Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is coming off a record-breaking open beta weekend, the place two specific characters reigned supreme over the remainder of the sport’s forged.
Regardless of some evident points that plagued PC customers, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls nonetheless had a massively profitable open beta, raking in extra gamers on Steam than another combating recreation’s open beta earlier than it.
Particularly, Marvel Tokon attracted 33,233 players at its all-time peak, slightly below 500 greater than Road Fighter 6’s famously packed beta again in 2023. For reference, that quantity was 32,787, whereas, for comparability’s sake, Tekken 8’s open beta garnered 15,035 players later that very same 12 months.
Of these gamers, a good portion of them selected two characters greater than any others. These characters are Magick and Blade, respectively, with Magick being the constant chief of the 2. As seen in stats introduced by the FGC’s resident data-compiler and infographic creator AlietteFaye, character utilization in Vibranium ranks and above noticed an awesome majority utilizing Magick total, in addition to utilizing her as a Workforce Chief.
Blade wasn’t far behind, rating because the second most-used character total. His place fell to fourth when it got here to Workforce Leaders, with Spidey and Shuri in second and third place, although he was by far the most well-liked Help Character out of the lot. Magick nonetheless maintained her reputation in this regard, coming in second as an Help.
Magneto and Spider-Man have been Tokon’s third and fourth-most fashionable picks, each in total utilization and as Help characters, whereas on the opposite finish of the lineup, Hazard was constantly the least fashionable character in all points. Miss Marvel was simply forward of her in total utilization and assists, however was way more fashionable as a Workforce Chief.
A remaining take a look at the character utilization in Vibranium and above throughout Tokon’s open beta.
Information was taken simply earlier than the servers went down!(Pray that Arcsys makes the leaderboards a bit simpler to navigate/filter in order that I can do extra detailed breakdowns.)#MARVELTOKON #MARVELTōkon pic.twitter.com/atAQytKGhI
— AlietteFaye | Day -232 Ryu Hater (@AlietteFaye) July 27, 2026
Whereas this knowledge was solely compiled inside the recreation’s highest ranks, it actually displays lots of the matches we noticed over the weekend. You couldn’t go surfing with out seeing a Magick or a Blade, a pattern that speaks to their reputation inside the broader gaming neighborhood.
It’s little shock that Blade was one of many most-used characters in the course of the open beta. Followers have been pining for one more Blade film and online game for ages now, with Marvel President Kevin Feige lately admitting he felt like a “gigantic loser and failure” for not getting the Mahershala Ali flick off the bottom after seven years.
The Daywalker’s recreation adaptation can also be in peril, with Xbox trying to both promote or shut Arkane, the studio chargeable for its improvement, in the thick of Microsoft’s huge restructuring efforts.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma mentioned the event home “is starting required session with its Works Council to evaluation potential strategic choices,” leaving followers hopeful that there’s some gentle on the finish of the tunnel for a Blade recreation.
For now, gamers have Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls to sit up for, which releases on August 6, 2026. Marvel’s Wolverine is not far behind both, releasing in September 15, 2026 for the PlayStation 5.
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