Your test is flawed. Damage scaling kicks in when a character reaches 50% health causing them to take less damage. You have to take out sentinel’s whole life in 1 combo to know what the true size of the bar is. 905K is the correct value.
I am a Sentinel player that actually kinda likes the nerf. I wanted to be him since i saw the reveal trailer this was all before it was known he was a GOD.
I admit he was a crutch. OH WELL MY OTHER TWO ARE DEAD I GOT SENTILOL proceed to rape face, and whilst i like winning it honestly felt like cheating to me. My friends used to say “You only won because Lvl 3 XF Sentinel!” and i had to grin a bare it as i knew it was probably true.
This has made me up my game. I have began to start him on point now and that dirty feeling has gone. He feels like a normal balanced character now to me. I still get my SENTILOL dmg but i have to actually worry about getting hit now.
I do think his health is slightly too low now, but they are on the right track with him.
I can now play him without the hate mail.
ogrimtitan made the best post so far.
I completely agree that if Sentinel started at 910K health at release, everyone would’ve been fine with it.
Also, imagine if this patch today had reduced Sentinel’s damage output. Then all the Sentinel players would be screaming “Why nerf his damage?? He NEEDS that damage! Nerf his health instead!”
Also, to everyone pointing out that there was no Sentinel in the grand finals of Final Round XIV, why don’t you take a look at all the OTHER players besides Wong and Combofiend. The following players all had Sentinel on their team at Final Round:
- Marn
- RyRy
-Tokido
-Evil Rahsaan
-Mike Infinite
-Mike Ross
-Filipino Champ
-Sanford
-Noel Brown
-Kevin Bacon
-Clint
-TooMuchDamage
-Damian
-FecalPenance
So don’t fucking sit there and try to say “Sentinel wasn’t even viable in tournament play!! WHAAA!!!”
We all know you’re a Sentinel player and you want your health back. Fine. Just don’t try to cover it up with these bullshit reasons.
*Edit: @daddygerplex, thank you. that’s the attitude Sentinel players should have. I’m sick of all these whiners trying to hide the fact that they just want their high HP.
Don’t spout random nonsense that some dumbass made up on the spot without checking it for yourself first. What you just posted is 100% bullshit.
In that case I hereby declare both of the following to be true:
- Phoenix has less than 419200 health because I have a combo that kills her in that.
- Phoenix has more than 419300 health because I have a combo that doesn’t kill her in that.
…Or maybe not. Because the damage display is wrong for combos, so the only way to measure health accurately is by not using any combos at all.
In the beginning, I was dumb enough to think that he would play like his old self, then I used him and his drones assist to keep certain characters from super jumping too much, while my Chris/Dormammu proceeds to chip them to death, but even at that time Sentinel was a liability to me. Now, I leveled up my Sentinel only to find this happening to him :sad:
LOL to quote what sentinel players always said to complainers “just don’t get hit”… right back at you guys haha
For anyone who cares about the nerfs that actually matter, they toke away his ability to do combos that require more than 2 J.S’s.
So J.S, launcher, air combo, hyper sentinel force, XFC into Jumping S doesn’t knockdown anymore.
when in the xmen series did sentinel become this godlike machine that has super health and speed to match with over powering attacks? if i remember correctly every single 1 of the xmen could take a sentinel out with 1 move… i mean wolverine was decapitating them for god sakes…
I’m curious as to where your credibility comes from and why you believe yourself to be at such a higher level than these ‘scrubs’ you’re referring to. If you are truly an elite game master then you would know that other elite game masters, such as yourself, are simply going to adapt. As of now, you’re the one whining.
And on another note, unless your dad works for Capcom, you have no evidence to back up any claims regarding the events that brought about this little patch.
Stop using comic book logic.
Magneto should own half the characters in this game easily, well he does but you get my point.
Love the Sentinel nerf even though hes core part of my team, now I can win without feeling like a bully.
facepalm
So… we’re honestly using the series as justification for how a character should be in a fighting game?
sigh
And here I had faith in Capcom to just let the game breathe and sort it self out. Not even 1 month later and they already start changing the characters.
Wow, ogrimtitan and double F pretty much owned this thread. 
To the “WAAAH MY SENT IS NERFD!!1111” crowd, as it’s been stated multiple times already, Sentinel is still a good character. You just can’t be as braindead and reckless now or you will lose said character in a combo or two instead of three or four.
Like you internet superstars always say: Adapt to the changes or cry about them like a “scrub”.
i dont get your point because magneto does own AT LEAST half of the characters and wtf do people want marvel and capcom characters based off of? cmon now…
i don’t usually play sent but 130,000 to 900,000 or under is a bit much imo. whats next they give phoenix like 20,000 more life?
So we should balance a game around the canon of various series? Especially when the MvC series has never cared about canon before?
The concept of “this character has to be amazing” or “this character shouldn’t be this good” because of how they were in some comic or tv cartoon is silly.
Thor should throw Mjolnir at three times the speed of light, Wolverine should instantly heal damage from every normal, Hulk should OHKO most of the cast, and when Jean has her DP transformation she should just fly off into the sun, make it go nova, and kill 90% of the cast.
The same series where Hulk isn’t strong enough to resist being wrapped up by webbing. If I remember correctly his strength is supposedly limitless. I mean he wripped an adamantium filled wolverine in half for gods sake.
Your argument sucks.
obviously nobody is an exact replica of where they came from but c’mon are all of you seriously trying to justify how overpowered sentinel was? the patch came out so quickly that its hard to imagine capcom wasn’t ready for the onslaught of sentinel haters and users…
I hear a lot of people complaining but anyone who thought it was fair for sentinel to be that strong and have that much health is obviously a sentinel player who wants him to stay at the top forever. As a more casual player I’m definitely glad to see him get nerfed. Granted it may have been a bit over the top to drop his health that much, but when 50% of players have sent on their team, you definitely start to notice a bit of unfairness. (yes i know calling something unfair in MvC3 is a bit pointless but even this game needs it’s limits). Either way I’m glad that i’m going to A) see a drop in people playing sentinel B) actually have a chance at beating a good player who’s using sentinel and C) laugh at the people nonstop baw’ing