How Magneto became the God of Marvel vs Capcom 2 

Which character do you want me to do next??

I feel part of the charm is the fact that these old fighting games where he's in remember that his power is over the Electromagnetic _Spectrum,_ not just Ferromagnetism. Hence the lasers and other fun techniques he uses.

Reasons why Magneto it broken: *Me:* "Controls one of the fundamental forces of the universe?" *Jmcrofts:* "1-frame low. 🐸☕"

Dude, I could watch character breakdowns forever, do 'em all for every game. I am here for it.

Any character that does the Bruce Lee shadow arms thing , automatically is gonna be op

im an old retired mvc2 player, but would love to see a history of the game from release and the arrival and discovery of all the top teams and strategies. Always one of the classic games of all time. Keep up the great work!

You forget his most god like figure. His voice. The 1st timed you heard "Play time has ended." He meant that.

I never understood why they decided to make an old man the FASTEST character in the game. I remember trying to walk with him in X-Men 2 the Clone Wars and it was like watching a turtle crawl uphill!

Used to leave this game running overnight to build up store points for chars lmao how my ps2 survived I’ll never know

The first most fearsome MVC2 character. When someone challenges you with this character back in the day, you'll feel you're doomed! lol 😁

Had to stop at 14:23 cause the music in the background hit me with a wave of nostalgia so strong i damn near shed a tear. This game was my freakin childhood man Marvel will always hold a special place in my heart. Keep up the great work

That double snap is the most evil thing I've seen in all of MVC2

0 frame moves exist. They’re usually supers. The move comes out before the opponent can do anything. So if a moves even minus 1 it’s punishable. The easiest examples I can think of is Phoenix Wrights Level 3 and most heavy supers in Garou mark of the wolves.

A tip for you, always try to roll away even after getting hit by psylocke assist or throw so when opponent misses the otg on the last possible frame you will roll and recover. 11:14 & 12:14 are examples where you are actually safe if you tried to roll. Also, when playing as sentinel against magneto dashing in, try to first block high, then low and then immediately jump. This prevents magneto from doing a dash in jumping hk + assist combo since you are blocking high. Even if magneto does dash in crouching lk, you have super armor that prevents you from getting hit stun on the first light attack. And then immediately block low, timed it so that if the follow up from c.lk into cmk doesn't connect. After c.mk magneto will no longer be able to cancel into other normals and will most likely either call an assist to cover him to continue pressure, block or tries to tri jump you. You are basically safe after blocking the the c.mk since you can counter call an assist if he calls his to break his rush down momentum or you can just jump backwards if he blocks or tries to tri jump you. This blocking sequence nullify alot of magneto's rushdown options, apart from Yipes and Khaos, most other magneto players have problem dealing with sentinels. Which is why magneto is ranked below storm and sentinel. Lastly, try to push block as much as possible.

I remember getting bodied by mags players at the arcade back in the day. Never had the execution skills to keep up. You're a good sport dude.

I'm gonna use this early comment to tell you how much I appreciate these videos. This is great for someone who is just getting into this game, like me. Plus they're just entertaining as hell. I'd love to see more of this.

5:00 - I love how even though Magneto's doing all the crazy combos, it's Cable who' s out of breath

Loving the content, you even got me and the homie playing again for this first time in years! Bear is awesome.

Looks like you improved on the infinite alot since that video you made along time ago. I remember posting some some tips on your old video when you wanted to learn it along time ago... great work! =D I like you mentioned how deadly his snap is (that's what's most scary about him imo) alot of people over look something so simple but so amazingly deadly and something that single handedly let's him surgically tear teams apart.

people forget he was a boss char at one point

I think you mean how mag-freaking-neto got that curly mustache

Magneto lives in my nightmares.

Love these breakdowns and would love to see other fighting games to in future. Keep it up :)

Just discovered your channel. Loving everything I've seen so far. Thanks for covering this.

Great analysis, but just to add a couple more generic points, Magneto is top tier also because: 1. He has a relatively easy to do semi-infinite chaining Magnetic Tempest repeatedly. It has so many hits that even with damage scaling maxed out it still does a decent amount of damage and can usually kill someone by the third loop. 2. Unlike say Strider/Doom/Blackheart, Magneto works well with almost anyone, whether he's on point or as an assist. You have a lot of freedom with your team composition, and you'd rarely have a completely bad combination. 3. Magneto has fairly easy and safe ways to tag out and heal without using meter, the easiest being his throw. 4. His assists are also really good, apart from the projectile one, which is OK but nothing special. The launcher assist is super fast, while Hyper Gravitation keeps up constant pressure for you to maintain your offensive. All it takes is either connecting once, and you'd have your opponent wide open. Plus the positioning of Hyper Grav assist is fairly safe since he hangs back at the edge of your corner, so it's not easy for someone without beams to punish without having to deal with you first.

You could see the pure concentration in his eyes, during that first infinite combo 😂

I’m so lucky that RU-vid managed to find a deep rooted core memory from me as a kid. Love this channel and character breakdowns

great content man, keep up the good work. Long time fighter fan, especially Cap vs SNK 2 and MVC2 and I could watch these vids for hours.

I actually liked this video, very informative and it's nicely paced and explained, too. Almost makes me want to try playing him.

Oh, you mean Eight-Way Dash? He was my favourite Function! I'm so happy he made the cut in Infinite!

You're doing a great job with these videos keep em coming

Keep these breakdowns coming bro!

this was the pain of MSP = Magneto+Storm+Psylocke of every tournament you would play in and see

Great Info on Magneto. I may need to learn him as well!

Love these, Mr Jmcrofts!

15:52 I almost cried for you on this one!! You were THAT close!! 😭😭😭

You should do a video focusing just on assists. It could be something like how to time them, what are some other A tier and lower assists that are playable, maybe do some teams with assists and explain some specific counter-picks. Idk something to that nature would be cool, its open to suggestions. I know this information is probably somewhere else if he hasnt already done it but I would like to hear it from jmcrofts

Loving these MVC2 videos. Just go into playing it.

It's detailed stuff like this that lets me enjoy and understand fighting games despite being garbage at playing them.

Thanks for the marvel 2 stuff. Man. Keep em coming please. I just got into the game on Dreamcast.

My friend watches you as well so It was fun cheesing him with magneto while it lasted

Studying this for the rerelease on switch

Just started watching your videos, man. You kick ass!

Nice video!

I had no idea about the starting frame data! All I know is that Sabertooth is my main character and I start all of my matches with that lightkick and regularly got the first hit even against players far better than me! What an awesome revelation!

Love these vids

I love videos like this. Please do more of the MVC2 cast. Would like to see what Sabretooth was about

Top quality work👍🏿

you earn these likes & subs, keep up the good work bro

I looked up "reset" in the dictionary, and it just shows a picture of Skullgirls.

Hi JM! Great video as always. If I could give one suggestion for your videos, it will be to get an intro animation/music. It will hype the video a lot and look cool af. Have a good day!

We're back fam!! psyched to see some good ole mag psy storm vs cable sent commando action

Such a great series. Simple but very watchable

Keep doing this videos they are awesome

love your content, guy

I NEED THIS GAME AGAIN. I USED TO ENTER TOURNAMENTS BACK IN THE EARLY 2000s. SO NOSTALGIC AND WITHOUT A DOUBT MY FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME💯

I started playing MvC2 after watching this when it first came out and it’s now my favorite fighting game. This game is awesome I hope they bring it back. Tried CvS2 as well but I’m terrible and don’t understand what I’m doing lol

I agree with all your points, but the matches demonstrates one of his other strengths: the air-to-ground combo that ends with FP, FP, RH, RH. That does a huge chunk of damage!!

I'm early to love on that fine skull of yours, jm

hey man your awesome,thanx for your knowledge.

MAG-F-NEETO! OH HE'S SO PRINGLES WHERE YO CURLEY MOUSTACHE AT!

everytime I see the double snap I can hear YIPES going "OH OH OH OH OH OH OH"

Had to sub for the sweet mvc2 content

His hands movment while standing mixes you up

Bro pleaaaase keep doing these Mahvel character videos. I'm garabage at the game but I love learning all the ins and outs

I love how all the characters that can fly is top tier in this game...

11:12 Thanks to this video now i know why you did a low block and he instead went for a high lol. He exactly knew that you were going for that so he took the opportunity to cross.

Damn watching you play against that guy and how you just marveled (no pun intended) at his skill and talents was nice to see There are times where I play someone in a fighting game and see them doing stuff I never knew possible and it’s almost like watching poetry in motion the kinda mastery they have over whatever it is be it game, sports,

These games are my introduction to Marvel characters. I more so grew up with the Rockman series and street fighter I guess, but I never figured out that magneto in MVC2 was the one Sir Ian Mcellan played. I just couldn’t suss out his mutant power from MVC2.

Appreciate the tutorial aspect

This senior citizen able to throw hands

Wish you would have made it a little longer and gone into the history of Magneto in teams from the beginning and how he evolved when people figured out how good he is with psylocke assist. Id like to hear more history about how team compositions evolved over time

as a quick note, from what i remember sent has a way of beating magneto's switch glitch c.lk. Switch glitch sent's s. lk which will come out after mag's normal, but sent will absorb the hit with super armor, and then snapback right away i think beats magneto's c.lk lk +psy AA

Subbed bro

Im so glad people still love this game I hope capcom and disney marvel can collaborate to re release. To newer systems.

rogue also has an amazing combo due to her air flying abilities. jump behind opponent and attack faster than they can block.

It’s always a pleasure listening to someone that knows what they’re talking about 😉👌

One big thing you missed about Magneto is the fact he can cause untechable hard knockdowns using the flying screen glitch. If you do the 5 fierce combo with him they cant roll out of it and it takes a ton of damage. If you end it early though, they cant tech and they wake up in a really predictable way and have to take another mixup. And thats how the Yipes vortex was born.

Just correcting you, Jmcrofts, there is 0 frame movements in fighting games, such as Order Sol Lvl. 2 Savage Fang (so yes, if you are NOT blocking BEFORE the Super flash, it's unblockable). Great video as always.

I did not know about the switch glitch. More than twenty years later I'm still learning things about this game.

I didn’t realize how good he was until I saw the Double Snap portion. I don’t fear much but that.... that scares me.

Oh man. MVC 1&2 are my jam

12:03 magnetos twin brother just hops in the battle outa nowhere illusionist style

Loving the mvc2 content

I love the mvc2 stuff you deliver. I just hope you do Tekken too, coz that's the fighting game i played the most. Pretty sure a lot of folks here will love Tekken content.

You're already at 200K, Chap.

Lies Cable will forever be the GOAT of this game nobody kills the 3 bosses as smooth as he does

Bro who's that guy you played at the end of the video. He's so fucking clean. Has to be a pro.

I liked MvC2 back in the arcade days before all of the infinite combos were discovered

Speaking of mega man, sentinel trap, doom blackheart storm trap. Also mags has a magnetic tempest one hit trap with psy, guaranteed hit. Love the content! What's your bear graphic setup also jm? Thx

Hey man! New to you and these videos. For some reason I’ve been getting into SF content again and leaving towards the games. So silly question (perhaps) are you emulating the game or playing on a ps2?

Magneto is so fun to play. He's so difficult to master too.

There is such a thing as a 0 frame move. If I recall correctly, Phoenix Wrights ace attorney super from UMVC3 was. If you weren't already blocking when he did the super you get hot, nearly anywhere on screen. Great vid btw

I've played this game since it came out, and I never knew about that 1 frame glitch at the begging.

I literally have never touched this game, why am I addicted to watching this channel

Magneto's idle in this game resembles Algol in soul calibur... But i guess it's all the way round since marvel vs capcom is older

I’m super late to the party but I’m getting interested in the classic FGC games. I got into SF 3rd Strike last year and now I’m learning about this. I wish I cared about them when they are at their peak, these games look sick. I’m also a sucker for pixel art

you can actually mash out of the magnetic grab/magnetic tempest, its just insanely hard to do.

just 3 things ROM inf has a lot of variants. Just depends on how fast you can confirm the hits and how far off the ground mag is Both Ice Grab and Hypergrab can be mashed out. Sentinel has a hard time getting out cause he's a big body from Hypergrab x Tempest.

Hey @jmcrofts big fan of the channel! Love your content! Can i ask for a favor? Can you provide a link where i can download an emulator that runs mvc2 along with the rom? i tried but had no luck.... I really wanna play it but i can't figure it out