I tend to play Skrull on point as I feel most comfortable with him, but I love it when Skrull is my last character standing. People generally seem to want to play defensive when you’ve got level 3 X-Factor running, and Skrull is pretty much built to blow up most turtles and zoners.
I haven’t played with quite the styles that lend themselves to them, but I noticed on streams of yesterday’s tournament that people had great uses for both Chun’s lightning legs assist and Tron’s flame assist (Justin Wong’s air-throw traps with She-Hulk). Both of those moves seem to have elements in common with Skrull’s Tenderizer assist; does anyone think Tenderizer might be a suitable substitute in those types of set-ups?
I’m running Spencer/Wesker/Skrull right now. Unfortunately, I don’t actually own the game but I work at a place with a system and copy on hand. =p Can anyone confirm or deny if you can use Dante’s Jam Session Assist on opponent-entry to force block and then Elastic Slam (H)?
Skrull is a dank clutch character especially against a Dark Phoenix team. VERY easy to snap Phoenix in and catch with Meteor Slam->Inferno or just a Death Penalty. Then again, I’m playing scrubs and need better competition, lol.
Drones really help cover Skrull, and Hulk is a good “get off me” assist. Skrulls stone smite is so I can otg and combo off Hulk’s command throw. This team seems to have really good synergy but I might have been lucky not to run into anyone crazy good yet. Who knows. Oh, DHC’s aren’t bad. I can go from torch or inferno into gama crush. Nothing really to do going from Hulk tsunami to skrull, which kinda sucks but I am still really liking this team.
I run Skrull in a multitude of squads. I find Doom(Hidden Missiles) to be the best assist for him though since it locks the opponent on the ground. Other than that, Wolverine(Berserker Barrage), Iron Man(Uni-beam) and Ryu(Hadoken) are some useful assists.
The kind of assist that benefits him the most would seem to be delayed hit projectiles as you can use them to make meteor smash safe on block and to set up command throws by punishing early blocks or ticking. As much as it may pain some people Sentinel drones or Doom missiles are definitely looking like the best option in that regard.
The second slot looks very bad for him as he doesn’t have any safe DHCs for swap outs. He has comeback potential for anchoring but without the aforementioned assist his options for opening up the opponent would be suboptimal. The point slot is probably the place where he can wreak the most havoc.
Round Harvest safely gets X-23 or Skrull in, sets up Silent Kill, and sets up Skrull j.2H+ankle slicer unblockable. Tenderizer holds incoming char for Silent Kill. Low Voltage covers X-23 advance and Skrull meteor smash. All 3 are good anchors. Ankle slicer and Tenderizer help Trish’s damage output. Ankle slicer helps stone smite combos.
That reminds me of one thing I tested in training mode that’s possible just with Skrull. If a character is jumping (tested vs neutral jump), and you use df.H, even if they advancing guard it, you can cancel the df.H into H Elastic Slam, and they’ll get caught. Actually I think this is only possible if they advancing guard. I think if they just block it, then they land quicker. Vs the jumping recording dummy, they’d still get grabbed because they jumped into it. Might work in a real match for somebody who doesn’t want to pushblock, and wants to jump at you to close distance.
Iunno. there are enough projectile assists, and Skrull is fast enough that it’s not right to say there’s any best option for projectile assists. I do agree that projectile assists help him greatly (Mine being Thor’s spark) but I don’t know how good Skrull/Doom/Sent DHC options are.
For my team, I’ve found I can DHC into certain supers of every character, from certain supers of every character. To me this is more important than how much time you get to apply pressure with slow/delayed projectile assists.
Been trying to find a third member for my Zero/ /Doom team for quite some time. Ive tried Dante,IM,Magneto, and Sentinel. Those worked good but did not have the synergy i was looking for. Skrull Fits this team amazingly well. I run Zero(handeki), Skrull(orbital grudge), and Dooms (Plasma beam). They all dhc and thc very well. Zero builds great meter for Skrull, dooms assits helps both skrull and zero get in. Skrull can dhc death penalty from Zero’s bnb to rekkoha, for over 1million damage no xfc.
Been experimenting w/ skrull-tend/dante-weasel/wesker-gun
Skrull on point w/ wesker assist for possible unblockables, dante weasel to help advance. Plus dante/wesker compliment each other w/ either able to dhc glitch into the other.
I do something similar with Doom Rocks. You can time it to where they block the rocks and then you throw out the throw right as the rocks end/block stun ends you can catch them in elastic slam. It’s definitely not something you can get very often, but it is hilarious when it works.
hey guys, ive been picking skrull lately and i was wondering, how is he supposed to be played? like what should I aim for with him. I use it as an anchor, but im not really sure how to play him yet, i hope you can help me, thank you
I love Mystic Ray with Skrull. You can use Mystic Ray to improve the safety of Meteor Smash, you can intentionally miss with Meteor Smash on either side of the opponent to force a 50/50 guess on blocking Mystic Ray, and last but not least the start-up on Mystic Ray is slow enough that once you’ve got your opponent trying to guess which way to block you can hit them with an Elastic Slam instead.
grr I’m starting to feel like skrull storm tron doesnt work. I dont know if its storm or tron that needs to go, I’m kinda finding it hard to put together a team that is really solid for skrull…
really liking this team. Something kinda cool i’ve started doing is elastic slam, call doom(hidden missles), LP tenderizer…when they bounce the missles hit before they recover midair, giving you an easy dash 214+atk,atk(inferno) for a total of 70 or so odd hits…kinda cool…timing w/ the doom assist is kinda strict, but nice if you suck at the relaunch after the dash 2+h like me, it’s not a bad alternate
Tron and Skrull work together really well. Orbital Grudge helps extend Tron’s corner combos, and Tron Fire helps Skrull get in. I used to play Storm, she bores me, she doesn’t deal amazing damage, and her assists aren’t particularly good. I’m running Skrull/Mags/Tron
I personally find my team of Thor/Skrull/Modok really solid. they all have excellent DHC options and assists are pretty good with each other as well.
Off any throw to meteor smash, I can cancel inferno to Thor’s Tornado for like 50% damage. If Skrull does an air inferno, then I learned recently I can DHC to Thor’s Mighty Thunder (Magneto Shockwave) for good damage also. If I wanted, I could probably DHC that to Modok’s Psionic Blaster which would only be worth it if I had it charged up.
I don’t know what assists you have Tron and Storm set to, but I think with Skrull on your team, at least one of them needs to be set to projectile. What do you try doing with your team? Like who do you start out with, and what do you do when skrull dies?
Well an issue I had with storm is, yeah i can do some combos and what not but she does little damage and outside of hailstorm I just don’t see her as a good aid for Skrull and Vice versa. Her supers don’t really DHC to skrull either, How does IM go with Skrull? Or Skrull, Doom, Tron? idk
Oh, DHC’s aren’t bad. I can go from torch or inferno into gama crush. Nothing really to do going from Hulk tsunami to skrull, which kinda sucks but I am still really liking this team.