I play Skrull(stone smite)/ Sent(drones)/ Akuma (tatsu).
I love both these assists for skrull. drones + meteor smash cause chaos. Drones also lets me combo off air throws if im not in the corner. inferno dhc into plasma storm makes skrulls bnb do like 950k.
Incoming characters i call drones, punch em with my stretchy arm and they fall right under drones. Then i can elastic grab M or H. Its basically a 50-50 and Im protected by drones. I also like to call drones, dash up, super jump, airdash and let drones cause chaos. If drones ever hit i dash up and hit with standing H.
And then theres tatsu, ooh how i love this assist with skrull. You skrullers have to try skrull backed up by tatsu. I love neutral jumping and then airdashing while i call akuma for such a cheap cross up. If akuma hits and im close enough i can dash up with standing H and hitconfirm off the ground bounce (ive pretty much learned how to combo without the ground bounce since thats how i start off most of my combos.) In the corner i do the same thing, and i can come down with down+H and comfirm off the ground bounce.
Once ive got em cornered and theyre afraid to press buttons cus of tatsu, thats the perfect time to sneak in a command grab. it is so frustrating for opponents to just get nabbed out of the air so easily.
I really wish i could record my play. Ive put so much work into this team I wish I could show off all my tricks and spread the skrull love. Even though my team is very top-heavy, it is def a team with my two fav characters, skrull and sent, plus a 3rd that makes those two characters very cheap.
Anyway, whats your skrull team? and how long have you been at it? Ive been at it with this team for a good 6 months now. I know theres a lot of theoretical teams but is there anyone whos had a stable skrull team for a while and allowed it to develop?
My team sucks. I picked who I liked and threw them together and yet I’m still able to outplay a lot of people.
Cap on point, Wesker, Skrull. Sometimes cap and wesk would swap in case of the matchup.
Oh I should mention why it sucks. It’s because none of these characters have any support assist besides Cap, but he’s on point. So basically it’s me playing each character solo. The assists are combo extenders for cap. Wesk Gunshot and Skrull Stone Smite.
At least you can acknowledge it. What sucks is the point of the game is to win, and though character loyalty is important it just sometimes doesn’t work… and clearly certain assists are making characters much more powerful than they should be. Very rarely does a team of three that you personally find the most likeable in the game work together. I’m stuck with Thor and Skrull and knowing that Sent/Strange/Doom are the best assist characters for BOTH of them makes it tough because I just can’t seem to like them lol
Fernando, I should mention that I am making a Skrull Point team and with the Tatsu assist, I found a 50/50 mixup on incoming characters and when hit can get an easy combo to 700k. I guess that airdash is not so useless anymore.
I think you pull it off well enough from what i’ve seen! I play cap/doom/skrull too, and that doom can really make both sooooo much better, but that’s just my personal opinion. I also mess w/ nova some, but i find skrull helps nova more than nova helping skrull, which is sort of ironic.
So right now I’m experimenting with Skrull/Trish/Wesker. The basic idea is to use Trish’s traps with Skrull’s dhalsim punches and command grabs for zoning, and Wesker’s OTG to create pseudo-unblockables when I’m applying pressure.
However, I’m wondering if I should switch Skrull to anchor and lead with Wesker instead. Skrull is my best character so it would be nice to have him as my anchor, but he kind of needs the assists whereas Wesker doesn’t.
I also haven’t decided on Trish’s assist yet. I like Peekaboo a lot more but it gets destroyed by projectiles very easily, something Hopscotch doesn’t worry about.
Nice, I used to play a similar team Trish/Skrull/Doom, I think Trish would probably be a good choice for point and w/ Peekaboo assist, you can use peekaboo to keep your e slams safe and for incoming character setups. It’s pretty easy to combo off of Peekaboo too as you just have to dash over and standing H.
Yeah dude its really good. i just jump up and airdash over them while calling akuma as they fall in. depending on how i time it, it crosses up. I abuse the crap out of skrulls airdash. In fact, i spend most of my time with Skrull jumping. i bunny hop all over.
I honestly believe you can tell how capcom wanted a character to be played just by looking at them. When skrull neutral jumps, he has this look, this pose. If you see his hands it looks like hes saying “come on bring it!” Plus he has access to down H, or hold S, or meteor smash, or his airdash, or either super, (or tenderizer…LOL!dont use it) and his airgrabs are really good. Its also easier to block when youre chicken blocking. His airdash puts him at superjump height with the ability to call assists too. So i spend a lot of time jumping with skrull.
What do you guys use to record your matches? and how much does it cost? id love to record myself and watch myself and share my skrull with you guys. Now that Ive implemented almost all of skrull’s tools into my play (I even have a combo that uses tenderizer!!) i feel comfortable putting my gameplay out there to be critiqued/enjoyed.
Hey guys, I have been messing around with some dorm and skull and I do like the synergy between the two, but do you think there is anyone other than doom that would fill that third slot? I have never been a big fan of doom or sent and I was thinking like taskmaster, but i’m not too sure that would work out. Any ideas?
How well could a point Skrull work backed up by an anchor Strider?
Thinking of running Skrull (does it fucking matter?)/Sent (Drones)/Strider (Vajra). I’m thinking that you could use Vajra to knock people out of the sky and go for a Brutal Pile Bunker combo from there without having to risk Skrull by exposing yourself to potentially unsafe Meteor Smashes. Is there synergy here or am I just hypnotised by Kl’rt again?
I suppose it could work, but Vajra’s biggest contribution to a team is providing air control, which I feel Skrull can handle pretty well by himself. I almost want to say you could construct an equally efficient (possibly superior) team by putting Strider at the front and using Orbital Grudge as a GTFO assist.
In the end, though, if you have the skill to use them effectively it can still be a great team.
Yeah… Yeah I can see that UnSaxon. I don’t really trust myself to play Strider on point because of how fragile he is - I’m used to my point characters having a certain degree of bulk to them (Nemesis, Wesker, Chris). It’s a good idea and it should work but it’s just not for me. Really what it comes down to right now is I’ve got a pool of characters I can play and I’m really trying to make a team where there’s real synergy there instead of just “Two guys and Skrull” or “Skrull/Sent and some other dope”. Maybe I should just stick to my Wesker/Mag/Skrull or mix it up into Wesker/Skrull/Mags. Is there much synergy between Skrull and Mags in that order? Haven’t really given that team a lot of love in a while, and I picked up Mags because a beam is so nice for Wesker.
This is also very true. Wanted to bat around the idea of having Skrull on point for a change instead of anchor.
BTW Nastyy any more progress on your fantastic Skrull video guide? I was so hyped for your EVO matches!
For dorm or skrull on point you could try out Shuma, Trish, Strider or other beam assists for their mixups/rushdown as well as keepaway with dorm and to make skrulls elastic grab safe which I think should be a staple of playing skrull with an assist or on point
Both these characters are very good anchors for lvl 3 xfactor, if you want to play skrull last because who doesnt love the longest lvl 3 xf in the game? then go ahead and pick a top teir, the top 3 on the tier list of shoryuken are all versatile on point characters - I talk about zero/virgil synergy here (Zeros UMVC3 Assist Guide) in the 2ed post if you want to think about using skrulls assist effectively
What synergy between these two do you like the most? Who do you usually save meter/xfactor for?
I would say ignore going for the sentinel assist hes pretty dum as an anchor and his assist’s tech is very unoriginal and people have learned how to deal with it in general… Go for Dorm/Shuma/Skrull, I dont play shuma to much but I love his assist and it would help Dorm a lot by giving him a fast otg to work with… im actually interested in what skrull can do for shuma as an assist now, ill look into that later
Hi Skrull fellows!! I went to Ketubatou tournament last Sunday in Kyoto and I met “VAIROS”, a Japanese player who mains Frank (a)/Skrull (a)/Haggar(a). His play was amazing, and he reached the semi-finals before being defeated by the amazing Kubo-san. I talked with Vairos, and he told me that his team was one of the best of the game, as his characters should be very high in a tier list. What do you think of this combination and order? Anyway, he’s team was definitely the funniest and most interesting compared to all Mag and Vergil players present at this tournament. Inferno!!
By synergy, I mean I can throw in a stone smite or tenderizer off a flame carpet to extend a combo or build some meter, and I can lockdown with black hole to land an easy elastic slam. As for shuma the otg assist is useful but I don’t have him unlocked. I have been running nova/dorm/skrull but I feel nova doesn’t build me enough meter for dorm and skrull since half the time I’m either Ending with an inferno or chaotic flame or dhcing into stalkig flare from a nova hyper for a quick purification tele overhead. Zero is a possibility but I was thinking maybe task or anyone who can build me some meter. Either that or I could run dorm first but then i need a solid second character with a useful assist. So any thoughts?
The latest thing I made was the Part 2 of the 2.0 guide. There’s a part 3 in the works, but the video is more of a community video for the high profile Skrull players so you can see how our teams are constructed and why. So far I only have Alukard(Though he does not main Skrull anymore) and DJ Huoshen. I haven’t heard from Pain, Nickcam, Vicious, and a few others if they were interested in being a part of the video. If they aren’t interested then that’s fine it’s not like the video won’t be made without them it was just an idea.
BTW if you guys stumble across this and are interested, I would need info on why you chose your team, what is your synergy(as in what is your team combo/DHC/assists help or combo extender/etc), and what colors do you pick for your team.