So wait Shuma is actually terrible? Should I still keep using him? He is awesome, but goodbye placing.
Shuma is lower tier character, but its not like he is bad. He does take a lot of work is execution heavy. His real problem is that he cannot fight against heavy zoning. He can absorb wesker bullets but that’s about it. Every list I see has him too low and its a shame nobody gives the character a fair chance. I feel he is better then all listed in low/mid tier from that srk list. Having Shuma at the bottom is just because nobody ever sees him and nobody knows what he does. Doesn’t help that he isn’t unlocked on half of the stream stations.
Also our group streamed marvel last night for some time and I played Shuma pretty much the whole time. I’m a little sloppy with confirms and combos at first but I get back into it quickly enough.
www.twitch.tv/kocast/b/319081151?t=133m30s
All right thanks. That makes sense actually. Shuma is a kinda bad, hard to use and DLC so it’s obvious people think he sucks because no know even cares.
Gonna watch those matches of yours too. Gonna try and keep Shuma for the moment. I am bad though and I can do like… 500k in corner and that’s all I can do 
I’m new to this whole fighting game thing.
so i think i might go back to shuma… he builds good bar without having to use much… and he works well with firebrand. what do you guys think?
btw i use firebrand/strider/ phoenix right now…
why can’t we xfc the recovery of j. S?
the main difference other than damage is the startup time. the light one is great for tick throws since it comes out so slow where as if you try to L someone into a H devitalization it just straight up whiffs. and if you’re one of the crazy people that actually uses it to grab projectiles it does make a bit of a difference when you’re catching them. ryu can throw them at different speeds, and the startup of the throw helps in anticipating this.
hey guys, what’s the durability on the mystic ray assist? does it clear the screen of opponent’s hidden missiles? does it clear the screen of soul fists (i believe they are 5 low)
good stuff in here. but man…you need to find some better comp 
. you guys should hit up TRB some time
I actually should be coming tomorrow lol. I’ve noticed shuma isn’t unlocked on the stream station, who’s console is it anyway? Maybe if there are two players there who play shuma, we can get him unlocked on stream station. I’ll probably be playing My Thor team, but he has some bad matchups that shuma can deal with.
also i’ve been messing with your midscreen bnb. the trick for me is to do all four hits of the two M’s, that way the eyes always explode at the right time. Then instead of hyper mystic ray, pause for a moment and let them drop down a little then do hyper mystic smash - it’s more damage, and less likely for them to fall behind your super. You can also do chaos dimension, hitting them with the bite as they fall - it does like 923,000
Sorry guys, been busier than I wanted to. I can’t find the time to go to the hazmat house to record the full combo video/shuma tech video I wanted but I figured I wouldn’t let you guys down so I’ve uploaded my a crappy camera phone the TAC tech I was talking about. Corner-to-Corner, 1m+ corner combo that has already been posted on here and other tricks and tech coming later. I just really want to make a full high quality video
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I thought only Spidey, Chun, Morrigan and Zero could cancel TAC’s into a dash. When I try it with Shuma it doesn’t work but I can get it fine with the other characters.
Nevermind, he won’t cancel a TAC down or left/right but he will up.
I failed to mention that it only works with up exchange. I don’t really consider this a negative since:
- Nobody knows shuma can do this
- Phoenix players always go side
- If for some reason they know about this and try to call it you can just call side first
-This is a great find, Angelic, i always hoped that Shuma could do that, since sometimes, the TAC whiffs but without hitting the enemy, and you’re right about the Phoenix players, good job…-
Very nice find, I don’t think my team could get any more anti phoenix, even if I tried lol.
So trying to back in shape for CEO. Forgot how annoying it is to fight trench coat brigade all day every match. But ya last major i went to i got top 24 i think, top 16 made money. They refused to let me get on stream because of not having shuma, I think there was 1 station in all of venue that had it, making casuals basically impossible. Honestly that has to be most frustrating aspect of using shuma. Anyways hoping I can show up at CEO some, last time I last to Noel brown because of dropped combos. I would recommend people to not play shuma because of the whole DLC aspect, since they aren’t considered good characters people don’t even try and get him on the stations.
I did however make myself super happy today when I used shuma’s backdash to dodge helmet breaker and punish vergil. One of these feelings when you just turn and grin, sorry top tier you don’t know what just happened gg gtfo.
-Haha, i know that feel, bro, and yeah, it’s kinda frustrating when you go somewhere hoping to play and shuma is not unlocked in the game, but, those things are what we have to deal with in order to be a Shuma main, in the long run, it pays off…-
Hey guys, First post.
I’ll start with a funny story… I finally decide to sign up here after I read about the tac dash cancel - very eager to try it out, I turn on my ps3 - only to have it die on the spot. Fuck.
Anyway, I run Shuma/Frank/Dorm in that order. Frank helps shuma get in and solves his midscreen problem (tac) and dorm helps combo off throws and makes a great anchor.
I don’t have the means to record my own matches, but there are a few out there nonetheless.
Starts at 16:40 (How I pulled off the end to both of these blows my mind)
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There’s more here (winners finals was a laggy mess): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3F68264EC4622980&feature=plcp
I absolutely love facing dormammu and zero players that don’t know that they have to change their combos. There’s even a dante that drops a level 3 in the footage just above, and I’ve had some drop dp+mm because they input it too fast and shuma pops out
Wow, Shuma-Gorath shows up in a newly-revealed piece of artwork, in central position! He’s apparently set his mind on taking his waifu Hsien-Ko.
The style works so great for the characters! They totally should make an anime out of this game. Also, welcome aboard, Apex-Mirage!
Has anyone tried to find a TAC infinite for shuma? I’m sure its possible with H,up+H somehow, trick is apparently is to have them in hitstun when you hit the ground and to jump before they recover.