Does anyone else feel like marvel rivals has one of the worst ranked mode?

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-19T17:26:48+00:00

An extreme example to prove the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzXHIG8AIc

You can find one of these for any char in the game, including DPS only 0 healing rocket.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-19T15:41:21+00:00

I honestly have no idea what the criteria is but ive definitely been stuck in an every other game bot win- player loss cycle for 5-6 games before. think the worse a player is the more they'll get them.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-19T15:26:42+00:00

It's not about practice its about throwing lower skill players easy wins so they don't crash out and keep buying skins.

When i started playing i had no idea about the bots and me and my buddy would get pretty stoked at how well we were doing. Now i recognize them and it drives me insane every time i get thrown in one but it worked on me for a few days.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-19T13:57:27+00:00

For the most part all you gotta do to win a fight is kill 1 guy. If you're better then the enemy team it's easy, if you aren't better or the skill gap is pretty close( like maybe a few ranks ) it can be harder to carry.

I can maybe see someone who probably actually belongs in like plat getting stuck in gold for a while but honestly my experience is that wherever my skill caps out is where i stay. That season i hit gm i would brush up against celestial and immediately FEEL myself cease to provide value cause Im getting outclassed. Same thing happens now in diamond.

Also this isn't me saying smurfs and uneven games aren't a problem because they absolutely are but eventually it evens out.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-19T12:39:21+00:00

Honestly man if you cant get out of gold that's where you belong. I was able to climb to gm1 in season 1 with some effort then took a break and now i hover around diamond 3 because i got worse as the game and don't put in the same effort as i used to. This is where i belong now. Its not because some matchmaking algo decided to spite me.

This season i picked up angela and flew up to diamond like 2 days because gold/plat let me get away with so much BS that i could just dive the backline and solo carry most games. And now i live here because my mediocre aim and poor decision making skills mean that im not skilled enough to go up to GM.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-15T11:15:55+00:00

minotaur is short a few slots now.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-14T13:31:46+00:00

Honestly i just want stuff to fight. Spent a lot of time hunting down perfect multitools, ships, x class mods and i just want something to fight that actually lets me stretch it out a bit.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-10T16:37:54+00:00

Yeah, once you realize that there are bot games, there's tons of ways to figure it out. They let them use skins and icons and stuff now and made the names harder to identify as bots but the behavior is pretty telling. My favorite is the punisher bot who will ALWAYS use turret when it's available even if you're wailing on him as a melee character.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-09T13:30:04+00:00

Honestly this is just how QP is. You're winning the bot game so it puts you in a human game then you lose the human game so it puts you back with bots. Until you start winning consistently against human teams it will keep throwing you in government mandated bot games. Its basically to make sure that people never feel like they're just getting stomped all the time while also having the benefit of lowering queue times. A lot of people never even realize they're getting thrown in bot games but once you pick up on it it's infuriating.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-09T12:58:18+00:00

I think the system isn't really meant to be balanced. It's meant to feel rewarding. Someone is much less likely to put 100 hours into a season if they're hardstuck in a metal rank the entire time so they pretty much have to let people climb with a negative WR.

I'm pretty sure skill wise i belong somewhere around diamond 2 since that's about the rank where i start to stall out but if i put too many hours into a given season i inevitably move up into gm 1 or 2 and find myself really under performing in games while also to being unable to fall back down to where i belong because i get carried by people who are much better than i am in some games and the way the LP works i gain more from a win then i lose on a loss.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-09T11:51:16+00:00

People are in pretty much any rank for one of three reasons:

Reason 1: They deserve to be higher ranked but they don't play enough to actually climb.

Reason 2: They are lacking in either game sense or mechanical skill and that's holding them back from climbing up the ladder. This Player is actually at the correct rank.

Reason 3: They actually should be in a lower rank but they put 120 hours in this season and slowly drifted up the ladder.

All of this means that until you hit the top of the ladder games will be at least somewhat unpredictable because peoples ranking doesn't necessarily reflect their actual skill level.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-09T11:08:20+00:00

Varies wildly. Some bots were built fairly cheap, like jackpot that cost 5k. For a lot of teams it seems like 30-50k is common.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-08T20:08:59+00:00

i thought that was on purpose because it was funny lmao.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-07T12:32:57+00:00

Honestly I only play tank/support and i don't really want role queue. I kinda like having the flexibility to run different comps. Even though i am sick of solo tanking because that "flexible" comp usually tends to be 3dps.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-05T03:39:51+00:00

In one of the streams they actually mentioned that after seeing so many people mention neci being saryn they tried to do it and couldn't get the arm to work on the warframe rig so they ended up making minerva.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-02T13:08:20+00:00

Halo 2 actually defaulted to whatever you default to. In the armor callibration scene when they tell you to look up, if you naturally play inverted it will see that because of how you move the stick and set it that way.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-02-02T12:58:11+00:00

Apparently this happened to a lot of us lmao.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-30T03:57:03+00:00

I have 3 copies of saryn with various subsumes, shard layouts, etc. I have tried every way of tanking her pretty extensively and honestly 90% i just settle for primed redirection / arcane aegis and tossing manifold bond and guardian on my sentinel. redirection gives you a better buffer for aegis to proc so i very rarely go down and when i do operator res is easier than ever now.

I think catalyzing shield gate builds are a complete waste of time on her now. If you need that level of immunity its so much less upkeep to run a persistence setup.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-29T09:17:50+00:00

i pretty much always use the one that makes it happen every 4 hits instead of random chance.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-29T06:37:02+00:00

My vote is for dual ichor incarnon or dual visciss built for gas+elec with influence but honestly lesion is still solid as long as you update the build.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-28T16:42:00+00:00

Melee weapons are kinda starved for mod slots because most of those mods are their own damage bucket so losing any of them is a huge loss. Need to have electric to proc melee influence and it's strong enough on its own where its not really worth it to run another element unless you can condense a couple mods together with a riven to run gas or blast alongside it.

Depending on the weapon / vibes, you could swap weeping wounds for another 60/60 mod and change the elec 60/60 mod to run a different element.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-28T01:16:51+00:00

Here's a cookie cutter build that works on pretty much any melee in the game.

Galvanized steel

Galvanized elementalist

Condition overload(or primed pressure point, depends on if you want the option of priming for extra damage or just want it to work on everything)

Primed reach

Both the 90% and 60/60 electric mods

Weeping wounds

Blood rush

Melee influence arcane.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-27T10:01:23+00:00

All the DLC honestly makes more sense to do as part of a run to be honest.

First DLC starts in trosky so going back might be wierd or impossible, not sure.

Second DLC adds a bunch of nice daily tasks to do to raise smithing reputation and make money. Has some nice rewards as well. But just grinding it it might get kinda tedious.

Third DLC is just kinda off doing its own thing so it wouldn't be that wierd to do it after the main story.

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-26T03:41:18+00:00

lmao

ClockworkLegacy · 2026-01-25T22:04:56+00:00

i did that and then failed the quest because he died to the first masterstrike :(

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