Winter Brawl 8 Fighting game tournament February 21st - 23rd

Dahbomb said:
Thor was actually pretty bad in Vanilla MVC3 but got all buffs in UMVC3. Still no one really cared for him. The players who played him used him on terribly optimized Thor teams (Abegen and RoyalFlush). Plus Thor is notorious for getting rushed down bu Wolverine and Vergil type characters so the meta game used to not favor.

Now the meta game has shifted to super jump flight characters who can zone (Morrigan, Zero, Magneto). This favors Thor greatly as he fights almost exclusively in the air, he is weak on the ground. He still has to worry about Dark Vergil but so does every other character so that is not unique weakness for him. His damage was already high but his other main weakness was that he got nothing from his air throw which meant that Thor players need to make hard reads with his command throw.

In addition, the advent of plink dashing has made Thor much better mobility wise. Thor with Bolts is insanely good, those 2 characters go really well together. Also Thor's Mighty Smash assist is a legit CC assist that can shutdown Dark Vergil and other in your face characters.

IMO Thor is considerably better than Haggar in the meta game. I have always maintained this. I still don't think Thor players are at that level but this guy is the closest to unlocking Thor's potential.
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what about serp da gawd

(lol)

i didn't get to see that dude play but i hope he shows up soon or makes it far in the mainline tourney

i love watching good thors, the way he does things feel completely alien to me so every time he does anything that makes him win i'm like 'yoooooooooooooooo'

edit: like when he does air to air mighty strikes and confirms into normal jump normals or superjump normals into death i am like 'hoooly shitttt' even though ive gone into training mode and tried it out for myself and it's just a matter of holding neutral jump most of the time

plus all his combos are really really cool and he sets up really cool followup combos off mighty thornado too
 
QisTopTier said:
They should have done BBCP teams imo
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They're actually running this weird multi-game team tournament with BBCP, P4A and GGAC+R where players have to play all three games. I don't know if it's getting streamed or not, but the format sounds... interesting.

VanillaCakeIsBurning said:
I didn't know there were people who had it out for FGC streams. It's good to know they're gone at least.
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They're not all gone.
 
Dahbomb said:
Are Yipes and Flocker there?

If not then its Justin's tournament to lose in Marvel.

He again has a shot at winning 3 games.

Edit: Checked the pools and no Flocker but Yipes is there along with Winrich.

Top 8 is going to look something like this:

Justin
RayRay
Flux
Yipes
Coach Steve
JRosa
Moons
Winrich


Aside from Justin and Yipes, no player in the bracket has won a US major before so we have a small possibility of a new major winner being crowned in the game.
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Man, Rayray really needs to win at least one major.

Tik-Tok said:
Lol Arturo is doing work. Hustling.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
Dahbomb said:
Thor was actually pretty bad in Vanilla MVC3 but got all buffs in UMVC3. Still no one really cared for him. The players who played him used him on terribly optimized Thor teams (Abegen and RoyalFlush). Plus Thor is notorious for getting rushed down bu Wolverine and Vergil type characters so the meta game used to not favor.

Now the meta game has shifted to super jump flight characters who can zone (Morrigan, Zero, Magneto). This favors Thor greatly as he fights almost exclusively in the air, he is weak on the ground. He still has to worry about Dark Vergil but so does every other character so that is not unique weakness for him. His damage was already high but his other main weakness was that he got nothing from his air throw which meant that Thor players need to make hard reads with his command throw.

In addition, the advent of plink dashing has made Thor much better mobility wise. Thor with Bolts is insanely good, those 2 characters go really well together. Also Thor's Mighty Smash assist is a legit CC assist that can shutdown Dark Vergil and other in your face characters.

IMO Thor is considerably better than Haggar in the meta game. I have always maintained this. I still don't think Thor players are at that level but this guy is the closest to unlocking Thor's potential.
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Dahbomb said:
Are Yipes and Flocker there?

If not then its Justin's tournament to lose in Marvel.

He again has a shot at winning 3 games.

Edit: Checked the pools and no Flocker but Yipes is there along with Winrich.

Top 8 is going to look something like this:

Justin
RayRay
Flux
Yipes
Coach Steve
JRosa
Moons
Winrich


Aside from Justin and Yipes, no player in the bracket has won a US major before so we have a small possibility of a new major winner being crowned in the game.
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Ray Ray did beat Justin at Toryuken though. It could happen.
 
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Not going to lie, Kelvin's Makoto was pretty legit -- and his TK axe kick usage was interesting (and really on-point).
 
casperOne said:
Is this the guy who was wearing the Thor t-shirt at KiT? (I think it was that).
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i don't think so, because that guy ran thor frank sentinel and judging from posts this guy runs thor/dormammu (which have sickkkkkkkkkkkk combos together)

you are gonna be like 'god DAAAAMNNNN' when you see 'em, trust me
 
ShadyJ said:
Is capcom all on spooky?

Also which stream is KI guys, I'm watching the archive later
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Looks like Bifuteki is streaming KI pools tomorrow.
 
MrDaravon said:
lol

Yeah, I prefer AE at this point but it's midnight here and they're shutting down with no Marvel teams streamed at all is pretty lame :(
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Yeah I agree. The reason why I say that is because they've given Marvel this treatment on multiple occasions. Its one of the hypest and goes unloved sometimes ;A;

Hopefully after I get out of work tomorrow, there will be marvel hype!
 
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