Saturday, October 4, 2008

Speed-Up Wolvie Team Construction: Redux

This will be a sketch for now...



In light of what's been discussed about the viability of Wolvie/Doom as a duo, I'm gonna look at some of the possible options for the third slot. Honestly, I'm gonna go through the motions with some 'options' here-- hey I might find something, but I'm pretty much sold on Tron.


Options:

Psy: Psy/Doom looks like it can actually chip also. Block strings + Rocks, b.HK rolls xx Teleport if it looks hairy, re-pin. For Wolvie, assist is great for working in free Launcher into Falling Resets. A lot of room to play defensively with a solid AAA. Overall, your Psy probably should start 1st and play defensive/conservative and let Wolvie worry about chip.

Strider: This is actually pretty tempting, but it dies from the get-go because you've got 2 dudes who need all your bar. Thinking that the only way to play is start Wolvie, and work non speed-rushes into Rocks, glitch HK cross-up Tag Strider xx Orbs. Then use Strider to 'stretch' your meter. At which point Strider can Tag Wolvie back in with 1-1.75 bar and get ~2 activations at endgame. Too hypothetical.

Gief: I'm definitely going to run this squad as a secondary. As Gief gets more exp. versus Gods, I might even main it. In a lot of ways it's sounder chemistry bc its more like a 2-Way interaction, where you have two solid point options. Gief can start and just use Doom to get unblockable SPD shots while building bar, then dump Wolvie. As of now though, Gief needs Tron too much.

Cactus-man:
He's only on here for Defense-Up and Life-Up. A strong candidate for a counter-pick when Wolvie's having a good day. W/o looking at it too much at all, Cactus/Doom is gonna be broken anyway.

Tron: Looks like that's it for 'options' actually. For me it doesn't get any better than Wolvie/Doom/Tron. Where Wolvie is just burning bar without thinking with Doom backing him, Wolvie/Tron is an option for a 0-2 bar mode of play, where Wolvie's concentrating on precision mixups + Tron while building meter. A 1-character piece of chemistry, and about as gung-ho as that's gonna get, although you still have 2/3 of Team Z when Wolvie gets dropped-- who wants to use either of them as long as Wolvie is alive.


Draft Day:

I'm pickin'-- DUN DUN DUN.... Amingo P. "Cactus-man" Cactussman. I just suprised myself actually. Every part of me wanted to pick Tron, except the part that said, "Hey this is supposed to be funnn." Now I just have to figure out how to make this work. Probably will start Amingo. Doom is gonna be straight cheapin' it. This team's gonna live forever.

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