Introduction
The SonSon of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is the granddaughter of the original Sonson from Capcom's game in 1984. Here's the Wiki page on the 80's SonSon. In MvC2 Sonson is a great rushdown character with plenty of tricks up her sleeves to confuse or keep the pressure on, depending on one's play style. Though she isn't terribly strong, she's a lot of fun to play and get good at which is what MvC2 is all about right?
Colors
First row: LP, HP, A1. Second row: LK, HK, A2.
Moves List
Sonson has 6 special attacks and 3 Supers, pretty standard like many characters, but her staff gives her pretty decent range and she attacks quickly with kick attacks as well. Her normals make it easy to cancel into specials and supers as they are mostly multi-hit.
Normal Moves
- LP: Staff Rush - Can be tapped twice for 3 hit combo. Hands down the best starter for any combo/canceling technique and also her fastest.
- LP (Crouching) - Can be tapped for 2 hit combo. Effective for aerial combo introduction.
- HP: Staff Slam - Overhead slam, moderate damage
- HP (Air) - Spins staff for a 3 hit combo, best ending for any air combo she does
- HP (Holding Forward) - Thrusts staff forward knocking opponents back. Relatively quick and can stop rushdowns.
- HP (Crouching): Staff Sweep - Sweeping attack, knocks opponents down
- LK - Another 3 hit combo if tapped twice. First attack is low which can be mixed up with LP for interesting combos/cancels
- HK: Staff Swing - Swings on staff and kicks opponent. Moderate damage, but risky because it takes a lot of frames to complete.
- HK (Air) - Two footed kick downwards, good air to ground combo starter. Lower frames compared to air HP.
Command Normals
Gansai Hekiretsu: f + hp
Two way air-dash
Special Moves
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Sonson blows 3 floating monkeys that have 2 doing diagonally up and down and one going straight. Great move to counter projectiles like Hadoukens or things of that sort. It also blocks Omega Red's coils and cancels out Blackheart's demons. In short it stops all of singular projectiles.
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Anti-air attack that sends Sonson flying in the air spinning her staff. Does 3 hits and is great for cancels or finishing out a ground or air combo. Can be risky if opponent blocks the high version as you cannot block while falling down.
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to cancel, press to flying towards the opponent. Sonson runs a lap around the screen onto the other side if you let her. This move is somewhat useful, good for avoiding beams or any horizontal techniques. Great for closing distance against runners or projectile spammers.
Super Moves
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Sonson throws her staff up and it comes down 20 times bigger for good damage. So easy to execute and the extra staff hit when she throws it in the air ensures connection when canceling into this super. If you whiff this, you can air-dash afterwards to avoid the recovery.
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to punch, 
to uppcut, to breathe fire (and aim 
and 
). Sonson turns into a giant ape and is able to do a fire attack and a punch that does decent damage. Though you can still take damage it's an alright move to use to keep the pressure on.
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Assist Moves
Heal: Life-Up Peach Fuusetsu Zan 
Projectile: Shienbu Shienbu 
kick. Can also be used as cannon fodder for projectiles as mentioned before.
Anti-Air: Seiten Rengeki Seiten Rengeki 
of your point character. Good for getting air combos going or making space for long range combat.
The Basics
Beginner Overview
General Gameplan
*Offensive and Defensive Balance is key! - It's good to lay on the pressure in the beginning or towards the middle of the match, but if you openly attack at every chance you get, your opponent will read for holes in your defense. What you want to do is be inconsistent to throw your opponent off his/her game so they cannot predict your movements as much. It's an easy pitfall to get stuck in since SonSon can attack so fast and so often, but if your opponent is blocking 3/4s of the attacks and catching you on your broken defense, what's the point? On the other side of the spectrum, blocking too much will get you killed for sure. Once you're in the corner you will get assist spammed to hell and back since SonSon cannot get out of the corner easily nor does she have a wide radial attack for clearing space as other characters do. Kinggo could be a saving grace, but that move is very conditional since it can be blocked.
Here are some simple combos and basic movement strategy to adopt.
- LP,LP,Seit
- LP, F+HP, Seit
- cLP,cLP,cLK,cHK - LP, LK, LP, HP - Does about a quarter+ HP damage if you can continue the combo in the air.
- LP,LP,cHP,Shienbu (Monkeys)
- LP,LP,cHP,Shienbu (Monkeys), POW
- LP,LP,cHK,LP,Fusets - Safety combo. You can block from the Fusets if the combo fails somehow.
If you're dealing with a runner you can use the Shienbu (Monkeys) then airdash into LP, LP...<insert combo>.
Advanced Strategy
There really isn't much of a specific "advanced" strategy that is only for SonSon, it's applicable to all characters: play smart, capitalize on openings and human error, and anticipate.
- Here are a few more advanced combos that cancel into supers:
- LP,LP,Seit,Tenchi (Giant stick attack) - Basically Seit --> Tenchi is the Bread and Butter Super cancel since you can do both in the air. This is will be your main combo of choice plain and simple.
- cLP,cLP,cLK,cHK - LP, LK, LP, Seit, Tenchi - Does pretty good damage if you can actually get it off without error. Takes practice, but if you can get this off the opponent is down to about half health give or take. The Seit throws off the momentum of the combo and if you don't cancel in time, it will be blocked along with the Tenchi.
Against Storm
Against Storm? You're going to die. BUT if you are trying to do something, tiger-knee monkeys are ok if she's far away. That way you can block on the way down. If you do normal jump monkeys, you are prone afterwards. Off-the-wall is also a good tool. If you predict a ground typhoon correctly, you can kick her out of it into an uppercut into super. If she's flying and typhooning in the air, that is a perfect time for you to use your pole super. Also remember that you can monkey super through her hailstorm. Even at top level play, don't expect this matchup to be fair.
Against Cable
Against Cable? You are REALLY going to die. You try ANYTHING, you are getting shot. You have to be patience and navigate the minefield to get close to him. If he does a normal shot near you, you can sweep him with down fierce. But yeah, anything you do is very punishable by Cable. You can fake a wall move by doing the wall run then pressing punch to cancel it, in order to bait out an AHVB. But that's pretty much all you have :( If you have enough energy, you could monkey-up and take an AHVB, but you can punish him after the first one and then DHC.
Final Thoughts
SonSon can be quite versatile if used correctly. There are few weaknesses she has, namely her assists aren't that strong. I've been able to rival some very very skilled Magnetos because SonSon's LP is almost as quick as his LK. If you like her then use her because the tier guides don't mean anything if the players aren't skilled.
--Yeyzor 05:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)yeyzor
