In Vanilla I 100% agree, but in UMvC I feel it’s helpful, but not necessary. An OTG adds around 100k or so on to the combo depending which you use, and there are a lot of ways to make that up. If you do an air combo followed by your hardest hitting assist in to a TK air max voltage to finish the combo, you have already made up most of the damage that you would get from Trish in an OTG combo (depending on your assist).
Plus if you are running her on a team with Nova and don’t have enough meter for the OTG max voltage you can TAC in to him for full combo damage since you will have at least a bar by then. If you just want to push to the corner, Nova is great at that too.
Taking that in to consideration, is an OTG really worth the slot?
I’m not quite in agreement on this either. That’s only true if you are putting Nova on point and want 2 assists that directly help with his offense.
As mentioned above, I don’t feel Trish really needs an OTG assist anymore, especially working with Nova. At this point the only thing she really “needs” in my opinion is decent range/zoning assists to help with her trap/range game. Nova’s gravimetric pulse works very well as a tool to assist with her style of zoning, and mix that with a ranged assist in the 3rd slot and it’s a perfect match for Trish.
For Nova, I feel like he only really “needs” something to cover his unsafe offense, so the ranged assist from the 3rd slot has that covered. Trish’s Peekaboo works great with Nova as well, after being pushblocked drop a gravimetric pulse and you can cycle that with Peekaboo and your ranged assist and be a pretty scary ranged game against most of the cast, and even if they are someone that can combat it you can take advantage of their restricted movement to open up on them easier.
So I usually put Trish on point and Nova second, with an Anchor (I’ve found success with Doom/Dante/Strider/Hawkeye so far but not 100% set on one yet) for a few reasons. Let’s say Trish/Nova/Doom with plasma beam. Both assists are very beneficial Trish’s offense and (unless you are 100% set on giving her an OTG) ideal for her game. She has 3 traps instead of 2 with Gravimetric pulse making it even more to deal with, Doom gives full blown projectile offense. She can TAC in to Nova if needed, At the very least she is always able to do enough chip damage to allow Nova to TOD once he comes in, making combo extensions unnecessary for him (and with 800k+ BnB’s they arent very neccessary anyway). With her on point she is able to set up Round Harvest easily, and if necessary do a safe tag. They DHC perfectly. Since Trish can safely tag Nova usually gets in with both assists up and can use the trap along with gravimetric and beam to actually give him a decent range game. Even if Trish is down, Plasma beam makes all of Novas attacks safe, so that’s the only assist he really needs. Both characters arent the biggest meter hogs and good at charging meter for the anchor.
I would say that’s fairly ideal for both characters, although I could understand how some might feel otherwise if they still feel Trish needs an OTG.
That’s just their synergy with Doom though, and they got a pretty good synergy with the other characters I listed too. Dante allows both Trish and Nova to have a completely rediculous vertical game and helps with dash mixups, Strider vajra is crazy with the duo as well since it keeps them out of the air getting barraged by Trish and is actually timed perfect to cover Novas unsafe offense just as good as a beam can, and if you set up a gravimetric pulse w/ nova normally ranged characters can out zone you if you dont have a projectile assist but Strider is able to counter projectile characters just as strong. Even assists like Drones and Hidden Missiles work great with them too (and works as an OTG if you really need one for Trish). There are a lot of options for the 3rd slot that have synergy with both chars because the assists that usually cover Nova are the same type of assists that Trish could put to use.
At this point I’m thinking Nova is an ideal 2nd character since he only really needs one assist, and from the streams I’ve seen so far of the top ranked players seem to be in agreement with that, since most I’ve seen put Nova 2nd.