Marvel Contest of Champions

What Marvel Contest of Champions is

Marvel Contest of Champions is a fighting game for phones, built around collecting Marvel characters and fighting with them. The listing describes it as free-to-play, with a storyline, quests and a roster that includes Spider-Man, Venom, Iron Man, Hulk, Daredevil, Doctor Doom and Wolverine. It suits players who want Marvel fights with a role-playing side: building a squad, upgrading it, and working through a campaign.

Each battle is a one-on-one match. The fights run in real time, so timing matters more than menus.

Fighting one-on-one in real time

Combat centres on dodging, blocking and chaining combos. The listing also points to Special Attacks that differ for each Champion, and to signature abilities such as Spider-Man's Spider-Sense, Wolverine's Cellular Regeneration and Quicksilver's Super Speed. Fights also use class advantages and counters, so the match-up between two fighters affects who has the edge.

The listing says the touch controls on quest maps were built for mobile, rather than adapted from a console layout.

Collecting and upgrading Champions

The roster is listed at over 350 Champions, and you collect them as you go. Levelling a Champion raises its stats, abilities and special moves, and the listing says more powerful Champions have better versions of all three. Heroes can be grouped into teams to earn bonuses: pairing Spider-Man with Venom or other Arachnid Hunters, or building a Guardians of the Galaxy squad, triggers a team bonus.

Optional in-app purchases buy virtual currency, which is spent on virtual items, including a random selection of them.

Following the storyline and quest maps

The single-player side is a storyline told through quests, with battles against villains such as Venom and Carnage and a cosmic threat to the Marvel Universe. Fights take place in locations the listing names, including Avengers Tower, Hell's Kitchen, Asgard and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Each quest map is explored before the battles start.

Quest content sits alongside the team-building side of the game, so progress through the story and the squad you build are linked.

Playing with friends and other Summoners

You can join or build an Alliance with friends and other Summoners. Alliances then take part in Alliance Wars against other Alliances worldwide. Battlegrounds let you challenge individual Summoners, and Incursions let you team up with one other Summoner to clear multiple zones of challenges.