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He doesn’t unlock hsien-ko until like 2/3 of the way through, but there it is.
I dont think he ever used the assist. it was just seen on the select screen
it would lock down better probably, but startup will be way slower.
I don’t mind not being able to combo into pendulum that wasn’t my intent with it. I’m going to try for some traps with say, c.Fierce+Doom Rocks, cancel the c.Fierce into Pendulum and then go for a mix up while Doom Rocks keep them lock down.
EDIT: Just saw Mango Sentinel in the stream archive. lolol
Yup. Pen da loom Assist. Xie Xie.
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yeah I didn’t watch it all but he didn’t use her assist from what I did see. I’m still wondering if she swings twice or once and how’s the start up is and such 
Someone earlier in the thread said that she swings forward and back. It was apparently seen on Niitsuma’s stream which didn’t last too long.
Thoughts from the new stream:
-Airdash doesn’t look so bad in practice.
-Her :d::l: is her knife swing, which is potentially a bad thing. In VS her cr.LP and cr.MP didn’t hit low, which are the moves she kept, so it’s possible that her only low-hitting move now is her :d::h: (old cr.HP.) Between that and not knowing whether Tenraiha as an overhead actually works anymore due to super freeze, her high-low mixup could be weaker than it was. Someone should test the properties on those moves to be sure.
-Forward dash crosses up grounded opponents and seems to have pretty good recovery. If the above is true, it seems likely that her mixup will focus less on high/low/throw like it was previously, and more on left/right/throw with the occasional sweep/IAD overhead. While you probably can’t mixup the distance much, since an enemy could predict where Hsien-ko would end up, you could mix up the timing of the dash and make them guess whether to block the assist/item throw/gong as a crossup or not. Notable that there isn’t autocorrect in this game, IIRC.
-f.MP made an appearance, which is the first we’ve seen of her command normals. I think I saw someone cancel it, could be wrong. Stand :h: is special-cancelable also, but doesn’t seem to connect well into :s:. Also, while on the subject of normals, it’s been said that they have crazy range, but it’s especially obvious here (like the one part with hsien-ko vs. hsien-ko where one of them did jumpback :h: and it had the reach to hit on the way down.)
-It was only really shown against Galactus, but if you do air gong you can still block/attack on the way down. I don’t know if you can combo it off air normals (it didn’t work with one of the strengths) but it does seem to slow down your descent. Worth mentioning since IIRC the other videos made it look like you couldn’t do anything after air gong. I want to see what the mission mode has in store for her.
Don’t forget we’ve also seen her :f::h: in her reveal trailer, here: [media=youtube]r6BEAShHefc&t=35s[/media] after she sweeps Hulk with the :d::h:
It is a pretty big concern that she might not have many low hitting attacks… but this might help lull opponents into a false sense of security, helping her to make good use of the crawling sweep + Low assist.
I wonder if they’ll be any special gimmick attached to the fact that her super jump seems to be a chain yank, as seen multiple times in the stream, VS Galactus… might help lead to throwing off the opponent, or maybe even a special high jump attack (like an upward aiming pendulum attack), but that’s probably expecting too much…
That’s not just an item toss? The :f::h: that I’m thinking of would involve her crouching down a bit and throwing both of her claws up-forward as an anti-air.
Yeah, that’s exactly what she does after the :d::h: Does a split, shoots huge claws with chains at an angle upwards into the air. Exactly like http://www.emugif.com/picture20101028/vsavj/lei-lei/c05.gif
By Job, you’re right! 
:tup: Since she can cancel it from her :d::h:, and it’s special move cancellable itself (as seen by her doing into Gong afterwards), maybe, with the right assist, it’ll even give her enough time to Pendulum swing -> air combo or something.
so we got the gong as an assist?
sweet!
too bad we gotta beat arcade 3 times to get her…
hopefully i won’t have to lower the difficulty
Talked to my friend that has the game early. Gong assist is good, has decent duration, and reflects. Pendulum assist only does one swing but he said you might be able to make it go twice. Also said she seems really good, so if that’s any news for you guys, enjoy!
The motion looks the same but she doesn’t extend her claws out all the way like in VS. It might have been because she cancelled it immediately into something else but not really sure until we test.
I certainly enjoy the news!!
Actually no, it’s just fast and youtube is a pain to capture from. Fast enough that I thought it was another :d:
when I saw it originally.
Would they be willing to test things?
Well, that’s pretty much how everything in this game is right now, correct? I was more confirming the existance, rather than trying to say it works exactly the same.
That said, I can’t imagine it’s going to be too different, but yeah, we’ll see! It seems like they’re trying to retain most of the DS characters special normals, and it’s good to see her :d::h: can be cancelled into a normal other than :s:. Especially since we haven’t seen evidence of her old standing :hk:.
Edit: Wow, you didn’t even see the claws extend in the Youtube Vid? Ahhh, I kept seeing it easily on my side here, so maybe it was just the resolution or something that threw it off. It looked fairly easy to see at 720p on youtube for me.
Yeah, I could barely tell it actually animated to go that far out in the youtube vid as well. Good work catching that frame! To me, it looked as if she cancelled it before it went “through” the Hulk.
Jesus fuck that was fast. I had to pause it multiple times to see the move and the sick part is that she cancelled into gong right afterwards meaning the move is special canceable. Hmm…I wonder if you could force a trap like c.Fierce, f.Firece+Doom Rocks, special cancel f.Fierce into Pendulum.
Could always use the Eurogamer Videos for a better framerate (especiall when downloaded):
Hsien-Ko joins MVC3 character list - Eurogamer Videos | Eurogamer.net
Or download 60fps version from Gamersyde:
MvsC3: Hsien Ko & Sentinel - Gamersyde