AbOut MSFWAR
MSFWAR is a free, community-built companion for MARVEL Strike Force. It helps alliances win Alliance War, Crucible, and Arena by turning hundreds of player-tested battles into fast, searchable counters — plus guides for live events, a redemption-code tracker, alliance recruiting boards, and a video hub for the MSF creator community.
The Mission
MARVEL Strike Force is an ever-growing game, and figuring out what actually beats a given defense usually means digging through Discord messages, spreadsheets, and scattered videos. MSFWAR exists to put that knowledge in one place: type in a defense, and instantly see the teams that counter it, how hard they punch up, and any relevant notes for that counter.
MSFWAR started as a project just for my alliance cluster The Jetson Squad Community, but quickly grew beyond that as I found a real passion for expanding the functions and features of the website. It began as a War Counter website only, hence the domain name. Our original database was built by the one and only Supa, who has been instrumental in helping me with this project.
The goal has always been the same: make the site genuinely useful, keep it free, and let the community's real results — not guesswork — drive every recommendation.
Who Runs It
MSFWAR.com is built and maintained mostly by one person — ChandyMan — a long-time MARVEL Strike Force player who wanted a better way to share counters with the community. A small team of contributors and alliance-mates pitches in too, testing teams, submitting confirmed wins, and helping keep the guides current as the game changes.
The counter data is community-sourced: players submit the teams they used and the results they got, and those are shared for everyone to use. That's what keeps the recommendations grounded in what really works.
How We Handle Counter Information
Read How Counters Are Reviewed for source credits, submission review, the meaning of votes and power figures, and how to request a correction.
What MSFWAR Offers
- War, Crucible & Arena counters — search any defensive team and see the offenses that beat it, with punch-up ratings and confirmed power levels.
- Event & tower guides — floor-by-floor help for live events, including confirmed teams and a game-plan builder.
- Crucible Planner — map out your entire Crucible defense and offense, room by room.
- Redemption codes — the latest working codes in one place.
- Alliance resources — recruiting boards for players looking for an alliance and alliances looking for members.
- MSF TV — the newest videos from the MSF creators we follow, all in one feed.
If you connect your MSF account, the site can also read your roster (through the official MSF API) to tailor counters and power estimates to the characters you actually own. Account connection uses browser storage and server-side session records — see our Privacy Policy for details.
Join the Community
Have a counter to share, spotted something wrong, or just want to talk strategy? The best place to reach us is the MSFWAR Discord. You can also support the site through Buy Me a Coffee.
How Counters Are Reviewed
MSFWAR brings together community counter data, game information, and player feedback. This page explains where the recommendations come from, what a review means, and how to report a result that no longer works.
Who maintains the information
ChandyMan maintains MSFWAR with help from contributors, moderators, and players. Supa built the original War counter database and has been instrumental in the project. We credit Supa and the community members who maintain source data, test battles, share notes, and create linked videos. MSFWAR adds search, roster and planning tools, community feedback, and moderator corrections to make that knowledge usable.
Sources and their limits
- Source spreadsheets: War, Crucible, and Arena counter lists are loaded from the project's maintained counter spreadsheet. Entries reflect the information recorded by its maintainers. A sheet entry is not a claim that the site team independently repeated the battle.
- Website submissions: players can submit battle lineups, power figures, a win or loss, notes, and supporting evidence through Submit a Counter. Submissions enter a review queue before appearing in the approved counter list.
- Community notes and event contributions: these are player observations. They may be posted directly under the relevant feature's rules and should be distinguished from the approved counter-submission queue. A contributor byline identifies a submitted observation where shown.
- Official game data: Scopely's API provides game and roster information used by site features. Access to that API does not mean Scopely endorses a matchup or verifies the site's recommendations.
- Creator videos: linked or embedded videos belong to their creators. Read the accompanying matchup notes and check the video's mode and context; the link alone is not a guarantee that the same result will apply to your roster.
How counter submissions are reviewed
A moderator or authorized contributor can inspect a pending submission's mode, offense and defense lineups, both power figures, reported result, notes, and any screenshot supplied. They can approve or reject it, correct the displayed team names or mode, edit the published note, and later unpublish an approved entry. Approval is an editorial decision based on the available information; it does not mean a reviewer personally repeated every fight.
When a submission is approved, its lineup, power comparison, and published notes become part of the counter list. Evidence screenshots remain in the review workflow rather than being included in the public approved-counter feed. Source-sheet updates and direct contributor edits follow their own maintenance paths, so not every entry has an identical review history.
What the numbers mean
Votes are community feedback, not measured win rates. Signed-in accounts can maintain one current upvote or downvote for a particular matchup, change it, or remove it. We do not observe every attempt, and the displayed vote totals do not count every win and loss.
Punch-up and punch-down describe power comparisons. For a reviewed submission, the percentage comes from the difference between submitted offense and defense power, relative to the defense power. It is not a probability of winning. Source-sheet ratings and other rankings should be read with their notes and game-mode context.
Confirmed power records a reported successful setup. It is not a guarantee that every lineup at or above that total will succeed, or that a lower total cannot work. Character investment, abilities, ISOs, substitutions, room rules, turn order, and game updates can change the result.
How downvotes trigger review
A matchup reaching five total downvotes triggers an automatic moderator report. It automatically hides from ordinary counter results when it has five more downvotes than upvotes. For example, one upvote and five downvotes trigger a report but do not yet reach the hiding threshold; one upvote and six downvotes do. If the difference falls below five, an automatically hidden entry can return. Moderators can also hide, correct, or remove entries.
Updates and corrections
The lists can change when source maintainers update their sheets, contributors publish corrections, or the community supplies new evidence. A refreshed page or downloaded sheet is not proof that each matchup was recently retested. We do not currently display a verified last-tested date for every counter. Where a note or video provides a battle date, season, or room condition, use that context; otherwise, treat its freshness as unspecified.
For a correction, use the matchup's vote or community-note controls, submit a battle result, or reach the team through Contact or Discord. Include the game mode, exact defense and offense, power figures, relevant room or event rules, and what happened. A screenshot or video and the date of the attempt help reviewers assess the report.
Crawler & Advertising Files
These public files help search engines discover MSFWAR and identify its authorized advertising seller.
- robots.txt
Instructions for search-engine crawlers, including a link to the sitemap.
- sitemap.xml
A list of public pages that search engines can discover.
- ads.txt
The authorized seller record for advertising on MSFWAR.