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I think it's really too early to tell tiers so far, considering how much the tier list changed in MvC2 over the years. It practically turned upside down. I think it's okay to say the high tier, but not really top. One criticism on your top tier list that many people would disagree with is Phoenix and Sentinel.

Phoenix is only really great as Dark Phoenix, and that requires saving your meter. However a competent player will snap in Phoenix and take her out before that can happen. She dies in one combo to anyone, basically. Sent is strong as ******** if the team is all slowpokes, but one quick rushdown character and they can infinite him due to his size.

I don't think it's too early to judge assists though. Some assists obviously stand out in utility over others. The ones you posted are obviously amazing, though I'd like to add that your forgot Haggar's Lariat. It's amazing for getting people off you if you ******** up.

I really do have a hard time disagreeing with your top list though, from what we've seen so far. If the gameplay stays static and doesn't evolve from here into different team comps, then you're onto something. Except Phoenix, imo. Sent may not be amazing on point due to his weakness to rushdown, but Sentinel Force is still such an insanely good assist he'll always be top tier.

I don't see how you can say she's top tier when you post that everyone uses her as a win button and then loses when she's inevitably snapped back in. The thing is, she's only top tier if you're playing at a level above your opponent. You have to completely dominate them with her, and one slip up and she's done. I just don't see her as anything but situational.

And I'm not saying Sent is bad either, just that he's not top tier. He's very solid and definitely high, but I just don't think he's as strong on point as a lot of people. I'm pretty scrubby but I never really have trouble against sent online because I know how to deal with him.

People are still playing this game like MvC2 + x factor, and when people start playing it like MvC3 the tiers will be very different.

Really I feel the game is overall really well balanced since every character is great. I don't feel the characters themselves fit into tiers so much yet, more along the lines of certain tournament players are just a lot better than others and so the ones they like best are looking better.

I really just don't think it's fair to ignore her single combo and she's dead hp to keep her in top tier. Hell, you say she's risky, that's a pretty big negative. Strider may have been low health, but his health wasn't single combo in the way that Phoenix is. Hulk can kill her in three hits.

I honestly tend to disagree with tiers in general unless there are some obvious differences in character power.

A good tier list is like what SvC Chaos has: GEESE, Zero, Chun, Tessa, everyone else. Zero, Chun, and Tessa were obviously so much better than anyone due to unblockables (tessa), just great in every way (chun), or a piss easy infinite (Zero) yet even then they were out classed in every way by Geese who had all of it.

Assists in this game have obvious tiers though. Hidden Missile, Lightning Legs, Akuma's Spin Kicks, and Sentinel Force.

Yes two pro gamers used the same character and both based their strategy the same way, and both were gentleman and decided not to sacrifice a bar to snap in and destroy Phoenix because they both wanted to d phoenix vs d phoenix.

It's not like the commentary in the video explained much since he was doing play by play and not analysis, so if you'd like to explain more than "these guys are good and used her and did well" then feel free.

There is nothing to explain.

Snap backs waste a bar silly.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2011/mar/23/wednesday-night-fights-season-22-live-stream/

The second match in the video. His phoenix gets snapped in multiple times.

Snap backs waste a bar lmao done with this thread gg