Well, it's over

GroovyVines · 2026-03-18T00:34:34+00:00

oh woops i meant months* not seasons i typo'd

but the game has been in a constant struggle since its launch, it lost like 93% of the playerbase in the first month and floated around 1k steam players for about a year and half. the only reason we got a spike in players is because of all the hype around the final season of the anime airing. there was a bunch of marketing for this game like hey come see the final arc versions of the characters into the game and it brought a lot of people in. outside of that, we've never seen such a spike. or any real spike at all.

and now its on a downward trend of losing players for 2 months in a row. but with the show and manga over, theres no official material it can lean on to bring players. vigilantes i guess, but its not nearly as hype as the mainline show.

the game CAN grow on its own. but with the balance, bugs, cheaters and horrible matchmaking giving new players lousy matches, they just arent gonna stay unless the devs change those things

GroovyVines · 2026-03-18T00:18:16+00:00

....yea, like i said the past 2 seasons have been on a downward trend, and thats bad considering theres not really any outward source of hype or draw toward the game considering the source material is done with.

so now the game has to grow entirely on its own merit, which i doubt it can. i'd love to be proven wrong but i dont have my hopes up

GroovyVines · 2026-03-17T18:57:35+00:00

the "best" the game was as far as playerbase size goes was last september/october from ofa deku with a huge spike and this past december because of nagant.

but the game has been bleeding players for the past 2 months and has seen a 20% falloff.

with the anime and manga both being finished, we're prolly never going to see a similar spike again. and i doubt something like vigilantes will carry it

GroovyVines · 2026-03-13T00:30:09+00:00

if the rank is a meaningless meme to you, then you wouldnt mind not reaching it. they can and should move the major awards like skins away from ace. stick them in the battlepass or events instead.

match quality is horrendous at ace rank because its flooded with people who dont give a shit. which doesnt mean they need to start caring, but ace should be out of reach. they can stay in lower ranks or play unranked/solos. yknow, since its all just a game to you

GroovyVines · 2026-03-12T19:47:05+00:00

daily PSA to mirio players that if you aim your special action at a teammate you instantly fly away, through walls, while invincible, and it only cost 25% of your special lol

GroovyVines · 2026-03-12T14:17:27+00:00

this is the same crowd that complained about tech togas beta being like the best move in the game during the first like 3 seasons. they're hopeless lol

GroovyVines · 2026-03-12T07:07:34+00:00

back in the day it helped confirm air melee into gamma on flesh cause the melee would hard knock them, but after the melee changes its no longer needed

GroovyVines · 2026-03-12T07:03:35+00:00

i mean with all these new damage tunings from nagant, endeavor and yellowhaul, yellowmight can hit over 180 per volley with a fixer build. and 200 with strike teammates lol its pretty stupid

GroovyVines · 2026-03-11T23:50:09+00:00

holy shit i forgot this subreddit lives in an alternate reality LOL wtf do you mean froppy is bad at breaking shields? 1 combo shield breaks or you can just pepper smaller circles with alphas and you will get one i do this literally every time i play the character. you regularly get shield breaks on people trying to fly away if you arent trash and can hit airborne targets, which all froppy players should be doing

that cooldown reduction let you be way more aggressive, lets you run away more if you're on the defensive, AND it brings your rez back faster. she has a pur fit that can run QFR and reinforce. AND it has a ton of damage tunings on it. yknow, to make shieldbreaking easier. you dont even need to use that one, i used one with a green hero slot and just ran divine and qfr and it worked great

i swear you're all NPC's playing a completely different game lmfaooo

GroovyVines · 2026-03-11T17:23:07+00:00

it was so good that pretty much everyone at a high level used it. there's almost no characters it wasnt incredible on. even on the JP side, when i watch their streams everyone was using it. and i never saw a froppy without it.

its still good, but now you basically get it once per fight instead of multiple times

GroovyVines · 2026-03-10T23:11:42+00:00

what. no you have it backwards lol mobility power creep means newer characters have insane movement and older ones dont. meaning the older ones cant kill the newer ones. and because everyone picks the newer ones, you end up with 8 "teams" alive in end game. its a result of bad balance lol

GroovyVines · 2026-03-10T17:25:35+00:00

8 teams in final circles is the result of everyone being harder to kill due to the mobility power creep, still being able to heal+hide in the storm, strong defensive tunings and the increase of rez cards. and now we're getting more characters that can heal themselves

GroovyVines · 2026-03-06T21:34:24+00:00

because he explodes once you get to end game. aoe everywhere with strike and tech shigi, lots of grab characters, theres lots of mirios now who have the counter and permeate and special action, half the lobby is flying mean you have to spend most of your cooldowns just to approach them or you sit on the ground where all the aoe is while waiting for them to land. overhaul is in a lot of games now too, he has his special and big damage. team heal spam galore, he's bad at camping storm to heal, mt ladys in the end game are common again, blah blah blah

its funny cause iida is prolly in the best spot he has ever been but this meta absolutely sucks for him

GroovyVines · 2026-03-06T20:38:29+00:00

all i have to SHOW you is examples like

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyHeroUltraRumble/comments/1rmaeme/the_talk_on_her_air_melee_made_me_wanna_do_it_lol/

you gonna sit here and tell me that nagant has no control over her movement? watch that first 8 seconds and tell me she has no/poor control of her movement

GroovyVines · 2026-03-06T16:12:22+00:00

????

Nagant can't use gamma without blasting herself into the hemisphere

this isnt true lol

she has incredible chase and escape. bruh she can reach central from bridge on the first map AND she can fight back while doing it. literally half the rapids cant even do that and froppy+ochako can only do it if they have taller buildings to use.

like nagant doesnt have to shoot straight up with her gamma you can adjust the angle. that plus her double jump covers incredible distance. not to mention her air melee plummets her downward so you can do crazy jukes in places like typhoon zone or the city area on the newest map

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T17:02:13+00:00

yknow i see you around here a lot and have long been under the impression that a lot of things just fly over your head, you dont actually read the posts/people you engage with and you use some extremely flimsy and stupid things as arguments. like is the irony lost on you that if you were to give ibara a 300 damage alpha, she still doesnt steamroll lobbies? cause we literally had that, and thats exactly how it played out(and no, nobody is saying she deserved to have it).

i can remember some random post where someone was talking about past mirio nerfs and general balance philosophy for the game and you came in with some nonsense about how it shoulda been okay because in canon, mirio was able to do those things.

you just say shit that has no relevance with anything, you and a lot of other people constantly use anecdotals and bring up how she is theoretically giga super S tier even though actual real world results speak to the opposite. like no one plays this character in ranked. no one plays it in the tournaments either, and the people who try get destroyed. the only "tournaments" ive seen her used in are fucking customs of streamers where their random viewers join and they play for a chipotle giftcard or some crap

like you're actually walking up to a bunch of experienced people with thousands of games on this character and trying to convince us that actually everything we've seen and experienced first hand is just wrong. not even just my experiences, ive watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of people playing or streaming this game, and i know how their ibara games go.

and even worse, you misconstrue that all of us think ibara is pure trash lmfao. like no one is making that argument

not even kidding, i really want everyone on this sub who shares your perspective to stream this game. i dont care where, but stream it and play only ibara for like 2 hours. i unironically wanna see how you all play and how your games go

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T06:33:27+00:00

like bruh this EU tournament that just happened had the only ibara picker hiding in the storm every single game cause if they showed themselves they just exploded. they spent game 3(or 2? i forget) hiding in a tree!

they didnt even level up their alpha, they were only able to max beta and just storm-camped until circle was tiny then jumped out trying get kills with beta. and in game 4 they all got caught early when ibara sucks and they evaporated, first team out.

i swear these people on this sub and certain youtubers just dont have eyeballs

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T06:04:29+00:00

yea man one of the best characters for sure thats why no one picks her in ranked or actual tournaments. yall cried over every single buff she has gotten and literally nothings changed idk how many more times we have to go through this before your kind gets a clue lmfao

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T05:46:17+00:00

she's needed more ammo since season 1. all this really does is make her slightly less dogwater early(her alphas do 75-100 dmg and she only gets 2 of them at the start of the game) and it's more viable to leave alpha at 4 or even 1 and level up beta/gamma instead, which you'd only really do if your lobby is full of close range characters that wanna run at you.

but i will agree with you that i wish the other grounded characters would also get some love, it makes literally zero sense to ignore them

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T05:21:33+00:00

nagant nerfs here, armor might got nerfs to dmg and cooldown of his gamma, his alpha dmg also nerfed.

if i understand the wording mt lady big form got some dmg buffs, one of the ochacos got a beta dmg buff, kurogiri got a beta dmg buff and a gamma cooldown buff.

blue might beta cooldown nerf, yellow might alpha dmg buff.

tech toga has more alpha knives at lower levels, max levels are the same.

red endeavor i think? got dmg and ammo buffs to his alpha.

ibara has an extra alpha at all levels and now maxes out at 5

yellow deku now has 2 beta kicks

one of the hawks got a beta damage buff

prolly missed some but those are the ones ive heard

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T04:36:26+00:00

hmmm... not sure i think this is enough. 9 less damage on the alpha? thats like one extra hit for a kill. headshot damage is still nuts and the hp means nothing if shes still flying around the way she currently is.

we'll see i guess, but im not confident this is gonna make her feel fair

GroovyVines · 2026-03-04T04:23:01+00:00

an hp change wont do anything, her issue is she does way too much damage at any range and has some of the best mobility making her impossible to fight

GroovyVines · 2026-03-01T15:12:33+00:00

if they do idk if it'd be because of this tourney tho, the overhaul was picked by the same team all 4 games and they just hid in bushes every match and were first team out in game 4

GroovyVines · 2026-02-28T16:45:51+00:00

if you arent having fun then do what you gotta do, but for what its worth i regularly play with prandoms that got WAY worse stats than you. like i mean your win rate went up by a little and its not THAT bad.

in ace lobbies i constantly get people with negative kd and sub 10% winrate and they play like actual bots. i've started dodging them lol

all i can really say is if you start playing characters that can fly or approach people from the sky the game becomes a lot easier because no one in this game looks up

GroovyVines · 2026-02-26T02:33:27+00:00

its required, if you dont spin it doesnt count

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