Dante is an excellent anchor. You don’t see it too much because he’s an even better point character.
Akuma’s Tatsu is still great. It still eats through projectiles and that’s a big plus. It’s lost a little priority but the big nerf was the removal of the soft knockdown. It makes it a little harder to combo off of. With a little adjustment it’s still a great assist. Top 10 IMO.
As an anchor Akuma is scarier than a lot of characters, but not in the tier Vergil or Wesker are. Akuma sports an overhead, two dive kicks, an average teleport, a full beam super, he can cover his approach with a fireball, combos off his throw, a projectile eating high priority tatsu and he has a full screen 8 frame (wild guess) super. With that said, his normals are so short and he can really be shut down by the upper tiers of the cast. He makes up for a lot of that disadvantage by totally shutting down assist when he has meters.
Speaking of those two, I think they’re a great pair. The two doctors have DHC synergy, assist synergy, and more importantly when Strange has meter he can punish everything on the screen OR protect Dr. Doom’s missiles while he plays lame. I hope some people pick up on the two characters together and make them bestfriends (so I can say I called it). I would, but I don’t like the two characters (especially Dr. Pretty Legs).
Top ten easily. Such a good character with very versatile tools.
Still a retarded pain in the ass. Hes virtually the same as vanilla but now since he cant kill you off any touch anywhere for 2 bars that he can build doing a day 1 fly combo he gets a move that controls where you are on the screen…gg’s capcom
Do you guys think that Dooms Rocks may be better for tri-dash characters than Plasma Beam? I was think sort of like a ghetto drones attached to a better character.
Good god the cyber akuma costume is awesome. I decided to try it out just now and it’s amazing. His command dashes, taunt, and hypers all trigger his wings to come out and it looks incredibly boss.
Unibeam. Seriously, the general assist nerf doesn’t really affect that move at all. So its like having Vanilla style assist on your team.
Also, i finished my Nova vid if people want a look-see… There’s some very dirty stuff you can do, also, lots of easy damage.
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I was thinking rocks because of their slow moving properties (for approach) and the longer block stun they offer. Drones are clearly better at both of those things, but I was looking for an alternative.
Wesker is the only character (at least right now) that I feel like if I touch him, he has to go. Even if that means burning my lvl1 X-Factor 5 seconds into the match - he has to go.