So I just had another one of those humbling experiences in MVC3.
Well not much of a humbling experience, more like "HOLY SHIT WTF!!!" moment.
As you guys may or may not know I am currently on my tour to USA/Canada and it just finished. I am now staying in Louisiana. It gave me some time to check out if there are some MVC3 action here. Found a local tournament and entered in there.
I wasn't all serious in it, it's been a long time since I played Marvel so I was going to just wing it. I was doing alright, most people there weren't good. I faced some person with Dante/Felicia/Haggar... I was playing my Wolverine team.
I got DESTROYED in the first game. Like I got fucking blind sided into a 1 player game. His Dante took me for a ride and put me in unblockable situations. If I pressed a button I got Haggar. If I didn't press a button, I got Felicia. He made quick work of my characters. I pretty much realized in that one match that Dante + Haggar = I can't use Wolverine for shit.
I changed characters for the 2nd match, Dorm/Wesker/Akuma my go to team. I managed to kill his Dante with my BnB into reset, his defense was lacking and overall his Dante wasn't godlike (just had some godlike set ups). His Felicia came in and I wasn't familiar with the match up so I decided to play SUPER LAME. It was working out well enough until he got in. I panicked and pressed Akuma assist... got Happy Birthdayed because he had called in Haggar at the same time. Wesker came in, he called Haggar again I blocked but he grabbed me and then X Factored for the kill.
I followed his progress throughout the tournament, dude was beast with Felicia once he got in. The Haggar + Felicia combo is godlike, especially if he has his Kitty Helper out. It was like watching some weird combination of Richard Nguyen + Josh Wong only less solid. He didn't use the DHC glitch but he really didn't need to, he just got so many kills off of unblockable resets that he had plenty of meter for Felicia to burn.
Yeah he dropped combos but his set ups were too good... managed to kill Phoenixes too. It then dawned on me... Dante + Haggar I already knew was godlike. Dante + Felicia I knew was godlike too. He managed to make Felicia + Haggar godlike (remember hard knockdown into OTG Toy touch with Felicia into combo plus some SICK mix ups when you are blocking Haggar)... so basically Dante/Felicia/Haggar.
It was an eye opening experience. I don't know why anyone hasn't used this team before, it's SICK. Like I am talking downright fucking FILTHY.
I played a few sets with him later on 1 on 1 and I did much better after I played more zoning style. Still the Haggar assist led into so many character deaths. He also did a very low damaging combo for Dante after Haggar assist so he can definitely up the damage there and he didn't have very potent DHC combos (non-glitch version, he said that he has DHC glitches on his team but he doesn't like to use them). If he was more solid with his set ups and combos, he could tear up at more high level tournaments.