I’ve been playing a couple teams as of late with Nova in them.
Nova/Doom/Vergil - IMO, the 2nd strongest Nova team. You have a beam assist to do everything you want to with Nova, whether it be to get in or keep out. You have combo extensions using Rapid Slash. You have TAC infinites from Doom and from Nova. Dirty unblockable set ups. Hard tag combos. Off an airgrab, if I have at least a meter and a half, I can kill Thor with I think a net lose of maybe a half of a meter. Anchor Vergil helps too.
Nova/Spencer/Doom - Another strong Nova team. Recently found out this was Insaynne’s team. Not only do I get a crumple combo, if I do the right combo, I can hard tag Doom in, get 2 loops of his footdive combo, jump plasma beam cancel into Photon Array, DHC into Bionic Maneuvers and kill Thor if I don’t drop the follow up. The regular Nova/Spencer bnb does 1.05 million. Doom’s beam is always good. If I want to, I can use missiles and be absolutely fine and still do silly damage.
Nova/Taskmaster/Magneto - This team might not be the best, in fact, I know its not. But I have some slimy unblockable set ups with Nova assist and Magneto and its fun to me. Gameplan is that I kill the first character, bring in Magneto, call Nova, gravitation, cr. LM and Nova’s centurion rush hits and I get a free combo for nothing. Might x-factor to kill the character or I just might burn the meter and then repeat.
Im thinking about playing Nova/Strange/Spencer instead of Nova/Spencer/Doom though. Im left with more meter to work with if I play this team instead of team with Doom in it.
The first and second team are both pretty good, but I don’t know about that N/D/V being the 2nd strongest Nova team. I also don’t know about that third one. You don’t necessarily need Magneto to use that mixup. You could use any character in the anchor spot and I think it would make that team feel more complete than just slapping magneto on there lol
and nova strange spencer or any variation of it is good, although i dont really know whether strange/spencer is better than spencer/strange
I agree Limit. The 3rd team is not very good, I know. I just like the fact I can combine gravitation with his assist to make people hit the ground faster. I’ve been playing it in casuals and this team has the least success (mostly because I don’t really know how to play Magneto) but since my scene is pretty lacking, I was able to snatch wins. I like the team though. Its fun.
Do you have a better suggestion for a middle man or an anchor? Nova/Taskmaster is such a good duo to me. I would play Moons team, but I don’t like Ammy at all lol.
The reason I want Strange second is because when I do the full combo, I can do Vishanti then DHC into Super Nova and kill almost everybody. I like saving as much meter as I can. Thats just the type of player I am. shrug
Have you experimented with that team? N/Task/Dante? I might end up learning that it for fun, but I don’t feel as though it really opens up any viable counter pick options.
I think Nova/Doom/Dante might be a good counter pick team against heavy missile/drones users (particularly zoners). But then again, I would lose vishanti xfactor vishanti (which I don’t even use enough anyway). Can anyone that has experience with plasma beam attest to how good it is? Plus, at this point I honestly feel Doom/Dante is less versatile than Strange/Dante. Albeit the former has more health, more stupidness, and far better rushdown. I’m just worried about them losing to the very zoning team I called them into fight against.
Plasma Beam is one of the best horizontal assists for Nova because it does exactly what he needs. It’s fast on startup, provides a decent amount of lockdown, and has good durability. The only problems it has are damage scaling and the fact that it knocks down on hit unlike Unibeam or the arrows assists.
I’m no expert on how Nova/Dante is supposed to work, but I know Doom is pretty decent with Jam Session. Not sure about Dante with Plasma Beam, but I do love him with missiles. In all that team seems okay but it’s not totally optimal. I think Strange/Dante is more versatile and deals with zoning better, but Doom is a more solid character that gets away with more BS, has better movement, etc.
Thanks so much, that was pretty much exactly what I just concluded. So what are Nova’s best teams (all around, best against the most matchups)? I know they’re always mentioned in this thread, but there’s not too much discussion as to how they compare to each other, and how they fight against other common shells. Here’s some of my input on some popular nova teams that I feel are worth mentioning.
Nova/Spencer/(Doom/Strange)
I think this team is solid, the strange version has a stronger anchor 98% of the time. I just don’t think it’s near the best “team”. It has tons of synergy don’t get me wrong, but it’s just a little too front heavy for me. My biggest concern is the single neural assist (w/ strange the slowness of it can be a problem) and the fact that Spencer/x can get lamed TF out.
Nova/Doom/(Strider/Ammy)
I like this team more with strider I think, tbh Doom/Ammy is godlike but still kinda gimmicky. Not to mention I think zoning teams kill it (not all, only Dorm, Strange, Morrigan, Arthur?? and Hawkeye tbh). But I still think it’s an amazingly solid team considering no one zones xD.
Nova/Strange/Dante
850k off any Nova throw, TAC FoF, a wonderful shell and great comeback potential, amazing against rushdown/zoning. Clearly the best Nova team and if you’re not playing this just quit… xD.
But really haha, I think Nova/Strange/x has some solid potential either with Dante, Vergil, or Ammy last. I for see t used too much. I just hate the low life, but I’m used to it.
Those are about the only teams I can speak to, but take everything I say with a grain of salt. Cause I can be free… bro
Yup. I play it from time to time. It’s very very good. It’s like Moonz team, but with the added bonus that you can raw tag Dante for unscaled after air throws. Also, Task with Jam Session is also very good.
Also, Plasma Beam is great for Nova. Not as good as Task arrows IMO, but still very good. It doesn’t pin down that long, but you can’t be zoned out.
Nova/Doom/Ammy does not lose to zoning as long as Doom isn’t on point. Nova trashes zoning characters and Plasma Beam is great for that. If Nova dies and you have to go up against a serious zoner (and if you either don’t have 2+ bars or don’t want to spend it), tag Ammy in; she can handle most of those characters with Plasma Beam behind her. She theoretically can fight keepaway characters well as long as she has a resource advantage.
Nova/Spencer/whoever is very front heavy and falls apart if your anchor is snapped in, but it’s extremely effective at what it does and can actually force your human opponent to fall asleep due to how boring it is (most of the time).
Nova/Task/Dante is good, but my Dante is terrible.
Nova/Task/Doom Plasma Beam works best for both Nova and Task, by making Cent Rush L/M safe and it makes Shield Skills super derp.
Nova/Task/Sent is another that works well since Drones helps Task and Nova really well, but against certain Teams (MorriDoom, Wolvie/Beam) it makes you work a bit harder, though this is my current team (and my Fave!).
Hmmmmm. Do you mind if I can pick your brain with Nova/Dante? I know Taskmaster with Jam Session is the truth, but I would definitely like to know how can Nova benefit from Jam Session besides improved air control. I know you use Weasel Shot. Is that assist better for Nova or do you think its possible to play Jam Session?
Jam Session is the better assist. It’s better at extending combos and controlling space. Weasel Shot is also good, but I play it because I don’t have a horizontal assist. Which I feel is incredibly necessary for Nova. Since you already have H arrows with Taskmaster, Jam Session is the likely best choice. You can actually do some pretty tricky setups if you do it in conjunction with Rocket Punch L in the air. Also, it’s very good for meaty setups and resets.
Yeah I agree with Limit, 1, 2, and 3 are great, the rest I’m not too sure about. If you really want to play Nova with missiles 4 might be okay, since you’ll have a horizontal assist with Hawkeye already. And Hawkeye with missiles can be very, very annoying. I dunno about Nova/Skrull at all but I don’t think their synergy would be too hot. Skrull anchor is okay, but I think if you want to run him he’s much better on point.
I lied, I have a friend who plays Skrull/Nova/Strange and I mean…aside from “unblockables” and grab scare setups with cent. rush assist which really are only relevant in the corner, there’s not really much else Nova offers Skrull (and combo extensions w/groundbounce).
I suppose with Nova using one of Skrull’s assists you can try for some ghetto Tatsu stuff w/Orbital Grudge, and Stone Smite as a random assist is always funny to me. It’s not as deadly with Log trap though. I have no idea what Tenderizer could really do for Nova aside from some weird ass setups really… I’d probably just go with OG assist if you really feel like using Super Skrull with Nova.
The team I’m seeing in my head for that would be Nova/Skrull/Sent, since they both can make good use of drones. You’re sacrificing a projectile assist for a slower and more calculated one and a get-off me assist to an extent. Doesn’t sound too bad…the damage is probably OD on that team lol. You could actually throw Taskmaster or Dr. Doom on the back of that instead of Sentinel and still get Meteor Smash coverage while still giving Nova a horizontal assist, and a good one at that.
The only reason why I’m dabbling on about Skrull is because you mentioned him twice, I guess you must have some interest in him Fuhajin.
I was in the lab yesterday, and I tried 1, 3, 4, and I decided to try Nova/Haggar/Hawkeye just to see what would happen, and it was pretty good! Haggar was pretty good for nova after Centurion Rush L and some other cool things and Hawkeye is flat-out fantastic. I should probably mention I’m an East Coast player, so any team thats solid and can slow down MorriDoom and Zero/Dante would be great.