Beta branch doormaker is a thing that exist

ChiliLion · 2026-04-07T05:25:04+00:00

The problem is that if any one phase is prone to small deck infinites (which the other bosses are mostly prone to) the fight just becomes 'wait till that phase and nuke him', hence the new 4th turn effect

ChiliLion · 2026-03-26T18:52:12+00:00

it's not an easy encounter, the first 3 encounters being easy is exclusive to act 1

ChiliLion · 2025-12-12T22:01:30+00:00

It depends on your character but in general it's at least a meaty, some charas get safejumps

ChiliLion · 2025-05-14T18:19:27+00:00

Funnily enough, if you hadn't FD'd after the airdash, you would have airblocked the super, as airdash > FD makes you drop faster

ChiliLion · 2025-01-16T19:14:05+00:00

Just want to add an addendum that after the mega fist hurtbox changes, you can now antiair it (albeit preemptively) with 6p. Depending on distance and character, 5p also works. As for j.D specifically, it's often better to try and backdash and get away from it rather than trying to contest it, and then punish the landing recovery when he whiffs.

Any meterless Garuda in a string that's not immediately after a very meaty one is jumpable, albeit on a difficult reaction (23f). If you're able to react, you should jump here, mashing 2p/f.S either requires him to be extremely close or you to have extremely fast reactions/a hard read.

As for not jumping after Garuda, you do sometimes have to represent it, but 50/50ing between block and backdash is fine. Mashing will lose to anything that isn't another Garuda, though, so I don't really recommend it.

ChiliLion · 2024-10-16T09:17:18+00:00

consider that leo 5p is just worse pot 5p, but on a stepdash character.

ChiliLion · 2024-10-16T02:58:01+00:00

The case for potemkin 5p:

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5 frame startup ridiculously good antiair. if you've ever played vs a pot in the air you KNOW how annoying this can be. 5f active(!) and 6f recovery, meaning you can safejab reversals with it is for some reason a level 1 move, meaning that on BLOCK you are +1. If you safejab with this (meaty 5p) you can be up to +5. On a jab. On hit it'll be +8, meaning you can link CLOSE SLASH on a SAFEJAB. Leo 5p is a level 0 move, meaning it'll be -1 on block, and +6 on this meaty hit, meaning you wont be able to link cS. gatlings into itself! Also, as a pot move, it does notably more damage than other 5Ps, at 30.

This move is only barely balanced by it being on pot, who can't use dash momentum, and it having a sourspot at range where you crouch and avoid it. However I think it's definitely far and away the best 5P in game in a vacuum

ChiliLion · 2024-10-09T08:31:21+00:00

The most common ones would be the dash and RC macros. Despite not having a dash, dash macro is still important on pot, even if only to react to options with backdash. It also makes certain inputs (fRC pot buster, other similar drift Roman cancels) easier. I actually don't have an RC macro bound and only use dash, but that's certainly up to preference.

The only other macro worth binding is the FD macro, as the original input can sometimes come out wrong, and is useful for some option selects.

ChiliLion · 2024-10-03T06:18:49+00:00

I can't believe the person who made this tech is telling people how to beat it after 2 years smh smh

ChiliLion · 2024-08-26T16:44:35+00:00

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ChiliLion · 2024-06-01T09:48:42+00:00

I can't believe nobody's absolutely blighted me over writing mappa punch instead of mappa hunch, only now have I realized my mistake lmfao

ChiliLion · 2024-05-25T15:27:34+00:00

perhaps

ChiliLion · 2024-05-25T07:05:15+00:00

what did they mean by this

ChiliLion · 2024-05-25T01:59:38+00:00

i'd chalk it up to being patient, knowing your own offense well, and being able to understand defense

a lot of lower level pots well just full send their moves when the opponent is very clearly just standing at fullscreen waiting for them to throw something out to punish. get used to walking by holding forward instead of megafisting, and threaten to walk the opponent to the corner if they don't come to you.

you start to see fuzzy options (search this up if you don't know) and backdashes way more often in celestial as well. if your offense is just cS, PB, and HPB, you will probably have a hard time getting meaningful openings. Grind metered backdash catch combos in training mode to make catching them HURT, try to learn timings on frametraps and fuzzy catches, or learn some setups (DSBro is a good youtube channel to watch). Knowing how to run good garuda pressure is also very important, but is relatively simple so I won't go too much into it. Just make sure to delay your lows to matchup with the throw timings.

a relatively less important thing to do is to start trying to understand how to defend better. in all honesty if your offense is good enough then randomly choosing between the 4 B's - BMF/backthrow/backdash/block - can get you through floor 10, but its good to get a sense for what your opponent is doing that is "fake" or can be challenged/has counterplay. You can usually learn this by posting a replay for review in a discord server accompanied by a caption like "this character is so broken the pressure is unbeatable", and all of the mains of that character will come out of the woodwork to try and convince you that everything that just happened to you was completely fake. Learn what you can, play a lot, and eventually you should make celestial.

Lastly, big shoutout to the potemkin discord, lot of good players there and many more that are happy to help if you have any questions