What I completely did not know was that you have enough speed to do Flight, j. :h:, unfly, j. :h: before the launch. I’ll have to check if it could land in x-factor level 2.
As for your question, aside from Infrit and RayRay, there’s older videos of Rowtron to look at (he plays him on point most of the time, with the occasional anchor spot) and there’s Knives who has good neutral with him as well. If not look up for a japanese player (which I forgot the name of, but there’s a vid in the Sentinel guide thread).
There’s this other japanese sentinel I recently found, he plays spencer/dante/sentinel but he always raw tags him on point for the incoming mix-up(for some reason). I can never remember his name but I’m sure if you youtubed that team he would come up.
OOOOH yo I think I might have seen him on one of forgenjuro’s streams one day. Dude has the sickest incoming set ups with Sentinel i’ve seen in a while
So I got the idea for these combos from umvc3ing’s videos featuring Shuma. Basically if you are in the corner, you can do Sentinel’s normal S, jH, fly, jL, jH, unfly sequence, but you hard tag into Nemesis as soon as you can so that as soon as Nemesis recovers from the hard tag, you can link a S and do whatever you wish. You can also do this trick from a command grab with Sent in the corner. I couldn’t get this to work on small hit boxes though. I did it with Nemesis but I wouldn’t be surprised if this concept could be applied to other characters as well.
Found this on the Youtubes. A way to connect an air Rocket Punch L if you forward throw an opponent from the peak of their normal jump height in XF3. There seems to be a lot of subtleties to the execution, Ive only been able to do it once so far. What do yall think?
Thanks Dazed. I had a feeling that what it was. I also think I wasting time trying to fly close when it doesnt look like it needs to be that close. Ill practice it some more. Nice find BTW!
Damn, that’s a really useful skill to learn. I usually don’t like XF 3 only techniques but since this is sent were talking about here it’ll definitely come in handy.
As an aside, I saw this video of ray running sent on point for the first few matches, some nice matches for anyone interested.
Ugh…I like how he’s able to create really solid block stringsthat can also convert to full combos on hit. I cant really do that with Nemesis. I use rocket shot assist. I guess Sent could do it with clothesline rocket assist since it causes wallbounce. But then Nemesis is vunerable. With Hulk I could kinda do it with Gamma Wave, but timing is tight. AA Gamma Charge is also possible, but its pretty hard since you gotta fly up back and get the right spacing. Gamma charge is pretty solid, but I dont run that assist. I need to watch more of the footage though. I just watched the first few matches.
I’ve used a lot of sent and hulk, and a moderate amount of nemesis.
I can safely say none of them offer Sentinel the same types of confirms and blockstrings that a good lockdown assist offers. My pressure with Jam session is much better than my pressure with Shopping Cart, and my pressure with shopping cart is MUCH MUCH better than my pressure with gamma wave / rocket.
I think trying those same offensive pressure strings with anything short of a decent lockdown assist is pretty much asking to get poked out(by things like vergil sH, etc) or airthrown, and that you’re better off staying back with the usual mid range poking game. He really gains a lot of power on point with a decent lockdown, and can combine his mid-range-ish pokes with assists that double as blockstrings and hitconfirms, to go into closer pressure with jL, unfly normals, low/throw, etc.
That, combined with jam session’s usage for incoming mixups, fullscreen confirms with THC, safety DHC, HSF->DT->Air Trick crossup, and other perks makes me pretty convinced that Dante is his best support.
I like beam assists for a little help, here and there, but they’re more of a defensive/zoning tool, IMO, and don’t really supplement him as much as an assist that has more active frames.
Yea that’s why I still believe the best point sentinel team is sentinel/dante/akuma. Gives him horizontal and vertical coverage, allows him to flight cancel confirm of most of his normals and still produces a decent shell if(more likely when) sentinel gets killed. I still play it every now and then in casuals but my dante is hot garbage so I keep it to the minimum.
Well, I finally finished my latest combo video. “PUT ME IN COACH!”, my Sentinel combo video is finally up for your viewing pleasure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBRabEkuHlQ
Im not sure if this is new…I know I’ve seen this from from a TAC infinite but never mid combo…Anyway, if you side or down exchange low enough to the ground, Sentinel will stay on screen instead of switching to the next slot, resulting in some interesting follow up options.
