Using the same team too with Wesker on point, then Dormammu 2nd.
I was thinking about putting Wesker on point, but I’ve gotten so good at zoning out people with Dormammu. haha
Can you explain how? Because I am thinking of using doom on my akuma on point team for a while. I just want to know what hidden missiles does for Akuma
Is it just me or does the tatsu assist make the magneto fly combo fail?
Ammy cold star is nice with Akuma and my other guy is Spidey/web ball . . I use Akuma to punish especially with lvl3 XFC. Usually when he’s out its to let Spidey/Ammy get some red health back then I’ll go for a B&B combo that’ll lead to an OTG beam super followed by Maximum Spider or Okami Shuffle depending on whose up.
Akuma is actually very versatile, he is like c.viper in that he builds TONS of meter with his combos(the advanced ones at least) but on the flip side can also be used as a meter dump since he can literally TOD anyone in the game with the right amount of meter. I’ve said this in a few threads but I honestly believe the worst thing that happened to him was having an amazing assist(and the appearance of the DHc glitch since it made his amazing damage combos obsolete) since it detered people from playing him on point. I’ve made it my goal to learn akuma on point cause I think he has a lot of untapped potential.
Shulk Trish Akuma
Came up with an unblockable setup off of trish’s round harvest, this is best for knockdowns on oppenents,
Round Harvest tag akuma call shulk (torpedo assist) then akuma’s overhead not only do you get the chip damage but you get a free combo which could go to easy 100% plus you have a semi unblockable dhc’ glitch if you tag shulk back in. Basically its Shulks bnb as u do the otg torpedo call trish (peekaboo) and when you hit with torpedo immediately do her aa hyper and it will hit then you can dhc to trish for more damage
Not bad at all, and since torpedo covers so much distance you don’t even need to wave dash to far to get off the unblockable. Heck you can even go for a demon flip palm instead of the traditional dash in overhead. PErsonally Im still trying to make akuma work on point, right now Im running sentinel/akuma/dr doom and its working out very well for me so far, although I need to work on my akuma pressure since right now Im opening people up using gimmicky shit like obvious demon flips while calling drones, I need to tighten up the strings to make them truly ambiguous(or as ambiguous as they can be)
He is a great anchor, i have had some great success with him on point, im thinking about running a team around him on point just to see how well is and what he can do, with my team the great thing is all of them can play point (shehulk bein the only bad anchor) it gives me the ability to play matchups
Ammy, Arthur, Akuma on anchor
wesker, taskmaster, akuma.
wesker has my main, whit akuma has my 3rd i can extend combos, taskmaster arrows are my "tricky teleport"
taskmaster as my 2nd to build meter, zonning and using akuma to extend combos.
akuma has my 3rd, he is so pringles whit his gou zanku and lvl3 x factor, and shun goku satsu is an instant kill.
akuma is awesome
Im gonna make it my goal in ultimate to make akuma work on point, I honestly don’t know why capcom thought he needed a goddamn health nerf but w/e ill run with it, I just hope they actually did give him a demon flip grab cause I think that might help his mix-up game out extensively(especially if he can combo off the grab)
Word on the street is while some of that teams BS is gonna be toned down in ultimate they can still do most of the nonsense they could back in vanilla. Me Im gonna make a team for akuma on point, still not sure who Im gonna have backing him up yet, sentinel seems like a very good choice(when is he not?) but I don’t know who Im gonna be running third, prolly someone with a beam assist.
At this point i am running Trish ( Peekaboo)/ Wesker (otg)/ Akuma (Tatsu)
Basically my game is the do a normal bnb with Trish and end it off with the RDK special ( shoutouts to RDK for being gawdlike) and then use Round Harvest with Trish. Hard tag in Akuma and go for demon flip while Wesker assist is out which creates an unblockable. now usually a bnb with Trish does 600,00k and akumas does like 900,000 with two bars and i think 700,000 with 1 bar. So basically with that one hit confirm with Trish, basically your character is dead, and i just start the whole thing over again
How good is akuma with drones behind him?
He is pretty good, its just that he is not fast enough to really create good mix ups or anything too spectacular after a grab like Magneto.
Still very good, but honestly i find Akuma is only really good as anchor with lvl3 x-fac with all that meter to spend. Plus if you really want him to have an assist, i think he strongly benefits from an otg assist or a fast projectile assist such as Doom Plasma Beam or Magneto’s Disrupter
Thanks. I think his best place is anchor also but I just feel more comfortable with akuma second over sentinel.
How many here view Tatsu as a good GTFO assist? I’ve been hearing people compare it to the likes of Lariat and AA Gamma Charge.
Its still very good but now you just have to be really careful with calling him out at the right time. Call him in a bad time and Akuma is dead in like one super without x-fac