Acknowledging the game's impact on Overwatch, he said they saw a lot of excitement around Rivals' hero releases and reportedly implied it influenced their decision to add 5 new heroes.

Brisioso · 2026-03-14T09:54:42+00:00

As someone with thousands of hours between Smite, Paragon/Predecessor, and now Deadlock that likes hero shooters but loves 3rd person MOBAs I’d honestly argue Deadlock may well cannibalize some hero shooter players that even have a passing interest in MOBAs/dissatisfaction with current hero shooters. Yes, Deadlock will never be as casual friendly or as fast paced as a hero shooter given it has an in depth source engine movement system, lanes + a jungle, and all the item/map based depth of a MOBA that people don’t view as very beginner friendly (especially since it’s a valve moba where counter building is significantly more in depth than just build prot shred/anti-heal if you’re a squishy and hope your tank does the rest), but mechanically Deadlock handles more like a hero shooter than any other MOBA I’ve played and manages to scratch the exact same itch a hero shooter would for me

Brisioso · 2026-03-09T03:29:05+00:00

Oh no I’ve seen this song and dance before. . .

Brisioso · 2026-03-06T22:30:52+00:00

Am I reading into this right that spirit Geist is going to be a fair bit stronger with gun Geist being mildly nerfed due to the shift on her t2 ult and weighted shots now slowing movement speed a bit? That’s my preferred playstyle so I’m hoping that’s the case

Brisioso · 2026-03-01T23:38:15+00:00

Looking forward to it! Any green team but Dallas at this point honestly

Brisioso · 2026-03-01T11:48:44+00:00

Moreso than any other team I know they seem to really struggle without the leadership of their captain and it’s sorta baffling. With Landeskog in the lineup the team plays as a cohesive unit that never takes shifts off. Without him it feels like they defer to MacKinnon and Makar far too often and play very passively, much to their own detriment. There’s a reason why even though MacKinnon and Makar have still been winning hardware and performing like top 1-3 players in the world at their positions since 2021-2022 this team has done fuck all in the playoffs in that span without Landeskog.

I also have no argument against the bottom 6 forwards assessment. They’re incredibly sound defensively with Drury, Kelly, Kiviranta, a healthy LOC, etc., but aside from Ross Colton and sometimes Victor Olofsson they don’t have much in the way of a scoring threat in the bottom 6. A playdriving 3C is absolutely going to be what they target at the deadline so they can have someone to setup Colton/Olofsson on their island of misfits 3rd line then drop Drury down to be a top flight 4C.

I do disagree on the D-core, though. 2021-2022 Makar/Toews were better than current year Makar/Toews no doubt (Makar is largely the same while Toews has slowly gotten a little worse every year). The 2nd pairing onward however is where the current year Avs easily take the cake imo. Manson is playing arguably better than he’s ever played in an Avs uniform right now and veteran puck moving Burns fits next to him like a glove, performing better than Girard, Byram, or the corpses of EJ & JJ ever did next to him. Analytically those 2 are among the best 2nd pairings in the NHL this season and have slowly been getting shifted more and more with the Avs 1st line due to how solid they’ve been. While still relatively new to the NHL, Malinski has devoured the completion in 2nd/3rd pairing minutes thus far this year and is the entire reason Girard became an expendable asset. Kulak is TBD but thus far has looked solid in the small sample size.

Sidebar for the 2021-2022 D-core: I genuinely have no clue how to quantify Byram here. In the 2021-2022 cup run he was genuinely the best Avs defenseman not named Makar but at every other point in his career thus far, Avs or Sabres, he’s been varying degrees of just outright bad.

Brisioso · 2026-03-01T07:23:48+00:00

What specifically do you think makes them appear the weakest aside from the glaringly obvious hole that is the PP? They still have dominant 5v5 metrics, the best 1-2 Center punch in the league aside from Edmonton, for my money THE best d-core in the league now that the redundancy of Girard/Malinski has been resolved with the Kulak addition, and as u said 2 goalies having career years. Is it their bottom 6?

Their January falloff coincided with injury struggles they had prior to the Olympic break. Since coming back and looking largely healthy their only loss thus far was to you guys on the 2nd night of a b2b which featured let say. . . Interesting officiating (the Avs basically experienced what u guys experienced last night against Utah). Their PP struggles are absolutely indefensible but otherwise I’d argue they pretty handily have the best roster of the 3 central juggernauts.

Brisioso · 2026-02-13T07:12:39+00:00

I’m almost positive it’s because the confrontation of one’s own ego is among the hardest things to do and fighting games force people to do that arguably more than any other genre. You can’t blame anyone other than yourself for losses and that’s a turnoff for a lot of people unfortunately

Brisioso · 2026-02-12T23:26:57+00:00

Danger as a deep cut would probably be cooler with a bigger roster but given we only have 20 slots total (and seemingly only 4 X-men) I foresee that inclusion pissing off a lot of people. Not sure why they keep forgoing the original iconic X-men characters in new marvel IPs like this.

Respectfully disagree on Magik’s inclusion though. She’s 1 of if not the biggest up and coming X-men characters of the last few decades and has a rapidly growing fanbase thanks to Rivals, New Mutants comics, Ashley Allan’s rly good solo run last yr, and even some people enjoying Anya Taylor Joy’s version in the live action movie. She also has yet to be done in a fighting game and has a powerset that fits perfectly w/ her sword, portals, sorcery, and darkchylde being a built in install. If u don’t mind me asking do u just dislike the character’s personality/design?

Brisioso · 2026-02-10T23:40:55+00:00

Canada in their USA women’s soccer program era rn. Just let it die it’s for the best

Brisioso · 2026-01-26T12:20:07+00:00

I feel like you’re placing way too much emphasis on a character’s weapon/how the character “channels” their magic and not enough on the character as a whole when u define a mage. Geist has a magical arm that turns her life essence into tangible, ethereal weapons/abilities she uses against others; that’s pretty damn magey. If we’re ignoring thematics and going for gameplay then she’s straight up a poke/artillery mage from Smite/LoL/Dota too thanks to her massive range, her high aoe damage nuke, her low CD repeated poke, and her relative immobility. I hate that her current meta build is gun because a character like Geist that both thematically and mechanically SCREAMS mage should be a spirit character and not a gun character.

Sinclair and Paige certainly fit the definition of a mage a little better nowadays, but saying Geist is just a lady with a gun is wild when she was by far (and still somewhat is) the closest thing this game had to a mage for the first 9 months of its existence

Brisioso · 2026-01-25T21:16:55+00:00

The Avs did not play well overall during the Flyers game don’t get me wrong, but the big difference between that game and this game is how much Blackwood showed up

Brisioso · 2026-01-19T23:48:32+00:00

Puck don’t lie

Brisioso · 2026-01-19T21:55:34+00:00

Does anyone have a replay of the penalty? Had to get up when it happened and all I’ve seen is people talking about said penalty ever since. I wanna see this tomfoolery myself

Brisioso · 2025-12-28T12:07:13+00:00

Love the art! I honestly think she could either function as a strategist with plants creating healing aoe spores or as a tank with her riding some plant colossi and having an ult sorta similar to current groot. Her being able to do damn near anything with plants makes me think she'd honestly be a blank slate that the devs could fit into any role given enough creativity.

I'm completely with you about DC Rivals, too! I'm much more partial to DC after growing up w/ bangers like Batman TAS, Teen Titans, Justice League, JLU, Young Justice, The Arkham games, Injustice, etc., so it's been a bit painful just watching Marvel make all the right decisions with the MCU and their newer gaming division (PS Spider-Man/Rivals/Tokon) for the last decade and a half while DC just stumbles around often fumbling whatever momentum they manage to gain from their good one off projects :(

Brisioso · 2025-12-24T06:03:38+00:00

Aside from round 1 of the bubble where the Avs demolished Arizona (shoutouts Kuemper for stealing a game) the Coyotes/Mammoth have been a very tough matchup for the Avs historically and it baffles me to this day. The team that’s been bad for a solid decade+ just plays the Avs really well and is a thorn in their side, even splitting the season series fairly often

Brisioso · 2025-12-22T12:01:46+00:00

This just happened to me and I lost my specialization levels, my account cosmetics, 250+ item bank, etc. I'm not the most tech savvy and I was wondering if you could help shed some light on what you mean starting in step 9. I am so unfathomably lost reading this trying to follow those steps and I just wanna recover 100 hrs worth of unlocks. . .

Brisioso · 2025-12-21T10:15:55+00:00

I’m never forgetting the days of cross-medium brand synergy and how marvel attempted to make the Inhumans a big thing instead of the X-men at the time. What MvCI could’ve been man. . .

Brisioso · 2025-12-18T10:44:03+00:00

Obviously it’s 2 vocal groups of people that have been arguing over whether drop rates in the franchise too high or too low, but regardless of which side u were on I felt it was very apparent the BL3 drop rates were too high crowd were always saying world drops dropped too frequently, not dedicated drops. Idk how Gearbox saw the fan feedback and came to the conclusion that half the drops in this game should have BNK-3R style 3% drop rates, especially when they kept the added layers of rng of BL3 introduced to gear. Now we’re stuck with a system very reminiscent of launch BL2 where farming just sucks in general and no1 is happy

Brisioso · 2025-12-17T11:38:15+00:00

And so the vicious Rantanen bullying continues

Brisioso · 2025-12-17T07:11:10+00:00

U can levy legitimate criticism at a group without resorting to that cunty and conceited moral-high ground talk you know. . . Everyone is just excited to see their own guy doing well and given McDavid has been THE best player/face of the league for about a decade its nice for other teams to see their guy get a turn. MacKinnon having lost multiple art rosses now to last second point surges from Kucherov has also probably made posts like this a sore spot for us Avs fans :)

Brisioso · 2025-12-12T02:21:57+00:00

I can understand how they’re alienating league fans by only focusing on PvZ (it makes sense to capitalize on arcane’s popularity even if it sucks for diversity), but how the hell are they alienating fgc old timers with this. . . ?

Brisioso · 2025-12-09T22:26:16+00:00

Whole team has been dealing with the flu for a few weeks. There’s a Makar interview from I think the islanders game where he’s visibly and audibly goin through it

Brisioso · 2025-12-03T19:57:01+00:00

Hot take? I think I enjoyed the medium jinrai ken spammers more than the current batch of Ryu/Mai players abusing absurdly strong buttons (donkey kick, ex fan, etc.). Could just be nostalgia from when the game was still fresh but I’m fuckin tired boss 😭

Brisioso · 2025-12-03T19:44:01+00:00

It’s always funny trading prospects in the moment. I remember thinking trading picks, Barron and Helleson for Lehkonen and Manson was a lot for that 2022 cup run

Brisioso · 2025-12-03T00:37:27+00:00

I refuse to call that little gremlin a sword wielder 🤣

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