phoenix is beasting on ppl online…and its not even close
Wesker definitely seems like he will compliment Phoenix well, simply because he doesn’t need meter to be effective. Anyone have an idea of who else to use, though? Who would work well with Wesker and Phoenix?
Wesker/???/Phoenix
You guys think Trish would fit, or is she too meter dependent? (round harvest)
Im having some mixed success with her. I have a hard time building meter, might have to change my teams around a bit. At the moment Im using Arthur/Akuma/Phoenix, Arthur is on point.
Arthur doesnt build meter well and you want him to be able to use supers so probably shouldnt be on a team with phoenix. Akuma also excels when he uses supers and he has pretty crappy health so probably isnt the best with phoenix too.
I’ve been using wolverine/modok/phoenix. Wolverine builds meter easily, and modok doesnt need supers to do good damage. I will basically get quickly up to level 5 with wolverine, tag in phoenix, use her until she turns, tag in modok, and use modok and wolverine until they’re dead, then bring in dark phoenix, xfc, and it’s ggpo
This was a rough first day -_-
I decided to run a risk-it-all team with Zero/Doom/Phoenix since those three are my favs in the game. Zero is for the meter building and rushdown while Doom runs support with missiles and bombardments. Usually 9 times out of 10 I’ll have meter for DPh and cheese it out with projectiles but I noticed how weak the team feels after a while.
For one, the handicap feels large while fighting others. I have no defensive assists and have a good deal of trouble with zoners like Arthur and M.O.D.O.K. But it’s all worth it for that DPh 
So does anyone have any cool combos as regular Phoenix outside the corner? Also, does anyone know how to get past Akuma Tatsu spam with assists to keep the pressure going?
Thanks for the advice, might just have too. Not feeling Arthur all the time, great keep away, but up close, he’s pretty much useless and far to slow to get away. Might switch him out with Dorm, but again, he is a hog for supers. Maybe Thor on point, from what I see he can do a shit done of damage, and doesn’t always need his supers.
dorm would work in the #2 slot, but you need someone agile that you can score easy air combos with to be on point
You know if you tag in using down S in an air combo you get 1 whole bar right? That’s why I like tagging out right away.
OMG Hsien-Ko does not work with Phoenix. lol. My Phoenix kept getting trashed I think I’ll switch her out for MODOK.
I thought with that stam she would be shit and I’d hate her… played her a bit 2nite… now I’m in love. avatar changing…lol
lol at people mentioning Wesker just because the wiki mentioned him as a good battery character.
Trish is a great teammate for Wesker (Peekaboo traps + teleports are a good way to make people uneasy of his options), but putting Jean with both of them maybe isn’t viable - Trish lacks a good synergy with her.
Trish really loves to do some Hypers to score her damage - so you’ll be better with another battery character on the second slot. You may try them out, sure - but IMO, there are just better choices a second character.
I don’t know Trish well enough to comment(fortunately someone else covered her), but I reccomend using someone with either air control or a lockdown assist(projectile or upclose) to assist Wesker. I use X23 myself with Crescent Scythe, but that’s more me tailoring to my personal play style then them having great synergy(they work well together, but they don’t work great together, so far anyway).
All in all I think Sent is one of the best options here(I just won’t play him, he’s not my style, but that might change eventually depending on how X23 treats me in tourneys), his drones assist is great for Wesker and Sent having some unblockables with stomping on your head with Weskers assist(not to mention how wesker and Sent greatly compensate Phoenixes Health deficit)
I’d like to see my jean not entirely depended on dark phoenix, it’s just her defense is so damn bad I’m rather hesitant in calling her out for assist at all, much less using her early. I usually pare phoenix up with sent also, I like that combination.
Phoenix is really good even without DPM Ready.
Super jump+Sent drones then with 1-2 Heavy Fireballs, Teleport back or above is alot of pressure.
Phoenix is really good even without DPM Ready.
Super jump+Sent drones then with 1-2 Heavy Fireballs, Teleport back or above is alot of pressure.
Do you guys think this is a viable team?
Spiderman (on point)
Dante
Phoenix
I swapped initially had Dante on point but apparently point characters should be extremely fast. The cool thing about these 2 characters is that both of their best hypers cost only 1 bar, so I can still “use” them even with Phoenix on the team.
I don’t know. Are you sure you can get to 5 bars and still have leftovers to do spare hypers with Dante and Pete? All before Jean ends up on point? I do trust in Dante’s versatility to provide some synergy with Jean, one way or another, but I’m still not entirely convinced. Just my humble opinion, though.
Spiderman has no particualr use for that team, not enough health or damage or meter build. Not great assists either.
Ah I see. Any replacements then? I’ve been considering running Amaterasu (spelling?) due to her stellar assists and crazy meter building game.
My biggest problem with DPM right now is building 5 meters w/out using dwn+exchange several times in a round… which is meh… any other time I have 5 bars built AND to spare… it’s b/c I’m already wrecking shop and probably don’t need DPM.
I been playing her on point. With plenty of assist help and the opp not having a stock of bars to start… she can run away/build meter pretty well. Use the traps and a zony assist… put em to sleep… then teleport and go rushdown when they wont expect it.
DPM is more like emergency mode for me… or just for the fuck of it b/c I have the meters and its fun mode…
I been playing her with dormammu and I’m pretty sure it’s a duo I’ll be sticking with.