Marvel vs Capcom 2/Blackheart

Introduction

Blackheart is one of the Marvel characters in Marvel vs Capcom 2. The son of Mephisto and (badly) seen in Ghostrider.

He's top tier and has one great zoning assist and a tricky ground assist. His infinite can kill anybody not paying attention.

Note that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of MvC2 have a variety of glitches involving Blackheart, such as his super sometimes doing no chip damage.

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Strengths

Weaknesses

His Infinite: Blackheart has a very easy infinite, utilizing his capture demons and air-dash to erase opponent's life bars while gaining meter at a fast rate. Good assist: Blackheart's anti-air assist is good for both zoning and anti-zoning, due to its tracking, huge hitbox, and two hits, though it has slow start-up. Meter build: Blackheart builds meter at a fairly fast rate while just playing his ordinary zoning strategy.

Ground game: With his relative lack of movement tools and good comboes, as well as his big body, it's easy for certain characters to catch and pick apart Blackheart once they land a hit. Characters with great movement like Storm/Magneto and great zoning like Cable can exploit this the best.

Colors

First row: LP, HP, A1. Second row: LK, HK, A2.

Moves

5LP

Stand Jab

5LP

Stand Jab

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	Mid	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

5MP

Stand Strong

5MP

Stand Strong

Stand Strong

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	Mid	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	Launch

5HP

Stand Fierce

5HP

Stand Fierce

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
2~22	Mid	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	Projectile

5LK

Stand Short

5LK

Stand Short

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	Mid	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

5MK

Stand Forward

5MK

Stand Forward

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	Mid	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

5HK

Stand Roundhouse

5HK

Stand Roundhouse

Stand Roundhouse

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
4~21	Mid	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	Projectile

2LP

Crouch Jab
+
2LP

Crouch Jab

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	Mid	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

2MP

Crouch Strong
+
5MP

Crouch Strong

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	Mid	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	Strike

2HP

Crouch Heavy
+
2HP

Crouch Heavy

Crouch Heavy

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	Mid	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

2LK

Crouch Short
+
2LK

Crouch Short

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	Mid	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	Low

2MK

Crouch Forward
+
5MK

Crouch Forward

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	Mid	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

2HK

Crouch Roundhouse
+
2HK

Crouch Roundhouse

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
4~19	Mid	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	Projectile/Launch

8LP

Jump Jab
,,+
8LP

Jump Jab

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	High	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

8MP

Stand Strong
,,+
5MP

Jump Strong

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	High	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	Launch

8HP

Jump Fierce
,,+
8HP

Jump Fierce

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
3~14	High	21	-	-	-	-	-	-	Projectile

8LK

Jump Short
,,+
8LK

Jump Short

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
6	High	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

8MK

Jump Forward
,,+
8MK

Jump Forward

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
9	High	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ender

8HK

Jump Roundhouse
,,+
8HK

Jump Roundhouse

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Adv	Block Adv	Meter Gain	Property
4~21	High	26	-	-	-	-	-	-	Projectile

Special Moves

Name

Command

Damage

Special Properties (glossary)

Inferno

+

The version tracks. Hits twice: once on the way up, once on the way down.

Dark Thunder

+

Super Moves

Name

Command

Damage

Special Properties (glossary)

Armageddon

+ +

Heart of Darkness

+ +

Great chip damage. Ends in normal jump state. This means that if you get a flying screen, you cannot block momentarily on recovery. You can mash to get faster recovery if you don't want to eat an AHVB.

Judgment Day

+ +

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Assist Types

Name

Damage

Cross-Over Combination

Alpha Counter

Notes

Dark Thunder

Judgment Day

Dark Thunder

Good for ground control and for tricking people.

Inferno

Heart of Darkness

Inferno

One of the best assists in the game.

Standing

Armageddon

Standing

The Basics

Combos

-s.HP XX qcb + PP

-s.LK > s.HK, (f,f) df + HP /\ sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.LP > sj.LK

-Corner s.HP XX hcf + LP XX qcb + PP

-Corner s.LK > s.HK XX qcb + PP /\ j.LP > j.LP

-hcb + HP XX qcf + KK

-s.HP XX hcf + LP XX qcf + KK

-s.HP XX hcf + HP XX qcf + PP

-Corner hcf + LP XX qcf + PP

Strategy

Blackheart is skilled at occupying space through his demon normal moves; hitting fierce or roundhouse summons demons of varying effects. You can use those to keep the opponent busy while building meter and maintaining a lead.

Post-Heart of Darkness Flying Screen Problem

If Blackheart connects with the Heart of Darkness super with non-visible screen space remaining away from him, he will be forced into an auto-dash once the super completes. Very unfortunately, he will be vulnerable during this time and can be punished. Thus you could HoD Cable ... only to have Blackheart dash forward and Cable AHVB'ing that as he recovers first.

To minimize this, Dasrik suggests:

"1. Hold up(back) during the forced dash. This is a simple and reliable method but it won't get Blackheart up as quickly as the second method, so moderately quick Cable players can still shoot you.

2. Do the superjump motion, hard, as soon as Blackheart disappears. This is the quick method, but it's difficult and you only have one or two frames to do it. I'm able to do it reliably enough so that I'll go for HOD on Cable if I need to."

Links

• Dasrik's Blackheart FAQ
• Blackheart on Wikipedia