How to Play Tager ~ By Mike Z

[exaIgnus]

Waiting for REAL CIRCUS DAMAGE.

[dakidukno]

REAL

SOVIET

DAMAGE

[POOPTURTLE]

shoutouts to Cerebella

[APE258]

Never ask Tager how magnets work

[PieInYourTube]

That capitalist regime gotta step up its game when Mike Z comes to town.

[KeeperOTDH2]

wait...how do you do the aerial magnet pull? All I can seem to do is just bounce my opponents off the wall and hope not to get countered. (this one commenting is a noob who just got into BlazBlue)

[MrDragunovSVD]

fucking magnets, how do they work?

[shuujin008]

Mike Z - coolest guy ever - and that's from CT player Nu, glencocoe

[fohstick]

for some REAL SOVIET DAMAGE

[ANormalGuy]

Tager + MikeZ = Zangief lol. RUSSIAN.

[casukofer]

@ANormalGuy MikeZief? =]

[Shippoyasha]

Skullgirls is in great hands!

[1337er1337berserker]

LIKE COMMUNISM, MAGNETISM BENEFITS ALL MOVES!

[Calcos323]

Mike_Z abandoned this game. Tager will always suck.  Arcsys are a bunch of idiots. Deal with it.

[icegryphon]

@Calcos323

I am tending to agree. Going to drop BB:CS2 after Skullgirls and KOF come out.

Hopefully KOF Netcode is fixed. CS2 is a complete wall game.

[ArbalestEmerald]

That accent! I want to give this man money instantly!

[satsugekibukouken]

is zangief doing the talking?

[ThatFuckingRabbit]

Real soviet damage, etc.

[Nutrient16]

Spin stick, win game

[Roleplayacid]

RED DEVIL MY ASS!!! xDDD

[casukofer]

"Much like communism the A button Tager Buster is invinsible. For a while." Hilarious =]

But has Tager something to do with Russia in-game? O_o

[ANormalGuy]

@casukofer Idk lol, always seems like he is refering to Zangief due to similar gameplay to me. Atleast the style of the character lmao.

[JudgeCheerio]

This is like the Tomo Tape... except it's the Mike Tape

[ace0135]

This vid never gets old.

[KashgroundTM]

gotta thank you for this lol my first matches i got a perfect

[HenryKrinkle666]

I cannot wait to play Skullgirls!

[SmoothTrollzama]

Should rename video to: How to play Mike Z ~ by Mike Z

[assadkhalif]

lmao you make this chump look like a badass, even though you or anybody else that plays blazblue knows that tagor cant mess with the best... Oh and just incase your wondering, the best around is V13 aka Nu.

[KuraiKoyoyoyama]

@assadkhalif SNK BOSS CHARACTERS!

[Hedgepook]

Rearrange the letters in Tager's name, and it spells GREAT!

[kupu2pagi]

what's tobuscus doing here

[grenadier42]

@kupu2pagi

He was here?

Not even he can resist REAL SOVIET DAMAGE, I suppose.

[Giroutte]

O*V*E*R*P*O*W*E*R

Tager is the destination of unbalance.

[apanst]

@Giroutte i think you mean definition. and no he is one of the worst characters in most of the versions of the game. he is a beginners nightmare though

[Giroutte]

@apanst oh lol, destination (google chrome spelling correction failed) hahah, i didn't notice it, so yh "definition of unbalance"

[RefonS94u]

He said "Do svidaniya" in the end. It's "Goodbye" in russian.

[SolidSizz]

daaamn i love tager he just smashes everybody :D

lol did you noticed that a lot tager-moves are similar to the moves of zangief (street fighter) who is truly a soviet russian wrestler :)

[Rothiii]

@SolidSizz tager and zangief are brothers from other mothers

[shadowagent]

@SolidSizz And his Astral Heat's like Potemkin's Buster(Guilty Gear).Don't know if Potemkin counts as Russian,but his name and general personality seems to suggest it.

[VerifyinTr1gIDs]

@shadowagent Millia Rage is Russian and her name doesn't suggest it.

[SpectralFox2]

This video was hilarious!

[Makingnewnamesisdumb]

Does Mike Z. actually do the voice in this?

[BlitzerBoom]

@Makingnewnamesisdumb

Yes.

[Ravidrath]

@Makingnewnamesisdumb Yeah, he did the voice - he's really good at doing voices and accents.

[MrGipiem]

for what is 2:37 ? thanks

[Demonhansi014]

@MrGipiem Tager charges his Spark Bolt Meter, faster than the normal rate

[RaymondLau123]

I grew a manly beard while watching this video.

[prime618]

I never knew that Mike Z was the one that did this guide until now

[Malkus11]

Comrades, we have been infiltrated by two jealous American capitalists!

[LordArion201]

"Tager's backdash is invincible for longer than hangover!"

[matteste]

This was just something funny I found.

/watch?v=1VKqLwVrDiI

[JoshuaBlazen]

Mike Z: The King of Tager.

[BombingCarpets]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE

[imsuikaibuki]

much like comunism, the important tager buster makes him invisible!

[IronKingLeo]

NOBODY is safe from the power of SCIENCE!

[kimwipe]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE

[MelficeSephiroth]

TOO FUNNY!

[calitz87]

Hell Boy Jr. !?

[horo30]

LOL.. omg. So this is where it came from lol.

Lol real soviet damage lol.

[xRenzokukenx]

3:08 I Gotta What?

[6stringplaya77]

grrr....tager smash!

[kai2nez]

Communism is invincible!!! ...For a while >.>

[squallgallardo]

I love ".... use to punish the capitalist dogs", then Jin gets up sayin' "Red Devil my ass", LMAO!!!

Ah Mike Z, because of your description, Tager is a good character to use!

[scorpion112]

use backdash to dodge predictable american move XD this guy is awesome

[messiah154]

Damn... I main Tager and this just gave me a new outlook on my chances against others.

[54ck3r2]

Mike Z is awesome.

[piotr9k]

weak american damage, REAL SOVIET DAMAGE xDD haha

[K1NGFR0G]

Red Devil indeed.

[pestylence31]

Whoever doesn't like this video has no soul.

[HAUZEMAMAEB]

thx man, i dont play tager, but you made my day. :D

[Urmean15]

This video made me main Tager

[EtherealZephyr]

Man, why couldn't the other character guides be this awesome?

[Magitek111]

*Insert a random quote from Heavy Weapons Guy here*

[locke103]

@Magitek111 it costs $40,000 to shout GIGANTIC TAGER for 12 seconds

[LokiHades]

One person missed the I like this button :)

[jagus12]

Just like communism, Tager Buster is INVINCIBLE

[ItzxJuStxNano]

Dammit why did you have to tell Tager players Noels weakness *wah*

[DeidaraKAH]

fucking magnets how do they work

[AnguzBeef]

@DeidaraKAH lmao

[ManowarHeigou]

Makes me want to get my Tager groove back for CS even though im gona use Bang Tsubaki and maybe Platina as well as others. Tager was fun but can get boring.

[diu7ni13579]

Lol, 1:38. Jin says "Red devil, my ass!"

[sonicXfan]

what is this guy a Nazi or something? XDDDDDDD

[Hailfaz]

@sonicXfan What? He is doing a clearly Russian accent. You may remember that little conflict no one even remembers anymore that America had with Russia a couple decades ago during, with, you know, the threat of NUCLEAR ARMAGGEDON OBLITERATING THE WORLD. You know, the one with the missiles in Cuba? John F Kennedy? Does the name Nikita Kruschev ring a bell?  This practially unkown age is remembered as

WORLD WAR ONE

Jesus, people know nothing about history

[ScarredVanity]

@Hailfaz ...Actually, World War I was well before the Cuban Missile Crisis or JFK. You're talking about the Cold War. We had WWII in between. Good point though, about people not knowing anything about history.

[Hailfaz]

@ScarredVanity Yes. You see, it was suppossed to be a joke.

[ScarredVanity]

@Hailfaz ...Well boy is my face red. I totally knew that. Only testing you. Really. <.< Ahem. Continue.

[SergentSNAFU1]

tager killed hitler using the gaging emerald tager buster. He took him up to the atmoshere and burned him to ashes. The germans had no choice but to say he commited suicide and could not find his body.

[want2havebrains]

Tager is broken as hell.

[Xajora]

He says nothing about dealing with pressure, once ragna or jin start atacking theres just no way out.

[platefork]

@Xajora

Sledge for Jin's Drives

Backdash/Instant Block for Ragna Hells Fang/pressure

[RavensNestStudios]

@Xajora

That's because they are predictable American moves!

[AlbeINox]

@Xajora

Have you SEEN MikeZ's gameplay? He beats Rachel like it's nothing.

[superriku18]

lol predictable american moves :o

[larkmankiller]

this awsome! I learn how to pwn with tagger and i get some graet laughs !

why cant my teachers b like him <3?

[superriku18]

@larkmankiller cause our teachers are jackasses who need to get laid :o

[c00lwatter]

just like communism...ha ha ha ha

[KforCPUBluE]

"Just like communism, Tager Buster is invincible...for a while" lol

[XeroForever]

lol this was great

[tyraj]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!

[HJaySC]

lol Real Soviet damage!

[sacrifar00]

DO SVIDANYA!

LOL! Nice goodbye there xD

[RoboKenshiro]

You know, this is why I quaked in fear when I saw Mike Z at Arcade Infinity.

[KirbyOnCronic]

"Red Devil My Ass!" XD

[skulls85baal]

dude i was always wondering how to do the giant emerald tager buster on the ground but you gotta dash back now i get it and REAL SOVIET DAMAGE omg lol

[hyperbomb180]

WEAK AMERICAN DAMAGE LMAO

[HellRend3r]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE

I can see some interesting things that will happen when Im drunk now...

[Kevinblue035]

Wh-why does his voice get me all hot and bothered!?

And Tagar's fine, manly body.... I'llbeinmybunk

[smartchild88]

Tager's back dash is invincible for longer then hang-over! Used to dodge predictable American moves then punish the capitalist pig-dogs!! Its only really funny if you know the difrence between Capitalist and Communist.

[Keirnoth]

This guy needs to win the next EVO. Period.

[IceDrake1337]

@Keirnoth he can't, he plays tager, not litchi or bang.

[TheAlienmonkey]

favved and the combo at 2:15 X_X

[GreentheGunstar]

*taking notes*

Ehheeheeheehee...

Brother: What're u doing?

O_O! Uhh... nothing...>_>

Brother: "How to Play Tage--" WHAT THE FUCK!! You already kill me enough as it is with the Genesic Tager thing, now you're watching a strategy video?

XD

[XiahouYuan111]

whats tager saying at 2:46?

[pyrotek7x7]

@XiahouYuan111

SLEDGE!

[XiahouYuan111]

ah thanks for telling me

[HyuugaMinato]

Lol I like the way he emphasizes the "SOVIET" word. XD

real SOVIET damage!

[wacko4joeflacco]

this video makes me want to play as tager yet I already have my hands full with arakune.

[bleachwind4ever]

Weak American Damage...

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!

[ryodragoon]

this accent is as bad as the US SF2 tomo video.

[DoucheMonk]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!

[MagusAsuki]

I wish Tager got a russian Accent instead =3 !!!

[Agent54c]

YOU DODGED?

[Phoenixdragonfang]

ive used the b-button tager driver as a combo I LOVE IT!

[KotetsuShinguji]

"Much like communism, the A button Tager Buster is invincible! .....for a while"

Spoken like a true Soviet Russian =)

[Japhro77]

in Soviet Russia, Tager plays Mike Z!

[StaticShock13]

lol

[Damascus682]

Lol, Sarin clouds

[kosniper]

Oh shizzle, those combos are almost instant killing.

[sos246]

loooooooooool

[RobertHollow]

Tagar's 360 move is invincible... but only deals "Weak American Damage". Lmfao

[platefork]

Reminds me of that cocky 90's street fighter guide

watch?v=m_DyP7yfZYg

[snaffu1]

@platefork That was his inspiration for this exactly. He even said it himself.

[Axelhander]

Best fighting game tutorial I've ever seen, seriously.

[ElJefe37]

Halarious video

[guildwarsdabest]

on to the vid though, Mike_Z is a cool guy:

"deal massive damage to the capitalistic regime!!" XD

[guildwarsdabest]

the only way Tager has an advantage over Noel is if the noel user is spamming drive like a nitwit.

seriously, tager is severely underpowered. People have a hard time vs him at first, but thats because he requires a rather particular approach, but he does not have any advantage over Noel in any way shape or form.

@djinn690: if u think Noel's C and D is all she's got going for her, u dont know anything about Noel.

[kirbykevin702]

this isnt entirely true against a equal player of levels versus other characters its rather hard to defeat him because most of the game you are magnetized and comboes through the most of the game/match

[guildwarsdabest]

not really, tager is not combo dependant, he deals good damage without combos.

What the magnetim does is help him at what he rly aims for in a fight, and thats tech traps. His magnetism is not too good if the opponent can move around (not knocked down and about to tech) as you can simply jump and you'll fly over anything he tries to throw at you if ur magnetized. You can even use it against him and approach him rly quickly using his magnetism if you know what ur doing.

[conor1337]

/Mains Noel

/Crushes Tager

/Still respects his REAL SOVIET DAMAGE

[stormdynasty90]

not good tagers

[grakzork]

suuuuupeeeeer moooooooooooooooooddddeee!!!!!

[zer0din]

"Vodka Sledge is one of Tager's best moves!"

[3t3rn4ldr34m1ng]

haha predictable american moves

[xchaosx97]

Saying Tager has a good match vs Noel means you probably aren't very good at the game. The ONLY good match Tager has is against Hakumen, since Hakumen has a non-existent pressure game and is forced to zone Tager as closer range since his C attacks are his only zoning tools. Noel just has to be careful against Tager. Her jabs are great and you just have to keep the mix-ups going while watching for his 360s

[alchemistEXE]

LOL, Tager's back dash is invincible for longer than hangover!?

[OoShinyoO]

REAL SOVIET DAMAGE!!! God I love this xD

[LordHollow]

I fell out my chair laughing when he pointed out the "weak American damage"! Classic!

[akba666]

lol

is he mocking the old street fighter strat video?

[Akadou]

Hes either mocking that video or just hinting at the fact that Tager looks like a Soviet lol.

[TheKingOfRuckus]

This was a solid video. Tager's a beast in the right hands, and you can't complain about it because he doesn't have double jump or forward dashes. He's slow, but powerful.

[catzblu999]

He has crap AA and good players will bait Sledges at the right range. He's bottom tier for a reason but will RAPE players with little skill and very fun to play. I main him but as far as top comp he does suck balls.

[LavaEdge324]

lolno

Tager has no advantaged matchups. From what I can observe, his best matchup is against himself.

[djinn690]

are you kidding? what about Noel, he can sledge through all her C and D moves, which is basically all she has going on for her.

[LavaEdge324]

And yet her A and B normals do just as well versus Tager. Using Noel's drive outside of combos is a dumb choice anyway.

[djinn690]

Tager vs Noel is still an advantage match up for Tager, that's all I'm saying.

[IcicleDragoon]

I play Tager and I agree, that against Noel there are slight advantages that he has if the noel doesn't have much experience on how to deal with decent tagers, however the match up is still in favor of noel, just one of those match ups that tager has a decent chance at winning.

[Brotrr]

No. If all characters are played to the fullest of their potential, the only matchup advantageous to Tager is against Hakumen. End of story.

[Yuzukiji]

u play jin, dont u?

[matsis01]

No, he means only Jin playing scrubs think Tager is cheap.

[Chozo003]

I lol'd.

[AkatsukimemberPein1]

thats a scary Tager ; ;

[nyshyn]

god damn I love Mike Z more and more every day...

anyway I was wondering about the 100% "combo" he did on jin, how do you pull out that atomic collider after the 6C D ? when I try this in training, the cpu always tech before even getting attracted

[reperfan4]

It wasn't a true combo the whole way through. Pulling it off completely required the opponent to respond a certain way at 2 points. One is the moment you are referring to, as jin had to tech at the right moment; too soon or too late and it won't work. Also near the end, when setting up for the GETB, Jin had to tech on the way down while being pulled by the AC setup.

[emowashere]

LOL. I was rollin' while watchin' this.

[whitley1]

Dosvidonya Or something is goodbye in russian

[AtticusSP]

Mike Z is god tier.

[2Chep]

ROFL MIKE Z IS A LEGEND THIS IS HILARIOUS. "But only deals weak American damage".

[TheDarkWall]

This makes me want to make tager my secondary character, bang is my main.