Round 1 Fight. So the start of the first match against your opponent.
DOA Q&A
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What does WHRK mean?
Hayabusa, I just see people writing combos for him and one of it says WHRK
i think it means WHile Rising Kick, which would be that hand stand kick he does.
Bdiamond
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I have some questions.
How do I maneuver quickly in actual matches? I feel like I approach my opponents a bit slow. Does this game have any type of special dashes?
What are some good ways to deal with grappling pressure?
Are powermoves/power launches practical? Or should I stick to regular combos even when my HP is red?
How do I maneuver quickly in actual matches? I feel like I approach my opponents a bit slow. Does this game have any type of special dashes?
What are some good ways to deal with grappling pressure?
Are powermoves/power launches practical? Or should I stick to regular combos even when my HP is red?
Double-tap 6 to do a quick dash forward.
Double-tap 4 to do a quick dash backward.
Double-tap 3 to do a quick crouch-dash forward.
Tap 6 twice and then hold down on 6 to sprint forward.
There are two ways to approach grapplers. If they are using throws, then you should strike more, as you cannot be thrown when performing a strike.
If they are using Offensive Holds (special "throws" that go through strikes) then you can use a normal throw yourself, as throws beat OHs.
Keep in mind that standing throws cannot grab an opponent who is ducking, so you can also duck to avoid most throws and OHs (though this will leave you open to crouching throws and crouching OHs, should they choose to use those).
Power Launchers will launch the opponent high enough that your most damaging juggles will be possible from them (and they also deal more raw damage than your average launch). But, the difficulty in executing these combos varies greatly from character to character. So bottom line: If you can reliably do your high-damage Power Launcher combo, do it. If your execution skills are not good enough, stick with your BnB combos.
Power Blows can be more or less efficient than your character's max damage juggles, depending on the weight class of your opponent, the environment, the juggle potential of your character, etc. In general, they are pretty useful, however.
Double-tap 4 to do a quick dash backward.
Double-tap 3 to do a quick crouch-dash forward.
Tap 6 twice and then hold down on 6 to sprint forward.
There are two ways to approach grapplers. If they are using throws, then you should strike more, as you cannot be thrown when performing a strike.
If they are using Offensive Holds (special "throws" that go through strikes) then you can use a normal throw yourself, as throws beat OHs.
Keep in mind that standing throws cannot grab an opponent who is ducking, so you can also duck to avoid most throws and OHs (though this will leave you open to crouching throws and crouching OHs, should they choose to use those).
Power Launchers will launch the opponent high enough that your most damaging juggles will be possible from them (and they also deal more raw damage than your average launch). But, the difficulty in executing these combos varies greatly from character to character. So bottom line: If you can reliably do your high-damage Power Launcher combo, do it. If your execution skills are not good enough, stick with your BnB combos.
Power Blows can be more or less efficient than your character's max damage juggles, depending on the weight class of your opponent, the environment, the juggle potential of your character, etc. In general, they are pretty useful, however.
Jann Lee and Ein
Lift stuns delay holds slightly. I believe gut stuns do as well.
Can't hold at all during feint stuns, sit-down stuns or limbo stuns.
DOA3 is generally considered the best gameplay wise, but as for competitive turnout I think this is the best it's done.
Golden Age? Depends on your definition.
The community's competitive golden age (not counting current DOA5 since that's been our most successful. ever.) was probably DOA2U/DOA3.1 era. Thats when the community really started forming.
If I had to do a personal ranking on competitive viability, and it's always going to be subjective:
The community's competitive golden age (not counting current DOA5 since that's been our most successful. ever.) was probably DOA2U/DOA3.1 era. Thats when the community really started forming.
If I had to do a personal ranking on competitive viability, and it's always going to be subjective:
- DOA5
- DOA3
- DOA2
- DOA++
- DOA4
- DOA
AsheMann21
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Hi everyone. I've seen people talking about moves that look like this: 12i or 9i. What do they mean exactly?
Those are the initial frames on an attack. So basically the game "moves" through a sequence of stills called "frames." There are 60 frames per second in this game. So, if something takes 30 frames to execute, it takes half of one second.
So, an attack has three basic frame properties: Initial frames, Active frames, Recovery frames
Initial frames (also called "iframes") are the frames required before the move becomes active. The less of these there are, the faster a move comes out.
Active frames begin immediately after the initial frames, and are the number of subsequent frames where the attack can actually hit someone or "connect."
Recovery frames are the frames that must follow the active frames, and are required to expire before another input can begin.
They are often read like 9 (2) 10
Initial
Active
Recovery
So, the fewer "iframes" the faster an attack is, basically.
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AsheMann21
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Oh so this goes back to Frame data then. Guess I have to brush up. Thanks for the quick reply Brute~
AsheMann21
Well-Known Member
How do I know if a move or combo is guaranteed?
Try it on the opponent in the Free Training mode. Make sure to set stagger escape to "Fastest" and set the "Com Reaction" to be the corresponding action you want to test whether it can be performed to break a combo. Ex: "Standing Block" to test guarantees from sitdown stuns and the like, "High Hold" two test whether PP is a natural combo, etc.
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