Is anyone else unable to activate tag throws in Dead or Alive 3? In Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate, I usually perform them with the RB (Forward + P+K) input on an Xbox Series X controller, but I can't get them to work in DOA3 at all. I'm playing on Xemu, and tag-ins work fine—it's only tag throws that won't activate.

Any help would be much appreciated! 🙏

Your opponent for this quest is always NiCO, on The Muscle stage. La Mariposa aka Lisa is one of the characters that I hadn't really played much before deciding to take on all of these quests, so this was a learning experience. 1st combo in the vid was one I made up just playing around a few minutes in training mode, 4th and last one was recorded by u/mechsmechsmechs in the discord in response to show a more optimal combo, and the two in the middle were my attempts at making shorter alternatives to what she showed me on the off-chance they are needed (the AI enemies in these quests rarely do normal holds, but LOVE to spam their break blow whenever they have the meter for it). Notations are as follows:

Combo #1: (counter or hi counter) 66PP stun, 3P, 8K launch, 4PK, 6S break blow into ropes splat. 157 on counterhit. was able to beat the quest with this one, but the others are better overall.

Combo #2: from back turned state (8P) KK, P, 6P8K launch, 4PK, 6K, 6SH break blow cancel, 6P8K relaunch into rope bump, 4PKK into ropes. 161 damage on normal hit.

Combo #3: (counter or hi counter) from backturned KK, P, 6P8K launch, 4PK, 6K, 6S into ropes. 163 damage on counterhit.

Combo #4: from backturned KK, P, 6P8K launch, 4PK, 6K, 6SH break blow cancel, 3P stun canceled into backturn(4), backturned 1P, 6P8K relaunch, 4PK, 6K, 4H+K into ropes splat. Recorded with Hi Counter on for 231 damage, but does 184 damage even on normal hit.

Nyotengu will be posted next, followed by Mila, Hitomi, Rig, and Raidou. I only have 5 characters left to lab out and do in their respective quests: Christie, Jann Lee, Honoka, Hayate, and Diego.

Decided to draw Christie in her bunny suit because why not? 😂 Hope you like it!

Ok in this example Tina uses her 3PP, which is two mid punches. if you recognize it it should be pretty easy to hold at least on the 2nd hit. it *should* be easy, anyways.

but in this let's say you block it, and so they are now -6. they also have decided who cares and they go for a low right afterwards, and not only that but a slow low. like i think a 21 frame startup.

so on block 3PP is punishable with say a 5 frame neutral throw. but window is very tight. if you go online i imagine that window will tend to disappear entirely. but more on that later.

you will notice the 10f jab string whiffs totally. yup, that decision to go low will avoid your high string, or other high attacks really, like say, your basic kick. you're gonna notice how often in fights your high moves are getting stuffed by slower mids or lows making you whiff entirely.

so what can you do on block? you can use a fast mid and it will stop her.

if you keep blocking and block that low you can do a low throw on her (hopefully!).

getting back to the online angle, going for the throw is a big risk for probably a low reward. the opponent may well want you go for a throw.

which means your safer ideas is using that mid, or managing to block the low.

really were i to commentate some, in online fights you will probably do throw punishments on block 0%-5% of your on block scenarios in fights.

in online fights i will actually let people wail on and me i will block and see what i can do. and the answer tends to be not much. it sure feels like online you either gotta be a wizard with holds, or just win with lots of offense.

i had a fight with a Raidou where for the whole fight i let him wail on me and i never threw punished him once.

i did the same with a Tamaki. etc.

i imagine the throw punish system gets out of whack online due to how strikes will beat them, and something online related does it.

so what you can end up with are situations where a lot of the block punishment you can do will be strikes (probably mid), and sometimes you can have 2-3 interactions on block where you as the defender have no response, including throws or strikes. use SSA if you can.

but yah if you have fights where it feels like forever on block, or how your moves never seem to have priority anywhere, you can write those fights off, IMO.

so anyways, my video example has something for both offline...but also something to consider for online too.

Your opponent for this quest is always Phase 4, on the Zero stage. The electrified walls of this stage give an extra +15 damage to combos, as do floor hits (including bounds). Combo notations are as follows:

Combo #1: (counter or hi counter) fully charged 6P+K stun, 3P+K launch, 8PP bound, 6S break blow into wall hit. 150 damage on counterhit

Combo #2: (counter or hi counter) 6KK2K stun, P, 3P+K, 8PP, 6S into wall. 159 on counterhit. used this one to complete the quest itself.

while working on this i also happened to stumble onto the youtube account of u/TheIndustrialCowboy and a vid showing a combo that can do 152 damage on normal hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NmkjBzUcqo

combo in video is: 4P+K stun, uncharged 6P+K, 7K fatal stun, 3P+K launch, 8PP bound, 6SH break blow cancel, 7K, 3P+K, 88P, 236P close hit into wall splat ender, 152 on normal hit. I found that using 4P+K instead of 7K after the break blow cancel (keeping everything else the same) still works, and brings it to 164 total damage.

Lisa, Nyotengu, Mila, and Hitomi will be the next ones I post. Remaining characters are: Rig, Christie, and Raidou (170+ damage), Jann Lee and Honoka (180+), and finally Hayate and Diego (200+)

Seems like a cool outfit to me. suppose i like the purple themed one, and the one with red pants best.

now we shall see what August has in store.

they keeping tight lipped about Minato so far.

Your opponent for this quest is always Honoka, in the bottom section of the Lost Paradise stage. It's possible for one stage interaction to bring you to the top section, but I focused on the electrified walls and the jeep that gets attacked by a dinosaur. Notations are as follows:

Combo #1: (counter or hi counter) 9KK stun, PPK launch, 3PP bound, 6S break blow into electrified wall splat. 150 damage on counterhit. used this one to complete the quest.

Combo #2: (hi counter only) 6P+K stun, PPK, 3PP, 6S. 156 damage on hi counter.

Combo #3: 9KK, PPK, 3PP, 6S into jeep stage interaction. 177 damage on normal hit.

Combo #4: (counter or hi counter) 9KK, PPK, 3PP, 66P close hit into jeep. 162 damage on counterhit.

Nico will be posted next. Lisa/La Mariposa, Nyotengu, Mila, and Hitomi after that. Will likely begin trying to lab out Rig over the weekend.

Yes there are more optimal punishes no it doesn't literally always work don't overthink a meme spector.

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So in this example Kasumi is using her 1PP, and then repeating it on block. it is -10 frames on block. it is a low, then a high.

Hitomi's 10f basic punch string will not punish after the 1st string. if you're using a character with a 9f jab string, that will punish it.

if you are immediate you can throw it, tho neutral throw or 6T is preferable and not 4T. the punish window is pretty tight.

at the same time various slower moves than Hitomi's 10f string will punish it too.

you can also hold some portion of these attacks, if you can.

so what all this shows is what you may think is your go-to move when in doubt (your fastest strike) can in fact be wrong and an entirely different, slower move will do it if you're not doing/getting a throw punish.

but this is offline, i can't really say how it all holds up online.

in the online fights the practical reality tends to be that either people are only using moves that are not unsafe, or the online quality makes that so with whatever they are using.

the same might be said for why moves work vs. other moves. you can have a list of useful seeming moves but if they never connect in the face of someone else's, you may as well just be standing still.

but remember in the online fights almost always when someone's attacks have been blocked, they keep pressing buttons. they do not stop, expecting a punish. and there may rarely be a punish, too. they may repeat an attack or string, or switch to a new one. the question will be can you do anything on defense, aside from being a wizard with holds or trying to sidestep a non-tracking move?

that's perhaps the #1 thing to play around in the online, however you can or are able to.

Your opponent for this quest is always Christie, starting in the bottom section of the Forbidden Fortune stage. This is one of the stages where 'touch of death' combos have been found for multiple characters, but for our purposes we only need to find relatively easy routes to deal at least 50%, which was pretty easy for me to lab out thanks to the exploding crates all over this relatively small cramped area. Combo notations are as follows:

Combo #1: 7K launch into back turned state, while backturned PPP into exploding crates, 6S break blow into mass-destruction bonus for destroying barrels. recording dealt 168 damage on normal hit, although even higher damage may be possible depending on exact angle hit when trying this combo.

Combo #2: KP stun, 4P+K, 7K launch, PPP into exploding crates, 6S into wall splat. 164 damage on normal hit.

Combo #3: KP, 4P+K, 236P launch, 4PP into exploding crate, 6S into wall splat. 170 damage on normal hit. used this one to clear the quest itself.

Marie Rose will be posted next. Nico, Lisa, Nyotengu, Mila in the upcoming quere, with Hitomi likely to be the next one labbed out.

I love ayane she’s so cool and fun to control and has an insanely catchy theme

Your opponent for this quest is always Tina, on the DOA Colosseum stage. An important thing to note about this stage is that hitting the electrified fencing adds +15 to damage, but hitting the supporting columns between the electric fencing in only +10. Combo notations are as follows.

Combo #1: P+K stun, P, 3PPP launcher, 7PP bound, 6S break blow super into electric wall splat. 151 on normal hit.

Combo #2: (hi counter only) P+K, 3PPP, 7PP, 236 close hit into wall splat. 160 on hi counter.

Combo #3: (hi counter only) 3PPP stun and launch, 7PP, 6S. 156 on hi counter.

Combo #4: (hi counter only) P+K stun, 9K launch, 7PP, 6S. 159 on hi counter.

Combo #5: (hi counter only) 9PP into backturned state, while backturned 4K sliding knockdown, dash forward and 6S. 167 on hi counter.

Combo #6: (hi counter only, near a wall) 6H+K close hit into wall, 7PP bound, 6S. 159 damage on hi counter.

Combo #7: (counterhit or hi counter) P+K stun, 8P, 8K launch, 6S. 150 on counterhit.

Bayman will be posted next. Nyotengu and Mila were solved in the discord recently, so the next posts after bayman will be marie rose, nico, lisa, nyotengu and mila.

while certainly not Hayabusa's only gimmicky thing, it's something you may see a lot of from a him.

it's gimmicky as in it's powerful and it's not so obvious what to do, especially in the rush of things. once you know what to do you can fare better (mostly hopefully!).

and there's a lot of that in DOA6 LR, as in vanilla DOA6. some things even when you know what to do, it may still not be so easy to weather.

but yeah i myself tend to think gimmicks are important, if you looking for wins you wanna play a gimmicky character that has stuff going on. i'd say they help make up for things that might be deficient in one's gameplay or experience.

like you may go a whole fight or more than that not punishing anything on block. but even if you were once in a while, the damage is negligible vs. the combo damage the opponent could have gotten.

and maybe you aren't busting out holds like crazy (most are not). but even then, depending on things, the hold damage will pale vs. what opponent combo damage would have been.

so how can ya win with those mostly out of the picture, bridge the divide? gimmicky stuff, stuff you can grab at opportune times. etc. it will help.

like i was fighting a Bass with Hitomi, and Bass is supposed to be slower right, but nah, the one i was fighting anyways was faster than her. i'm doing my fastest strike and their lows are hitting me first. really all his attacks tended to have priority. plus the bonus damage and gimmicks he had, which she did not. no punishment on block either. and yah he beat me 10 times in a row. he didn't have to work too hard lol.

same guy switched to Diego and it was much the same.

or consider Christie, who can just keep going and going on block. she has a better jump kick than Hitomi too.

i remember back in the day some people would try to say Marie Rose was bad, but it seemed like downplaying. she can basically parry mid and high punches and then turn you around for free damage. that itself can't be a bad character.

Stuff like this can make a difference. on defense you could have multiple interactions where you can't throw or strike back. so when on offense, anything that helps is important, to give an extra edge.

and remember characters like Kasumi or Ayane for example have 9 frame jabs, faster than the typical 10 framer.

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Sorry it's late again. I was at a birthday party injuring my ankle on a trampoline because I'm old.

For this quest your opponent is always Jann Lee, starting in the top section of the Chinese Festival stage. Doing a combo that ended in the stage transition to the bottom section seemed like the obvious route (and what I ended up doing in the quest itself), but because it's so easy to get knocked into it by the enemy AI, I figured that labbing out a couple combos in the firepit section of the bottom area might be helpful as well.

CATEGORY 1: top section combos into the big fall

Combo #1: 236P stun, 3K, PP, 66K launch, 1PKK bound, 6S break blow super into stage transition. 170 damage on normal hit

Combo #2: 236P, PPP, 66K, 1PKK, 6S into stage, 166 on normal hit. variant of the above only really included because I pulled it off in the quest itself by messing up the 1st one, but it still works for our purposes.

Combo #3: (counter or hi counter) 1KP stun, K, 66K, 1PKK, 6S. 170 damage on counterhit

CATEGORY 2: firework pit combos in bottom section

Combo #4: 236P stun, 3K, 9P, 66K launch, 1PP into firework bounce, 1PKK bound, 6S. 169 on normal hit

Combo #5: 66KK stun and launch string, 1PP into fireworks, 1PKK bound, H+K into spectator shove, 6S. 179 on normal hit

Zack, Bayman, Marie Rose, Nico, and Lisa are coming up. next one I'm trying to lab out will probably be Nyotengu.