Zamasu as mentor is too hard

[The Edgy Guy]

seriously, how am i even supposed to do those combos on the third mission??

[Six]

idk, take your time with it? Don't rush it? His AI in those training sessions is pretty stupid tbh compared to 7-star PQs.

[MekaDovah]

It takes some luck. The game is picky and inconsistent. Just keep at it.

[SuitUpHewgz]

Originally posted by Ymmira:

I beat all of Zamasu's training missions first try, and I'm mediocre at best when it comes to this game.

What a useful thing to say.

[FLy]

do you mean ,,start witch stb"? this is glitched.Normal you can start witch stb combo.(I saw on yt) but for me and a lot of people stb must be first hit.Unlucky you must try, try snd try.

[The Edgy Guy]

i tried and tried and tried, but i can't even make the combos because the mission reset the combo too fast

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by ♥EdD The Edgy Boy:

i tried and tried and tried, but i can't even make the combos because the mission reset the combo too fast

I know how you feel. I cleared it twice, but the first time I struggled so much I seriously considered giving up on it as not worth it. It's badly designed, but it is possible to do.

Best I can offer is keep calm, focus on doing the button inputs (make it muscle memory if you can), and keep trying until it takes.

Also, walk away from it and ignore it for awhile if you have to. Take a break to clear your head. Sometimes I find I do better at a task after I've put out of mind for a few days and then re-approach it fresh. Not saying that will work for you, but it might.

[Thorgen]

Just use patience. If you get annoyed it makes it impossible. You have to play on HIS timings. IE you can execute the move, but it won't register.
To the guy who said he did it first try. If he did that, and claims to be mediocre than he sucks the big one on any build whatsoever.......Nappa IQ?

Cheers, and GL.

[Demon Lord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR78VnMzGE4&t=1350s

This is how I did it with a few of my characters. The issue for me was two things:

1) They make you use combos that aren't meta. Most of them, I never see in pvp and I never use myself. So muscle memory interferes

2) The game is making you use guard breaks at the start of the string in later ones that aren't efficient normally UNLESS you combo into it.

For #2 you CAN combo to set them up but you have to be careful that you pause long enough so that it breaks the game's registered combo chain. It's a bit difficult to explain without you seeing it.

It's - as others mentioned - a game of patience. They are doable once you understand how the game is reading what you do

[Ice]

Zamasu has got to be the worst implemented "mentor" ever thought up, especially when the game has issues recognising inputs. I know I did the whole chain properly plenty of times but the input never registered it at all. I had similar issues with some of the other quests,missions,fights, whatever you want to call them that required the same thing but his are the worst by far.

[Turkey T.]

So many people had fussed about the input for the Challenge Quests as it was, who in the office thought, "Hey you know the Challenge Quests with Elder Kai that more than half the consumers hated and stopped bothering with? Let's add that into Zamasu's training because we all know that will be a hit!"
Someone was missing a few brain cells when coming up with that idea.

Guess that's 3 or whatever moves and skills I'll never get unlocked.

[Firefury Amahira]

Like others have said, it's mainly patience and practice and a dash of luck before you manage to get through it. I got through it, though it took me a few hours spread across two or three play sessions to do so because I'd beat my head on that brick wall for awhile and decide to go do something else and come back to it fresh.

But yeah, Zamasu is hands-down Most Annoying Mentor because of that. .... Which I suppose is sort of in character given he's so amazingly obnoxious in the show-? :P

[AlphaASX]

Sorry but what do you want? There is nothing we can do for you....
just try hardly and if you give up just leave them they arent that usefull

[Tao]

took me a few attempts but it all works fine and as intended, it's just a case of timing. youll get it eventually. my advice i guess is practice the combo part by part to figure out how fast and when you need to hit the inputs :)

[VegetaCZ]

Well, I personally consider myself a casual player of Xenoverse 2. I have to say that Zamasu's missions are by far the most infuriating mentor missions ever, even though the idea behind it is kinda neat.

Testing match was annoying as hell with Black and Zamasu ganging on you and interrupting your combos when you're attacking either one of them, but it's quite manageable otherwise at higher levels. Taking Black out seems to give you a good edge in enduring the full 3 minutes since Black is the only person who can reliably die in this mission, I doubt Zamasu can die.

First and Second lessons are really stupid. If it was simple inputting commands on a non-attacking NPC, it would still be somewhat bearable, but Zamasu actually fights back in his lessons and doesn't intend to hold back. Many of the times when I tried to get the final command input chain he'd warp out of my burst dash combos or guard against regular attacks to make them ineffective and preventing me from starting the combo in the first place. Somehow I was lucky to clear lesson 1 on second try and lesson 2 on first try, but it was seriously annoying regardless and I'm glad for my luck.

Lesson 3 can be also really frustrating if you're not prepared for it. The character I did the lesson on is a female Saiya-jin with Ki Blast build. Since Zamasu has OP regeneration in his fights, it can be really difficult to actually kill him, especially if you're a tanky character with low damage output or your damage build specializes in Ki Blasts, and the fight having 3 minute time limit doesn't help matters either. He has no problem stalling you until the timer runs out, which can be seriously depressing considering how Lessons 1 and 2 do you dirty with their command input nonsense (There's a reason why I didn't bother finishing any lessons at Dai Kaioshin in Conton City beyond the first and second lessons). Ultimately I found out that despite the fact Zamasu's ultimate is a strike ultimate, it does really huge damage if it hits perfectly even with no points in Strikes. Coupled with Broly's Super Soul, I somehow managed to One-shot Zamasu from full health with perfectly placed Instant Severance that just cleaved Zamasu and got me the achievement for completing Zamasu's mentor missions.

If there's anything good that came out of my frustration, I got 3 extra skills most of the people won't probably get and that Zamasu's missions taught me how to stamina break better, but other than that, I still think the mentor missions for Zamasu should be reworked. I recommend using Piccolo's "I am neither Kami nor Piccolo" super soul for Lessons 1 and 2, because both lessons give you auto Ki and Stamina full recovery, which is ideal to trigger autoheal from Piccolo's super soul. Doing so will save you money spent on healing items that you'd otherwise have to use in these lessons.

[MekaDovah]

@VegetaCZ

I found out awhile ago that I think the first combo mission is also bugged slightly. If you do the combo too close to the ground, Zamasu will literally bounce out of it and it won't connect properly. Don't know if they ever fixed this but I do remember after I figured this out, getting by it was easier.