Another long post from me in this thread. Sorry for making long posts. Sorry for writing words about Skullgirls on this, Skullheart, the forum for discussing the game Skullgirls. The dating sim thread is the most active thread. Hail Satan. Here are my notes.
I played about 70 games last night. First 30 were against zeknife while I was using Peacock/Big Band with L Beat Extend as my Big Band assist. This went better than I would have thought. Granted zeknife was also trying alternate teams, but just in general I didn't feel gimped for not having a horizontal invincible forward moving assist to complement my zoning. There were times it would have been nice and times where I called Beat Extend from full screen expecting it to be Brass, but for the most part I was able to do the zoning good enough with just Peacock, and then when zeknife got in it was real nice to have Beat Extend as a reversal option. So playing just these two characters seems viable if I wanna go that route.
The rest of the games were against gllt, playing different Peacock/Big Band/x teams while he played all sorts of different teams (gllt plays like every character in the game I guess, it's crazy). I tried these teams out:
Peacock/Big Band/Eliza
Started with bed assist, but I switched that out after 5 games since it wasn't really helping my zoning as much as I would have liked (gllt was also using bed assist for these 5 games, and our beds kept running into each other and exploding). Switched to Butcher's Blade and that's a serious assist, holy cow. You have to call it a bit preemptively if you want to use it for zoning, since otherwise they can tend to get over it. But it stays out for a long time, puts them in a lot of blockstun so I can back up and throw more shit on the screen, and has armor. The armor isn't great for reversals but it's something, there are resets I could do with it that would beat mashed out whatevers, it also tended to beat other assists. The meter cost on this thing is pretty serious, though. There were a lot of times where I was like "wait, what's going on here, I'm Peacock, why don't I have bar". Like if the idea is to build meter with Peacock to later use for Sekhmet, that plan is no good if I use this assist. Also, the assist stays out for a long time. Lots of situations where I would call Eliza and that assist would hit, then a bit later Beat Extend wouldn't be available when I needed it. Kind of insane how much recovery this assist has.
Peacock/Big Band/Fukua
I've tried H Love Dart and M Shadow assists with Fukua in the past, here I tried H Drill. Was initially hesitant to use a zoning assist with no invincibility but it actually worked out pretty well. Drill has good priority and did okay against Hornet Bomber (seems like between Drill and Hornet Bomber, the one that's called second will win, which is all I can ask for against Hornet Bomber really). What I really liked about Drill is that it's also a great assist for Big Band; most other things I've tried that are good for Peacock are serviceable at best for Big Band, but this gave me everything I like from Drag N Bite (lockdown + safe way to convert off instant j.MK) while also being faster to start up and covering space faster, making it also good for neutral and counter calls and stuff.
Peacock/Big Band/Bella
Using H LnL for Bella again. I mean this team is still good but honestly going to this from the Fukua team it felt a little underwhelming. I actually liked Drill more than LnL for zoning, and it still feels like an awkward assist to use with Big Band.
For the last 10 games I went back to the Fukua team since that one felt the best and I mean, not for nothing, but Fukua is the only character who did anything on point out of these characters. I like her neutral the best (she throws fireballs <3). So I think going forward I am going to try Fukua as my 3rd character. Next thing I wanna do is learn the optimal combos for her and try playing her on point for a while.
Why do people not practice those? They are the most boner-inducing combos ever.
What's the midscreen assist kill for Fukua?