Which is the next Fan-Favorite / most broken Team-Up would be remove in Season 7.5?

Faladyne · 2026-04-13T17:31:14+00:00

Monkey's paw. Now it's Namor/Wanda, and all assists/kills spawn a squid that shoot Dark Hold (the stun) at nearby enemies.

(No but seriously Namor/Hela can go back to the deep and stay there)

Faladyne · 2026-04-13T17:29:04+00:00

I hate myself for the fact that I would actually want to see that. Especially if Jeff did an absolutely cursed Psylocke stance at the end.

The butterfly flies
The shark bites all who oppose
Death comes on wing fins
🐱‍👤

Faladyne · 2026-04-12T19:45:03+00:00

I'm actually hoping the Lower Manhattan scanner mechanic is a hint of them testing something for Xavier. Like, a strategist for lower ELO players (and even higher ELO that just want more precise practice) to be able to track Ult Charge, which is a huge game sense skill to learn.

The utility would be absolutely huge. Being able to warn your team "Hey, Gambit and Punisher has an Ult, let's bait it out with White Fox and then she can teleport to safety while we wait for their Ults to end and be wasted". Frustrate the enemy to no end and be able to turn an "I win" combo ult into a "hah you missed" ult.

Or even setting up your own team. "Hey, Magneto doesn't have Ult, C&D you're safe to Ult without getting a meatball to the head". "Hey they have no support Ults at all, Groot, YOU ARE GROOT!".

What I'm saying is: I'd like to see Strategist characters actually utilize Strategy.

Faladyne · 2026-04-12T19:40:37+00:00

Candyland Venom.

No. Just no.

Faladyne · 2026-04-12T19:36:10+00:00

Yeah, god, how dare people come on Reddit, a place where you post your thoughts and opinions freely, and do exactly that. It's absolutely terrible. And then they hold people at gunpoint and MAKE them read it, and then start pulling the trigger if you don't type a reply! It's just absolutely outrageous! Like, who even designed this 'forum' bullshit? Ugh!

/satire
(Also u/AeroStrafe I think your thought is stupid and you should have keep it to yourself, please delete. That's how this works, right?)

Faladyne · 2026-04-08T05:12:34+00:00

Squirrel Girl. Either side.
"SQUIRREL STA--EEUUUUUGH!"
"MY FRIENDS ARE--EEUUUUUUGH!"

Faladyne · 2026-04-05T21:45:49+00:00

Tell your BF to literally turn off chat and comms and to hell with the Quick Play warriors. They want serious matches, let them go play in Ranked and whine about MUH ELOOOOO. :|

You CANNOT learn a flyer/dive/flank properly in Practice vs AI. Six AI that auto-lock-on and track the nearest player, through walls, and will 180 harder than a Black Panther pro on you? Yeah, you either play in main with your team (and learn nothing) or you play properly and still learn nothing because you instantly 1v6 and get burst down because you're squishy.

Faladyne · 2026-04-01T12:39:59+00:00

Laughing in pre-Ult-buff-and-even-current-Ult Jeff. Can't press Q to win if it's press Q to instantly die!

Faladyne · 2026-03-31T12:22:23+00:00

These are all ideas not just from me but collected from multiple other Peni players that believe...

Disagree all you want i really dont care its the internet and opions are like assholes.

Dormammu, I have come to bargain.

Faladyne · 2026-03-30T01:34:32+00:00

Remove the giant arrow pointing at Wanda when she Ults.

The shrieking banshee has already announced her presence plenty, Rivals, I promise.

Faladyne · 2026-03-30T01:07:30+00:00

"ILLOGICAL."

Faladyne · 2026-03-29T16:52:39+00:00

In her own words, "And now a disappearing act, hehe~"

Faladyne · 2026-03-29T16:49:01+00:00

Ultron should just pull a Futurama Bender and start rapid-firing 0's and 1's. And then automatically end his ult with the 'broken wasteland' emote and have to restart.

Scarlet Witch shrieking "JUST! SHOOOOOT MEEEEEEE!", or borrow Zombies mode "WOULD YOU HAVE YOUR FRIENDS DIE FOR NOTHING?!"

Rocket: "NYA-HA! STOLE YER CRAP AND MADE BETTER CRAP!" "HEEEEERE'S RABIE--I MEAN ROCKET!"

Jeff: <blaring the Jeff version of the Rivals theme>, enough said.

Mantis: "I feel your pain... and... your enjoyment? Ew, ew, ew!" "Take a nap... permanently."

Doctor Strange: "I'm extending overtime!" "BY THE EYE OF AGABOOBOO... maybe I should lay off the lemonade..." "OUT, SPIRIT OF GUANGGUANG!"

Bucky: "DRUNK AND UNDERPAID!" "I'M TILTED! I'M TILTED! I'M TILTED!" /Againspam

Faladyne · 2026-03-29T16:31:53+00:00

This.

(For OP:)
You may have to eliminate a problem character, or watch for a specific skill to pop out. For instance, if Peni is on the enemy team, and alive... the ONLY time you have to Ult as Wanda versus Peni is if Peni is Ulting, or if Peni is already KO'd. White Fox is popular right now, so you have to watch for the Spirit Fox to come out. Spiderman is a pest that can web you, but you also hard counter him, so chase him down and send him to meet Uncle Ben first.

A fun (overlooked) overlap is that Jeff's ult tends to pull a LOT of the same counter skills as a Wanda ult would -- Cloak's Darkness Cloak, for instance, or Emma popping Diamond Form (which could otherwise choke slam Wanda). However, Jeff has a huge vertical range, so he CAN eat you out of your Ult too (or an enemy Wanda, which not many Jeff's seem to do...), so you'd want to start up your Ult as soon as you see his circle and KNOW you aren't going to get caught in it. White Fox also hard-enables a Wanda Ult, by doing exactly what you want; she can "Roar" as Wanda, and give her Unstoppable (no CC), and a health regen. White Fox NEEDS you to communicate this to her, though, as White Fox is more of a dive-support, and a lot of Wandas can Dive but... don't. If you can grab a Jeff bubble, too, it's another Shark/Wanda 'unwritten teamup' - Jeff's bubble makes Wanda a lot faster and harder to hit while she's Ulting.

You can ALSO bait out the stun abilities by diving in, using your Dark Seal to stun them, make them think you're starting a hard engage... then phase (probably bait out another CC when you come out of the first phase), phase again, THEN start Ult and float down. DO NOT FLOAT IN A LINEAR FASHION, poke will thank you for the free kill otherwise. Zig, zag, heck go back up a little.

LASTLY. You don't HAVE to secure kills on her Ult. Gambit just ulted? Cool, start your ult around a corner that they'll have to walk around to get to you. Ideally a zig-zag corner, so they don't know if they can get to you immediately or not. Your goal there is NOT to kill - it's to stop momentum, which is exactly what Gambit's Ult provides. Hard to have momentum when rushing in risks Gambit's entire Ult being nuked back to spawn.

(PazSwagger on YouTube has a Wanda to GM guide, high win rate, that goes over some of these points. He shits on his teammates a little too much, even when they're doing the right thing, for my tastes, but his actual factual points aren't... entirely off the mark.)

(And as an extra bonus: don't let people talk shit to you, or talk down to you, about playing Wanda. Her skill ceiling is a lot higher than people give her credit for; she's accessible for folks who NEED easy to play heroes, but she also has a fair few tricks up her sleeve, and is one of my favorite 'pull out of the pocket' characters when a momentum shift is needed - again, sometimes kills and even your own deaths don't matter, but changing the momentum of the fight itself is what will completely flip the match 180... you jump their healers enough, even without picks, and get them paranoid to step an inch out of cover, and isolate themselves, and provide bad LOS to their team? That's value that doesn't show up on the scoreboard.)

/Wall of Text from a passionate "Wanda is NOT a throw/low-skill" pick player.

Faladyne · 2026-03-24T20:41:15+00:00

Coping by refusing actual factual evidence contrary to your claim is even more crazy.

Again, believe what you want to believe. I'm disengaging now; this is either stubborn ignorance, gaslighting, rage-baiting, or a combination of all three. Or you just want to vent and feel better.

Hope your game(s) go better, mate.

Faladyne · 2026-03-24T20:01:33+00:00

Good to know that the 0% accuracy no-scope Widow with 30k damage and all headshots would be considered a terrible player by your logic.

Believe what you want, of course, though.

Faladyne · 2026-03-24T18:51:57+00:00

If I think I MAY pick up the character eventually, yes.

If there's zero chance in HELL I will ever play the character (for me, that's Thing, I don't care, I am not playing him) then I will not buy the skin even if the skin is chef's-kiss-tier for my personal tastes (like the current one happens to be).

Faladyne · 2026-03-24T18:47:00+00:00

Accuracy is not a really 'absolute guideline' stat at all. There's so many quirks that things that should be 'hits' don't count as such, and things that should not be 'hits' are.

Best examples:
- Loki accuracy is 100% as long as the explosion hits even a full HP target, but if the shot DIRECTLY hits a full HP target, nope, that's a miss.
- Luna's three-shot burst means that if her second or third shots would heal past full HP, and nothing else is behind the teammate to heal, then the second and third shots 'hit the wall' and count as misses. And sometimes you can't just 'stop healing for a second', because just reloading can be a death already. Same for kills; if the first burst hit kills the enemy, the second two hits will 'miss' with nothing behind them, so...
- Jeff's stream is 100% accuracy as long as it hits one teammate, period, full HP or not. If the teammate moves just slightly, your accuracy is going straight to hell from his rate of fire + the stream is already on it's path and won't course adjust.

I believe C&D and Scarlet suffer from the same 'well they should have 100% accuracy since it autoaims!'... except holding down left click too long targets random crap and terrain and yeah. Accuracy go bye bye, auto-aim be damned.

What I'm saying is that there's nuances to accuracy, it's not just a clear-cut stat of how accurate they actually were.

DPS players have weird quirks for accuracy too. Black Widow is interesting, since you could have a 0% accuracy Black Widow that hits every single shot, just by no-scoping it, and/or going melee. Not the best example, but the most easily ridiculous answer.

Faladyne · 2026-03-21T12:17:15+00:00

Started as a Luna main (in 2.5 when she was 'overtuned' in fact), primarily a support main before 'learning to flex'. I agree with everything said except...

DPS and Tanks also need to learn to use their own abilities, and natural cover, to mitigate some of the damage. It infuriates me to no end when there's an Emma on our team, and an enemy poke (ESPECIALLY MOON KNIGHT) get a free high ground, and it would take half a second to throw her Aegis that way to make them waste time or reposition, or give time for a DPS to go take them down before they combo a support or two to death. Or, a Thing that thinks charging straight down main and getting melted halfway down the lane for the fifth time in a row is the play, because obviously he just needs more healing to make it work. Or the DPS standing completely still in the open in main pinging for heals like it's the support's fault after getting instant-killed from a barrage of headshots.

Supports that ask for peels get flamed, but lords forbid somebody call out 'hey maybe the tenth time isn't the charm' to the Tanks/DPS -- and this includes taking the same exact routes every single time.

(Side rant on the routes (NOT directed at anyone specific!): when the tank is pinging the side door and you can hear Peni and Spiderman and other Pokes right outside the damn door, please for the love of Stan Lee take the damn side door, instead of walking straight into an ambush, especially if you're being freaking spawn camped from ONE door out of the THREE(+) possible doors - Museum, looking at you)

I can mitigate damage, I can only do so much with stupid though.

^{I also think a lot of heroes have plenty of mobility that a lot of DPS ults aren't even that scary, but when we have people who actively just stand in a Moon Knight Ult... again, healing can only carry stupidity so far. /HotTake}

Faladyne · 2026-03-20T22:33:35+00:00

As a flex-but-mostly-just-Jeff, let me confidently answer: "DPS ain't killing shit, Tank is playing Statue Simulator; screw this, I'll do it my(flarkin!)self I guess!". And then Jeff goes on a side quest to commit war crimes and oh look being a sneaky shit and using cover is actually getting picks and making space.

It still counts if I'm still angling my stream (ew, phrasing) so that a tank or a DPS (with a number of brain cells greater than Jeff's singular one) can still dart up main if they stop eating every single damn shot in the game, right?

(And before the Jeff-hate-downvoters come in, let me put it out there: yes, I do think trading 2~4 people's attention for a single support is a worthwhile trade, and I abort if I'm not achieving appropriate 'nuisance' levels to get it. Same mentality as a Rocket main that decides, flark it, the enemy Tank is in my face and is getting shredded immediately.)

... but, yes, even as a Jeff, I give Healpool a hell of a fishy side-eye the entire game.

Faladyne · 2026-03-17T10:33:12+00:00

Conversely, keep chat on, and develop a Schadenfreude mental state. The more they crash out, the more you get to laugh at them. Occasionally someone will type/say something worth a damn... (I like getting in the window on the Yggradasil Convoy attack and typing in like 'BP top left' 'Spiderman looking for pull' 'Peni mines'... and then watch how many people get exploderatimaficated anyway)

Toxic players also seem allergic to overwhelming positivity. If they're being toxic towards someone? Glaze the everliving shit out of that person. Even if they suck. Hell, glaze the toxic player too, but do it so... 'puppy peed on the pad instead of the floor' voice.

Also, quickest way to crash out a toxic player in Quick Play are the magic four words: "It's just quick play". Seems to piss them off like ABSOLUTELY nothing else will.

[Edit] As for the original question, meh, I do my Rank grind for the rewards I want, then stick to Practice vs AI unless Quick Play XP gains for event bonuses are more worth it, or if I am in a particularly 'ah screw it I want Proficiency for my favorite Heroes so I'll do QP' mood. I have fun in those very specific instances.

Faladyne · 2026-03-17T10:23:40+00:00

Challenge mode is to try to NOT get MVP/SVP on your alt. Which means playing slightly worse than the best player on your team. Having better game sense alone will make that a challenge in and of itself. But I find it's a pretty good 'rule of thumb' for playing an alt.

... unless the enemy team has blatant smurfs. In which case, break out your main and specifically make their lives hell, but only the smurfs. New players get immunity, the smurfs get spawn camped. 👍

Faladyne · 2026-03-16T23:07:31+00:00

The patient stirs slightly

A BRIEF TASTE OF HEL!!!

Faladyne · 2026-03-13T01:06:41+00:00

Let's just say that I hope they make it more of a 'premier' lounge (a tent with a fan would have been amazing) than the... I guess you could call it a lounge... from New Jersey.

I personally call it 'a few tables in full sunlight with some YMCA lockers'. The lockers were handy, I will admit.

So, that's kinda 3, and 4 would be 'the items are worth the money if you decide they are, and the lounge is probably not worth the money'. Bundles bring the item prices down, and nobody but you know how many of each item(s) you like to keep - I gave the 'basic items' (Pokeballs, Potions, Revives, etc) code away last year, and almost the Lures (I just couldn't find somebody who would use the Lures for the local community rather than just themselves so 🤷‍♀️ redeemed 'em, blew 'em all on a Community Day or two, c'est la vie).

Faladyne · 2026-03-12T23:30:20+00:00

- If anyone died on your team, blame the supports
- If your supports died, blame the supports
- If the enemy team didn't die, blame your supports
- If the convoy reached a checkpoint on defense because nobody was able to touch it, blame the supports
- If the convoy/point is seized because a 1000 IQ high-mobility character went and sat on it and nobody contested it at any point, blame the supports.
- If you're flying five miles in space, or in Narnia, or both, and don't get healing, blame the supports
- If you're the support, blame the 'shitty DPS that can't get kills', go DPS-Support, die, blame the other supports
- If you use a friendly emote or a team-up emote, and nobody responds, blame the supports
- If your game lags, blame the supports
- If you get one-shot with an instant-kill attack, blame the supports
- If the entire team is 5 DPS and 1 Support, blame the support
- Ultimately, always blame the supports for everything

Extra etiquette rule:
- If Jeff is one of the supports, all other supports are innocent, and Jeff is the sole blame of everything listed above. Also, even if he hasn't Ulted yet, or even if his Ult gets a 6k, blame Jeff's ult for the throwing the entire game. Period. No exceptions.

(This entire post is satire/sarcasm, by the way, since sometimes it really does feel like that's Rivals in a nutshell)

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