Well, most of us wouldn’t be playing MvC3 in the first place if we weren’t masochists, anyway.
I’ll be playing this game come Ultimate, though I haven’t been playing that much frequently. And with school coming up, it’ll be even less. And if she ends up staying where she is now, I think I’ll find myself playing her in VSav itself more. Though she’ll stay my main in this game. That’s not going to change.
I’m not sure if I’m a loyalist for Hsien-Ko since I didn’t know she existed until she got revealed for MvC3 then I decided to try her out when I found out that her Gong reminded me of someone else from a different game who I used before. Luckily, I really enjoyed her gimmicky move set and the vast variety of weapons she used so I ended up maining her.
And yes, I never played Darkstalkers nor heard about it until MvC3 
I had never played Hsien-Ko in a Darkstalkers game before but I was already aware of the character since I am a small fan of the franchise (she has a pretty big role in the anime too). I had dabbled with Felicia and Morrigan in Vampire Savior and MvC2 before MvC3 came out though :3
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Funny, I just made that connection only a few weeks ago. Oddly enough, there’s a Lei Lei skin for the Medic, though it looks pretty obnoxious in TF2, and unless you like to see her head get chopped off in a fountain of gore… (despite characters getting sliced in half in Darkstalkers). There’s a TF2 thread on this site as well. Not much happens in it, though.
I’ve gotten a few comments of appreciation from other players on my H-Ko spray, but I remember the first time someone commented on it, he asked “Why is that girl wearing a piece of tape on her head?” and then someone else: “I’ll never understand anime.” I laughed a little inside.
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Anyway, back on topic.
TGS in 10 days. New build?
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Damn, we really need some new, substantial info for her.
Sounds like you play TF2 besides me. We can add each other on Steam if you wish to. Hsien-Ko skin for Medic? That’s weak, Pyro or Spy would be better considering that she can both deflect and turn invisible, plus I hardly ever use the Medic.
On topic: If we get a new build, I hope they change the order of the health bars on the screen. Like everyone else said, it’s confusing.
I want to say that the one we’ve been seeing is final. Which would suck, because you can’t really tell how your other characters are doing.
they got a skin for the demoman, but it’s really… weird.
back on topic, i wish they could at least buff her speed to vanilla XF lvl 1 status. she seems so much more effective
i hope that hsien-ko is not really going to end up as an assist character. i mean other characters also used mainly for their assists pose more of a threat than her on point:
-tron has long damaging combos (although usually dependant on j.C which is getting nerfed, and other combo-extending assists)
-doom can be quite nasty on point as shown by the assist me videos and clockw0rk. (i.e tri-jumping, dash-cancelable normals, damaging combos)
That nose… there’s something wrong…
And Doom is going to be scary in Ultimate. All the while retaining those assists. Personally, I find Missiles to be much more annoying to fight than Pendulum.
Since I mentioned this in another post earlier, I figured I’d mention it here too:
Hsien-Ko can’t block while performing her backwards air dash, nor can she block immediately after. The only thing she can do is cancel it with a normal or special and hope she either doesn’t get hit or ends the animation of whatever she cancelled it with so that she can block again.
I hope they change this in UMvC3 but I remain skeptical. Ammy’s air dashes are being changed to have this no-block property as well, so maybe now since it will be on a more popular character enough of a stink will be raised to get it fixed.
Yeah, that’s something that’s always been annoying, though I feel that was intentional (or in Ammy’s case, unintentional), and so I just tried to work around it.
It wouldn’t be as much a problem if her air dash was like, ya know, not slow as fuck.
A fix for that would be nice, especially when I accidentally air back dash then eat a random beam hyper from across the screen. I hope I’m not the only one who experiences that.
lol. I did a quick search and there’s a much better skin for Demoman with a good replica of her MvC3 model. Although, it’s still being worked on before being released according to the guy who uses it.
It’s not even a dash really. More like a jaunt.
I just refer to it as the airstroll. Like a walk in the park. Seriously, why so goddamn slow…
I know what you’re talking about. I usually try to keep my airdashing to a minimum around Akuma and the like because of that.
@Demopan skin: I think I’ve seen that one. And speaking of Demomen and Lei Lei, I played against/with the Demoman player Lei Lei today. Though I somehow managed to only die twice (I think) to her as a Medic, it was rather… terrifying. In case you don’t know, she has a script that allows her to use an Xbox controller with the mouse to sharply turn mid-charge. Not bad with the pipes, either.
Yeah, that’s the problem with it. I understand them not letting characters block while flying or during a dash, but hers shouldn’t really qualify for either in its current state.
le sigh.
I luv seeing this Hsien-ko Darkstalkers hype, I’m Team Darkstalker as well, I’ve been followin you guys discussion but haven’t said much atm since I don’t have much to add, but I’m still in it to win it with her on point when I am able.
Might be just me again, but on the video below at 26:10, Hsien-Ko does her F.M move and it seemed to have a much faster start up than before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SwdYW5haoBo#!
I don’t know. It looks like it, but because she KO’d Strider, the freeze kind of screws with the timing between the move starting up and it hitting.
After staring at your avatar for a good minute, I can’t help but notice how Hsien-Ko’s juggle is just the middle sword spinning in mid-air while the other two just go up and down. CANNOT UNSEE
I wouldn’t call it hype exactly, but I’m also happy that there is more activity. TGS had better give us something to sink our teeth into…
I hope she gets more shit to throw, that’d be a huge buff