And that’s Thor’s problems. The priority of normals during the active frames beat alot shit out, but since there so slow coming out, you could also argue there borderline garbage. Really, his normals are the real toolbox of him. Each one can’t just come out and work. They have to be used for special situations.
He’s one of the few characters who’s specials lead into his hypers, I think there supposed to be used more commonly. But his specials have to be used smart too. Might Spark is fast for a full screen beam attack, but watch out for characters who go under it for example, you’d have to be cautious. Might Smash works for the occasional mixup (that MSmash M is great for floor bounce though and combos), but it’s predictable and not safe (of course). Mighty Hurricane is okay, considering it leads into combos, if your whole game plan is on doing his grab and resets, your opponent will just read it and you’ll be dead soon. Might Strike is the only semi-abusable thing he’s got (even then, it has to be TKed to really work). Put it all together and has very weak ground game, to the point, you might as well never use the ground to attack with Thor. Which calls into question why Mighty Punish and Mighty Thunder don’t offer more for what there worth in an actual match to really use.
I mean, he’s 3rd strongest character, best health, insane meter build, has a regular hurtbox for a statistically big character (Hulk, Sent, Modok, Dorm, and maybe Haggar have bigger hurtboxes), has a ton of dash/move cancellables, tir-dash is decent, and does well in the air…but those slow normals, lot of punishable movesets…huh and of course, some BS stuff he just doesn’t have for a big character that makes him really low on the tier tablet, especially if he’s by himself (he’s screwed). And regardless, he’s reasonably hard to use in an actual match.
But he is hard C tier with proper assist. He’s all about team building around him. Proper assist make alot his troubles go away. Get a strong beamer assist, and Thor with the assist can rule with zoning or help him get in. Anything with hitstun duration helps his cause trementiously.
But like DevilJin has stated, as long as there lame touch-of-deaths combos from like, let’s say wolvie, who’s 4 fram L normals beat the shit out of Thor and has insane extended combs…why use him, for the hard work.