ya that sounds like a good team, but i think you should make shuma the anchor and switch dante’s assist to weasel shot. Shuma’s assist works rly well with teleporting characters and he’s a decent anchor from what ive heard. And weasel shot is a better lockdown assist, jam session is a good anti air but you already have shuma’s assist for that.
But with this team i think you want to end all of thor’s combos on the ground, if you’re at SJ height you wont have any good DHC options, its better with dante because you can atleast DHC into devil trigger and continue the combo but you wont be able to kill unless they’re health is rly low or you burn a 3rd meter.
Somebody else who plays Shuma and Thor?! My original ultimate team was Shuma, Thor, Strange but I split Shuma and Thor into two different teams for winning purposes (straight TODs and practical resets are better then difficult resets). Shuma can do just over a million if you get his corner/corner carry combo down. Although it is tricky you can otg with mystic ray and use Thor smash assist to get a mystic stare before you HMR, also the bombs will otg after the super letting you get another one. The amount of synergy Shuma and Dante have together is absolutely INSANE, Dante is Shuma’s bff. Shuma’s ray assist causes very little blockstun so although it won’t keep anybody in place you can try to grab somebody shortly after it hits. Also while Shuma makes an ok anchor, he has poor matchups against the most common anchor characters.
While Both Shuma and Thor are both TERRIBLY underrated characters, they both need to have the team build around them. Shuma needs a Demon boy, and Thor needs an otg (Dante’s is not fast enough). The team is good and extremely fun to play, but Shuma and Thor don’t have much synergy together.
you’re probably right about shuma since you have more experience with him, but i rly dont think that thor needs an OTG assist, lockdown/projectile assists are far more important imo and a lot of them can extend combos in the corner. The only thing OTGs offer that other assists dont is extending combos midscreen.
This is why I have a beam assist and an otg. But yeah Ill agree that a lockdown/beam is more important then otg if I had to pick only one. But if you are building a Thor centered team having both assists makes him so much more of a threat. With the correct otg assist Thor gets 1 million damage midscreen and in the corner, and the combo is VERY practical (costs 2 meters combo builds a little more then one and isn’t very hard to do). Actually he can do infinite damage with an otg as long as he has meter. Also an otg makes his most practical reset so much easier to set up if you can’t tod the character you hit. If you touch a character with Thor they will die.
Also Thor has terrible dhcs into shuma. And Shuma needs to be able to dhc into devil trigger to set up all kinds of bullshit. For some real training mode fun with shuma/dante play around with the mystic stare bombs and swap out to dante while the bombs are still on the enemy. Go nuts with set ups.
Ya thats true, i just had a problem with the wording since thor doesnt “need” OTGs, to be fair thor doesnt rly need any certain type of assist to be effective but he does favor certain types of assists like:
1- lockdown
2- Long range projectile assists
3- OTGs and get off me assists.
but thats just what i think. That being said i dont think that OTG assists provide anything significant when it comes to resets, or atleast i havent seen anything.
I agree, Thor definitely doesn’t NEED an OTG but I find Dorms Purification works perfectly, it’s a great lockdown and an OTG Thor can abuse due to Mighty Strike, it also comes on Dorm, what more do I need to say.
How do you guys feel about Zero/Thor. I’m kind of bored with all the other beam assists and thor hits like a truck. The team would either be Zero/Thor/Spencer or Zero/Thor/Dorm. I’d like to anchor with thor but no speed boost makes me
That would be a very interesting team which I have no clue about. Let’s see, Zero in the second spot would allow for Thor to DHC out of any combo, so that’d be nice, Zero’s assists wouldn’t really do much for Thor at all. With Zero on point, you’d pretty much be runnin’ show anyway, so not much to worry about, and any block string that you get into can be stopped with a quick crossover counter to Thor. As far as the two characters go, I suppose they’d both be alright, but you’re gonna need a real solid anchor for the team to be best. I don’t think Spencer would really offer the team that much utility, so you’d really just be relying on him in an X-factor come back. Dormammu’s got Dark Hole, so that’ll offer some good lock down mix ups for both Thor and Zero, and he can clean up shop fairly well by himself, and DHC easily with the others. Thor doesn’t make a good anchor at all, and Zero’s best place is on point runnin’ through everyone else just because he can, so yeah all you need is a solid anchor, and I’d say you’ve got yourself a pretty good experiment to try out. Dante works well with Zero with that Jam Session of his. Thor could make use of it as well too. Whatever the case, try something out, and tell us how it worked.
I agree with Legendary, Zero works with pretty much anything on point, generally with a horizontal and vertical assist. Thor can provide the horizontal one and gets easy DHCs, I wouldn’t run him as an anchor, he is self-sufficient enough but tends to be quite meter efficient and rarely ever needs x-factor which makes him kind of unsuitable for it, plus no speed boost makes him easier to lame out. Legendary suggested Dante Jam Session, that would work well, Strider Vajra would be great as well and Strider makes a very strong anchor. Zero/Thor/Strider could be a competitive team.
I’ll try out that team Sabin41. Since i already use strider on my main team. My main reason for wanting to play thor is i hate all the other beam characters in the game. Doom is OK but my doom is complete ass i just cannot make the guy work for me. i like how much of a threat thor is everyone in my scene loves to press buttons only to eat a MH and die. I may even try Thor/Dorm/Strider just for a little more life. i just hope my thor can react quickly enough to get the punish from vajra.
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i dunno, you can play that team if you rly want to but i dont think that zero/thor works very well unless you have a rly good projectile assist in the 3rd slot. Thor’s mighty spark is the worst beam assist in the game, it has its uses but i dont think it will work well with zero who utilizes fast cross ups. Not only is the beam slow but it doesnt even have as much hitstun as the other beams. If you had an anchor with a good projectile assist (which thor also benefits from) you could switch thor to mighty smash, it would give you an invincible crossover counter, combo extension and can be used for fast cross ups after canceling a blocked normal into his command dash. It still wouldnt be anywhere close to the ideal zero team but it should definitely work well assuming you can use the characters. You could still be able to make zero/thor/dorm work but i personally dont think that dark hole will cut it because of its short range.
I disagree neo the slow startup on thor’s beam actually helps zero a lot. people tend to push block zero’s st.H thats usually when i call thor use 6h to push through the push guard beam comes out and i either L or M dash for a mix up. I don’t think it’s necessary to say Thor is better with a beam, every character in the game is better with a beam. Problem is i don’t like any of the beam characters. Black Hole holds a grounded opponent in place and forces them to deal with at least one mix up that could be deadly. I wish i could find some sort of otg options using that particular team just doesn’t seem to happen for me. Also rainbow wall to tornado is dumb why does the opponent recover before thor? thanks capcom.
How do you guys feel bout Thor and Nova synergy? I haven’t settled on a third yet , so who would you guys start on point ?
I think I want to use gravametric pulse assist , not sure what assist helps nova better , I guess spark , don’t see how nova benefits from another ground bounce
As for possible thirds , feel free to suggest any you’d like , just not doom. I’ve tried doom and he just isn’t for me
When the game came out, me an’ my dude Vik put the two together, and had a lot of fun, but on the real, Nova and Thor really don’t help each other out at all. No real synergy between the two. Thor can’t use a wall bounce unless he’s right in the corner. He can’t use the overhead that effectively because of the range of the Centurion Rush is more than his normals, but I feel with a little work, you could maybe make some use with that in combo extension, and the Pulse really isn’t that suitable for Thor’s style of play. Nova doesn’t really get much from Thor either. Mighty Smash’ll use up your ground bounce, which is something Nova already uses, no one uses Mighty Strike as an assist, and Mighty Spark is sorta okay because of it being a beam, but there are better beams that can be used. Nova force into Tornado works. Thunder into Blaster works. So you got a little bit of DHC synergy there.
Nova and Thor ultimately boils down to just two individual point characters, so you’d need a solid assist to get something good out of the team. I’d recommend something Drones, Daggers, or a strong horizontal assist that comes with a solid anchor.
So after trying out a few different point characters on my team (Trish, Dorm, Doom) I’ve found someone that I’m comfortable with and that is Captain America. He has good DHC synergy into Thor and his Shield Slash assist is useful. Now my Thor team has ended up being Cap(Shield Slash), Thor(Mighty Spark), and Hulk(Gamma Wave). Avengers Assemble! I said a long time ago that I wanted to stop using Hulk because a lot of wins came from him, x-factor lvl 3, but after realizing that his Gamma Wave assist is a good OTG I decided to have again as my anchor. By the way, Hulk’s Gamma Wave isn’t on the first post as a beam assist or an OTG, just a heads up.
I said a long time ago that I wanted to stop using Hulk because a lot of wins came from him, x-factor lvl 3, but after realizing that his Gamma Wave assist is a good OTG I decided to have again as my anchor. By the way, Hulk’s Gamma Wave isn’t on the first post as a beam assist or an OTG, just a heads up.