I got bopped by life. Was planning on going to Kit last weekend with the rest of the Alabama crew but I wound up coming short on cash after my car broke for good, haha.
Apart from that I’ve been working on my Strider to keep from flailing around with the guy whenever he gets snapped in. Thinking of running an alt team of Chris/doom(beam)/ strider(vajara) for fun but who knows.
Thats not a bad team, beam makes anyone look good. I wish the overall damage was there, you kinda have to learn doom tac stuff if you want that team to work long term.
As for me I’m at an impasse, finding it hard to train without getting bored.
Last tournament was NeC, will be at Winter Brawl. Not sure what else.
Retnuh, if you haven’t done so already, you should get some games in with ChrisD. He runs Chris/dorm/Strider and plays it very well, I think you will learn a lot from him in regards to how to use vajra assist with Chris effectively. He does some really good lock down with it and covers him really well. I have a hard time punishing it without taking some serious damage. Hopefully if u do play him your connection is better than ours has been…oh and his dorm/Strider is a PITA!
Ok so I really wanna play Chris AND strider as a secondary team.
Is Doom a good fit in the middle?
Also, could someone give me some ideas for the team in general.
Also is Chris/Spencer/Strider any good? I find Chris/Spencer to be such an amazing combo that it’s really hard for me to play Chris without the bionic commando.
But if I cycle Chris/Spencer/Doom/Strider, should I get some good teams?
Appreciate any input!
Well guys I main Jill/Modok/Sent but I was thinking of making a second team of of either Chris/Modok/Doom or Chris/Modok/Sent, I like the idea of missiles a little more. I I was gonna run doks beams assist with him as well, and machine gun assist is pretty good for dok. What do you guys think?
Thanks for the nice words! It was cool fighting your IM/Doom shell, I didn’t think Chris would benefit from them that much.
Unfortunately my XBL gold trial ran out and I don’t think I’m going to buy a subscription. The connections haven’t been good enough to justify it and I think playing online throws off my timing offline. It’s a shame because it’s hard for me to get games in otherwise.
Dorm has still been a work in progress and honestly I find it hard to make it work in certain matchups and slowly started switching to Vergil instead. I stuck with Dorm at Winter Brawl and did terrible so that was the sign for me to do something different. I change my second character way too much but I think chris/strider will stay since I can do almost anything with that shell.
Don’t do Spencer/Strider. There’s no synergy whatsoever, unfortunately.
Do Doom/Strider - Doom assist probably depends on matchup but I think i would prefer beam overall to nullify or counter Chris’s worst point matchups. Doom with Strider assist plays itself. The only thing that sucks is the total damage to end Chris combos. When you DHC to Doom from sweep combo, do the sphere flame before the rocket hits or else it won’t do anything since Chris steps back at that point.
or do Spencer/Doom - Assist also depends on matchup and I prefer Spencer horizontal grab assist for full screen confirms.
You can play Chris without Spencer. It is a killer combo but you don’t need the slight damage boost when other seconds do just enough damage.
What’s up people. Kind of forgot about FGC for a bit but on my way to the TPP stream I saw SCR was on and so I decided to check it out. Randomly enough it was Flux vs. GcYoshi. He lost 3-1 but he definitely had it in the bag. Anyway, I see it’s been pretty inactive around here for the most part. I’m glad to see ChrisD still dropping the knowledge though. How’ve you guys been?
I’ve only started posting again recently myself. I’m doing okay, nothing special. Too busy with school, hard to really focus on getting better at this.
Yoshi did great, top 16 at SCR. Had a really close win in pools against Zero491. Dropping a combo against Zero is terrifying but he held it together.
So right now Im running Chris (machine gun), Sent (Drones), Haggar (Lariat). its doing ok…but point Chris has a hard time dealing with rush down even with Lariat. Its hard to find breathing room to put stuff on the screen. And super jump machine guns usually lead to me getting hit on the way down. Any advice on how to deal with this? I know its hard to ask for advice to improve without footage. Hopefully Ill be able to record some matches with this team.
Yeah, he had a real chance of taking that thing. He’s still spending way to much meter on Chris combos though. He spent three to kill Zero and my heart sank. The biggest thing was not finishing that happy birthday on Zero/Dante but oh well. Top 32 is still awesome.
That’s basically the core Chris dilemma. Lariat is as good as it gets to defend with but if it isn’t enough, you probably want another fast assist to have since Chris has a hard time protecting Sentinel. Something like Disruptor, Plasma Beam or Tatsu. If you wanna keep Sent (and I play him as well), you should calling Drones and then super jumping over your opponent and doing guns when you’ve reached the other side. It’s a good way to create space and put them in block stun. An incendiary before the is also really strong. If you can’t call Drones, you can just throw an incendiary and super jump forward but hold the stick back to make it shorter. Do guns on the way down and you’ll land in a flame pool and be safe.
what i’ve learned with rush down is either to do forward gun shot and cancel that into landmine. other than that you just have to be patient and block until you see an opportunity to punish or a decent opening to call haggar to punish but always remember to keep your assist safe maybe a jumping gunshot. but thats what i would do
Hey guys. Hope everyone is doing well. I’m still around but life just got harder for me. Still running the same team but considering other options. How is everyone doing?
Im a new Chris player so I appreciate yalls feedback. Anyone play on PSN and wanna run sets?
PSN = Dunamis101, my Chris is ass by the way so I may just use Jill instead if we play lol
I feel you. I’m doing pretty good but I’m in the midst of making some life changes. I haven’t played in forever but I’d like to hit the lab again and see if I can find some new tech and stuff. Still running Chris/Dante/Sentinel.
Aww bummer, I was hoping to get some more games in with you before it ran out. I did learn some stuff from playing you and have applied it to my game which was helpful. I also took some time to work on dealing with vajra and wanted to see how you dealt with it. I would assume you would adapt the way he did, but to see the adaptation and then try to counter that would have been nice. Online is pretty much my only source of games against people cause I dont get to go to tournaments because of personal obligations and there is pretty much no local scene around me. I do go to evo every year and thats prety much it, but I will be attempting to make it to NorCal Regionals this year.
Hey man, long time no see on here. Ive been doing alright. I have been hard at work trying to get games in with as many chris players here as I can. So Far I have played: ChrisD, Retnuh, NeedleCrash, and HylianLegacy. Each play different and I have been able to take something away from everyone. I have slowly been working on using doom rocks to see if that will help against more rushdown characters like Wolvie, but I want to iron out all my combos first before I try it in came cause Im too used to using missiles. Hope all is well and I look forward to seeing future posts about findings in the lab and Ideas you may have. Lata
Ill play you or anyone for that matter. My PSN ID is in my sig, hit me up
Didn’t get to make it to FR this year, sadly. Ah well, getting to support my state and region in spirit will have to do this weekend. Funny how it’s starting to look like the southeast is becoming the new main competition to west coasters instead of the old east/west rivalry as far as skill levels go.
All that aside, has anyone had any solid experience using molecular shield assist for Chris? I feel like that might help alleviate some of the pain of rushdown even if plasma beam is usually the superior assist choice.
Retnuh66, I’d run that and see how it goes. Lemme know how that goes. 
Me and Killakelly ran a few games against each other while both using rocks.
I like the ability to force RTSD players to slow their approach so in that regard rocks is a plus. However, I’m not a fan of the THC it brings with it. Kelly was making it work with his team but I want making ahh headway with my teams. I’ll have to play with it more before I form a solid opinion.
What are you looking for in your THC?
I hit the lab for a few last night with your team and was able to get over a mil but it cost four meters and there was an extension after the THC. let me know what you are trying to accomplish with your THC and I will see what I can find.
On a side note, I was able to get grenade launcher super to connect off of rocks in the corner with chris’ is standard extended combo. Timing is strict, I’m looking into what I can do to reduce hit stun so its less strict at the end before super. Ill let u know what I find.
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