Help With Floor 20 on SC IV

Greetings. I'm having a lot of difficulty getting passed floor 20 on Soulcalibur 4 due to the constant blocking my enemies and the lack of adequate time. Are there any certain characters or strategies that you guys recommend I try? My main characters are Cervantes, Kilik, and Tira. I know that you could "critical finish" them off but I'm having trouble finding what moves exactly are effective and exactly how strong of an attack it needs to be to actually make them vulnerable. I am easily getting through floors 18 and 19, but 20 is the hard one because I can't kill them both in time. Any advice would be much appreciated! Thanks.

- Bryen08 (PSN)

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1 2 3

3 4 5 = D-PAD (2=up, 7=down, 3=left, 5=right,etc)

6 7 8

A=Square, B=triangle, K=circle, G=X

well I know lots of stuff for Kilik but as for cervantes and tira, not so much.

Kilik has a good amount of exploitive moves to induce a critical finisher. I think the most effective ones are probaly his Raven slaughter (7 7, B) then wait for oponent to ukemi then do 3, A+B or 5, A+B.

you can also try starting the round with 7, A+K, it's a good sweeping move and the comp usualy falls for it. Also, if you realy want to punish you oponent for blocking you could try his Festival of the Damned throw-launcher (785 A+G, 35 A, 36785 B).

If they block too much, grab them.

If you are having problems in this floor, just wait until you get a little further :)