X-Men: Children of the Atom/Silver Samurai/Introduction

Introduction/Summary

If you're a fan of low-tier and uphill battles, Silver Samurai is your man. While he's certainly handicapped, his battles are not unwinnable.

Silver Samurai had more options in older versions (2.x's, Japan/Asia versions) simply from his Shuriken hitting slower, allowing for better/easier combos.

Attack Chain

Ground Chain: Weak Start, Up One*
Normal Jump Chain: Weak Start Cross (must be Punch to Kick OR Kick to Punch)
Super Jump Chain: Weak Start, Up One

Strengths

Weaknesses

All Normal attacks chip (save air LK) RaiMeiKen (lightning super) does good damage and chip, can be comboed into Easy trap vs inexperienced players Decent pokes, though their range is deceptivly bad and some may miss if too close vs some characters Has good stamina If you're hit out of Shadow Clones startup, you still keep the powerup, unlike element swords Evasion X-special (grounded in particular) Relatively low execution requirements.

Slow, even his SJ and jump have some kind of short delay. Weak comboability compared to the rest of the cast, especially off of throws (few exceptions, more detail below) ALL of his attacks can be blocked high, including the 2nd hit of s.HP and his c.HK Size and weight make him a combo dummy, the dumbest things work on him Start up time for element swords is too long, though ice sword combos and resets (if they're bad at mashing) can be worth trying for Doesn't gain meter during element swords or shadows Doesn't really build meter all that easily unless you're touching them RaiMeiKen has a bit of startup, and begins using X-Power/meter before the attack comes out. If you're hit out of this, you'll lose about 1/4 of meter Since you'll likely be leading with lights, that means your damage will be scaled harsher. Damage on single hard pokes isn't really all that good either.