The Ultimate Magnus Thread. The godlike stuff

bloodabeast · January 12, 2012, 7:30am

Why not? His shit trades evenly with and sometimes outright stops Zero’s buttons. Then when you have an assist=dead maverick hunter

Settai · January 12, 2012, 7:41am

Na, although I think its a pretty even match up.

Kanta-Kun · January 12, 2012, 9:10am

Hmmmm… how do you guys play this match-up then?

Rokmode · January 12, 2012, 9:12am

The way I play it is. . .I get hit then I die

Ika_Zuchi_No_Kami · January 12, 2012, 10:23am

Ika vs Zero? More like Ika vs Zero’s assist character. The only time I lose to Zero is when I try to fight Zero and not fight his assist. Mag rapes that lil nigga as long as you make him put that A1 back.

Ika_Zuchi_No_Kami · January 12, 2012, 10:51am

When I played Flocker(online lol) the only thing that would fucked me up was the way he use buster. I fight a really good zero player offline everyday so I know all the bullshit. Its mostly just learning the player.

bloodabeast · January 12, 2012, 11:05am

The way I fight a good Zero is just to lame it out.
Bad zero’s I just rush shit down.

Din0 · January 12, 2012, 11:13am

hell no. :[

Ika_Zuchi_No_Kami · January 12, 2012, 11:20am

this is the reason why I end up fighting his assist. he can’t touch me without using his assist.

Rich · January 12, 2012, 11:54am

Yes. Why? Magnetic Blast!!

Aerial_Screw · January 12, 2012, 1:48pm

I find it disturbing that nobody is making good use of Magneto’s new moves.

I’ve been using mix-ups and resets from my thread on my crack buddies and so far my favorite is repulsion on somebody trying to roll out of the corner. I literally get to choose which side they’re going to end up on (in the corner facing a trijumping Magneto + Drones or sandwiched between Magneto and the Drones) and you really can’t react to it. Every time someone has blocked that mix-up, it has been because they guessed correctly. Shit, sometimes I don’t even know what side they’ll end up on and there is not a god damn thing they can do about it besides a hard tag or something invincible. The safest thing I’ve found is that if they don’t attempt to roll out of the corner, they just have to sit through my 2-3 attempts to crack their guard with high/low/throw mix-ups, but won’t have to deal with any side switching on top of high/low/throw.

As for the Zero issue,

Run away and pray that you don’t get hit by his outrageous hitboxes. Rain magnetic blasts on him. If you catch a foolish zero rushing in, you can easily hit confirm off a magnetic blast into TOD combo. Use TK disruptors + assist to keep him away. If he gets too close for comfort, just throw out a shockwave and he’s back to the other side of the screen.

He’s vulnerable throughout his entire command dash, so just throw/air throw it when he gets close, if he’s dumb enough to do it without cover. Most Zeros are going to be constantly charging buster with :l: so their fastest attack is going to be his , which is a few frames slower than Magneto’s c.:l:. It’s certainly possible to rush him down because of this, but against a good Zero, that’ll be tough because he’ll be aware that his fastest normal is 8 frames, whereas everyone else’s fastest is usually around 4-6 frames so he’ll probably make it pretty tough for you.

Flashy_Nights · January 12, 2012, 1:57pm

I use fatal attraction to control space to pull players into DS’s Eye of Agamotto assist & dance on them.

I use repulsion in the same way you use it however instead of drones its the Eye of Agamotto.

bloodabeast · January 13, 2012, 5:26am

I use drones and missiles. THAT SHIT is cheap as fuck. Second cheapest to tkFly calling gunshot from wesker=free unblockables.

Kanta-Kun · January 13, 2012, 4:29pm

Never thought of using tiger knee flight : I

Also, cancelling tri-jumps into flight.

Rich · January 13, 2012, 5:43pm

Idk if it’s because I’m blasted but I was doing flight addf m>m, or flight addf m>s, cr.l for overhead/low mixup and it was hitting Alot for some reason hahahaha

bloodabeast · January 13, 2012, 7:15pm

Well yea if you condition your opponent for that mix up, then the shit is free! LOL Don’t matter if you’re blazed or not (I’ve been doing high/low OS throw mix ups online as practice and so far it’s a good look for magnus)

stryder1587 · January 13, 2012, 10:17pm

TK flight? what’s the difference between that and regular flight? does it come out faster?

Kanta-Kun · January 13, 2012, 10:38pm

Height.

Jesse3 · January 15, 2012, 6:53pm

I saw this combo on the first page:
j:s: c:h: s:s: xxsj j:h: addf j:h: normal jump j:h: xx Magnetic Blast:l: s:s: xxsj j:h: addf j:h: normal jump j:m:j:h: Magnetic Blast:l: s:s: xxsj j:m::h::s:

I’m new to Magneto, is this his BnB? Is this the combo I should start of learning when playing him?

Deps · January 15, 2012, 7:49pm

Easy: ~S, j.H adf j.M fly, j.L H, adf J.Hx6, addf H~S, S.H, hypergrav loop

Intermediate: ~S, J.H addf J.H, dash S.LS, Jump forward H adf H fly J.L into fly H loop or ~S, J.H adf J.H L magnetic blast, dash s, jumpforward H fly J.H to fly H loop

Advanced: ~S, J.H adf J.H xx L MB, dash up jumpforward J.H late cancel L MB, land S, J.H adf late J.H xx L MB, dash forward J.MH xx L MB, S, J.MMHS

Those are the bnbs I know, add S.H into hypergrav loop at the end of any of them if in the corner. The last one is really worth it though, and not too hard once you get down the magnetic blast motion. Magnetic blast is also godlike in neutral, so might as well learn it. If my variation doesn’t work there are a ton of of others you should be able to find. One I posted just seems to work for me the most consistently on every character.