Marvel vs Capcom 2/Controls

Notation

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up-back up up-forward back neutral forward down-back down down-forward

Controls

Most Marvel vs Capcom 2 moves and combo sequences are a bit older and thus notated with a combination of button letters and abbreviated motions, known as Standard Notation. However, as this wiki is updated, much of the notation will change to Numerical Notation.

First of all, the game has 4 attack buttons: LP, LK, HP and HK. the last 2 buttons are for your assists: A1 and A2.

Button Notation

- Light punch

- Heavy punch

- Light kick

- Heavy kick

A1 - Assist 1 : calls your second character out for their Crossover Assist

A2 - Assist 2 : calls your third character out for their Crossover Assist

- Medium punch : press after a or makes contact

- Medium kick : press after a , or (depending on the character) makes contact

- Any punch

- Any kick

Tagging out

You can swap your current character out for one of their teammates by pressing punch and kick buttons simultaneously:

• Press to tag in the character in the second assist slot
• Press to tag in the character in the third assist slot

Common special move inputs

not an exhaustive list, there's a good bit more than this. charge back-forwards, charge down-up, backwards DP, etc. even weird ones like LK+HP! - quarter circle forward - 236: down > down-forward > forward

- quarter circle back - 214 : down > down-back > back

- half circle forward - 41236 : back > down-back > down > down-forward > forward

- half circle back - 63214 : forward > down-forward > down > down-back > back

- dragon punch - 623 : forward > down > down-forward

- mashing the attack button alters the moves properties or extends the attack

- can be done while in the air