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Combo Scaling
Hit Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
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Damage | 1x | 1.06x | 0.87x | 0.81x | 0.75x | 0.56x | 0.43x | 0.37x | 0.34x | 0.31x | 0.28x | 0.25x | 0.21x | 0.18x | 0.15x | 0.12x |
Combo Routes
c.S(2-3) > f.S(2) > 5H(2) > 236S
An issue arises with notating any Testament combo because their buttons are largely comprised of inconsistent multi-hits. Normals generally get their "maximum" amount of hits on standing, tall, and preferably wide characters like Justice. Inversely, it's very difficult to get anything good at all on tiny characters like Baldhead.
In the corner, 5H can hit up to four times on tall characters. You're probably going to have to lab how many hits you can consistently do against most any character, standing or crouching, as multi-hit normals are Testament's biggest damage contributor without traps.
You can also use Dimension Scythe (214K) as a combo ender which connects more often on short/crouching characters, it combos from H normals, but it's finnicky, has a blind spot point blank, and it's Dimension Scythe, so there's pros & cons to each.
c.S(2) > 5H(1) > 236236H
Leads to much more damage due to poison, but only combos when it feels like it, really. As with your other enders, this only connects from H normals if you do an immediate cancel off of one, and Nightmare Circular has a close hitbox which activates before the farther hitbox(es), and only the close one combos, so you need to typically cut your strings short in order to use this.
There're more damage-optimal routes, but this is one of the more practical ways to actually connect this in a match. EXE beast and Dimension Scythe make things more consistent, as the opponent's pulled to you with EXE as hitstun & confirm time is added, and Scythe keeps the opponent still and nullifies pushback, so getting pushed out too far becomes less of an issue. However, getting those traps set up in a combo-friendly manner is... questionable.