Man I played at a tournament yesterday and dropped the KK like 5 times…the s.H xx Fly part. I should really go back to plinking fly j.M, it seemed like that made it more consistent for me. It may have just been tournament jitters.
Patch? I honestly don’t think there will be a balance patch for Iron Man or anyone else.
I’m not an Iron Man expert by any means, but I don’t think he really needs much patching.I would love for him to have his tri-dash ability back, but that would change the way they want him played. He is not a rushdown character with zoning tools anymore, the more you go away from thinking that the better he becomes.
Iron Man is to me, perfect as a No. 2. A great assist character that doesn’t have to force anything. That can zone, use his safe missile and repulsar blast to frustrate opponents who can’t keep up then exploit them when they make a mistake. To me, you have to approach Iron Man as Tony Stark would, outsmart them with your tech that can work for almost any situation.
Iron Man’s missile even works up close and keeps him safe. He’s a character that can keep you at a distance and almost start a combo from that distance. Figuring out ways to do that is the key. Like say, air-down H into down M from far if they don’t hit keeps Iron Man safe enough to start another repulsar spread or fly + down-s etc… etc… The easiest way to start Iron Man combos now seems to be through the Repulsar Blast
The key is having a durable assist in the third spot to make his rushdown somewhat viable. I use Nova Strike as it pushes back, hits low and give Iron Man time to get in.
I don’t know am I nuts?
You speak a lot of sense, EXCEPT running Nova as anchor, that nigga eats his own health. That’s THE worse thing an anchor character can do. I need to play this game more to determine which order I wanna play my avengers, I think I just need to get more comfortable with Clint and Tony really… Tony takes time to ease into and I haven’t had the chance to play this game (due to BBcsex, and being a good friend), so my progress with Tony has been halted, Clint is better. But I need to work on comboing off different hits on the screen, comboing consistently, learning to use his normals/specials efficiently, and working on my approach with/without assists to back him up.
Anyways my new training mode song after I’m done exams:
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I already got my Avengers vs X-Men squad goin on with Erik, Tony and Peter in the danger room lol
Nice, the Avengers theme.
But if you think about it, Nova anchor makes perfect sense when you don’t use the gravimetric pulse assist.
Nova as an anchor, on his own, can use his redlife without thought because he’s not going to gain it back anyway. Unless you’re hoping X-factor does that for you.
Sorry bro, I’m with the Avengers, Cyclops has been a dick lately. Especially with the issue of child-soldiers. #Summers2012, he must be stopped from recruiting anymore young mutants lol.
It’s boss eh? i finally having a training mode song for Hawkeye >_>
He has like 3 moves that use his red health no?
Situations like running out of time play a big role. And yes, xfactor does help recover life that you may need to get in on your opponent.
Only one assist uses his redlife. That’s the first one gravimetric pulse.
When you’re an anchor, you’re the last guy, so your redlife doesn’t matter anyway. It’s never coming back as an anchor unless you use Xfactor to bring it back.
That actually does matter a lot.
If you’re responding to my post I’m not sure how Nova’s red life draining issues would be any better if he were first or second. Anchor is the only place he can use his redlife moves without a huge casualty, IF u plan on using them.
Anyways, Im talking Nova in an Iron Man thread.
Figured I’d post up some videos from the Arcade UFO ranbat that happened yesterday. Got second, can’t say I really cared too much though as I can only attend 2 of the 5 due to my going back home to Chicago over the summer, meaning I certainly won’t win overall. Still some decent play I believe with scattered execution errors that I really shouldn’t be making, need to start bringing my own stick to UFO so I can stop using the cabs as an excuse. Not going to link the losses to carlos just because I felt the executional errors made in those games were to gross.
Vs. Maximo(hulk, racoon, wesker) - Most likely what people want to see, shows how I like to play ironman if I’m going to go on the offensive. Doom missiles plus smart use of airdash leaves you almost completely safe while controlling large amounts of space with ironmans normals. Don’t watch the second round it’s bad and purely spencer.
Vs. Rylander(haggar, task, doom) - “Boring” set, but probably the most valuable in terms of iron man neutral game. Taskmaster is a severe threat to my entire team, being pretty clearly advantageous vs. every character, Haggar also beats spencer allowing me to show off Tony in one of his few good matchups! I also do a throw reset which I almost never attempt, though I do believe ironman to have one of the best due to it looking so similar to him regularly ending a combo, along with his insane recovery time after a smart bomb compared to say a wesker gun. I think this match most clearly shows the difference between a defensive ironman and something like say Joker’s. More hilarious use of proton cannon 0-frame dhc.
http://www.twitch.tv/arcadeufo/b/315870613?t=3h53m25s
Vs. Don(task, sent, doom) - omitted first game due to it being horrible(although you can check it out for hilarious use of the dhc into proton cannon hitting on frame 0) second round is pretty dominating so you aren’t going to see much neutral game, but it shows the use of TAC’s for meter positive kills, the insane damage of proton cannon dhc, doom missiles giving tony more freedom to move, and the the use of ironman assist for lockdown. Could have killed using x factor tricks to save the perfect at the end but oh well.
Vs. Hoang(zero, dante, hawkeye) - not the greatest set, don’t really advise watching except for some doom comeback hilarity. Hoang picked up Hawkeye probably two days ago which would explain the itchy trigger finger on gimlet.
Good shit Danke! Gonna watch those when I get out of my night class.
So today I finally finished my corner mix-up using Iron Man and drones assist. It’s really effective against people who can’t air dash or double jump. So on an incoming character you can cross them up 2 times and then go for another high/low or maybe cross them up again. (If you cross them up a third time i don’t know if you can combo after it) First you call drones then super jump up. As they come in you dash down getting a cross up but then you can jump forward and air dash down again doing another cross up. Then if it doesn’t hit you can go for a high/low with another super jump ADD.
If they can air dash, I don’t cross them up but I super jump up and ADD as soon as they come in and use d.h. If it hits then you can go into a jump loop into a magic series. If they block they get trapped by drones and you can hit them with a high/low.
Also, nice matches Danke. Reminded me that it’s been a while since I’ve watched you play.
Here’s another match from a recent tourney I did pretty badly in, like 9th or something (2nd in cross tekken though what gives?).
Danke vs. Jan(Dorm, Sent, Haggar): Kind of sloppy but it’s really hard to be solid and offensive vs. Jan, who is just a terror to fight, tried my hardest to turtle him out and thankfully succeeded.
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Or instead of watching sloppy Ironmans, you can watch the number of Japanese Ironman players.
Tenboss vs. ABEGEN part 1 and 2:
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JhamaVJ’s Ironman:
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I wasn’t aware that dropping x factor into launch wasn’t sloppy, did you even watch those videos? Tenbosu’s Ironman does nothing but get bodied for 2 hours, and the other guy hardly ever even has him out as hes just meant as an assist.
Well since we’re all sharing videos here. You can check out my gameplay at 1:06:00. I dropped a lot of Dante combos which I usually don’t during my 1st match but it was no contest. I ended up getting 4th at this tournament. Lost to my demon in both winners and losers at around 2:07:00ish. I usually do much better than what i show.
I did much better at 3:25:00
Just ignore him he is known for dick riding the Japanese players.
Anyways I’m thinking about puting Iron Man on my main team because unibeam is so godlike for Viper and Vergil.
yay?
You can certainly try it, but you’d probably have a better time with Doom beam, wouldn’t mind another IM to bounce stuff off though so definitely try it. Just warning you though, Tony is pretty fucking bad.
I’ve come up with some incoming mixups with ol’ Tony. Some of these you may know already, but it frustrates the hell out of me when people don’t block the j.L. This option selects with the throw and the up.H. I hope you guys can find more stuff out 
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Some nice resets. That cross cr.m was fucking godlike. I saw in one of the japanese videos if they get hit by the j.l you can just jump up and grab them.
Japan has some nice anchor Iron Man’s but on point they are some ass. The only good japanese Iron Man I can say I’ve seen was [LEFT]makkusu24bann and he plays [/LEFT][LEFT]Iron Man/Dante/Akuma[/LEFT]