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What options worthless? He can still negate Dark Matter with his normals and punish a teleport or whatever laggy special Dorm tries to cancel into. Or he can turn on Spiral Swords if he sees the Dark Matter animation as that would easily negate it out and deal with whatever Dorm cancels into. The game changes dramatically when Dorm has stocked spells but that's assuming Vergil let him have the space/time to stock it up which isn't easy. In the air Vergil can limit Dorm's options with Round Trip or just simply match his normals with his.
Also Vergil out ranges Hawkeye's normals (both in the air and on ground) but Hawkeye can play footsies at close range and beat out Vergil's crouching normals with his st.M. But Vergil doesn't have to play footsies with Hawkeye or even deal with his Slide... that's what Helm Breakers into assist plus teleports is for.
Can he cancel a normal if he uses it to negate a projectile or does it count as a whiff?