I don’t really think Shuma is bottom tier, although I guess I’m not as good as the ones saying he is lol. His damage is pretty decent, he has several quick overheads, invincibility frames on his supers, chaos dimension is good, a beastly assist, and a lot of awesome normals with high priority. His combos are pretty iffy consistency wise and he is pretty slow, but I think we can get around those problems in the future. My biggest complaints are how useless ground mystic smashes/mystic ray L are and the poses for command grab/ray super.
I’ve noticed that his J. H (maybe J. L too) has a slight float to it if you do it when you are falling. I was always bothered by the weird “hitstun” on his J. H and how it never seemed to combo into anything unless done really close to the ground so I looked into it more closely. If you cancel it into J. Up H you land a lot faster and can combo into your ground moves from much higher. J. Up H doesn’t have the weird float property (or it makes you fall faster than normal) so that fixed the problem. I land a lot of stray J. H sometimes so this ups his damage potential a lot.
I’ve also been in the lab cooking up a new combo that seems to have a lot of potential and is much more assist friendly. I’ve gotten over 600k meterless so far with lariat assist or purifiction assist. Hopefully I can figure out how to work in both in the same combo. It works anywhere but is pretty hard to time in a few parts. I’m sure dark hole assist would be better and easier, but I like how it lets Haggar otg and combo off his grabs.
:d:,:d:h:,:s:,:u::h:, Smash :h:,,:d:,:d::h:, Stare :l:,:s:,,,:h:,:u::h:, Smash :h:/,:h:+:a1:,:s:,:h:,( :s:, :a2: Ray ,:s:,:u::h:)
The parenthesis is where I usually drop the combo and is assumed to be possible (I have gotten to there without the assist before in the corner). If it can be done that is like 720+k meterless. My execution isn’t that great so hopefully it does work and you guys can get it to work. The eyeballs explode right after the air mystic smash and they give you plenty of time to set up for w/e assist you have.