As much as I dislike the idea of Noob-Smoke, I think the idea has potential. I haven’t seen the videos of them in action, but I have read what others have seen. Some of the many possibilities which could have been used thanks to the combination of these two characters seem to have been overlooked.
In order to make them great, we must firstly consider that there are two of them. And secondly we must consider their abilities. Combine the two and you have a force to be reckoned with. Here are my ideas.
For these ideas, I will assume that Noob has complete control over the power of Shadow and that Smoke has complete control over smoke.
Firstly, I’d like to see some circus like acrobatics with these two. Tag team attacks where they propel each other into the air and over the opponents head to attack from behind would be great to see.
The coolest thing about these two now is the way they can go about attacking their enemy. Imagine the situation. You are whoever you picked and Smoke is stood in front of you. Noob is stood behind Smoke. You go to launch an attack. We’ll go with a punch in this case. Smoke doesn’t block, but fades out and becomes smoke. Your attack does no damage and you are momentarily open for a beating. Which is where Noob comes in, hitting you through Smokes hazy body. You stumble back and smoke becomes solid again as Noob pulls back his arm. And then you charge at Smoke, but as soon as you approach he fades again and Noob launches into a combo, stepping through his hazy body and appearing in front of Smoke now whilst continuing his combo. This would be so awesome!
Another tactic would be for Smoke to advance on you and launch an attack in order to make you block. Upon the connection, his hand or foot would become smoke and Noob would run up and attack low or high to break through your block.
Noob can also launch attack from the shadows in dark areas, whilst any mist areas will be perfect terrain for Smoke to launch sneaky, unseen attacks. Noob can leap in and out of them at will, and maybe even attack your opponents shadow and inflict minor damage on them that way.
Smoke can dive at the opponent as if he were doing Raidens torpedo only to phase out, pass around them, reform and attack from behind with a throw or sweep. He can also spin around during combos or become smoke and launch extra hits from the smokey haze. (A link to a past thread of mine featuring some attacks I made for him would have been here, but the forum search is disabled.) Smoke could also become a smokey haze and travel along the ground. On occasion his hands can appear and grip the enemies legs allowing Noob to step in and combo.
So, what do you think and what ideas have you got?
I may update later with some Fatalities.