don’t forget
blocked launcher xx run (great blockstun)
forward FP xx run (from farther away)
and, when they are blocking rocks or something or you’re safe: tiger knee monkeys xx airdash
in your patterns.
also, LP raigengeki is godlike. if you have an assist, from far away, moving forward soon it’s even safer. though depends on their assist or if they even have one. when it’s down to their last character LP raigengeki+ thanos bubble or bbhood rocket assist can be hard to stop
how about some uses for the transformation super? I’ve always been curious on how to use that super in unique ways, but I’m not much of a Sonson player.
well the obvious ones:
full invincibility during the whole actual transformation part. goes through hail perfectly, HSF after a crawl, etc. I’ve been able to alpha counterxx monkey god super before too so that can be very useful
chip u out. if you can get a setup with thanos for them to block the power ball DHC to super monkey for the kill. they’ll be stuck by the ball while you transform and then can start spittin. if you’re hitting their assist that’s great too >:D
depending on opponent they can’t punish if you do it where you are in or can get some good space away. I’m sure you can do something with doom too
always save a bit of spitting time for near the end to cover you as much as possible
some setups it may be better for them to block the fire rather than to get hit. so you can, depending on the situation or if you DHCed in and can combo, press one of the punches first instead, like the uppercut, then do the fire and they will most likely block it.
Thanks for the ideas guys. I went back into the lab today and decided I’m keeping Sonson and Doom for sure, I found I actually really enjoy Doom too. I looked at Sent and Ruby too and I’m torn 50/50 between them though.
These posts have been really helpful, you guys are awesome.
So, my team is Doom-b/Ironman-a/Psylocke-a, I want to keep doom, I also like Ironman, but I want to drop Psylocke, but If I do then I’ll probably drop Ironman, but I won’t drop Doom. What’s a good team with Doom?
ey Avarice,
I just caught your post about DHC options from a page back, and I would suggest learning some ways to DHC from your other 2 characters to HSF (Sent qcf+KK). It’s the best of his two supers for DHC-ing in because he can follow up from it and kill a character.
Food for thought.
I want a good team for BB hood since she punishes sentinel with cool hunting and has some pretty devastating combos. What i’ve got right now is BBhood §, Doom (AAA), Spiral (G) spiral helps ground combos with 5 arm attack while doom helps with long combo and xup for BBhood against sentinel into cool hunting xx launcher for 1 combo ko.
I’ve been having this idea for a team for a while… “Team Superchick”. Basically take the best female characters and put them in a team.
Here’s what I have going so far.
A Cammy/A Storm/A Psylocke
Cammy is hyper good at rushdown. We all know psylocke also has a great offense, good meter building, and good rushdown. Storm serves as the heavy hitter and zoning compliment.
I’m not really quite good with this team yet, but it could work very well in the right hands. Zoning is only passable unless you are using assistslike crazy or using storm as the “user.” Basically you zone a little, you can anti air, but your goal is to get in there and rush the heck down. Cammy’s dash is excellent for that since it is so hyper fast. I wonder if James Chen would like this team…
Other members considered for Cammy’s place (as a note, listed by power)
Tron (only above chun because that is what is accepted. I place chun above because of her infinites, inf launcher etc.)
Chun li- Check shin’s combos etc if you aren’t a Chun believer, she rocks, but her zoning is crap.
Morrigan- she can fly, she can zone a little, she has a lazar, she can combo and a decent enough infinite
maybe: marrow. good assist that sets up a few things. can spam her needles super like cable.
Maybe: Ruby heart: she’s OK.
for teh lol’s: roll. if you wanna troll, use roll. roll with it baby.
also, I know in an American theory fighter sense- as in the whole mag>all mentality, don’t use low tiers etc- this team is bad. (by specifically saying american I mean that jp players will use- and beat mag with- lower tier characters, even sonson.)
But try and rate sonson, amingo, ruby heart. that’s my team, it’s fun.
@freija
That’ll do donkey, that’ll do. possibly get BB Hood’s projectile assist going. You’ll need some zone. if all else fails you can doom it out. IDK about spiral minus sent, but I haven’t seen doom projectiles coupled with spiral knives, so it should be interesting.
keep this game alive bro, and keep lower tiers alive. lets start having a more MVC2 Japan like scene where lower tiers will beast mags, vdo style. KENFINITES!!
yeah team girlpower is as old as time and that cammy/storm/psylocke has definitely been used a lot before by others.
amingo/rubyhear/sonson is probably the best setup too.
cl0ckwork.
team z
team duc
it works! weird no? I didn’t think about this, I used this team in 6th grade from just pressing x 3 times at char select. They mesh really well. Dhc really well too. Amingo can do his upward vine off of knockdowns, so that adds extra damage to most combos into supers. The problem is this team burns meter… so hard. also zoning is just ok. not great.
What about a gief based team? I try to avoid top tier for temas like this, otherwise I could go gief/storm/sent and be done.
Gief tron spiral could work, or gief tron doom. or gief doom capcom. could squeeze blackheart in there somewhere too.
^Team Duc is Spiral/Cable/Sent no doom.
What’s the best team for playing Psylocke on point as the first character?.. i don’t want to play psy storm mag even though you guys will probably say that as the best team… that just seems like taking the team where she’s best as an assist only and putting it backwards but I don’t think storm is necessarily the best partner for her, but maybe i’m wrong
she can do good dhc to hsf it seems like and em disruptor is a good assist for her because it is easy to do instant overhead -> launcher combos with it but do you have any other ideas?
also i kind of question sentinel w/ psylocke assist, it doesn’t seem to flow as well as sent with other AAA but maybe i am missing something… but that’s a secondary thing. Basically I need to find some good DHC off aircombo into doritos super plus the two assists that complement her but also characters that benefit from her assist (lol nearly everybody)
just something about psy sent mag doesnt seem to flow right is all, so i’m looking for something else…
actually those long range assists are good for her. I’ve been snapped in before…and just used psy to beat my opponents whole team
MIP backwards also is pretty good. you get long range mag assist and the much more defense/zoning ironman assist. you can’t be as offensive as with typhoon, but it’s a great zoning tool against MSPs (this is the team where I get snapped in and I just use psy to win more).
sent behind is coo too
with the 3 assists mentioned you can do overhead or launch setups into assist into further combo-age or resets. PMS is sorta obvious but with PMI you play more zone-y. do more tiger knee shots call IM when they get close and back up with shots and LK psyblades (that IM assist becomes strong in these situations) and you can try to get them hit into an OTG or something.
sentinel psylocke is decent but loses to a lot more matchups (the more zone-y ones)
if you’re only looking to play psy for DHCing her out, then sent/storm/mag/im will do. I generally don’t go for super with her too much but just end in flying screen for her decent mixup game.
since psy is one of my favorite and best chars I’ve been meaning to make a low tier team starring her, but just haven’t got there. don’t know if I can find assists as effective as typhoon/emdisruptor/repulsor blast
Well I dunno if your looking for just god tier partners… but psy goes well with sabertooth projectile (I’m assuming you could sub sent drones and still make this work great.)
Run a block string with psy ending in a fierce… as you fierce call sabertooth (or drones) and cancel to your teleport right behind em. It locks down like crazy and crosses up pretty well. If your opp isn’t mashing his assist he’ll struggle to stick anything in… and if he is the delay on psy reappearing gives them a smalll window to whiff. Obviously anytime you or the assist land a clean shot you can take em into air butterflies and DHC for the big dmg.
You could probably also make it work with storm projectile assist and a number of other proj assists. You want one that’s slow and if possible… does multiple hits. The key is mixing up overhead and low hits immediately after the teleport (while your opp is still locked by assist).
bbhood rocket and sonson monkeys might be good low tier assists too, off the top of my head. nice and slow and good for regular/tigerknee psyshot zoning. thanos bubble is a universal one too. rockets or bubbles would probably work with her overhead or launch dj combos.
The best projectile assists for psy are probably drones, typhoon, sabertooth, hood missles, monkeys, and to a lesser degree mega man… I would bet that bison variety could also be scary… since you can do pretty much the same combos with it but you can also do some shenanigans where you pushblock into it after the teleport or just do assist plus teleports… but the lock down isn’t so hot.
Psy has good combos with thanos bubble and the teleport trickery does work with it… but it can be a tad more scary since it doesn’t have the lockdown factor.
the dhc isn’t a requirement, I just want the option to bigger damage when I need to do so… psy doesn’t do brutal damage on her own and i was hoping to fix that with a dhc perhaps
I’ve been playing with bb hood missile just because she has been on a ton my low tier teams and my older main team from season’s beatings and before (megaman bb hood jugg).
bb hood though she has a lot of trouble vs sent because she has to catch you on the ground or in the corner to do any damage more than a few jabs worth
i considered IM but my tony stark is absolute ass… he seems like he would be a good partner for her though
hm, I just got an unoptimal version of uf hk instant overhead 123 hp -> bb hood missile -> launch -> super -> bb hood gun dhc -> headcrush to do a 141 damage, but i can’t get the bb hood dhc consistent.
that teleport trick sounds nice MadTitan, reminds me of mvc3 phoenix bullshit that i abuse.
i bet thanos bubble does work nice but i dont really play thanos
dont know shit about sonson either
i’ll mess around with megaman because he’s my best character by far on poitn, dont know why i didnt rty him
thanks guys
oh yeah that 2 hit megaman assist is decent too.
Strider should also take some serious mention for use with psy…
Anytime you snag a combo with strider you can call psi AAA and get a free orb juggle…
Also anytime you snag an orb juggle you can get a free tag in hit from psi… who can from there launch and do a series into butterflies… then DHC back to orbs and catch em as they fall. From there you get another free tag in hit to psi back into a butterflies combo… see where this is going…
Only draw back is having 2 members of the team with crap stamina…
Oh and the delay on striders teleport kick assist also allows you to do the teleport shenanigans using psi…
Just bought the game off the xbox 3 days ago. Who im currently using is Ken/Shuma Gorath/ ??? anyone really. I choose those characters because i can combo with them and find myself efficient. Willing to change but dont want any top tier characters all lower. Thanks for help.