Practical Taunt: Difference between revisions

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: [[Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance|Deadly Alliance]]'', each character has an action that can be activated with the R1 button and varies from style to style. Among these are [[Status Buff|taunts that heal a small portion of health and taunts that boost attack power for a period of time.]] These were largely removed in the next games, with [[Mortal Kombat Deception|Havik]] retaining the self-healing taunts and a few characters in ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon|Armageddon]]'' having attack-boosting taunts.

* In ''[[Street Fighter III]]'', each character's Personal Action (read: "taunt") has its own individual [[Status Buff]]. For example, Q (already something of a [[Mighty Glacier]]/[[Stone Wall]]) can bolster his defense with each taunt, for a maximum of three times.

** Luigi's down taunt works as a Meteor Smash, and Snake's taunt can damage with the box.

* ''[[Eternal Champions]]'' allowed taunts to drain an opponents "inner strength," which was needed to perform special attacks. Since the [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|CPU could pull off any moves any time without regard to their inner strength]], this mostly just meant you, the player, never got to use any special moves in arcade mode because your enemy immediately would taunt away your means to do them.

** It gets better in the Ultimate version: Deadpool can cancel into and out of a taunt, making it a tool for combos.

** Taunts can also be used to bait attacks pretty well, as you can still call assists (if rush in on Spider-Man as he calls you a loser, you'll have to eat Akuma's Shoryuken for example). You can also cancel a taunt into a crossover combination (So if you try to attack Zero as he compares you to a training program, you'll have to eat the entire opposing team's Super Moves at the same time). Last but not least, you can X-Factor cancel out of a taunt (meaning if you attack a taunting opponent, they'll go into their [[Super Mode]] and have the perfect oppurtunity to unleash a deadly combo). So the only time it's safe to attack a taunting opponent is if they have no Hyper bars, already used X-Factor and are down to the last character on the team.

* Some characters' taunts in ''[[Jump Super Stars]]'' have special effects; for example, [[Black Cat (manga)|Eve]] gets a super jump. The stunning kiss from above is included too, but it goes to... ''[[Busou Renkin|Kazuki]]''.

* The taunting action in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' makes an opponent attack sooner, so you don't have to wait as long to [[One-Hit Kill|counter the attack.]]

** Flatter and Swagger make the opponent's attack stats raise, but confuses them.

* Mogul Khan, The Axe, a hero in ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'', has this as one of his spells. While buffing himself up with tons of extra armor, he taunts his enemies magically such that all nearby enemies are forced to attack him, preventing them from attacking anyone else for a few seconds.

* Tidus's Provoke skill in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', if successful, makes an enemy attack him only, or even drive down the enemy's accuracy. It sounds like a spell, but it's performed through a rude gesture and sometimes a verbal taunt. "Hey hey hey!"

** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' has this as an ability for the Sentinel role. The default tank, Snow, just waves the enemy forward and says something like 'Come on!' or 'I can take it'!

* Lee Chaolan from ''[[Tekken]]'' has one where he leans back and [[Bring It|wags his finger at his opponent, beckoning them to come at him]]. The thing is, while this may look like a taunt, it also has the more prominent utility of being an [[Stance System|alternate stance]] that gives him access to moves that are great at countering a reckless charge, [[Schmuck Bait|which is the likely reaction for someone who falls for the taunt]]. A second one has him lean in and say "Come on!" to the opponent, but if they try to punch him during the taunt, he flips behind them, landing in a perfect position to attack.

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', Rammus, Shen and Galio have taunt abilities. Taunts make their target incapable of performing any action but autoattacking, and will interrupt a channelled spell, useful in itself.

** Shen has a dash ability that taunts all the units that he passes through, which can be handy for directed them away from a fleeing ally.

** Galio's ultimate unleashes a powerful explosion, but he has to channel to do it. But because it also taunts everyone nearby, it prevents them from running out of range, and makes it much harder to interrupt the channel. The explosion also increases in strength based on how many times he's hit while channelling it.

* ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours]]'': Taunting helps to fill out the Balls meter, speeding you on to another [[Super Mode|Blind Rage]].

* In ''Super [[Monday Night Combat]]'', taunting rewards the player with a little bit of cash. This is because the match is televised in-universe, so the players are rewarded for posing for the fans.

** Raven has another practical use for it in that it causes enemies struck by a particular arte of his to explode when he does it.