Trying to do a challenge for alternate story mode (Piccolo)

[sleekwethotdog]

I don't mind going above and beyond to get cool alternate story branches but the frieza vs piccolo fight is absolutely ridiculous to try and complete the alternate line. "Defeat Frieza quickly", okay np. Let me just rush to kill frieza with initially 5 health bars, fine... BUT WAIT, when you get him down 2 health bars he initiates a transformation that triggers a reset to 5 health bars!!!! ok, so i try to special beam cannon him before the transformation. DOESNT MATTER HE HEALS REGARDLESS OF HIM GOING THROUGH TRANSFORMATION!!! DUDE WHAT!!! Not only that, his new transformation makes him pretty much immune to your combos poise breaking so he just spams his finger beams and stalls out time. Just... why? How we supposed to gun through 10 bars of health with mediocre damage output?

[mimizukari]

by gitting gud. people have done & progressed through this. the what-if's are meant to be absurdly difficult to get to just like they were in previous BT games.

[[ODT]Piccolo]

Originally posted by sleekwethotdog:

I don't mind going above and beyond to get cool alternate story branches but the frieza vs piccolo fight is absolutely ridiculous to try and complete the alternate line. "Defeat Frieza quickly", okay np. Let me just rush to kill frieza with initially 5 health bars, fine... BUT WAIT, when you get him down 2 health bars he initiates a transformation that triggers a reset to 5 health bars!!!! ok, so i try to special beam cannon him before the transformation. DOESNT MATTER HE HEALS REGARDLESS OF HIM GOING THROUGH TRANSFORMATION!!! DUDE WHAT!!! Not only that, his new transformation makes him pretty much immune to your combos poise breaking so he just spams his finger beams and stalls out time. Just... why? How we supposed to gun through 10 bars of health with mediocre damage output?

Whatever you do, don't struggle too much when he's in his 3rd form. I've already gotten that What If? Thanks to abit of item customization and practicing Impact, Sparking combos, and execution. Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon has high damage output as an Ultimate

[phily]

Really struggling with this - mainly because Special Beam Cannon NEVER seems to hit. I combo him two times and with the last of my Sparking I hit him with the cannon and even if he is down on the ground it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ misses.

The timer is absolutely unforgiving, this is the only What If I've struggled with.

EDIT - There is also a lot of misinformation around. I've played around a bit and it turns out that it's an overall timer, so if you ♥♥♥♥ about with the second form then you get less time to fight the third form. So just go all out at all times, I tried saving charges for the third form to no luck.

[phily]

Finally done it with a new strategy.

Basically, kick his ass ASAP but save 3 or 4 bars at least for final transformation. Then combo, knock back after the first combo, beam cannon and use "all-out" to get back into and do the same thing again. If you get countered, try do a quick z counter and special beam cannon early.

Hope beam cannon hits and you don't get his cheap ult in the face.

[Pocket Sand]

Most frustrating part is the timer is hidden, have to keep skipping cuts scenes since I can't use the retry option if I'm close to winning