Marvel VS Capcom: Infinite/Doctor Strange

Dr. Strange

The Doctor is in!

In a nutshell
Dr. Strange is a strong zoner with high mix up potential. With a large variety of tracking projectiles, he can keep the opponent guessing with his teleports. Bolts of Balthakk is possibly the best beam projectile in the game as it hit confirms, locks down and can't be reflected. Spell of Vishanti is a tracking hyper that can hit an opponent at any height and Strange also has access to Seven Rings of Raggadorr which is a projectile counter. Pick Dr. Strange if you want a character that can lock you down with tracking projectiles and create mix up opportunities from them.

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Character Vitals

CHARACTER DATA

Health:

10,000

Double Jump:

No

Air Dash:

No

Air Dash/Jump count:

0

Misc Movement:

Flight

Move List

Unique Trait

Spacial Magic: Dr. Strange has the ability chain Grace of Hoggoths together and place them in locations around the screen at a distance. He can mix and match the different graces together as well as space them out in unique ways. Using a Flames of the Faltine, he can create a projectile that tracks the Graces around the screen before eventually tracking down the opponent.

Normals

Standing Light Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300		6	3	14	-6	-4
	Can't be rapid fired, its wide hurtbox can leave Strange vulnerable

Standing Heavy Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700		11	4	34	-14	-18
	A solid hitbox that is used to confirm your combos.

Standing Light Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		8	3	25	-9	-11
	Decent button that doesn't leave Strange too vulnerable in footsies

Standing Heavy Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700		12	3	36	-15	-19
	Strong footsies button, mainly used to confirm ground strings from

Crouching Light Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300		6	3	14	-5	-3
	Can't be rapid fired

Crouching Heavy Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700		11	3	37	+11	-19	Launch
	Standard launcher hitbox

Crouching Light Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		8	10	18	-9	-12
	Very underrated attack, hits low with nice range, use this in your high/low mix ups from a tag-in

Crouching Heavy Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700		10	3	38	+38	-21	Knockdown
	Solid range low attack that doesn't leave Strange too vulnerable to counter pokes but the knockdown can make it difficult to utilize properly in confirms

Jumping Light Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300	High	6	3	14

Jumping Heavy Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700	High	11	5	27
	Nice downward hitbox that can stuff anti-airs, can start your air combo with this button to reduce the harshness of damage scaling later on.

Jumping Light Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500	High	9	3	24
	Nice downward hitbox that can stuff anti-airs

Jumping Heavy Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700	High	9	3	36			Groundbounce Hardknockdown
	Air combo ender, by far his best overhead after entering flight mode during mix ups with enough hitstun to easily confirm from after exiting flight.

Mysterious Slice	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		8	3	20	-4	-6
	A nice anti-air hitbox, can be chained from , chains into Spirit Circle or

Mysterious Slice Air	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500	High	9	3	26
	A rather big hitbox that can help with air-to-airs, can be chained from , chains into

Spirit Circle	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		10	4	19	-3	-5
	Solid anti-air hitbox, confirm this into launcher, can be chained from or Mysterious Slice, chains into

Impact Palm (air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700		7	4	40	+122	-24	Crumple
	His primary combo tool that will be used in pretty much every combo ever and it will OS with throw. Chains from , chains into . Inputting this normal next to a Tear or Eye of Agamotto will cause it to track your opponent. Only the grounded version of Impact Palm will cause a crumple. You can get up to a maximum of two crumples in a combo by linking ground Impact Palm into a flight combo that ends with another ground Impact Palm. +122 hit advantage to crumple only.

Illusion	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			4	18	9			Counter
	Long active frames makes this a pretty strong way to screw up your opponents offense, counters all physical hits, Strange will teleport behind his opponent automatically on activation.

Misc

Throw or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	1000		3	1		+61(forward throw) / +69 (back throw)		Wallbounce Hardknockdown
	Additional damage scales by 50%. Follow up combo won't allow another wall bounce.

Air Throw or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	1000		3	1				Wallbounce Hardknockdown
	Additional damage scales by 50%. Follow up combo won't allow another wall bounce.

Tag	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		6	8	44	+33	+28
	Hit/Block adv is dependent on when you cancel your tag-in

Specials

Flames of the Faltine (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500		11	40		-10	+12	Proj
	Spawns a forward attacking projectile that will track the nearest Grace of Hoggoth if one is placed and can be reflected. Flames of the Faltine grows in strength based on how many Graces are on the field. Interesting to know that a Flames of the Faltine will track additional Grace of Hoggoths placed on the field after activating one as long as there is another Grace to travel towards before coming back to a new one, otherwise it will track the opponent. Projectile disappears when Strange is hit.

Flames of the Faltine Level 1 (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	250x3 (750)		11	6(3)31		+40	+15	Proj Knockdown
	After hitting a Grace of Hoggoth, Flames of the Faltine levels up into a multi-hit tracking projectile and can be reflected. Projectile disappears when Strange is hit.

Flames of the Faltine Level 2 (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	200x5 (960)		11	6(3)8(3)20		+110	+90	Proj Hardknockdown
	After hitting a second Grace of Hoggoth, Flames of the Faltine levels up even further into a multi-hit tracking projectile that cannot be reflected and gains increased hitstun and knockdown properties. Projectile disappears when Strange is hit.

Flames of the Faltine Level 3 (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	1300		11	7(3)6(3)5(2)14		+43	+124	Proj Crumple
	After hitting a third Grace of Hoggoth, Flames of the Faltine levels up even further into a super fast one hit beam that tracks the opponents last known location and cannot be reflected, crumples on ground opponents only. Projectile disappears when Strange is hit.

Bolts of Balthakk	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	200x8 (1480)		21	18(29)24	34	+50	-22	Proj Stagger
	A very powerful beam attack that attacks twice in a row at split intervals, causes a stagger on opponents that temporarily "freezes" their character. Dr. Strange can confirm this with Teleport into for the OTG. Excellent projectile to tag in a partner that is easily confirmable from full screen. This projectile cannot be reflected or push blocked.

Daggers of Denak (Air OK) or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		800		35	16	0	+25	+21	Proj
		400x3 (1160)		70	1st dagger projectile begins tracking on frame 97, followed by 99 then 101	0	+69	+65	Proj
	spawns one tracking projectile, can be reflected. spawns three tracking projectiles and takes a long time to attack, great for creating mix ups after hard knockdowns, can be reflected. Projectile disappears when Strange is put into block stun or on hit, however after the projectiles begin their movement towards the opponent, the daggers won't be interrupted.

Tears/Eye of Agamotto (Air OK) or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		1300		45	Tears will explode on its own on frame 109 after Strange recovers, explosion hitbox has 2 active frames	0	+71 / -7	+12 / -24	Knockdown Proj passes through projectiles
		100x5 (500)		32	14, Eye will disappear on frame 107 after Strange recovers	0	+48 / +5	+44 / +1	Proj
	After setting down one of these projectiles, you can input Impact Palm next to it in order to push it forward and track your enemies location. version (Tears) spawns a red eye that will not interact with projectiles, even hypers. Tears is a one hit explosion which is primarily used for combos, if palmed it travels slowly. version (Eye) spawns a yellow eye that is multi-hit and best used in neutral and in mix-ups, it travels fairly fast and almost reaches full screen. Eye durability reference Secondary frame data is when the eye is palmed forwards, however these advantages take into account the entire recovery frames of Impact Palm, further advantage can be applied if flight is performed. Projectile disappears when Strange is hit.

Mystic Sword - Duel Slash or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		200x2+500 (900)		8	3(3)3(7)3	24	+30	-7	Knockdown
		200x3+600 (1140)		11	3(42)3(3)3(7)3(19)6	26	+70	-12	Wallbounce Hardknockdown
	version is a decently fast physical attack, can be used early on in combos if you wish to not waste a wall bounce. version is your primary special to confirm or extend combos later on, great with tagging as it locks down fairly well and the last hit can sometimes frame trap your enemy. Both versions share the same initial 3 hitboxes but the version has an extra hitbox at the end that causes wall bounce (second image shown)

Mystic Sword - Shockwave or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		200+900 (1100)		12	34		+25	-18	Proj
		200+900 (1100)		12	39		+17	-18	Proj
	version is a straight forward projectile that travels full screen, can be reflected. version is a full screen projectile that travels up forward into the air, can be reflected. First hit is a physical attack (first/third image shown) and is responsible for the initial 200 damage, if opponent is struck by this they will go into a knockdown.

Grace of Hoggoth (Air OK) or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
				35
				35
	Can be chained into Spacial Magic Cast A with or . grace is a red orb that causes an explosion when you use Flames of the Faltine. grace is a yellow orb that powers up Flames of the Faltine into a more powerful version.

Spacial Magic Cast A (Air OK) or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			61 / 66 (air)
	Spawns an additional Grace of Hoggoth of your choosing, can be chained into Spacial Magic Cast B with or . Holding can spawn the graces further out from Strange's location than normally possible. Counts as two air actions.

Spacial Magic Cast B (Air OK) or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			87 / 92 (air)
	Spawns the final Grace of Hoggoth of your choosing, can be chained into Spacial Magic Scatter with or or Spacial Magic Gather with or . Holding can spawn the graces further out from Strange's location than normally possible. Counts as three air actions, use flight in order to gain a new action to use Flames of the Faltine before landing.

Spacial Magic Scatter (Air OK) or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			123 / 128 (air)
	sends the three graces you placed in a triangle around the screen. sends the three graces you placed in a triangle around the opponents last known location. Counts as three air actions, use flight in order to gain a new action to use Flames of the Faltine before landing.

Spacial Magic Gather (Air OK) or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			123 / 128 (air)
	sends the three graces you placed in front of Strange in a line near his feet. sends the three graces you placed in a line near the opponents last known location. Counts as three air actions, use flight in order to gain a new action to use Flames of the Faltine before landing.

Grace of Hoggoth Detonation	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500			3		+78	+2	Proj Hardknockdown
	Though red grace doesn't improve the faltine projectile itself, it can cause a nice explosion to keep opponents at bay with minimal damage scaling.

Teleport (Air OK) or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
				11	6	24			Invincible frames 11-20
				11 / 18 (air)	6 / 1 (air)	24 / 22 (air)			Invincible frames 11-20
	version will teleport Strange in front of his opponent, good for creating fake out mix ups. version will teleport Strange behind his opponent, it will even cross up in the corner.

Teleport (Air OK) or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
				11	6	24			Invincible frames 11-20
				11	6	24			Invincible frames 11-20
	version will teleport Strange above and in front of his opponent, can be a way to set up tricky mix ups. version will teleport Strange on the ground behind him a set distance, ideal for evading an opponent.

Flight (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			134
	Enters flight mode, can move in 8 directions. Ideal for stalling as well as used during ground strings. Flight is an ideal way to set up low to the ground overheads during lockdown sequences since he has no real overhead outside of short hops. Flight is a good way to extend the number of specials as you can use this as your fourth air action after using up your original three, for example if you use 3 specials in the air you can fly then gain access to 3 more before landing effectively giving you 6 air specials in one jump. Unfly has 1f of recovery.

Hypers

Spell of Vishanti (Air OK)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300x10 (2520)		17	49	48	+15	-30	Proj Invincible on frame 11
	Tracks opponent, hits anywhere on the screen, does not OTG after two air combo enders. Few characters can confirm off a raw SoV, but you can make it easier if you tag+super on the same input in order to position yourself better.

Seven Rings of Raggadorr	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
			11	24	38			Counter Proj Invincible frames 1-11.5
	Projectile will only spawn if Strange gets attacked by an enemies projectile during it's active frames.

Seven Rings of Raggadorr (Activation)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	150x23(2190) - 300x27 (4839)		24	84	49		-32	Counter Proj Knockdown Invincible frames 1-98
	Damage varies based on range, does not hold full invincibility during recovery, best to tag in your partner to cover Strange's recovery.

Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (Level 3)	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	5250 (17 hits)		16	30	50	+63	-21	Invincible frames 1-20
	This is a physical attack that vaults Strange forward toward his enemies.

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Technology

Bnb mix up from a knockdown
Illusion punish on some common tactics
Showing that Tears doesn't interact and can help your defense
Hard to blockable set up with Hulk, can be applied to almost anyone
Space Stone mix up and Storm combo idea
Gamora punish concept

Combos

6k corner cr.lk starter
6k mid screen cr.lk starter
6.6k mid screen j.hp starter
6.7k Bnb
8k corner combo + more
Mid screen 2 grace combo variation
Mid screen 3 grace combo variation

Strategy

Partner Selection

Corner reset with Dante
reliable Frank/Strange level 4 combo from bolts
Frank/Strange to level 5
Raw SoV conversion applications
Captain Marvel corner reset concept
Captain Marvel hit grab to set up a meaty mix up from a knockdown
Nova w/ Bolts mid screen pressure options

Stone Selection

Power

Time

Reality

Soul

Space

Mind

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