Marvel Tokon: Combating 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 obtrusive points that plagued PC customers, Marvel Tokon: Combating Souls nonetheless had a massively profitable open beta, raking in additional gamers on Steam than every other preventing recreation’s open beta earlier than it.
Particularly, Marvel Tokon attracted 33,233 gamers 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 gamers later that very same yr.
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 offered by the FGC’s resident data-compiler and infographic creator AlietteFaye, character utilization in Vibranium ranks and above noticed an amazing majority utilizing Magick general, in addition to utilizing her as a Group Chief.
Blade wasn’t far behind, rating because the second most-used character general. His place fell to fourth when it got here to Group Leaders, with Spidey and Shuri in second and third place, although he was by far the preferred Help Character out of the lot. Magick nonetheless maintained her reputation on this regard, coming in second as an Help.
Magneto and Spider-Man had been Tokon’s third and fourth-most common picks, each in general utilization and as Help characters, whereas on the opposite finish of the lineup, Hazard was persistently the least common character in all features. Miss Marvel was simply forward of her in general utilization and assists, however was way more common as a Group Chief.
A remaining have a look at the character utilization in Vibranium and above throughout Tokon’s open beta.
Knowledge 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 information was solely compiled throughout the recreation’s highest ranks, it definitely displays lots of the matches we noticed over the weekend. You couldn’t go browsing with out seeing a Magick or a Blade, a development that speaks to their reputation throughout the broader gaming group.
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 be in peril, with Xbox seeking to both promote or shut Arkane, the studio liable for its growth, within the thick of Microsoft’s huge restructuring efforts.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma stated the event home “is starting required session with its Works Council to evaluate 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: Combating 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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