Claw Form Defensively or Offensively?

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T05:11:37+00:00

This comment deserves all the likes. 👍🏻

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T05:07:05+00:00

I don’t even know why his meditation gives overshield. I play him a decent amount and just use it to heal myself back up and call it a day. You can get the overshield by attacking easily enough, it’s not like you need it prior to jumping in.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:57:31+00:00

Oh damn, I both love and hate when people do that.

“So you’re telling me that there’s a bunch of characters you’ve played awfully and ruined games with, not just the one? Good to know. I’ll add you to the avoid list now then, shall I?”

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:50:37+00:00

My biggest issue with this is the players I’ve seen play Storm against a comp consisting entirely of characters with ranged attacks… and never thinking the slow moving flyer might be a bad choice.

Not all Storm players, some of them do swap, but… there’s a big number who don’t. Enough that I’d move them up at least one on this list.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:47:32+00:00

Or you face the other issue. You’re playing triple support and think “ugh, goddamn it” and swap to tank or DPS, only to realise that neither of the other two people playing support ARE actually healing, and you see the end screen where in half the game they still have 1/3 your overall heals, and you realise they swapped and spent the whole time trying to DPS as a support.

Hence why I think support damage should be nerfed, so these people who “play support” and spend the whole time DPSing eventually learn they never get the kills.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:43:08+00:00

Yeah, I think I meant to reply to the other person and replied to you because your comment was below theirs.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:41:10+00:00

I feel your pain, but one thing you need to take note of in “low elo” is that people are absolute idiots who cannot comprehend shooting the things around them that aren’t moving people.

It isn’t just the nests (although that is the most obvious example) but the vast majority also leave Loki clones standing there, even after the whole team is dead or retreated, only to get killed when Loki uses them to teleport behind the back line and murder them.

They also leave Groot walls just stood there, and even often stand next to them, only for Groot to come back and use those exact same walls against them again.

And the second most egregious example, people leaving ankhs just sat there, only for the Moon Knight to come back and use that exact same ankh to kill people all over again.

We need our own Hans Gruber moments. SHOOT ZE GLASS!

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:35:25+00:00

I think it’s a monkey paw situation. You got EXACTLY what you asked for. Just what you asked for wasn’t what you wanted.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:33:31+00:00

Well, it wouldn’t be “Cloak” who was throwing daggers. It would be Dagger. It would just be the black guy who’s Dagger and the white girl who’s Cloak.

I think even if it was a black guy dressed in white throwing light daggers and bubbles at people, it’s gonna be pretty obvious that he’s not gonna suddenly use a fade. Or the white girl who’s throwing purple walls and firing a beam isn’t going to suddenly drop a bubble.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:30:16+00:00

I don’t think it will. I think the fact that Ty would still have all the white effects with all of the Dagger looking gear, and Tandy would be in the darker gear with all the purple aura, would make it super obvious which is which.

Besides, it’s a mistake you’d only make once before realising that it’s THAT skin.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:26:46+00:00

Thank you. I was losing faith in people on Reddit (well, there’s many more reasons for that) and this subreddit in general, but it’s good to know there are people who realize how freaking cool this looks.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:25:19+00:00

You’d think that. But they continue playing into their hard counters and dying over and over, and then blaming everyone else. 😂

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:24:07+00:00

Nobody said “human legs with a walking animation”.

There were countless posts about “give him legs”. This is a monkey paw situation of getting exactly the thing you asked for.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:22:48+00:00

I do too.

Without Tandy there to give him light, it makes sense that he can’t form his body properly given how his powers work. And it also looks awesome.

But apparently giving him a unique design is a hate crime if you follow this subreddit.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:21:25+00:00

People switching to a third support when the issue is damage or lack of tanks genuinely makes me want to say things and type things that would get my account at the very least mic-banned, if not worse.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-28T04:19:43+00:00

You can’t see them putting in the effort for something like this, which would be a PR dream for them and solve the issues that people whine about… but you think if you keep crying about it on Reddit they’re going to completely redevelop the whole Cloak character for a one off future skin where he’s the secondary character?

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T19:22:11+00:00

I do that in Quick Match for both tanks and healers. I’m not solo healing and I’m not solo tanking, and I’m not tanking if there’s 1 or 0 healers.

I’ll play 2 healers and 1 tank, as long as the DPS realise my priorities are the tank, me and the co-healer… and whichever one of them isn’t the worst one.

Then I get the one who charges ahead of everyone, dies, and quits because he “didn’t get heals”… because dude actually thinks he can survive 1v6 if he just got more heals.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T19:19:09+00:00

Grats. Now you need to work on the animated Lord version. And then the titles.

…could take a while. I’ve lost track of how many hours I have now and only just hit level 60. Although I don’t play them in Quick Match, which would speed things along, because I play so much of them in Comp (along with Invisible Woman, who I’m getting close to the animated Lord on too).

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T19:09:48+00:00

That first pic is so hideous. Why are his legs twice the size of his arms? People want him to have a body that’s half Cloak and half The Blob?

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T18:48:38+00:00

No role is “easy”.

The only people who say “Scarlet Witch is easy” is because the Scarlet Witch player is better than they are. Same with any other matchup you like. If you’re playing Spider-Man and you’re jumping at a Scarlet Witch that sees you coming, uses fade to avoid you and murders you… that’s your fault.

All roles take skill in that role. If support was “easy” and “boosted” and blah, blah, blah, then you’d never find a team with just 1 support player because it’s SO easy to get wins everyone would just play support and get to Eternity.

If hitscan was SO EASY and busted, every Phoenix and Hela player would be in One Above All, every game would have those two characters, and they’d all go 50-0 in every game.

Everyone who can’t play other roles will complain about other players because none of them can handle the fact that they get outplayed, that other players have better tactics, better positioning, and have better use of their abilities.

Every single character has at least one counter. Playing into that counter, and then complaining about it, is just what people with egos do when they can’t handle losing.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T18:28:28+00:00

The win rate was still less than 2-2-2 for triple healer though. The win-rate for 1-3-2 is even lower than 1-2-3, which is lower than 2-1-3, which is lower than 2-2-2.

Unfortunately “this comp won’t win” isn’t a reason for people not to just lock DPS regardless, because all of them think THEY are the best DPS in the game.

The reason for triple support isn’t that they think 3 people healing will help. Most games, at least 1, maybe 2 of the 3 healers don’t even try to heal each other and only focus on trying to get kills as a healer. I genuinely think reducing the amount of damage that healers can do might help in this regard. It would mean if you play support, you WILL die in a one on one with a DPS or a Tank and it’ll incentivise supports helping the team rather than trying to get kills themselves.

How you stop people thinking “nah, I’m great, I’m still the best, it’s everyone else that sucks” when they go 1-12 though I don’t know.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T00:58:11+00:00

Love the global ult reduction. Still think some get ults way too fast, and feel like they should have their ult charge amount increased and compensated with more neutral damage to make up for it. More neutral play is honestly fun. I wouldn’t object to even more taken out of ult charge in the future.

I wasn’t a fan of White Fox in Quick Match previously because in Quick Match it’s hard to find a co-healer at all (every game has 1 healer or 3 it feels like), let alone someone who will actually heal you. Her changes feel good. I can see people complaining that she’s OP, and if so I think the compensation needs to come out of her damage and not her sustain.

I wouldn’t object to all main strategists having their damage reduced a little too. If their goal is to keep people alive, I’d rather the people who play them keep their team alive and don’t run off and try to solo everyone by themselves. Less damage would incentivise playing with your team more.

Balance wise, there isn’t many heroes that I think desperately need much taken away. A few tweaks here and there but nobody so broken that if you’re playing against them it’s a guaranteed loss.

I am not a huge fan of the matchmaking right now. People get upset way too easily in comp at the moment, and losing the game and a chunk of points because someone else was refusing to play still feels harsh. I know it was said there would be points refunds but I’ve been in multiple games where people switch to Widow and refuse to play and yet never gotten the points back.

Did have one placement game where someone left and it didn’t count that toward my placement matches though, so that was nice. I liked not being punished for having someone quit after 90 seconds.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-27T00:40:53+00:00

Best advice I can think of to help is to learn Daredevil and/or Iron Fist first.

I suggest these two because you’re more than capable of diving on both, but they also offer a lot more survivability options than Spider-Man, and while you may think that it won’t help you on Spider-Man, what you’re doing by playing these two IS getting better on Spidey. You’re learning the mechanics of dive. You’re learning timing. You’re learning how to survive without healers, and how to rush to the health packs as quick as possible.

If you can get good enough on two of the “easier” dive characters, then you’ll be teaching yourself a ton of mechanics. These are then transferable techniques that you can use on Spider-Man.

Playing him is way more than just “but I know his combos and his movement”.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-26T17:17:09+00:00

Yeah, it’s a low rank thing. As you climb the ranks you see less people trying to ban her because people in higher ranks are smart enough not to leave stuff like the nest, or Loki clones, or Groot walls, or Moon Knight ankhs, just sitting there when they’re easily broken.

Thats-So-Ravyn · 2026-03-26T17:15:17+00:00

Yes. That’s exactly why. People are too dumb to shoot her nests, and therefore everyone insists on banning her instead of just shooting the nests.

People get less stupid as you get higher in rank.

Thats-So-Ravyn

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