He was just having fun man. I enjoyed his antics. People only got salty because he took away America's pride at the game... if he had gotten like top 3 people would've given him mad props.
His team is not that gimmicky it's really solid. He goes for legit cross ups with that Log trap with Joe on point that is very hard to predict and see. I want to see players run something like Dorm or Magneto with that Log trap and do like teleport or tri-dash.
Why is it in games like SF we have people learning multiple characters so they can take advantage of character match-ups, but we hardly have that in Marvel?
A lot of the top players have multiple characters and teams in their repertoire. Justin Wong, Yipes, Viscant, ChrisG, PRBalrog etc. Some players just like to play one team at all times like Combo and MarlinPie.
Honestly there is way too much stuff to take into consideration with in Marvel. In MVC2 we had counter pick assists team but even then that wasn't that indepth. In MVC3 we had something similar where you had Haggar beat Tron, Tron + Haggar beat Akuma, Akuma beat Beam and Drones, Beam beat Drones and Haggar so players like Viscant would change up the assist based on the match up. UMVC3 is completely not like this... you can't afford to play a character just for the assist utility. Those who still do that simply lose.
I think everyone needs to have 2 types of teams. One all around team that has a ton of tools to both rushdown and zone plus another team that is based around beating hard zoning or Zero teams. In Vanilla you needed anti-Phoenix teams to survive the meta game but not anymore although you definitely should have some anti-Phoenix tech on your team just in case. It's not enough to have a fully dedicated rushdown team without a godly assist nor is it enough to have a fully dedicated zoning team without a dedicated assist for that particular type of zoning. It's best to have a team that can do it all and adapt to other team configurations.
Also against Kusuru he was lucky to have not run into any Vajra assists (there was a distinct lack of Striders at Final Round). The way he played that set up, it's prone to getting blown up by Vajra. He is also lucky he didn't run into ChrisG.
