1: I am not fantastic at this game, but I love playing it.
2: Been playing as Spiderman, Thor, and Phoenix for a while but I am having a hard time making Thor work against distance guys.
3: Who are some good choices for the middle slot. Spiderman is a lock, even if he is not the best. I am a huge Spidey fan.
I asked on the Phoenix forum and was directed here. All help will be appreciated.
Yeah I’m not a Phoenix player I saw the thread in recent post and clicked on it because it’s Spiderman related. Not to be funny but I’m going to copy and paste this in the team building thread under the stickies section so it gets more eyes on it. To answer your question though I’d suggest Sentinel for drones but that’s assuming you are actually just trying to build meter with Spidey long enough to switch to Phoenix and for her to take over.
Thanks, I appreciate the help.
Rahsaan made Spidey, Sent and Phoenix work in vanilla MVC3. It would still work with in ultimate but with TACs being a big part of today’s meta, Doom with missiles will probably edge Sentinel as a better second char for a Phoenix team depending on your play style. If you’re leaning a bit on the rushdown style while building meter, drones work way better than missiles in that department. If you’re more passive, prefer spacing and/or running away, missiles would allow you to build meter without forcing you to get in for meter.
Make no mistake, I am still learning the game. I usually play Spidey as a rush down guy; with Thor I found I could rack up meter, but against really long range fighters I am just not good enough to get him moving around. I have never really tried either Doom or Sentinel. I will try them both out and see which fits best for me. Thanks for the advice.
Dante builds alot of meter really quickly, though you might have a hard time getting in on zoners. He has a strong midrange game though, and tools for any situation, which is better than spidey in that aspect, so zoners still have to make sure you aren’t past 3/4th’s screen (dat Stinger)
EDIT: but also, if you are having trouble with zoners, I’d say start with a beam assist. This is the best all around assist to deal with the cast, until you can get to the point where you can get in on zoners without relying on beam too much (still working on that myself :P).
In that regards, I’d say use Doom(Plasma Beam). He’s an annoying tank of a character at first and very awkward to learn, but quite honestly, he one of the easiest characters to become a threat with. From my experience, you really only need to learn, like, 2-3 foot dive combos to learn various situations to become somewhat of a legit Doom player.
Not to mention, Spidey is one of the very very few characters that Doom can actually DHC well with (MS–>Sphere Flame and vice versa). Even better, since you don’t want to use meter for DHC, is that you can tag Doom in after a corner web throw to finish your combos with his own footdive combos for greater damage. And also, Doom can do really good damage by himself, which is one of the main good points about him
I gotta say…
Morrigan with Harmonizer, I ran But I don’t think Spidey is a good partner for Phoenix because Spidey has to rely on meter for his combos and BnB,
I ran Spidey-Morrigan-Phoenix
It’s not that bad. Spidey Phoenix is very strong with a good middle. Morrigan Phoenix on the other hand is counter intuitive
I blame it on Airborne… shrug
I am messing around with Spidey/Doom/Phoenix. Since I have been playing Spidey/Doom(Missiles) for a while now. I still need to learn Dooms TACs that way I can threaten with those and the TAC resets. Either way I feel as though this could be a solid team. People I fight against usually blow x-factor to kill Spider-Man so if they ever do so, it will be harder for them later(provided you have 5 bars when Phoenix comes in.)