WHATAMIFIGHTINGFOOOOOOOOO!: the MvC3 Zero Thread

wait for the second lightning to hit all three times, right after u see the last hit TK lightning agin , thats how i learned it

Yeah I know, it shows it on my screen though, TK motion then L.

Thanks for the help guys!

Command dash > Buster them in the back > 5M into combo is so godlike… no body blocks it. Actually the one guy that did start reacting to it died hard to just stopping short and doing it in front of him. Zero’s like the new wolvie.

I need to incorporate lightning more into my game but people always air / ground throw me out of it. Do you guys have any setups for it?

Naked lightning or after a buster? I tend to chuck out TK M Raikousen with plasma beam then go into a combo, it’s really hard to block or react to (just don’t do it full screen away cos it becomes blatant then). Otherwise I’m throwing them out on snap/ when a new char is coming in with Sougenmu mixup. There’s so much to block, people will rarely risk pressing a button so the crossup/ mixup possibilities when you’ve got Sougenmu on are ridiculous.

Hell, I love baiting crossups on snap by jumping up H (or M) Raikousen, Buster Cancel and then L Raikousen. The startup for the initial Raikousen to trick em into anticipating a crossup and a swift buster to punish it.

Good times =)

Does Raikosen actually cross up on entry? I’ll have to try that though, thanks!

M Raikousen crosses up only if you do it after they’ve appeared on screen. It’s a small window but enough to be tricky. L Raikousen with Sougenmu is pretty fucked though since it can crossup AND you can jump back while the clone’s doing L Raikousen to not make it a crossup. I need to mess around with it more but yeah the crossups are dependant on timing.

Man that’s such air throw bait if you do it that late. But it’s another option I guess if they’re too scared too attack lol

Yeah you should never be doing it solo tbh, drones, hidden missiles, jam session and a few other assists to back you up is all you need. Course L Raikousen is infinitely safer to do, just that you gotta use an assist like HM or Vajra to make sure flyers can’t just fly away. I’m still trying to find the perfect meaty setup for it atm.

Anyone got any ideas?

Edit: It’s easy to do a meaty M Raikousen crossup mid-screen though, just spacing dependant rather than timing.

OH MY GOD THE VITA VERSION LOOKS FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!

EDIT: I just looked at some other images of his j.H, holy fuck it’s massive. I think I’ll make a dedicated thread for this.

Here’s some pictures of Zero’s j.H, I’ll try to get a complete breakdown of all of Zero’s Hitboxes. It sucks that you cannot do it in training mode, only via replays.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/7527/wmplayer201201022140200.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/304/wmplayer201201022139190.jpg

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6655/wmplayer201201022139188.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4702/wmplayer201201022139187.jpg

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6655/wmplayer201201022139188.jpg

Er wait I thought that hitboxes are colored red and hurtboxes are green.

Well, actually, I have no idea if that is so, but I would assume that. Seems to be the way it works in a lot of hit box viewer/ videos I have seen.

If that is true, then all the green you see are Sentinel and Zero’s hurt boxes.

And so his J.H is actually kinda bad in terms of hitbox.

Like, it is considerably smaller then the animation from the looks of it.

Well, I dunno.

If the green is the attack, then wowzers mowzers that is a giant attack.

Hitboxes are red, I should post the other pictures where it looks massive. It’s quite deceptive.

It’s basically wherever his sword is at the time, always felt like a nerf to me vs vanilla. And yeah you’re right about the hitbox and hurtbox thing, green = hurt.

Yeah yeah I could see that.

It’s just that it looks really terrible in terms of hitbox from these few images.

Well, maybe not THAT bad, but compared to the animation one would feel they’re getting a raw deal.

Did you try his j.d+H? Feels like the hitbox on that move is better than regular j.H

does anyone else have trouble completing combos during happy birhdays? everytime im in the middle of j H in the air they drop out of it

Only do 2 hits of j.H then do j.S.

Yup 2 hits of j.H then S as a rule of thumb, and if I started the combo on the ground I don’t even bother risking lightning combos I just do ground series, launch, MM H Dive, just so much more reliable for me. Then relaunch in MMH(2 hits) S.

I’m joining you guys on the dark side, bloody strong arse simple Zero. --; http://www.twitch.tv/srklive/b/306679600

tournament starts at 1:05:30 my Zero is still a fraud but his tools are just so easy and strong.

So I played in my first tourney last night - was hosted by Local Battles streamed by 8 Way Run. Went 0-2. Somewhat disappointed because I could’ve won my first set if hadnt botched a game ending opportunity when I caught my opponent’s last two characters in a happy birthday. Second set I just flat out lost.

I did get a chance to get some matches in with MastaCJ, in which I was owned but was able to measure where I was. Not really close to his level, but I managed to hang in a few of the matches and take out his Dorm a few times.

Played Zero/Sent/Strider in tourney. Zero/Iron Fist/Strider in casuals. That team is really fun, but my Iron Fist is horrible.

When I get the chance I definitely wanna check out Chrisis’ Viper/Zero/Strider team as I’ve been considering Zero/Viper/Strider lately.