Mind definitely seems like one of those stones that only specific teams will be OP. It won’t generically make a team stronger like the Power, Time or Reality stones will.
Mind storm would be the shit if Fou-lu made it with his dragon transformation being tied to his meter instead of a timer like I imagined.
But to keep things on topic, can you “refill” install supers, like doing it before the timer runs out?
Install super do not stop the meter building from the storm so you will just continually build meter no matter when you activate an install super. Another reason why install super characters will likely be strong in mind storm.
What is an “install super” character?
Characters with supers that activate a buff for your character with a timer. Like Zero’s Sogenmu, Morrigan’s Astral Vision and Dante’s Devil Trigger. The word install comes from the Dragon Install super that Sol Badguy has in Guilty Gear. Just another name to use for that type of super.
Anything that’s basically just a buff instead of an attack.
Morrigan/zero clones
Megaman/Dante power up forms
etc etc, none of those style of supers stop the bars from building.
I’m really most interested in Soul at this point. It will be really fun to try and make revive comebacks. Can you use surges during storms? Because reviving your guy and then using the dual state to combo into life steal repeatedly to bring him back to relatively good health is interesting.
You can use the surges during storms.
Dual characters throwing out dual soul surges to steal life sounds strong. Especially since that would likely lock up a lot of the screen with the dual whip hit boxes
Additionally, if you blow your storm early on the first character, you end up with no storm against a character who has one (and can possibly use it to TOD one of your characters). Especially important when you realize storm activation locks out another storm from being activated.
This is why I think the Mind stone is being very underrated right now. You pop it first to get your shit in, and then you’re left with 4 bars of meter…good enough for 2 free bursts.
…You didn’t forget that Bursts were in the game, did you?
Mind Stone synergizes well with Zero. It’s going to be a top tier stone eventually.
I really hope not.
Luckily, most Zero players aren’t going to be intelligent enough to figure out how stupid he would be with command grabs and constant meter for burst, and will probably keep using him with stuff he doesn’t need like Power or Soul.
These aren’t Dormammu players we’re talking about.
Power might be useful for Zero so he can make zoop zoop do more damage than the pittance it does now.
The damage scaling on combos is so severe now, and seeing as all non-Level 3s have no minimum damage buffer, there’s pretty much no point to the Power Stone.
Zero and most other rushdown characters are going to be much more dependent on resets to kill characters-using a Storm for initial 10-20% extra damage isn’t worth it.
He can also Lightning Loop mid-screen–he has no need for a wall bounce.
NOTE: From watching match videos…Level 3 supers STOP TIME. Both the round time AND the Infinity Storm timer.
That means if you enter IS with at least Level 3 you’re guaranteed to get at least two.
Hell, with the Mind Stone you may even get 3-4 Level 3 supers.
But isn’t scaling on LV3’s quite high generally?
Damaging level 3s end the Infinity Storm but are free iirc. Exceptions are for alternative ones like Firebrand’s Chaos Tide.
Iron man is looking alot better than I first thought