GOLD WAR MACHINE IS BROKEN AND HERE'S WHY...

Justin Wong labels Gold War Machine as his worst matchup in Marvel vs Capcom 1, struggling against the character's cheap, broken toolkit. The set against a skilled War Machine player runs extremely tight, with Wong forced to adapt mid-match to counter the character's pressure and mixup patterns. War Machine's offensive coverage and defensive options create problems Wong explicitly identifies as design imbalance rather than execution gap—a rare admission from a player of his level. The back-and-forth reveals specific situations where War Machine's frame data and combo routes give him disproportionate advantage, making the matchup a genuine lab problem rather than a stylistic conflict.