No offense Mr.Wizard, but I just realized you have no idea what “switch glitch” is. LOL When using the switch glitch you must change your point character but I’ll just take the time to explain what it is really quickly.
When you pick your team order on the character select screen say in the order of storm magneto psylocke, during the loading screen you can hold assist 1, which will swap the character in the 2nd (Assist one) slot, or assist 2 which will swap the point character with the 3rd (assist two) slot, or hold both assists which will swap assist one and 2. Nothing strange there.
Now after the loading screen comes on you get to move your character but no attacks will come out til the game says fight. So both characters move into each other’s faces and try to time out the attack so that they get the first attack (which of course can be game winning).
“Switch Glitch” means swapping out the point character with either assist one or assist two. Now what this does is allows you to just hold an attack button down after the screen loads before the match says fight. So the frame total movement becomes available an attack comes out automatically. Magneto’s cr. short is exactly one frame. There is no attack in the game that will beat it and only about 4 attacks will trade with it with characters that don’t really exist in the mvc2 world.
Thats what switch glitch is and thats where the concern is.
Switch glitch creates a problem for characters like sent because if magneto starts with standing jab. cr. short switch glitch, no matter what sentinel will get hit and can do nothing but block.
So obviously the switch glitch is really important. If both players play and use the switch glitch and do the same attack they will invariably trade. If anyone that matters besides magneto is picked and they switch glitch, they will lose.
Now heres the way things have been done:
Round 1 A: Player 1 at the character select screen picks SMP (storm/magneto/pyslocke)
Player two picks sent/storm/capcom
Both players switch glitch and the match is finally MSP vs. Santhrax.
Player 1 wins the round.
Now the rules stated that player 1 had to incontrovertibly start his next round as MSP as if he had just won in the arcade.
Round 2 B: Player 1 is still MSP, he can not change his characters unless its on event mode anyways, but if it was, he must begin that round with MSP.
Player 2 picks Cable/storm/commando at the character select screen
During the loading screen Player 1 can’t do anything if its going to change his starting team order from MSP. Player 2 has absolutely no restrictions.
Say player two wins the round.
Round 3 C: Player 1 at the character select screen picks Cable/Magneto/Sent
Player 2 will already be on scrub (Storm/Cable/Commando) unless its on event mode in in which case he MUST start the next round as Storm/Cable/Commando exactly the way it started on round 2.
During the loading screen player 1 has no restrictions as he didn’t win the last round.
Thats the way it has been since marvel tourneys have been around.
Now from what wizard is saying. Is the winner can change his assists but not his point. So he can’t switch glitch, but he can change assists on round 2 after winning.
Which is a NEW rule, but won’t help most people. You typically need your assists to remain in the same order anyways. I’ve never seen an MPS, or a Storm,Commando,Sent. So this rule is gonna be pretty moot anyways.