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Recommended Partners

S Tier Partners: Waldstein, Merkava, Hyde, Es, Jin, Blake, Yang

A Tier Partners: Nine, Jubei, Narukami, Mika, Carmine, Weiss, Ruby

These are your go-to partners. This doesn't mean that you can't play a team that doesn't include these characters, but these teams will generally see the most success.

General Tactics

Whether you choose to play him as your point or anchor, Teddie, at his heart, is an evasive support character who focuses on screen-control to keep the opponent at bay until they make a wrong move and allow Teddie to gain the upper hand. Teddie's gameplay, while evasive before anything else, is beary heavily zoning oriented because of his item throw. While Teddie doesn't have any traditional projectile moves, more than half of Teddie's items serve as independent projectile attacks that allow him to stay mobile while letting the items do his gameplay for him. The main goal as Teddie in neutral is to expire the opponent's patience and let them hurt themselves in neutral trying to counter his trickster style gameplay. At the same time, Teddie has tools that let him effectively incentivize the opponent to not just simply stand back as he throws his items out, especially with Oil Drum and Amagiya Buckets, which let him either land free mixups or make the opponent spend meter on Reject Guard, as well as soda, which gives a free bar of meter to whoever touches it. He can also set up easy sandwich situations if he conditions his opponent into playing patiently, all because of a Grand Viper (not a low attack) that crosses up for free, and an EX teleport attack behind the opponent. Finally, most of Teddie's proper combos can easily lead into jC as an ender, which allows him to safe jump the opponent much like pre patch Yu's jC.

However, because his playstyle is so heavily focused on evasion, his gameplay is consequently beary passive by nature. Most of Teddie's proper neutral tools (5B, 2B, Mystery Teddie) aren't beary fast, even if they have excellent range, so they can be punished fairly easily if they don't hit. With Mystery Teddie especially, his main neutral tool, if Teddie uses this move on the ground in neutral, the opponent can easily rush up and force Teddie into blocking, or sometimes even true punish with a combo. This makes Teddie rely heavily on staying extremely high in the air to safely throw items, where he's beary unlikely to land meaningful melee attacks. As a result of these traits, Teddie's offense is primarily about making the opponent run into his hits themselves, instead of relying on active approach options. Aside from his passive playstyle, Teddie also lacks somewhat in terms of damage. While his damage output technically isn't as bad as most people make it out to be, it doesn't normally attain its true potential. This is because his high/low options don't provide much reward. Amongst his lows, 2C can't reverse beat since Teddie isn't from UNIST, and 2A, while extremely fast, is completely pitiful in both range and damage. And for his highs, Teddie has one of the worse 5C games because of his floatiness, and his jC, while excellent as a combo ender, pales as a starter without an assist. Also much like Hyde, much of his damage comes from his 5B, which while somewhat easier to land than Hyde's, doesn't lead into beary strong pressure if the opponent chooses to block it. As a last note, Teddie's items can sometimes work against him in combos, or even benefit the opponent such as soda giving them free meter.

In the end, Teddie is a beary passive fighter who has glaring issues as both a point and an anchor. On point, Teddie has to rely heavily on the opponent's mistakes in order to gain the advantage for his anchor, and he himself must be beary patient in order to use his truly powerful options, like buckets. On anchor, Teddie's assists are pretty good, but when left on his own, he becomes beary underwhelming and must play even more passively than before. However, players willing to accept and work around these weaknesses will enjoy a beary fun and potent support character who can easily overwhelm opponents by showering the screen with space control and quickly kill their patience to provide numerous opportunities to seize the advantage in battle.

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