The purpose of this thread is to create an accurate listing of the hardest characters to the easiest. Some things to factor when determining a characters execution difficulty are : tiger knees, cancels, plink dashing, needlessly difficult motions (i.e Hsien-Ko’s gongs when her backwards fireball motion is not taken), and links with difficult timing. How important are these aspects to that characters game? Can that character perform to at least 90% of its capacity without doing the difficult stuff?
I would like to note a few things.A characters actual strength in this game assuming perfect execution should be discussed in the balance and tiers thread. Please keep comparisons to MVC2 out of the topic because I already see them coming. You can use whatever tier format you like but try to do it from S being the hardest characters and C being the easiest.
This is the age of information sharing. The community is filled with people who would love to know this. Why not try to compile as much information as we can?
I am actually interested in this too, not to be like “OMG I HAVE TO PLAY TIER X” or whatever, but because I’m a nerd and love data being arranged in ascending/descending order.
I don’t really play a ton of characters well enough to pretend I know how difficult they are, but
-very tricky to play this character to potential well-
Viewtiful Joe
Dr. Doom
Magneto
Jill
Hsien Ko
Felicia
Shuma
She Hulk
Iron Man
Spencer
-a few tricky aspects to their game-
Spiderman
Morrigan
T. Bonne
Ryu
Storm
Sentinel
Amaterasu (stance swaps mid-combo can be pretty rough)
Dormammu
-pretty easy, or so far their game is not very advanced-
Super Skrull
Wolverine
Captain America
Hulk
Haggar
If you’re going strictly by combo execution, I could have a decently easy time arranging from hardest to easiest if I can just base it on the mission mode
Also, the lists are not in order, just general groups. And yes, I did NOT include every character. Just listed a few that came to mind.
Storm can still do big damage very easily. I don’t really feel like I need much execution to play Storm at a decent level- easily combo into DHC trick, regular magic series, launcher, air magic series, into easy OTG hyper. Free chip hypers (assuming you get the free space). I don’t think storm is an amazing character by any means and I don’t think she’s super easy, but you could very easily play her in a super easy fashion and still be effective.
Quite honestly, I feel like asking one of the mods to make a “TIER SPECULATION GOES HERE” thread. I don’t think that make assist tiers, execution tiers, and tier list of whose good in what.
Imma PM a mod now.
But to get on topic, C. Viper is THE hardest character to learn. Then after that is Magneto, then MODOK, then Jill, Doom, Zero if you wanna play like Marn, and then the rest don’t matter. They got some mad long combos and require great muscle memory to learn them perfectly.
The easiest characters to learn IMO is Sentinel, Wolverine, Amaterasu, and Ryu. You could probably throw in Haggar and Hulk if you are talking combo execution wise. Seriously… cr. m, s. S, J. m, J. H, J. S, land, l Rocket punch, hyper of choice… I learned this combo in 30 seconds.
EDIT: Now that I think about, don’t we have a speculation thread?
