i hope me landing hits with tony and no assists shows how capable and rape my IM can be with some backup lol … i just dont like sent (yet)… dante and strider on the other hand ^_~
I don’t know why you did not like Sentinel. Your air footsies is pretty good, and Sentinel is kind of similar to IM with fly, unfly, double jump air confirms. I personally tried Strider with IM (the first team I came up with in UMVC3 was Dante, IM, Strider), I didn’t find it very good, but you are a better player than me and I hope it works for you and something I couldn’t find.
Well if you’re worried about that then I would just do Wesker/Iron Man/Skrull.
You should not be worried about that, if you get the first hit or kill the first character.
Yeah in general this game goes…kill a character first…you get the advantage. Just put up first whichever character you feel has the best chance of killing people first and fast and then go from there.
Hey man that stuff was awesome at the tourney. Just go in and do you. IM is still good, and with people like yourself, Joker, and others showing how it’s done, he’s only going to get better. Go for it man!
so i dropped wesker for doom … and now i have skrull and iron man … with doom missles … OMFG tony with doom missles is like sex on ice!!! i also created a REALLY disrespectful combo that i’m sooo excited to do to people … i just hope my name is popular enough to play a random on stream so i can actually land it >_<
anyone have any cool tips to keep calm to execute well under high pressure situations? many people tell me to chew gum or listen to music.
Alternative is to get mistaken for a random and get throw on stream. lol
Anyway for high pressure situations listening to music, gum and even fun “as hard as that can be with marvel at times” are all simple ways of keeping calm.
I personally do best executionally when I’ve practiced a combo to the point where I can kind of relate it to a specific rhythm and then I’ll simply repeat the rhythm in my head while playing which not only helps with timing, but also zoning out outside factors. The TAC up to ironman is my favorite “dun dun GOT YOU”.
i mean i get on stream all the time but only vs high level players where i dont want to risk TAC crap like with marlin i went wesker first cuz i wanted to do some really sick resets and cool things i came up with but he guessed right every time on the TAC annnnnd everyone kills wesker in one touch cuz they hate him so much so i couldn’t show my hard work LOL
yea i hear u on that … i just got let go of my seasonal job so i have a ton of time to hit the lab with now so i’m having soo much fun with tony now can’t wait till WinterBrawl!!! 
also thanks for the tips guys !! btw danke u can do a really cool TAC combo from down as well with iron man … and actually the same combos as up u should be able to land with down too
FAILED … i hit dj houshen and went for the TAC combo instead of just killing him … sigh high risk moments =[ … btw was anyone at winterbrawl ? i had a really beast set with yipes in pools … my iron man did work ! of course it wasn’t recorded when my iron man actually gets good hits -___- … well at least i won my pool
Huge fan Alukard, and you’ve definitely got me leaning towards picking Iron Man back up. I tried picking him up in vanilla to help Wesker (I use spencer to elongate my combos, so I really need a get in assist), but sort of gave up as my execution just wasn’t up to par.
I had looked to Nova hoping he’d have a beam assist before the game came out, but sadly no. I’ve been making things work with the shield assist as my game has shifted to a more defensive one, and it does create some nasty reset and trap situations for wesker putting that shield into play. I do great against rushdown teams (put that shield out and teleport and jump gunshot around, people will run into it, and I’ve gotten pretty good at hit confirming with wesker off of the shield, plus bullets and random shield hits let wesker kill off a simple bnb once they’re in your grasp), but I’ve run into a couple huge problems that have got me looking back to Tony.
One, is sentinal drones in general, which nova doesn’t do shit for, and I have to really work my ass off to get around them using gunshots at sent (not always easy) or running away big time (I like to zone with wesker, but not just straight up run away and give up spacing), and another problem is patient taskmasters, or similar. Forces me to go in raw with wesker, which just fucking sucks. Some concerns I have though, even if I get my execution high enough to use Iron man.
Like you, I’m really afraid of being left with him as the anchor. Really afraid. However, having the beam for spencer seems too good to pass up. Right now, if things go wrong (wesker dies) spencer winds up as my anchor since shield assist does fuck all for him (if things go right I get wesker into my 3rd slot before he dies, let him heal for lvl 3 dark wesker if need be, and run with nova on point using spencer’s assist to create his good combo stuff. If wesker dies and spencer comes in I play him just long enough to dhc nova in to run on point, though if he gets TODed incoming, Nova anchor works just fine, maybe better actually, though I can more comfortably run through people with nova using spencer assist rather than vice versa).
I make this set up work through odd ball shuffling, and thanks to all of them working as anchors, but I know it’s not optimal for spencer, and I feel like I’m wasting a great weapon because of it (damn it Nova, why didn’t you have a fucking beam assist like I was so sure you would???).
Anyway, iron man would solve all of this… If the prospect of him as my last man standing wasn’t so scary. People talk about wesker and spencer not really having anchor tools, but what they lack in that department they make up for in being really comfy to use in tense, possibly xfactor-sped up situations. You won’t drop an xfactored tense kill combo usually with those two, with iron man it seems pretty likely. I guess I could run it shuffling things like I do with Nova, but where I don’t feel bad there since shield doesn’t help spencer, it would be a crime to not let spencer abuse tony’s beam assist with this team. Other than wesker I’m basically forced to play both of my other characters assistless in the neutral game which just really isn’t optimal, and while I can out footsie a lot of my opponents, I fall to those with similar footsie ability while also having strong neutral assists throughout the team.
The only solution seems to just get so good at iron man that he becomes a scary anchor, but that seems a million miles away right now due to how tricky he is to control(apparently even for a longtime Tony repping pro like yourself). Oh, and before anyone says it, fuck doom I won’t do it. There are very few characters I find cool enough to put on my team, literally Wesker, spencer, tony, and Nova , so it’s either iron man anchor, or the weird shit I’m doing now. Sigh. I wish these pieces fit together more easily.
Cripes, man. Indent some of that stuff.
This is how it feels to get proton cannoned.
At this point I’d DEFINITELY say Iron Man is one of the most execution heavy characters in the game if you are using his good shit, which you should be. Second only maybe to Jill. Alukard has shown us that the character is viable by just using good footsies and good use of special moves, unibeam/smart bombs/and repulsar blast. To really put the hurt on the opponent, however, you’re going to have to learn some hard, but powerful, technology.
I’m still free as hell at this game but I love Iron Man…maybe because I’ve never played a “hard” character in a fighting game before. That might also be the reason I like the character so much, he’s a challenge, and nothing comes easily. I think those that stick with him will be rewarded, but I also think that he needs an assist to cover one of his weak points (which is the case for many characters, this is a team game after all).
I feel great coming out of training mode but then I get bodied in real matches where I fail to hit confirm into KK combo…its a long path, for sure. I’m in it for the long haul though, and I hope you guys are too.
Huge apologies guys, typed it on my phone during a long train ride, and didn’t realize the formatting would come out so fucked, and it doesn’t seem to be letting me edit it for some reason. As soon as I can get on a regular computer I’ll get it fixed. I hate that stuff too, totally accidental. Sorry about that.
I’m surprised you haven’t learned his fly combos. I have them down and they do more damage than Krispy Kream, and usually end up in corner unless you start from the other side of the level. If you don’t directly end in the corner, you should be close enough to just dash xx smart bomb H xx proton cannon.
My IM team is Dante/Iron Man/Akuma, and I’m still debating whether I should use unibeam or repulsor blast for an assist, as unibeam NERF’S DANTE’S DAMAGE TO SHIT. I mean, I already have tatsu lol. And I see some more combo potential with repulsor.
If you want to improve your neutral with iron man, there is this Brazilian player during a tourney in brazil that had the most godlike iron man i’ve ever seen. Hit confirms like nothing. Made xfactor comebacks aswell. But I can’t remember the stream it was on, curse my not saving it. I believe his name was Doom something or other. If I ever find the archives I’ll definitely send it your way.
FOUND HIM
Guy’s name is DooM BR, plays Cap/Iron Man/Deadpool and spencer/nova/iron man
His neutral game is impressive, stays in that superjump corner not many characters can get to and fishes for smartbomb hit confirms. I would say he airdashes well, and uses air.M to great effect. You can tell, however, his still relatively new to the game due to how her sometimes forgets about hitstun and attempts longer combos.
first match at 37:40, second around 55, and he plays often during the rest of the stream. Needless to say, I’m going to be watching this again. And from what I remember, this tourney was fun to watch cause these brazillians scream and get hype over everything lmao.
Overall, player wise, I’d say it was a mid-level tournament.
So what do you guys think about the new infinite? [media=youtube]cj4AtK5un7A[/media] I just started messing with the new version i was just getting used to the one danke posted up >_< … i’m getting stuck on part right after the smart bombs where u jump and do MMH after the S that juggles
seems legit and only one of those look hard to pull off
another thing is that i have a question; is iron man really THAT bad of a character?
i think he’s alright as a character. at least better than hsien ko, but this is what one dude had to say:
