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Play patiently, you have a ton of health and most of your easiest combos will do a lot of damage. You want to try and stay mid screen as much as possible to pose a threat with mighty strike, but not too close as to get air grabbed or hit with an Anti-Air while charging. | Play patiently, you have a ton of health and most of your easiest combos will do a lot of damage. You want to try and stay mid screen as much as possible to pose a threat with mighty strike, but not too close as to get air grabbed or hit with an Anti-Air while charging. | ||
== Advanced Strategy == | |||
=== Assist Choices === | |||
Thor needs two types of assists, one full screen projectile and one screen control. I HIGHLY recommend using Hidden Missiles as your main assist of choice, not only does Thor have good tech with Doom(see tech section above), but missiles covers all of Thor's movement well, allows high/low mixups, gives you extended combos and can help in those situations where you get air grabbed and need a combo break. Other good lock down assists include Ammy's Cold Star, Shuma's Mystic Ray, Strange's Bolts of Balthakk, Hsien-Ko's Senpu Bu, Frank West's Shopping Cart and possibly Dante's Jam Session. Thor needs a projectile to cover his tri-dashing, his low height mighty strikes and also as a way to punish those pesky zoners and their assists while mighty sparking yourself. The best projectile assists that I've found are Strange's Bolts of Balthakk, Ironman's Unibeam, Arthurs Dagger Toss and Hawkeye's Triple Arrows. Doom's beam and Magneto's Disruptor aren't as effective when pressuring opponents because they always cause a soft knock down and Thor isn't very good at converting those situations whereas Bolts and Unibeam still keep opponents standing in enough hitstun to follow up on. However I think other great assists could include Taskmaster arrows, Chris' Machine Gun and Vergil's Rapid Slash to an extent. | |||
Things to note, Rapid Slash and Cold Star can both be used after an uncharged Mighty Smash H after an air combo to extend combos. | |||
So here are the top assists to choose from: | |||
Hidden Missiles, Mystic Ray, Bolts of Balthakk, Cold Star, Dagger Toss, Unibeam. | |||
== Match ups == | == Match ups == | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 11 March 2014
Thor
Thor is the "god of thunder" from Asgard and a founding member of the Avengers. His mighty hammer, Mjolnir, can only be wielded by him and gives him incredible strength.
In a nutshell
Thor is one of the more unique characters in the game, often compared to a slower Magneto but he's far from him. He doesn't have very much speed on the ground, but take to the skies and with enough practice you can move like the wind. He has the highest health in the game, a decent full screen projectile, a move with armored properties, lots of damage and an easy follow up with a command grab that can be done in the air. All in all, he's hard to master but in the right hands can be devastating.
Players to Watch
Luizmau, Serpentarus, Mr.Flubbs, Abegen, Royal Flush
Character Vitals
Video Walkthrough
Technology
Side switch combo
punishing throw breaks and dhc with ammy
Thor/Strange/Ammy combos and set ups
TOD combo with Rocket Raccoon and Vergil
Viper and Thor tech
mighty punish dhc to arthurs armor and hard tag to doom
Mighty Punish DHC to Doom into full combo
TAC infinite
Move List
Assist Types
Mighty Spark (114,100)
Mighty Strike (133,000)
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Mighty Smash (95,000)
softknockdown
Normal Moves
(97,600)
softknockdown
ends flight
Throws
(80,000)
can juggle after first hit
(80,000)
can juggle after first hit
Special Moves
(90,700)
first 2 hits never scale
(123,000)
first 4 hits never scale
(154,000)
first 6 hits never scale
(133,000)
hardknockdown on second hit
(160,000)
groundbounce
hardknockdown on second hit
(203,700)
groundbounce hardknockdown
on 2nd hit
otg on 3rd hit
proj on hits 3-5
(Charged)
(226,100)
groundbounce on 2nd hit
otg on 3rd hit
softknockdown
proj on hits 3-7
(133,000)
(charged)
(175,900)
softknockdown
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hardknockdown
puts enemy in juggle state
hardknockdown
puts enemy in juggle state
hardknockdown
puts enemy in juggle state
while delivering speech.
Approx. 1 bar per 4 seconds
Hyper Moves
(321,600 ~ 382,700)
floating softknockdown on all hits
except final hit vs.
airborne opponent;
strk on final hit
mashable
(383,700 max)
hardknockdown
(310,000)
hardknockdown
Strategy
Tips and Tricks
- Mighty Punish is a great move. It's start up is instant, which is quite possibly one of the best reversals in the game. Having a good DHC, you can easily get a full combo afterwards. Abegen for example, uses She-Hulk to DHC, if the move connects you can go right into emerald cannon and combo! And if they jump in the air to avoid it? Then go into She-Hulks Taking out the Trash anti-air super and catch them in the air! Other hypers like Doom's Sphere Flame will whiff after a full two hits facing the right side and actually allow you to OTG and combo with St.H.
- You can super cancel out of any of Thor's command grabs. This is especially useful as a frame trap. Try doing a block string, then tick throw them into a command grab. If you are too early the command grab will whiff but you can always cancel into Thor's Mighty Punish and catch them off guard.
- Thor's command grabs can also be buffered during throw breaks. For example, at the beginning of the round, if they try to throw you and you tech the throw, you can buffer the command throw and input H again, it will double as another throw tech and also punish their throw attempt, talk about godly!
- Thor's air dash is only accessible at certain heights, however if you super jump there are less frames needed to air dash, try it out.
- Thor's jumping Light paired with tri-dashes is the best move to use as your high/low mix-up tool. However the hitbox is very small which means it will have trouble beating out other moves, so only use it during the cover of assists like Doom's Hidden Missiles or Amaterasu's Cold Star.
- Thor's Special in the air has a great hitbox, but it has very slow start up. Practice using it when approaching from a distance but be careful using it too much because it's easy to get thrown during it's use. However if it connects, it's easily one of the best ways to start a combo due to it's huge hit stun and high damage. Hitting a grounded opponent with this move will stagger them and allow a nice follow up.
- You may notice in some combo videos that after Mighty Smash M, that Thor is able to do crouching Heavy, this can only be done when mighty smash connects when they much higher in the air. As a rule, think of the apex of this move and if the opponent is hit at that height, there is a high chance a crouching Heavy will connect and give you a lot of damage.
- Crouching heavy also connects on Thor's command grab but only if you grab them in the air.
- Mighty Spark has an interesting property to it. There are two hitboxes associated with this move, one is the beam that goes full screen, the other is the circular spark around Thor's hammer. If an opponent is hit with the last hit of the spark around the hammer, they will go into a soft knock down. This allows you to do multiple relaunch combos using Mighty Spark Light as a way to bring them slowly to the ground. These sphere hitboxes are also the key to his TAC infinite.
- Thor has perhaps one of the worst forward ground dashes in the game, "Wave" dashing or "Plinking" forwards just isn't worth it. His air dash is the quickest way to cover ground towards your opponent. However, his back dash is actually quite good, try Wave or Plink dashing backwards and see how quickly he can run away.
- Thor's biggest strength is using air Mighty Strikes to cover ground with a big hitbox and is perfect for hitting assists with active hitboxes and converting happy birthdays.
Combos
- j.S, cr.LHS, j.MMHS (delay the S as much as possible), Mighty Smash H (fully charged), S, j.MM, Mighty Spark L (OR Mighty Strike M), Mighty Tornado
- j. Mighty Strike M, j.LMS (or j.LMH depending on how high they are), cr.LS (can also add Mighty Smash M in), j.MM, Mighty Spark L, Mighty Tornado
- j.L, LHS, j.H (delay the H), Mighty Spark L, Air-Dash Down, j.H (or M because it's easier), S, j.MH, Mighty Spark L, Air-Dash Down, j.H, S, j.MM, Mighty Spark L, Mighty Tornado
Basic Strategy
The general idea with Thor is to cover ground with air mighty strike M. The M version has the best chance at hitting a grounded opponent and allowing you to convert into a combo. The easiest combo off an uncharged Mighty Strike M is simply using launcher to send them into an air combo. You can also improve the combo by doing a Mighty Smash M and then launch, or re-jump after the hit and do j.LMS, st.LS into combo.
Thor's ground game is generally pretty weak, you want to be in the air 90% of the time. The other 10% is using mighty spark L to control the ground, call your own assists under the cover of his beam and punish your opponents assist. All of Thor's ground normals are very punishable, so don't approach with raw ground normals too often, just stick to the skies and use his air dash down forward paired with L at low heights or with S at super jump height.
Play patiently, you have a ton of health and most of your easiest combos will do a lot of damage. You want to try and stay mid screen as much as possible to pose a threat with mighty strike, but not too close as to get air grabbed or hit with an Anti-Air while charging.
Advanced Strategy
Assist Choices
Thor needs two types of assists, one full screen projectile and one screen control. I HIGHLY recommend using Hidden Missiles as your main assist of choice, not only does Thor have good tech with Doom(see tech section above), but missiles covers all of Thor's movement well, allows high/low mixups, gives you extended combos and can help in those situations where you get air grabbed and need a combo break. Other good lock down assists include Ammy's Cold Star, Shuma's Mystic Ray, Strange's Bolts of Balthakk, Hsien-Ko's Senpu Bu, Frank West's Shopping Cart and possibly Dante's Jam Session. Thor needs a projectile to cover his tri-dashing, his low height mighty strikes and also as a way to punish those pesky zoners and their assists while mighty sparking yourself. The best projectile assists that I've found are Strange's Bolts of Balthakk, Ironman's Unibeam, Arthurs Dagger Toss and Hawkeye's Triple Arrows. Doom's beam and Magneto's Disruptor aren't as effective when pressuring opponents because they always cause a soft knock down and Thor isn't very good at converting those situations whereas Bolts and Unibeam still keep opponents standing in enough hitstun to follow up on. However I think other great assists could include Taskmaster arrows, Chris' Machine Gun and Vergil's Rapid Slash to an extent.
Things to note, Rapid Slash and Cold Star can both be used after an uncharged Mighty Smash H after an air combo to extend combos.
So here are the top assists to choose from:
Hidden Missiles, Mystic Ray, Bolts of Balthakk, Cold Star, Dagger Toss, Unibeam.
Match ups
Nova
Nova is one of the harder match ups because his air throw game is so good. I've found that by doing TK mighty spark L's you can effectively cover his box dash space and frustrate him. Playing a zoning game against Nova is completely acceptable, after all you have 1.25mil health, you can afford to spark full screen while calling assists. Just be careful against other beam assists as any good Nova player will have and try to match their beam assist with one of your own, check out the assist section below to see which one is right for you.