I know spencer can tag in during the ending phase of a goddess bracelet to do a pick up with his arm. So if you can link an armor piercer after all that you can bionic arm.
Just came back from the LA Fight Club (well, technically 4 hours ago). Played a sea of scrubs, and Arthur is looking even better in the back. I can’t confirm this, but I definitely feel they tweaked his speed bonus from X-Factor. XF2 chains like Vanilla XF3, and XF3 is a shit ton faster than what I remember. The j.S is indeed a nice buff, being + on hit every time or safe on block is so effective on would-be cross-unders.
I was just about to sign out and hit the sack until you posted. Great timing!
How much better do you think he is outside of XF2/3? Does he have a lot more health like some reports indicate? Is j.S + on hit and safe on block without XF2/3? I really want the character to be decent without having to save XF for him all the time…
Thanks for the info!
Yeah, the j.S I mentioned was the one w/o XF, really awesome normal now. And the health bonus really helps. Arthur health > Wesker health, nuff said. :rock:
I’m not too aware of the other minor changes to Arthur, everything else seemed pretty much the same. However, that j.S really changes up his game. Makes Arthur an actual threat when he’s coming down.
I also heard his scythe came out faster or something like that. I am so hype for Ultimate Arthur! Arthur must have taken a piece of Wesker’s trench coat and stuffed his armor with it… Fuck Wesker…
Wait, scythe got buffed? If it did, that would make his mid-range game + ability to combo so much better (thinking of jump + scythe). I hate how slow it is in Vanilla, not really useful outside of combos.
That’s what I heard. Not 100% sure that info was correct, though.
Posted by wildvine47:
Lots more health for this guy, even when he’s in boxers mode.
Range on Scythe seems to have been increased.
He can now jump in the middle of throwing items, kinda like Goddess Bracelet.
Air S now is a fastfall move, like Dante’s Air S.
Axe Toss has less startup now, and moves across the screen faster.
Still no dash :c
Other buffs that weren’t mentioned by wildvine47 here but I have heard:
Longer gold armor
Faster movement in gold armor XF(from Realpolitix)
Quicker scythe start-up
All these buffs are looking beastly as hell. He can jump during projectile toss!?!? That really helps grey armor vs teleporters! Add that to his j.S, and Arthur is going to be annoying as hell everywhere on screen!
SO HYPE!
Dammit, I always overshoot my QCF inputs for Arthur. Is this even going to be useful? Can he do it for any item?
I don’t know if he can do it for any item since it’s not my info, but be sure that it’s going to be damn useful. It solves a problem of being committed when throwing shit on the ground. This, along with the new j.S, makes him more flexible in general.
So, there was an Arthur player who faced Combofiend at TXII. Pretty interesting. For some reason, he used sword assist… But his XF3 gold armor surprised many. He did the rapid lances, which were push-blocked and the block damage was negated by Combofiend. I felt there was a huge waste of XF time here as he kept chucking the lances even though they were doing no block damage. It’s too bad. if he would have used more arrows with those lances, he would have killed at least 2 characters (Tasky and She-hulk). His Arthur was solid in general, though. Cool Arthur, but very odd team and assist selection…
Glad you like my Arthur :D. Ill justify the Heavenly Slash now. As a COC its completely invincible + hyper canceable, making it the perfect counter against heavy lockdown or Phoenix. Also I need it to extend Tron combos which is my NO.1 reason. I probably should have gone with the daggers, it would have relieved some of Combo’s ground approach D:.
I thought it might be something to do with Tron. That assist isn’t used much at all, so it was interesting to see what you were going to do with it. It seems to have decent priority. Good stuff with your results! Combofiend is a beast in general, and I feel you did pretty well! Are you part of the Toronto scene on a regular basis? I’m thinking of joining some tournaments when my work and school schedule gives me more time to do so.
How did you feel about the push-blocked lances? Did it take you off guard that he negated the chip damage?
hey guys been using arthur for a lil now hes my anchor on my team of wolverine/dorm/arthur daggers will dorm and wolverine are awesome. i just need better combos with him and any X factor or normal tips for arthur plays. videos would be awesome too thanks!
Yeah im a part of the Toronto scene. And you should go to any tournaments when you get the chance, seriously theyre so much fun :D.
Also on push blocked Lances. Im pretty used to people AGing them, I tend to try to vary my timing a little to throw off the pushblock and hopefully get a lucky hit. If not ill have to just relieve the pressure and go for something different D:
Many props to you man. I hope you’re able to represent Arthur further on stream before UMvC3 comes out.
Working on getting to Seasons Beatings 
Someone by the name of Mailorder beat F.Champ with Arthur on the Devastation 2011 stream :O. I didnt see it but it happend I think.
It was very silly. Mailorder activated Fire Dragons as a last ditch effort and Filipino Champ’s Phoenix got caught but turned into Dark Phoenix. Phoenix XFC afterwards while Fire Dragons still lingered but instead of blocking the remaining duration after the cancel, he decides to do something then get hit for Phoenix’s death.
any links to any of these arthur players on streams??? preferably with time of game etc… i ask alot i know.
-dime