What is the best character in Marvel Tōkon?

Nobody knows yet, and anyone publishing a confident answer today is guessing. The game only released on August 6, no public frame data exists yet, and the only structured hands-on data is the three-day beta that covered 16 of the 20 launch fighters.

Is there an official Marvel Tōkon tier list?

No. Tier lists are community output, and a meaningful one needs frame data and competitive results that still do not exist this early.

Why doesn't this page assign archetypes like zoner or rushdown?

Because we cannot derive them honestly. We hold move names, categories, gauge costs and air/hold flags — all facts. An archetype is an interpretation of how a character plays, which needs an official statement or real match data. An earlier version of this page guessed archetypes from keywords in move descriptions and got roughly half the roster wrong, including labelling Storm a grappler. We removed it rather than tune it.

What can I actually learn from this page?

How each documented kit is built: how many moves of each type, how many cost skill gauge, and how much of the kit works in the air. Those are counts of published fields. What they mean for how a character plays is your call, not ours — we are not in a position to make it yet.

Kit comparison

What is actually in each fighter's kit

Counted, not ranked. 16 of 20 launch fighters have a documented movelist; for each one this shows the move-type mix, how much of the kit costs skill gauge, and how much of it works in the air.

Why this is not a tier list, and not an archetype board either

A tier list ranks strength. Strength needs the shipped game, frame data and competitive results — none of which exist yet. This page becomes a real ranking, with a patch version in its title, after August 6, 2026.

The closest thing to hard data that exists today is what high-rank players actually picked in the open beta — real pick counts from the Vibranium+ leaderboard, split by point and assist. That measures choices, not power, so it still is not a ranking. But it is measured rather than argued, which is more than any tier list published this week can say.

It also does not label anyone a zoner or a rushdown character. An earlier version of this page did, by pattern-matching keywords in move descriptions, and it was wrong about roughly half the roster — it called Storm a grappler. Counting documented fields is something we can do correctly; inferring playstyle is not, so we stopped doing it.

Documented kit composition per fighter
Fighter	Moves	Type mix	Costs gauge	Air-usable
Star-LordAmazing Guardians	16	9 Unique5 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	7/16 cost gauge	11/16 air OK
Green GoblinKnights of Doom	13	7 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/13 cost gauge	6/13 air OK
WolverineUnbreakable X-Men	12	6 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/12 cost gauge	5/12 air OK
Spider-ManAmazing Guardians	12	5 Unique5 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	7/12 cost gauge	5/12 air OK
Iron ManFighting Avengers	12	5 Unique4 Skill1 Super2 Ultimate	7/12 cost gauge	9/12 air OK
Captain AmericaFighting Avengers	11	4 Unique5 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	7/11 cost gauge	5/11 air OK
Black PantherFighting Avengers	11	3 Unique5 Skill1 Super2 Ultimate	7/11 cost gauge	5/11 air OK
MagnetoKnights of Doom	11	5 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/11 cost gauge	9/11 air OK
StormUnbreakable X-Men	10	2 Unique6 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	8/10 cost gauge	5/10 air OK
MagikUnbreakable X-Men	10	3 Unique4 Skill1 Super2 Ultimate	3/10 cost gauge	5/10 air OK
BladeSamurai Outriders	10	3 Unique5 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	7/10 cost gauge	6/10 air OK
Ms. MarvelAmazing Guardians	9	3 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/9 cost gauge	3/9 air OK
DangerUnbreakable X-Men	8	1 Unique5 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	7/8 cost gauge	5/8 air OK
Peni ParkerAmazing Guardians	8	2 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/8 cost gauge	6/8 air OK
Doctor DoomKnights of Doom	8	2 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/8 cost gauge	5/8 air OK
Ghost RiderSamurai Outriders	8	2 Unique4 Skill1 Super1 Ultimate	6/8 cost gauge	3/8 air OK

No documented kit

Hulk, Carnage, Deadpool, Loki. These were not playable in the open beta and have no published movelist, so there is nothing to count. They are absent from the table rather than estimated into it.

How to read this

Type mix is the count of each documented move category, exactly as the source labelled it: Unique Move, Skill, Super Skill, Ultimate Skill. We are not restating what each category costs, because the gauge column below already shows what was actually published per move.

Costs gauge counts moves with a published skill gauge cost. A move with no published cost is missing data, not a confirmed free move — so read this as a floor rather than an exact figure.

Air-usable counts moves explicitly documented as usable in the air. We are not going to tell you what that implies about a character’s gameplan — that is the interpretation this page exists to avoid.

Every number on this page is a count of a field in the move data. Click any fighter to see the moves those counts come from.

Common questions

What is the best character in Marvel Tōkon?: Nobody knows yet, and anyone publishing a confident answer today is guessing. The game only released on August 6, no public frame data exists yet, and the only structured hands-on data is the three-day beta that covered 16 of the 20 launch fighters.
Is there an official Marvel Tōkon tier list?: No. Tier lists are community output, and a meaningful one needs frame data and competitive results that still do not exist this early.
Why doesn't this page assign archetypes like zoner or rushdown?: Because we cannot derive them honestly. We hold move names, categories, gauge costs and air/hold flags — all facts. An archetype is an interpretation of how a character plays, which needs an official statement or real match data. An earlier version of this page guessed archetypes from keywords in move descriptions and got roughly half the roster wrong, including labelling Storm a grappler. We removed it rather than tune it.
What can I actually learn from this page?: How each documented kit is built: how many moves of each type, how many cost skill gauge, and how much of the kit works in the air. Those are counts of published fields. What they mean for how a character plays is your call, not ours — we are not in a position to make it yet.

Keep going

Move database

The data every number here is counted from.

Suggested squads

Starting compositions, with reasoning marked where it is inferred.

Team builder

Draft a 4v4 and share it.

Sources: PlayStation official page