Captain Commando.
Motherfuckers got no respect.
But he’s Captain Capcom. It just makes sense for Capcom to bring back their captain to go against Marvel’s captain.
- Female representation for Capcom & Marvel.
- Big bodies, small, average.
- Game/Universe variety.
#1 is probably more important to Marvel than it is to Capcom. Which is why Black Widow, Scarlet Witch even Gwenpool are probably guarantees. I recently followed Contest of Champions, never played the game but they advertise the fuck out of characters like Gwenpool.
I’ll give you Scarlet Witch and Gwenpool. But I don’t think Black Widow is going to be playable, for the same reason she wasn’t playable in 3. Just another gun combatant.
Marvel can say who they will allow to be in the game, but ultimately it falls to Capcom to make decisions based on playstyle. Black Widow seems too boring and samey, especially since they just had Jill in the last one.
Black Widow is not a gun combatant. Her main weapon is her bracelets which have multiple uses. She can easily be a C.Viper type character that can inflict status aliments with her bracelets.
Status ailment characters are boring.
What’s the point? You’re in a fighting game, not a turn-based RPG. Just fuckiing hit the guy.
Status aliments worked great for Hawkeye and Skullgirl’s Valentine.
“Skullgirls”
Yeah, argument invalidated.
Seriously. In a combo-heavy game what is the point of intentionally ending a combo just to poison a guy when you can just kill him?
Well, you can poison them at the beginning of a combo to do the full poison damage over the duration of the combo, or just, y’know, poison them in neutral, since the game doesn’t actually start with you doing a combo?
They can block it neutral. And if you deliberately stop a combo to poison them and bring them back to neutral, and then they hit you, then it’s barely anything more than a taunt, because they can get that red life back.
And if you’re going to do the combo anyways there’s no point in poisoning them since if you’re doing it right, they’ll die regardless.
They purport it as a mindgame thing but that doesn’t really exist in Marvel. When they did it with FANG in SF5 it was super ineffective and he became the worst character in the game.
What I got so far are the following. Could be wrong, I don’t care. Just my best guesses.
Capcom: Jack Krauser, Leon, Jill, Albert Wesker, Amaterasu, Viewtiful Joe, June, Dante, Vergil, Leo, Dr. Wily, Asura, BoF character, Pure and Fur, Frank West, Cody, Sasquatch, Lord Raptor, Akuma, Gill, C.Viper, Rashid
Marvel: Spiderman, Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Fin Fang Foom, Gwenpool, Songbird, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Luke “Powerman” Cage, Iron Fist, Punisher, Kingpin, Thor, Wasp, Dr. Strange, Hulk, Thanos, Rocket Racoon, Squirrel Girl
You don’t have to end a combo just to do it, though. It’s something that can be done from a distance as well. When it comes to combos, look at how often MODOK players finish a combo with Jamming Bomb before using a snapback. It’s a viable strategy that will literally fuck up the team synergy. Same can be said for Viewtiful Joe’s Slow combined with a snapback.
Status ailments would only add to the depth of the game.
i agree with no black widow. maybe it’s because jill sucked in mvc3 so i’m not holding my breath for an amazingly designed character
Okay so Black Widow wastes her time throwing out a poison move in neutral and I armor through it with my Juggernaut Headcrush. And Juggs gets reversed controls for a few seconds while she’s sent to her grave. That sure was useful.
That’s the dumbest example I’ve ever fucking heard. Why even give characters normals? I’m just gonna armour through them. They wasted their time doing minor damage with their normal while I killed them.
Projectiles are useless. I just armour through them.
Overheads and non-throw forms of mixups are shit, you just armour through them, dead.
You can’t be this stupid. Hawkeye’s poison tip is often used in his combos. He could end his combo with it them, reset or cancel into super into DHC, and OTG. Poison tip has a lot of utility and the poison damage itself did as much as laser beam chip.
I wouldn’t complain because at least Juggs would be in the game 
Speaking of Juggs, I like how he’d just snatch that big ass pole and start smacking you with it in X-Men COTA.
I’m just saying designing a character exclusively around debuffs is stupid in a game that’s about filling the screen with hitboxes. Everyone has some screen filling bullshit and here comes a character that… uh… poisons you with her bracelets.
No one uses MODOK exclusively for his jamming bomb or Hawkeye exclusively for his poison. And Black Widow is supposed to be nothing but status ailments? I don’t see how it’s going to be useful.
The way your describing poison is how it works with FANG in SFV. You look at Hawkeye to use how poison can work for Marvel and it’s lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vEsvD3eIPk
Modok’s also use jamming bombs for incoming mix-ups after killing a character. Most MODOKs won’t use jamming bomb in neutral until they stack up on analyze cubes so they can get a stronger shield.
I’m sorry but I’m really just not seeing the purpose of the poison. Even in that video the poison damages the characters so slowly that it’s negligible. I figure hose combos on Doom would’ve killed without the poison.