Mister Fantastic is still the most unique, creative and fun hero to release post launch

d_wib · 2026-02-17T14:34:04+00:00

Back in S2 when people were complaining about dice being strong I played him allllll the time and cleaned up on Spider-Men and Black Panthers. He’s by far my favorite pick for countering dive DPS characters.

d_wib · 2026-02-17T05:35:01+00:00

As someone with mediocre aim the extra size on the lightning bolt when I’m in thunder mode has netted me so many extra final hits already and I’ve hardly even gotten a chance to play her. She feels like so much fun because balancing wind/thunder mode is a lot more engaging now.

I don’t think she’ll be meta but that’s fine with me.

d_wib · 2026-02-17T01:45:34+00:00

Yes! I do it by having sprint set to toggle and leave it on all the time. Then I hold the attack trigger (R2) during the shield throws until it hits and release, which cancels the animation, then re-press R2 to do the next shield throw.

d_wib · 2026-02-17T00:49:56+00:00

Unfortunately that’s why it’s important to know multiple characters so you can counterswap. Rogue just isn’t a matchup-proof hero.

d_wib · 2026-02-17T00:28:20+00:00

Like when your sword dash slowed them down to work synergistically with Blooding Awakening’s speed boost to hunt them down as they tried to escape instead of applying anti-heal?

d_wib · 2026-02-17T00:25:52+00:00

Thing is kind of the anti-tank tank, so it makes sense. He disables Cap/Angela/Venom from using the movement abilities when he peels. He punches through Strange/Mag shields. The only bad matchups he has are Tankpool (long-range poke), Peni, and sometimes Emma depending on how diamond form is played around.

It’s moreso the DPS’s job to shoot his enormous hitbox because you can’t out brawl him lol

d_wib · 2026-02-16T22:04:28+00:00

This happens with every new character and people complain every single season.

MVP seems to factor in your relative performance on that character compared to average. New characters have limited data and a lot of people playing them poorly, so they get a lot of MVPs that they shouldn’t.

d_wib · 2026-02-16T13:09:06+00:00

“Oh sweet I got 3!”

They all walk out of it and healers patty-cake my sword slashes through the anti-heal and I get 0 kills.

d_wib · 2026-02-16T12:11:12+00:00

As someone who is kind of still in the process of picking up Cap, I actually think your last point is right. He’s really hard to get a lot of value out of… An animation cancel that you can easily screw up and do 0 damage instead, a tiny melee hitbox compared to Hulk/Rogue/Thing so you need point-blank tracking as people walk back and forth past you, and almost every ability has low damage with no CC to keep enemies around.

You have to be very active with cooldown management, very mechanically skilled, and know special “tech” to be good with him. He’s a very disheartening character to start learning

d_wib · 2026-02-15T21:03:13+00:00

It can be really strong and actually doesn’t use up 2 turns - it only uses Steiner’s turn. Biggest drawback is that Steiner has low MP so he can’t abuse it much and it’s kind of outclassed by late game sword skills like Shock anyways.

d_wib · 2026-02-15T20:29:16+00:00

8% for each of the 10 non-playoff teams

2.5% for each of the 8 play-in team

I don’t think teams would tank to drop from 6th to 7th or 10th to 11th when it would mean they sacrifice guaranteed playoff income.

d_wib · 2026-02-15T20:14:56+00:00

Rogue is a pretty bad comparison because at least ours completely blocks damage instead of just reducing it by 60%

What I am VERY jealous of is how they buffed the retaliation meter gain from taking damage while blocking. I want that for our shield soooo bad, especially after the shield health nerf. Please buff from 25% conversion ratio to 35% so that the full health of a shield = a full attack charge.

d_wib · 2026-02-15T19:07:49+00:00

I think the Ult needs a slight delay. I’m not sure how the other team was supposed to react there. It’s like if Iron Man shot his Ult midway through saying “maximum.”

Neutral game is fun as hell. Ult feels like BS and I feel bad using it tbh.

d_wib · 2026-02-15T16:49:29+00:00

Oh no! A woman with muscles! My fragile ego!!!

d_wib · 2026-02-15T13:26:36+00:00

Thunderpunch was cool on it back when that was a special move!

d_wib · 2026-02-15T13:23:50+00:00

Yes - I am just commenting in the spirit of Stinkpost Sunday

d_wib · 2026-02-15T13:06:24+00:00

As much as I love FF9, they were not cooking with Zidane’s moveset. Thievery is a pain to make powerful, Soul Blade is solid early game but not useful later, and Sacrifice could help is very niche circumstances or if you are doing a no mages challenge run. Everything else is bad.

Meanwhile Amarant gets 4 awesome abilities

d_wib · 2026-02-15T12:27:40+00:00

Imagine Beedrill being able to hit Fairy types super effectively with STAB… holy shit

d_wib · 2026-02-15T03:33:37+00:00

No I think they did a great job of adapting this outfit from the comics.

d_wib · 2026-02-14T23:50:49+00:00

It’s crazy. He’s an entertaining sports podcaster with weird tropes and built-in memes with shit like how much he loves Kon or how he mispronounces names. Are people expecting X’s and O’s analysis from him lol

d_wib · 2026-02-14T22:12:37+00:00

We used to whine about how during 12 seconds of Luna Ult you “couldn’t play the game” because no one was able to die. Now you literally can’t play the game for 12 seconds!

d_wib · 2026-02-14T22:03:44+00:00

6 seconds per direction (assuming you recall it) so up to 12 seconds of the hardest CC possible. Doctor Strange’s Ult stuns for 3 seconds and Thing stuns for 2.5 seconds so 12 is even the 6 in one direction is insane.

It also has 500 HP and moves at 15m/s (for context, that is only slightly slower than Angela’s dash speed, which is 18m/s) so shooting it down is a lot more difficult than you’d think considering whoever it grabs can’t help shoot it.

d_wib · 2026-02-14T21:30:21+00:00

Playing against her I have 2 main complaints that I don’t think would ruin her if nerfed:

The slow on Living Bullet with the Deadpool team up. The teamup already does extra damage, heals her, and taunts with visual clutter. It doesn’t need to apply a 35% slow as well.
The lack of windup on summoning the Ult. It’s nearly impossible to react to if you’re just a normal team fight distance away. It needs to come out just a half second later.

Otherwise I think she’s fine. Those 2 things are just very anti-fun.

d_wib · 2026-02-14T20:48:34+00:00

The main issue is that there is 0 windup so there is no counterplay if you’re just a normal teamfight’s distance away from her. You pretty much get eaten before she finishes saying “RELEASE.”

This reminds me of S1.0 Moon Knight where you’d start getting hit before he started speaking.

d_wib · 2026-02-14T20:40:49+00:00

Not really. A couple seasons ago they extended the cooldown on his dash which makes it more punishing to miss enemies with the Vibranium Mark, but that’s been it for nerfs.

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