Title is the question, your responses the answers. I’m afraid I wouldn’t know which assists would be considered lockdown now (don’t have to Brady Guide to refer to), so instead of leaving a poll up, I won’t.
Much obliged for your responses.
Drones
Akuma’s tatsu
Frank West shopping cart
Eye of Agamotto
Hidden Missles
Jam Session
Cold Star
I’d like to chim in that Vergil’s Rapid Slash is very useable as lockdown assist, especially in the corner (its also good at helping you zone) and is a decent subsitute, especially if you wanna use Vergil over one of the other mentioned characters.
It’s pushing it but Hawkeye’s {A} is solid.
Drones are now the best assist in the game bar none so yea. Besides that Ammy cold star and Doom missiles and rocks, unibeam, jam session, shopping cart are phenomenal (big word of the day)
I was going to put this but they’re not locked down for very long.
That said, it’s still really good because it causes a spinning knockdown you can confirm off. On top of that, it’s pretty difficult to see what’s going on because the slashes are all over the screen.
I use it with Magneto and it works magnificently.
Another good thing is if you’re hitting them with something like LMH and even though Vergil ussually sends them flying if he hits, they’ll be like sucked in to your move not causing your combo to get messed up by the assist.
I use this assist while zoning with V.Joe or Morrigan. I can only imagine how annoying it is for the opponent to finally get in, then get pushed full screen again. Over and over…
In the corner its longer lockdown and even better hit confirm. As long as you protect Vergil while he starts up this assist is pretty damn good.
I feel like Drones are actually worse because they’re sped up now so they’re a true blockstring and it doesn’t let you mix up as much. I guess Sent is less prone now, though.
Is RR’s projectile assist any good at lockdown?
Black Hole is pretty good, isn’t it?
That’s not true. It’s been reported that they are still a non block string so you get the same mix up. It’s just the start up that was sped up IIRC. The only real nerf the assist got AFAIK is that the drones release a bit higher in the air allowing more characters to avoid it if called badly.
Rocket Raccoon’s fireball assist acts like a faster but less screen clearing drone assist. Leaves a gap in the middle for mix ups.