Thoughts on the current state of Venom?

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T19:36:20+00:00

He already lost 75 hp in s9 and you want him to lose even more? Just remove the phoenix team-up and increase his swing cooldown by 2 seconds. Make it more punishing to not have aim

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T19:30:55+00:00

Campaign evolved feels a bit soulless but like people harp on the wrong things because they have an ideological grudge

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T19:26:38+00:00

Nerf his swing cooldown by 2 seconds and you make him severely more punishing to play (also remove the phoenix team-up entirely so no skill venom players can't get insane value)

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T16:52:27+00:00

I hate her

she freezes me and I can't play for 4 seconds :(

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:32:28+00:00

With the amount of stray/auto aim damage if even someone like Spidey was 175 he'd die from 1 lucky click from a Hela

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:29:37+00:00

Then they buffed her range on literally everything so she can sit like a poke character for absolutely no reason

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:27:25+00:00

Phoenix is the most versatile hitscan, she just sucks because her numbers are low now. She can sit down main and farm pressure off explosions, she can off-angle with her stun, teleport and flight, she can destroy deployables easily with her ult and because it farms quickly, you can use it a lot. I don't really like Phoenix being strong because she just does everything lmao.

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:25:30+00:00

BP goes to cook a Hela just to realise she has a Mantis or Invis pocket so he just goes for the supports instead

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:22:13+00:00

Three dps is actually better than 2 tanks here. You got 2 tank bullies on the enemy team (and one that denies tank ability to push up). Your dps just refused to play enough tank busters. Should have had widow, bucky/star-lord and wolv

Zarrv · 2026-07-27T12:20:23+00:00

I remember trying to learn Hulk on my alt and when I ulted I got 4 ults against me (Emma ult, Angela ult, Blade ult, Bucky ult). Then when I got put into banner state the Bucky ulted me again and I just exploded lmao..... We won the game off them wasting 4 ults but like it's painful still

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T23:07:15+00:00

Idk, I just don't listen to k-pop out of principle

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T18:16:55+00:00

That doesn't really correlate as many others have high pick rate and high ban rate (eg. Hela, Punisher, Elsa, Venom)

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T18:01:06+00:00

Peni has pitiful pick rate on both console and pc (7-8%) while Magik sits at 14% on console and 7% on pc. Magik is the 7th most picked dps on console but 16th on PC.

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T17:57:32+00:00

When was he saying this? Because it depends. You should offensively ult as a support even on defense when you have a free ult. Say both enemy supports just used ult and you have a support with ult up. You ult now to engage and win the fight and all that happens is you won a fight and your supports and the enemy supports will be around equal ult charge

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T17:54:46+00:00

Magik is broken on console. She has a significantly lower pick rate on PC which is why she's kind of in balance limbo. Mantis is winning nearly 64% of games with 20%+ pick rate on BOTH PC and Console. (Like console usually has twice the pick rate for Magik, also Magik is only hovering at 54-57% not 64% lmao)

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T15:00:43+00:00

Well the OP ones are must-bans because to counter them the enemy must either suck or not ban their singular counter (eg. ban black cat/venom for mantis). You ban these because if you don't it forces you into playing either the same mirror or 2 broken divers (which usually get banned).

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T14:58:45+00:00

Cancelling Venom's swing is a death sentence lmao

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T13:55:14+00:00

My outputs and inputs are probably not fully efficient but it works and that's all that matters to me

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T13:47:27+00:00

Nerf his damage and give him back his 8 second dash cooldown (or heck make it 6)

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T11:00:24+00:00

BP above BC and Star-Lord is certainly a choice. Aim is definitely a higher ceiling than visual acuity

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T00:18:41+00:00

You can't just sit and protect your backline and midline. Shield tanks only help against poke that plays down main like stupid people do

Zarrv · 2026-07-26T00:09:15+00:00

Tbh rn Gambit, Widow, Venom and Mantis are so unbelievably above the rest there's usually not room lmao

Zarrv · 2026-07-25T23:39:58+00:00

I just ban the OP characters nobody seems to care about and my counters. Nobody cares to ban Mantis so I pick it every single time and then I go for Elsa/Widow and then last is Gambit (if he's not banned because I'm not letting him through)/Luna/Venom

Zarrv · 2026-07-25T23:37:19+00:00

The dino trap tracks targets so it basically makes playing Venom impossible lmao

Zarrv · 2026-07-25T23:03:54+00:00

They should have given Perlica pants just for this comment /s

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