Alright, after some major training, and some major offline play with some friends, I’m still lovin’ my day 1 team of Thor/Strange/Nova, but I’m also heavily seein’ some drawbacks to it. Mostly in the Strange department. Thor and Nova work great together. It’s absolutely one of the most beautiful things in the world to me, mostly because of the comic nerd in me (Nova an’ Thor are my top 2 favorite Marvel characters), but also because they know how to put in work. Thor on point does heavy damage as always, and Nova on anchor does some great damage, too, and his XF3 is simply beautiful. The speed increase makes his normals a lot safer and makes his high low mix-ups (i.e. jumping :h: crouching ) a lot better.
That said, my Strange right now isn’t cuttin’ it. Not because I don’t like playin’ as him, not because he doesn’t add on to the team, and not because I think he’s too hard, I love his play style, but he’s not getting a good benefit from the team as a whole. He’s definitely helpin’ the team, but the team isn’t helpin’ him. So I went around lookin’ at some of the stuff the other new characters offered, and so far, I’m really diggin’ dat Hawkeye. I didn’t think I’d like him this much, but I do. It’s takin’ me a while to get adjusted to his command jumps, but right now, his triple piercing assist is helpin’ both Thor and Nova out tremendously, and Nova’s Human Rocket Punch works great as a pseudo get off me thanks to the wall bounce. Gonna mess around some more and see where this goes, but it’s lookin’ nice so far.
Well, good thing is for a character like Trish, I can go back to playing her any time I want and do good since I’m used to her. So whoever I choose for mid spot, I’ll be okay. I go back and forth on the decision but it’s not much of an issue.
I’ve been messing with anchors since release though and that’s killing me lol. Sometimes I think just anchor as Trish, and then I go thru a variety of the cast thinking who I want there most. Just today, for example, I ended up giving a try to: Doom, Hawkeye, Vergil, Strider, Dorm, Frank, Akuma… and then still not knowing who I want to use I decided I wasted enough time getting nowhere and gave up lol. This is on top of the attempts at Trish or Nova as anchor… Pretty pathetic.
This is the part of team-based fighting games where I wish I could just pick a single character and stick to it, without having to worry about having a satisfactory combination of team mates…
H loop into super nova in the air, or on the ground? And when is the DHC? I’ve tried different timings but the dummy always seems to tech out before I’m able to take a picture.
Usually the full H loop combo ends in a j.HxxSuper Nova, so you should be in the air when initiating the DHC. To time the DHC properly make sure you cut Nova of about halfway through the Hyper(for a listening reference, before he says anything after “power of” DHC out to Franks Survival techniques). The hard knockdown should go into affect, and Franks Survival techniques should whiff. You should be able to take a picture. With an extra bar, cancel into anotehr survival techniques with a now lvl4 Frank.
Got it! I was canceling too late. Wow that is…awesome.
Can’t wait. Nova is so unbelievably dirty. He has so many ways to wall carry, and any time I can OTG with f+:h: into :s: I always go for the javelin corner reset.
yeah sorry I didn’t respond right away. kinda forgot I wrote that =P. Dodeka saved me the trouble though! Right now Im running Nova/Frank/Task and im really liking it. 2 great assists for nova, an easy way to get frank into level 4, Task arrows to help frank with the roll mixups, and I just like task anchor since ive been using him since vanilla day 1.
So I ultimately settled on Nova (Centurion Rush) / Vergil (Rapid Slash) / Ammy (Cold Star)
I just like running Nova on point or Maybe second slot depending on the match up. Possibly because I can’t control Nova in Level 3 XF ( WAY to freaking fast, gonna need to practice ). But Nova deals so much of a punch I can take out most teams with just Nova. Another reason I dont use Nova on Anchor is because I tink Ammy is better in Lvl 3XF all by herself. She gets incredibly fast, and linking Elements XF in Elements again is a dead character almost always.
With Vergil on the team, t kinda makes Nova a better Keep away character if I need to. Rapid Slash pushes the opponent ALL the way to the other side of the screen, which gives me time to set up another Pulse and chuck a few other javelins. Then when Vergil leaves and can call Ammy to eat up any projectiles coming my way and set up another Pulse. Rinse repeat. I usually can get a good 200k off the opponent with just chip before they can deal with it.
I feel Im always gonna stick with Ammy, she was my main in MvC3 and shes still a bad ass character. She can deal with the newer characters pretty well and the Air Dash nerf reall inst that bad when I can just walk underneath everything. Ghost Rider and Hawkeye lose bad to Ammy.
I’ve been messing around with Nova/Vergil/??? as other people have. Like with kreativeking, I’ve been using the vergil assist to setup some distance to get some easy chip with the shield. The thing I’m worried about here is does Nova truly work with Vergil? I’m worried I’ve been spending all this time trying to find the perfect anchor for this team. I know that Vergil needs the meter and Nova has lots of options for what assists work well… I’ve been racking my brain on this since release. Any tips to help me smooth things over or should I just focus on doing whats best for my favorite character Nova and drop Vergil?
spencer on point or second and nova as second or anchor. spencer gets in easily and has with nova’s overhead assist an easy unblockable. on the other way around, you can extend combos with spencers b grapple assist after a low cent rush OTG or middle cent rush wall bounce.
I’ve thought of the same thing, my solution was if I could get Vergil to work good in the anchor role it would be perfect, since he seems fairly wesker’ish with XF.
I’ve given up on trying to find a working team for Nova. Just going to go back to the basics(mobility block strings etc) once I get that “perfected” i’ll out some teammates to cover the gap.
Gonna give spencer a try after today’s tournament. If I end up liking him more then I’ll give him a sure fire shot. The synergy is definitely there in more ways then one.
I have dorm on point with he same team behind him (spencer as anchor tho).
if you just looking for an assist-anchor: frank, ryu, taskmasker, doom, sentinel and hawkeye are a fairly decent addition to maintain pressure.
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