Building comparison
head to head
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3vsUltra Street Fighter IV
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Execution · Grand Arena
A hyper-fast tag fighting game defined by three-character teams and touch-of-death combos.
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Execution · Grand Arena
Frame-perfect execution fused with constant prediction of an adapting human opponent.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 leans Execution (Grand Arena); Ultra Street Fighter IV leans Execution (Grand Arena).
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3Ultra Street Fighter IV
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Long touch-of-death combos demand elite hands
Ultra Street Fighter IV
One-frame links and FADC timing set a brutal hands ceiling
Reads8 vs 8
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Mixups and assist baits versus adapting humans
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Footsies and conditioning the human opponent is the core duel
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Almost fully deterministic
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Almost nothing hidden once both characters are known
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Team composition and matchup knowledge run deep
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Frame data, matchups and option-selects form deep studied theory
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.