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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Shuma-Gorath alternate colors detailed by Marvel

Posted by Nyoro — October 28, 2011 at 11:06 a.m. PDT

The Marvel blog updated today with a look at Shuma-Gorath's alternate colors. Like always, you can check out the samples below and read the color background stories on their site.

Unfortunately this time around there doesn't seem to be much background behind Shuma's colors. Also only two colors are new.

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Sent in by Tiger Uppercut and Alex_MMorales.

Comments

Blitzkrieg_exe said on October 28, 2011 at 11:11 a.m.

neat.

NyuBomber said on October 28, 2011 at 11:13 a.m.

WELCOME TO...The Cool Dimension.

I usually go with White-Gorath, but I may have to switch that with Carnage-Gorath.

Shout outs to Storm, whom I will never be able to play at an effective level despite my love for the character. :(

MODOKKK said on October 28, 2011 at 11:15 a.m.

shuma gorath is definitely one of the coolest characters in mvc3/umvc3. sad to hear that he's so low tier in vanilla but hopefully he'll be improved in ultimate.

Biggz124 said on October 28, 2011 at 11:16 a.m.

nom, cool dimension forever.

J said on October 28, 2011 at 11:16 a.m.

I hoped they had changed his white color. It's just not easy on the eyes imo. Would've liked to see an orange color.

SnakeX said on October 28, 2011 at 11:22 a.m.

Cool-Gorath is cool.

chosenst said on October 28, 2011 at 11:22 a.m.

The black is bad ass. Been using the Grey/White Shuma since day one, but I'm definitely throwing in some of that red and black.

Ninjanuity said on October 28, 2011 at 11:24 a.m.

#2 Just look up some apprentice combos.

MMGboys said on October 28, 2011 at 11:33 a.m.

red shuma is nice

its like an alien version of the kool aid man

roknin said on October 28, 2011 at 11:34 a.m.

Ooh, black Shuma-Gorath. (drools)

Do like.

Sad as his tier position may be, I can't stop playing Shuma. I guess, technically, he's my main? My teams usually revolved around him and Tron when I actually bothered to play. ;-p

That said, I'm going to have to really sit in the lab and play around to get a team I like to work with him in Ultimate. And that Red will get put to use!

(I'm thinking Shuma/Tron/Trish again but I need to really think about their synergy this go-round if I'm going to be at all effective...)

#10

Beekay said on October 28, 2011 at 11:34 a.m.

"We chose this ___ variant ‘cause we thought it looked cool."

Greatest excuse ever

#11

NyuBomber said on October 28, 2011 at 11:47 a.m.

*Hot summer day, kids playing Mahvel inside with no air conditioning*
"Man, I wish we had something to cool off with."
"I've got just the thing! Hey, Shuma!"

*Wall explodes and the Old One steps in*
"EVERYTHING BEGINS AND ENDS WITH SHUMA-GORATH"

A celestial howl follows, a death wind sweeping the Earth like a living plague, twisiting everything and everyone into unspeakable bloody, oozing, gnawing, gnashing, thrashing, groaning, crying abominations. Life becomes a mockery of what it once was.

PREPARE YOURSELVES!
SHUMA-GORATH IS COMING!
SHUMA-GORATH IS COMING!
SHUMA-GORATH IS COMING!
SACRIFICE YOURSELF TO THE CHAOS GOD!

...And then their thirst was quenched.

#12

bahamutknightzero said on October 28, 2011 at 11:52 a.m.

All that is missing is a yellow Shuma and we would have a complete Shuma Rangers group

#13

Ozyroth said on October 28, 2011 at 12:04 p.m.

I don't own Shuma, but man, that Red color looks super cool!!

#14

mugeninfinity said on October 28, 2011 at 12:17 p.m.

LOL @ #12

#15

Fretless94 said on October 28, 2011 at 12:38 p.m.

Dat black alt.
It looks like it'll make him real hard to see on dark stages, maybe even more than any of the other black alts.

#16

MasterCheeze said on October 28, 2011 at 12:47 p.m.

If Capcom loves Shuma so much, then why didn't the buff him more in Ultimate? I mean, they clamored enough to get him in, so why wouldn't they want him obviously at the top? I think Shuma is one of the only characters worth having that much bias even though I don't play him.

#17

50Sent said on October 28, 2011 at 1:24 p.m.

@3
Based on the change logs and what we've heard in interviews, he isn't at all. It's kind of sad, now he's going to have to buddy up with Hsien-Ko and Morrigan in Ultimate in Team Garbage, which is sad because it's freaking Shuma Gorath.

#18

Fretless94 said on October 28, 2011 at 1:57 p.m.

@18
Not necessarily. Shuma isn't as bad as people think he is. He's like MODOK. He can kick ass, but he's really hard to play. His J. S buff might be the key to giving him a greater damage output.

#19

Spacecacti said on October 28, 2011 at 2:27 p.m.

@20
Isn't Modok better though? I saw an interview for umvc and it said bottom was like Shuma and Wolverine

#20

xShonuffx said on October 28, 2011 at 2:40 p.m.

@17 the obvious reason would probably be because he would become too strong. considering how the high tiers took a large hit in nerfs it probably puts Shuma on even ground with the cast. Buffing him would make him High Tier I guess, won't know till we play, no one has had a chance to play him except maybe Max and he has a gag order till official announcments are made.

They like Shuma but it's still a game, they have to be careful. Shuma is like the Makoto of MvC3, just the slightest buffs would make him OP, you have to be careful.

This is comeing from a person who plays Shuma and Hsien Ko so I know his potential.

#21

Gurou_Kun said on October 28, 2011 at 2:56 p.m.

I think it was a really childish write-up you can almost taste CBake's saltiness dissing Shuma on every chance he has. To me Marvel Super Heroes had the best cast of any of the Marvel games by Capcom.

#22

foreverbadass said on October 28, 2011 at 3:01 p.m.

@13

Yes, this must happen.

@21

I know what you mean, I don't use Shuma, but I've seen his potential from someone with the gamertag 'Snadmonkey'. That guy has the sickest Shuma I've ever seen, he showed me the hard way that Shuma has crazy combo potential.

#23

cbake said on October 28, 2011 at 5:05 p.m.

@22

*sigh* Sorry you didn't get what I was going for. If you read what I wrote again, you'll see that there is absolutely nothing anti-Shuma in the entire thing. I was making light on the fact that he's so obscure -- not dissing the character himself.

I did say "you have to wonder" why he was chosen for Marvel Super Heroes, and I guess you might consider that "salty," but really...don't you have to wonder that? It's a fair question.

I like Shuma -- I really do. I wouldn't have added the part about the Storm X-Men vs. Street Fighter ending if I didn't. I'm sorry you took what I wrote as being negative rather than tongue-in-cheek.

@11

Thank you for getting it.

#24

Ninjanuity said on October 28, 2011 at 5:22 p.m.

I play Shuma and I see his potential. His Mystic Ray is really good, he has some of the easiest jump loops in the game with his cr. H, and he has a great unblockable Lv. 3, and it's one of the best Lv 3s simply because of the many ways you can set it up. My favorite is to call out an assist so the opponent will be forced to block and can't push you back with advancing guard, get up next to them, do Chaos Dimension, X-Factor cancel the blocked hit, and just keep mashing H. Unavoidable X-Factored Chaos Dimension does a lot of damage.

He's not like MODOK all. His normals are solid and can chain easily, and he controls like any other character, unlike MODOK. If you play Wesker, and then play Shuma Gorath for the first time, you'll still be able pull of air combos and stuff. If you go from Zero to playing MODOK for the first time, it's gonna be incredibly awkward, since his normals are weird and he doesn't have a regular jump.

#25

Gurou_Kun said on October 28, 2011 at 5:53 p.m.

@24

Weird, I wasn't expecting an answer from the very guy who wrote the article (do you have spiral like abilities, or something). I'm sorry, but to me (and judging by the comments on the Marvel blog at least another guy) it just sounded like that.

#26

streetman88 said on October 28, 2011 at 6:06 p.m.

Every time i see this character it looks like something straight out of a hentai with all those tenticals in a game with hot(some half naked) females in it.

#27

cbake said on October 28, 2011 at 6:09 p.m.

@26

More like the Eye of Sauron -- except it's Shuma-Gorath's eye.

#28

TheSaltyAustralian said on October 29, 2011 at 3:19 a.m.

Shuma be rocking that Cool SWAG

#29

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