Nova needs a neutral assist that helps pin down long enough to establish mixups. Both Vergil and Mags aren’t sufficient for that IMO. Hawkeye works since it doesn’t knockdown like Disruptor does. If you’re going to play Vergil with Nova you need to drop Spencer, or Vice Versa. Rapid Slash is great for Nova since he can confirm Cent Rushes off of them and it makes them safe because of the pushback. However, he still needs another neutral assist I feel. Also, so does Vergil. Unless you plan to play him anchor.
Good assists for Nova’s neutral include: Vajra, any Arrows, any Doom assist, Gamma Wave, Cold Star, Bolts, Mystic Ray, MODOK beam, Tatsu, Shopping Cart, Weasel Shot, Unibeam, Drones, Rapid Slash, and others I’m probably forgetting. At least one of these are essentially required.
Bolts, Taskmaster Arrows, Plasma Beam, Weasel Shot, Rapid Slash, Drones, and Vajra are the best assists for Nova IMO.
First one is excellent, second one i’d change Dante to Weasel and even then it’s a bit iffy. EDIT: Having looked up a bit, if Marvelo says Weasel is that good for Nova then it probably is, i guess i need to mess with it some.
Yeah works for me, maybe try DHCing a little later so Nova Force pushes a bit higher? Popular method is to DHC with “Power Of [Next Character]” timing, but you can actually wait for him to start saying “The”
And on the topic of nothing in particular, i really hope Nova/Spencer BFF nonsense goes away at some point, Nova can get the same damage with a whole bunch of teams and so many of those characters assists actually help him for more than incoming mixups.
Infrit played this team for a while at The Runback, but in the order of Nova/Spencer/Vergil. The damage is still all there, but without his usual Sentinel/Doom assists, Infrit had limited options for approaching. If his opponent was on game point, he would switch back to Sentinel/Doom.
Nova/Vergil/Strider is a very powerful team and would be what I would be playing if I liked Vergil. Vergil gives you TOD without the need to raw tag since you can just DHC into Swords. It’s very very good. Also, Rapid Slash can extend combos pretty nicely. Vergil also gives safe DHC’s and can take advantage of Nova’s assists. Work on that team. It’s fucking cheap.
Almost certain I’m going with a Nova(rush)/xxxxx/Strider(Vajra) shell, though I wasn’t sure who to go with for a second. I was thinking of Doom, Virgil, Wesker, Mags, Dr. Strange, Zero, or possibly Dorm. I tried Virgil and the round trip loops are difficult as I use a 360 gamepad (I hafta use the CLAW!), same goes for Zero with the lv. 3 buster shot (total bummer on both accounts, but more for Zero cause he’s cooler) and I don’t know who Spencer is as a character so not much interest. I am, however, open to suggestion, especially if Spencer can play in any way similar to Hazama from BB.
I like Doom for the pee-beam assist to help with the approach, mags would be similar, as would Dr. Strange; the Rapidash Virgil assist would make for a nice push-mo-tron and combo extension.
What sayeth thee, oh sages of srk? How shall I proceed?
Nova/Doom/Strider sounds pretty good since Nova loves a beam and hard knockdowns, and Doom/Strider is a pretty good duo as well. Not the best Nova team, but a good one. Vergil is up there too. Anyone with both a good neutral assist and can take advantage of vajra should work out.
I’d have to disagree and say that it’s one of the better Nova teams. Not only do you get Plasma beam for a neutral assist and Vajra, but you get access to Strider anchor and Doom TAC’s for TOD. It’s a great team. I play it sometimes instead of Dante.
That being said, Doom or Vergil are your best bets.
Also by having Doom second, you can turn any airgrab from nova into huge damage by raw tagging, it’s ridiculous. Though I think Dante still has the best raw tag combos
I want to run a team of nova, iron fist, and spiderman in dedication to my son and I favorite shows “ultimate spiderman” where spiderman leads a team of iron fist, nova, powerman, and some other chick that I don’t remember her name. Anyways ideas on team order, synergy, assists that can help nova in neutral and combo extensions?
That’s why I love Nova/Dante/Sent so much. I think my combo could still use some small improvements and it already builds just short of two bars (I think it’s 3 actually but not sure and don’t wanna exagerate) which is easily a double DHC and probably a triple if you had some spare meter prior to your combo. Million Dollars, Super Nova AND Plasma Storm in the same combo deal some huge damage, you can easily hit a million. I should record a video of it just for shits and giggles, it’s an incredibly fun team.
Nova(b)/Task(a)/Deadpool(a)
Use Tasks arrows for obvious reasons, and Deadpools quickwork for tricky-to-block setups. Also, gives Nova a decent low.
Pretty decent team overall.
Also been playing around with Magneto/Iron Man/Nova.
It’d be ok. Biggest problem is outside of THC, you pretty much have no way to level up Frank if Nova dies (and even then that can be fickle in getting level 4/hitting properly depending on where you are). Gives nova coverage + lockdown, Frank coverage + combo extender and a decent anchor though.
To be honest, that team is kind of a lost cause lmao. All three are point characters. Nova is the most viable as an achor…idk…it’s just not a good look. Maybe Nova on point and use webball and rising fang assists. That’s all I can really give you.
Iron Fist wallbounce assist will give Nova good extensions (f+H OTG + Iron Fist, Cent M, Cent H xx Super will work at a bare minimum, other stuff probably works too, but would have to test it) But as Dougie says, that team is going to be really hard to win with. Iron Fist only has one choice for assist and it’s not going to cover Nova’s movement, All Spidey’s assists are pretty terrible, and the one people tend to find some use for (Web Ball) is way too slow to be applied to Nova’s game.
The only way i can remotely see that team working is with a reaaaaaaaallly lame point Spidey, using Nova shield assist and Iron Fist as a ghetto GTFO assist when people get close, but even then…ughhh.
But hey, if that’s the team you want to use, put some work in and come back and tell us how you’ve made it work, surprising synergy is everywhere in this game.