The Marvelous Countdown, Day 10: Vergil

Of all the new additions to the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 roster, Vergil is the guy I fear will be the best. At first when I saw the trailer, I assumed he would turn out to be a clone of Dante, as I recognized a move or two of his in Vergil's arsenal, but that theory has been proven wholly wrong. What he has instead of Dante's moves are some of the best in the game; fast teleports and normals with amazing range, tools to create and maintain extended combos, a VERY versatile super that creates a barrage of swords that can attack at a variety of angles, and even a projectile.

To reiterate on the super in question, it summons several swords that will hover around Vergil's body for a period of time. However, if you press certain buttons while the swords are out, they will change formation and attack one at a time from either in front or above the opponent. Even more worrisome is the fact that the swords are spaced out in such a way that they won't lock the opponent in block stun if the first one is blocked, allowing for you to create high/low mixups in between swords. The swords will then combo into each other, making it an extremely dangerous situation to be in.

As with any character with a teleport, your goal with Vergil will be to open up the opposing player's defense using your mixups to land a combo. Any assist that will place a projectile of some sort on the screen will become very effective and hard to block against if you used in conjunction with a teleport, so bring one of those along.

If you're fighting against Vergil, however, I don't really know what one would do. With the universal nerfs to offensive rushdown via the removal of airdash blocking, you'd think it would help a bit, but he doesn't need to airdash, as he has a teleport. Your best bet is to bring an invincible assist along that you can use when you anticipate the mixup coming.

Vergil will probably be pretty popular online, so be prepared to deal with a lot of it. How exactly you'll do that, well, I have no idea.