Marvel Tokon tier list: every fighter ranked.

Blade's meta placement rests heavily on his team utility on top of his own strength on point: good normals, projectiles, high meterless damage, and the ability to convert full-screen attacks. The real reason he shows up on so many teams is his Assault assist and his tag-in combos. Blade is among the best at tagging in after a teammate wins neutral, and swapping him in for the bulk of a combo neutralizes his one real weakness, a lack of top-tier neutral and mixup tools of his own. His Assault assist can also place him behind the opponent for a sandwich, then let the player tag into him mid-attack for a left/right and high/low mix.

Magik combines low investment with high reward. Her kit is the closest thing in Tokon to a standard shoto all-rounder, with a fireball, a dragon punch equivalent, and straightforward design, while her portals and their setplay add extra sauce. Her normals are fast with great range thanks to the Soul Sword, and she excels at checking approaches, contesting neutral, and converting successful pokes into high-damage combos. Once she has the advantage, Portal setups let her keep the gas on and force tricky wake-up mix, and some blockstring sequences leave her plus on block even when the defender blocks correctly. Her base kit, projectile, movement, and portal setups combine into a lethal layered offense in neutral and oppressive oki.

Spider-Man has one of the most complete kits in Tokon because his movement, neutral, and offense flow seamlessly into one another. Web Swing and Web Zip give him exceptional mobility to mix up his approach angle, timing, and side, bait out defensive options, and avoid them, and combined with a decent projectile game these tools make him the best in the game at forcing his turn and starting offensive pressure. Once he has an opponent blocking, layered high/low pressure, varied timings, and movement give him so many mixup options that it is nearly impossible to react to every one, and his resourceless offense stays threatening because his quick movement means he does not need to lean on assists for every block string. His Vertical assist has enough hitstun for consistent combo conversions, and his Web Shooter assist offers strong screen coverage when he is not leading.

Storm has not yet reached the same popularity as the other S+ heroes, but her wind mechanic gives her unique offensive and defensive options that earn her a top spot in the rankings. Proper use of her wind stocks lets her dictate where interactions happen or skip neutral entirely, and beyond tricky block string mixups she can use wind movement to set up her command grab so quickly it is very hard to defend against the strike/throw mix. Compared to a hero like Magik, she needs more specialized mastery since her buttons are stubbier and demand a deeper arsenal of situational answers. As the Assault assist she can pull opponents out of the corner for left/right mix with somewhat ambiguous positioning, and with the strongest screen control from wind manipulation, neutral skips, 50/50 mixups, a command grab, high damage, and good assists, she has room to climb even higher.

Black Panther sits immediately beneath the S+ meta picks because she may be one of the strongest dedicated Lead heroes in the game, but her total team value has not shown to be quite as universal as the top four. As long as Bast's Blessing Gauge is available, her Unique lets her dash and reposition for left/right and high/low ambiguity, and her extremely fast air movement is both fun to pilot and difficult to predict. Her EX overhead adds another mixup layer on top. The tradeoff is resource dependence: with low meter she can feel lacking in options, and she falls a bit behind in the team-enabling department compared to the true meta heroes.

Carnage relies more on setplay than the heroes above him, but he can hold his own on both point and assist. Parasite Bombs let him loop blockstrings and overwhelm the opponent, though it often takes work to earn those opportunities since he is not quite at the caliber of the top-ranked heroes on point. Armored options, overheads, long-reaching attacks, and a command grab give him plenty to work with, and once his team earns the advantage state he is allowed to shine. He often starts on assist and gets tagged in to continue the offense or cash out for big damage.

Doctor Doom is kitted out as both a zoner and an anti-zoner, making him an excellent counterpick against the projectile- and assist-heavy strategies defining the early meta. Nullify Shield lets him directly challenge projectiles and cover his own zoning or approach, while beams, flight, and a fast full-screen Super let him control space and punish careless assist usage or movement. A lunging attack plus an invulnerable portal EX variation gives him a strong mixup tool for sandwiches, baiting, and countering.

Ghost Rider brings huge normals, excellent reach, good damage, and a dangerous strike/throw game. His buttons let him zone and control ranges where many characters struggle to challenge him. His go-to offense layers an instant overhead, resets, and a command grab to punish opponents who get too comfortable blocking, and his enormous hitboxes are great at punishing predictable assist calls.

Green Goblin is a high-ceiling mixup, setup, and assist specialist who becomes terrifyingly oppressive once his team establishes advantage. His glider gives him exceptional mobility for tricky movement and ultra-fast mixups, his Vertical assist covers anti-air conversions, and his Assault assist is perfect for sandwich mix. He has the best oki in the game, deploying bombs and setting up his glider before the defender can recover, and unlike most heroes he does not need an assist to cover his wakeup pressure. The tradeoff is that his raw neutral without time to set up is far less dominant, he is complicated, and he generally needs an ally who can enable his kit or earn him a knockdown before he can cycle back to glider play.

Iron Man is a well-rounded hero who can do everything from projectile zoning and flight to rushdown and high-damage EX combo conversions. Flight and flight cancels make his keepaway particularly hard to challenge, since he can alter positioning and disengage where a conventional zoner would be forced to commit, and his Shooter assist is an excellent source of projectile coverage for any point hero. His weakness against the top tiers is that his offense lacks the same snowballing potential; after a combo he usually has to choose between low damage with better oki or committing to damage and giving the opponent room to recontest.

Loki's strength comes from layering the mental stack of options an opponent has to defend against, rather than leaning on one overpowered gimmick. A tricky combination of good normals, projectiles, traps, feints, and movement gives him a flexible neutral game, and his ability to cancel attacks lets him condition his way through the opponent's defenses. He is one of the better solo-pressure characters, able to run mixes off his own kit without over-relying on assists. His weaker spot is that none of his assists are obviously amazing, and he performs best when the whole team is built around enabling his point play rather than slotting cleanly into any team.

Magneto is likely the best zoner in Tokon, with an assist package to match, especially his Vertical assist, which excels at controlling aerial space and setting up tag-in combos, while his Assault assist pulls opponents out of the corner for left/right or sandwich setups. Rather than just functioning as an assist bot, he contributes to combo routes and cash-outs through Magnetize. His biggest weakness is that anti-zoning tools are abundant in Tokon; basically every hero has some way to disrupt or avoid his projectile play.

Captain America's build is honest, tried and true, just like him. He plays like a standard shoto archetype carried by fundamentals rather than knowledge-check gimmicks, with solid buttons and useful screen control from his shield, which lets him occupy space while he advances behind it. The issue is not a glaring weakness; it is that he lacks the extreme strengths defining the current meta. Other heroes bring neutral skips, oppressive setplay, piercing projectiles, elite mobility, or premium assists on top of strong fundamentals, which makes being well-rounded less valuable in a roster full of characters who can bend the rules in their favor.

Danger has the most unorthodox setplay and movement on the roster, which makes her placement the most ambiguous. Her real ceiling is likely higher than current representation shows, but the game being so young does not favor unconventional kits like hers. Her Unique and projectiles are very effective for zoning and setplay, and her teleport helps with approach, movement, and mix, but that strength comes with a substantial execution demand, needs setup, and requires precise team pairings rather than a plug-and-play partner. She is better described as pending and unsolved rather than weak.

Deadpool's design feels true to his unconventional character. He carries zoning and screen-control tools that cover every angle, from grounded horizontal to aerial diagonals, plus manipulated bomb paths. His glaring weakness is that the best parts of his moveset are locked behind his self-damage mechanic, so any failed offensive attempt can cost him gray health on top of the opponent's own damage. He plays like a glass cannon and many of his rounds end up lopsided one way or the other, which means anyone picking him up needs confidence in their decision-making and matchup knowledge, but he rewards the effort.

Hulk smashes with gamma armor and incredible damage. His attacks are not the fastest, but his huge hitboxes excel at close to mid-range brawling, especially with gamma resource built and armor active, and some of the highest damage combos in the game come from teams that tag him in to cash out. His weakness is a lack of air dash: against zoners he struggles more with keep-away thanks to his size and speed, and while Thunder Clap helps against projectiles, overusing it invites a punish. His damage is top-tier; reaching it consistently is the problem.

Peni Parker is a trap character who wants to create space to deploy drones, then force the opponent to navigate around them for the upper hand. Her win condition revolves around combining deployables with assist calls and tags to overwhelm the opponent and keep them on the defense, and buttons like her 5M and 2M come out quickly with good range, while her 2H puts out a massive launcher hitbox in front of her. The drawback is needing free time to set up in a game whose extremely fast pace makes that hard to find; when a player pulls it off she can become oppressive, but overall her kit lags a bit behind the heroes currently dominating ranked and tournament play.

Star-Lord has high mobility, strong anti-zoning tools, and real room to rise as the meta develops. Flight and fast-fall make him a strong defensive mover and give him tricky high/low and left/right pressure on offense, and paired with assists his projectiles let him weave between neutral poking and rushdown. Restands add another layer by letting him trade a conventional knockdown for continued pressure or tag sequences, and his invincible projectile Super makes him a counterpick against projectile-heavy comps. His main drawback is that his offense can be assist-hungry and meter-hungry.

Wolverine is a dedicated rushdown character whose close-range offense is much scarier than his placement suggests. Once he gets in, safe pressure, shimmies, high/low threats, movement, and delayed attacks shred through the opponent's defenses, and the resulting combos carry good damage routes with solid oki to keep the advantage going. His primary weakness is lower team utility and a hard time finding safe, effective approaches, since he has to navigate zoning, projectiles, assists, and large normals without the neutral skips or screen-control tools many stronger characters have, and on assist he lacks a unique value that would make him a must-pick. As long as he has Assemble meter to cover his approach, he is lethal in his close-range niche.

Ms. Marvel is a flexible hero whose stretchy normals let her contest and fight from range, and her assist package can be used for unique setups since she actually has one of the slowest assists in the game, which can be turned into cheeky follow-ups off a point hero's attacks. Her main issue is that she lacks any sort of meta-defining win condition: she does not dominate neutral, her setplay is not amazing, her mobility is poor, and her grabs lead to only mediocre damage. She is still viable on a team, just short of the buffs it would take to compete at the level of the rest of the roster.

The Champion has too much pride to use assists at all. As Tokon's premier grappler, he relies on conditioning the opponent to hesitate, then catching them with his strike/throw mixups, and although he cannot use assists he still offers decent teamwork by setting up tag outs and covering allies with lingering attacks like his medium Void Knuckle. His low placement comes from the lack of assists and the large gap between his normal and Awakened states: once Awakened he becomes dramatically more threatening with improved mix, unblockable threats, and stronger conversions, but other characters reach their primary win condition almost immediately while he spends too much time building the match and investing in Pride Gauge for a payout that is not an instant win.