This is more dependent on what assist you want for Doom than anything else, Dante is always going to be doing well in either of these teams.
You either get Plasma Beam + Vajra or Hidden Missiles + Cold Star. Both Plasma Beam and Cold Star function as horizontal assists, Vajra and Hidden Missiles are two of the best vertical assists in the game, and both of the latter two can be used by Dante for combo extensions well.
My alt team for like month now has been Dante/Doom/Ammy though, I would much rather play Doom with a lockdown assist than only Vajra, and Ammy gives Doom access to THC bullshit as well. I also think Dante ultimately benefits more from these two assists than the others, Dante is like the only character who can use Hidden Missiles to set up a double left/right mixup on opponents at super jump height, and it makes his zoning game hysterically ridiculous (see what I did there) letting you basically 10-0 some of the cast. I also like Cold Star, giving you an initial left/right teleport mixup using Stinger + Cold Star, and then an additional IAD mixup when it finishes regardless of Dante getting pushblocked out.
Both teams have very good entry mixups, dhc’s, etc. Strider anchor is stupid and Ammy anchor is pretty good as well.
A little late on this, but I run Zero/Dante/Felicia. I much prefer Felicia anchor for a few reasons.
I don’t really like her point capabilities. Her damage is just low enough to make it really hard to touch-of-death anyone, she can’t DHC that well into a lot of characters, her left/right mixups are weak so she can’t take great advantage of many assists, and her mobility makes it hard to get around an enemy with two assists themselves. That said, she can build meter crazy fast with her meter charge while spamming assists, and she still has the natural capabilities of being able to open people up with command grabs and the like, so it’s not like point Felicia is bad or anything.
X-Factor Felicia is one of the scariest things in the game I’d say, sitting next to Wesker and some others. Suddenly her damage output is negligable, she has all the meter in the world to spam kitty helper, and she’s blindingly fast. You have to consider the situations that this happens, too; when you’re down to only Felicia, chances are your opponent has only one, maybe two characters, and that’s much easier for her to handle than a fresh team with all assists. She’s tough to control, but with a little practice you’ll be a glowing red hurricane of hell for about 10 seconds. Not to mention that with a level 3 at her disposal, you can still easily take out a third character without X-Factor if you used X-Factor to tear through two other characters.
Oh right, this is the Dante forum. I guess you could say that Felicia benefits more from jam session than Dante benefits from rolling buckler, but those unblockable setups are still really sick, and Dante in X-Factor is not that good at all, in my opinion.
Either way, there are certain matchups that Felicia on point may benefit you much more, so don’t rule it out, but I’d suggest you play around with anchor Felicia a bit more.
Although, I’m wondering if I should run Felicia’s splash assist instead of rolling buckler. Thoughts?
So I’m looking to have an alternate squad with a Dante/Strider duo on it. I think I’ll probably end up using this team for counter picking purposes where Vajra assist is a big part of the matchup.This assist also opens up a big mixup/reset game for Dante which I want to explore.
I currently play Dante/Vergil/Magneto which is pretty damn good anyway, but I’ve been itching to learn some new characters. Most notably C. Viper. Viper/D/S has great synergy all around, but I could also play the Vergil/Dante/Strider. While Strider can help Vergil convert from random stuff, Vergil can’t really convert off a successful Vajra call w/o blowing XF so that’s kinda lame. I also have a pocket Doom for Dante/Doom/Strider which is super solid, but not as cheap.
I was also wondering what are peoples thoughts regarding Dormammu and Dante? I could run a rushdown Dorm with Dante(Crystal)/Mags(Distruptor) or opt for space control with a Dorm/Dante(Jam)/Vergil(Rapid Slash) team, but I’m not too sure what’s more important for the character. Have always thought his character design was interesting, and he looks cool as fuq.
Dorm, Dante, mag is a good team but Dante should go on jam session. Its way better for dorm especially. Dante/strider really depends on where you put strider.
Is it easy for Dorm to convert without an OTG assist off a Disruptor+Tele mixup? Also I’d be putting Strider on anchor. I may just go for Viper/D/S, but with Dante on Weasel Shot. Strider does a pretty good job of allowing for the focus attack unblockable, and Weasel can allow for BS mixup/rushdown opportunities. Burn Kick Grapple reset unblockables are also quite tantalizing.
Actually a Dante/Strider/Phoenix team would be pretty neat too. It would force me to work on my reset game, and I have two BS anchors.
It isn’t that bad converting off of Disruptor+ Teleport Mixups. In that team, you just have to remember that Dante/strider DHC damage is bad. Other than that the team is good.
Nova/Dante/Strider. Nova with both Dante and Strider is pretty amazing. Also, Dante with Nova has some nice synergy. Still trying to see if there’s any amazing ways to utilize Nova’s Cent Rush M assist though.
Alright my team is Dante(jam session), vergil(rapid slash), and deadpool(quickwork)
The problem that I’m having is that I’m not entirely sure what assist I should use for deadpool.
-With katanarama I can combo off of and air throw with dante no problem and I can do very nice combo extensions with both dante and vergil. But I don’t have and good ways to mix up with this assist so therefore it becomes a combo used assist only.
-With quick work I can’t combo off of an air throw with dante(actually I have done it before but it’s ridiculously inconsistent). but I can do an easy combo extension with dante only. But the best part of this assist is that it’s the best for mix ups and what not because it hits low and fairly fast.
-With the guns I can combo off an air throw with dante. And I can do good combo extensions with both dante and vergil. But there are no mix ups with this assist at all.
So I’m stuck between combo off of air throw, combo extension, and mixup options here and I’m not sure which is best. So what do you guys think?/
I left out the ability to combo off of air throws with vergil because he can do that by himself.
Quickwork IMO. Comes out really fast (faster than Felicia’s low assist, I believe), can be used for unblockables, and has the rare trait of causing a soft-knockdown, regardless of hitstun deterioration.
Rather than combo off an airthrow, what I do is mash H for all the gunshots, land, wait just a moment, then call Deadpool + Teleport. It catches both back- and forward-rolls, and gives you your combo without all the nasty scaling from the throw. Gets beat by the things that beat all high/low setups, which off the top of my head are
Tag out (if you predict this then just block and punish)
Invincible move on wake-up (teleport can get their inputs crossed up unless they’ve got some amazing timing/luck)
Up-back if you don’t time it right (just don’t mess up lol)
I’m not really sure what Vergil can do with Quickwork, maybe really fast unblockables if he’s in Devil Trigger (IAD j.H + Quickwork)? Katana-rama! is probably the best for Vergil since it gives him an OTG, and can reset your ground bounce so you can do like 50 Lunar Phase thingies (exaggerating, of course.)
Dorm allows Dante to do prop shredder anywhere at any time no matter what. Even late in a combo.
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I’m actually trying to find a good team to put Dorm/Dante on right now, I don’t wanna just throw in wesker (though I know it would work) because I’ve played him in every other team I’ve played. I would play mags, but don’t wanna put in the time to learn his new bnbs (played him in vanilla). And Doom seems like he could just be thrown in there, but I fucking hate that character. Vergil seems like he could work, but I don’t like playing Vergil w/o Wesker assist… it’s too good.
Hey so I finally started learning dante and Im currently running him on a basic hawkeye/dante/akuma team(I play akuma and hawkeye so it makes it easier to learn him) but I wanna run dante on an optimized team down the line and was wondering what assists help dantes reset game? Off the top I believe vajra, low assists and lariat should help, but off those 3 Im only down with playing haggar, not a fan of strider or any of the low assist carrying characters. So any help is welcome people, thanks in advance.
lol well you could either play wolvie/dante/sentinel, or(and this is me assuming your a magneto player) wolvie/dante/magneto. I think either team works really well. In fact, you could play both and switch assists depending on the match-up(use magneto against like hidden missiles and use sentinel against teleporters)
Really? I don’t know why I assumed you played mags(prolly your avatar). You could try wolvie/sentinel/dante, not sure about dantes skills as an anchor but he is prolly better than the giant robot. Plus sent with jam sessions pretty dope.
