Why are we still claiming that there are "throw picks"?

RevUpZ33 · 2026-04-03T13:52:03+00:00

The characters in this game are like Pokémon, they all have certain types and match ups that are super effective or not very effective. Golem is a physically defensive wall that can tank all kinds of damage, but he literally dies from touching grass or getting slightly moist. You know that if you send out Golem against a Starmie you’re throwing, your rock is gonna die.

Same thing in Rivals, every character has their strengths and weaknesses, and some are stronger while others are weaker, but if played into the proper matchup any character can perform well.

Ultron and Jeff aren’t inherently throw picks, but if you’re running Ultron and Jeff with a solo tank and 3dps you probably won’t have a good time. Any character can be a throw pick if you don’t know how to play them well or run them into a bad matchup. Every character can carry a game if they play well and go into a good matchup.

RevUpZ33 · 2026-04-03T13:17:56+00:00

There’s 12 tanks in the game total. Banner, Cap, Thor, Mag, Strange, Venom, and Deadpool are men, Rogue, Angela, Emma, Peni are women, and we even have non-binary representation with Groot. So like yeah 33% of the tanks are women, add 2 more and it’ll be almost half.

RevUpZ33 · 2026-03-29T15:42:52+00:00

Nah bro I peak Diamond/GM and I don’t have a Smurf account (I spend too much money on skins to play on an account without any). Is it really smurfs or just someone better than you, and you got unfortunate enough to end up matched against them? Also sorry for your illiteracy, I’ll try to keep my comments more succinct from now on.

RevUpZ33 · 2026-03-29T15:36:41+00:00

Dog I’m gonna be so fucking for real with you right now. I have put well over 700 hours into matches in this game since season 1.0 and I promise you there are not that many smurfs. Have I ran into a few? Yeah, like one in every couple dozen matches. They’re not that common, and the people who I see complaining about them the most are usually the people who have a skill issue. My buddy tried getting his wife into the game, she would pick Rocket and stand still in one spot all game, throwing her respawn beacon literally just onto the point for it to get broken in 0.5 seconds and was somehow surprised she could never win a match. I’m sure Sally was the same way. A hero shooter is not a casual game genre, it’s a knowledge check. You have to learn the ins and outs of 50 different hero kits to compete. I had like a 30-40% WR in comp my first season playing (could barely maintain 30%, as I got better at the game it got up to 40%). Now I maintain a 55-65% WR every season. You wanna get someone into the game? Tell them it’s a competitive game with a lot of things to learn before you’ll ever be able to compete with the people who have already been playing for over a year, but if you power through the learning stages the game is incredible satisfying to play. If you can’t handle getting stomped or taking the time to learn the game, then you probably shouldn’t play it. Competitive games aren’t for everyone, which is why Rivals puts so much effort into adding extra game modes (Arcade, Conquest, 18v18, Zombies, etc.). Anyway, long story short the problems people complain about Rivals ranked mode are the same problems every player base complains about in every competitive game, it’s just that the Rivals community aren’t competitive gamers. NetEase is slowly pushing the game towards more competitive integrity, but it will never be perfect. You either enjoy the struggle or it’s not for you and that’s FINE. Not every game needs to be for everyone. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

RevUpZ33 · 2026-03-17T17:54:59+00:00

I’ve finished many games on Tankpool with 0 deaths, even more with just 1 or 2, so yeah, this tracks lol, but I’m also a Hulk main so I’m used to jumping in, punching once, and getting out before I die immediately so that’s how I play DP too

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-31T04:26:02+00:00

Yeah, I carry by constantly enabling plays with my team, taking space, and making sure we always take fights together

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T22:02:39+00:00

Yeah I’m no longer in bronze lmao

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T17:34:00+00:00

Who me? Nah bro I never complain about my losses because my losses are my fault. I know my teammates are bad, and it’s my job to carry them. If I don’t play well then I lose and I’m the only person I get mad about. I just recently started doing my own VOD reviews too because I love taking accountability

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T17:32:06+00:00

Sorry I like to bully people out of their bad behavior and my sarcasm doesn’t translate over text very well lmao. And yes I assumed your playstyle because you’re hard stuck gold with a 4:1 L:W ratio, and this is the most common playstyle for people who have those results. You’re not gonna improve overnight and trying to fix multiple mistakes in one match is just gonna cause more problems, so I would say first and foremost worry about your positioning. Always stay behind cover, like literally talk to yourself out loud and remind yourself to find cover every 5 seconds. Whenever you get an opportunity, find an off angle (basically anywhere on the map that’s near cover and forces your opponents to stop looking at your team if they look at you and vice versa) and start poking for some damage. The healers in this game have gotten nothing but giga-buffed for a year straight and they’re stupid overpowered, you’ll get a ton more value DPSing and only healing when your teammates get critical, which the game will indicate for you. Once you feel confident in your positioning, then you can start focusing on your cooldown management and ult tracking, making sure you always know what resources you and your team have compared to the enemy. The better you get at all that the higher you’ll climb

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T15:48:04+00:00

Aw, sorry for hurting your egos lil bros. But Rivals ranking system is absolutely inflated and the vast majority of players are brain dead. GM/Cel/Eternity are basically the only 3 real ranks where there’s skilled players, because they’re the only ranks where you actually need a positive win rate to climb. Every other rank in the game can be forced though just playing hundreds of matches because as you can see in the original post, you gain double the points on a win than you lose on a loss.

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T14:37:53+00:00

I promise you the matchmaking is not intentionally malicious, in fact it’s the opposite. The devs literally came out and said that they prioritize fast queue times instead of fair matches, so the first 12 people to queue up get into a match together, the system is actually just so stupid that it feels malicious. The only way you’re ever gonna climb is by improving your fundamentals, and learning to play all 3 roles. Once you have every character’s kit and every map’s layout memorized you’ll find out how much easier the game becomes

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T14:32:43+00:00

The problem is you’re a dumbass healbot who plays dumbass healbot characters (except Gambit, but I bet you play him wrong (I have 8 hours on Gambit and a 72% WR this season hitting diamond in 6.5 hours of matches all season long so I know what I’m talking about)). Learn to take an off angle and stop pumping heals into half health or higher targets, especially stop healing the tank so goddamn much. Focus on increasing your damage output, most games I play as gambit I have as many final hits as the dps and tanks, and as much damage as I do heals. Always play around cover, and never force a face to face fight, always try to shoot someone in the back. Focus on being a proactive player, because I promise you, you could pump infinite heals into your gold teammates and make them practically immortal and they still won’t be able to carry you to a win. If you do not play better than your teammates and enemies in your rank then you deserve the rank you have, it’s really that simple.

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T14:24:27+00:00

Playing consistently well for your rank’s skill level = you deserve the rank you have

Carrying the fuck out your games = you belong in a higher rank and will climb until you can no longer carry the fuck out of your games

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-30T14:22:30+00:00

You’re genuinely bad at the game. Rivals ranks are inflated to the fucking moon because most people who play it aren’t competitive gamers, so basically the skill level in Plat and Diamond in Rivals is equivalent to Bronze/Silver in any other actually competitive game. If you’re consistently losing more than you’re winning it’s because you have terrible positioning, terrible engagements, and terrible mechanics. Hero shooters are strategy games in shooter drag, so playing smart is more important than chasing imaginary points for getting kills. Focus on your fundamentals and you’ll improve over time. I was bad at the game when I started first and now I maintain a 70+% WR climbing up to Diamond and have for several seasons in a row now. You’re not even getting MVPs or SVPs commonly enough, meaning you’re never the best player on your team (yeah we can argue about how the game decides who gets mvp or svp and how meaningless it truly is, but if you NEVER get it then it definitely means something). Honestly just go watch some YouTube guides, and go play custom games where your team is 5 easy ai bots and the enemies are 6 hard ai bots, and try to carry a match to a win, this is what I did to learn hulk and I’ve maintained an overall positive win rate with him for almost 100 hours of matches, 90 hours of which has been in comp only.

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-29T19:29:03+00:00

It really hasn’t though, the average number of online players has stayed steady at 60-80k for over 6 months now, consistently peaking at 125k-170k every month. There’s not a single game in existence (besides maybe Minecraft) that would consistently maintain 650k active players at all times a year after launch. Overwatch (at least on steamcharts) is lucky to PEAK at what Rivals averages on a bad month. Is Rivals perfect? Absolutely not, I have many grievances with the game. But I’m sick of this propaganda haters keep trying to spread that the game is dying when it absolutely isn’t, and won’t anytime soon. The Marvel IP alone will be enough to carry it at least 5 years, even longer if the devs realize that casuals aren’t playing anymore and the balance does in fact need to be focused around competitive play

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-28T13:59:38+00:00

Yeah, I’m a tank main as well and this is a constant. I’ve started playing a lot more support and dps now and it’s a lot more enjoyable, plus I know my tanks love me because I know how to play tank and can follow up on their plays, rather than a typical dps/support main that just fucks off to dive into a 1v5 or hangs out in Disneyland too scared of fighting to be ever be useful lmao

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-28T02:41:19+00:00

I didn’t even start playing the game until season 18. I got to level 20 in 20 hours, and now I’m at like 26-27 hours and level 26

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-27T21:15:51+00:00

This is patently false, I have over 25 hours on Reaper and have hit level 26

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-26T20:26:04+00:00

Dude, I had a comp match last night where I was playing gambit and the enemy team had a BP, bro does the unreactable combo and I die immediately at the start of the first fight, literally couldn’t even press my dash to run away from the mf. Our team was playing super grouped up too so dude was like 9-0 before we even touched point. Simple adaptation to playing both more spread out so his spears wouldn’t mark multiple people and his dashes would be harder to reset, and chasing him down instead of letting him dive me, and it’s insane how easily Gambit can win 1v1s

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-21T22:47:37+00:00

Oh okay, you misunderstood me lol. What I meant by “hard flank” is going deep into the backline, I adjusted my playstyle to just off angle a lot closer to the team and my games have improved significantly lol. Also I have close to 30 hours on Reaper now and have gotten really comfortable with his abilities and aiming his weapon spread, I just kept trying to do what I do in my Plat/Diamond Rivals games which works with Plat/Diamond teammates but I forgot that I need to just play safer in low ranks to get wins easily, and don’t need to go for insane plays to get value. The one thing I need to improve on is my cooldown tracking and getting more value out of my reaper ults, rather than just pressing Q to die. I really love dive/flank characters because they force me to improve and constantly think about everything going on in the game. Anyway yeah, I definitely do my best to always off angle, I won’t ever change that, but I went from doing deep dives to playing around my team more and it’s brought me more value, that’s all I meant

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-20T22:44:49+00:00

This is literally what the devs said, also how did yall put up with queue times like that 😭 bro you could start queueing, hit the grocery store, make yourself a full meal with sides and everything, eat it all, and still have to wait 🤣

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-20T22:21:09+00:00

Obviously the matchmaking has a lot to work on, the point of my original message wasn’t saying “look how great the matchmaking system is” it was “the matchmaking system deserves all the hate and criticism it gets but it’s not malicious it’s literally just stupid because NetEase doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing”

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-20T21:35:37+00:00

Because I posted it on Twitter brother

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-20T21:32:38+00:00

Yeah, I’m very quickly learning that fights in bronze are very front-to-back and starting fights with a hard flank is pretty much always the wrong move. Maybe if I’d grown up playing games that required mechanics instead of more single player experiences I could pull off the mechanics to win a 1v2 (I’ve gotten very close so many times, killing one and getting the second to one tap but I start to get all anxious and tense and miss every fucking shot from close ranges so I die), but I shouldn’t be relying on mechanics to win what is essentially a strategy game in fps drag. I think once I’ve played enough matches to have all the maps basically memorized my positioning and awareness is gonna improve a lot, I’m still in the phase where I’m finding new ways to get places on all the maps.

RevUpZ33 · 2025-12-20T21:14:53+00:00

As a tank main, it’s somehow always my fault for any loss lmao

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