No Mercy help

[FLiam]

Has anyone got any hints to win handicap matches?

You always seem to get them in championship mode and have to win, but I never can, anyone got any hints to win them?

[JVoss]

Been a long time since I've played, but I used to run out of the ring and run away from them until they are on opposite sides of the ring. I'd kick one guy's ass until his partner came over then run again. I'd do it until I could hit a few specials on them then end up getting them in the ring together. I'd throw one out, then nail the weaker one and pin. Takes a long time.

[Guest Iron Mary]

Running strike/grapple, run away. Repeat until they're weak enough to start doing some real damage.

[jase12881]

Actually, the key in handicap matches is the same as the key in any match. Keep your attitude meter high (with taunts, or however you need to) and you will find that with a high attitude meter you will be more apt to get reversals when they attack you, leading to greater success.

Oh, and if you're in real trouble, you can climb the ring posts, and if the guy doesn't immediately run at you, you can taunt 2 (or maybe 3...I can't remember) times while up there to get an extra boost while your opponent keeps his distance.

Been a damn long time since i've played it, but that's the stuff I remember.

Basically, everytime you get a few free seconds, taunt to keep your meter high.

[Guest Zeokage]

Keep as far away as possible, taunt until you get your special, hit the special like mad (can get up to 3 times if I remember correctly). Rinse, lather, repeat until they can't get up.

[K]

Eh, I don't much like taunting my way to a special, feels like a cheap win.

Best advice is to play it like they do on television, try to keep them apart. Then beat them up one at a time, hit a special on them both, then pin.

A good move which is rarely reversed, and can do a bit of damage is the apron to ring dropkick/shoulder block. Unfortunatley, not all wrestlers have this.

[Media 2.0]

Springboard dropkick.

With that, easiest match ever. Now if you're using a heavyweight then well...scratch that, but if its someone with that move just run out of the ring and use it constantly, your meter will raise fast as hell, and they will always run right into the move and into each other

[I-Will-Rule-You]

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Edited August 26, 2005 by I-Will-Rule-You

[FLiam]

You'd be better off not talking about ROM's.

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[I-Will-Rule-You]

ok

[Mick]

I prefer to throw one wrestler out of the ring, and then go after the other one with a submission hold, preferably either the sleeper or the abdominal stretch, as both of these can be applied from the back position. This will wear down the opponent in the ring, and knowing the computer the way I know it, both will lose spirt thanks to the one you threw out of the ring doing a shitload of taunts.

That strategy, plus since most handicap matches in story mode are No DQ, I make effective use of the ring steps...

[NobBe Nobbs]

Weapons are your friend. It's been a while since I've played No Mercy, but bash away with anything you can find - but on one opponent only. The other one, you can take down with actual wrestling.

[Guest Zeokage]

Eh, I don't much like taunting my way to a special, feels like a cheap win.

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[apsham]

Go with Mick's method. It's what always got me through, unless it was one of those backstage matches. Then it was weapons. But if it's in the ring, a strong grapple and thrown out will keep them out for a while. And the idiot AI just might start taunting.

[MDK]

Might sound weird after suggesting it, but I agree with you. I rarely used that tactic, and only when the usual weak grapple until they slow down, then move to strong doesn't work about 5 times running.

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I don't like to taunt until I get to special. Or if there is a need to taunt, like you have just done something AMAZING and you need to show off. To the computer.

[Guest Zeokage]

That's pretty much what I did...

[MDK]

The best ever time I have taunted was against a mate. He had this kinda drop to your knees and shuffle sideways and do the hogan listening to the crowd pose, and he tried to spear me during a match and I stole his taunt by wiggling the C-stick and I did the shuffle taunt and sidestepped his spear. That felt fantastic

[TMM]

I always would do the light/quick. grapples on them. It slowly builds up your attitude meter, and it also effects them as well. Then ya get ya special, you can usually hit it three times. But that sometimes won't get them, so ya have to keep going. It builds up quicker this time if you just repeat the light/quick grapple.

Oh, and the hit and run thing works as well.

[The Kraig]

I used to just punch one, punch the other, punch one, punch the other and so on until they'd both be groggy and keep working on one guy, while still punching the other one when he got in my face. Then you hit a massive move on the guy that you've been punching and finish off teh guy that should be technically dead by this point.

The hardcore handicap matches are easy though.

My favourite feature of No Mercy: hardcore royal rumbles in the back.

[The Chronic]

Also something to note is that they normally don't try to break up a pin on their partner, so try to hit all of your specials on one guy.

[apsham]

Also something to note is that they normally don't try to break up a pin on their partner, so try to hit all of your specials on one guy.

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They usually do with me, what difficulty do you play on?

Oh, and I dusted out No Mercy last night and ended up in one of these situations. To tell you the truth, I just battled it out. It was me as Jericho versus Triple H and X-Pac in the final chapter, where I have to fight both of them and pin one for the IC title, which Pac had. In the match... I just fought it out. When I got one of them out of the ring, I locked the other in a submission, and that took down their spirit bar. I must have hit three Pedigrees on Triple H and three X-Factors on Pac, the thing was I couldn't get both at once, when I was getting up they'd grab me every time. But in the end, I had them down enough to pedigree Trips and knock down X-Pac long enough to get the pin.

[K]

hardcore royal rumbles in the back.

Whaaa? How?

[Mick]

hardcore royal rumbles in the back.

Whaaa? How?

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Select your match as a Royal Rumble, then set up the rules so that it's Hardcore, and eliminations cannot be by over the top.

And viola. ECW-esque mayhem.

[apsham]

Oh shit, I never even thought of that... you mean you can take it to a four way in the back, and when someone's eliminated, someone else shows up?

[FLiam]

I never ever knew that.

*goes to setup an ECW alumni Hardcore battle royal*