The combo i use doesn’t use the LL, but builds a lot of meter and can kill most characters with a DHC into sphere flame or another hyper combo. I haven’t even tried bothering with the loop yet, since i don’t need it, but rest assured, i bet you the LL gets taken out next update.
Zero on his own is very good, but in a one on one, I don’t think he dominates some of the cast, however, paired with Vergil, that shit just goes S+++ tier.
He only has like 3 bad matchups, and i think his 5 best teammates in order are Dante, Doom, Vergil, Sentinel, and maybe wesker/ammy.
Even those bad match ups really are not that terrible… Even the other S tier characters have worse match ups than he does. I’d probably say Vergil, Dante, Doom for team mates, Zero/Vergil/Dante is possibly the best team in the game.
Yeah I hope I’m able to shed some more light on my region, there is more out there than just cali and new york
I think zero/vergil/dante is a “good” team, but far from optimal. It lacks a strong neutral game assist, but covers that which have a TOD’s off of everything. It is designed around Zero doing all thw work so when it works it works well. But if Zero dies you’re left with Vergil and JS, which is decent but far less scary than Vergil+horizontal assist.
I honestly think Zero’s strongest team is Zero/Dante/Doom. Strong at every point and and absolutely oppressive neutral game.
Also what is the point in not knowing how to do the LL. IMO its not supposed to be your bnb, but a tool that lets you convert any small hit into huge damage. Zero is one of the few characters that can still approach 600-800 off a fucking grab, that is much too valuabe to ignore.
Do you go with hidden missles to help with combo extensions or Plasma beam to help with Dante and Zero’s mix-ups?
missles, plasma beam neuters damage to much for me when missles helps both control the flow of the match so much more. I do switch it up tho when I play against drones or something however.
But isn’t Dante much scarier with a beam assist since he’s got that teleport? I been running this team with missiles for a few weeks but missiles keep screwing up my Dante combos
The lockdown you can obtain with missles is much greater than the derp damage you can get off teleport beam, nevermind the damage is much lower off plasma beam. Dante/Zero with missiles control the entire screen. Beam is useful for mitigating other beams and drones, but I prefer missles in every other instance.
Getting 1.1mil off a clean hit with Zero without using the loop should be standard, but what about situations where you are landing a random air-to-air j.H? Or a ground/air Buster? Or an air throw? With lightning loops, Zero has the ability to kill any character off these instances anyway. Well I think as of now Zero’s metagame is evolving to the point where you should be going for the loop at every opportunity you get
True, but from my experience, the Zero vs Trish matchup is retardedly hard to bypass unless the trish makes mistakes. Also, I haven’t played any good hawkeyes as zero, but i’ve heard that’s near impossible to play against a good hawkeye when playing zero.
I tried that team, it’s really good but you feel a lack of a strong horizontal assist in some matchups (mainly against rushdown like Wolverine though you still win that match it’s just easier with drones or beam). I’ve been learning to play with beam because otherwise Zero/Dante/Sentinel shuts down basically any other combo of Zero teams. Drones is so strong against other Zero teams (or most teams in general) that don’t have arrows/lances or a beam. Being able to play Zero, Dante, Doom, Sentinel, and Vergil, while being able to use both Beam and Missles assists gives you such amazing options as far as creating teams. It allows you to get an easier matchup against basically every team in the game just by changing your team between those 5 characters when appropriate. I think Hidden Missles is overall the best assist for Zero because it dominates so many matchups but I think Dante/Sent is a better duo, for both assist synergy and ability left if Zero dies, than any combination of Vergil/Doom, Dante/Doom, Vergil/Sent, Vergil/Dante.
Zero/Vergil/Dante isn’t the best Zero team, try playing against Zero/Dante/Sent and you’ll realize how hard it is to play against 2 great assists and a great duo, with just 1 great assist and 2 great characters with limited synergy.
Zero also beats runaway Trish pretty easily with Jam Session or Missiles and still wins now without either because of lightning buster cancels, Rushdown Trish has a better chance but Zero still wins that matchup. Zero also beats Hawkeye with the right assists even against an optimal Hawkeye team, everyone just says the matchup is difficult but it’s really not that hard, just not free like almost everyone else in the game.
I don’t believe Zero has a bad matchup and I think the closest one to even is either Dormammu, Dante or (maybe) Vergil, but from what I understand Chrisis says Firebrand beats Zero, and while I disagree, he has a better understanding of Firebrand than I do so maybe he’s right.
I’ve been playing someone who is arguably the best Firebrand in the world (Zak Bennett) and I have to say, it’s really not a bad matchup it’s about even if not SLIGHTLY in Zero’s favour, reason being Zero can snipe Firebrand out of the air if he tries to zone him out (characters like Morrigan and Trish are A LOT harder to snipe with Raikousen Buster Cancel).
The area where Firebrand beats pretty much everyone in the game are his normals, I don’t know why the vast majority of people don’t realise this but his normals are plain stupid they extend far more outwards than they look like they do and they’ve got A LOT of priority, I mean more priority than Dante’s god damn hammer at times.
Also, I’m beginning to think Morrigan is an even matchup if not in Morrigan’s favour she’s just god damn good now it’s not even funny. Tri dash j.S puts you under tonnes of pressure, there’s only so much you can attempt to do by super jumping and shooting down busters or whatever to close the distance whereas she can fly to the top of the screen, stay there for a good while AND spam fireballs in every single direction. Something no one else can do in the game.
Plus she can unfly on reaction to block 2F+ hypers? Just…Madness.
Zero is not an A+ or S tier,
He’s a** Z-tier** , tier above any of the characters
Got this guy in my pool for World Games Cup, he any good?
Hmmmmm, don’t expect Zero as he doesn’t really use him anymore, was just a thing.
Sorry if I won’t say much. But it’s a country supporting thing 
Fair does, do you know the name of the guy who used to play Wolverine/Shuma/Ammy though?
His name is Ferdinand. He’s on the list either as Ferdi, Dark Kaze, or just Kaze.
It’s fairly obvious as to why Zero is the best character in UMvC3…
http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/7839/photo3tza.jpg
Just look at those chest orbs! 
Opponents can’t help but stare!