Hey i played the trial version of this game just last night but i noticed a potential problem with assists. I noticed that you can do assists at a fast rate (do an assist then 1 second later do another), and there is no limit on how many times you can assist in a match. To me it seems like a guy can just spam it non stop and ill spend more time fighting his assists rather than fighting him. That doesnt sound very fun to me. Please tell me there are ways that I can punish a non stop assist user so that he’ll think twice about spaming them.
Assist are vulnerable before they attack and during the taunt on their way out.
Assist are vulnerable as soon as they come out and after they do whatever action.
Any potential annoying assist you can also snap in to kill them.
Edit:
Valentine’d
You hit the assists, like you said. Anybody pressing assist at every moment available is just going to get his character killed or happy birthday’d altogether.
As both Mr. X and Sanger have said, there isn’t a Gustaff Fire bullshit assist in this game. All assists have vulnerability and all can be punished. Assists are still great as to make 3 character teams viable but they certainly arn’t uncounterable, nothing is.
Solo Parasoul lvl 3 against a spammed assist is pretty lulzy…
Welcome to Marvel.
Whether it’s an assist or a point character, your main objective is to kill everyone. If you spend time putting the beatdown on an assist, it’s a beatdown you were going to hand out anyway, only now it deals 6% more damage and they can’t block it. Sounds good to me.
Double’s buttslam is close.
It doesn’t have as much invincibility as people think, although it is indeed a great assist.
The problem with Double buttslam and similar assists is that when you do punish them it’s risky because characters that really excel with them like peacock can punish your punish pretty much regardless of what it is. Coupled with the fast rate at which assists recover health and having to limit yourself to low damage quick punishes killing an assist while also not allowing your opponent to get a full combo on you is prohibitively difficult.
The other major problem is how supers and other things you would think of using for punishing assists in other games wont hit both characters which again leads to skewing the risk reward.
You can play around it ofc but that goes for anything, you can play around ST Claw walldives with Zangief aswell but that doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.
One character that can deal with it is ironically Double by doing her buttslam and then cancelling into cats but then you have characters like peacock who can do stupid shit like calling the assist and then teleporting behind you which is a different beast altogether.
Wow people are already admitting defeat to Double’s buttslam assist?
… I just realized I can call bombs or assist and teleport behind my opponent… It’s really late. :-\
Two words.
DOUBLE PEACOCK.
You just cant handle their girth.
I use valentine, and I STILL can do anything against it
Wherever he is Mike Z is now loling.
hey lets say you take away 1000 health from a character doing an assist. how much of that health goes away forever and cant be recovered.
I’m pretty sure it’s all recoverable.
damnn
The reason why I’m not raging at the butt slam assist is because of my experience with marvel: raging will get you nowhere. When I get somebody who is using parasoul/peacock with double, I just stop attacking and focus on blocking. I just give up on trying to win the match and instead use it to practice my blocking.
But… that sounds completely like passive aggressive raging.
Butt Slam is really really good, I don’t think anyone can deny that. But it just straight up whiffs people at around half-screen or so, though I guess that depends on which one your doing.
Just don’t press buttons. Super jump into air dashing gets you over it as well. At least if your a character that has that.
I’ve never done it, but I feel you could just run up, bait it out and then alpha counter out of it into something to get around it. The amount of time that double just sits there afterwards is pretty long so if you get by it once, just go. You can also snap in double and just kill her. That’s a thing too.