So I’m thinking of joining the Morrigan/Vergil bandwagon because Vergil is a lot funner than Doom and I’m more of a rushdown person than a keepaway one (and honestly Doom gets birthday’d a million times calling missiles because I’m a bad player).
I apologize if this question was already asked, but who’s a good anchor for Morrigan/Vergil? Seems like Morrigan wants lockdown and OTG assists and Vergil wants horizontal and OTG assists. Vergil gives Morrigan that lockdown, but she still wants OTG, so putting an OTG assist last makes sense… but then if Morrigan dies, Vergil/OTG is not a good position to be in. If the last assist was a horizontal assist, Morrigan would have redundant 2x horizontal assists… who could possibly complete this team?
Basically, Vergil needs two assists to reach his maximum potential and with Morrigan taking up one slot, he can only choose one. Omniscythe uses Wesker anchor, but Vergil with only Wesker assist backing him up sounds like a relatively weak neutral game and Wesker isn’t the greatest (although he is a great) anchor. Doom kinda makes sense, but he’s probably a worse anchor than Wesker, although the neutral game would be better… but if I wanted to play Doom, I’d play Morrigan/Doom/Amaterasu…?
You have to pick whether you want to back up Vergil or Morrigan, nothing really works out optimally for both. It’s the only downside to their team synergy. Morrigan does not have to Astral Vision trap though, you could take the much harder, and just as effective route of learning the really good AV combos and play a beastly rush with her.
I’m honestly not sure how Omni gets away with his team as he does, he’s a much better player than I at least.
Omni is quite a suicider, I noticed it on his Blazblue career, he goes for huge risk/reward situations. Against the free, you can always get away with it since they won’t punish it accordingly. Against better players, well, you 50% of the time in the good case…
Wild guess, but why don’t you go Morrigan/Doom/Vergil? Vergil is a beast as anchor. You switch Doom and Vergil if you feel like playing Vergil instead of Doom, and Doom assists (HM) is good for extending combo and giving pressure opportunities.
Does Morrigan/Vergil teamwork extend to when there’s someone in between them? I would’ve thought that DHCs are a large part of their teamwork and you lose it if you have to put someone in the middle.
My team was pretty much Morrigan/Vergil/Samurai Edge, mainly to make sure I’m always able to confirm off most attacks.
But after dealing with AV missiles for months I’m just gonna have to join them with swapping consistence for neutral(Missiles).
Morrigan/Vergil/Doom or Morrigan/Doom/Ammy are easily two of the best teams for her.
My natural play style is to be fancy or troll by any means necessary, with Marvel it’s way too unforgiving to do either but old habits die hard. On the other hand with BB the number of people that can actually force me to play properly is countable on hand.
I usually use X-23 and Chun-Li along with Morrigan, ever since MvC3. She’s last on my team, because she acts like a trump card since I’m somewhat decent with X-23 and Chun and allows me to fill meter through her Dark Harmonizer assist.
For X-23, I have the Ankle Slice assist, which allows Morrigan to continue her combos through the assist’s OTG effect. Likewise, Morrigan can benefit from the use of the DHC from Weapon X Prime.
Chun-Li has the Hyakuretsu Kyaku assist. Morrigan slightly benefits from this because when she does the Shadow Servant hyper in the corner, you can activate the assist which makes the enemy get hit by both attacks and allows her to continue her combos. I don’t know if the Tenshoukyaku assist would work as well, but maybe I can try testing that or something.
I can’t really explain this team in detail, but I did make a combo video with this team, and they help one another in so many ways. I don’t know if I want to post it here or not, but Morrigan benefits from X-23 and Chun-Li for me.
Yeah, BB’s community in the US is a bit lacking compared to the other communities. But I can’t really talk as our community is about 5 players (And I haven’t really spent some quality time with Makoto since EX).
I want to put Morrigan, Doom, and Haggar on the same team… But I can’t decide on the order. Haggar or Morrigan point? If Haggar is point, should Morrigan or Doom be anchor? And lastly, which Doom assist should be used? Plasma beam would be good for combo extension and beam properties, but we all know about the boons of hidden missiles… which are also great for Morrigan.
thats such an adaptable team. You could play it in like 5 different ways and still be incredibly effective. Im not going to tell you how to go about that.
You could run the Chris G special with morrigan on point with missile behind it, and haggar as a gtfo. Honestly, if you dont really want to put any thought in your team and just be really effective from jump street, thats probably what you should go with.
but theres so many other options, if you want to maximise your potential, you should play around with a bunch of sets and see how it plays out.
You could run haggar on point with beam assist for combos and morrigan dp assist to set up for that stupid anti air unblockable reset.
You could run haggar on point, with morrigan fireball behind it to help you get in, and missiles or beam behind it just to be amazing because Doom.
you could probably even find a way to run doom on point with lariat gtfo’ing for you and morrigan spewing fireballs for a really lame set up.
its up to you. My only advice is dont sell yourself short and just run YOUR team a certain way because somebody told you too/somebody else did it that way. Experiment and forge your own path.
I’m running Viper/Dante/Morrigan right now. Morrigan feels like a really strong anchor. Viper is a really good character who’s main problem is lack of good hitboxes which jam session pretty much solves. Dante stands great on his own, the whole team likes meter but with a harmonizer boom no problems.
I agree with the KayEyeDee, if what your doing works keep doing it, when you run up against something that you can’t deal with then relook at your team.
I’m really feeling Morrigan/Doom/Vergil, but only as like a counterpick to some of the anchors that I might otherwise be afraid of. Hawkeye anchor is one of my worst matchups regularly ( Any team, not just Morrigan ), but with Vergil anchor and all of his tools to just run over a Hawkeye, Spiral Swords is just too good, the ability to make your opponent just stop pressing buttons. Doom is such a good battery for Vergil too, I just need to figure out some uses for Rapid Slash on Morri/Doom, I know theres something because i’ve seen Omni do excellent things with it, and I ran into a Doom/Vergil/Skrull player at NCR that was quite amazing and made pretty good use of the Rapid Slash assist to open people up.
For most matchups though ( where i’m not afraid of some full screen punish that could easily take out my anchor for pressing a button ), i’d probably run Akuma anchor or Strider, maybe just even an OTG assist extender.
^I actually feel with that team, storm is better on point. Storms mobility makes her pretty good at running away and I think she can call assists whilst doing that floaty move right? Well you can probably just run around the screen calling dark harmoniser and maybe go for some rushdown backed up by akuma assist. As soon as youve got two bars just hail dhc into morrigan and get a shit load of chip in astral vision.
I don’t think Storm’s float allows assists at all anymore, I;m certain it no longer does at super jump height at least. That was the single most brutal nerf she took in the version change.
I thought that was only if she did it at super jump height? Thats a shame. I still think its a better order although if whirlwind assist pushes back similarly to vergils rapid slash assist, then maybe Morrigan point+whirlwind would be better.
The issue with the float during vanilla was it put her into normal jump state, regardless of the actual jump state. The point wasn’t calling an assist off screen, it was doing so without wasting your air dash. Honestly, I haven’t played Storm since Ultimate dropped, so I could be wrong, but I thought it felt like on day 1 they fixed the float assist “bug” by making float place her in super jump state. I probably am wrong though, and regardless, you could still jump, air dash up and activate flight. It’s just nowhere near as good as it was in vanilla.
Morrigan is a point character, against a solid player, who knows his defense, she has quite a hard time to make the comeback.
I was running Wesker/Morrigan/Strange team, and when Wesker got bodied (match up with Strider is annoying), Morrigan had quite a hard time fighting him, especially when he swap in Doom, and it pretty much kill her air game. I don’t know, I feel like Morrigan is much better as point. (Also she lack in using her XF in the middle of combo to get the kill)