I really want carol to be good, but I can’t seem to start any sort of offense with her at all. She feels super slow, and her buttons feel weak as hell. How does one start her offense?
Air Dash Attacks, Air 2kicks, c.HK, 2Kicks
Those have been doing work for me.
Honestly I’ve found that she can attack from two fronts, the air and the ground. Obviously in the air just air dash and use her HK to confirm. On the ground she has a lot of quick moving attacks. Her down-forward LP, forward HP and crouching HK all cover a lot of ground quickly. Follow up with blitz blow and you’ve got a full combo.
If you aren’t armored up, you can’t get in against anyone decent. So armor up.
She has no cross ups?
This is just my opinion. I don’t think she’s good at starting offense. To me she doesn’t have the buttons to keep pressing her offense. Just think of Dante who can always teleport or boxjump HP. Or Zero who can just spam his pizza slicer or buster. I just don’t think she lands clean hits without a lot of effort.
With that said, she may be more of a conversion character. She seems to be stronger in neutral and in movement than most characters. She also is very good at covering herself in the air. So I think she may just be good at clipping you in the air, and then converting off that. In all the videos I’ve seen from her, almost all damage I see her get are purely off of bliz blow conversions. To me she doesn’t seem particularly strong on the ground. But I would like to hear other opinions on this.
I’ve heard a lot of people call her magneto. But to me she seems like more of a Storm like character. Strong in neutral, and only really press whenever she sees the opportunity. But I don’t think she really has a good “let me in” style of play.
He j.HK crosses up. But it doesn’t seem to be extremely reliable.
She requires some patience, depending on the matchup she can’t just go ham. That’s where your flight comes in handy etc. also her slide is really good for starting stuff because you can just fly cancel it into more offense or additional mixup etc. she gets a lot of mileage from slide and blitz, both of which you can do flight out of. The only matchup I’ve really had a hard time getting started on was with a gamora and she was using reality stone.
if your Marvel isn’t working in the matchup play a different character and set up lockdown moves into tags
she is Magneto minus mag blast. That means she has no way to cover her own approach, so use an “assist” and open people up. She has a tridash and a slide…
I think she’s fine, it just takes a lot of practice to get her down. I’m still getting the hang of her.
Reality surge can quite cover you, but regardless, armoring up and slide/blitz are the ways to go.
Some specific characters can do wonders and help you apply her other tools. My dude here in the pic allows for f+HK karathrows between bolts, for instance.
I’m finding her to be quite an ‘in-and-out’ character when it comes to neutral. I fully agree with what @Branh0913 said about lurking and converting into her big damage and setups. Luckily slide is flight/special/stone cancellable, so you can like slide in and blitz out, or just trijump j.LK if you feel hesitations after an on-block blitz.
It’s not all that simple to just YOLO it out, but she is the kind of strong character that feels a blast to learn, because she is not simple, so it’s rewarding to put in the time.
Anyone have a vid of some Manvers in action? I am slowly learning this game and using Carl/ Ultron and side Thanos. It doesn’t look like alot of tourney players are using her. I may make the switch to Nova soon. It seems that he is a better version of her. She sounds more manly though.