just IB everything", as if that's oh so helpful

No, you're just an idiot. I hate you, jerk.

Well alright, but it can still be used if you want to use a D poke when she has 50 heat.

Just found out about a new technique that might help this match-up for Nu, I'm calling it "crouch buffering". So you can duck Tao's Pounce super, right? Well it turns out that you don't lose the invincibility to the super as soon as you stand up, so that means that you can crouch, do a move, and the crouch you did before the move can protect you from the super even while you're doing a standing move. Since this is possible, you can do at least some pressure on Tao even when she has 50 heat, and punish pounces earlier more safely.

wat? No good Tao is going to do 6C > Cat Spirit 3 unless they hit confirm it, or as a once in a blue moon mixup since you can just jab Tao out of it. And on hit it has the cleanest combo afterwards (vertical drive loop). Also, IB IB IB IB IB IB IB IB lol match-up forums.

It'll always depend on the connection, lag will always be Tao's mortal enemy. I personally think that it's not un-reasonable to land taunt combos 90+% of the time in a good connection, so I'm optimistic. But ya, in a laggy connection, Tao is garbage tier (says the guy with a bad connection )

So I was practicing taunt combos 'cause Ronove told me to, and I figured out how to do that double taunt combo ^_^ The combo should actually look more like 5b -> 6a x1 -> JC -> j.2d~b -> Taunt -> 214d -> ... -> j.2d~b -> Taunt -> 236aa -> 2d~6 -> j.c -> 8d~6 -> j.c -> 8d~6 -> j.236bb -> j.236bbbb, note the pause after the cat jump, it lets the opponent fall enough to finish the combo. Wanted to post this cause I swear I thought this combo was actually impossible, and it might help other people do this damned combo

(Taunt > 214D > j.2D~B) = Taunt Loop? So a combo would look like 5B > 6A(1) > JC > j.2D~B > Taunt Loop x 5 > Taunt > 236CC > 2D~6 > j.C > 8D~6 > j.C > JC > j.236BBBBB? As opposed to (214D > j.2D~B > Taunt) or (j.2D~B > Taunt > 214D). /semantics