So what team are you using right now, do you play mvc2 consistantly?
Not as much as I should, and because of this I frequently play low tier.
My team is Hayato, Sent, and Jin. Sometimes I’ll play Strider/Doom/Sent or Cable since that’s my only top tier team against higher tiers.
If i’m dead serious in winning i’ll pick: Cable/Sent/Cyclops. Lots of sleazy tactics with that team, i try not to pick it normally.
Otherwise: Charlie/Samurai/War Machine(or IM if i need extra firepower).
It’s funny because I have never encounterd a Silver Samurai user until now. I always thought his prime was in XM:COA.
Samurai is a neat character but he is not very good, and slow to boot. I only picked him because NO one else did. Everything revolves around his lighting super, take that away and he is not of much use.
He can hit lightning off any launcher and or assist that knocks the other char into the air(charlie’s flashkick). My favorite setup is to start the flashkick super with charlie, and DHC into lightning, just as charlie is knocking the other char into the air.
The stars are great for chip damage(jab+jab+star,rinse repeat), especially the super, and the only assist of samurai’s that i find useful is projectile. For some reason charlie works pretty good w/samurai star assist.
I’m sure he has got some other neat tricks but thats all i find useful with him so far.
That’s like my doom only I use him for assist purposes only. One on One I can fight but just average things that make doom special like laser(jump screen) + sent ground assist. I’ve used the Samurai in XMCOA but in MvC2 there’s just too many characters to experiment with…
all healing assists fill up the red part of your life bar can be pretty useful if you have a big chunk of red
I dont play much mvc2 these days cuz the game has turned into a “god characters” only matches. Seems like Sentinel will always be in any team or Magneto as well. Kinda defeats the purpose of having 56 characters you know!
Oh, I didn’t know all of the assist fully restore the red. They heal anyway when characters don’t fight - guess it’s not all that useful when you’re trying to heal getting smashed on at the same time.
I know exactly what you mean! That is why i don’t care less to watch MVC2 tournament matches. Nothing but a combination of the same 5-6 characters over and over, which is boring as shit.
I love playing low-tiers, since the majority of the cast is comprised of them. Really makes things a lot more interesting, and breathes New life into a game that otherwise would’ve gotten boring as hell years ago.
Ofcourse i realize that opinion probably won’t be popular with the top-tier whores around, because they’d like to think that the stuff they do is still somehow “kewl” and “exciting”.
That and your assist character is left out there doing nothing, just waiting for pesky cable users to punish.
^Plus that’s what I always fear - two characters of my team getting pwned by HSF or AHVB.
I watch the videos but nowadays it’s just with low tiers only, I’ve seen people select characters who I thought had no chance in hell and they still win.
This seems to be the best place to ask this. Is there a thread available about getting started/trained up for competitive play… from scratch (gameless, stickless, practiceless, etc.)? I haven’t played MvC2 in a few years now, but coming to this site has sparked my interest in getting back into it. From what I’ve witnessed, I’m WAYYY behind on the current metagame. So, any info that could help me return to that state would be appreciated.
Ok, I tried Thanos’s capture assist and it sucks. Nobody never gets caught, is it just me or is it really that bad?
you have to combo into it or try and cross-up
hi guys, i am new to the game. My question is, how do you do h.k ? isn’t h.k calling out the assists instate of hitting ?
Yeah, I know I have bad execution. Maybe I need to find better people to team him up with…
TG: “So you want to be an MVC2 player, eh kid?”
21422: “Yes sir!”
TG: “Alright this game has such a large and diverse character selection. You can pick either Cable, sentinel, storm, or Magneto. Who’s your pick?”
21422: “Spider-man!”
TG: “Who the hell? He is not in this game!”
Joking aside. Hk, sounds like high-kick? I don’t quite understand your question. There are 4 attack buttons(2 kicks, 2 punches), and the last 2 buttons are for calling assists.
Understand that each character plays differently. Stuff like launchers, while every character has one, not every character does his the same way.
He’s asking where heavy kick is, because he’s confused about the 4 button attack layout.
lp and mp and lk and mk are the same button buddy, you land one and then press it again for the other one to come out, whereas the middle buttons (on arcade stick) are the heavy punch/heavy kick.
I can’t use Sentinal worth a damn. =/
Sentinal is the easiest of the god tiers to use/learn in my opinion. Give it a little time, that bot is a nightmare. Try to learn the basics first, like the Laser+rocket punch, and the simple stomping+rocket punch combos.
My favorite simple combo with him is to jump and: Short kick, strong kick, (jab)rocket punch. Its only 3 hits but deals nice damage.