You could try to cancel it as fast as possible, that might help. Then you can gradually slow the motion down so you get as much range as possible. But a quick cancel, more often than not, is pretty good already.
I found kara canceling into mighty punish more easier than mighty hurricane.
So is anyone finding/planning any good team synergy with Thor?
This is gonna sound scrubby as shit but I don’t care. Hulk Gamma Wave assist + Mighty Spark have amazing priority. To be brutally honest it’s mainly due to the Gamma Wave, but Mighty Spark is awesome as well. Especially since you have time to charge up the M and H spark while Gamma Wave is traveling across the screen.
That’s all I have to add. It’s taking me a while to get used to this game’s speed and controls. I’m so used to SSF4… I’m still fucking up really basic combos. :sad:
Haha, having the same problems here myself. Can anyone elaborate how grapples work in this game? I keep trying to reversal spd things with thor and obviously that doesn’t work.
But the game is so fast paced and there’s so much shit on the screen, most of the time I just find myself just blocking and being a big ass punching bag.
Is it even possible to grab people in the middle of block strings? Or can you only grab people while they are just standing or blocking?
You can trijump into his command grab or empty jump because people expect to block something then pushblock right after. I wouldn’t really expect to reversal grab anything unless it has really horrible recovery or something they can’t chain into.
You might be able to get away with doing something like a standing/crouching L into delayed grab because most people expect you to combo or continue the string.
Yea I plan on running thor with maybe modok with his shield assist to cover thor whilst he fires off those mighty sparks, then maybe akuma or someone on AAA. Still thinking about some DHC’s with him, for a while i had been planning to run thor/sent/hulk where thors “buy odins beer” DHC’s into hyper sentinel force kinda like a pseudo storm sent DHC. But with the way sentinel is on everyones team i don’t see myself touching him with a 10 foot pole.
So yea thor/modok/and maybe akuma. Whats the word on thors AAA? Does it have any invincibility?
Guys I’ll be getting this game in almost one hour
as with all fighting games i am not sure who i’ll click with
but hopefully my love for grapplers shines through and thor feels like magic in my hands
if he does
the next problem is finding a team that suits him
I’ve Got This One thought up
Thor Sentinel and a third yet to be decided(Ironman doom taskmaster arthur are all potential choices)
I don’t get this mentatlity. Snow Flake Syndrome? Anyways, you have some pretty good concepts. I’ve added Storm’s Hail Storm for DHC because is as good as Storm DHC Sent. I use Iron-man for assist because repulsor blast is an amazing anti-air, and you can combo into it. He is so slow though, it’s hard to get his command grab off when it get beats by almost anything. I will probably pick up an assist that will deter mashing and promote more blocking to set up the command grab combo. My team will be Thor/Stom/Sent because that is the most feared combo with Thor I see now.
I don’t know, just a personal thing, there are two things that can stop me from playing a character that i like and that either them being overused or turning out to be overpowered, there are few things I hate more than mirror matches so if i notice a character getting a little too much play i usually ditch them. Particularly this early in a games life where i haven’t put that much time into the character. Its just a personal thing, Im not hating on anyone who enjoys using the machine. But Im disappointed to hear his command grab gets beaten out, I swear to God if i hear that sentinels has more invincibility than thors… calm down, calm down, hopefully like you said he will have set ups to deter people from mashing.
But I like some of your concepts, never considered iron mans repulsor blast as an AA, it does have a large hitbox. Another option to take into consideration.
man my Thor is getting rushed down like crazy. Seems like all I can do is block all day. His normals are too damn slow to punish anything. uuugggghhhhhhhh this dude is never going on point :lol:
sigh thats what i was worried about, thats why ive been hoping and praying for some super armor on something.
nah no super armor for him at all. Really I just need to spend some more time playing him. What I REALLY need to get on is his command grab. His :h: command grab starts up in one frame according to the strat guide, so its my own dumbass fault for trying to punish with normals when I should be using his grabs instead.
Plus my execution is sucking terribly. Still getting used to the button layout. 
Try to consider a “short-range zoning” style, too. You can’t beat them in speed, so beat them with spacing. Thor’s got so many moves with big hitboxes and high priority, and so many moves that send him forward. Try small back dashes or jumps into a move with a good hitbox and see what happens.
If everyone else has Sent, there is bound to be plenty of anti-Sent teams and strategies. That’s just my take on why one would avoid playing him, I haven’t decided who I will play yet.
I’m playing team manly: Hulk, Haggar and Thor:)
Hmmm Im thinking thor/hulk/ammateratsu, keep in mind i wont have the game till april(yaaaay university) but I really wanna build a team that allows thor to zone, but at the same time can switch it up at any moment and play that grappler game. So I figure hulks tsunami assist, coupled with ammys cold star should cover a fair amount of on screen space, allowing thor to zone a lil with his slow ass projectile. Hopefully ill be able to play the game this weekend and test this out. Plus ammys cold star should keep em in enough block stun to allow me to charge up some meter don’t ya tink?
hey, im still waiting for my strat guide. would u mind posting the startups for his L grab as well as LMH mighty smashes? thanks!
i am stumped right now on if i should forget all about or just continue trying to think up a good team for him
Don’t give up. Thor’s got too much potential. What teams have you tried? Right now, I’m thinking of pairing him with some combination of Dormammu (Dark Hole for coverage), Amaterasu (Cold Stars for lockdown), Wesker (get in then let Thor finish combos for big damage), and (to a lesser extent) Hsien Ko (Pendulum shenanigans) and Super-Skrull (general command grabby awesomeness).
People really, REALLY need to take the time and patience to recognize that this isn’t Marvel 2, and that just because a certain type of play (speedy rushdown) was king there, doesn’t mean it will be here, and that characters that couldn’t really be good there (like heavies and grapplers) CAN be great here, but NOT by being played the same way.