Them's Fightin' Herds/Tianhuo/Strategy

Overview

Strategy

Combos

Neutral

Make use of Tian’s dashblock. It has a comically small hurtbox, dashing under moves such as shadow spark and goatwheel. On top of this, Tian has excellent midrange buttons in the form of 5B, 2B, and 2A. Combine this with the generous hitbox of IAD jB, and you’re set in terms of the ground game. You can opt for a more commanding midrange presence, or focus on whiff punishing with your movement. It varies between matchups, but Tian is usually the most threatening when she’s grounded at midrange.

Offense

Stagger Pressure is safe, flexible, and mash safe. All you need to do is slightly delay each button in your gatling (ideally a gap of a few frames). This will punish the opponent for mashing buttons. Once the opponent is afraid to mash, you can start using flip mixups to break their defense.

Flip mixup variations:

4D jB 66 jB - The standard go-to. Decent starter, good range, pretty fast. If you’re not sure which one to do, do this one. Note: you can delay the second jB for a while and still combo-train this muscle memory to stay in against pushblocks. I use this one against opponents that I know are scared, or aren’t looking for overhead from a specific range.

4D jA jB - A much tighter double overhead. Harder to pushblock, but has less range and is a somewhat worse starter. This has the added bonus of counter-hitting players who mash out stand normals (usually 5A). I’m using this one more in 2.0 despite being a tad weaker.

4D 66 B+C 2A - Basically an empty flip into a low. Obviously this has a big gap, but certain players will crumble against it. Worth learning.

1D jC - This is a crossup that can be made somewhat ambiguous depending on the timing you press jC. This one can always be mashed out of, so make sure the opponent is very scared of mashing before using it. Great starter. I use this one sparingly.

Matchups

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Oleander[No Data] [Character Page]

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Tianhuo[No Data] [Character Page]

Velvet[No Data] [Character Page]

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