Yea I do not see him being an exception but all of the possibilities … Two Self OTG’s Can be linked from ground throw… multiple launchers Two Overheads… Barriers… Crumples Two different versions of wall bounces that can be done in the air… basically you should never be in a position where you can not combo someone weather on the ground or in the air… that is pretty exciting to me… and should be pretty scary to all of my opponents.
Glad some other guys are seeing this too, Nova is looking absolutely nuts. I can see him being a very solid anchor on a team due to all the tools he has by himself.
Yea Im going to run him as anchor… if hes the last man standing I would probably blow x factor on first hit to get all the extra damage I could then when it wears I could use Red life moves for their added benefits also…
here instead of all the posted frustration of what nova can and cannot do… i’ll state it here… well, apparently… NoVa is gonna be BITCHIN!!!
I still have some concern about his mobility, he certainly has options (which is better then most characters) but he has no real projectiles and his air dash isn’t exactly stellar. This is the main reason I’m looking to run him first or second.
…fatal counter, eh? well if megamarn x was in this game, he’d have his nice arsenal of REAL effin PROJECTILES. so why dont ya counter THAT!? sike, i stop now.
Play some BlazBlue, then you will understand what it means and why it’s scary. Especially since I play Mu-12.
He has no real projectiles but he covers screen lengths of space with his moves as well as Grav Pulse A and B covering a lot of space.
The pulses look okay for space control (I like the angled up one).
The charges move him fast, but they don’t go through projectiles or anything so you can still get zoned pretty easily using them. Javelin I see as situational.
Im not seeing that. his pulses trade with beams and one of his charge move eats projectiles… not sure which its in one of the videos I think its the foward charging centurion arts… either that or Human rocket punch… damnit now im going to have to go look it up because its killing me not being sure.
If he has a charging star that would make a big difference.
Should test to see if Centurion Art L (The slide kick that OTG) goes under projectiles. I know his cr.M will but it’d be mad nice if that move did.
I might be the only one thinking this, but he doesn’t look all that easy to zone. With all the charging moves being cancellable into flight, I’m sure he has the option to cancel the arts and punches into High Speed Tackle if they get trigger happy.
Also, he might be able to do some patterns of his own with assist and pulse up:
@0:21, try to ignore the rest of the great gameplay for a sec. His Javelin seems spammable. Maybe it will give him some fullscreen presense against a (select) portion of the cast, like GR for example that would normally force other characters to “play their game”~
Yea that kinda suck that they put in BROWN of all colors … who else has Brown that he would coordinate with lol … that is the problem I had with vanilla Task all his alts didn’t go with anything … haha but Purp Nova would have looked pretty SICK in the game… … … brown :-/
Wesker has a brown alt you know…
If I recall correctly, I’m pretty sure I saw the A- and B-versions of Gravimetric Pulse also drained red health and makes a beam maybe. I say “maybe” because I saw him do the air version and it was tilted upwards, it looked wider and looked like it traveled further, but it was hard to tell how far it went as it was cut off by the top of the screen. This all might be just being crazy though. 
I’m too lazy to re-watch Seth’s demo’s of him.
Also, his hyper of Power of the Nova Force doesn’t drain red health:
What’s his Y-assist, Nova Strike?
And which version of Centurion Rush is his B-Assist? Is it the one where he jumps up and does the dive kick towards the opponent (which hits overhead)?
the dive kick is the assist version I’m pretty sure it hits overhead
yeah it hits overhead
Lots of people in this thread have seen this, starting from page 1.
And just cause Max’s favorite character is Vergil doesn’t mean he can’t put him in his team with Nova.
It’s honestly looking like Nova is going to see use in every slot possible on teams. Some people see the appeal in him as a rushdown point character. Others think they won’t get much mileage out of either X-Factor or red health (or both) with him and want him on slot 2 backed by one assist that they can work in conjunction with. Others still think his movement options, mix of high and low attacks, and multiple bounce-inducing moves will make him an anchor. At this point, I think we’re pretty much theorycrafting a bunch of scenarios that seem roughly equally plausible to various people. It’s definitely a fun discussion so long as we keep it civil, though it seems some of this will be a mix of “We’re going to have to wait and see how it really plays out” plus “Even once we do get the game, it may still be personal preference.”
I’m all for that. A character that even his supporters can’t agree as to which slot is optimal for him? Well, that suggests he won’t be particularly ‘braindead.’