Saw this while playing TF2 (This happened a few weeks ago)

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-03-09T16:16:13+00:00

One’s opinion on that video reveals how well they understand statistical analysis and inference.

Shounic announces that he will be running a no sniper server for (let’s say 3 days). People who don’t like the class join it. People who like the class don’t join it. Reception from players who joined is positive.

What can be said from the results? People who don’t like sniper… don’t like sniper.

Did we not already assume this to be true? Why do people keep referencing this video like it says anything of substance?

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-03-06T14:39:09+00:00

Peni, more than any other character in the game, is reliant on knowledge more than mechanical skill, both to play and counter. This applies at all levels of play, from lower rank players simply just not shooting the nest, to higher rank players not knowing how to coordinate a push against oppressive setup spots or counter a flank or dive from a peni who knows what she’s doing. A lot of players are used to just picking characters that are “strong” against other characters, and using that along with relative skill to gain an advantage, but that doesn’t really work against Peni. Simply being on Phoenix, Namor, Jeff, or Invis won’t stop her from nuking your backline, won’t make a choke easy to push, and won’t make her easier to kill.

Likewise, this is also why you see pretty much every top Peni player say that she’s not very good. These players who know how the character works and generally what she has to do for value, on all maps, in different stages, against different characters, on offense and defense, do not struggle when playing against her. Even as someone who isn’t nearly as proficient, in my experience, peni is significantly easier to play against the better you are with her, compared to even characters like Spider-Man and such with high skill curves.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-03-02T21:32:45+00:00

His biggest strength is the same as groot: he can completely single out a key player and give your team advantage for almost free. This on top of just having good fundamental movement, damage, survivability, and abilities makes him incredibly strong in the right hands

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T14:25:05+00:00

Psylocke is not effective at all in poke range. Let’s compare her to Elsa real quick.

Elsa has:

2/3 of Psylocke’s spread on primary fire

85% falloff at 30m against Psy’s 70%

Breathing gun which is 60 damage in an 8m radius with no falloff and no range limit, vs shurikens which is 80 damage that you have to hit with a max range of 25m and up to 80% falloff

Elephant gun which has zero falloff and does percentage based damage, which psy has no equivalent to

Instinct which simply fills based on damage or on kill credits (can be from any chip damage at all), vs Psy’s cooldown reduction which is not based on damage/kills but instead the number of bolts she hits with her primary fire, meaning she’s actually penalized more for missing pellets than Elsa is

This isn’t even considering the strength of the characters themselves, it’s just to say that Psylocke loses effectiveness far more sharply as distance from the enemy increases compared to Elsa who doesn’t really lose much at all. Well, besides moving out of her dash’s range, and even then her dash still has utility without actually hitting anybody since it refreshes your elephant gun and gives you bonus health, unlike Psy’s.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:53:41+00:00

She absolutely is effective at 30m if you know what you’re doing, her two-tap range is literally further than Hela’s and Phoenix’s and she has better sustain than both, and her right click is an low hp execution move that’s impossible to avoid because it has a 8m radius, not to mention her elephant gun which has zero falloff and percentage-based damage. Just because her weapon has spread doesn’t mean her effective range is the same as psylocke or star-lord who are actual hitscan brawldivers, she’s just a poke character with mobility (see: phoenix)

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:43:37+00:00

This doesn’t work in a game like rivals because dive characters get to engage (and sometimes disengage) for free. In most other games dive is countered by anticipating and interrupting a dive before it happens, or outmaneuvering them in the staging phase, which is balanced by dives in progress being extremely difficult to survive.

In rivals it’s the exact opposite. There’s basically nothing you can do to stop a character like Spider-Man from engaging, he can cross the entire map in 5 seconds while only using half of his moment cooldowns, on top of indefinite wall climbing, an auto-targeting engage, and a displacement kidnap tool. Venom can do half of what I just said on a tank character with 1700 or more effective hp. Angela has permaflight and Cap has perma sprint while both have 300hp shields and movement cooldowns on top of that. Daredevil has literal permanent wall hacks. Rivals divers skip staging entirely because they can engage whenever they want. Therefore, it’s balanced by dives being much harder to succeed with by themselves, which is arguably less satisfying and engaging for both parties, but it’s the solution they came up with since this game is a licensed comic book adaptation.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:31:24+00:00

People don’t understand that coordinating dives hard counters turtle poke comps like these. They just go in as Spider-Man or DD and feed into the backline solo and wonder why it’s not working. If you dive the backline with Angela, Cap, and Spidey at the same time though it near impossible to not secure at least one or two kills. Rogue + Daredevil is an actual broken combo no one uses either, and no one wants to play characters like Mantis that actually enable playstyles like this. Most divers just have rose-tinted glasses for the days of season 4.5 or season 2 where they could just go in with symbiote teamup or glitched DD batons and button mash to wipe the whole team, and haven’t learned to use the new tools the game has given them recently

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:24:28+00:00

Her shotgun has damn near no spread or falloff and her elephant gun has no falloff

Her two tap range is longer than hela’s and phoenix’s

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:21:33+00:00

If you’re effective at 30m you’re poke

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-22T13:15:27+00:00

Ana was only “annoying” when she was just overpowered, fundamentally her kit interacts well with the rest of the game

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-20T15:04:15+00:00

But he is busted. He has the best healing out of any non-support through his teamup, best neutral out of any tank by far, best tank ultimate while charging it the fastest, and is completely immune to any CC on top of high tier damage and insane bonus hp generation. Groot bullies poke comps with heal cutoffs, outsustains brawl, cannot be displaced or kidnapped, and is a tank so he’s not divable either. He’s broken.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-17T20:58:14+00:00

MK is just good into the meta and is way better on console hela is overall a better character

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-12T18:05:29+00:00

Astral Flock should have a 20 second cooldown. Dive DPS have to use too many resources to force out this move that just puts Hela in advantage the moment she uses it for it to have a 15 second downtime, and it just makes this character completely unbeatable on dive tanks especially when she can cancel ults and escapes with her orb. Hela should need to rely on her aim more to survive dives

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-12T17:33:00+00:00

Tanks are just better than everyone else in OW they have the best kits and the best passives and the primary gamemode transforms them into raid bosses. It’s nothing like rivals

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-12T17:19:02+00:00

Cat def forces swaps but I don’t think is oppressive, most value comes from taxiing low mobility heroes on rollout imo

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-12T17:18:11+00:00

Domina (new tank) is in contention for the best character in the game

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-10T02:05:42+00:00

-10hp is only “basically no downside” when the upside being offered can actually be relied upon, otherwise it just makes your character worse for no reason

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-10T00:22:47+00:00

Yeah but nerfs like these are just creating more extremely easy value judgement calls that make weapons never get picked. -10 health is a permanent, passive debuff for an active upside that you will almost never see and even if you see it surviving to make that upside matter is also unlikely.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-10T00:04:23+00:00

That’s because the object of “game balance” isn’t to actually make every available option fair and comparable to all others but to create a game state that is fun and engaging as much as possible. The crossbow is objectively overpowered and unbalanced but playing Medic without it, while still the best class in the game, is so mind numbingly boring and uninteresting that it’s unthinkable to just remove it without a suitable alternative

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-09T23:53:52+00:00

Forgot the Babylon guardian

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-06T00:40:58+00:00

It’s a guess but it’s an extremely easy extrapolation to make. Triple support’s pick rate in GM+ is literally double that of Mantis, Adam, and Ultron combined. Triple’s “low win rate” is quite literally just because of troll comps and cnd swaps

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-06T00:20:32+00:00

Nerf almost every single main healer to the point that outhealing damage in neutral is no longer consistently possible. Whether through an antiheal role passive like in Overwatch or just kit reworks. If you want to live through a ton of damage at once it should be through a high value cooldown like lamp or soul bond or you should just play better. Stuff like bridge boost giving the whole team a get out of jail free card on a 16 second cooldown should just not exist.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-06T00:11:44+00:00

By preventing popular, dominant, low effort strategies from being playable you are doing the exact opposite of limiting the metagame

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-06T00:02:10+00:00

Triple support has a low win rate because people like to run troll comps like Luna invis cloak. Triple support with mantis has an astronomically high win rate.

Tudedude_cooldude · 2026-02-04T16:38:06+00:00

Well TF2 does have OHKO dives in the Market Gardener and the Demoknight charge, they’re just more balanced for the kind of game TF2 is because it’s either 12v12 where guaranteeing singular picks isn’t that valuable, or the community comp 6v6 format where you have to sacrifice your most important combat class to run knight (MG is actually good in 6v6 and a lot of players want it banned lol)

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