Marvel is marvel, you can get mega fucked with a new team or strat. It would be stupid to deny that chris wasn't top ~3 in the game tho. Stupid amounts of first places in tourneys. It was just evo that cock blocked him for ages. And Justin. But justin won like 7 evos in mvc2, so he had the mental game on lock down.
Random new steamroll tech was still an option in the mid 2010s- that's basically why KBR won the year he did. It's been close to a decade since then, and yeah Chris and Fchamp have basically checked out since then. Still, nothing like a huge tourney and a decent chunk of change to get all the rust knocked off. I don't have a dog in the hunt, but once i figured out how to actually understand and appreciate watching the game.... It's fantastic.