The only match up that gives me significant issues is vs Strider but vs everyone else Thor finally seems able to hold his own… I am running Thor(smash)/Nova(Centurion Arts)/Strange(Bolts) and I must say its pretty damn serious. Still working on learning my Strange and Nova but the new Thor is pretty damn nice. is anyone else having a much easier time landing resets in Ultimate?
Nova intrigues me. At some point I’m going to drop Wesker for an OTG assist that’s less derp.
Strider and Taskmaster have been giving me trouble. I’ve been protecting Strange well enough that my assist isn’t getting blown up and I can keep pressure on well enough to do something - otherwise I’m super jumping and dropping elbows.
Anyone else find Nemesis to be so ridiculously free? I probably haven’t run into a solid Nemesis player yet, but I’m rushing down Nemesis making Thor feel like Wolverine.
Yea so far I am finding all of the other bigs to be pretty free to Thor… Hulk has no answer for air M mighty strike even on block his ass is in trouble and it blows through his standing H and that new charge punch. Fighting Nemesis and Haggar is like pistol whipping a blind kid… The hyper armor nerf to sentinel also made that match up much more manageable used to be he could just spam launcher and pray now he gets blown up by air mighty strike also… pretty funny you can train all other bigs to not attack you when you are coming in from the sky covered by an assist or without then just tri dash in and MH them for a free combo…I have not fought a Tron or She Hulk yet to comment on those match ups.
I agree I almost drool when the giant hit boxes come in. The only guy who is a problem is maybe Haggar once he gets a little pressure. But bigger hit box means easier reset. Hulk can only guess in order to get away from the air mighty hurricane.
Well I finally got some time in, got home late Sunday. I haven’t really learned how to use Strider’s teleport assist yet but I did okay with Thor/Strider/Sent. If Thor killed the 1st guy without using meter it usually meant Hiryu would get orbs. Drones made approach easier for both. Lookin at how much time Thor gets after landing Punish I think you could probably just pick Wesker or Felicia’s low assist and go for an unblockable afterwards. Just wait to see where they roll and meet them with the assist and a tri-dash. May switch out Hiryu or Sent for Wesker
Thor/Strange (bolts)/Sentinel (Rocket)
I like this team alot. I just need to work on my strange hard
Everyone needs to work on their Strange.
Lmao I am in the lab right now with Thor/Sentinel/Strange… I really need to find something comparable to drones … I hate the machine.
I’m loving Thor. I feel like hes extremely strong as long as you are willing to be lame and patient sometimes.With the right setups you pretty much killed a character off the first time your opponent slips and you can get a touch. You can also try using his health as his advantage and making it a war of attrition.
I’m having the most trouble with Captain America atm. I feel like his air shield slash controls my space especially well because of how big Thor is. I have an idea of using L might strike but I have this terrible habit of thinking that I always need to fully charge it XD
I’m currently using Ghost Rider’s spire for otg and I’ve tried Cold star and Daggers. I don’t think Thor is fast enough to get the full use of Cold Star. He needs something that pins them down from a longer range so he can catch up. Daggers is amazing but it’s too stressful knowing that if I lose Thor I don’t have any solid offense left. My next project will be Unibeam assist.
Also, insta air might strike is really hard…
My team right now is
Thor (smash) Wesker (OTG) Strange (bolts)
I know this team is good. This team will win matches. I spend every moment of my training mode time with Thor, because I can trust Wesker will derp things out when Thor gets blown up. Knowing this, I’m complacent with Strange to the point of just XF3 super spam if things ever get THAT bad. Strange’s normals are just so ass that I can’t rely on him for much else aside from projectile/teleport mixups, he’s a great character but I have no real interest in learning him. I’d like to pick up Dormammu, but I don’t feel as though his assists benefit Thor the way Strange’s bolts do.
Anyone with some solid Thor/Dorm teamwork videos?
I’m playing a Thor (mighty smash) / Dr. Strange (EOA) / Amaterasu (cold star) team.
What is a better assist for Thor, eye of agamotto or bolts of balthakk?. I use the EOA for extending combos in the corner after of a mighty smash H, but i feel that Ammy is already covering the lockdown needs for Thor, so i dont know.
This sounds very bad >_> … not learning Strange, using Wesker herr derp as comeback mechanic… whatever, as a mainer of the team Hsien-ko / Dormammu / Thor back in Vanilla i can tell you they are a very powerful duo. The most of the people use black hole as Dorm assist for Thor, but i always use Liberation. After of a corner mighty hurricane reset, uncharged liberation has a very interesting use for extending the combo. Liberation is the only Dorm assist that gives Thor a reliable crossup set up for an upcoming character. And the magic of Liberation (specially Hell Fire, Inferno and Big Bang) allow Thor to perform some flashy combos.
The main DHC and bnb (midscreen) i use with them is: s.S > Thor air combo > Mighty strike L/M > Mighty Tornado > DHC into Stalking Flare > Power of Destructionx3 > Mass change H > Flying > j.M (not always possible) > j.S > (lands) > Liberation (Big Bang) > call Thor assist (Mighty Spark) > Dark Hole M/H > Chaotic flame. The timing is very strict though.
This is actually my team as well! Personally, i use EoA for strange. This is simply to extend combos, use it as a shield (i.e Filipino Champ using the EoA to shield Dormammu doing dark spells, in this case doing mighty speech), and adding something on the screen to hamper an opponents mobility. Bolts seems a bit excessive when u have cold star.
Now if only Strange had blockstrings… ><
if you’re using ammy’s cold star assist then you dont need EoA imo
I Currently am running Dorm(Liberation)/Thor(smash)/Strange(Bolts) My current game plan is very set up heavy but pays off huge. Dorm is NOT my point character even though that is where he starts. I use him to pester the opposing teams point man using finger shot cancel teleport bs while using strange bolts and stocking 1C2D(heavy meteors). I generally get two and a half meters before I am ready to get dorm out but I never Raw tag him or THC him out unless shit is going really bad which is should not be. I usually wait on them to try to rush dormammu down and Cross over into thors smash then the game truly begins. Thor with Meteors or the Big bang behind him is horrifying. The main reason I Use bolts over eye of agamatto is because bolts makes people stay put allowing you a free tri dash in for an overhead or a command grab. It is really a useful stay put assist.
I think strange is much better second. He has great assists, but on point he is just too unsafe unless aided with some lockdown assists.
problem with liberation is that you have to charge it up (obviously), more often than not its just going to be 1 time use and then you’re stuck with the 0 charge liberation. I would rather start from the beginning with a good assist that i can use at any time, and both of dorm’s other assists are great. If it were up to me i would replace the liberation assist with finger shot or flame carpet, those 2 couldve been very useful as assists.
Flame Carpet assist would make people rage, and Finger shot is a pathetic projectile tbh, yes it causes a wallbounce, but durability-wise it loses to like… everything. IMO Liberation is at least an interesting assist, limited in use, but at least it allows a lot of creativity in it’s use.
lets be honest here, when ppl are looking for assists they look for something practical not something creative. And even if you add an assist just for creativity it should atleast be more practical or a little less situational. I think the majority of the players would rather have a regular useful assist than an interesting creative assist that almost never gets used.
And there are already plenty of assists out there that make ppl rage that are just as good or better than flame carpet so no problem there. Also even with the crappy durability of finger shot its still more useful than liberation, you can say what you want about it but in the end its still a projectile that wall bounces, im sure there are plenty of uses for it especially for combo extension.
I would love to have Flame Carpet as an assist. Especially since it goes away when Dormammu gets hit now. It’d work as a decent OTG for Thor to do some stuff with. Ease off the pressure of having to block all these crazy mixups people keep doing, and give me some breathin’ room.
This is very true and I just started running liberation last night to see what I could do with it I generally ran dark hole. It is nice to try new stuff though.