Marvel VS Capcom: Infinite/Thanos

Thanos

One of the most iconic Marvel villains from both film and comics alike, Thanos is a godlike being boasting a vast array of abilities; telekinesis, teleportation, energy projection, as well as superhuman strength and intelligence, and even an inability to die of hunger or old age. While this all makes Thanos a potent foe for the various comic heroes he clashes with, he is perhaps most famous for the storylines where he seeks the powerful cosmic artifact known as the Infinity Gauntlet, leading to him wiping out half of all life in the universe in an attempt to bring balance to it once he gets his hands on the Infinity Stones that power the Infinity Gauntlet.
In a nutshell
The Mad Titan is a heavy-hitting character with projectiles, armored overheads, a projectile counter, air dashes and a teleport; a shockingly versatile toolkit for an archetype so usually built around limitations. Thanos can keep opponents guessing with his offense, and create mix ups with a tracking teleport that not even characters at super jump height can avoid. He also does heavy damage and is a great character to pair with anyone who struggles in that category. His projectile counter is also a strong way to stop zoners, with a huge hitbox that hits nearly full screen. Pick Thanos if you want a character who'll live long, hit hard, and can still manuever around the screen and open opponents up.

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Character Vitals

CHARACTER DATA

Health:

11,000

Double Jump:

No

Air Dash:

2-Way

Air Dash/Jump count:

1

Misc Movement:

Teleport

Move List

Unique Trait

Hand of a God: Thanos has a wide array of attacks, but his strength is derived primarily from his punch command normals, which allow him to extend his combos past their limit and grant huge damage. Many of his advanced combos will take advantage of these attacks, some of which have deceptively long range.

Normals

Standing Light Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	400	Mid	5	4	14	-7	-6
	Thanos' fastest normal.

Standing Heavy Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	800	Mid	10	3	27	-6	-11
	Moves Thanos forward while attacking.

Standing Light Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300x2 (570)	Mid	9	6	29	-14	-17
	Moves Thanos forward while attacking.

Standing Heavy Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	400x2 (800)	Mid	15	2(3)2	40	-18	-23
	-

Crouching Light Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	400	Mid	6	4	14	-7	-6
	Thanos' second fastest grounded normal.

Crouching Heavy Punch	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	800	Mid	13	3	26	6/21	-10	Launch
	-

Crouching Light Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300x2 (570)	Low	9	5	33	-18	-21
	Thanos' fastest low and furthest reaching low.

Crouching Heavy Kick	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300x3 (870)	Low, Mid, Mid	15	11	31	22/52	-15	Hard Knockdown
	Thano's other low. Has more range than 2LK overall, however the later hits are mids, not lows. Is Thanos' second furthest reaching normal.

Jumping Light Punch j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	400	High	5	6	21	-	-
	Thanos' fastest air normal.

Jumping Heavy Punch j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	800	High	9	4	33	-	-
	-

Jumping Light Kick j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	300x2 (570)	High, Mid	11	7	34	-	-
	Has further horizontal range than J.HK making it a better air-to-air.

Jumping Heavy Kick j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	400x2 (800)	High, Mid	14	8	30	-	-	Groundbounce Hardknockdown
	Has further vertical range than J.LK making it a better air-to-ground than it.

Hand Bomb	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700	Mid	10	11	20	-7	-12	Wallbounce
	Has deceptively long range.

Insolence Crusher	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	900	High	25	3	33	39/78	-15	Ground Bounce Sliding Knockdown No Cancel
	Thanos's fastest grounded overhead.

Titan's Gaze	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	208x3 (603) ~ 336x3 (974)	Mid	17	20	19	36/66	-3	Projectile Hard Knockdown
	Second set of frame data is for Power Stone Thanos shoots eye lasers towards the ground. They deal more damage the closer Thanos is to the opponent when they're hit. Thanos' furthest reaching normal.

Palm Breaker j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	800	Mid	15	8	22	-	-	Wallbounce
	Essential combo starter. The main piece in Thanos' infamous Palm Breaker loops.

Misc

Throw or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	1000	Throw	3	1
	Additional damage scales by 50%.

Air Throw or	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	1000	Throw	3	1
	Additional damage scales by 50%.

Tag	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	500	Mid	6	8	44	+33	+28
	Hit/Block adv is dependent on when you your tag-in.

Specials

Titan Charge or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		1600	Mid	18	7	19	41/71	-6	Armored
		800+1300 (1970)	High	33	3	31	37/67	-21	Armored Ground Bounce
	Second set of frame data is for Power Stone. Both versions have one hit of armor. LP version sends you forward with an armored punch that knocks enemies backwards. HP version sends you forward with an armored overhead attack that groundbounces.

Insurrection's End or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		1600	Throw	9	3	33	24/54	24/54	Command Grab
		1900	Throw	19	2	36	10/40	10/40	Command Grab Ground Bounce
	Both versions have decent range, however the HP version moves forward a bit before grabbing, letting it grab from further away than the LP version. The HP version can also be comboed after.

Titan's Shield or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		250x3 ~ 250x5 (750 ~ 1200)	Mid	20	24	0	33	34
		-	-	19	2	36	-	-	Counter Wall Bounce
	LK shield damage decreases as it travels. LK shield minimum damage requires more than a full screen's worth of travel. Can be used in neutral to approach with. HK shield is a counter that counters both projectiles, and mids and highs. When hit during the parry frames you will perform a nearly full screen that bounces the opponent off the wall. Lows and throws will beat the counter however.

Emperor's Stance or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		1000	Mid	19	6	38	92/122	-13	Crumple
		1100	Mid	20	5	29	48/78	-3
	LK version crumples grounded enemies and HK version stuns airborne opponents and whiffs on grounded ones.

Titan's Deceit or	Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
		-	-	17	14	16	-	-	Invul Frames 6-35
		-	-	16	19	3	-	-	Invul Frames 6-34
	LP version places you right behind the opponent on the ground, HP version places you right behind the opponent in the air. The LP version can steal the corner from the opponent. Can be used to get around zoning.

Hypers

Final Judgement	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	700+50x40 ~ 700+100x44 (2040 ~ 3630)	Mid	22	100	57	19	-40	Projectile Hard Knockdown
	Thanos shoots lasers diagonally up and forwards. Does less damage the further the opponent is from Thanos.

Sovereign Decree j.	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	800x5+1900 ~ 800x12+1900 (4150 ~ 6204)	Mid	11	25	28	37/67	-29	Hard Knockdown
	Thanos gathers energy into his hand and then swings in a wide arc around him. Preferred combo ender and one of the most damaging level 1 hypers in the game. Does more damage the higher up you start it from.

Cosmic Fall Lvl 3	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Properties
	5940 (6 hits)	Mid	16	10	55	16	-46	Hard Knockdown Invul Frames 1-25
	Hits with a tiny hitbox and then goes into a cinematic super.

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Strategy

Partner Selection

Dormammu

Dormammu provides lockdown for Thanos with his Stalking Flare super and zoning specials. LK shield can also be used to lockdown for Dormammu to use his teleports for mixups. Both are generally pretty high damage characters so naturally putting them together means you get a ton of damage out of your comboes.

Arthur

Arthur's zoning specials can be used for lockdown for Thanos. Thanos also benefits from a lot of the same stones as Arthur and most importantly he makes up for Arthur's lack of damage in comboes with his amazing solo damage. This is a combination that some high level Arthur players use to dominate with.

Stone Selection

Power

Gives him one more wall bouncing tool, but most importantly the Infinity Storm cranks up Thanos' damage and lets him wall bounce as many times as he wants for a ton of damage.

Time

The time stone can be used to go through projectiles and essentially get a second air dash for use in neutral. Can also help Thanos with escaping disadvantage. During storm hee can cancel LK shield into his teleports which is a good option as well as canceling his other moves into teleport to chase down opponents if it whiffed. Plus even if he doesn't many options to cancel into on his own the cooldown reduction on Active Switching means that he can instead switch into his partner instead in instances where he can't cancel into specials like when he's in the air. The preferred stone for Thanos/Arthur teams.

Reality

Doesn't get much use out of it since his LK shield does what this does but just better in basically every way. He does like the screen control the Storm gives him though, however that's something basically every character appreciates from this stone. Wouldn't recommend.

Soul

Reaches far and can let you heal a lot of HP when combined with a super from a partner that has a lot of active frames. Bringing back his partner is also obviously good, and LK shield is both a good projectile generally and also just laggy enough to be decent for de-syncing you and your partner. And his teleport is a great way to sandwich the opponent between you and your teammate in Soul Storm.

Space

Can be used to draw opponents into LK shield or closer to Thanos so he can run his gameplan. Putting them in a box with the Infinity Storm is also good for him since it means they can't run away once he's onto them, and it means they can't back dash away to avoid his command grabs.

Mind

Just don't use this, EVER! He already has a command grab and it's a bajillion times better than this one so for all that is holy don't use this. Use anything but this, for the love of god this thing is useless. He enjoys the Infinity Storm just as much as any other character but the Surge is just so bad (especially for Thanos) that using this stone is a complete and total no-go.

How to fight Thanos

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