SaishuuKessen posted a Strider combo video showing off some loops and other various things he can do.
Tips submitted by yungazndude, and a few anonymous submitters.
Damn, Strider does so much work for the 500 meterless damage, especially compared to someone like wesker doing ABCSBBCS to relaunch combos
his health is low because of oroboros + xfactor is an instant kill on hit practically, imo
Wesker IS the boss from Resident Evil and should be Strong it's the fact that most of his moves are BULLSH!+
That he can attack THREE times in the air if u block an attack
He has a 360 degreee hard to read S attack that leads to big damage.
His super is virtually instant, full screen and crosses up RANDOMLY. -NOBODY in the game has that or this...
A OTG that cancels into team hyper combo.
He breaks the rules of the game!
Worst part about it. An interviewer asked Capcom about this and they said THEY CAN NOT FIX IT!!
Personally I think infinite OTGs are fking dumb and just lead to repeat combos.
This game should be more about BOTH players playing and not just rewarding a guy who got a lucky crossup.
@#3
you gotta look at it from the full picture view. Strider has much more mobility options than wesker with more range on normals and a slew of more projectile options. Plus he doesnt do that much work when you compare him to other low health low damage characters. Got people like hsienko, morrigan, V.joe, shuma, RR, zero, trish, modok and others that have to do long extended combos just to get some damage across without the use of meter.
And by the way strider works hes gonna end up with alot of reset potential down the line with his various otg options and mobility to confuse people endlessly also as #5 noted oroboros +xfactor is gonna be very dangerous as people skills improve.
@3
i think strider having to work hard is part of the plan for him to build up the much needed meter that he requires to do one of his TWO lvl 3 supers.
and yeah... wesker is ridiculous, but a lot of characters are problematic like that in the game. maybe not with ALL the tools you mentioned, but still they're problematic as hell.
from just playing the computer, i know there's PLENTY of beasty characters in the game. i just wish they fixed deadpool's supers by making his level 3 a level 1 super, and changing cutting time to a lvl 3 super (and boosting it's invincibility) which would make him A LOT better. cutting time is virtually obsolete with the loss of the DHC glitch - because cutting time has retarded scaling.... any combo that goes over 4-5 hits, and you're better off doing trigger happy (ESPECIALLY now that it's mash-able).
@1
No, it's his mixup capability and overall speed; he's hard to block against. I think Seth actually said that a few times. Same for Firebrand.
So why Wesker has 1mil AND does way more damage than those two is beyond me. I foresee a patch nerfing his health similar to the one Sentinel got in Vanilla... when they should be nerfing other things.
@6
Plenty of people can OTG into a team hyper. And Wesker doesn't have "infinite OTGs," he in fact has less OTG ability in Ultimate than before because of the new hit-stun scaling. That's not what is BS about him.
whooo... it's gonna take me a long time to get a decent combo from frank. I'd like to know how many hits it takes for frank to reach each level.
@13
Level 2 - 5 hits
Level 2 - 25 hits
Level 4 - 50 hits
Level 5 - 100 hits
@FShoryu Thank god there are a lot of tears because there are so many wesker players out there to feed.
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Anyways, I really feel like a lot of tournament players are writing off Frank West too quickly. I think he has potential to be an extremely good character in the right hands (like Combofiend with Spencer). Phoenix Wright COULD be if it wasn't for the randomness factor of grabbing his evidence. Randomization factors lower the consistency of a character and thus are bad for tournaments.
@6
A couple things.....
1. Phantom Dance doesn't cross up 'randomly', it crosses up in certain situations,. Using X-Factor while the hyper is still active is one example. It's funny you mentioned it actually, because Phantom Dance is considered to be a bad hyper.
2. Infinite OTGs? Nobody in this game has that. Wesker can OTG until hit-stun scaling causes them to recovery before you can follow up with an attack.
The funny thing is that Wesker players online tend to actually be my easiest match ups. Most of them tend to be tier whores who just suck at the game, and the ones that are actually good are still pretty predictable.
It WOULD be cool if they could lower his X-Factor benefits to counteract the glasses boost. Otherwise, I see no problem with Wesker. And I don't even play him.
@ 21
EVERYONE plays Wesker. THEY HAVE TO!!
Using skill is scary.
funny how i was just talking to someone about how wesker ended up as good, if not better than he was in vanilla, even though capcom nerfed him, and we were saying how capcom nerfed what people complained about. But what the idiots who do all the complaining don't realize, is that the one stupid thing that happens to annoy them, and stick out to them as being broken (#6 talking about phantom dance, and "infinite OTGs"??), are not actually the reason the character is so effective, and overpowered. But since the ones with the loudest voices, are the ones who know next to nothing about the game, and what makes a good character good (outside of "this move gets me every time and it needs a nerf"), because the ones who actual understand the game, and can tell you exactly why a character is so good, and what it does so well within the mechanics of the game/compared to the other chars, are the ones who have been playing fighting games for many years, and have dealt with far worse balance than a character like wesker, or dante, and therefore don't complain.
Capcom should really consider interviewing top players about their feelings on each character in the game, and then look at their results as a whole, and balance based on that, because the lowest common denominator of fighting game fans, are the ones crying the loudest, and I'm sorry, but I don't want those short bus riders deciding what a character does or doesn't need (things like this lead to wesker getting the sunglasses mechanic).
Crazy how so many people are complaining about Wesker, and no one said anything about Zero lol, oh well.
To be honest I'm sure alot of Wesker's play him because they actually like him. I played him from the beginning simply because I always liked him in the Resident Evil's and I always liked saying Complete Global Saturation :P
Though there is some who probably play him to tier whore, or because he is pretty simple. But the average Wesker isn't good, and only the ones who worked are the ones you should worry about.
As for complaining about his easyness lets face it, it's marvel everyone besides a small handful of characters are very easy to play as, and have options for situations. Hulk, Sentinel, Taskmaster, Felicia, Wolverine, Captain America, Dormmamu, etc. you can do alot of damage off of simple combos. Wesker is just over played so people complain about him, same for Ken. Just get over it already. :( Also Nice Videos :D
#25 Amen to that. I love it when people complain about Wesker when everyone has access to the same characters. It's not like only my copy of MvC3 has Wesker in it.
Keep letting your pride speak for you because all I see is "I'm better than you because I don't play Wesker." Which makes you sound like an elitist, which in turn makes you sound like a jackass.
#26
Doesn't mean everyone should play Wesker just because they have access to it, there's 50 characters to chose from
@ 23
I GUARANTEE you are gonna feel dumb as rocks when I tell you this...
NOEL BROWN was the one who said on stream this week during BIG TWO that the game has INFINITE OTGs!
NOEL BROWN...you know one of the pros YOU said we should listen to...considering that most players ARENT PROS!
U ASSUME im just a scrub talking out my ass. LOOK IT UP!
@ 26
People HATE losing imaginary points so they have to use the best and Wesker is the best now.
WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING GIVING...ONLY WESKER, A POWER AND SPEED BOOST!? THATS NOT EVEN IN HIS CHARACTER TO DO THAT!!
U think Capcom made wesker balanced and we are all dumb?
I cant find a stream where commentators dont complain about him and his BS.
In a game where mix-ups is King putting Wesker and his anyplace/anytime teleports is Straight Troll PLAY?
Need more proof that Capcom's trolling?
MEGA MAN X is ZERO
RAD SPENCER is Spencer
#26 A lot of people play Wesker because he is a popular character I can almost guarantee that. Only at competitive play are they playing him for his dominance. And it doesn't mean everyone should bitch and moan and about him and declare themselves better than another playerr if they don't play him. Your argument is a 2-way street.
#27 Game is 5 days old. New tech is being discovered every day, it's hilarious how brain dead and presumptuous the FGC is. Infinite OTG's never have existed and never will. Wesker can otg like 2-4 times max, 5 with select assists times in UMvC.
#28 You say that as if Wesker is the only character in the game with a teleport.
I'm not saying Wesker is a balanced character, but it's amazing the amount of tears people are wasting on one character with so little being known about a 5 day old game. Suppose Wesker is nerfed to hell, then what? People will move one to complain about the next best character in classic FGC fashion.
Anybody thinking that the OTG Orb is the reason Strider's health is so low?