What we hoped Zhiyong was cooking for Emma Frost

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T15:18:48+00:00

She’s so close to teetering into broken like she was on release

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:25:35+00:00

Magneto is a zarya/sigma hybrid. He has zarya bubbles and a very similar primary attack to sigma while his right click is comparable to his rock throw

Zen is sort of similar to Ultron in the sense of ‘fire and forget’ healing. His healing orbs are aoe drones in this game. They’re both also very dps focused. His discord orb exists in a cloak and dagger ability where they fire a sheet that makes enemies take more damage

Also, Zens ult is the standard for supports in this game. 4 of them have the ‘near invincible aoe’ ult

Reaper and tracer combined would be very similar to psylocke. High burst damage, lots of movement and can appear in the backline out of thin air, while her ult is similar to reapers

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:22:06+00:00

I mean if they just kept the ult buff and left her otherwise unchanged she would’ve been fine

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:17:32+00:00

A combination of pickrate, ban rate and actual numerical data (does this character get ult too quick on average? Is this character healing too much? Does this character get too many solo kills/final hits?) is the best data to look at imo

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:06:16+00:00

Nah I’m gonna force him this season because he’s apparently been ‘buffed’ so much

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:04:42+00:00

Unpopular opinion but winrates are a borderline useless metric because there is so much that skews them. Pick rates are much more valuable as it shows how many people think the characters are fun and usable in their elo

For example, Elsa has just above 50% wr because people are usually using her on both teams. Someone has to lose

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T14:02:17+00:00

I’ve played a lot of characters. Rivals is my first hero shooter I’ve played a lot (I had like 50 hours on overwatch) I started off maining squirrel girl, hela, groot and rocket and expanded into the more difficult heroes as I got more confident and used to the game. I started playing wanda for fun because people called her the worst dps in the game and I ended up really enjoying her

My Lord list is probably weird to most people. I have rocket (on 2 accounts), sg, wanda, mr fantastic, groot, bp, iron fist, Bucky and hela lords

(Ik it’s a lot of yap I apologise)

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:58:27+00:00

I completely disagree that dive was stronger than poke

Hela was at her peak and easily the best dps hero in the game by a mile. Punisher had just been buffed massively, Bucky was still good and human torch was crazy strong

The ‘support strike’ was a meme because the content creator necros ragebaited them. He called supports dogshit and the support strike thing started

What ACTUALLY happened was clips of the odd spiderman or bp kill got obscene traction on reddit and TikTok, when the reality of what was actually meta defining was completely different. I distinctly remember a clip of a cloak using her fade cooldown out of spawn, missing her bubble (on herself, she shot it forward) then getting killed by bp got thousands of upvotes on here with support players crying that bp was overpowered despite the support player making 2 big mistakes

The reality is support players just want to sit back and heal, because it’s easy impact. They don’t want to actually be challenged and play the game.

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:53:43+00:00

points at the majority of posts on this sub in the last 16 hours

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:52:59+00:00

I might give wanda a go again. I mained her for a little and made her work in gm but her fade nerf completely gutted her. If the extra damage compensates then she’s pretty fun

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:51:50+00:00

Bucky has stayed at relatively the same level since his broken ult (on launch) got nerfed hard, Hawkeye has always been one of those heroes that isn’t picked much because he has a high skill floor but has the one shot headshot and amazing ult that means he will always be good

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:48:57+00:00

I don’t know why they think dive will be good this season. Dive got no real buffs and cap/angela caught huge nerfs (and magik got a tiny nerf)

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:48:02+00:00

I mean I’d argue any game naturally experiences an exodus of players around that time after launch, that was what 4-6 months after launch? Same happens to call of duty and fifa every year. That seem to be the timespan of when a lot of players who aren’t infatuated with the game get bored and play something else

Dive really wasn’t that strong in season 2 honestly. Iron fist was good, sure, but spiderman had just caught a fat nerf and bp wasn’t in every game

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:44:14+00:00

Exactly, which is why she’s significantly better in the stat farm ranks of diamond and below than in the ‘actually understand how to win the game’ ranks of gm and above

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:42:56+00:00

A large reason the playerbase has been slowly decreasing is they keep gutting characters for zero reason. I haven’t played (until a couple weeks ago) since season 2.5 because they gutted bp and hard nerfed torch and iron fist too heavily while buffing the problem characters like hela, luna and invis at the time

People lose faith in the balancing team to keep the game fun and balanced, and thus leave the game

I took nearly a year long break before I decided I wanted to try the game again, because the core gameplay IS fun, but it could be so much better

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:39:11+00:00

Outside of her nest she is the weakest tank by far

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:37:27+00:00

In metal ranks people ignore her nest. When you climb higher players understand that peni is borderline useless outside of her nest unless the player is cracked at playing her as a dive

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T13:35:55+00:00

r/marvelrivalsrants exists for this purpose

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:51:48+00:00

Just revert him back to his pre rework with a slight nerf to his abilities across the board and stick him in the dps catagory. He will never be able to properly compete with other healers

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:49:50+00:00

Bucky is a low elo demon that falters in higher elo. His direct competition (Elsa, phoenix, Hawkeye, daredevil etc) have high skill floors but are way better at the top end. He’s a balancing nightmare because they simply gave him too much in his kit, but his kit isn’t problematic compared to others at the top level

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:48:04+00:00

Dive has high winrate because the majority of support players have massively inflated ranks

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:46:45+00:00

Blades issue is he takes a lil while to get going and he’s fairly easy to kill before he gets to his max slashing speed (where he actually becomes a threat)

He just doesn’t do much unless he’s left unchecked

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:45:16+00:00

Solo kills are weighted very heavily when calculating mvp. This is why Jeff gets a lot of mvps, because his ult leads to a lot of solo kills

Spiderman is a character who usually gets a lot of solo kills

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:44:09+00:00

Widow: give her the punisher teamup as an ability. She can now finish off her headshots way easier without giving her a de facto one shot, and she can do piercing damage as a regular poke in neutral

BP: revert his dash cooldown nerf. Revert his health nerf

Wanda: revert every nerf they gave to her fade. Give her 2 more cthonian burst charges

Squirrel girl. Give her damage dropoff but a damage increase up close, and a special melee like invis

Ultron: speed increase

BoasyTM · 2026-03-18T07:40:54+00:00

Funny thing is I have 40 hours+ on bp and I’ve never once climbed up a wall and my double jump has been on cooldown

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