This does sound interesting, to me at least. I’ve been doing research about team synergy but never seen a good comprehensive thread about it (besides the mvc2 teamhelp thread, sort of)
As for Ammy/Arthur/Phoenix, you’re looking at a team that BENEFITS from lots of meter, but doesn’t specifically need it. Arthur doesn’t need the armor and if you’re playing well with Phoenix you won’t need 5 meters to resurrect her. In my opinion, having a game strategy around one of your characters dying is NOT a good gameplan. Holding back King Arthur for assists sounds good, but his assists will have to be good, at least…
If you want to use these characters and go with your King Arthur as an assist character plan, you should be focusing on using Ammy and Phoenix on zoning/keepaway. Or, choose one of those last two as a zoning char and pick Spencer/Chun as a rushdown point character.
If you’re not dead set on those 5, you should try to get a character with a good anti-air/gtfo me assist. IMO I think Ammy/Arthur/Phoenix can work, but you’d have to play tight since your characters are just wicked low on health. You don’t have to worry about meter if you ditch thinking about using Dark Phoenix. It can work out as a pretty good zoning/keepaway, provided Phoenix has a good anti-air assist… Since as far as I know, Ammy and Arthur don’t have any.