DMC5 V Combo Video: [V]eritas - PRIDE 2019 Entry
Entry for Pride Tournament 2019, under the FreestyleEX category.
My last video as V, for this version of the game. I've personally done everything I want to do with him as is. Whatever comes next will be somewhat different ; )
Explanations for some of the Tech used after the jump.
DT Behaviour:
0:35 and 0:42 - When DT'd, Griffon does not need charge time to spam lv1 thunder shots. If you really mash the shoot button, he'll default to that action.
1:38 to 1:45 - As for Shadow, he's able to do grounded attacks while in the air. Doing a launcher and pressing melee slightly before landing will see him do his ground combo while still in the air, and in this combo's case, launching then positioning yourself just below the enemy with the spin will see Shadow's AI take over, and try to "anti-air" the enemy above him with another launcher. This can be looped, but the spacing is very very inconsistent.
Air Dodge Cancel (ADC)
0:54 - The aerial cane bounce animation has a special property: For some reason, V can do his grounded dodges out of it. For Griffon, doing back dodge near the end of the bounce animation will cancel any action griffon is doing and leave him neutral, above V.
2:06 to 2:20 - In Shadow's case, ADC as mentioned above, will cause him to cancel his actions with a forward pounce, allowing you to more easily position relative toenemies.
Misc
1:20 - The Chaos enemies, if you use a knockback attack just as they land to the ground from a combo, will instantly get up and go into their spin attack.
3:12 - Angelo Instant kill. During the huddle up, hitting any Scudo will put them in Instant Kill mode for a short window. The same is true for the Proto's dashing attack he does afterwards.
2:23 and 2:32 - Reversed Griffon's explosion attack, I guess? Not very useful.
If you do promotion towards Nightmare as he's being summoned and it whiffs, the next regular Gambit you do might behave oddly and stick you to Nightmare, rather than go towards an enemy, which happens in this clip (thankfully~).
3:49 onwards - Nothing special, but Vergil is an interesting enemy to combo, since every knockback attack will actually launch him. Also I just want to say FUCK THIS FIGHT IN GENERAL, AND FUCK THIS FIGHT AS V IN PARTICULAR. WHOEVER THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD OR EVEN OK DESIGN WAS PROBABLY COKED OUT OF THEIR MIND. Bottom 5 fights in the series.