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So, this is a pretty long post. What else were you going to be doing today with your time, though. Probably not something more interesting than reading this post. If you checked other threads they would probably be talking about anime or yogurt or something. You may as well read this whole thing.
The Peacock/Big Band team is working out, I don't see any immediate need to change that. However. For certain matchups, Beat Extend doesn't do enough for me. Specifically, I don't think it's useful enough against Fukua or other Peacocks. I like to change the assist to H Brass Knuckles for those matchups. Here's the thing, though. When I don't have Beat Extend, I lose two things that I really like (in addition to the obvious uses the assist has):
1. Comboing into Beat Extend + charge M item, j.LK j.HK lets me do a really safe 3 way mixup that loops back into itself
2. Get to start my Peacock combo with two heavies for A M A Z I N G D A M A G E, combined with the above this means I can kill in 1 reset in 2v2 (still true after the damage nerfs in beta)
You don't need those things to play Peacock, obviously... but they're really good! And when I don't have Beat Extend I miss being able to do those things, so I looked at other assists that could let me do the same kind of thing. This is perhaps not even worth doing, since I'd have to add a character and lower my damage and at that point maybe what I get from these new combo routes and resets is a wash, but I wanted to at least see if it was possible. Here's what I found, along with some analysis on what adding that character with that assist to my team would mean for my other characters (again I would only consider adding a 3rd character for matchups where I needed Big Band's assist to be Brass).
For sake of reference this is the combo I do with Peacock using Beat Extend:
s.LP s.MP c.HP s.HK + Call assist + charge M item,
j.LK (1 hit) j.HK + release Item <---- reset point here
c.HP xx L Gun,
s.MK,
j.MP j.HP ADC,
j.LP j.MP,
s.LP s.MP c.HP xx M Gun xx Argus
Cerecopter - I think this assist is amazing for Big Band. Calling it at the same time as some of his really punishable moves makes those moves really plus on block, which I think is extremely good. I don't think it's as good for Peacock but it's not like terrible or anything. I don't really like playing Bella though.
H Pinion Dash - Useful for conversions for Big Band too since it lets him combo after SSJ. I don't think this is really all that useful for neutral for either character though, so it would really just be a combo thing. Having Painwheel on anchor would be neat though, it would mean when Big Band came in I could mash something and DHC it to Hatred Install, and I feel like Painwheels mixups after DHCs to Install are better in this version.
Butcher's Blade - It's sort of hard to loop the reset using this assist because it stays out for so long, but it can be done, I would just have to practice it. This assist costs meter but I'm Peacock so who cares. I could probably also get really good setups off this. Eliza's probably also good at the matchups where I'd want to switch to Brass so it works out that way too.
Beowulf chairless c.HP - This is the only assist I found with any character that lets me do The Combo and The Reset and also can do the other things I get out of Beat Extend (although it's not as good at those things (but what is)). It's also pretty good for lockdown because of the two hits. Of course the huge drawback is that the chair needs to be off and I would have to go out of my way to set that up. If there's a way to start a combo with Beowulf, take off the chair, and combo into Peacock's tag, this might be worthwhile. Otherwise I don't think it's even worth considering.
Silver Chord, H Savage Bypass - I wouldn't consider using either of these over the four assists above but I'm including them for sake of completeness.
Assists that look like they should work, but don't - Egret Charge, Beowulf L Chair
That's everything I found. Maybe someone else could find something I missed, but I tried everything that even looked like it could potentially work (even weird shit like Filia H Drill in the beta cause it has different properties). After typing all this up, I think the conclusion I'm coming to is I'll just use two characters for the problem matchups, since learning a third character that I only use for certain matchups seems like more trouble than it's worth. I'll just try to figure out some different resets for Peacock that I don't need an assist for.
e: I just realized, although most of these are DLC or the assist was added as a buff or they'd require playing Valentine as your assist, the Cerecopter one has probably existed since vanilla. Why has no one ever used this? lol
The Peacock/Big Band team is working out, I don't see any immediate need to change that. However. For certain matchups, Beat Extend doesn't do enough for me. Specifically, I don't think it's useful enough against Fukua or other Peacocks. I like to change the assist to H Brass Knuckles for those matchups. Here's the thing, though. When I don't have Beat Extend, I lose two things that I really like (in addition to the obvious uses the assist has):
1. Comboing into Beat Extend + charge M item, j.LK j.HK lets me do a really safe 3 way mixup that loops back into itself
2. Get to start my Peacock combo with two heavies for A M A Z I N G D A M A G E, combined with the above this means I can kill in 1 reset in 2v2 (still true after the damage nerfs in beta)
You don't need those things to play Peacock, obviously... but they're really good! And when I don't have Beat Extend I miss being able to do those things, so I looked at other assists that could let me do the same kind of thing. This is perhaps not even worth doing, since I'd have to add a character and lower my damage and at that point maybe what I get from these new combo routes and resets is a wash, but I wanted to at least see if it was possible. Here's what I found, along with some analysis on what adding that character with that assist to my team would mean for my other characters (again I would only consider adding a 3rd character for matchups where I needed Big Band's assist to be Brass).
For sake of reference this is the combo I do with Peacock using Beat Extend:
s.LP s.MP c.HP s.HK + Call assist + charge M item,
j.LK (1 hit) j.HK + release Item <---- reset point here
c.HP xx L Gun,
s.MK,
j.MP j.HP ADC,
j.LP j.MP,
s.LP s.MP c.HP xx M Gun xx Argus
Cerecopter - I think this assist is amazing for Big Band. Calling it at the same time as some of his really punishable moves makes those moves really plus on block, which I think is extremely good. I don't think it's as good for Peacock but it's not like terrible or anything. I don't really like playing Bella though.
H Pinion Dash - Useful for conversions for Big Band too since it lets him combo after SSJ. I don't think this is really all that useful for neutral for either character though, so it would really just be a combo thing. Having Painwheel on anchor would be neat though, it would mean when Big Band came in I could mash something and DHC it to Hatred Install, and I feel like Painwheels mixups after DHCs to Install are better in this version.
Butcher's Blade - It's sort of hard to loop the reset using this assist because it stays out for so long, but it can be done, I would just have to practice it. This assist costs meter but I'm Peacock so who cares. I could probably also get really good setups off this. Eliza's probably also good at the matchups where I'd want to switch to Brass so it works out that way too.
Beowulf chairless c.HP - This is the only assist I found with any character that lets me do The Combo and The Reset and also can do the other things I get out of Beat Extend (although it's not as good at those things (but what is)). It's also pretty good for lockdown because of the two hits. Of course the huge drawback is that the chair needs to be off and I would have to go out of my way to set that up. If there's a way to start a combo with Beowulf, take off the chair, and combo into Peacock's tag, this might be worthwhile. Otherwise I don't think it's even worth considering.
Silver Chord, H Savage Bypass - I wouldn't consider using either of these over the four assists above but I'm including them for sake of completeness.
Assists that look like they should work, but don't - Egret Charge, Beowulf L Chair
That's everything I found. Maybe someone else could find something I missed, but I tried everything that even looked like it could potentially work (even weird shit like Filia H Drill in the beta cause it has different properties). After typing all this up, I think the conclusion I'm coming to is I'll just use two characters for the problem matchups, since learning a third character that I only use for certain matchups seems like more trouble than it's worth. I'll just try to figure out some different resets for Peacock that I don't need an assist for.
e: I just realized, although most of these are DLC or the assist was added as a buff or they'd require playing Valentine as your assist, the Cerecopter one has probably existed since vanilla. Why has no one ever used this? lol
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