Examples include Astaroth's giant squeaky hammer and Seung Mina's 'Open Hand Slap', a giant golden hand on a stick.

Using joke weapons, which often look quite silly and make amusing noises upon each strike, doing very little damage.

Soulcalibur features a number of possibilities:.

Just like a coarse-grade sandpaper noogie.

Again with Capcom, in this case Super Gem Fighter's Felicia: defeating an opponent with nothing but the dreaded 'nummy nummy' attack note counts as a throw, fairly difficult to pull off, does minimal damage because it involves jumping on the opponent and licking them repeatedly for a second or two is a major put-down.

Vega can kill you with a thrown rose as the opening to his V-Trigger, Bloody Kiss. Also Rainbow Mika can kill you with her mic after failing to complete her speech.

Even worse is that if you let him stand around long enough, he'll flick his booger.

In Street Fighter V, Birdie can defeat you by throwing a beer bottle or a banana peel.

Street Fighter if you hit with the heart (Chun-Li and Sakura also can inflict damage with their taunts) and her power drain kiss move was fairly weak and easy to counter, but it's still possible to beat someone by kissing him/her to death.

Even better, Rogue's taunt did a small amount of damage in X-Men vs.

Other characters with damaging taunts include Sean, who shoots a basketball, which is actually part of the Parry the Ball bonus stage in the arcade mode Ken, whose taunt is a 'come on' type hand motion, and which can damage the opponent Ibuki, whose short hop turns into evasive overhead throw (and a wave at the viewer!) when close to an opponent, and Necro, whose taunt involves sticking his tongue out at the opponent and flailing it about, which can be sustained if the taunt buttons are held.

Dudley isn't the only one with a damaging taunt, since every character's taunt has a practical use, and there aren't that many unique effects to go around to the 20-character cast of 3rd Strike.

When the damage effect was removed from his appearance in IV, fans were pissed. Woe to those who meet an (un)dignified KO blow this way.

Dudley from Street Fighter III has a special taunt where he throws a rose at his opponent, which does a fraction of damage.

Using Dan in general is often considered Cherry Tapping - he also has the Otoko Michi (a parody of Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu that reduces Dan's health to 1% and does about as much damage as a Medium Punch) and Premium Sign (QCF+ Kick) which only ever does 1 pixel of damage, regardless of whether it's blocked or not, and causes the 'Super Flash' if you defeat them with it.

The Cherry icon made an appearance in Marvel Super Heroes.

Doing it starting from Street Fighter III and onwards causes the enemy to slowly collapse (instead of flying away as usual) while reciting a special defeat quote. In the Street Fighter Alpha games, the win icon for that round would appear as a pair of cherries.

The trope name comes from the term Street Fighter games used to refer to knocking out the enemy with a jab punch or short kick.

The Fake Special Attack is the Cherry Tapper's signature move. Cherry Tapping is sometimes referred to as Woodpeckering, can (and often will) induce Death of a Thousand Cuts, requires being Willfully Weak. Even if it is a One-Hit Kill a la Revive Kills Zombie, Cherry Tapping is purposely using weapons others think of as weak to humiliate, ignoring other items in the arsenal that do damage at a more effective rate. It can be a way to show off crushingly superior fighting technique by using a Joke Character in a fighting game a slow, weak melee weapon in a war game or shameless abuse of Level Grinding to kill the Final Boss with a feather duster.Д¬herry Tapping is sort of the opposite of strategies like Elemental RockВ–PaperВ–Scissors which exploit the enemy's inherent weaknesses for massive damage. Cherry Tapping uses strange and/or weak 'weapons', or powers that are lame, weak, and/or stupid looking to defeat powerful, fear-inspiring foes or even other players. Who cares about good sportsmanship and 'being big about it'? You just wanna grind your enemy's head into the earth in the most soul-crushingly cheap way possible for all the grief he's caused you.Д®nter Cherry Tapping, the video game equivalent of the Humiliation Conga. Winning feels good, and the more humiliating it is for your foe, the greater the satisfaction.

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