What characters did you drop in vanilla and why?

I like playing with themes, I’m not the most hardcore player so I just like to have a little fun with who I’m playing with:

Week 1: Weather Lords were Storm, Ammy and Thor as anchor. I actually liked this team a lot, but Ammy was a character I could never use to her full potential so in the end I dropped them.

Transition Teams:
Hulk/Arthur/Dorm: Was a big fan of Hulk and Arthur and with Gold Armor plus Dark Hole, the chip can be pretty brutal. Hulk was the muscle and one of the characters I felt got the most out of having horizontal cover. In the end though, Arthur problems made me move on.

Captain America/ Chris / Haggar: One of my favorite teams, and I still play them casually but they just couldn’t handle the multitude of crouching A priority types that crushed them with zero effort (I’m looking at you Zero and Mags).

She-Hulk/ Hulk/ Spencer: Probably the team I sat with the longest, and would always go back too after it had been a while since I touched the game. Really loved these guys, Spencer is so fun to play and Hulk hits are always satisfying. Probably learned the most playing this team as far as assist use, spacing, and MAHVEL footsies.

Spider-Man/ Wesker/ Doom: Probably the start of a more steady team base for me, and one of the teams I kept with the longest. I love how much Spider-Man got off the Laser Assist, and obviously Wesker benefited from it just as much. Doom combos at this time weren’t exactly together but they were getting there.

Final Team:
Super Skrull/ Wesker/ Doom: The final team, although between this one and SWD I also had Dorm instead of Doom at one point and Shuma instead of Spidey… but with Nova and Rocket Racoon announced I wanted to get me some SS in there! I have to say, Skrull works well with the OTG help after mix-up and the hidden missiles are amazing for tick-grab games and just keeping pressure to get in with Skrull. Love this team and Skrull has that satisfying OOMPH with his moves.

Future Team:
Nova/ Super Skrull/ Rocket Racoon: I feel like these guys will do me well. Nova looks to be like an amazing battery for a team, and can do plenty of damage without the use of meter. Super Skrull needs meter to do some big damage, and in the end I’m sure Rocket Racoon will have some projectile assists that can provide the cover for both to get in.

Started Magneto/Hsien Ko/Sentinel

Dropped Hsien Ko really fast (a shame, since she’s one of very few characters I actually like)

Picked up the following then dropped them almost immediately: Storm, Amaterasu, Dr. Doom, Zero

Eventually settled on Magneto/Wesker/Akuma

I didn’t drop anyone in mvc3 previews skrull looked cool and I thought cold star and drone assist would make him good…I was right lol.

When I first started off, I had a pretty non-serious team of Ryu, Spider-Man, and Viewtiful Joe. As the months went by, I went into a slow transition into my current team of Wesker, Dante, and Spencer. First to go was Joe for Spencer, then Ryu for Wesker. Finally ended up dropping Spidey for Akuma, but I had been working on Dante on the side until I eventually dropped Akuma for him. I expect my team will undergo even more changes once Ultimate comes, but it’s to be expected.

Start team:

X-23/Storm/Wesker

Transitional teams

X-23/Storm/Sent
Iron Man/Skrull/Dorm
Skrull/Sent/Dorm
X-23/Wesker/Akuma
X-23/Trish/Akuma

End team:

Wesker/Super Skrull/Doom & Storm/Sent/Dorm

Dropped:
X-23, Trish. Akuma, and Iron Man.

Started: Deadpool/Chris/Felicia

First few months: Felicia/Deadpool/Dormammu

Final: Felicia/Deadpool/Akuma

Dropped Chris because I didn’t think he was a good fit for the team. I still use him on my sub team where I built a team revolving around him. Dormammu I ended up dropping because I decided that if I wasn’t going to use top tier characters I might as well have a good assist. I really like the character but none of his assists made sense with what I wanted to do with my Felicia team and I was mostly just using him for X-factor level 3 comebacks. Ended up dropping him for Akuma whose assist help Felicia out a lot.

Started with MODOK/Wolverine/Sentinel.

Then I got my ass handed to me at UFGT7. Figured Magneto does everything that MODOK does but better.

Then, got my ass handed to me at Fighter x Shooter. After some searching, I tried out Spencer. My team now is Magneto/Spencer/Sentinel.

started Arthur,Deadpool,Ammy

couldn’t do shit with any of them except for Ammys bbbbbb.

Went on to Taskmaster/Dante/Akuma

Team was ok, but I felt like I could do better.

Decided to go Wesker/Dante/Spencer because all three characters were badass.

I was really inconsistant with spencer and I would drop the dumbest day 1 combos with Dante…

So, FInal team: Hulk/Wesker/Akuma.

Hulk is a pretty cool bro and he’s fun to play.

Wesker is wesker so derp must have.

Akuma because he’s easy and had nobody better to play.

I still play Dante instead of Hulk when I’m bored.

I was hyped for Felicia, Captain America, Haggar, Arthur, and Hsien-Ko. The only character I haven’t dropped that I was hyped for was Felicia.

Hsien-Ko: Where the hell do I start? I was originally going to go with a full-on Team Darkstalkers. Before the game even came out and it was time to pick teams for the pre-launch tournament, I ended up swapping her for Dante after the very little amount of time I got to play with her at Best Buy a couple of nights before.
Morrigan: Crap damage in her combos, and her zoning is mediocre without meter to blow on Astral Vision. There’s PLENTY of characters out there who can zone extremely well without meter (better than Morrigan when she does have meter, even), so why should I use Morrigan?
Captain America: There just isn’t a whole lot going for him. He isn’t bad, but he doesn’t have anything scary or complex going for him outside of Shield Slash loops. His cartwheel being completely useless was definitely a big mark against him early on, which led to me dropping him.
Haggar: Slow, can’t combo off of grabs, and is completely helpless against anyone who can fly and/or zone even marginally well.
Arthur: Worse that Haggar in mobility. Hell, worse than anybody in the mobility department - and in the Marvel series, mobility is king. His zoning, while nice, was not nice enough to make up for his low health and inability to deal with rushdown characters once they got in.
Dr. Doom: I picked up Doom after dropping Morrigan. I liked him, actually, but I read an article that listed a few reasons why Taskmaster is a lot like Doom - just better in certain areas and worse in others. After thinking about it, I realized that the way I played Doom would lend itself well to Taskmaster, so I made the switch.
Deadpool: Probably would have stuck with him had he provided a stellar anti-air assist or a stellar horizontal zoning assist. He provided neither, unfortunately.
Zero: Just never really took the time to learn him, and I needed a better zoning character. I enjoyed playing the team of Zero/Dante/Felicia, but it was too one-dimensional and all three of the characters were low on health. I had to drop somebody, and Dante/Felicia have far too much synergy together, so it had to be Zero.

Started: Deadpool, Dante, Akuma
Dropped: None
End: Deadpool, Dante, Akuma
Deadpool: His moonwalk, taunt, and anything else he did that was hilarious caught my attention. He was weird character to play at first, but i worked around him and used him as an offensive character and NOT KEEP AWAY. Best character and people don’t even know it.
Dante: I’m a big DMC fan so of course I was going to pick Dante.
Akuma: Shotos were my favorites and espicially akuma…
And also cause I can do this **~~~> **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9x1nRzmlNo

I started playing WOLVIE ZERO AND DORM before wolvie was seen as top tier. Drop Zero because of his health vs SENTINEL. Drop Dormammu because it made my friends mad and also i dont like playing loads of keep away. then drop him for She hulk Dante and wesker because i wanted to be unorthodox and play she hulk and dante has his range and wesker because of random

NOW i play** Spidey** Wesker and Doom because I love spidey and would love to be great with him. Wesker ( I DONT WANT TO USE HIM) is necessary because of his OTG assist and doom because of his beam assist to make spidey safe

**MODOK: **Day 1 Team, people caught on to my scrubby HPB spam so I switched. Never had the patience to actually use him.
Haggar: Same as MODOK, but with assist spam instead.
**Deadpool: **I used him successfully for a while, I just stopped for some reason. I replaced him with Cap who I’m still using.
Shuma-Gorath

I’ve pretty much tried to use the entire roster at some point, but those were the ones that I actually put work into. Right now I use Dorm, Doom, Sent, Cap, and Arthur.

Started: X-23 Dante Viper Jill Trish akuma chun li Viewtiful joe Zero
Picked up: Magneto wesker Doom Ammy
Dropped: Chun li wolverine
End: Jill/Wesker/Doom(inspired by assist me series) x-23/Dante/Akuma Viper/Magneto/Ammy (my idol Marlinpie i use this team for fun) and Zero/Magneto/Doom
**Why: **i use characters just because they are my personal favourites being dante vergil x-23 viper jill and strider n plus iam pure rushdown. Where there’s a will, there’s a way when it comes to making a team with good synergy thats how i see it

First Team

Spider-Man: Wanted to play him from the start but dropped because he was allot more technical and difficult to play than I thought, I couldn’t handle the simple bnb of Web Swing into max Spider. Hey RDP into QCF quickly is not the easiest thing in the world. I still know how to play him but don’t use him too much outside of just lol games

Dante: Was a very strange character when I stared playing, too many moves to memorize, dropped quickly.

Chris: I couldn’t handle his ass mobility or come up with ways to combo with him at the time. The inability to cancel his dashes with moves bugged me a whole lot


Second Team

X-23: Was really fast and was cool but I couldn’t figure out any other combos other than magic series into Ankle slice QCF ATK ATK. She was fun to play as and I really played her because I wanted to play a “female” character. Maybe i’ll play her again in Ultimate

Thor: When I tried him out against my friend I felt awesome. He killed everybody quickly and I just kept yelling you cannot stop the Mighty Thor! it just turns out he’s just too slow with his normals. Not moving about, that’s fine but that standing L. are you kidding me lol?

V.Joe: Dunno why I picked him. Dropped him because of lack of intrest outside of spamming Air Joe

Other characters

Iron-Man: At first I couldn’t get a handle of his double jump combos and the fact he couldn’t magic series normally like everyone else so I dropped him. Though now I know how to use him

Current team: Wesker/Dormmamu/Sentinel.

Day One Team

Dante, Storm, Wesker

Always liked DMC and chose Dante, Storm is my favorite character in X-Men and Wesker looked badass. Rolled with them for a few months

Transitional Team One

-Dropped Dante
-Recruited Trish

Chose a third character at random in training mode and got Trish. Found out that I could do way better combos with her than I could with Dante (weird right?). Tried this team out for a few weeks.

Transitional Team Two

-Dropped Trish
-Recruited Felicia

For like a week straight every time I played someone online I would somehow always get trapped in a 10 second combo whenever I brought out Trish and she would nearly always get killed. It made me real salty so I chose another character at random and got Felicia. Worked on combos with her and started whippin candy asses left and right. My team was set.

Final Team

Wesker, Storm, Felicia

started wesker/zero/dante
Dropped: dante->deadpool->wolverine->c.viper->magneto->deadpool
ended with wesker/zero/deadpool

I started with Chris/Hulk/Doom and ironically i ended up bringing them back all over again about 2 months ago.
I dropped Wesker

I dropped spencer. He was a great assist for my team Chris but for me, a bore to use, and too easy to drop stuff with his unique combo capability. I dropped viper because I don’t use stick yet, and execution on x-box controller for her just doesn’t work for me. Magneto because the stupid heavy heavy heavy Rom to the corner is too damn hard (all his other combo’s are fairly simple, oh yeah and the corner hyper grab loop is stupid to do too). Dante for the same reasons as Viper. Spiderman because his damage output is too low and I didn’t want to learn the characters necessary to make him effective (sentinel etc).

I started with a team based only around Ryu initially:
[LIST]
[]Ryu as the point and team basis
[
]Dr. Doom w/ Rock assists
[]Deadpool w/ Katana Rama OTG Assist
[/LIST]
Current Vanilla team (Self-Proclaimed Team Mango):
[LIST]
[
]Mango Chris Redfield
[]Mango Ryu
[
]Mango Sentinel
[/LIST]
Dat Blue and Mango color scheme

Iron Man was too much work for too little profit. Never really got the chance to get into Hulk.

Everyone else I picked up (Cap, Spencer, Taskmaster, Chris, Akuma, Wesker, Ryu, Deadpool, Haggar) still get some mileage.

In Ultimate, however, I think I’ll be dropping Haggar and Deadpool. I’ll be picking up Nova (hopefully), Vergil, Frank, Hawkeye, and trying out Iron Fist and Dante.