Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

Windstar said:
Easy: Kasumi, Kokoro, Mila, Jann Lee, Eliot
Intermediate: Christie, Rig, Tina, Zack, Hayate, Hitomi, Ayane
Upper Intermediate: Helena, Bayman, Bass, Gen Fu
Expert: Brad Wong, La Mariposa, Lei Fang, Hayabusa,
VF Tier: Akira, Pai, Sarah
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I wouldnt say Eliot is easy to pick up, he has a tough time getting his offense going due to his limited mix ups. Really the only threatening low he has is 2P+H and that cant kick off his stun game due to its long recovery. He'll be fishing for counterhits, and extending his combos for max damage with crouching 3P can be difficult. He has a very simple plan of attack but weaknesses that make this plan difficult to initiate, which means you will have to work hard to compensate for his linearity.

Unless you wanna mash punches all day, he's great for that. But in overall easy of use terms he is only beginner friendly when being played at a low level.
 
Sett said:
Ha its funny cause on VF5 Sarah would be one of the easy ones to pick.
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Haha, that's true, she is labelled as "Easy". I also find it interesting that MorrowsWings didn't rank Akira. Considering the difficulty disparity between Sarah and Akira, I'm sure that Akira would be in "Akira Tier" AKA bullshittingly painful to use tier.
 
taffertier said:
I wouldnt say Eliot is easy to pick up, he has a tough time getting his offense going due to his limited mix ups. Really the only threatening low he has is 2P+H and that cant kick off his stun game due to its long recovery. He'll be fishing for counterhits, and extending his combos for max damage with crouching 3P can be difficult. He has a very simple plan of attack but weaknesses that make this plan difficult to initiate, which means you will have to work hard to compensate for his linearity.

Unless you wanna mash punches all day, he's great for that. But in overall easy of use terms he is only beginner friendly when being played at a low level.
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eliot is definitely in the noob friendly category. he has a high damage combo off of his 236T that is so easy i mastered it in less than 2 minutes in training. and most of the time was just finding the move to keep the opponent airborn. plus he has a wide variety of mixups on his long punch strings now. before they were mostly mids. Eliot has always been easy to use though. even in DOA4 i didn't even known him well and i could win a lot of fights with his poke game.
 
0VincentRayne0 said:
eliot is definitely in the noob friendly category. he has a high damage combo off of his 236T that is so easy i mastered it in less than 2 minutes in training. and most of the time was just finding the move to keep the opponent airborn. plus he has a wide variety of mixups on his long punch strings now. before they were mostly mids. Eliot has always been easy to use though. even in DOA4 i didn't even known him well and i could win a lot of fights with his poke game.
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Unless i'm mistaken his punch strings are completely the same, he still alternates between mid and high punches, which is what makes them difficult to use on opponents who know they can counter mid punch all day, or if they know when the high is coming they can just do that. He gets by on these strings because he isnt a very commonly used character, against people who know him he cant rely on the built in string mix ups, which reduces him to counter hit fishing with only a couple good moves to accomplish this. He can seem very good at a low level because he has long punch strings which attracts mashers, but this is what works against him the more you advance. And now side stepping exists which makes fishing for hits even harder. About 90% of his movelist can be side stepped, he has one, maybe two moves that kill sidesteps.

I think the best way to sum him up is easy to pick up, difficult to master. You will have to work for his damage when you face opponents that know his strings and are comfortable with sidesteps.
 
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