Drones provide a better means of approach, and can allow you to set up high/low or left/right (with Magneto) mixups and open up your opponent. They also allow for you to do the Centurion Rush :h: cross-under/cross-up to open up your opponent on the welcome mixup, if you get it blocked/whiffed, the drones are there to provide safety to Nova/Magneto.
They also allow for easy guard breaks, allowing for near-Free ToD’s by doing a combo into TAC infinite (since Mag’s, Nova, and Sent can do their TAC infinite anywhere, and in any direction)
Also, Strange is an okay anchor, but is really better second because of his good battery skill and damage output and having the ability to TAC/assist call. The near-safe DHC into Strange’s beam counter to prevent chip outs.
I feel that Skrull doesn’t really provide much for the team. He feels awkward tbh, some Nickcam footage shows how he uses Drones to provide Meteor Smash safety if you’re dead-locked into using Skrull.
What do you guys think about Nova Vergil? Im trying to pick up Vergil but i cant find any ways to get all 3 centurion rushes and still have time to dhc into spiral swords…any help would be appreciated
You can do whatever bnb you want to use, end with f.H to otg, call Vergil, do st.H, rapid slash hits, then do M rush, H rush, Super Nova, early DHC to Swords, and then go ham.
Bolts assist is amazing with Nova. Strange is a capable enough anchor but relies on the Spell of Vishanti, X Factor, Spell of Vishanti trick alot so people are always on the lookout for it. As far as assists go, just make sure to watch out for Strange. Since he does stay out on screen for a good amount of time, its easy for him to get bopped and killed quickly.
My main is Nova, Task, Vergil. Nova/Vergil have great synergy. Trust me, as long as you have a horizontal beam/arrow assist you have yourself a damn good team
On the last page I wrote out a strategy thing for nova vergil frank. I was more looking for feedback than preaching it, but if you check it out, seems uber powerful on paper. I haven’t had xbl access to test it, but I expect to today.
The frank part is mostly optional, as any horizontal assist should get you goin, as azurius said. But frank has heaps of additional synergies, mostimportant vergil sL+cart xx teleport, and the fact both nova and vergil level frank to 4+ really easily.
I actually use to run that team lol. Any basic Nova bnb will lead to near death or completely kill a character once you DHC into swords. Im not good at transcribing but ill give it a shot. Here is a pretty basic bnb that I use:
cM, cH, Special, air M, air H, Flight, air L, air M, air H, Special, :f: :h:, Special, air H, Super Nova, DHC to swords
Just make sure you cancel the Super Nova before Nova says “Nova Force,” so it’ll sound like “Power of the…Vergil!” Super Nova only causes a Hard Knockdown if you dont allow the Super Nova to finish. Otherwise, the opponent flips out of it too high in the air for you to combo afterwards
I actually want to know what you guys think of a team I’m working on now for more mobility than my regular one (Nova/Sentinel/Akuma): Nova/Dormammu/Vergil. Nova (Cent. Rush), Dormammu (Dark Hole), Vergil (Rapid Slash). I think it’s a lot better against teams that like to push you away and fill the screen with stuff (ahem MorriDoom).
Definitely a good team in my opinion. Only problem I see is that both Dorm and Vergil are meter hogs, and though Nova can be a decent battery, I doubt he will build enough meter to sate Dorm and Vergil’s meter eating tendencies
Azarius is right, both dorm and vergil are very meter hungry. Likewise, none of the assists are all that great for nova. They’re not BAD, per se, but neither will help you force the issue against oppressive squads. All I’m playing lately, aside the experiment above, is nova dorm doom. Missiles have far exceeded my expectations for nova, and soon doom-dorm will be a defining force in umvc3 (it already is, but will soon exceed the press morridoom gets, I predict.
Your team does get the same easy kill as mine, though. The above bnb azarius typed, but instead of the air super at the end, tac dorm, MH xx fly (or addf xx fly on side tac), LH xx L hole, H xx L hole, S, land, call nova, carpet, fwd+H xx L hole xx chaotic flame xx PotNF (don’t do the last L hole if you used wall bounce).
Yea i agree with the assist not being the best. Im assuming he is gonna use rapid slash with Vergil and the only thing I really use that for is a bnb I use that uses all three of Nova’s Centurion Rushes. Dark Hole for Dorm does an ok at best job of helping nova get in, but definitely not the best. Dorm anchor is awesome though lol.
lol On my team I try to work in dark hole calls for variety and having hitboxes where I don’t normally, but 4/5 times I think, I shoulda just called missiles.
I played a bit with the Nova Vergil Frank… it was certainly effective, but I just don’t enjoy Vergil all that much, nor the balance between doing damage and leveling Frank, nor Shopping Cart Nova. Screw it, I’m 5x better w/ Nova Dorm Doom anyway :).
HOWEVER… I recently fell back in love with Dante because of one thing… Bolts assist! So in trying to think of a good point for xxx Dante Strange, I did what I always do when I need a good point: try it with both Mag and Nova. LOL And I’ll tell you, both worked very well (duh).
How to work the Bolts is fairly obvious, but I’m wondering what kind of synergies you guys may know of between Nova and Dante. I figure both Jam and Weasel can extend combos, and Jam + cM on DP+L on welcome should be effective (idea of course being to cross under them causing them to block the jam session incorrectly, the ol school Wolverine trick). Anything else I should know here?
Likewise, to anyone who plays Nova and Dante on a team, anything good to know for using Nova’s b assist w/ Dante? Namely, I assume it can extend a combo somewhere. I know the bare bones basics of Dante combos, so unless it gives an easy extension when called before an OTG Volcano/beehive or something, I’m kind of at a loss. It’s not super critical, but if there’s some easy extra damage to be had, well then blue blazes, why not?
Nova/Dante have retarded synergy. I play Nova/Dante/Strider. Pretty much there’s a ton of things you can do with the assist. The easiest one being, call Nova assist, reverb shock to devil trigger and get a free unblockable. You can also do it out of stinger and weasel shot. Also, if they block a j.H while you’re calling Nova, that’s another free unblockable. Acid rain is your friend here.
Nova can also do high speed tackle super dhc into devil trigger and combo anywhere from it, including super jump height. Nova/Dante/Strange sounds like a pretty broken team!
Dante with Strange’s Bolts is so godlike. I messed around with a Nova, Dante, Strange team for a long time and actually still do from time to time. The synergy between those three is simply ridiculous. Both Nova and Dante benefit from the Bolts. I was using Jam Session with Dante and Centurion Rush for Nova. Man that team was so good, I think I may pick that back up as my tertiary team
Thanks for the reply, guys! Yeah Nova Dorm Doom is my go-to (and I dig Nova Mag Sent / Mag Nova Sent), but when I saw how sick Bolts Dante was, I was like “gimme!” lol I tried both Mag and Nova as the point and, while liking both, have to give the nod to Nova. My Dante is ass, but oh well Thanks again!!
I hear that. My Dante isn’t the best either, but the amount of confusion you can put on your opponent with those two is crazy. Vergil works well with Bolts too.
My Dante neutral is actually pretty strong, as is my ability to land hits. It’s his combos that I frickin’ blow at. In vanilla, I could TOD with him with ABC-launch thanks to DHC glitch. But in Ultimate being forced to stinger-volcano-etc is just so gross for me lol Pad-scrub fo life!
So I’m trying out Nova/Taskmaster/Doom (missiles). My current bread n butter is super basic… using Task H arrows assist to get in, LMHS air MMH fly LMH S, call Doom missiles, forward H S, air MHS (while missiles are hitting to keep them in place), Centurion Rush L (whatever the slide is called) into Hyper. It does like 650k or something but can DHC into Task if I need to.
I’m not very good at the fly unfly H stair step combo in the corner, but are there other easier options that can take advantage of Doom missiles mid combo for extensions that aren’t usually possible? I’m really just trying to find a good person for my Task/Doom missiles team and currently seeing if Nova can fit the bill. Can somebody give me the easiest but most efficient combos damage wise for this team, including ones that maybe don’t require the stair steps… I always seem to get a TAC after the second H when I try it but my execution is just sloppy =/
Thanks again!!