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Comboing into assists?

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This is probably a really stupid question considering that I'm pretty dang certain you CAN, but how can you combo into an assist move when you have a team? Are there certain normals that can be comboed into an assist? Can you only combo into one after using a special? Thank you for the help!

I play Big Band and Parasoul in case that helps.

Also, can you combo into a character switch?
 
Depending on the assist, you can combo into it a variety of ways. Each character tends to have a normal or spot between normals where you will find it comfortable to call an assist.
With Parasoul, you will see people call assists between the two hits of sHP sometimes, or after the second hit. There are other ways to call it though.

You can't call an assist DURING a special, but you can time an assist call WITH one.
Parasoul can do this by doing the Napalm Shot input alongside a button that would make it an assist call.
Something like charge back, forward+LPMK would do Light Napalm Shot + Assist.
This works with her other specials too, like tear toss or napalm pillar.

With Big Band, you can call it between the hits of cMP, or perhaps use your Sound Stun and call it after hitting the opponent with cHP.
Maybe, if you're in the corner, you could do sHK and call your assist, so that it hits them from the wallbounce sHK causes.

You'll find many creative ways to call your assists if you play around in training mode a bit. Just pay attention to the combo counter to make sure it actually did combo.
Also, make sure your training dummy is set to ground tech, so that you avoid any untrue combos!

You can turn on the hitstun bar too, that will help you see how much move a hitstun has.
Advanced training data will show it in terms of a number at the bottom of the screen.

And yes, you can combo into a tag! With Parasoul, try sHK in the corner into Big Band's tag, that might work.
Her backthrow probably leads into Big Band's tag too.

Big Band can likely do cHP with sound stun and tag to Parasoul to bring her in safely by comboing into it.
 
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This is probably a really stupid question considering that I'm pretty dang certain you CAN, but how can you combo into an assist move when you have a team? Are there certain normals that can be comboed into an assist? Can you only combo into one after using a special? Thank you for the help!

I play Big Band and Parasoul in case that helps.

Also, can you combo into a character switch?
It also might be helpful to think about when you can't combo with your assist.

- If your assist has already hit the opponent once you cannot call it again until that combo is over.
- If your assist was recently hit and you start hitting the opponent, your assist goes on cooldown so you have to combo them for a bit longer before the assist is free to call.
- You cannot call your assist during Specials and Supers.
- You cannot call your assist after a Double Jump.
- You cannot call your assist after a Super Jump (Including Super Jump Cancels from launchers).

That covers most of it.

As long as you aren't doing those things, you can call your assist at any point during your combo and 'Combo' into the assist.

Ex:
Jab > Assist Call > Jab > Medium > Assist Hits.
Jump In Heavy > Assist Call > Land > Jump Again > Assist Hits > Jump in Heavy
Jab > Jab > Special + Assist [At the same time via gllts method]
 
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