Most underated assists? what are you thoughts and what are their uses

Bakuhakubasugasu · 2012-08-30T16:45:20.000Z

Shuma’s Mystic ray and Magneto’s force field.

Peace.

leafcolonel · 2012-08-30T16:58:44.000Z

ForceField assist is ass.

If it were invincible on startup it would be a very good assist, but the assist is vulnerable on startup, making it completely useless for an assist call. The only thing it’s good for is soaking up projectiles since it eats up all non hyper projectiles in active frames, but even then there are better assists that do it better(Gustaff/Tatsu). Force Field on point has it’s very specific uses considering it’s slow startup(on the counter I mean, not the move), but as an assist it’s trash, Disruptor is good for horizontal coverage and teleport mixups, and hypergrav is one of the best combo extending assists in the game.

I think Drone Bombs is one of the best assists in the game, possibly even top 10, if Sent didn’t have drones which is a top 3/5 assist, people would still pick him for Bombs alone, the screen coverage on it is intense, it doesnt disappear when sent gets hit, and interacts positively with most projectiles due to its height. Taskmaster’s Up Arrows assist is also very good in terms of the screen control it provides and the space it provides with a very unique THC, just if you are picking Taskmaster you probably want to use the straight arrows assist. A lot of the full screen horizontal projectile assists are pretty slept on tbh(Chris Machine Gun, Hadokens, Arthur daggers, Modok Beams), and people mainly stick to Drones/Plasma Beam/Unibeam/Disruptor/Hawk + Taskmaster arrows. Joe Bombs is also underrated considering it gives several characters infinites.

brokenscouter · 2012-09-22T08:44:38.000Z

Weskers jaguar dash assist is actually a pretty good combo extender with its soft knockdown and being immune to HSD. Only major problem is that it has a tendency to send wesker to the other side when in the corner.

ShieldSkills · 2012-09-22T09:38:04.000Z

Repulsor Blast and Chris’ Machine Gun. Repulsor destroys most projectiles when active, energy javelin is an exception.

Machine gun is nice because it’s fast and it keeps you standing. Plus deals a good amount of chip.

p.m_novaroad_pilot · 2012-09-22T10:16:18.000Z

crystal assist from dante

otgs but also the hit box it bigger then alot of people think and eats up alot of stuff
it lasts for a long time

armor piecer with spencer can be good when paired with viper big hit box

harmonizer is great, hard as fuck to punish morrigan unless they absolutlely point blank read you and in that matter you need to stop calling it at timed intervals
and along with dante the amount of meter you gain during combos is ridiculous

Bakuhakubasugasu · 2012-09-22T15:19:54.000Z

Mystic Ray, Bolts of Ballsack, Eye of Avocado, Spencer upward grapple and Magnetic Grav.

eivellordsm2 · 2012-09-23T01:26:51.000Z

fire bottle its really good

Intuitive2011 · 2012-09-23T01:30:08.000Z

Any overhead assist plus Vergil = Ton’s of fun. You guys should try it out, especially the Vergils who people block for a long time.

ironboy89 · 2012-09-23T01:31:03.000Z

MODOK’s ballon bomb.

It’s a invincible projectile that is immune to all projectiles in the game, and it makes command grabs/blockstring/etc safe.

Just watch how Rubek’s use it, it’s a really good assist.

Seraphin-Angel · 2012-09-24T14:58:05.000Z

liberation.

scytheavatar · 2012-09-24T15:10:49.000Z

Yeah chuns fireball assist is staring to grow on me it super slow moving, great for teleport characters

All of the fireball assist are underrated, Hadoken and Soul Fist are great too against non-beam characters.

The_Ultimator · 2012-09-25T22:11:31.000Z

I honestly believe that when you pick Dante, Doom, or Strange, you can’t pick a bad assist, because they’re all amazing. The Rocks are pretty underrated, the Daggers of Denak are pretty good (although his other two assists definitely outclass it), Eye of Agamatto is just stupid for lockdown, and the Bolts of Ballsack are like a faster version of Drones (albeit harder to work into combos)

Sentinel’s Bomb assist is decent too, but it’s nowhere near as good as Drones.

NonSexualRice · 2012-09-26T02:41:35.000Z

All of the fireball assist are underrated, Hadoken and Soul Fist are great too against non-beam characters.

Soul Fist is pretty choice. It’s a high durability slow moving projectile that helps many characters move in and controls the horizontal plane pretty well.

GcYoshi13 · 2012-09-26T02:55:40.000Z

Mystic Smash.

Set’s up the greatest THC concepts ever.

FuLLBLeeD · 2012-09-26T09:56:01.000Z

Quick Work is a decent assist and if you use Deadpool its really the only one worth using.

Its not so ‘underrated’ as ‘better than Katanarama in every conceivable way if your character has some way to self OTG’ so I guess it kind of misses the point of the thread but whatever. Neutral jumping with Haggar and calling it opens a lot of people up.

Seraphin-Angel · 2012-09-26T12:47:42.000Z

Definately +1 for sentinel bombs

PongBoom · 2012-09-26T23:49:16.000Z

Bolts of ballsack + Wesker is nuts.

Keeps em crouching but not in hitstun so you can command grab them for free. It’s pretty dirty but strange is ass.

jaytoo · 2012-09-27T08:17:25.000Z

Phoenix overdrive

Invincible startup, nullifies projectiles, tracks opponent

HaikuWar · 2012-10-02T01:08:42.000Z

Phoenix overdrive

Invincible startup, nullifies projectiles, tracks opponent

Its invincable? No fucking way that’s a lie

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Warpticon · 2012-10-06T11:37:15.000Z

Mr.Gray, Bolts of Ballsack, Eye of Avocado, Spencer upward grapple and Magnetic Grav.

Fixed that for you.

And yeah, Repulsor Blast is criminally slept on for its degree of utility.