I’d say Hawkeye is a slighter worse assist for Nova, but a slightly better assist for Wesker, so it pretty much evens out. I’d run them both as anchor for a while and see which you have more success with, they’re both capable anchors with some glaring issues.
Well thanks to SRK for breaking my topic i guess 
Anyway, i was thinking the other day, since you can now FoF off Nova without the crumple is there ANY reason to play Nova/Spencer any more? Why not Nova/Strange/Ammy instead? That may be my new theory for optimal Nova team, it works exactly the same as Doom/Ammy but i think endgame is a better team.
I recently picked up Nova and was wondering what anyone thought would make the best team out of these characters: Dante, Strider, Vergil, Doom, Magneto
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Sottle”>Anyway, i was thinking the other day, since you can now FoF off Nova without the crumple is there ANY reason to play Nova/Spencer any more? Why not Nova/Strange/Ammy instead? That may be my new theory for optimal Nova team, it works exactly the same as Doom/Ammy but i think endgame is a better team.</blockquote>
This is an awesome idea, but I’m wondering if it’s possible to start the FOF loop off a Nova combo that starts with him in the corner. It’s not a situation you’ll see all the time, but often enough that it might warrant the use of Spencer for some people. But I hate Spencer so that exact team composition sounds awesome.
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Dominus Omikron”>I recently picked up Nova and was wondering what anyone thought would make the best team out of these characters: Dante, Strider, Vergil, Doom, Magneto</blockquote>
Toss Magneto out of the conversation, his assists do nothing incredible for Nova and Nova’s assist doesn’t do much for him.
Marvelo plays Nova/Dante (Weasel Shot)/Strider, which is a strong team with good lockdown that does high damage.
I’ve messed around with Nova/Vergil/Doom (Beam), and I have to say it’s pretty strong. Beam is universally great for both Nova and Vergil, Rapid Slash is good for lockdown and limited keepaway, and Cent Rush M creates absurd unblockable situations for Vergil. Just remember to save your wall bounce before DHCing into Spiral Swords.
Nova/Doom (Beam)/Strider is also very good.
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“discovigilante”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Sottle”>Anyway, i was thinking the other day, since you can now FoF off Nova without the crumple is there ANY reason to play Nova/Spencer any more? Why not Nova/Strange/Ammy instead? That may be my new theory for optimal Nova team, it works exactly the same as Doom/Ammy but i think endgame is a better team.</blockquote>
This is an awesome idea, but I’m wondering if it’s possible to start the FOF loop off a Nova combo that starts with him in the corner. It’s not a situation you’ll see all the time, but often enough that it might warrant the use of Spencer for some people. But I hate Spencer so that exact team composition sounds awesome.
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Dominus Omikron”>I recently picked up Nova and was wondering what anyone thought would make the best team out of these characters: Dante, Strider, Vergil, Doom, Magneto</blockquote>
Toss Magneto out of the conversation, his assists do nothing incredible for Nova and Nova’s assist doesn’t do much for him.
Marvelo plays Nova/Dante (Weasel Shot)/Strider, which is a strong team with good lockdown that does high damage.
I’ve messed around with Nova/Vergil/Doom (Beam), and I have to say it’s pretty strong. Beam is universally great for both Nova and Vergil, Rapid Slash is good for lockdown and limited keepaway, and Cent Rush M creates absurd unblockable situations for Vergil. Just remember to save your wall bounce before DHCing into Spiral Swords.
Nova/Doom (Beam)/Strider is also very good.</blockquote>
Thanks, I actually threw Magneto out of the equation after actually reading some of Marvelo’s previous posts and was liking what I was seeing with his team, so I’m thinking of going with Nova/Dante/Strider or Nova/Doom/Strider. I might try that team with Vergil just to mess around, my only gripe is that I’m not that big of a fan putting Doom in the anchor slot.
I’m planning on using the Nova Doom Spencer shell, and I wanted to know what your thoughts on the best order for that is. I keep waffling between the two, though I mostly lean towards Nova/Doom/Spencer because of safe DHCs. Is that recommended?
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Dominus Omikron”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“discovigilante”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Sottle”>Anyway, i was thinking the other day, since you can now FoF off Nova without the crumple is there ANY reason to play Nova/Spencer any more? Why not Nova/Strange/Ammy instead? That may be my new theory for optimal Nova team, it works exactly the same as Doom/Ammy but i think endgame is a better team.</blockquote>
This is an awesome idea, but I’m wondering if it’s possible to start the FOF loop off a Nova combo that starts with him in the corner. It’s not a situation you’ll see all the time, but often enough that it might warrant the use of Spencer for some people. But I hate Spencer so that exact team composition sounds awesome.
<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“Dominus Omikron”>I recently picked up Nova and was wondering what anyone thought would make the best team out of these characters: Dante, Strider, Vergil, Doom, Magneto</blockquote>
Toss Magneto out of the conversation, his assists do nothing incredible for Nova and Nova’s assist doesn’t do much for him.
Marvelo plays Nova/Dante (Weasel Shot)/Strider, which is a strong team with good lockdown that does high damage.
I’ve messed around with Nova/Vergil/Doom (Beam), and I have to say it’s pretty strong. Beam is universally great for both Nova and Vergil, Rapid Slash is good for lockdown and limited keepaway, and Cent Rush M creates absurd unblockable situations for Vergil. Just remember to save your wall bounce before DHCing into Spiral Swords.
Nova/Doom (Beam)/Strider is also very good.</blockquote>
Thanks, I actually threw Magneto out of the equation after actually reading some of Marvelo’s previous posts and was liking what I was seeing with his team, so I’m thinking of going with Nova/Dante/Strider or Nova/Doom/Strider. I might try that team with Vergil just to mess around, my only gripe is that I’m not that big of a fan putting Doom in the anchor slot.
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Agreed i think Doom just has too many solo bad matches to be run as an anchor effectively, even though i run anchor Doom on one of my teams.
I just dislike how little Slant Shot does for Doom’s game, and I love how much damage that Spencer gets with Hidden Missiles assist. But yeah, I think Spencer anchor is the way to go mostly.
If you’re playing Spencer, i think you just need to deal with the fact that you’re sacrificing a neutral assist for combos and mixups, honestly i’d advocate Nova/Spencer/Doom as the order for that team, there’s no point in keeping Doom off anchor to avoid bad matchups if the only assist he has access to is not going to help him anyway. And you should 100% be using beam on that team, that’s coming from a big Nova/Missiles advocate.
Nova/Doom/Strider is the truth. You can go nuts and do whatever you want. Nobody will outzone you and you kill everyone off any hit if you TAC. The only weakness that it has is a lack of a pinning assist, though I think he does just fine with the assists he has. I’m going to make a video with all the optimized combos and resets so people can get an idea of how to properly use Vajra with Nova. Probably later tonight.
i’ve been messing with DragonGod’s team (Nova/Taskmaster/Doom) but I’ve actually been using missles more and although it changes my game slightly because I don’t have plasma beam to back up Taskmaster, I kind of like having missles because it allows me to control the game…somewhat. And even when Nova dies I have a pretty cool shell to fall back on, anyway.
I also enjoy the flexibility of being able to just switch to the beam depending on the match up, anyway. Doom is just so versatile lol
I was originally playing Nova/Taskmaster/Sentinel but I wasn’t really feeling drones anymore (this is coming from a guy who played Task/Mag/Sent).
I was also wondering what you guys think of Nova/IM together? I was fooling around with those two and it pretty much goes without saying Unibeam is absurd, but…Iron Man is just Iron man lol
Still staying strong with the Nova/Frank shell but I’ve always struggled to find a solid anchor. I’ve had Hawkeye as my anchor for the longest time but lately I’ve started to dabble with Doom anchor and I heard some things regarding Nova/Frank/Spencer not being too bad either. Thoughts? I’d try Ammy but I feel like she’ll be very gimmicky D:
Why not dante? Im not sure how effective nova/jam session is, but it does maximize frank west since he has a guaranteed lvl 4 both ways.
The flexibility of Doom is nice, and you happen to be running one of the few teams where it actually makes sense to use HM for Nova because you have a horizontal assist with Task as well. You can still change based on the matchup and still have horizontal coverage and combo extension no matter what. And Task with missiles is pretty ridiculous. That said, if you are in a situation where Doom has the only beam/arrow assist on your team, don’t take that away from Nova.
Why play Iron Man when you can play Doom? 
He must like the character or something… and Unibeam is really good since it keeps them standing on hit, allowing for a nice instant overhead setup. One of the annoying things about Plasma Beam is that your IO attempt might lead to a heavily-scaled combo or whiffing entirely due to their knockdown.
Confirming off of Plasma Beam is definitely tricky at times, but Unibeam scales combos as well. I like Cent Rush + Plasma Beam better than Cent Rush + Unibeam for forcing yourself in also. Unibeam is still pretty decent, but I just think the gamble of playing Ironman when compared to playing Doom is just overwhelming in your decision in picking a character. Especially when Ironman is much more difficult character to play. Unless you really REALLY love the character, I wouldn’t ever recommend anyone learning him. He’s just that much of a gamble and he doesn’t provide provide any incredibly worthwhile things to Nova that someone else doesn’t provide better.
I was just messing around with Iron Man, I don’t plan on using him seriously haha Doom is definitely the better choice in most situations, and I almost always throw Doom on my team because I usually have Taskmaster on my team somehow anyway, I just like how they work together.
Also Nova/Frank/Dante is a pretty good team, my friend runs that and it gives you two chances to level up frank. I don’t know how I feel about shopping cart being Nova’s only assist though since it doesn’t necessarily go full screen. It kind of requires you to play a bit closer than I would like as Nova–it’s definitely not a bad move to use Dante by any means though.
If I were you I’d either invest in Ammy or Dante for that team. I used to use Nova/Frank/Ammy but my Ammy was and still is very fraudulent so I kinda gave up lol.
Cold Star with Nova is beautiful
More what I was getting at is that you can still go for an instant overhead reset even if the beam hits to undo scaling. It’s not much of a benefit, and I am well aware that Iron Man is ass compared to Doom. I also don’t like him as much haha.
Ahh lol! Yeah. I see where you’re getting at. I do the same with Weasel Shot.