The fact that he can dig into the ground will give him such a movement advantage over people that have to commit to air dashes also. Long as the recovery isn’t terrible or can be covered with assist.
I’m speculating that Rocket has the tools to counter rushdown/large characters (traps, projectiles) and zoners (small height, rocket skates, burrow), but he doesn’t have anything in particular to counter the in-between. Characters such as Ryu, Akuma, Dr. Strange, Ammy, Dante, Magneto, and Taskmaster will give him a harder time (if my theory-fighting is correct).
That is, of course, if he doesn’t get them into some kind of vortex of furry rage. The mix-up/reset potential he has seems limitless, with high-lows, left-rights, and ways to negate pushblock. I’ll be looking forward to playing him.
for the record “wanker” is considered profanity here in England its nothing like calling somebody a jerk
I’m not sure why It’s aloud but whatever
as for combos , we have seen you can cancel moves into rocket skates and you can do a re launch with bear trap and even a air loop like she hulk
I personally find “Suck-ass” to be much more of an eye raiser compared to ‘wanka’.
Either way, Nemesis wut? Rocket is the real reason this game has a T rating.
I think the best title of this thread should be: I love the smell of Napalm in the Morning
Thoughts on the character:
This guy’s voice actor is sick [in the good way…]. He makes the coon sound so fierce.
The quotes he was given so far are great…
RR [after knocking out Chris Redfield]:
-THATS FOR LETTING THEM MESS UP RACOON CITY YA WANKER!
RR [starting quote]:
-My idea of a [ra]coon cap is basically me chewing on your skull
RR [level 3 super]
-AIRSTRIKE SUCKAAS!!! I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING!!
I think the best strategy for a character like this would be to run away, fight from a distance, lure them in, then use an assist call into a teleport to cross them up for a corner combo. He seriously looks like a hyper annoying character to fight against.
RR, XXX, Amaterasu = Team Rabies.
I also like “Let’s see how cute I am after I strangle you with your own intestines.”
So angry, Rocket.
All the bitch small characters that are fast were big problems in Vanilla so I expect Rocket Raccoon to be an bitch to kill once people get good with him.
It’s definitely a cockney accent.
Also, according to the mvc wiki, the voice actor is Greg Ellis, who is British. And voiced the cockney weapon in Shadows of the Damned.
And Rocket is awesome.
He seems to have plenty of reset potential
Just out of the videos Ive seen, I’m pretty sure he can set up a flame carpet after a normal combo that ends with S and then go for tricky mixups.
I can already tell how used we’ll be to hearing Rocket, Rocket, Rocket Skate 
mirror matches will look like dragon ball z
anybody seen his air throw
one more thing about log trap
his tiny ass ducks , like he wasn’t hard enough to hit lol
i think the way his rocket skates work will be similar to storm’s lightning attack though faster. the inputs may be the same too, I also dont think you can cancel it into a normal attack. Thats just me speculating tho
On another note his log trap assist is looking pretty flarking good
Well I think that Rocket Raccoon looks like a keepaway character that can play crazy rushdown when he needs to.
I also want to say one thing
ROCKET-ROCKET-ROCKET-ROCKET-ROCKET SKATES
He seems to lose pretty badly to fullscreen hypers. He can’t respond to Hailstorm or Okami Shuffle from what I’ve seen. His Lv. 3 might be able to blow through beam hypers but that’s it and that’s 3 meters. Considering how close he has to get to rush down, he has to be careful about any normals with huge range unless he can hit-confirm with a projectile or has an assist locking the opponent down. His burrow seems ignorable if you’re airborne while he’s underground (unless he can call assists underground).
He looks like a character that transitions from zoning to rushdown very fluidly and suddenly but he needs cover in order to do so since his normals have no range. Past that, he looks like he’ll be relying on traps for his main damage.
Those traps are siiiiiick.
couldnt he posibly burrow under during the different stages of okami shuffle and if storms just going hailstorm and she get it off you deserve everything thats comming to you tbh
This changes everything then. I wonder why they’d put that in?
Can’t watch the vid again, as I gtg, but I find this hard to believe. Are you sure it’s not “suckaas” as the person below you says? Because yeah, that would NOT be allowed, from my experience with video games.
In my native accent he very very clearly says ‘suck-ass’ though it’s most likely ‘suckas.’ I really can’t hear it any other way though since that’s exactly how people here say "ass’.
Lol not be allowed?
By whom?
Not be allowed by ESRB in a T-rated game. EDIT - Listened to it again. I’m not British, but I do agree it sounds like “suckass.” I’m sure that happened by chance, and that they didn’t actually say that. I mean, this game was close enough to M-rated already.
Pretty sure Ass is allowed in a rated T game but it’s sucka anyways so the point is moot.
Hulk calls Rocket a “Puny Human”.
Weird. There seem to be more problems than RR’s accent.
Also, it seems that most any curse word is allowed in a T rated game other than the F-bomb.
Just play Infamous.