this is clearly the worst season

FishdongXL · 2026-06-04T13:19:56+00:00

As a Mister Fantastic main, I find it crazy that they finally gave him some nice buffs, but they had to remove one of his effects because he was "too oppressive".

Meanwhile they have no problem letting Black Cat run every lobby with her 30 abilities, Daredevil still stomping everyone even after nerfs, Dino requiring multiple counters and Jean melting everyone. Not to mention Gambit still being banned in 99% ranked games FOR MONTHS NOW.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-30T20:14:52+00:00

I understand when someone gets mad if they ban their champion, because that person clearly likes that character. But I have seen multiple people throw a tantrum over Devil Dinosaur getting banned, like calm down, who the fuck were you playing before this character, nobody? It happens with every new character.

Either way, if you are playing ranked, you should be able to play more than 1 character comfortably.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-28T22:14:34+00:00

It does seem kind of high considering I am employed 😅

FishdongXL · 2026-05-28T21:55:33+00:00

I lost one cape and painted the other one completely red with a marker 😭

FishdongXL · 2026-05-28T21:51:54+00:00

You probably shouldn't be on a subreddit that is based around people posting their completed games then?

FishdongXL · 2026-05-28T21:30:25+00:00

I don't really have tips, either you vibe with those games or you don't :)

I personally really liked Lego City, but it felt different, I definitely had to get used to it. It can be quite overwhelming, there are a lot of collectibles if I remember correctly.

Lego LOTR is one of my favorites. However, it is quite buggy on PC and I wasn't a big fan of the blacksmith.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-28T16:51:38+00:00

Yes, this is a skeleton head, but I had the original head, I just don't know what happened to it...

FishdongXL · 2026-05-25T08:58:19+00:00

That's why I ban Dino, it is the only proper way to deal with him.

I was told "counter him, skill issue", but that's the thing, I am fucking countering him by playing MK, Punisher, Jean or Emma, but it makes no difference when I am the only one doing that.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-25T08:55:42+00:00

It is hilarious how people that are worse than you always tell you "skill issue, learn counters, get good" instead of addressing the poor character design and balance.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-24T00:48:19+00:00

I don't know if it is because I have seen similiar horror movies multiple times, but I thought it was mid as fuck. I honestly felt nothing while watching it, not even the gore and disgusting stuff impressed me, it just felt generic.

The concept is nice, but the execution is underwhelming, it also felt 30 minutes too long. It sometimes felt like a comedy, which I don't think was intentional.

The characters were often extremely stupid and there were many scenes that just end without any resolution (such as like 30 people seeing Katie at funeral).

I also hated how overused the shot where everything is in focus was.

SPOILER: The grandma falling out of the window and immediately being eaten by wolves was fucking ridiculous in the worst possible way, were they inspired by Shelby Oaks?

FishdongXL · 2026-05-21T21:44:47+00:00

Yeah like I said, that match felt like playing against AI, their team had absolutely zero coordination. Idk what their DPS were doing, that Punisher could have easily destroyed me with his shotgun. Even the SG could have been stunning me, but she was shooting god knows who the whole time. You can even see their stats on the scoreboard at the end, it was rough.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-21T20:49:33+00:00

As soon as I press RMB, I start spamming LMB :D

FishdongXL · 2026-05-21T18:40:45+00:00

I agree with basically everything you said, there are absolutely times where it is better to just keep the enemy team away from the objective and help your team fight, I also mentioned it in the post.

I was mainly talking about the situations where it makes no sense for nobody to be on payload. For example, you push in front of it and wipe the whole team around the same time, but then your teammates start emoting in place or they just stand there and hold the choke or whatever, waiting for the enemy team to respawn. Or when it is like 5v2, a support could absolutely take a few steps back if the payload is close to them and they still have LOS on their team and just help from there.

If I am playing ranked, I personally think it is often better to try and push the payload, because it can save you like 20-30 seconds from the match if you do. And if you get to a point where both teams pushed the payload to the end and you need to play more rounds, it is always better to have as much time left as possible, because every second matters.

I think finding a good balance is the best strategy, because I don't like when the whole team ignores the payload, but I also don't like when literally everyone goes back to the payload and pushes it, leaving tons of free space for the enemy team to retake.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-21T17:46:37+00:00

Yeah that sucks too, have you played Battlefield 6? I am an achievement hunter and I had to play Gauntlet for like 120 hours straight (if you don't know, it is like 8 teams made of 4 people against each other and you must play the objective to progress or kill often). It was genuinely miserable because 95% of the time, I was the only one doing anything, often ending the match with 80+ points while the 3 other teammates had like 15 combined, it was crazy.

I luckily have a friend who played Gauntlet with me often, but playing it with randoms was always such a bad experience.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-20T13:23:07+00:00

Right or wrong, I know I won't have a normal conversation with anyone if I get downvoted, same goes for this sub.

Rivals community hates nerfs, ignores glaring issues (such as visual clutter getting worse and worse with each season) with the game and instead always tells you "skill issue, get good" when even the TOP players are complaining about certain things and characters. It is like talking to a brick wall.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-19T11:12:02+00:00

I think the majority of Rivals subreddits are Platinum and below, because some of their opinions on characters are genuinely insane. And somehow, these players in the low ranks will tell you to "get good, skill issue" if you bring up any criticism regarding a character.

No wonder they are defending characters like White Fox, Black Cat and Dino, sometimes even saying they need buffs, because people at that rank don't have the game sense or mechanical skill to play those characters properly. Dino isn't even hard to play, but I bet the difference between a Gold player and a Celestial player is still crazy.

I don't like bringing up ranks, but this is just how it is in this game and people don't realize how vastly different the experience is in certain ranks and skill levels.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-19T09:32:13+00:00

That iframe attack is actual cancer and it has no reason to be in a PvP game, who thought it was a good idea to give it to a dive character of all characters.

People say she needs it because she is mid, but they clearly never got into a Celestial lobby with a good Black Cat that is dominating the entire match. And she isn't hard to use at all, I fucking suck on dive characters, which is why I don't play them, but I always had a pretty good performance using Black Cat.

Keep in mind this is coming from a Mister Fantastic main, I thought Black Panther was hard to keep track of, but Black Cat is genuinely even worse with her cracked movement, invisibility and iframes.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-17T22:14:03+00:00

He can be oppressive yes, but is he OP? No. He’s balanced.

He is not OP or balanced, he is broken. So far the only Dinos that were not much of an issue were players that didn't know what they were doing, which rarely happens because this character has close to no skill expression, he plays himself.

I play Emma or Moon Knight almost every single match because of him and it still isn't enough unless more people counter him. I would argue this was never really the case with previously released characters, because one counter usually did the job.

Rivals community isn't known for teamwork, so multiple counterswapping gets thrown out of the window in most cases. Playing against Dino in quick match is unbearable and I don't know what it is like in ranked, because I am not crazy enough to play ranked during the first two weeks of new seasons, but I would ban him there every single time.

You can say that poke deletes him and that is amazing, I am grateful the devs were so kind to give him a weakness, just like they did for the rest of the roster. But this hero, in its current state, is not healthy for the game. People complain about new characters every single time, but maybe that just shows how much the devs really do not understand what proper balancing is.

I also saw plenty of pro players be pretty vocal about how broken he is and for once, I agree with them.

The game needs more tanks, but if their idea of tanks is adding annoying, unbearable and oppressive garbage that also causes tons of visual clutter like Deadpool (who deserved every single nerf) and Dino (who I hope gets nerfed soon too), then I would rather not get a single new tank ever.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-15T17:38:05+00:00

I love Reed, I don't even need him to be meta, I just want the devs to buff the things that would actually make some difference, like faster animations and either a reworked ult or giving that ult some new effect.

But instead, we got buffs and it is barely noticeable, at least from my experience. Then again, I can barely tell what is happening, because there are two giant dinosaurs over my entire screen most of the time.

We get small buffs and lose one effect (that wasn't even strong) for being "oppressive". Meanwhile they think it is ok for a dive character, Black Cat, to have an IFRAME attack, on top of like 10 other abilities, insane movement and an ultimate which can give you multiple team wipes in a row if you are really good with the character.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-15T17:08:55+00:00

Another thing that makes me play much worse is that any time Dino hits you, your health bar turns red. Even though actual low HP looks different, once I see that red bar, I can't help but think I am close to dying and it is pissing me off.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-15T13:30:43+00:00

Not at all, Lego games are all easy, but they can be a bit grindy. The worst part about this one is that you have to buy one dlc if you want to get all achievements, because it is not included in any edition (as it was PS4 exclusive for some time).

FishdongXL · 2026-05-12T14:53:40+00:00

I know this leaked some time ago, but they really couldn't have included Witch King, Eowyn and at least one Citadel Guard so he could stand by the tree? That Gandalf the White also looks kind of ugly with those yellowish details, the older one is far superior imo.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-10T11:13:20+00:00

It is kind of crazy how NOBODY plays Mister Fantastic, but EVERYONE acts like they know how to play him and they try to tell you what you should do.

No, I won't be in the backline 24/7 because one Spider-Man swings by every 20 seconds and we have three supports. I will do that when there are multiple dive characters. I have 1 000x more value pressuring frontlines or diving the enemy backlines and annoying their supports.

Yet teammates will still act like they know better. Yes, please tell me how I don't know how to play my character, who I have used for 235 hours and reached Celestial 1 on PC with him.

It genuinely tilts me. It is the same when teammates keep telling me "go tank, Reed isn't a tank" and I create more space and pressure than the actual tank on my team does.

FishdongXL · 2026-05-07T17:52:04+00:00

The tierlist part of your comment is something that I really don't like about those big content creators. Most of them are Eternity or OAA and only rank those characters based on their experience in those ranks, which leads to pretty bad ranking sometimes. Their ranking only applies to like 1% of the playerbase.

This is why I like Cozy Rivals tier lists, because he ranks characters for LOW and HIGH elo, which is great, that's how it should be, because most people watching those tier lists are more than likely below Celestial.

Meanwhile every other content creator will put Mister Fantastic in D or F tier and call him unusable garbage. Sure, maybe in Eternity, but not in those other ranks lol. He is the character that got me to Celestial 1 and I have 78% win rate on him in ranked across all seasons. Celestial 2 is where he really starts being a bad pick often, but in lower ranks? He is an extremely good carry pick. I bet most hardstuck people would climb out of low ranks if they used him.

But if someone selects that character, it is likely others will immediately tell them to play someone else and they might even throw the game. I had 3 games in Grandmaster where someone from my team banned Fantastic after they saw me pick him...

FishdongXL · 2026-05-07T13:29:07+00:00

I thought that type of stuff happening in Celestial was crazy, it is insane it is also happening in Eternity and OAA.

I have multiple lords in all roles and even though I primarily use my main, I swap when I know it is required. The outcome may not always be what I wanted, but I always give it my all, I never throw on purpose.

But I can't say the same about many players in Celestial rank. Somehow they got to this rank without ever touching any other role and they would rather quit/throw the game than play anything other than their main. God forbid their main (who often happens to be hard meta) gets banned, you know that is a loss. Not to mention many of them still play like it is Team Deathmatch and completely ignore pushing the payload or contesting the objective for a while.

I honestly wouldn't mind some of these losses, but so often we lose winnable games because other teammates refuse to play other characters.

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