I spent 3.5 hours recording 1:40 worth of usable footage and boy are my hands tired. No, seriously, D'Vorah started as a mere curiosity and turned into a total combo nightmare.

Let me level with you: I am bad at fighting games. I love them, and I love playing them, but I simply am not very good. My execution is butt. My best character in SFIV is Balrog. I am human garbage. But I still like experimenting with combos and making videos because on a video, I only have to get it right once. At first I thought D'Vorah would be a cool character to mess around with because of her potential vortex abilities using her aptly named Vortex Swarm. Quickly I discovered that the timing simply wasn't there. The swarm fired on its own leaving her not enough time to set up a proper meaty and none of her good combo enders put them in the right position.

So I went to the Test Your Might forums to see what other people were doing with her. That's when I found out about Wasp Grenade Run Cancel combos.

When I saw that Hellfire Scorpion could cancel his fireball I wondered if that would be a viable way to extend combos, but I was having too much fun with Inferno Scorpion to care. Now I'm glad that I skipped it, because Run Cancel combos are HARD. One of the reasons I can do MKX combos better than most fighting games is because most imputs are buffers, not links. But Run Cancels are the linkiest of links out there. You have to mash out a bunch of inputs in a very tight window making it extremely easy to lose potential frames. Just watch the inputs as I do some of these combos and when you suddenly see me push a billion things in a second, you'll know it's a Run Cancel.

I try to do optimized combos whenever I can but I'm 99.9% sure that none of these combos are optimized. I know for a fact that you can do a Run Cancel in Kombo 1 for a stronger ender but I got it, like, once in 100 tries before I started recording. You can do better chains after the B+FP Run Cancel but the timing window is even tighter. The cool thing is that the skill ceiling for using her seems incredibly high and I can't wait to see someone doing absolutely bananas shit with her. That person is not me, but I'm happy with what I came up with.

I also forgot to do the obligatory useless X-Ray combo but whatever. I need to figure out who has the easiest combos and do my next video on them.