Nova Question And Answer Thread

What are Nova’s worst match ups?

I played a good Nova today with Hawkeye Quick shot assist. Very difficult to get in on him as Javelin plus assist is godly.

If you call Nova as an assist (gravimetric shield) does that use his red health. That assist is definitely one of the best in the game.

I’m fairly sure it does Aoishi.

Can someone explain the jump :h: flight cancel :h: flight cancel :h: loop to me? I find that i can do things easier if i know how it works.

Quite frankly you just do it. The trick is just to not try and do it super fast. It’s a pretty relaxed cadence.

I bet you’re getting tired of explaining that one, aren’t you?

Define relaxed, because my execution is horrible. (I play all my characters at very basic levels.)

A little, but Fly/Unfly stuff is among the harder stuff in the game. Nova may have some basic stuff, but his good stuff requires precise timing and some solid execution.

I’ve been playing FG’s for a long time (used to live where I was a tournaments for Melee and VF4), so executional stuff is mostly second nature to me, so I understand that what I find easy other might sturggle with.

Besides, if someone is willing to learn and wants to get better, I’m willing to help. I only get irritated when people refuse to level up, like the idiots who still say Viper’s BnB’s are to hard to be practical. They aren’t too hard, you just need to level up. It’s why I’ve been grinding out the boulder loop with the coon, there nothing wrong with the combo, there’s something wrong with me.

So FlyingVe if you are in a mood to help ^^".

I have a probleme with the centurion rush L loop. after a fly H loop, i relaunch the jH cent rush L, then i cant seem to link the Down forward dash jH ^^".

Sorry, I;m having some trouble understanding what your asking. What combo are you trying to do?

You should learn numpad notation, it makes talking about things in a game like this much easier.

I think he’s talking about the updated BnB (non-redlife), where you Rocket Punch L, addf H, S, etc…

Okay, if that’s the case, the only two real notes I have are to do the H loop at a pretty relaxed cadence (like always) and leave a small pause after the first launch before you go into the jH>L Rocket.

We must help our Worldmind Ve…

The trick to the Fly/Unfly combo is to find your rhythm. After your first j:h:, quickly initiate your fly command :qcb::s: fast enough as so the opponent won’t drop out and hit :h:, but not so fast that you initiate :h: Nova Strike.

Yea…I am not the best at explaining it, but it’s all about the rhythm and timing. Bu that’s what the training room is for! Like my PE Teacher always say, Practice makes Permanent.

Hey, you did a better job then I did. :slight_smile:

Thanks but i’m talking about the followup after the L rocket punch. i do the 3Dash and cant link the jH after the dash ^^".

Well, be sure to wait just a smidge after the first relaunch before you go into jH>L Rocket, the way the enemy is high enough for you to link ADD jH.

how do YOU dhc into spencer? It seems to work only after his beam super =/

You just need to do the combo so the Super Nova s low to the ground. Usually that means leaving out a single jH.

The best way to do it is raw tag Spencer post crumple and then DHC back into Nova.

even then I have to cancel the nova really quick, which means a damage loss. seems that it’s not worth it unless you need to tag out nova or don’t have any red health you wanna waste to go for the beam super.

btw can you do crumble, javelin, raw tag then combo further? didn’t test it during a combo, but it works outside of it.

This is a good idea, I will play with this today or tomorrow and get back to you.

As for the Raw tag, it is totally worth it if your plan is to DHC. Super Nova does more damage then the Beam, is easier to combo into, and Bionic Maneuvers is also a high damage hyper.

Why not after the Nova Crumple from the Nova/Spencer BnB, do a :l: Centurion Arts and then Super Nova into Bionic Maneuvers. Anyone tried that?

EDIT: Oh nevermind, it seems super Nova pops them up too high, perhaps Bionic ARRRRRRRRRRRRM?

I’ve got a new team BnB for ya’ll. I’ll reveal it in a few days, it does 1,050k off one starting bar and only takes the best friends… :slight_smile: