McNum said:
I watched the first half, which reminded me that "short combo into launcher into Sphere Flame X-Factor canceled into Sphere Flame" is still very nasty and if you absolutely need to kill anyone not named Thor or Hulk, then that'll do it. It'll cost my X-factor, of course. But having a short, easy to do combo like that ready to go is nice. No need to Buk, if something like that can end the fight.
Ah, but I'm getting ahead of myself again. Need to learn the tri-dash before worrying about this.
My Doom is ass but I would recommend the following:
Others have already said it, but learn the buktooth loop and his basic corner loop. If you're within a half screen of the corner when you start, the buk loop will push them far enough that you can transition to the corner loop. Once you've got the basic corner loop down, practice the dash cancel version which will allow you to get one extra rep of the loop in, boosting damage a bit, and making the timing on the OTGs less strict.
You should also practice transitioning into the buk loop off of a back throw (I OTG with S.h and the use fwd.h hard kick to launch them). If you want to keep it simple, it does almost the same damage to just OTG S.h immediately into sphere flame. You can combo off of both grounded and air front throws in the corner, so practice that as well.
Doom has good mobility with tri-dashing. You can get in by super jumping, firing the slow moving qcb+l projectiles and then dashing in behind them as cover. When you hit someone with foot dive, you can cancel into a forward air dash, hit them with J.m while still in the air once, and then transition into a normal combo once you hit the ground. If they block and adv. guard, you can time the air dash to negate the adv. guard, but the timing depends on how early they adv. guard. On the ground, you can negate adv. guard by dash canceling blocked attacks into forward dashes to keep pressuring.
Your standard low block string should be C.l, C.h. Don't use the crouching m, as it can whiff depending on spacing. If the crouching h hits, launch and combo them- if it's blocked, dash forward to negate the advancing guard and stay on their ass.
When doing the buk loop, you should normally end with a sphere flame hyper to maximize damage. For DHC purposes, you should launch once more after the second buk rep and do m, m, f.h, m xx photon array, as it leaves them in block stun for a long time and you can DHC into almost anything as they're falling down. When doing sphere flame -> x-factor -> sphere flame, you should x-factor and do the second sphere flame as rapidly as possible to maximize damage.
Doom benefits A LOT from lockdown assists (like how clockwork uses ammy) to force difficult to block high/low mix-ups. J.m can cross up, and you can also use J.m as an instant overhead on some characters.
If someone who actually knows Doom sees any mistakes, please let me know!
Good luck man!
