What characters did you drop in vanilla and why?

Classic Fighting Games Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3
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Get ready for a long ass story.

Long ass story

[details=Spoiler]When the game came out, I was concentrated on using 3 teams: Thor/Hulk/Tron, Arthur/Storm/She-Hulk and Wolverine/Sentinel/Akuma.

Then I saw WNF and I saw Justin using Wolverine/Storm/Akuma and I was like, “Ok… Let me try to find something equally as stupid. I want to be credited with my own shit.” So I dropped the Wolverine team.

Then I found that She-Hulk’s flip kick assist is ass. Dropped Arthur/Storm/She-Hulk.

Thor/Hulk/Tron was too slow. Dropped that team.

So Wolverine was my favorite Marvel character, I grew quite fond of Zero and I loved Arthur’s assist, so I put them together. This was arguably the best week 1 team anybody ever thought of. Seriously. 900K combos, one of the best anchors in the game IMO, a great assist, and resets out the ass. Godlike. I was winning out the ass. But I wanted to try some new shit. So I dropped them.

I was fumbling with like 10 different teams (DHC Glitch, Phoenix teams, Spider-man team, etc.) and I came across Wolverine/Hulk/Zero. I like this team very much because they do good damage, have great DHC compatibility, wicked setups and did I mention damage?

So after I got my team, I went to a local tournament and I placed 4th, and I kept placing 4th even after I stepped it up in training mode. I was wondering what was wrong. So I was talking to my mentor/friend/fellow competitor before Season’s Beatings and he said, “You not playing cheap enough. Wolverine is obviously is your best character. You should play Wolverine/Akuma because Hulk and Zero is holding your Wolverine game back.” I took the advice and I started to run Wolverine/Sentinel/Akuma and really leveled up my Sentinel.

[spoiler= Season’s Beatings experience with Wolverine/Sentinel/Akuma]I went to Season’s Beatings. The first match was too free. The second match, I played this guy named Strogg and he played the EXACT same team as me on stream. I won, but the game was so sloppy. I was dropping combos like crazy and I had to clutch it out with Akuma (because Im the best Akuma in the world lol). If you watched the video, James Chen said, “Strogg is shaking his head… wait… is that Strogg?” That was me shaking my head. I played so sloppy and I knew people were blowing me up about it. The lack of practice and a stick along with stage fright made me play bad. Next match was against Flash Metroid. He blew me up. The next match in losers was this guy from Ohio. HE BLEW ME THE FUCK UP. I was out the tourney and I was extremely discouraged to play the game there anymore. I was suppose to money match Flash, but I left early because of a emergency. One miserable weekend.[/details]

With that epic fail Season’s Beatings performance, I felt I had to redeem myself at Michigan Masters and I had to pick up somebody different and fresh. So I picked up Storm/Wolverine/Akuma. The team went well. I got 7th in a 32 man tourney because I got put into loser the first match by my boy Eli (Dante and fellow Wolverine player) and I lost to my boy Mike (fellow Hulk player) in losers.

So with Ultimate coming out, I decided to get away from Wolverine, Hulk and Zero and I decided to try somebody new. One thing I got from Season’s Beatings was that I was inspired by Ray Ray and his Ryu. So I picked up Ryu/Akuma/Sentinel. I’ve been winnning alot with this team so I’m glad that I changed it up.[/details]

Long story short, I dropped almost every character in the game. Right now I still play Wolverine/Hulk/Zero and I also play Ryu/Akuma/Sentinel.

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Ammy- her damage output just didnt cut it for me and her meter build was average
Haggar- The lariat assist was great n all but when it came down to just him, hes a terrible anchor and has a tough time getting in on the Magnetos and Deadpool
Akuma- I play wolverine and they have good synergy together but Akumas basically a class cannon one combo with 2 meters will kill him, I already play Zero too so 2 glass cannons wouldnt be too effective
Magneto- I didnt wanna put the time in to learn all the rom and hyper grav loops
Storm- She just is plain bad. Hail storm is good though but not worth playing her

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  • Started Fresh with Viewtiful Joe, Zero & Hsien-ko.
  • Dropped [S]Hsien-Ko[/S] Because she was bad And Picked up Random. (lol)
  • Dropped [S]Random[/S] Because It was Giving me Characters I Don’t like using much
  • Started to use Dante because I liked his Combo’s .
  • Dropped [S]Dante[/S] & [S]Zero[/S] becasue they where too good.
  • Picked Up Doom For The assist & Deadpool
  • **Dropped **Deadpool because I didn’t really like him Except For his Infinite While Opponent Is slowed
  • Picked Zero back up

Final Team For Vanilla: Viewtiful Joe, Zero, & Doctor Doom

Ultimate

  • **Dropped **Zero And Doom To start using Vergil & Rocket Raccoon
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Started with Frank/ Taskmaster/ Dormammu

Dropped tasky for Iron fist on point (hard tag setup)
Dropped Dorm for Dante anchor
Dropped that entire team for magnus/ ?/ ?

Picked up Cap
Picked up Doom
Picked up dorm again
Dropped dorm for dante AGAIN

In the process of dropping iron fist for Vergil or spider man in the frank west team, pending who turns out better for me in training mode.
In the process of learning ammy to possibly drop dante. I have no Idea why.

Currently, no main team. Just a big mismash of characters I play, looking for teams to call home.
Mags
Doom
Dante
CapAm
Ryu
Frank
dormammu

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Wesker because my mind began to rot playing him.

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She Hulk no explanation needed. Dropped Wolverine too just love Hawkeye and Strider more.

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Started to play viper, dante, xx in vanilla. Lost tons of matches against akuma and wesker, decided to pick up an easier team to learn the game first and re-pick up viper later (this was my first game in the vs series) and ended up having x23/dante/akuma as my first real main team. Dropped x23 for ammy because dante/ammy/akuma was more broken. Placed 5th in my first mvc3 tournament with that team and later 3rd at our european road to evo major. Dropped ammy for mags later because mags H’d me out out of the tourney and crowd got hype and screamed “gravity squeeeeeze” together with my opponent when he ended my tournament appearance. Played viper/dante/mags for the rest of vanilla.

Dropped mags at the beginning of ultimate because he didn’t do shit for viper anymore, re-picked up ammy and played viper/dante/ammy. Messed around in p-mode with some new chars and found vergil and strider to be fun. Played vergil/dante/strider until i realized that strider doesn’t do shit for vergil and that he’s godlike for my viper team, so dog had to go again and re-picked up mags for my vergil team. This all happened basically in te first three weeks of ultimate, sticking with the two teams in my signature since then.

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Dropped She-Hulk for Frank West. She was arguably my best in Vanilla. I, myself, considered Wolverine to be my most dangerous, but everyone seemed more scared of her. Her slide sucks now and Frank West on level 4-5 is definitely my favorite character. Also I relied on the TAC glitch and I probably should’ve learned her re-launch with out it. That’s no longer in Ultimate. She probably sucks now since I hardly see anyone use her. I haven’t touched her since the first day so I really don’t have a clue as to what’s new about her.
I’m close to dropping Wolverine for Vergil, Vergil has level up tactics for FW and Wolverine doesn’t have any at all. DHCing is a bit of a problem too. I’m in the process of learning how to play with Vergil, but I still would use Wolverine cause right now I’m leagues better with him than I am with Vergil. Also it seems that zoning in this game is better than it was in Vanilla, Vergil has tools to deal with that much easier than Wolverine.

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Dropped Spencer and Haggar mid vanilla cause they were fraudlike.
Picked up Dante.

In Ultimate dropped Dante because I’m fraudlike and was abusing hist assist, hammer and XF3 for him.

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Hmm.

Started Vanilla with Wolverine, Super-Skrull, Arthur

Wolverine : I’ve always been a Wolverine fan-boy since I was a kid watching the X-Men cartoons and reading comics. So I picked him up from day one and loved everything about him. Later I found out he was one of the best characters in the game…

Super-Skrull : I was watching some DSP videos… I know. And I saw his Super-Skrull stick and I looked at some videos and he just looked so cool. He’s just such a brutal character, who else beat their enemy on the ground and screams " DIE! DIE! DIE!"?

Arthur : I’ve always been a GnG fan and I just thought he was a cool unique character, plus I was terrible when I started and I could spam projectiles with him.

But my team changed fairly quick.

My main team throughout most of vanilla ended up being Wolverine, Taskmaster, Sentinel

Replaced Arthur with
Taskmaster : Watched a Combofiend video and was just in awe at what he was doing with him, so I picked him up and he’s been a staple since.

Replaced Skrull with
Sentinel : He was over-powered and easy to play and still had a lot of health. Drones were amazing with Wolverine and his combo’s were extremely easy to pick and did amazing damage. I love Skrull, but I sucked with him… and still do : /

My team changed up a few times before UMvC3, started using She-Hulk, Wesker, Spencer, and Magneto.

Sucked with Magneto, couldn’t really do fly combos so I dropped him.
LOVED She-Hulk, but she got hit with the nerf bat in Ultimate so I quit using her.
Wesker… well he’s Wesker. Easy to play, works well in any team and in any spot.
Spencer… I love this guy. I loved him from day one, but I just kind of blew him off until I started watching some Combofiend videos and started using him again.

UMvC3 Team
Wesker, Taskmaster, Spencer.

Good team synergy, and I like how they all play. Plus they’re all strong characters by themselves without assists.

I use Firebrand, Frank, Hawkeye, and Iron Fist a lot as well. Mixing and matching them throughout my teams. Really want to start using Skrull more because he’s still one of my favorite characters in the game.

Sorry for the short novel.