Introduction
Marvel vs Capcom 2 (a.k.a. "MvC2") is the 4th installment of Capcom's widely popular Versus series featuring characters from both the Marvel Comics and Capcom universe. The other games released in the Versus series are:
- X-Men vs Street Fighter (1995)
- Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (1996)
- Marvel vs Capcom (1998)
Capcom released X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes before introducing their highly successful line of tag-team crossover gameplay in their first Versus game, X-Men vs Street Fighter. Unlike Capcom's "traditional" fighting games, the Versus series is best known for it's over-the-top action, featuring a real-time tag team system, super jumps, air combos, screen filling Super Moves, Partner Assist moves, multi-hit chain combos and etc.
MvC2 features 3 on 3 battles instead of the standard 2 on 2 gameplay of the previous Versus games.
Notation
Joystick Notation
Six Button Notation
Descriptors
Connectors
State Modifiers
Miscellaneous Notation
Game Mechanics
Character Selection
Basic Commands
Assist Types
Team Dynamics
The Engine (In Depth)
Tiers
There are three ways to divide up Tiers in Marvel vs Capcom 2: by overall team value, by assist value, and by solo value. The following list is the commonly accepted tier list, and represents evaluation of characters garnered from years of experience and play by masters at those characters. Thus while certain characters do not often get seen or represented well, they really do have strong advantages - or disadvantages.
Please note that this tier list is not necessarily official.
Tier-list (Over-all Value to Team)
God Tier:
- Sentinel
- Storm
- Cable
- Magneto
Note:Is is generally accepted that Sentinel and Storm are slightly above Cable and Magneto within this tier, but this is a very very slight difference.
Top Tier:
- Cyclops
- Iron Man
- War Machine
- Doctor Doom
- Strider
- Spiral
- Dhalsim
- Blackheart
Upper Tier:
- Psylocke
- Captain Commando
- Tron Bonne
Middle Tier:
- Cammy
- Colossus
- Gambit
- Iceman
- Juggernaut
- Marrow
- Guile
- Mega Man
- Omega Red
- Rogue
- Ruby Heart
- Silver Samurai
- Spiderman
- Wolverine
- Wolverine - Claw
- Venom
- Anakaris
Low Tier:
- Akuma
- Ken
- Ryu
- Charlie
- B.B.Hood
- M.Bison
- Captain America
- Hulk
- Jin
- Jill
- Felicia
- Morrigan
- Sakura
- SonSon
- Zangief
Bottom Tier:
- Amingo
- Chun-Li
- Hayato
- Sabretooth
- Shuma-Gorath
- Thanos
- Dan
- Servbot
Roll Tier:
- Roll