lol smash, great game but preferred melee.

Funny... cant beleive that some of you guys have the demo..

In the end who knows who will end up being top tier or just broken... but based on the demo and the videos we seen.. heres your top 5 in order....

1- Scorpion

2- Scorpion

3- noiprocS

4- Scorpion

5- Scorpion

It's a bit pointless to speculate in most cases but then again a lot of people guessed the Top Tier characters in MVC3 before it came out.

I'd probably say from the small bits I've seen that the top tier could feature Sonya,Subby and possibly Johnny.

from the demo definitly Johnny Cage and Scorpion

but I wait till release

Noob,Ermac, Scorpion, Kung Lao and Johnny Cage are top-tier

"JOHNNYOHHHYEAHHH Wrotefrom the demo definitly Johnny Cage and Scorpion
but I wait till release "
I agree

JOHNNYOHHHYEAHHH Wrote:"from the demo definitly Johnny Cage and Scorpion
but I wait till release "



I agree

I dont believe in Tiers's

Since this game is aiming for the competitive scene, an accurate tier list will be released after a substantial amount of tourny results.

I don't really know what I'm talking about here, since I haven't played the demo and tend to suck at fighting games, but I thought Sub Zero was supposed to be the best out of that line up? Just difficult to master.

As far as tiers go, from what we've seen I'd say Kung Lao, Sonya Blade, Noob, maaaaybe Jax, and maaaybe Ermac. But again, I don't know much about fighters. I really hope Ermac and Cyrax are top tier, but I haven't seen enough gameplay from them. The Ermac/Lui Kang gameplay seemed like it was done by people who either weren't very good at the game, or were much more focused on just showing off each characters special moves.

From what i've seen so far.


Top Tier

1. Sonya (not bias)
2. Kung Lao
3. Noob Saibot
4. Kabal
5. Tie Ermac/ Johnny Cage

To those who played an updated demo like the newest at Pax East:

Does anyone know if Scorpion/Cage got nerfed in those demos? Like can Scorpion do more than two teleports in a combo and do 30%+ without trying? lol. Any word on this would be very important to me thanks.

Sub-Zero is God Tier. That is all.

I did not try Scorpion's combos but I did see that his jab block string infinite was still there and Mileena's combos were in. The damage scaling was the same. It seemed that the PAX East build and demo build were similar, if not identical, in gameplay. Probably from the same period of development.

whoever i decide to master will be high tier

if shang can morph to everyone, him too.

top 5

1. noob
2. kung lao
3. scorpion
4. kabal/raiden
5. lui kang/c. sub zero (haven't seen them yet, but i bet money on them breaking the top 5)

My own top 5 is:

1. Sonya ( I'm bias, but gameplay wise she looks great )
2. Jade ( love how fast she looks )
3. Ermac ( became one of my faves since MKD and looks sick )
4. Sindel ( love her screams and flying )
5. tie with Cyber Sub-Zerp ) He looks amazing and Smoke ( He looks amazing to

Shang Tsung has the potential of two characters because of his morphing and he has a health-regen move.

Johnny Cage is very fast and has some killer combos with his kicks.

Noob has a buttload of different specials for pretty much every situation and most of his moves keep him at a safe distance (he sends his clone).

Kung Lao, allegedly. I wouldn't be surprised since NRS seems to love him this time out (giving him the best fatalities and all).

Maybe Raiden.


This is "Guess the top tier", not "what are your favorite characters?".

No not really I really really think they are one of the top tier of this MK
Sindel never was a fave of mine and I never played csz or human smoke

I think people are forgetting that Shang Tsung's morphs don't affect his tier very much, if at all. Competitive tier lists of UMK3 and Trilogy would consistently place Shang Tsung very close to the bottom, despite his ability to morph into high tier characters and bosses.

Still, it wouldn't surprise me if Shang was upper mid tier this time around, as he seems to have special moves which are great for juggling and potential for heavy damage combos.

Regardless, I would imagine the top 5 to look something like this:

1. Kabal
2. Noob Saibot
3. Scorpion
4. Ermac
5. Kung Lao

Also I am sure that Kratos is likely in the top 10 for the PS3 version.

i dont know about that.

i've seen alot of ridiculous shang tsung users back in the day (mk3/umk)in arcades, and no one really could fuck with them.

the whole point is to morph into OTHER top tier characters all the time and rarely use shang.

i had a top 5 list of morphs i knew by heart and used constantly like kabal, smoke, baraka, lui kang and jax.

There's a consdierable trade-off to using Shang though, and that's the time it takes him to morph into his chosen warrior and his uncontrollable morph back into his default form(after, what was it, 10 seconds?). He's left completely out in the open during each. Good Shang players will make a mental note of when the best time to morph is, and when they're about to morph back.

Having everyone's arsenal available is nice, but it's not without risk. I wouldn't consider his morphing ability a free pass to the top.

Obviously just a guess at this stage but i have to go with Kratos.

Noob probably in a second.

I'm curious to see how much different the final product is from the demo. I hope they did a good job of balancing but we will have to see.

Not many people mentioning Cyrax. I thought he looked like an absolute beast in his early videos.