Although the Marvel vs. Capcom series was always much larger in the West than Japan, there were still some in the developer’s home country that put in the time to compete in the hyper crossover fighter at a high level.
One of the most prominent is of course Street Fighter 6 pro Saishunkan|Nemo, who like many of the big fighting game community names in Japan recently got to try out Riot’s 2XKO, formerly known as Project L.
Nemo recently released a new video with English subtitles detailing some of his thoughts and experience with 2XKO as well as discuss the system mechanics.
He says that after playing the game at the development studio, the League of Legends fighter felt “like I came back home” while overlaying one of his tournament sets for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Next the former top ranked Street Fighter 4 player in arcades explains the upcoming game’s Fuse system that allows for a bonus team ability like, double assists per sequence, low health boost, chain multiple Supers like DHC in MvC and two tags per sequence.
Interestingly, he describes Fury’s dash cancel more like FADC in Street Fighter 4 instead of Drive Rush in Street Fighter 6 and how ‘Happy Birthdays’ are definitely going to be a thing in 2XKO with the damage boost being like MvC3’s X-Factor.
Nemo unsurprisingly feels like the Freestyle Fuse will probably offer up the “nastiest” work on offense and that it felt the most powerful from his time with the game, considering it lets you tag twice in a combo instead of just once.
He explains how Double Down could also be very useful by tagging an invincible Super into one with low recovery like an install, which offers some offense and defense at the same time.
Fury may be good for comebacks, but Nemo describes it as potentially the most underwhelming Fuse (with the developers also saying it’s good for beginners) while 2X Assist is the trickiest to get the most out of.
Although much of this video is spent on the Fuse system, Nemo says he’s very interested in talking about the game more when additional footage and information is made public, so it seems the League spin-off has caught his attention for now at least.
Like Marvel vs. Capcom, however, may end up having a more difficult time catching on in Japan as well since League of Legends’ popularity has lagged behind the other big Asian markets with Japan’s playerbase potentially being around 10% of that in South Korea and only 2.3% of those in China.
Being a free fighting game on both console and PC may help 2XKO in the region over LoL, but that of course remains to be seen.
You can check out Nemo’s full video below.