What is the most overrated fighting game?
Reputations built on marketing, nostalgia, or one very good year. Every entry here has a defence worth hearing.
1Mortal KombatRemembered for the blood; its 1992 fighting engine was thinner than the games it outsold.
2Street FighterThe franchise everyone names as the benchmark, which spent the V years losing that argument.
3Super Smash Bros. MeleeTwenty-five years of competitive devotion built on a 2001 game its own publisher keeps sidelining.
4Tekken 7A long-running headline game whose rage-art comebacks split its own audience.
5Marvel vs. Capcom 2Beloved as a spectacle, and a game where a handful of characters dominated everything.
6Mortal Kombat: ArmageddonSold on a roster of every character ever, at the cost of any of them being balanced.
7Street Fighter VLaunched in 2016 without an arcade mode and spent years being rebuilt in public.
8Killer Instinct (1994)Marketed on combo counters that ran into the dozens, which flattered the player more than it tested them.
9Soulcalibur IIPraised as the peak of weapon fighting, and remembered mostly for its guest characters.
10Virtua FighterHeld up as the purist's choice by people who mostly did not play it.
11Dead or AliveA genuinely fast counter-based fighter that spent two decades being marketed on everything else.
12Injustice: Gods Among UsCarried by the DC licence more than by its own systems.
13Mortal Kombat vs. DC UniverseA crossover that had to drop the Fatalities to hold its rating.
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Invert the question and both franchises become candidates, because the charge is being famous for more than you delivered: https://youpick.best/articles/mortal-kombat-vs-street-fighter-ranked
