This thread isn’t about “9 of 10 skrulls” this is about the character. If you rely on meteor smash then you’re not playing skrull correctly. A good skrull would wait to open you up. Watch Hi I’m Nastyy or DJ Huoshen, they don’t just do meteor smash.
Nick Cam is also known for using an assist like drones before doing the smash so he can lock up a lot of space and safely do the meteor smash. Meteor smash or dive + drones on incoming = you gotta guess probably more than once to not die.
I really don’t care about the character, i care about what happens in real matches, and what happens is that a lot of Skrulls abuse metor mash and when they whiff they use Inferno if they think you are going to punish them.
Well that seems very cheap, even if you want to punish sentinel you need to be aware of skrull, it seems very safe and effective .
I used to get so salty when I used Doom on anchor.
When he has x-factor he’s pretty decent, but without it I’m left crying while chasing my opponent around the screen while getting easily zoned out.
Sure he provides an amazing assist, and is great for incoming characters, but being left solo with his slow ass is painful and tiresome.
That’s why I use Hawkeye now, run away all you want; you’re still going to be getting chipped.
Aside from that, I’m sure we can all agree that Doom’s optimal position is generally in 2nd.
Those skrulls that abuse meteor smash are not good. Don’t take personal experience against a character into account when discussing tiers, discuss the characters possibilities, not the percieved limitations brought on by some crappy online skrulls.
This is kinda like why I don’t defend Skrull anymore. No matter who you are, your gameplay will still be defined as, “random”.
I am not saying he isn’t a threat, in my anchor list i put him in top 5; but when talking about the players who use it(not all), that is another story; i don’t really know how the command grab works, but there isn’t a complete 100/0 in this game, meaning that there are ways to get around it, and you need to take into acount that there are a lot of character who can stay in the air by double jumping,flying or teleporting, also doing a normal or a special move in the changes the times you will land so unless you can read peoples mind it isn’t a true 100/0.
It doesn’t apply to them, it only applies to people such as iron fist, vergil, haggar, etc.
random scum character
Wesker
Dark Pheonix
Spencer
Dorm
Wolverine (Bezerker Charge + X - Factor)
Zero
How can you laugh at this. you clearly must not play wesker let alone fight against any good wesker players.
the guy can easily destroy an entire team on his own. Once his Glasses come off. . . . Its over, dont even need to count x factor.
Plus the fact that wesker builds ridicules amounts of meter. . . . . case closed!
Wesker has to run into too many hit boxes to be a top 5 anchor anymore. He can’t clear up the flood without doing a random maximum wesker that may get him killed. He just has to run forward and press buttons and hope shit happens and well…Dark Wolverine can do that just the same any way. With Dark Wolverine you also get a safe DHC and while berserker slash is far from the best assist in the world it’s really not terrible either. We’ve seen PR Rog make that assist work like a weak shopping cart so yeah.
I personally think Dark Wolverine and Dark Felicia are both scarier than Dark Wesker. Dark Felicia being the best since she provides the best DHC’s, 2 really solid assists and a super move that is basically an invincible assist that lasts for 10 seconds.
They all run into the same problem though of having trouble dealing with hit box heavy teams especially if all 3 characters are still alive.
Dark Strider, Vergil, Ammy, Strange and Akuma (Doom also to a lesser extent) are the better route to go if you want an anchor that can actually clear shit up. The other anchors just have to run forward. Which running forward when you’re that fast is good, but it’s already been shown that it’s just not as consistent and why more players are using these characters as anchors instead.
Personal thoughts on Top Tier anchors…
Vergil and Doom are most certainly Top Tier. Akuma as well. Heck, I believe Akuma is a better and more deadly anchor than Dr.Doom. Dormarmu another character I believe is a very good anchor. Especially if you know when to poke the runaway. Strider’s okay to, but the only thing he’s got going is his speed and that’s not to hard to block. Every Strider is always going for the same lows over and over, so unless they do something special I’m just not seeing it. Felicia is another character I believe is a good anchor.
Doom is not a top tier anchor.
Sure he provides a great assist, but his solo capabilities are lacking.
Wesker only destroyed teams of people who don’t KNEW how to play against him, sure he is top 10, but not top 5, his glasses are nothing compared to spiral sword or ouroborous(how the hell is this spelled?) , zero and dante also build a lot of meter(more than wesker) but that doesn’t make them top 5 anchor(though they are top 5 in general terms), he is good, but not overrate him.
Strider has the best solo mix ups of probably any anchor so he’s definitely a big deal as anchor. His projectiles basically act as assists to create 50/50 mix ups from pretty much any range. The only issue with those projectiles being the low durability. That plus Ouroboros and being able to get pick ups into combos off all of his throws allow him to be more useful overall than say Felicia or Wesker. He actually has tools to clear things up even if they are more meter intensive than other characters. The only thing he has trouble clearing up is super projectiles since they have high durability and Orbs are a rare type of super that only have low durability. Despite that Strider’s movement + Ouro is usually good enough. It’s meter intensive but with XF and or TAC’s you’ll get the meter eventually.
Other anchors like Wesker, Doom and Felicia are better at doing solo damage than Strider when they run out of XF, but if you use your XF well and know the right relaunches with Strider you should be good to go often enough.
Wesker gets gun shot in to teleport in to combo with x-factor his gun has a pretty damn good range wolverine and Felicia aren’t Wesker samurai edge discourages chicken blocking to an extent and he has command grabs in to combos. His weakness is he can be lammed really easily by mags, doom any one with air dashes and fly. Vergil can cut the bullet preemptively but not on reaction if you get shot or block it standing your in 50/50 land. I feel the best use of x-factor with the dark lord is level 2 with a strong vertical assist to pin people down as you rape there shit. On a side note Wesker can lame really well awesome for burning out annoying anchors x-factor except for vergils crown no one likes the crown ;_; People forget the dark lord has 3/4 of the screen combos when his on x-factor level 4.
I can laugh at it because he has been my character since day 1 of -Vanilla-. Part of that means pretty much knowing exactly what another Wesker player is going to attempt before they even do it. It’s not even that hard in Wesker’s case, given that his number one “weakness” isn’t that obvious unless you play the character. That weakness being, he’s HIGHLY predictable sans-assists. Being predictable as an anchor doesn’t win you any points. There’s a reason that Dark Phoenix wreaked havoc in Vanilla you know.
Furthermore, if your entire team is dying to an X-factorless Wesker with any sort of consistency: hit the lab, find a training partner, and play better.
And please, take that “once his glasses come off” crap and shove it. Like I’ve said many times before (and as dare I say most actual don’t-give-a-fuck-about-Dark-Wesker players agree), I’ll take my Vanilla Wesker over the Ultimate RayBan-free Wesker any day because comparatively, him and his glasses are a joke. Also, I’m not sure if you’ve been informed, but there aren’t many characters in Marvel that don’t build ridiculous amounts of meter. If it were any easier to get, it may as well be free. Pretty much any decent combo these days winds up being either meter positive or meter neutral. Even the so-called “meter eaters” just about build their own meters nowadays. 
Fight any good Wesker players? Damn, your X-Factor 3 Wesker must be sweeping tournaments then.
This might sound a bit weird but Wesker is the worst top tier character in my book and I can probably say that for other players as well.
Still sticking with my statement. Yeah combo off his grabs is useful, but Ouroboros isn’t as fantastic as you give credit. While the mix up is semi strong blocking it isn’t a problem. I would feel more threaten if he decided to poke me rather then harass me with Ouro. If his back teleport wasn’t in the air I would give him more credit, but by the time he teleports it’s not hard to tell which way he’s going. In turn making him predictable.
I don’t even believe Wesker is a good anchor. Online, sure, but offline he doesn’t have much going but that one frame command grab. He’s decent, but if I had a character that could control space well like Hawkeye, Task, Morrigan, ect. I’m not really scared of him. He can’t even teleport up on you like Vergil.