Where did I mention pendulum?
He did.
Okay, never mind. I misread what you said as “Hsien Ko will only be good for runaway” rather than “Hsien Ko’s airdash will only be good for runaway.” My mistake.
-_- well that sucks…
I don’t know. I get the feeling that once people figure out her dash and start canceling air dash into pendulum she’s going to have fairly tight air space control.
No it doesn’t. Sent would steal anyone’s spotlight.
Look at that Metro City video that was posted above. Hsien-ko uses her air-dash a few times to good effect. You stay up for a while and then come down fast, and it’s cancelable fairly early at the least. Plenty of room to vary your attack timing, especially if you start throwing pendulum into the mix.
People will need to mess around with her pendulum to see how canceling it works here, but if it’s anything like the past version, you can use it to go pretty much anywhere on the screen you want, and do it twice (forward, back, forward, back) and airdash in the same jump. Plenty of room for left/right/high/low mixup, especially with assist support.
Also,
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Hulk could very well be holding down-forward or something, but it does look like it could potentially hit overhead here, and it looks like you could easily go into a ground combo -> launcher -> air combo. That could make up for Tenraiha being more reactable. It’s also nice that Chiireitou is more comboable and still stays out long with good recovery. I bet there are more combo possibilities with that juggle.
So the pendulum is what could make her, but regardless of that it seems like she will have a use somewhere no matter what, with that gong and dark force. It seems like all the drawbacks of the dark force were taken away, so she has potential to be strong against things that other characters have a hard time dealing with in this game (lightning legs assist, as a possible example? Just stab her.)
bummer I was hoping Cheireitou would be spammable like in pocket fighter 
sentinel isn’t even that popular in the marvel universe
last i checked
No meter gain during Darkforce though. Bummer.
I think her DF will be better applied on her assists anyway. DF DHC into whatever then use her as an armored assist ala Mecha Zangief in MvC2, except that she’ll be able to block and won’t be stuck in that mode.
Yeah, I think her airdash is just used differently than other characters, it seems less like a way to close distance (though it obviously can) and more of a bait, people will try to hit her out of it and you can cancel it into pendulum/gong/normals.
The way I see it, the pendulum seems a better way to close gaps, you can swing in, and cancel above the opponent at variable times for a crossup or cancel it early to bait a DP and punish or something like that
Granted this is all theory fighting but I’m far too amped for Hsien-ko and there isn’t enough footage to feed me 
yeah they only just finished a major story arc with sents and killed two characters of the X-men…
this is a marvel vs capcom game
last i checked
Marvel should totally use MvC’s Sentinel design in their comics, it’s amazing.
I’m really interested in how much damage Hsien Ko can get off a ground hitstring > launcher > air series > Tenraiha > KFC > Swords. In her reveal trailer Dorm dies on like the second of five hits from the swords.
I can’t tell if Hsien-Ko is saying “Let… me help” or “ni hao” in her intro.
we’ve heard 2 intros for her, so >>>
She’s definitely saying “Ni hao”. It just sounds a little of because she’s saying it as she struggles to her feet after falling.
I can’t wait to see how Cheireitou DHC’s into Shadow Servant (or vice versa) with Hsien/Morr, I’m betting it’ll look glorious…
the 2 quotes we’ve said are ‘You should run while you can!’ and ‘Ni Hao!’ her ending one, if I remember the chinese I learned from by B-inlaw, is goodbye in chinese.