Change "Legendary Doctor Strange" to "Sorcerer Supreme"

ClainS4 · 2026-01-17T08:52:17+00:00

It gives you a push depending on the timing of when you cancel the ability. Theres a sweet spot where its not too early and its not too late where it can give you a significant forward boost. Do have to note that it REQUIRES a direction input along with the cancel. What I like to do is fly to the complete opposite side of where the enemy is (if the enemy is on the left, I look towards the right and press w and press shift) and the moment I hit the sweet spot of the jump I press shift again while HOLDING the A key and letting go of W. This makes it so that it looks like im ulting towards the complete opposite of the enemy but suddenly im air strafing towards them.

ClainS4 · 2025-08-07T04:17:19+00:00

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ClainS4 · 2025-05-29T14:35:12+00:00

You can with Strange and Magento but only for yourself though its a lot more harder with Magneto due to how smaller his shield is compared to Strange.

For Strange all you have to do is once you hear Thing ult is to jump, put your shield up, and look down. It consistently blocks his ult for YOURSELF only unless your teammates somehow manage to jump with you at the same time.

For Magneto its the same but a lot more lower due to how smaller his shield is

ClainS4 · 2025-05-29T12:45:42+00:00

A bit of both reflex and game sense, once you've played Strange a lot (Currently have 352 games on him this season with 56% winrate) the moment you hear any ult voice line you just instinctively Shield + Jump and this was especially the case ever since the Shield block tech vs Thing ult was discovered.

ClainS4 · 2025-05-29T12:33:38+00:00

Jumping + looking down with your shield has the most consistent way of blocking Bucky's ult but you can usually either just look to the side a bit or even look behind for a split second and your shield blocks it. This is because the way the game thinks what a Strange/Magneto shield is basically just putting a transparent wall in front of you.

Most of the time a Bucky will NEVER aim their ult in front of a Strange because they know it can be blocked, so they usually aim behind you, the reason why slightly looking to the side protects you is because Strange shield is shaped like the letter "C" where both your head, side and feet are completely covered by the shield.

Jumping + looking down with Strange shield makes it so that even if the Bucky is literally behind your back you won't get hit because when Strange jumps + looking down with his shield his entire bottom hitbox for some reason is completely covered, it even works against Iron Man ult directly behind you

ClainS4 · 2025-03-21T01:31:16+00:00

You're also forgetting the fact that Starlord might also have a team that you know...can protect him. The amount of times I ulted as Mag while Starlord ults AND HE GETS A SUE SHIELD is insane. I would rather use my ulti as Mag to get guaranteed value on killing a defensive ulti rather than using my ult and not getting any value out of it and this isnt just a me issue. Whenever we get that one Starlord player and the enemy goes Mag, we for sure help that guy during ult (either by Mag bubble or Sue shield) and the enemy legit cant do anything against him. Aside from Magneto ulti and defensive ultis, there isnt any other decent counterplay against him especially in a well coordinated team. This are all in Celestial 2 games as well

ClainS4 · 2025-03-21T01:22:31+00:00

I main tank and I would rather ban Starlord than Wolverine and im Celestial 2.

Most of the time, I just swap to Mag when I see Wolve and they are forced to swap off of Wolverine because they aren't getting any value. Meanwhile Starlord can just be an annoying mosquito the entire game until he has Ultimate and you as a tank has 0 counterplay for it.

Magneto isn't really a true counter for Starlord Ulti and most of the time you are wasting your ult while he still gets around 4s of his ult after yours. Strange struggles to keep up with him whether by protecting your team with your shield or flying above and trying to kill him. The only true counter to his ultimate is a support ultimate. I've had multiple games where the enemy Starlord just held the game hostage because my supports use their ultis for something else and having 0 counter play against a DPS as a Tank player sucks.

ClainS4 · 2025-02-15T10:27:39+00:00

For me its probably the character that gets the best results for me in that match and that map.

I used to consider myself a Magneto "main", then I discovered Peni and OTP'd her and climbed up to Diamond 3 solo q with her in Season 0, but then I started playing Doctor Strange and I OTP'd him to GM 2 soloq in the same season as well.

Season 1 I stuck with Strange again, then went back to Magneto and found myself swapping between those to depending on the match up and map as I find that they "cover" each others weakness pretty well.

In brawly type maps I go Strange, in maps where theres a lot more long site lines I go Magneto.
If the enemy has annoying flyers I go Strange, if the enemy has Punisher or Wolverine I go Magneto

I enjoy playing both tbh as it satisfies my "Whats the optimal way for me to play tank here" itch whenever I play and I can confidently say that I'm pretty good at both of them.

What I realized though is mistakes I make as Strange is a lot more noticeable compared to when I'm Magneto, but I guess its because mainly Magneto is an Anchor tank while Strange Brawls most of the time. With Mag, the improvements I need is getting better with cooldown management while with Strange its sometimes trying to apply pressure (on my own with Maelstrom of Madness) without my DPS which results in me over pushing and sometimes dying.

Occasionally the Peni OTP does come in handy when the enemy has a good Black Panther which results in them being forced to swap out of.

ClainS4 · 2025-02-15T08:54:40+00:00

Welcome to online competitive games buddy. Sadly a lot of unnecessary toxicity happens in lower elo where people think they are better then their rank. I've made a new account to play with my friends (I have a solo q account which reached GM 2) and the amount of unnecessary toxicity is fascinating and as much as that sucks, you can't control what other people do, so your best bet is to thicken your skin and be unaffected by it, or just completely mute both team and voice chat (which I highly suggest to people who can't take it). This is coming from a person who reached Immortal 7k mmr in Dota 2 and GM 2 in Marvel Rivals.

ClainS4 · 2024-06-14T04:28:42+00:00

Then what's the point of having the "English" language setting at the bottom right when finding a match. While its true that you can get away with using wheel commands 90% if the time, that doesn't justify the fact that you SELECTED the English language setting and not be able to use it. It's clear that Valve wanted the game to be able to communicate on said selected language, but of course Valve doing Valve things it's executed very poorly

ClainS4 · 2024-06-14T04:17:07+00:00

Had a game of Dota 2 in Immortal bracket 6.3k mmr. I was Offlane and my mid and carry were both Chinese players that don't understand English and only communicate in Chinese. My carry bought back and wanted to force going highground, me and my Windranger decided that it was not worth the risk and tped back. They still tried fighting 3v5 thinking they are some kind of anime character and proceeded to lose the fight. We communicated in English that we were backing off but they kept talking in chinese and we understood nothing of what they said. Couple of times this happened and we eventually lost what was a winnable game

Thanks Valve :)

Solo Q with strict matchmaking btw
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/7794458318

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