The Man Who Became God: The Guide to Pain

I'm glad you mentioned his great strings, he's my top pick for singles because of them. Great guide as usual!

THIS IS AWESOME! Although I do not have the game yet, by reading this altogether I feel more prepared and confident that this guide has helped me alot >:]

Edit: I just got this game and this guide helped me go beast mode on everyone!! ^_^

I was at the edge of my seat for the Lars fight!

how do u get shikamaru as balanced???because mine is just guard.....

in order to get shikamaru as balance you need to complete his friendship event in single player mode.

FYI, Pain's tilt has minor frame advantage, enough for you to combo into chakra shuriken, exhaustion tag, paper bomb, or another tilt. All but another tilt are easy to time because you can just mash it, stringing together tilts requires some timing.

sniperworm wrote:

FYI, Pain's tilt has minor frame advantage, enough for you to combo into chakra shuriken, exhaustion tag, paper bomb, or another tilt. All but another tilt are easy to time because you can just mash it, stringing together tilts requires some timing.

Also, you can infinite tilt combo. My friend did this is a no KnJ match. I got owned -___-

But to do the inf tilt string your opponent has to be in a corner. So don't expect to do it all the time.

cinik wrote:

in order to get shikamaru as balance you need to complete his friendship event in single player mode.

thx I thought so never bothered on that and was wondering how peepz have gaara/shikamaru as balanced

sniperworm wrote:

FYI, Pain's tilt has minor frame advantage, enough for you to combo into chakra shuriken, exhaustion tag, paper bomb, or another tilt. All but another tilt are easy to time because you can just mash it, stringing together tilts requires some timing.

Nice find, did not know this.

I wonder if he can do

pain / shika (balance) / Whoever (attack)

Tilt into c.kunai launch, tilt out of the SB and go for that infinate thing being his c.kunai has very little stun like hidan's.

Skyler-X wrote:

I wonder if he can do

pain / shika (balance) / Whoever (attack)

Tilt into c.kunai launch, tilt out of the SB and go for that infinate thing being his c.kunai has very little stun like hidan's.

Balance Shika + Pain/Hidan style chakra shuriken does not generate an infinite. All chakra shuriken have enough stun for balanced shika's to combo after it (or he hits before certain character's chakra shuriken) so you cannot generate infinite strikebacks with balance shika.

Also, Pain's tilt does not have frame advantage if you hit an aerial opponent with it. There is no special staggering stun on aerial opponents, so his tilt doesn't have enough stun to combo anything if they are in the air.

Actually Pain's awakening lasts around 18 counts. (36 seconds)
I like that you mentioned the U2 to grab trick, it works wonders.

EDIT: I was wrong, it actually lasts 15 counts, sorry... <3

Nice guide, knew most of it, but interesting about the tilt info.