All right, so I’ve been trying to figure out a team to play and it’s been pretty impossible. I’m in a bit of a quandary trying to play a character who is a little off the beaten path. One thing is for certain, I will keep Magneto on this team, but the rest of it is open to discussion. I have been thinking about Firebrand (unknown assist) Doom (missiles sadly) and Magneto (Disruptor). Though, I’m not opposed to running Mags second, I just need to get some experience with Dr. Doom. Let me know what you all think. Magneto is one of my better characters and I’ve put too much time into training mode to not keep him on my squad. That’s the only character that I’m not open to dropping.
Firebrand/Magnus/Doom(missiles) sounds like a good team to me. Firebrand can literally sit back and zone against pretty much everyone. It keeps him away from danger seeing how he only has 850k. You should look to see if magneto can benefit from bon voyage in anyway.
I agree with this, but a good firebrand needs unblockables. He’s not gonna get it with that team.
Thats sick yo, with missiles or ammy this could be a really sick team.
If Firebrand didn’t have his unblockable he’d still be a very strong character. I don’t think a lack of a good setup for it is really that much of a con for FB teams.
Problem with that is that Firebrand is meant to be played in the same capacity as Zero, and without an Unblockable, there’s not much reason to play Firebrand over Zero.
I don’t like that this is true, but it is. The only reasons to play Firebrand over Zero are unblockable setups and swag factor. And 20k health I guess?
He’s a great character regardless, but competitively there’s very little setting him apart from the Maverick Hunter.
Repulsor Blast actually sets him up for this really well actually
How do you consistently hard tag into Doom after air Bon Voyage in the corner in XF1? Sometimes he tags in from the wrong side and you can’t f.h to combo like Apologyman and ZakBennet do.
for me I do cr.l cr.m cr.h xfactor j.m .j.m bonvoyage then raw-tag doom st.l st.s into bnb
Thats because it is character specific
(Xf 1) Doom hard tag after bon voyage in the corner link into hard kick works on:
Nova:y
Strider:y
Hawkeye:n
Strange:y
Chris:y
Arthur:y
Frank:y
Vergil:y
Dorm: hard tag whiffs and unable to link stand b 
Wesker:no
Zero:y
Dante:yes
Ironman:yes
Deadpool:yes
Ryu:yes
Morrigan:y
Trish:y
X23:y
Storm:y
Thor:n
Felicia:y
Modok:hard kick doesn’t link
Spencer:y
Joe:hard kick doesn’t link
Akuma:y
Spider-Man: y
Sent:n
Hulk:n
Haggar:n
Pheonix Wright:n
Magneto:y
Ironfist:y
Taskmaster:n
Ammy:n
skrull:y
Nemesis:n
Tron:n
I may have a missed a couple chars but I think I covered the most important chars. (you can just test it for yourself)
Also I don’t really post here at all but I feel that if I want to improve the firebrand community as a whole (including myself) I really should. So if you guys ever have any questions ask away and ill do my best to answer (ie team comp matchups pressure). Sorry about the double post
~ApologyMan
Oh wow, I thought it was the height you did Bon voyage. Didn’t expect it to be character specific for some reason. Fail lol
Hey guys, I’m using my day 3 firebrand now. I want to use /firebrand/Akuma/spidey for umvc3 but I’m quite unsure. Does this team have synergy? The assist for characters firebrand (demon missile charge) akuma (tatsu) and spidey (web ball)
No. I don’t see it at least. Firebrand can use Tatsu well, but Spidey doesn’t help Firebrand whatsoever.
Firebrands best partners IMO are Ammy, Doom, Dormammu, Dante, Sentinel, and Super Skrull. They help Firebrand set up unblockables and mixups, they have good DHC compatibility and they optimize Firebrand’s damage.
Honestly the best you can do if you want to play the Firebrand/Akuma shell is pick one of those characters up top and fit them in. I think all of those characters get alot from Tatsu assist and they give Firebrand good support.
The team order has to be fb/spidey/akuma
I mean there are better alternatives to Spider-Man but I wouldn’t say spider would suck with firebrand. His slow web ball assist is good for covering demon missiles and could add to his spitfire game(has durability of one soul fist). But other than that he contributes his newly found Spider-Man TAC combos and some Gaurd break set ups. On incoming you can do jump l >luminous body> dhc into ultimate web throw
Obviously there are better alternatives to Spider-Man (ie doom, skrull, dorm etc.), but I wouldn’t give up on it completely.
Also the Spider-Man TAC’s I was talking about are at this guys YouTube channel
http://m.youtube.com/user/Babygirlsdreams
Cee Dizzy,
I would add Iron Man to that list
ApologyMan makes good points; If you’re set on playing those three characters that’s probably the best you can go with. But like Dizzy said, you’re probably better off switching out either Firebrand or Spider-Man as they offer very limited options to each other. They’re both designed as point characters.
Ah, makes sense. I was trying it on Task -_-
What is your gameplan vs hulk/hag/sent? I just picked up your team comp and my impression of the general gameplan of it was to snapback into a high threat character you can kill with a xfactor doom hardtag and just keep looping. But according to your list that xfactor hardtag doesn’t work on any of them. Do you just keep snapping Hulk and Haggar until they’re both dead with a normal meter building unblockable combo?
You can still get a combo off on Taskmaster.
Hey guys just wanted to run a theory by you guys.
Firebrand/Doom/Vergil
It’s similar to PR Rog’s team of getting the hit with Wolverine and then going into TAC infinite and then using your excess meter to kill the next two characters. However, as is already known, Firebrand+Vergil THC allows for an unblockable on the incoming character no matter what, as long as the THC kills. So, the theory is to TAC infinite on the first hit to get 5 bars, kill with Sphere Flame into Luminous Body, unblockable the incoming 2nd character, kill using THC (XF if needed), unblockable the third incoming (XF if didn’t before), THC to kill.
This would mainly be for teams with low health or very powerful anchors (Strider, Vergil, etc). And if Firebrand doesn’t work out, there is still XF Vergil.
I plan to use this team as a counterpick but I’m in the process of switching to stick(Which I’m learning Vergil on) and am not good enough with it yet to get it consistent yet.
Opinions?