Eh…, Moons also had Ammy on that team which is a much faster assist which certainly stopped people from mindlessly rushing him down. I’ll check them out any way though.
Neokarsh plays Nova/Spencer/Task too. He’s really good at calling Taskmaster’s assist at the right times.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh Cold Star has a lot of uses but not stopping rushdown. It can keep people from leaving the corner quite well but at 99 seconds you rarely wanna throw it out. Moons plays like this and uses (used) Aim Master very effectively midscreen, then turns the Cold Star pressure on in the corner. I wish he went for the crumple tech more since Task can capitalize off it well, now MODOK can’t really so it’s unlikely we’ll see him use it.
That’s all irrelevant anyway, Nova gets by okay with just Aim Master and Nova/Spence/Task is pretty good.
Thats why I said it stopped people from MINDLESSLY rushing him down. Better players of course would be able to get around it.
Right now it just seems like I have to have better movement so I can run away and create space so I can call Taskmaster.
It wouldnt stop anyone from rushing him down because he never uses it against anyone for that. Moons only calls Cold Star when he feels like he has the pressure going.
I kind of got a little algorithm for that
if far away, PB to get closer
if midscreen to close, CS to mixup
I play an Ammy team. Against some of the scrubs I play run into that shit daily lol. But I am well aware that stuff won’t work on better players.
Don’t practice bad habits. Whether or not it works on “scrubs”.
yeah dont play like me!
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I understand what you’re trying to say, but I believe overall you have to do what works no matter who it is. Use all your tools in your toolbox. When it doesn’t work, throw them away and use the correct tool. You shouldn’t limit yourself only to “high level play” if you don’t need it to beat your opponent. Save some tricks for later. The main thing is to be able to adjust. No tool is unusable.
He didn’t say “bad tools” just “bad habits.” This game goes too fast to read your opponent’s skill in a 3/5 set, and it’s not unlikely that you’ll fall back on muscle memory. Do what works against everyone, not JUST against “scrubs.” Nova has plenty of ways to deal with reckless rushdown w/o risking Ammy dying.
Alright damnit,i’m trying to finally configure my main Nova team for good. I started playing Ultimate using Nova Vergil Hawkeye,gave up on Hawkeye cuz he did no damage and because I’ve always loved Magneto plus he’s Godlike in the game. But now i’m good enough with Magnus that he deserved his own squad with my boi Dante so Magnus,Dante,Sentinel was born for me. And even tho Nova Dante Sentinel works well also I want a team for Nova himself,my 2nd main team pretty much
Currently trying Nova Vergil Strange even tho I don’t like playing Strange much and I do NOT like playing Doom or Spencer either. So i’m stuck and have come to ask my fellow Centurians for advice. What you guys think?? Thoughts?? Opinions??
If you want a different support character you have plenty of options.
Nova Task Vergil is good, with variable order. Task is personally more boring to play than Doom or even Spencer to me but he’s workable.
Nova Iron Man Vergil could be made to work though I’ve never really tried it.
Nova Strange Ammy is playable, although I go back and forth on whether or not it’s actually good. Also if you’re not totally into Strange, I don’t recommend it as it is somewhat Strange-centric. No idea how you feel about Ammy.
Gotcha. I’ve decided to just man up and finally learn some Doom and run Nova Doom Vergil. Makes a lot of sense to me
Beautiful, that’s awesome! Welcome to Latveria.
Haha.Thanx. Any Nova/Doom tech u can share??
You don’t have to look far, there’s tech everywhere on this forum and in a lot of match videos. I’ll give you a rundown I guess.
Nova makes great use of Plasma Beam, it puts opponents in blockstun really quick and for a decent amount of time, so he can do shit like Cent Rush L + plasma beam or Nova Strike M + plasma beam to get in safely and start his offense. It also helps his zoning game (buys time to set up a pulse) and has other defensive uses since it comes out behind you, meaning you can just call PB and block and it’ll catch people getting aggressive. He makes decent use of Molecular Shield as well though in my opinion this is a matchup-specific thing and shouldn’t be your go-to assist at all.
Doom also gives Nova a very safe DHC into Photon Array, meaning if you do an unsafe Speed Tackle, you can DHC and you’ll be just fine in most situations. Photon Array or Sphere Flame DHC into Speed Tackle is also mostly safe.
Cent Rush M isn’t an amazing assist for Doom, but you can set up unblockables with it and use it for great combo extension. But basically no use in neutral.
Doom’s TACs are a plus of course, but he also gives Nova two great damage buffs off of air throws and some other situations.
Air throws:
(^shows some other chars too)
Corner ground throws, midscreen aerial combos:
On some teams (not Nova/Doom/Vergil) you can use the 3rd character’s assist to keep the opponent standing on a hit confirm and crumple them with Nova Strike H (similar to the Nova/Spencer tech) then hard tag to Doom for guaranteed 1.1mil.
In my opinion Doom just makes Nova a better character in almost every regard, so. Good call on your part!
Oh, some Nova/Doom players to look for:
Eita (NDV, uses rocks)
Marvelo (Nova/Doom/Strider)
Coach Steve/Insaynne (Nova/Spencer/Doom)
The pair’s actually pretty common so just keep an eye out.
Wow…damn,I feel like I went to the bank to withdraw a 20 and they gave me a 50.Haha.Thanx a lot…I’ll be practicin the Mezio loops soon
Any combo extensions for Nova other than the usual Nova Slam + assist,Cent Rush M,Cent Rush H into Nova Force?? Or should I pretty much just learn a Doom TAC
Use Rapid Slash for extending on this team, and yes, learn Doomfinites, midscreen and corner.
Well, it depends on what you want to do with a given combo, and the order of your team.
If you can kill your opponent in one bar, finish with Nova Slam, 5H (call Vergil) S tiger knee Cent Rush M Cent Rush H xx Super Nova.
If you need to DHC into Doom and wanna do more damage, change Cent Rush H for Nova Strike L xx Super Nova, DHC to Sphere Flame.
If you’re okay spending red health, you can change Cent Rush H to Cent Rush L into Grav Blaster, wait til the opponent is next to Nova and DHC to Photon Array. You can also use 1-19% red health Grav Pulse M xx Grav Blaster, link into Super Nova.
Also fwiw you can do Nova Strike L xx Super Nova and immediately DHC into Doom level 3.
If you’re going to DHC into sword loops, you want to save your assist slot OR not use your ground bounce so Vergil can get a full loop. In that case end with these after a hard knockdown:
- Cent Rush L xx Grav Blaster DHC to Swords
- call Vergil late and immediately Cent Rush L, link into j.S, Cent Rush L xx Grav Blaster, Swords. This is hard and doesn’t work on smaller characters.
- extend with Plasma Beam (Nova Slam, call Doom 5H xx Cent Rush M, Nova Strike L xx Super Nova, Swords.
After 1 and 3 use the Nova assist extension which you’ve probably already seen, after 2 just do the usual shit.
Then there’s Dougiie’s combo which involves doing a high-up Super Nova, DHC into Devil Trigger and tag to Doom. I think you can do two reps off of a combo that starts off a clean hit, not sure about ground throws. Gives you DT Vergil in back ‘___’)