What would be the rationale of putting strange second with vergil as support? I can’t imagine vergil assist is as usual to strange as bolts would be to vergil. The only benefit I can see is a DHC into fof loops. But that doesn’t seem as important becuz if vergil was second you would be dhcing into sword loops. Either scenario should lead to a dead character. I know vergil anchor is heavily favored. But i feel with thor strange vergil, but strange and vergil are playing alone.
I’m certainly no expert, so if I’m grossly mistaken, would love the insight.
Yeah DHCing into sword loops from Thor is good and all but Thor combos usually consume a ground bounce. Vergil sword loops are doable without using a ground bounce but are less lenient than normal sword loops. In some cases you’re able to do something like S>ABC>M Mighty Strike>Mighty Tornado>DHC before last hit>install or whiffed quick super>hard tag Vergil>cr.H>etc. This is fine but Thor has the damage and meter building capabilities to do without loops whatsoever. Experiment with what you feel is best.
Dr.Strange wants to be controling the ground at all times and Vergil (rapid slash) pushes opponents back and punishes bad assist calls that Strange can capitalize & confirm off of and a quick situation reset if a mistake is made. Strange needs assists to get his game plan started dark Vergil has roundtrip and devil trigger as his assists but Thor/Strange is so strong you may not even need Vergil he’s just the panic button
actually, dr strange and vergil boost the same thing for thor, pressure from fullscreen/midscreen to cover with mighty strike or sparks. A better team for Thor would have one of those characters and Dante or Amaterasu with their safe lockdown assists to make the team stronger and safer in rushdown
Has anyone come up with some uses of dormammu purification assist on incoming. I pretty much resort to ammy air S. > Mighty strike shenanigans. Be cool if I could make dormammu alil more useful in that regard.
Purification doesn’t have much use for incoming you may be better off using liberation assist and his spells for incoming.
You could try throwing out purification meaty to keep your opponent locked down long enough for you to try and get a good read on their next decision. Try confirming off of it also
I would like to see some Thor/Haggar synergy because I tried to see how they would fit together over the weekend and didn’t find much. Previously tried Thor/Akuma/Doom but dropped Akuma because I was not liking the short range on his normals. However, lately I’ve been really enjoying my new alternate team of Cap(Charging Star)/Thor(Spark)/Doom(Missiles).
I think that team would look better as Haggar/Thor/Sent Thor with meter is better than Haggar with meter the team itself low tier but it can work. Basically haggar gets a touch and kills with mighty smash assist extension into a thc. Having a invincible alpha counter and semi invincible lairiat helps a ton when you’re getting rushed down
With this team you’ll have to be careful with your assist calls! Sentinel is the problem and will probably get snapped in and dealt with and since he’s so big he’ll get clipped by anything on the screen. Due to that fact I’ve heard players experimenting with Rocket Raccoon instead to hide behind whatever Haggar and Thor do. It also gives a little more freedom with assist calls lariat/spark/log is a couple tiers higher and can deal with heavier zoning and extend/confirm combos
Its very easy for Thor to confirm from Lariat with just about any of his tools. With Haggar you can THC in the corner then with cr.H>f.H>THC and get a Hoodlum Launcher from the last hit of Thor’s hyper. But you can’t use Spark assist. Thor/Haggar is too fair outside of their combined 2.45mil health.
I see. Someone suggested the team to me. I already don’t like Drones since it gets blown up easily by beams and beam assists, but I wanted to get you guys’ input in case I was missing something. I’m starting to feel limited with Hulk/Thor/Dorm so I’m trying to find a new Thor team but it’s hard finding a team that works and has characters that I like.
Right now I’m trying out Thor/Frank/Shuma but god I know absolutely nothing about how to approach with Thor, once I get someone to block and I tri dash overheads and such once I get going but god sometimes trying to go from full screen in on someone is annoying because Mighty Strike doesn’t come out as instantly invul to projectiles like Charging star.
Morrigan in particular is being an absolute pain, any tips?
Thor need a meter user as partner cause his meter usage sucks; pairing him up with Frank, Haggar or Shuma is not good. I would like to see some top player using Thor/Morrigan/Doom, Thor/Vergil/Doom or Thor/Doom/Phoenix
Thor/Shuma is probably a pretty good combination. A friend of mine, who is a top Marvel player, runs Hulk/Shuma/Haggar and he does damage with Mystic Ray assist. I think it would benefit Thor just as much if not more. His strength is his air mobility and MR seems like it would allow him much more freedom and greatly supplement both his rushdown and zoning. It’s also an OTG (albeit a weird one), which Thor likes.
its not, its a pretty fair combination that lose to everything high-top tier. Better build a team for Shuma and a team for Thor with the top 10 support characters and meter users. Hulk/Shuma/Haggar sounds like a 10-0 matchup for Thor/Dorm/Doom btw
Well I’m able to get frank to level 4 and from a thor combo. Basically a combo that builds 1 bar of meter allowing thor to combo into Mighty tornado > DHC to frank and then when the opponent is falling very slowly from the tornado Frank jumps up and used kneedrop > camera > mighty smash assist > camera for a level 4 and a near dead opponent. TAC into frank works too if I lack the meter for a DHC.
Shuma assist is decent for extending combos if Thor won’t get enough time for Mighty Smash to fully charge without the assist and it’s some good coverage…but I’m still struggling getting used to moving around with Thor.
Thor/Morrigan or Thor/Phoenix is ass unless your game plan is having Thor get killed only so you can build meter for Astral Vision, Dark Phoenix, or just plain have an easy way to kill Phoenix early by snapping out Thor. Thor needs assists that help him get it in, lock-down, or stop characters from rushing down on him.