To post your team in this thread, please fill the following questionnaire (borrowed from Shoryuken):

1. What characters (assists) will you be using in order of selection?

2. What type of gameplay strategy will you be utilizing with your team?

3. What advantages does your point (first) character have?

What disadvantages does your point character have?

What mobility options does your point character have?

How will your assists aid your point character?

4. What advantages does your second character have?

What disadvantages does your second character have?

What mobility options does your second character have?

How will your assists aid your secondary character?

5. What advantages does your anchor (third) character have?

What disadvantages does your anchor character have?

What mobility options does your anchor character have?

How will your assists aid your anchor character?

6. What type of Delayed Hyper Combo interaction will your characters have?

7. How effective will your Team Hyper Combo be?

8. What overall weaknesses does your team have?

9. After answering this questionnaire, how comfortable are you with your team?

10. After reading this are you;   
 
A) less excited for MvC3 
B) more excited or 
C) suicidal 
 
;)

10. After reading this are you;   
 
A) less excited for MvC3 
B) more excited or 
C) suicidal 
 
;)

Where do I read up on the characters I'm interested in playing (weaknesses, assists, strengths...)? I think I had read Haunts' 1UP preview, but that wasn't very detailed... And, what exactly defines an 'anchor' other than it being the 3rd character in your team?

Play sentinel 
 
Win

This thread made me real excited and intimidated at the same time. Just like any good fighting game should!

Don't get discouraged, half the questions don't mean shit, what's important is synergy. A little common sense and a lot of playtime and you should be fine.

Don't get discouraged, half the questions don't mean shit, what's important is synergy. A little common sense and a lot of playtime and you should be fine.

My planned team is Wesker (Samurai Edge), Viper (Burning Kick), and Amaterasu (Cold Star). The strategy is pretty straight rushdown: Wesker and Viper are both high-damage characters with a strong mixup game and their respective assists can set up unblockables (Samurai Edge hits low, Burning Kick is an overhead), Amaterasu is anchor to keep the opponent in block stun with Cold Star, since it lasts a long time and covers a pretty large space. I put Wesker first because he seems to have a bit of a life advantage over Viper, and because he doesn't need as much meter to be effective due to all of Viper's EX moves. Amaterasu also has a strong keepaway game if I have a life advantage as time is running out thanks to her whip stance and fullscreen level 1 punish, although it's not as strong as Hailstorm. All three characters are pretty mobile, since Wesker has teleports and Viper/Ammy both have 8-way air dashes. The main weakness I see with this team is the lack of a strong AA assist, so I might switch Viper to her Thunder Knuckle assist if Burning Kick doesn't help Wesker as much as I expect. All 3 characters are apparently on the lower side of the life scale, so I'll need to be aggressive to make sure I'm on the offensive as much as possible.
 
I'm no fighting game expert, so I'm mostly guessing about a lot of this from reading about and watching a LOT of this game. I think I got most of it right, so now I just need a whole lot of practice.

I was quite happy to find out you can have not 1 but 3 teams saved up ready to be used with a touch of a button, but so far I only really have 2 teams set up in my mind. Im not going to do an essay on them (lol) but it pretty much goes like this:
 
My Main Team
 
Modok, Wesker, Skrull
Assists: Modok Psyonic Blast, Wesker Punchy thing that bounces them off the wall, and Skrull Tenderizer
 
It started off as nothing but the 3 characters I want to use the most, but to be honest, its also quite versatile which I like. I can play keep away with Modok on point using Skrull tenderizer and Weskers wall bounce (which sends them flying to the other side of the screen) to keep ppl at bay, I can use Skrull for some heavy hitting action (Modok psyonik blast into Skrull's death from above move? yes pls) or Wesker for some teleport shenanigans. Im liking the idea. But like I said, it started as nothing but the 3 characters I like the most.
 
My Keep Away Team
 
Dormammu, Trish, Deadpool
 Assists: Trish Trap, Deadpool Upward guns, Dormammu...yeeeeeeeeeeeah, his assists are shit. The blakc hole one I guess.
 
This one has more thought behind it. In theory it always has Dormammu on point, or Trish for annoying trap shenanigans. Also, Dormammu's Fire bomb (which tracks, no SJ escape for you) + Trish's Scythe hyper? ouch... Deadpool looks amazing on keep away, but hes there for DHC guns, or as a last ressort thing because he seems beastly with lvl 3 xfactor.
 
I want to make some sort of rush down team around X-23, Im stuburn so I wanna make a team around Pheonix and her silly health, and maybe a grappler team because I'm digging Thor and She hulk

WESKER DANTE DEADPOOL ALL D4Y EVERYD4Y <--------99% of teams.
 
 
Oh god, I hope not.

Can't wait to try out a Zero (A)/Dr. Doom (Y)/Sentinel (B) this Friday! Luckily my friend got a copy of the game from a Capcom employee.
 
Too bad the Best Buy stores near me don't really know when they will have em playable.

" @Lilarcor: Really? I don't remember any M.O.D.O.K. rage. Beyond Sentinel I remember there being a lot of She-Hulk (derp two Hulks? derp) and X-23 (derp two Wolverines? derp) rage. After that I remember there being some Trish and Magneto rage and some Wesker rage too (derp two RE characters? derp) until everyone found out that Wesker is beast. "

I just went with the two characters who had my favorite themes. I still need a third. 
 
Zero and Doom are the two I have decided on though I don't know who will be point. I'm assuming Zero with Doom's rock assist. For my third I think I will get experimental in training and see who compliments them the best.

I was looking at the MVC3.com character page for She-Hulk and saw this in the comments:
 

 Take out this piece of shit(She-Hulk), M.O.D.O.K, Shuma and Sentinel. Add in Gambit, Venom, War Machine and ... i dunno. Anybody but these jackasses. Hob Goblin might be cool. Fuck you Jonathan you have no right to accuse people you don't know of not being Marvel fans or not. I'm a HUGE Marvel fan, always have been but think it's just fucking stupid to add these characters, and yes, I knew who they were way before the game. They're a fucking JOKE. They're a disgrace to Marvel. Maybe not so much Sentinel but definitely the rest. I would feel insulted if I accidentally even highlighted them in the game. So just go fuck yourself dude.

" I just went with the two characters who had my favorite themes. I still need a third.  Zero and Doom are the two I have decided on though I don't know who will be point. I'm assuming Zero with Doom's rock assist. For my third I think I will get experimental in training and see who compliments them the best. "

I'm just gonna play the dudes who I wanna play. Don't care for top tier team-building. Right now I'm thinking Nathan Spencer, Amaterasu, and I can't quite nail down a third...Wesker, Thor, Taskmaster, and Akuma all seem dope.