Alrighty, so my main team right now is Chun/Akuma/Viper, which is the team I would ultimately like to stick with because I love the characters. Mainly I run Akuma 2nd so I can get a usefull DHC, and personally, I like running Akuma 1st or 2nd since his damage output with assists is so high. My main problem with this team is the lack of a good projectile assist, since I mainly use burning kick as a combo extender, and tatsu only goes so far, so a couple alt teams Ive been trying to run with are Chun/Iron Man/Viper and Chun/Viper/Strider.
Iron Man provides an exellent assist with either Unibeam or Repulsor Blast (as either seem to work well at locking people down and as combo extentions), but running him 2nd means I miss out on running Viper with IM assist if Chun goes down, and running IM 3rd doesnt really work because I, again, would lose the DHC and IM imo sucks as an anchor, plus is just generally challenging to be really good with, as much as I like the character…
Chun/Viper/Strider actually seemed like a great combo since his vajra assist is so good and it works so well to get Chun/Viper in or extend combos, but this pretty much makes me have crap DHC options, and honestly, I dont want to use strider, hes basically a lv3 xfactor/assist character to me, and I really dont have any love for the guy.
Anyway, my question is should I nut up and try learning IM/Strider, or is there a better way I can make Akuma work that I am just not utilizing (maybe use hadoken assist instead of tatsu)? maybe Im just whining for no reason, but any input I could get would be helpful. Sorry for the book worth of text btw…