We’re not breaking any news here when we say that Justin Wong is an absolute menace in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (and we mean that in the most complimentary of ways).
The fighting game legend who is widely considered the best of the best in the game has been having a blast with the new Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection lately, with dozens of clips of his incredible abilities being posted and shared on social media since the game released last month. Well, throw another unbelievable clip on the top of the pile as Justin himself recently shared footage of him hitting the sneakiest Akuma Raging Demon set up we’ve ever seen in MvC2.
This highlight begins like any other with JWong having two characters with low health left on his team while his opponent is down to their last one and is just a couple of hits away from being knocked out.
In this particular match, we see Justin using Psylocke and Akuma with his Psylocke being the active character. They face off against a solo Magneto, and things seem pretty par for the course as Justin super jumps around the screen and whiffs air attacks to try and catch the opponent meeting him in the air.
There comes a point where Justin uses one of Psylocke’s supers in the air just out of range of the opponent. Magneto doesn’t make contact with it, so he ends up dropping down out of view as the camera is fixed up high on Psylocke.
Now, in this scenario any player would stay grounded and wait for Psylocke’s telekinetic butterflies to disappear before trying to punish as jumping up to try and catch her would likely result in being hit themselves. Knowing this, Justin Wong performed a Delayed Hyper Combo to cancel the ending of Psylocke’s super into, you guessed it, Akuma’s Raging Demon.
Within the blink of an eye, we see the camera shift down to the ground, Akuma appear and strike his Raging Demon pose, and snatch the unsuspecting Magneto up in the super for the KO. It all happens so fast, and with it starting completely off-screen, this is easily the sneakiest and filthiest Raging Demon we’ve seen in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
Even Justin Wong tweeted, “Be honest… You got caught right?” along with the clip signifying just how aware he is of the potency of this set up. I don’t think anyone in this scenario would have escaped this before seeing the clip below.
Be honest…
You got caught right? pic.twitter.com/rkKM9TWUko
— Justin Wong (@JWonggg) October 17, 2024