Marvel vs Capcom/Gold War Machine

Gold War Machine

Difficulty	Mostly Easy
Tier Placement	God Tier (SS)
Has an Airdash?	No
Standing Hitbox	Tall
Crouching Hitbox	Average
Best Assists to Pair With	Colossus

Introduction

Hyper Armor War Machine (ハイパーアーマーウォーマシン, Haipā Āmā Uōmashin), also known as Gold War Machine and Mega Armor War Machine, is a secret character in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. He's a golden palette swap of War Machine. Even though Gold War Machine is exclusive to this game, a golden Starktech armor was seen in the film Iron Man 3 (2013); the Mark 21, also known as "Midas" due to its completely golden paint job, was one of many armors Tony Stark built in the aftermath of the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers as a backup plan.

Gold War Machine definitely sticks out in the cast, if there was a top 4, it would be Wolverine, War Machine, Red Venom, and Gold War Machine. This character is the character that "takes the fun out of the game" for most people who play the game. Gold War Machine is War Machine but instead of him being a combo heavy character, he now focuses on being a Tank and utilizing Duo Supers. Gold War Machine can make almost any character shine due to his super armor making Duo Combos unbearable to deal with due to the fact that he can just do supers without getting it stopped due to getting hit. The downside though is he can't block, and he does not have flight mode compared to his normal counterpart, but if you got the power of Duos, do you really need either of those things?

Strengths

Weaknesses

Highest health: Gold War Machine can afford several mistakes in neutral before he dies, making mistakes more comfortable than other characters.
Two of his supers can OTG: Further helps his damage potential and combos for already strong supers, GWM can get more reward off of knockdowns than other characters.
More damaging normals and specials than War Machine: GWM also hits hard if he can land individual pokes or combo the opponent, self-explanatory.
Missiles instead of lasers: More specifically, GWM's missiles have better hitboxes as opposed to WM's laser-based attacks, and are pretty big, too, letting him cover space easier.
Hyper armor: Chances are this is the reason you're playing GWM at all. While different from WM in several ways, having hyper armor at all times effectively means GWM can brute force his way through attacks and face no real risks for doing so. This also makes stopping him at all difficult, and in situations like team duos, next to impossible.
Duos Negate almost everything - Duos are a big deal with GWM and are probably his best tool due to the fact that with GWM having Hyper Armor, he can do so much damage and even unblockable setups with War Destroyer. This is also the thing that makes GWM a step ahead from his normal counterpart due to the fact that he has more effective duo combos.
Much easier than WM: Most of what makes War Machine great applies to GWM, minus flight and other WM specific tech. But even without that, GWM is far simpler to play and doesn't require much practice unlike WM, thanks to hyper armor and being able to slot into basically any team.

Awful mobility: For one, GWM no longer has flight mode unlike WM, so his aerial movement is more committal. However, his movement speed on the ground and in jumps was also heavily gutted, making moving around a slog to get where he wants to be.
Poor approach options: Combined with terrible movement, GWM also sucks at playing rushdown or any kind of direct offense. He's played more like a zoner character to force the opponent into approaching him instead, but if they close the distance, he still can't initiate fighting back too well without an assist to help him.
Cannot block at all: If GWM gets hit by anything, he takes the full damage for it, and cannot use mechanics like push block to push the enemy away off of him, either. He can only avoid damage by simply moving around it, something he can hardly do.
One of the slowest characters in the game: Along with Hulk and Zangief, GWM is very slow and attacks slow, too. Again, his movement is bad, but attacking with normals and doing combos also leaves a lot to be desired, having to commit to his attacks.
Weak to cross-ups: Slow attacks and zero way to block attacks, on top of having to commit to his offense and poor mobility, GWM is easy to crossup and rack up damage through them.
People won't like you and will even refuse to play you: Very contentious character. While it shouldn't be all that common people outright refuse to play you, it's still a shared sentiment people don't like GWM as he invalidates much of the game's roster, face tanking everything thrown his way, for only some work to win the match. His flaws don't mean much when his mere presence forces players to change up their gameplay.

Notable Players

Nickname	Country	Platform	Accounts	Notes
Magneto Maniac	USA	Kailera/GGPO	N/A check Divine's YT for most of his matches.[1]	The GWM kingpin himself, Magneto Maniac is one of the best players of all time for MvC1 due to him having one of the most patient, defensive, and destructive gameplans for the way he plays. He is also experienced in other Fighting Games outside of MvC1, he also beat Justin Wong in an offline FT10 during C3. Status: Retired
T-Kimura	Canada	Kailera/Fightcade 1-2/GGPO	FightCade: [2] [3]	Despite him being known for his War Machine, his Gold War Machine is nothing to be slept on. TK is known to play a very aggressive GWM with the way he rushes down and fishes for Guard Breaks. Good to watch once you wanna see how to play GWM without laming all the time. Status: Retired
Ackesh	UK	GGPO/Fightcade 1/2	FightCade: [4] [5]	One of the best, if not the best players active to this day. This guy plays a very top-notch GWM and also has a highly amazing Hulk. If you wanna see GWM at his truest potential with Hulk, Ackesh is definitely a player you should keep an eye on. Status: Active
Darkcloud/DC	USA	Kailera/Fightcade 1-2/GGPO	FightCade: <-X-> [6]	Another player worth checking out if you wanna see how to play Gold War Machine at a top level, despite all what he does which is lagswitching or being salty, I would say he is definitely worth being Top 5 in one of the best players of all time. He also has a really good Venom and Hulk but we will get to those in Venom/Hulk's page. Status: Inactive
Caponte	USA	Fightcade 1-2/GGPO	FightCade: [7]	Caponte's a pretty run-on-the-mill player but he is still a force to be reckoned with despite using fundamentals only. Worth checking out once u wanna see the surface of what can Gold War Machine do. Status: Active

How to Select Gold War Machine

Highlight Zangief and draw a "56". Enter ×2, ×2, ×2, ×2, ×2, ×4, ×2, ×2, ×4, ×2, ×2, ×2, ×2, ×2, ×5.

Move List

Normals

Ground Normals

s.LP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

s.MP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

s.HP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

s.LK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

s.MK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

s.HK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground, Launcher

c.LP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

c.MP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

c.HP (Missile Launch)

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

c.LK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

c.MK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

c.HK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

Air Normals

j.LP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

j.MP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

j.HP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

j.LK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

j.MK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

j.HK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

Command Normals

Knee Dive

Knee Dive
j.2MK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Air

Upward Kick

Upward Kick
j.8HK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Air

Laser Blast

Laser Blast
j.(2 or 8) + HP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Air

Throws

Normal Throw

Normal Throw
4/6 + MP/HP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground

Special Moves

Shoulder Cannon
QCF + P/K

Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
QCF + LP/LK Light Version	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground (P/K), air (P)
This move fires a single rocket at the enemy. It takes off a bit more damage than War Machine's Shoulder Cannon and stops projectiles. Crouching move is the same as above, but it goes low. This move will stop some beam supers if if hits your opponent.
Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
QCF + MP/MK Medium Version	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground (P/K), air (P)
Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
QCF + HP/HK Heavy Version	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground (P/K), air (P)

Smart Bomb
(4 or 6) + MP + LK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground/air
This move is the same as War Machine. You can control the range with the joystick. You should use this move so that you can attack from overhead without getting hit with anything. Also, if you super jump over a beam super, you can hit your opponent with this and knock him out of the super. A good follow-up to this move is the knee dive. Use this move a lot, but don't get predictable.

Hyper Combos

Proton Cannon
QCF + PP

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground/air
This move is the same as War Machine's, but instead of a large beam, many missiles fly out of the cannon. The missiles hit high, so they may miss smaller characters completely. It deal more damage than War Machine's Proton Cannon.

War Destroyer
QCF + KK

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Ground/air
This super is the same as War Machine's War Destroyer, but it does more damage as well. It combos after the launcher, too, and if you're using both War Machines, you'll be spamming this super a lot in Duo Team, since it leads to ridiculously high damage off of chip damage alone, especially when the opponent is trapped between both War Machines.

Strategy

Basic Tips

Launchers: HK

Magic Series:

Ground Series: Hunter Series
Jump Series: Weak to Strong
Super Jump Series: Hunter Series

AC Finishers: HP, c.HP, HK

Advanced

Team Setups

Double War Machine

Pros	Cons
You get to play both War Machines They cover each other's weaknesses especially well Disgustingly high damage and health Duo Team setups deal extreme amounts of chip damage	Not as effective without Duo Team No one will like you You're not Iron Man so you won't do an infinite

As the name implies, you get to play not War Machine, not Gold War Machine, but both War Machines at the same time! Two top tiers in the same team, what could possibly go wrong? Essentially, you get two characters with very high damage, health, armor, great tools across the board, there's very little the team doesn't have. Them being on the slower side won't matter much, though, because the minute this team is given enough meter to initiate a Team Duo Attack, the player can setup some truly nasty scenarios. These setups, which tend to give almost zero room to escape, can lead to the opponent losing up to 50% of their health off of CHIP DAMAGE. This puts them at a huge life lead, or otherwise make a swift recovery. They still need to attempt to win the rest of the match if it doesn't kill, however.

Combos

Combo	Damage	Notes
c.LK, c.MP, c.HP, Low Shoulder Cannon
d.s.LK, s.HK, War Destroyer
d.s.LP, s.LK, s.HP, Shoulder Cannon
d.c.LK, c.MP, s.HK, s.j.LP, s.j.LK, s.j.MP, s.j.HP, (LP) Shoulder Cannon
d.c.LK, s.HK, War Destroyer, c.LK (OTG), c.HK
(HP) throw into corner, d.c.LK, s.HK, s.j.LP, s.j.LK, s.j.MP, s.j.HP, any air combo finisher
Air Smart Bomb, Knee Stomp, j.d.HP, d.c.LK, s.HK, s.j.LP, s.j.LK, s.j.MP, s.j.HP, Shoulder Cannon

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