A beam or constant projectile - think Cold Star or Dark Hole - is a must for Frank IMO. It’s the best way to make his roll a really important tool. Get level 2, call assists and then roll for Wesker-like left/right mixups.
I concur. Went messing around with ammy in the lab for a bit and she’s okay. I know dorm/dante much better though so I may stick with them at the start. Plus, I can still do ryan hunter combos, sans ammy. Teehee.
Chun’s Hykikuruyuyuasidumdum is going to be Frank’s best friend.
Yeah, I plan on using Chun’s legs to get more PP and extra camera shots. I just need to decide what beam/constant projectile assist I want in the middle.
Obviously a strong point, but it’s worth asking in response: “Do I really need to double up on it? I’ve got Cold Star already. Do I also need a full-screen beam from Doom or similar? Or can I pick up some other useful assist instead?” It’s something I’ve been agonizing over.
I think that a beam assist will be important, as well as some kind of mid-combo assist for adding more hits. I’m going to TRY Psionic Blaster and Hidden Missiles first, but it may not work out. I may just keep my main team from MVC3 and put Frank wil entirely different people. Maybe he’ll go well with Skrull/Ammy if I drop task from my secondary team.
That’s what I was afraid of. You’re suggesting that, full-stop, it needs to be a beam and not just any ol’ projectile such as Gun Fire, etc.?
It needs to last long enough for him to cross over with his roll and the assist still be active so it doesn’t need to be a beam per se, but it needs to be a multi hitting projectile. Disruptor, Hadouken, etc wouldn’t work but assists like Gun Fire, Dark Hole, Cold Star, Rapid Slash, Plasma Beam, Hidden Missiles, Mystic Ray, etc could all work.
On a side note, character forums? Fantastic.
Indeed, character forums. I won’t be making any dedicated-purpose threads, but I would propose a few titles. Feel free to yoink these, if anyone wants them:
Combos:
Combo Weapon Workbench
Photography Lessons
Videos:
The Scoop of a Lifetime
Live on the Scene
Exclusive Interviews
Character Guide:
Journalism School
My Most Violent Shot
Wars Covered: The Full Scoop
He Aint My Boy, But the Brother is Heavy
His Name’s Frank
If he can combo into a 2-bar THC with Dante pinning them with Million Dollars, he shouldn’t have any trouble leveling up as high as he wants
Day 1 for me will probably be spent in the lab trying to get as many PP as I can in a single combo with a variety of teams. I’ll be sure to capture everything I come up with.
Team building thread should be called, “Group Photo Ops”.
I know what I’ll post is completely offtopic, but Rocket’s Raccoon and Frank West’s colors are up. http://www.gamespot.com/special_feature/marvelcapcom-week11/image-feature/index.html?image=2
http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/2011/311/umvc3_week11_206_03085_640screen.jpg
WIN!
No blue alt for Frank makes me sad D=
Frank Montana alt is amazing though, probably going to have to make an all white team.
Loving that pink shirt/dalmation coat alt. Goofy as ever.
They did him real good with the alts imo, covered a bunch of different colors(black, white n red, purple, brown, yellow, funky). I wonder if anyone is gonna show frank any love tonight at the ultimate norcal vs capcom 2 tourney, I really, really hope frank is playable, I don’t want top tier, i just want someone useable. Either way he does look like he will be fun though, plus he has relatively high health which should mean a lot more in ultimate with the overall damage-apparently-reduced.
I was quite happy with the alts too. Very nice! While I am kind of “huh?” about him also getting a Chuck alt since Chris got one… I guess it’s to allow either form of Dead Rising style combat with ‘Chuck.’ If you want melee Chuck, Frank offers it. Gun Chuck, that’s Chris.
Did anybody else read the description for Rocket’s commando color? Because it’s really hilarious, in my opinion: “Back in March, we were finalizing our alternate color schemes for this game and hitting a roadblock when it came to Rocket…”
Back in March. Vanilla came out in February. Fun stuff, Marvel and Capcom.