Hey guys, i’m really trying to get a last character that works well with Zero/Spencer/xxx. I’m using vergil, but rapid slash doesn’t seem to be good enough for either of them as far as screen control goes. The only character i won’t play is Dante, but any suggestions?
I currently use Zero, Nova, and (insert random character here). I currently don’t have any idea what assist to use for Zero; but for Nova I have Centurion Rush M. I currently don’t have a third character on this team that I want to use. What character would benefit Zero and Nova as an assist and as a character as a whole?
Zero/Dante/Doom is the best Zero team imo. Better than even Zero/Dante/Doom as it beats that team handily if you run plasma beam. Zero/Strider I’m not a big fan of. You have to do gymnastics to even think of converting off of that mid screen. Honestly with the way zero functions in this game tho you can run just about anyone with him and have success. I used to be a huge opponent of Zero/xxx/Wesker but now I’m like who the fuck cares lol. Zero works with everything period. If you can LL you can throw him on a generic team like Zero/horizontal assist/extender and be fine. Personally I can’t imagine not running zero without dante but to each his own.
But…that means running Doom anchor =/
Doom is an all round solid character, why people feel the need to complain about him being on anchor will forever baffle me. He’s proven himself in tournament and casuals, people just let the theory of Doom having bad matchups get to their head. In practice Doom provides so much synergy that you very rarely end up with just Doom left, and even then Doom’s wholly capable of pulling comebacks by himself.
People think just cos Trish or Dormammu can lame him out on anchor position that by default they’ve already lost. Never give up, especially with a character that good, learn to play patiently- just because you’re not pressing buttons or swarming like you do with your on point chars doesn’t mean shit.
As far as I’m concerned, Doom really doesn’t have a bad position on a well thought out team, and you ought to just play with what feels natural to you not what some guy on a forum recommended to you. Play the characters, build up ideas, put them into practice. Do you like it? Good stick with it and improve. If not- start from square 1.
I’m confused :S
meant zero/dante/sent for the second one ;p
You must be new here ;p.
Toast invented that name, not me.
It’s actually not the Trish/Dormammu matchup that leads me to believe Doom is a suboptimal anchor, it’s just the character design that makes him flawed in comeback potential although he has alot to offer in overall team contribution. In practice, you will not always land that first TOD and your Zero and Dante will get scuffed out sometimes and Doom’s tools, IMO, aren’t sufficient to pull off those clutch moments consistently. No fullscreen high damage supers and okay solo mixup ability make him a viable anchor, but definitely not on the same level as Akuma, Strider, or Magneto.
if mihe couldnt clutch with dante anchor he’s ass, period. dante anchor is amazing and fully capable of clutch comebacks in nearly any matchup.
zero/vergil/dante is not only an amazing zero team but also an all around extremely solid team. its on par with zero/dante/magneto, except you have a TOD DHC that requires no effort AND two solid characters who are both great 2nd and on anchor. this is why i dislike team hunters, sentinel is shit in every position. drones (aka the “MY SPACING AND SCREEN CONTROL SUCKS HELP ME” assist) isnt derp enough to fix the problem of a permanently garbage character.
zero/sentinel blows up a lot of teams that lack a strong neutral game or can’t put up with zero’s level three buster. Zero and dante is best duo though, as jam session conversion is so easy with zero.
I was testing out strider assist and its uses are limited. You can’t abuse it full screen like and convert like wesker can.
You don’t really need to combo off Strider assist by any means, it’s mainly there to harass the shit out of the opponent and on a hard knockdown- you get in for free and set up meaty mixup, which is exactly the kind of thing Zero excels at.
But yeah sometimes/ in certain matchups you’d be better off switching to either Doom assist for sure.
Zero/Strider is not that good to me. Zero/Dante/Strider on the other hand is decent since dante gets so much mileage from vajra. If I were to run that team I would def place dante first for the DHC in LL for TODs. And you really should learn to play with other assists period Sanchaz since your entire mindframe in this game revolves around whoring drones. It really shows when it doesn’t work how lost you seem haha.
I like how active this board is prolly the most active one here. Zero army puts in work it seems.
Man, you’ve no idea how bad it is going from this board to any other board. It’s just so baron everywhere else- can’t even kill time if I tried LOL.
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I guess I got the two mixed up xD but regardless, I think sentinel is assssssssssss so it doesn’t matter.
I do agree that it’s an amazing team but I’m not too sure about Dante being an amazing anchor. Sure he has good 50/50 mix ups with acid rain on incoming characters and he has a gdlk devil trigger mode but from what I see, Dante has to work amazingly hard to get in on characters without an assist. Yeah he has tools to fight characters one on one head-on but smart players usually keep a full-screen distance from Dante and try to run his xfactor out whenever it’s activated. Because his teleport can be grabbed out of the air, Dante really doesn’t have an effective way of getting in without an assist covering him (correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not a Dante player myself so I’m not aware of ALL his options).
and Mihe is definitely not ass xD
You can tech any grab attempts after the teleport, more often than not anyway
I need some help finding a third character with zero/dante. It feel like if I lose zero and dante, I deserve to lose, :(.
I don’t like playing tri dashing characters either.
So I concluded wesker, vergil, phoenix, akuma, and any other recommendations would be great.
Phoenix would be very interesting… Technically Zero should still be building 5 bar mid way through killing the 2nd character (it’s happened more times to me than I care to think about) provided you’re only using LL and not level 3.
Every Zero/Phoenix team I’ve seen refuses to use meter with Zero but I think it could be a good venture. Worth trying out for sure though I wanna see vids of this.
Akuma’s all round solid can’t really argue against him tbh, have you looked into Trish?
Yeah pretty much is they get to your third you deserve to lose. Zero shouldn’t even die with proper back up behind unless you do something stupid.
ammy she is a really really good anchor!!!