For Hawkeye corner throw hard tag into Dante you get 910kish~ with 2 bar with a DHC into Storm(not poison arrow, I don’t recommend using poison arrow with how good triple arrow is):
Raw Tag, Volcano, jH xx Airplay jH, stS, jH xx Airplay, jH xx Killer Bee, backdash stS~H, Stinger BC into 2 options,
Hammer Volcano xx Bee Hive(you can add Hawkeye assist here) xx Milllion Dollars into Hail Storm
Or Firedance, Acid Rain, Volcano jS Volcano xx Bee Hive, doesn’t add much more damage the above, but builds more bar.
For Storm hard tag into Dante the hitstun scaling is higher, so you can’t use airplay confirms 300-350kish meterless:
So you have to use Volcano jMHxx Killer Bee, backdash stS~H into wall bounce, teleport Hammer, Volcano xx Bee Hive
Or Shot loops after the killer bee. Better overall since better meter build
I’m pretty sure you can use Thunderbolt loops in XF2 to solve Storm’s damage problems.
Whirlwind seems like a neat assist for Dante’s mixups as it pushes back so you can get ghetto left rights by double jumping and airdashing. It seems pretty decent. Although Hailstorm into DT is not a good setup for mixup as it’s all blockable by autoblock.
For Hawkeye zoning patterns both assists are great, although it’s probably optimal to go for:
stHcall Whirwind xx DP M or H arrows to cover the entire screen.
stHcall Jam Session xx qcb M, H arrows.
You can set up some neat strings midscreen with whirlwind assist and you get nice combos by abusing freeze shot along with Whirlwind.
stMxx qcb L, Poison shot + Jam Session or Whirlwind is a very nice defensive confirm for Hawkeye, and he gets a full confirm on hit using qcf M arrows.
slide + assist qcb L, poison shot is a good offensive blockstring too. They both pushback on block which helps keep people off him.
Both assists are fantastic for Hawkeye imo and work very well. I recommend the assists to be Hawkeye-Tripple Arrow/Storm-Whirlwind/Dante-Jam Session.
Jam Session is brutal for the characters that lose the zoning matchup against Hawkeye, and it helps him out a lot vs rushdown characters. It’s one of his better assists period if not his best.