Aside from potential unblockables, I mostly agree. But a good enough Wesker player could be dangerous enough to use on a team if you really want to.
Yeah, Wesker can always be wesker, but at that point, you could make your team better by just making it a more traditional derp style team.
Just got my copy of the game for the sake of playing some Mahvel. Oh well.
Gonna try running just from my imagination:
Nova/Ryu/Spencer
Nova/Spencer/Magnus-Ammy-Strider
I kinda like Ryu’s buffs and I was going to use Tatsu assist for Nova. The other team I thought Spencer and Nova could benefit from disruptor/cold star/vajra, and Magnus-Strider-Ammy are all strong choices for anchor.
Trying to make a Nova/Dorm team, which is probably not the best but I really like Dorm. I think he benefits more than most from aan overhead assist since he can cover his own approach and lock down incoming characters. He can also use the ground bounce to relaunch off flame carpet. DHC’s work ok too, the “Power of-” super can DHC to stalker flare to let you charge up some spells.
I always up with a third character who has what I think of as one of the skank assists. So basically that means Akuma, Doom or Sent. It’s kind of a shame that there are so few good anchors in the game, I really think those three stand out. I’m not that sold on any of the new assists falling into the full on skank category, maybe shopping cart.
What assist do you think works best with Nova?
Plasma beam I find is good for people you have good ground mobility and close range pressure but can sometimes get locked down fullscreen and need it to punch through heavy zoning and advance quickly. I don’t think this applies to Nova.
Tatsu is great for anyone who can get to midrange by themselves and even better if they have a fast forward travelling move to confirm off it. Nova can do this with his rocket punches.
Shopping cart is similar but keeps the opponent grounded doesn’t blow through projectiles. Nova should get a crumple off this. Both tatsu and shopping cart work well with Nova’s corner carry.
Drones are great for people who have poor mobility since they stay out for ages and they also boost the abare of anyone with moves that are hard to combo off normally, it also works well with someone who can protect Sent while he is out. Nova can put up barriers for this. And while he isn’t exactly slow I definitely appreciate having time to advance behind drones.
So I think I favour drones, which is a shame since Sentinel is my least favourite anchor. There’s also varja which everyone is taking about, but I don’t think it’s good enough to build a team around. Nova should get full combos off of the knockdown though with centurion arts to OTG from anywhere. Nova-Strider-Sent could be a great team.
my initial umvc3 team was dorm, spencer and nova. but it didn’t work to say the least. as of now, I kind of switched to nova, spencer and sentinel - drones and it rules pretty hard with both, spencer and nova. even tho I play dorm, spencer, sent (also my vanilla team) aswell every now and then. you absolutley need a lockdown assist for nova, and imo drones is the best one to pick. you can change dorm/nova around, both work on both spots with easy DHC. tho, dorm => nova is easier and more damaging then the other way around.
The usual Nova team is Nova/Spencer/(Gun Assist).
The only other one that I think might be particularly good is Nova/Frank/(Gun Assist).
You have alot of options for that Gun assist but i also think Sent is pretty much the best. I like the Spencer combo better too a I am not super sold on Frank West yet. Even if he’s backed up by a solid projectile like Drones.
I havent been able to play as of late, but my team is currently Nova/Dorm/Doom and it was working pretty well before school halted my progress. I had a much better time with Nova on point than Dorm as he was originally on point until a friend of mine said to put Nova in that spot. I use the same strat you do, DHC from Nova Force into Stalker Flare, charge my hands and start the keepaway. Doom is great with Dorm as it gives you teleport shenanigans and Doom helps Nova lame it out as well as get him in.
I’ve been using nova in my second slot with Task Master behind him. I play Nemesis/Nova/Task and I use the centurion rush assist. I used it mainly for combos with nemesis since he only has his c.l so it’s not very strong for unblockables but the ground bounce no matter what is really nice. Any suggestions for this team? I’ve still been playing around with it and Nova is definitely my character that’s staying I was just curious on the thoughts of this team or if there were any ideas you guys had on improving it.
Zero/Hadangeki
Nova/Gravametric pulse
Deadpool/Quick time
The focus @ the start of the match is to use Sougenmu then switch to Nova
I haven’t had much time with this team but i can see the potential
If your goal is to use Sognemu and switch to Nova, then why not just pick a character with a better assist?
Also, your plan of doing it right at the start will more then likely just get Nova killed for free.
Because I like to use zero with grav pulse
Nova isn’t gonna get killed for free. If i have mega buster charged then release it In sougenmu they’ll still be in block stun when nova comes in.
Your using Sogenmu then tagging out… So Nova is coming in off a raw tag.
That’s about as free as kills get in this game.
Still, why jump through the hoops if you can just pick someone like Doom and use Plasma beam. Power-up srategies have always sucked for this reason.
How many other characters can release 2 projectiles after powering up?
It’s not instant, Sognemu has startup as does buster. So your burning a meter, and hoping they block the buster and don’t move or blow through the buster (remember you have no meter for a reversal), all for the hope of getting access to an assist that is still worse then alot of assists that other characters start with.
It just doesn’t seem like a good plan.
I know its not instant. You think im just throwing shogenmu out in unsafe situations?
Pretty sure the point being made is that the whole idea makes for an unsafe situation. If you managed to do what you did and didn’t get punished for it, then you’d be extremely lucky, and doing it at the start of the match just makes the bad situation worse because you have no more meter to save yourself. I’m sure once you try it out in actual play against competent players, you’ll see just how much of a risk this actually is.
it works on the computers
And that’s about all it’ll work on. Computers don’t actually have the ability to think like people do. They really don’t have the ability to think at all. They’re just programmed to react to certain things. Since they don’t have the ability to learn, they’ll sit there while taking any type of abuse you throw out at them (like free hard tags). They’re good for getting a handle on fighting something that moves, and are pretty decent with punishing certain situations that you didn’t think would be punished, but beyond that, it’s best not to get to familiar with how they fight and expect everyone else to fight like that.
Computers are not a good test of anything. Someone who can beat the hardest computer would stand a ghost of a chance against even a modest human opponent. CPU’s are good for getting achievements and practicing hitconfirms against moving targets… and that’s about it. They’re nothing more than moving training dummies.
Problem solved I can just wait till i hit someone with Zeros H or Forward H then activate sougenmu release megabuster raw tag Im safe