Lab session with Viewtiful Joe:
The best combo that I could come up with for VJ after some intensive lab sessions were those involving a combo started with basic jump in ground series DP+M, j. H, QCB+H xx Mach Speed -> MH jump MH jump MH QCB+M air dash QCB+M Gun hyper.
And that still doesn't do that much damage (like a bit over 700K for 2 bars). For one bar you can do some nice combos instead of the Mach but you will still be only scratching the 600K mark.
I am experimenting with combos using Air Joe and they do slightly better damage but way more difficult to land the Gun hyper at the end. Don't know exactly when I am supposed to hyper cancel at the end. I don't think it will be used because even though it's more flash and does a bit more damage, it's much tougher and you will be dropping it more often than you will be hitting it.
Bottom line I have seen (and from referring with some combo videos of Joe online and Trag's channel) is that to do maximum damage with VJ you have to develop a BnB combo ending in V Godhand. Basically what you need to do is, get the guy in a combo do the BnB, land him and with an OTG assist get the V God Hand. This will be doing like 500K damage (let's say a bit less than half the damage). Now you need to come up with a high/low mix up and get another combo in but now the combo has to be deadlier because he's in slow mode.
You can do much bigger combos in slow mode because you can tag in a lot of special moves. In slow mode it's also easier to mix up them up so it's not that much more difficult. You really need a very solid game plan to execute this. It's also good to have combos in the bag where you need to make use of Mach Speed's invulnerable frames to beat out a hyper, start an air combo, build some meter, land, OTG assist V Godhand.
Joe is never going to "touch of death" you unless he has X Factor. He works on set ups with V Godhand and he needs an OTG. I want to experiment using the slow and the shocking pink OTG move.
Still though he's gimmicky unless someone finds a way to loop V Godhands.
I do understand why they took out Red Hot Chilli Pepper OTG property, he would be OP with that shit.
