Nova Question And Answer Thread

Does it involve easy DHC from Nova to Spencer? :smiley:

Nope, but it eliminates that problem all together.

I think I can guess how :slight_smile:

Donā€™t worry, your getting the credit for coming up with the ideaā€¦ Thanks by the way! This combo is alot easier and does slightly more damage than my old 1 mil BFF combo.

Does Nova sL act as a good anti-air or should i keep using sS as anti-air?

(also, what can he do to punish hard Wolvieā€™s divekick now, i got stuffed every time i tried to airgrab it, and dont know what to do on block :/).

5C is a better AA then S as itā€™s safe and you can cancel it. Javelin also will stop people from hanging out above you too much.

As for Wolverines Dive kick, most times you can grab him on block, but now you can tech grabs during recovery so IDK. If they are actually teching the grab, just pushblock him. Remember he cant just BS through everything anymore.

Ok iā€™ll try it next wolvie i fight thanks ^^.

Oh yeah, if you really want wolvie dead. XFC the Dive kick and punch him square in the nutz.

what do yall think about nova as anchor in the 3rd spot?

his least favorable spot imo. doesnā€™t say he doesnā€™t work there, the speed boost in particular makes him quite decent and his damage is ridiculous even without xf to begin with, so he isnā€™t not completly at a loss there, but he is like spencer, way more effective as point or second and most importantly, needs and benefits greatly from an assist. for all I can say with my limited mvc3 experience I think he fits best as point.

wait as far as i know spencer is one of the 3 top tier anchors back in vanilla (being the other two [S]sent[/S] wesker and phoenix).

either way i use nova as a 2nd, his beta assist is to good and tbh there are better anchors imo, im running firebrand-G/nova-B/Dorm-A

Spencer is a bad anchor. He was in Vanilla, and he still is in Ultimate.

People are letting Combofiend fool them on that one.

well then if is that bad of an anchor, then nova is deff way better than himā€¦ and i dont see that happening

Neither of them are good Anchors in my opinion. Nova is better then Spencer simply because he gets more out of being cracked out on XF3.

itā€™s not that spencer is a bad anchor per se, he is just way better in the front spots with an assist backing him up, he deals enough damage without xf, and his assist is very specific. the way I see it: you either have an strong assist as anchor (sentinel, task, frank, hawk, vanilla akuma, tron etc) to utilize their assist for 2 characters or you have a beast on its own as anchor spot (phoenix, wesker etc), neither of that is true for either nova nor spencer.

I have had much success with Spencer on anchor. Most of it is because of my team makeup which is Nova/Hawk/Spencer. Hawkeye seems to be the weakest on anchor so I left him second. A full DHC with all 3 characters also lets me utilize Spencersā€™ wall bounce to snag another OTG into Bionic Lancer. I have had exceptional results with this team combination mostly due to the DHC synergy with Nova and Hawk. In the corner after L Centurion xx Super nova DHC to Scatter shot up to 4 times.

Going to the subject of the Nova/Spencer Javelin combo. Iā€™m having an issue with the opponent being to far away from me mid screen. The only reason I can come up with for this is c.M pushes me too far away to make it land clean, which is the way I begin most of my combos from long range. Close to the corner this is not a problem due to them being pushed into the corner. Is my reasoning correct?

Which Nova Spencer Javelin Combo? If itā€™s the tag one, there shouldnā€™t be a 2B anywhere in there outside of the initial confirm.

How do you do the XF Centurion loop?

you do ABCS Javelin centurion loop while in XF.

Any tips against zoning dorm backed by doom rocks (who i swear got startup invincibility) and task arrow?

I play Nova/Task/Deadpool.

lol