Just messed around with Iron Fist again and I still don’t think it’s worth it. The DHCs are too situation dependent.
On the other hand I messed around with Rocket Raccoon on a whim and think there’s something there. Not sure what assist cause they all have uses, but the trap super just looks really good after a corner kill from Skittles. DHC to trap, tag Zero back in and make the incoming character pick their poison.
Of course the drawback is a team with very low health. Need more lab time, but there’s something there.
Spitfire Twice is my recommendation. I was using this assist with Zero a week or two ago on a whim and found it to be much better than I originally thought it was going to be. It’s like giving Drones to a tiny, hard to hit Sentinel Jr.
How well does Amaterasu with cold star assist work with Zero? I’ve actually never seen a Zero team with Ammy on it, so I was wondering if there was a particular reason.
I’ve never had much interest in Ammy, but I would guess you don’t see it because Coldstar scales like crazy (even in vanilla) which doesn’t help Zero since his normals ( :h:, j.:h:, Shippuga) scale a lot already. I think that’s why you see less Ammy in Ultimate in general.
I did use Cold Star for a while, it’s a nice choice for ground mixups but if you need a reliable combo extender don’t look to that move, it’s way too slow. I find with that assist Ammy gets blown up a lot also, it’s quite unsafe. Universal assist nerf hurts as well
I’ve been maining this team. I’m still clueless as to who would be the best suitable anchor between Spencer and Dante. I don’t actually like anchor Spencer so much, but I’ve heard Dante isn’t such a great anchor either. Bionic Arm DHC does more damage than DT combo after Rekkouha though.
I guess the team’s main weakness is that it lacks a projectile assist for screen control. However I don’t really want to run to Doom like nearly everyone else does, I find Task and Hawk boring, etc.
Im interesting in having a secondary team with zero besides the usual one, now I want to try a zoning team, trying to be the most annnoyingly possible while they are trying to chase Zero. What do u guys suggest? I was thinking:
Zero (ryuuenjin) / Doom (Missiles) / Sentinel (Drones)
sounds pretty straightforward, but I want to know your opinions =)
I wouldn’t go Drones. I love them, but against a lot of popular characters they get stuffed. Maybe Strider on Vajra. You should have plenty of meter if you end up needing Orbs and keeps characters on the ground for Zero to do his thing in the air.
My old team. Better now than it used to be. But against a team with good ground control, you’ll find your assists constantly punished. Teams built around Taskmaster and Hawkeye will rip this team apart as well. The comeback factor also isn’t too strong either if the opponent loves winning. Awesome team if you have the lead though.
What do you guys think about Zero and Deadpool together? They are my two fav characters and I was looking to make a team that would work with both of them together.
Hey people, I need help picking a third character for my team. Someone who could anchor and potentially have a good assist. Right now I have Zero and Frank West and I’m fairly satisfied with this duo. Shopping Cart is amazing for Zero and I can easily get Frank West into level 4 from any hitconfirm I get with Zero (even if it involves TACing). However, I’m having trouble deciding on an anchor character… I’d like to avoid the overused characters like the devil twins, hawkeye and definitely fucking wesker, so I’m kinda limiting myself on my options as it is. I was thinking Doom since I really enjoy him but I still wanna avoid him too because I’m weird like that. Who do you people think would work well with this duo? Any ideas? Thanks for the help in advance.****
I don’t like them together - their DHC isn’t that good IMO. You may need a buffer between them at all times. Assists may be pretty good though. I just know I didn’t do a lot of testing between them after I realized they couldn’t DHC well.
Sentinel - Drones
Strider - Vajra
Magneto - Beam (Hypergrab could be REALLY good for Frank though - just theory)
Rocket Raccoon - They’re all good
Nova - Rush or Pulse
Iron Fist - Rising Fang (though you’d have to probably move him to point or second at worst)
Taskmaster - Arrows
I’m more interested in anchoring abilities than the assist itself. I played a bit with dormammu (dark hole) and I actually enjoyed him, what do you people think?
That doesn’t really matter. Seriously. In my experience, the team thread is best to get ideas on what you can do with said team instead of looking for someone to say “Yea, that’s good to use”.
Not one person in this thread would say, “Yah CTG, Captain America is an awesome choice!”
Use who you want and use this thread to get the very most out of it. If you like Dorm, rock out. However for the record - I think Dorm is sick with Zero.
So if I ran Zero and Deadpool who would be a good anchor? I really want to make them work out of character love but I guess if it came down to it I could also go Zero Dante but I’m not sure who to have as anchor.
Deadpool isn’t too bad of an anchor to be honest, you could probably run Zero/Dante/Deadpool with decent success. Deadpool and his 0 recovery teleports sets up some crazy stuff, not to mention his infinite and all that. I’m sure Zero/Dante wouldn’t mind his assists either.
I was thinking on the way home, maybe Zero/Morrigan (Dark harmonizer)/Doom (missiles) or Strange (eye) would be a better choice for a zoning based Zero team. Like, morrigan can get zero even more meter to work with (i know, it sounds stupid) and morrigan can do her stuff with all the meter zero can builds backed up by missiles or protected by eye of agamotto.
I was actually thinking Morrigan also, but probably not with Doom. I know the Morrigan/Doom trap is ridiculous, but Doom’s movement is just wonky for me right now. I’d have to get my hands on the two of them (Zero/Morrigan) and really see what I’d want to do for a third as I don’t think CapAm fits.
maybe leaving morrigan last and having dr.strange second, or another char. But yeah, I will try doom as well, also morrigan deals with Spencer quite well, since her Spike super and her lv3 both beat Bionic arm.
