My real issue is that I think people are beginning to understate how good Wesker is a character. I know we’ve gone beyond his glasses buff and not only are we better players but we’re picking better teams as well, but I feel that we’re unduly downplaying his effective. Or maybe this can just be me still stuck in the early UMVC3 days.
But yeah, you were right about the Sentinel point, touche lol. But at the same time, I feel that perhaps what makes Wesker good as an anchor is not the assist, or lack of a great assist, that he provides, but rather just how good he is in XF3 and with his glasses off.
I also feel that fact that people pick Wesker’s over the likes of Felicia and Deadpool (real life examples being team Trenchcoat, Killer Kai, Chris G’s alternate team against Frutsy) is evident that he’s a better choice, and even a better character than them. Perhaps I’m getting being a ‘better’ character confused with being a good anchor, but I feel Wesker’s just as good a character as he is an anchor.
I guess I just rate how good I consider a character to be over the assist they provide when considering an anchor.
And I didn’t necessarily care for XF when discussing anchors. But a lot of people were saying ‘x character is good because of xf3’ so I didn’t know if they considered how effective the character would be without it.
In terms of the assist you mentioned, they all serve different purposes to Samurai Edge. Of course, if we want a good neutral assist, we shouldn’t be picking Wesker lol. But at the same time, I think we get different points and such muddled up. Like, Orbital Grudge could be a better assist at neutral than Samurai Edge. But if you wanted an OTG assist, you obviously wouldn’t pick orbital grudge. (NB Skrull has got that OTG assist that I forgot the name of lol, but Wesker has the benefit of providing an unblockable set-up). We have to decide what our purposes are for our choices. If I was making a team with two point characters and an assist, I’d probably go for disruptor and drones. But if I wanted to have point, assist an anchor, I’d probably pick Wesker or Strider as anchor, but have a good neutral assist for the second character.
Basically, I see this whole anchor discourse as ‘worse case scenario, if I didn’t have meter or x factor, who would I rather have as anchor’. Of course we may have meter and XF when we’re down to our last character But I also try to think about if it doesn’t go to plan.
As far as dhc’s go, the only thing I see good about DHC’ing into Wesker is to get his glasses off lol. But yo, Vergil was in my top 5 anchors lol so I wasn’t arguing against him. Considering what a character can do of a TAC is also good too. But as I said, I leave that down to purpose. If my plan is to use TAC’s (I personally avoid doing so), then I’d pick Doom over anyone else. Dormammu can perhaps do more off a TAC than Wesker, but I feel that’s only a part of a choice between characters. And I also rate how I personally feel a character does on their own more than anything else I can think of off the top of my head like the assist they provide, what they can do off TAC’s etc. but that’s just my consideration.
(I cut out some points you guys made just to reduce the size of this post lol. If you made similar points I addressed them at some point, but I still tried to talk about all the points even though I may have removed them)
