you obviously didn’t understand… even if it was meant to be used to reflect projectiles, that doesn’t mean it won’t hurt the opponent by just having the assist hit them directly, thus you could use it for loccdown and MAYBE even a combo extender(like tron’s old assist) to deal more damage, like i said before…use your imagination…
Well DUH! The people complaining have issues with its main purpose not being as potent as they thought it’d be. What you’re saying is like saying, “Hey I know that the features on that Blu-Ray player you bought suck ass, but HEY LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE! IT’S GREAT FOR DVDS!”
lol well that’s their fault for over hyping the damn assist in the first place -_-, acting like it’s God’s given answer to every spammer one would run into. don’t try to flame me for looking at the glass half full even though unlike others I already knew it was going be half empty.
“Main purpose” is arbitrary, use it for whatever it’s useful for.
thank you! -_-
It’s not arbitrary when it’s one of 3 assist choices. If that “main purpose” isn’t sufficient for it to be used then there’s no point in using it at all.
How so? If a reflector sucks as a reflector but is amazing for something else there is still plenty of point in using it.
And who decides what that main purpose is? The designers or the players?
Answer: the players.
Even then, we don’t know exactly what it was designed for. Perhaps it was, in the end, designed to extend combos as an assist.
We also don’t know how effective the assist itself is. We don’t know anything other than a click shot of it in youtube. Nothing we can draw a conclusion on at all.
not true in the game of marvel vs capcom where there is literally upon hundreds of thousands of different set ups, techniques, combos and assist combos, just because an assist is allegedly supposed to be used for a specific purpose doesn’t mean one can’t find other and maybe even more useful ways to fit their strategy, whatever strategy that may be. but i will admit that if one assist would be more efficient in helping you come out the victor then by all means use it, but to each their own, there is technically no rules in this game what so ever, whether you want to fight clean, dirty, aggresive or triccy. if an assist succs in one way but useful in another then why not go for it?
Someone mentioned that her gong doesn’t have good range on point but one of the version actually does if you watch her reveal trailer your see that but the assist has poor range. Now don’t get me wrong I’m sure it’ll be useful just not brain dead (which I was hoping for honestly lol)
I didn’t know about the point character assist character cross up thing so I guess it doesn’t matter if it went back and forth but even so the swing seems like it’ll be great and her last assist looks like fun. Looks like it can anti air as well as hit full screen opponents. Not sure how good it’ll be against characters that have good zoning (like Deadpool and Modok)
Have you ever seriously played a versus game before? This has to be one of the dumbest posts I’ve ever seen here, especially when we haven’t even gotten to test the assist. Pretty much everyone here has nailed it though.
You’re seriously going to dismiss the notion of assists being either potentially bad, or outshined by other ones by bringing up OTHER vs games?! After MvC1 where practically everyone used Colossus, and MvC2 where there was hardly much of a need for assist choices at all?
When the fuck did I say that? Did you even read the other people’s posts in here or mine, lol. The point being made here is that we don’t know what it’s “main purpose” is when we haven’t even gotten to sit down and apply the assist to anything whatsoever. There are more ways than one to use an assist dude other than this so called “main purpose.” Come on, use your head.
Edit: I’m gonna drop this argument right here though because the last thing I want to do is plague this thread with BS like some other ones.
Well, it took one non-Hsien-ko player to troll the thread to pieces.
Also the tags in this thread are amazing. “dead girls don’t say no” lol
I think her Hyper Armor Pendulum assist will be pretty much devastate anything in front of you. I think gong will still be useful. The range is not THAT freaking terrible.
To be honest, our dead girl got some decent assists. I don’t mind if Pendulum falls behind the opponent, that can actually be good because it can perhaps serve as a combo extender on its own. In MvC2, Zangief’s AA assist was used to close the gap on you and your opponent, essentially making a corner for yourself. I see Pendulum being MUCH more useful of that version.
90% of the cast got amazing assists. Only ones that got kinda hosed is Viewtiful Joe [Bombs damage you] and Taskmaster [ALL Arrow attacks but in different angles].
I’m still not used to being mentioned in the thread tags myelf. 
And yeah, Hyper Armor Pendulum is going to blow right through any move that’s directly in front of you. Sure she might take a few hits but she won’t get combo’d afterwards like assists do when they get hit generally.
Viewtiful Joe has an invincible AAA in Groovy Upper.
Hmmm really? Did not hear about that. I just know he throws an uncharged Voomerang that barely goes anywhere and the bomb that hits anything. I knew he had an AA, but didn’t know it was invincible.
Joe just gets better and better, damn! That is a story for another day (or thread) however.
I heard people thinkin’ Pendulum Assist+ Dark Force enabled super armour? Wicked.
Oh man that dark force pendulum assist is gonna be so crazy can’t wait to abuse it.