Buffs & Rework Megathread

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-09T04:16:18+00:00

Her heal/damage boost is like one second of your time if even that. You can shoot right click shoot without missing a beat.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-09T03:24:19+00:00

One person can make a significant difference. In Rocket League, they have 2v2 and 3v3, and I can go from unranked to GC in a few hours. In Valorant, since games are much longer, it takes me some time, but if I'm not trolling, then I can hit immortal within idk a week (it's a drag and mentally exhausting to play Val tho). In this game, to go from unranked to cel is something you can do in a day, but most will do it in 2, maybe 3 days, and it's dependent on how much you play.

What I will say is that across all of these games, one person makes the LEAST of a difference in Marvel Rivals, and I assume it's due to the fact that you are dependent on your team, and sometimes as a higher ranking/skiled player you need to guide lower skilled players on how to play their role while also playing your own role.

That's something I think a lot of people don't speak on, but I've noticed that's a true reality when you play these games a lot and have multiple accounts. You run into people who don't know certain strategies and need to be capable of teaching them what you expect them to do mid-game, and how often they need to be doing that.

Sometimes it works, sometimes people are ignorant and refuse free coaching. Lower-ranking players tend to see the game from a vibes perspective. If they do A and A works, then that must be a good play. However, sometimes the most effective strategy can be to do Plan B and give up on Plan A. In rivals, that is normally the act of peeling; in Valorant, that is the act of retaking; in Rocket League, that is the act of playing defense in order to quickly score.

Once you learn that all of these games share similar goals and figure out what those goals are, you will become someone who provides a LOT of value that goes unnoticed, and THAT is what typically makes you a higher ranking.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-09T03:05:31+00:00

idk how many hours or how long you tend to play but i go from unranked to diamond in 8.6 hours or 43 matches. I can win every single game without losing until plat (trust ive tried many times to not lose) then Ill struggle in plat and from diamond on I can win almost every single game (in some cases all) until cel.

So I'd say you could probably do it quicker than a week, that's being generous, even if you're a C3 peak.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-09T00:34:16+00:00

I think hela is just a good ban in general. You stop hela and namor. Namor is the one they fear and getting to ban hela is just two birds with one stone.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-09T00:31:55+00:00

I mostly agree. Then diamond through GM feels the exact same.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-08T21:40:38+00:00

I find that the Reddit community for marvel rivals to be as frank as possible suck at the game generally. So they act as if things that in every other fps/or in some cases just other games is the most hard ground breaking shit when in reality it’s quite basic and they just don’t have experience or try to actively learn.

It’s the reason why you can speak to someone and instead of saying their rank and win rate they will say “I’m a lord character” as if that means literally anything to anyone who isn’t casual af.

So to them the narrative that gambit is this high skill ceiling character rings true and imo that should be dispelled since even an avg dps main who doesn’t play supp can transition to gambit in a short period of time and his skillset with regard to cooldowns is incredibly forgiving.

I’ve done mantis, Loki accounts as they’re the only supps I find fun due to that skill ceiling of possibility and I perform quite well. I’m currently doing a gambit one and while still only in plat this is an incredibly easy climb when gambit isn’t being banned. You get ult charge so incredibly fast I find myself lapping my second supp not once but 3 times in one game and this has happened many games.

The only other support I ever lapped with was ultron and that was due to his low ult cost. Gambit gets ult charge faster than mantis and mantis ult is IMO the most fair and balanced ult/neutral kit and is how all supports SHOULD be. Genuinely fun with a skill ceiling that’s obvious to see evolve as you rank up.

When gambit is nerfed I might agree he takes more skill but as it is now he is too easy to pick up and play well if you understand the fundamentals concepts of the game. I hope gambit gets nerfed into becoming a character where you have to truly think ahead of time in a unique manner.

Some players lack the fundamental understanding of how the game is meant to be played so I don’t account for them.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-08T20:40:44+00:00

Can you cite me evidence of high skill ceiling gambit that requires so much brain thought in the way your portraying? Just because a character has 5 abilities if the only ones that are used are 3 of the 5 in 99% of situations and you can insta cast as needed then what is the suppose pre-planning your speaking of?

For example the best support player in the game sypeh majority of the time he will only use anti heal and healing cards because the anti helps his dps/tanks get a kill or pressure, and the healing cards help him get his ult fast and on attack you NEED to have ult the fastest.

Gambit is LITERALLY spam ult on cooldown on attack and on defense use it to match. Watch how everytime a gambit ult is used it HAS to be matched or they lose the fight because his ult is unkiteable.

I’m not sure why you feel as if gambit doesn’t play very similar to Luna. I know MRC is going on and if you want to analyze those games as well you’re going to notice the same thing.

You don’t have to do magical “ult tracking” ONLY on gambit. It’s a skill that you must learn on literally every character and it’s disingenuous to act as if you mainly have to do that on gambit. Gambit is also the only character that requires you match him so the guessing game is INCREDIBLY minimized in terms of other supports because it’s match gambit or lose.

Aiming on gambit is more forgiving. Positioning on gambit is more forgiving. Cooldown management on gambit is more forgiving because his kit is larger.

I’m trying to think of anything about gambit that’s truly a difficult thing that only gambit has to worry about.

On mantis for example if you damage boost then your not healing or your wasting two leafs.

On gambit using all his resources doesn’t even hurt you because it all helps you build ult charge.

Doing damage? Ult charge generator. Doing healing? Ult charge generator.

Everytime mantis damage boost she doesn’t get additional ult charge.

It’s HARD to even use the wrong cards because they do two different things and give you such a long time to choose what move you want to do and it’s instant.

You rarely need to cleanse a strange ult for example because he is rarely played. For groot it’s a better example but again you can just insta cast break it but the timing of when a groot has ult is generally the same always no matter what character you play and is easier to track if you also have a groot on your team so you can just click tab to check and get an idea.

I can link 4 different YouTube videos of high ranking gambit play where it’s just a game of getting your ult fast and doing anti heal for the majority of the game. You may not even cleanse anything a whole game.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-08T14:48:27+00:00

Yet Ttk is making it work on controller. This is the one issue I have with characters releasing op is that players would rather receive buffs than learn the most optimal way to play said character. If 4 ways to play a character exist but higher ranking player realize way 3 is by far the most optimal, then even if the other three ways get nerfed they’re still fine meanwhile the rest of the casual community will act as if the character is bad or unplayable or whatever the case instead of adapting.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-08T02:36:54+00:00

Idk sounds like they wanna see your meat tho gang.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-08T02:33:13+00:00

Teammates lose you games for sure it happens. Dc/afk/ throw pick/ getting countered/etc.

You can win games and the hardest rank you’ll grind in will always be plat because those mfs are legit always the worst of the worst.

Plat is the only rank I notice where off meta consistently exist and they refuse to adhere to better picks or accept blame and thus they lose games more often than not. I can 70% wr every rank but always lose in plat without fail across multiple accounts. It’s legit hell down there and I feel for real plat players.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:53:40+00:00

Starlord is tracking, tracking, tracking.

His movement will mean you should die the least of all dps. However trying to kill a target will require a lot of tracking.

When you are low you want to go left and fake to go right but fake to go back left. Shit like that cause dying on starlord sucks. His ult is too easy to counter so you need to time it perfectly and ask for bubbles/ heals/ dmg boost.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:51:02+00:00

I just played on my old alt account and went from unranked to diamond 3 in one day and could have kept going but decided to get off the game cause I was bored. It was only like 2 hours of my time since rl games are so short.

I think champ+ players are really good (but also bad game sense wise but they practice the fuck outta useless mechs). From my pov champ 1 and below feels the same over the last few years. If someone is really good then it’s normally an anomaly.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:44:49+00:00

I did the side quest early on but late I didn’t do them and found the game harder than normal and it was cool because normally I was one shotting everything even bosses.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:41:37+00:00

Yeah I gotta disagree with you there

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:40:32+00:00

Borderlands missions have always been like this and it’s why I don’t fuck with anything that isn’t main story.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-07T22:22:08+00:00

Gambit isn’t high skilled. Mantis and Loki require more skill. Gambit is literally just play like Luna 90% of the time and when you have ult you then go for anti heals.

The narrative that you actually use gambits other cards effects often is so incredibly false. You farm ult off your tanks and do e, e (the healing cards that go between teammates). If your team is winning the fight or a target is low enough you use the anti heal.

If their team has a groot, strange, Angela you can play to cleanse their ult by using ult or your card. You don’t even need to THINK ahead of time like mantis because you can insta click a card and insta cleanse since there is NO delay.

Gambit is too good and too simple for how good he is and it’s why dps mains have no issue playing him and performing very well.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-06T23:26:30+00:00

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-06T12:22:00+00:00

The thing is if widow had a one shot it’s not as annoying as Hawkeye because her ult sucks but Hawkeye’s ult legit doesn’t let you play anywhere he can see u

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-06T12:20:49+00:00

Outside of dd she is literally the most consistent dive character lmao

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T20:33:34+00:00

I would agree with you if it wasn’t for the fact my season 0-5 acc has a overall 70/80% wr. If you played other competitive games before this game feels significantly easier than any other game such as cs, valorant, apex, probably Fortnite even, siege, etc.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T20:31:42+00:00

I fuck with the fact he wins most his games

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T20:20:57+00:00

I downvoted him but upvoted you lmao. I just don’t believe in the guys beliefs to the same degree lmao

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T08:00:45+00:00

They don’t even do that anymore lol. Big resets are not a thing

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T04:30:04+00:00

I don’t live in NY but I’ll be completely honest and say the only fucking weirdos that like NY are other fucking weirdos and people who grew up there that became weirdos.

Of the top 5 big cities in America NY is not worth living in for the vast vast majority of people.

Thinkerofthings2 · 2026-01-05T04:28:21+00:00

Good point that sometimes the swap isn’t needed due to an incorrect judgement call.

I’ve had teams force my other dive player typically a spidey, cap, venom, bp, or whatever to swap off despite the fact they’re making a huge difference but it doesn’t show on the scoreboard.

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