What do you mean when you say multi-hit? Like they hit more than once? Cool, but-and I ask this passively-how will they help thor in the long run?
Cool, good to know. I was very excited when I saw he had an air grab because I was having ippastuman flashbacks, but then people got their hands on the game and I saw none of this stuff. But its good to know his grab has better range, and his command grab super looks very good actually, I’ve seen ultradavid land it on a lot of characters as they are coming in.
I’m planning on maining Thor, building a team around him, and refining it and refining it until I have something that can compete with whatever turns out to be top tier in this game (would be funny if it included Thor, hah!).
Right now, strictly in the realm of theory-craft, I’m planning on using a team of Wesker or Super-Skrull/Thor/Hsien Ko or Amaterasu. The basic idea is to open with Wesker, supporting his pressure game with Mighty Smash and Pendulum (against rushdown teams) or Gong (against keepaway teams) assists. When he gets in, the plan is to either air exchange or DHC to Thor at the end of a combo for big damage. Then Thor keeps pressure on with assists and resets until either victory or he gets too disrupted to try to continue.
At that point, either start the strategy over with Wesker, or bring Hsien Ko in to start her own offense by changing the flow of the match from aggressive to zoning with all the shit she can toss around. When she’s ready to tag out, she’ll DHC out of her Dark Force hyper so that all her assists will have hyper armor.
The alternative is to use Skrull instead of Wesker and/or Ammy instead of Hsien Ko, in which case he’ll use Tenderizer for assist, command grab a lot, and DHC Thor in off one of his easy-to-land supers, and she’ll use Cold Stars or reflector for assist, use her whip weapon for zoning, and DHC Thor in off of her slow hyper to bring the opponent’s speed down to manageable.
At least, in theory…
Edit: Here are a couple fun vids of Thor from the more recent build.
I think the important thing for Thor (being a more complex character to make competitive) is going to be figuring out what TYPES of characters are going to go well with him.
For example, keepaway characters (MODOK, Arthur, Dorm)–even if they have useful assists–aren’t going to set Thor up for much of anything.
Rushdown characters might be useful, in the sense that they can get in there and then he can come in to mop up, but certain ones will be more or less useful. (i.e. - X-23, Super-Skrull, and Wesker will probably be harder to shake off, and they each have potentially reliable DHCs, while Morrigan and Iron Man have a more “get in, then back off” style and supers that push the opponent away).
And then there’s that whole range of characters in between that are a totally mixed bag. She-Hulk could work, since she’s hard to keep out and has close-range supers, Ammy and Joe both have slows that Thor will find useful, and Hsien Ko and Taskmaster have potentially great assist combos with him. On the other hand, Spidey, Dante, and Ryu don’t seem to have anything that would create great synergy.
I can’t wait for people to tap Thor’s potential. I haven’t seen people utilize his tri-dash or command throw yet so I’m hoping there’s potential in that. Also, on Thor’s official page it looks like they forgot to list one of his hypers
Also, I think Thor’s and :h: Mighty Sparks are going to see some combo use as well. Particularly after his command throw, as shown in his reveal trailer:
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He does:
air to air command throw–>:h: xx mighty spark–>:m: xx mighty smash–>launch–>etc
However the combo may only work in the corner. Also note that it didn’t do much damage in the vid compared to stuff we see now, since it was an older build.
Yeah, I think there actually is a fair margin of players who are or would be interested in playing Thor. It’s really a shame that so much of the early stuff scared people off of him.
Oh well, I guess now they have more time to figure out how to recombine Storm, Sentinel, Magneto, and Doom with Dante for exciting, new styles of play!
Really how come? Oh and OMG thor has a lot of health, [media=youtube]YPoW-1I1SEE#t=2m24s[/media] joe hits him with a lvl 3 x-factored mach speed and it does ass damage on him.
and :h: Mighty Sparks are going to see some combo use as well. Particularly after his command throw, as shown in his reveal trailer: