Sounds like I might be rockin’ zero/dante/vergil (my vanilla team is zero/dante/ammy) and just doing my 20 second long zero/dante BnBs just to build up meter for vergil AKA my “real” team. Haha.
Ah, man! I’m still so pumped that Vergil doesn’t have any flying screen air combo finishers that don’t leave him out of reach for an otg. I could do a standard ground combo into launcher, air combo ending in j.S, devil trigger, and DHC to zero’s rekouha! Then just build meter for when vergil comes back in! Zero can build 2 meters per combo after all. So sexy.
Looking at the Vergil videos after his Judgement Cut Hyper the opponent stays on the ground for awhile (til he sheaths his sword) before he does I had the idea to DHC into Dante’s DT and combo right after. Of course depending on what combo was done with Vergil beforehand you might only be able to do a simple wall bounce combo into beehive or something
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Also I know Dante wasn’t much of a meter hog, but with the buffs to his DT that could potentially change. My Trish is a meter hog from hell, Vergil will most likely take that place
I know my team is gonna need some work especially in the meter management department.
this character’s gonna be a problem. day 1 online will be nothing but dante/vergil teams. one month tops before this character is trolling everyone. i’m already brainstorming some BS with this char.
Sword crown could probably be a decent combo extender, if you set it up early so it triggers at the right time (a la Mystic Stare and Hidden Missiles assist). All depends on if it’s fast enough to keep them in a combo. If not then we could probably get some Drones style mixups too…
And is there any word on exactly how the first formation is controlled? (i.e. SKill said you could shoot them 1 or 3 at a time, and at angles and shit.) Maybe that will be his big execution barrier for online scrubs… Seems like there’s SO much undiscovered swag in this guy.
I think it might work like Dorm’s Purification assist. (If Dorm is charged then is used as the assist, it uses up the charge and you have to recharge up again)
So it could be that you activate Spiral Swords, tag out and they stay on while he does his assist attack, and eventually break, then do it again and repeat
It’ll be sick if it does work that way. It’ll make his Rapid Slash assist super good
Haha yes I’m hoping that works too but by “sword crown” I was talking about the mode where it floats them over the opponents head. If they stayed over after tagging out I could see people coming up with some silly set ups as a result. I guess time will tell.
I doubt it will be persistent, non “power-up” assists don’t usually stick around (compare King’s Armor/Sougenmu/Devil Trigger to Hypers like Astral Vision/Kitty Helper/Chaos Dimension etc). Swords definitely strike me as a utility hyper. Plus I doubt they’d let Swords AND DT be persistent, and I’d rather have DT powered assists by far.
I definitely see the different sword formations as the key to opening people up and extending Vergil’s combos. I could imagine using his dp motion attacks in conjunctiong with timing the swords automatic shots leading to the most stylish combos possible. Canceling the end on Vergil’s berserk barrage special into Swords or DT for mix-up combo starters and changing formation mid combo will be SSS-exy
S.Crown is probably his main game but I want to see his last assist, the other two I saw is Heavy Judgment and that dash cut. The last one will decide if i will use iron fist on point or anchor
Yeah, Sword Storm with teleports is gonna be so good in video looks like they go one after the other a little slow. Teleporting in between swords is gonna be sick. So long as you have the 2 meters to spend
Yeah, Sword Storm with teleports is gonna be so good in video looks like they go one after the other a little slow. Teleporting in between swords is gonna be sick. So long as you have the 2 meters to spend
I’m almost as hype to play Vergil as I was to get my hands on Doom in vanilla, he better not end up a Hsien-ko (where everyone thought she’d be gdlk based on speculation and she ended up lol tier).
Can we have some more information on his 3 assists? I figure Judgement Cut is good for spacing and Vergil remains fairly safe while performing it, kinda like a faster Dark Hole (Dormmau) assist with less coverage. Any word on which STR Judgement Cut his assist uses?
I figure Rapid Slash is what people are gonna use if they have a teleporting character like Wesker or want to control a lot of space in front of them, depending on how easy it is to hit Vergil out of it.
I don’t have high hopes for Rising Sun given the effectiveness of “AA” assists in MvC3. What I can say for it is you can probably use it similar to Jill’s Somersault assist as an Alpha Counter.
I’m trying to theory craft a team based around Vergil with Nemesis, Vergil, and Doom and from what I’m getting Nemesis would be on point building meter and controlling space with tentacles while Doom fires off missiles and Vergil controls the ground space with Rapid Slash assist. Vergil is second so you can DHC to Devil Trigger or Swords, then use Hidden Missiles and a super armored Nemesis assist (if he still has them in the retail version) to mix the shit out of the opponent.
Vergil uses light Judgment Cut as his assist. I should probably put that in the OP. Rising Sun doesn’t have any invulnerability, so it’s effectiveness might be limited. I think Devil Triggered rapid slash as an assist is gonna be gdlk though.
