YMMV / Marvel Future Fight

• Adaptation Displacement: Most of the cast is based on their MCU looks by default, with several core characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Thor don't even have traditional versions of the characters available at all.
• Audience-Alienating Era: The game seems to be going through this as of recently, due to different reasons.
  • During 1.7.0 onwards, newly introduced characters have become much harder to farm biometrics for, with the worst offenders being Carnage in 1.9.5 due to being locked behind a paywall, and the newest characters of Patch 2.0.0 (Corvus Glaive, Black Dwarf and Proxima Midnight) because their biometrics and farming materials are unlocked from the World Boss Raid mode, which many consider to be near impossible.
  • Recent updates have made the game's reliance on RNG more blatant, such as Timeline Battle's new matchmaking algorithm introduced in 1.9.5, gear upgrading from +15 to +20 requiring a variable amount of biometrics and Dimension Debris in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. update and lately, Special Gear and Comic Card upgrading in the Black Order update, much to the dismay of fans.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Just check and see how many times you see Yellowjacket, Giant Man, and Spider-Man in the top PVP player teams.
• Complete Monster: MODOK, head of A.I.M. is revealed to be the instigator of the collapse of reality in this game. He sends Jocasta into the past to distract the Avengers from his plans to destroy the universe and remake it in his image by having Jocasta distract the Avengers from exposing MODOK's goals by making them focus by other villains such as Ultron, HYDRA and Fisk. This in turn leaves the Avengers with no time to stop reality from destroying itself. When the Avengers defeat their Bad Future counterparts in Chapter 8, MODOK reveals that he was responsible for sending Jocasta to the past to prevent the Avengers from stopping him, having done this 90,000 times in the past before, with each effort having the same outcome in facilitating the destruction of reality, with every reality being more unstable than the last. He subsequently orders Jocasta to reset the timeline, leaving the Avengers to their fate while he recreates the universe in his own image.
• Game-Breaker: The game's monthly updates ensure that most of the initially Game-Breaker are quickly overshadowed by new characters who are just as good if not better. As such there are a lot of characters who fit this category.
  • The Ant-Man update introduced Yellowjacket and Giant-Man, both of whom are so much more powerful than the rest of the roster that newer, harder content using enemies at levels higher than the actual level cap at the time had to be introduced just to slow teams using them down.
  • Silk, introduced during the Spider-Verse/Christmas update, was immediately received by the fanbase as the Speed class equivalent to Yellowjacket- doing outrageous damage numbers, with a killer set of skills, extensive stun time on her enemies and fantastic stats. The only thing currently keeping the game from being as overrun with Silks as it is with Yellowjackets and Hank Pyms is that she can't be farmed, and requires players to slowly build her up from the daily box or pay real money.
  • And that's nothing compared with the true gamebreaker personified: Loki. He doesn't only have an invulnerability shield, the powerful Universal class (no weaknesses to other classes and extra damage against everything but other universals), and extremely high damage, but he's able to summon clones that are unable to take damage (the other summoner characters in game - Ultron, Kingpin, Sister Grimm- are able to summon clones, but they take damage and can eventually die), and they spam his most damaging skill. He summons five of them, suffice to say, if he summons the clones, you're already dead. Netmarble didn't find this enough, and they gave him a Lady Loki uniform that not only increases her stats but also gives her crowd control in the form of freeze. Loki is literally so broken that he's the only character able to complete Alliance Battle by him/herself with a bit of help from Ronan and Groot.
  • Corvus Glaive from the Black Order update (2.0.0) has been received as one of these due to the fact that he can solo Story Mission 10-8 while at three stars due to his Piercing Strike ability, which paralyzes opponents for three seconds, coupled with his skill cooldown leadership ability, can potentially allow Corvus to keep his enemies locked. Similar to the Silk example above, he's locked behind World Boss Raid mode, which can only be accessed when the player has an adequate amount of 6-star characters.
  • Captain America (Sharon Rogers) was quickly recognized as extremely powerful given her massive damage output and ability to reflect damage via her 3* skill. She became a very popular tank who managed to avoid the worst of the Game-Breaker decay via her uniform introduced in the 3.0 update that gave her a set of new skills allowing her to deal even more damage.
  • Doctor Strange trumps all of them with his status as a T2 character who's T2 skill gives him the ability to freeze all enemies in a large area as well as two skills with i-frames and his 6* allowing him to become temporarily invincible with all of his skills having their cooldown reduced to a single second and massive damage boosts. In addition, his uniforms allow one of his skills to heal him as well as to reflect energy damage and can be easily spammed due to the instant cooldown his 6* grants him. He is overall considered one of the strongest character, with his combination.
  • After the X-Men update, The Wolverine arrived with the ability to heal 5% of his health every other second. In addition his natural T2 skill allowed him to increase both Critical Rate and Damage by 50 ensuring he lives up to his status in the comics. as such he is nearly invincible when against most characters with only other recent game-breakers able to defeat him at 6 stars due to the sheer amount of damage that is required to get through his healing factor.
  • However even Wolverine was overshadowed by Jean Grey who as the Phoenix can deal massive amounts of energy damage and who has a similar 6* skill as Dr. Strange allowing her to become deal even more damage and be immune to all damage for 10 seconds compared to Strange's 7 seconds. In the unlikely event she is able to be beaten she can revive with all of her hit points once every five minutes.
    • Jean started to fall from the meta until she got a uniform that granted a 20% to 35% boost to her attack and defense and her T3 skill. Now she's once again one of the strongest characters.
  • Quicksilver quickly gained a reputation equal to Wolverine and Strange thanks to his i-frames preventing enemies getting a solid lock on him. Due to his speed type, he has a bonus against most blast types making him an amazing counter to Stange, Jean, or just about every other characters. Other than a lucky hit from a high tier character or a Wolverine that can heal at the same rate as the damage, the only character with a good chance against him in Timeline is another Quicksilver.
  • The Winter Soldier was considered to be a lower mid-tier character at best since launch. However, with the infinity War update, he got a major boost with his uniform with gave him a major boost to his skills and damage.
  • Scarlet Witch was always considered to be high-tier but her IW uniform greatly improved her skills allowing her 5* ability to stun even World Bosses with her mind control ability and her 3* skill allowed her to create a continuous beam while still allowing her to move. She quickly became one of the highest damage dealers in the game thanks in part to her 15-25% uniform boost.
  • Deadpool is essential the speed counterpart to Wolverine with insane healing, tons of I-frames, and being able to rank up to T3. His X-Force uniform made him even more difficult to kill with a 15-25% boost to attack and defense.
• Fan Nickname: Most of the characters with alternate costumes that make a significant difference in their gameplay have one to differentiate them. Groot becomes "Throot" when wearing his Secret Wars: Thors costume, Kingpin often becomes "Blingpin" or "Blastpin" when he's in the Armor Wars costume, and so on.
• High-Tier Scrappy: Teams comprising Loki, Silk, Hulkbuster and Yellowjacket are often derided as "the meme team", for being so much better than the rest of the roster.
• Low-Tier Letdown: Lash, Drax and Elektra often get mocked for their low-tier status.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The sound design in the game in-general is phenomenal, but the sound of Captain America's shield bashing someone, Iron Man's repulsors, and Yellowjacket's lasers cycling up stand out.
• Scrappy Mechanic: ISO-8. Like in many Marvel free-to-play games, you collect various types of ISO-8 to enhance certain stats. The reason the system is so hated is because, as easy as it is to ignore, maxing out your character's potential requires you to reroll a randomly attributed ISO set, most of which are relatively useless, until you get one of the higher tier sets, costing hundreds of thousands of Gold per character. Then, you find out that once you've socketed an ISO-8 shard on a character, it can't be removed without using the real money currency, forcing you to commit to it or lose it forever. Finally, the path to upgrading ISO-8 to their max potential takes longer than nearly any other grind in the game- getting a full-potential ISO-8 set on one character will take longer than most other in-game tasks combined.
  • Tier 2 Characters, introduced in update 2.0.0, have now taken the brunt of the communities anger. In practice, they're effectively a seventh star for pre-existing characters, but there are also specific Tier 2 characters that can't be ranked normally. Tier 2 characters are significantly stronger than traditional ones and have completely destroyed the meta in all PVP game modes, especially high tier Timeline Battles and Universal Battleworld events, and they cost a disgusting amount of currency that drops in minuscule amounts from the World Boss Raids. Getting a fully ranked Tier 2 character takes thousands and thousands of Black Anti-Matter, Chaos Norn Stones and Gold, and they don't level up with experience- only gaining XP when fed other character's bios. While a player can also Tier 2 certain characters already at six stars, the Tier 2 upgrades for characters that are actually farmable are essentially useless- they cost significantly too much Black Anti-Matter and Norns and provide only a minor boost that doesn't come close to matching the native Tier 2s, who wold make much better use of those resources. Of course, the problems can be mitigated by simply buying the resources- leading to accusations that Netmarble has introduced the mechanic solely to make the game Pay-To-Win to bleed the most resources from their playerbase as possible.
• That One Boss: Everyone in Villain Siege- from Destroyer not taking any damage from half the attacks on the roster, to Malekith's nightmarish stuns and environmental hazards doing stupid damage, to the frustratingly hard to see and sometimes performance tanking death lasers in Doc Ock's boss arena, to Kingpin and Venom's stats being intentionally designed to force you to tackle them with several fully leveled characters just to get by.
  • The Black Order characters in version 2.0.0's new game mode, World Boss, makes Villain Siege look easy in comparison. Even fully ranked, level-capped heroes will do little to no damage and fall easily to the World Bosses since they have an insane HP pool and elevated attack and defense.
  • Master Mold quickly took the spot as the most hated boss for a while given that his game mode required two other players (usually random) to fight. Between other players not carrying their weight, frequent crashes, and Master Mold's highly damaging attacks including one that mind-controlled another player transferring the damage they did to another player. Giant Boss Raid became despised by many players, especially given the relative minor rewards and the few meta characters who were capable of dealing significant damage.
  • Once player had gotten used to Master Mold and assembled a reasonable roster to fight him, Galactus arrived becoming far more hated than Master Mold ever could. With extremely damaging attack and enough health that it became near-impossible to beat him without all three players having extremely powerful characters. The mode also requires coordination between the players in order to survive several moves. If that wasn't enough, crashes and bugs were far more frequent in his stage leading most of the battles to end with the players kicked after a server failure. To cap it off, the stage is only available Saturday and actually has worthwhile rewards being the only place to get Silver Surfer bios.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Player-base reactions to Timeline Battle as of update 1.9.5 have not been positive due to the changes in matchmaking. Prior to 1.9.5, players were able to choose from a list of opponents to battle and if they weren't satisfied, they could refresh the list with no cost. Fans were not pleased to find out that Timeline Battle's matchmaking was changed so it relied on RNG since players were assigned an opponent at random and finding a new opponent cost a cumulative amount of gold, starting with 500 and increasing from there. Update 2.0.0 then got rid of the ability to find a new opponent altogether and made Timeline Battle a live PvP game mode, which completely outraged the player base.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Many characters criticized for being too weak have been rescued when a uniform or general balance update release buffs them considerably; Doctor Octopus, Singularity, and Iron Fist have all been rescued after being treated like jokes at one point.
• Unexpected Character: There are five major recurring characters in the game's story: Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Mission Control Jocasta... and Agent of SHIELD's Jemma Simmons, who the early story chapters focus pretty heavily on, surprisingly. Among the playable characters, Angela stands out among a roster of MCU characters and their supporting casts.
  • The Secret Wars update added three playable characters: one of which was Singularity, a character who had made a grand total of two comic appearances prior to her release, with almost no characterization or demonstration of her abilities. And this was a Spoiler to boot, as her name wasn't revealed until her fifth appearance!
  • For Agents of SHIELD, the odd choice is Lincoln Campbell. He's a Canon Foreigner who doesn't exist in the comics, and at the time of the update (near the beginning of Season Three) he was a relatively recent addition to the show and hadn't established himself a regular character yet. (And he died at the end of the season, though the game devs couldn't have seen that coming.)
  • The Halloween update went three-for-three for obscure characters; with Lash, Elsa Bloodstone, and Warwolf. Lash had been getting some press at the time as the latest big villain in Agents of SHIELD, but Warwolf is especially niche as he's only in a little-known Monster Mash incarnation of the Howling Commandos.
  • The arrival of the X-Men is seen as a total shock and a very welcome surprise as many fans expected them not to show up at all!
  • And at long last, Marvel's First Family, the Fantastic Four, has finally arrived, finally ending the dreaded embargo which put them and the X-Men in limbo.