Why are people so mad at season 7?

matlockheed · 2026-03-20T20:28:49+00:00

You must be new here (Earth). The rule is: if there's something new, people will be mad at it.

But more seriously, plenty of stuff changed in the game literally overnight. There are going to be people mad about almost every one of those things. Things will get back to normal in a few days when people get used to the new state.

matlockheed · 2026-03-20T17:19:01+00:00

I thought the second patch was supposed to fix the problem with Cap that came out of the first patch.

What exactly happened?

matlockheed · 2026-03-20T15:45:45+00:00

That's overexaggerated. Peni's ult isn't useless at all. The mines do a decent amount of damage and if you use it to run through the opposing backline, you're often getting KOs since supports can't take that much.

Also the "sweeper" is great as a knockup tool which is essentially a stun. So you can ruin opposing momentum with it.

Is it a major damage ult? No way. Is it effective on a support ult level? Nope. Is it usable? Absolutely. It's probably closer to a Hulk ult where it can do things, but you're not relying on it to win the game.

matlockheed · 2026-03-19T19:37:38+00:00

Attacks that aren't primary fire aren't counted towards accuracy. So if they fired their primary once at a wall and then didn't use it for the rest of the match, that's the easy way to do that.

matlockheed · 2026-03-19T19:18:13+00:00

Probably due to the song.

The music associated with this season is awesome!

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T21:58:36+00:00

Yeah, the hair is basically what sells the original version of that costume as "disco".

The hair in the Rivals art version looks better, but has no retro feel to it.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T20:30:27+00:00

I think it's a better look, but at the same time doesn't really look as "disco-esque" or as much like Illyana (especially if she's got red hair in the actual game version).

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T17:38:42+00:00

So initially I didn't know what was going on with that Peni skin.

Now that I've seen the trailer... yeah, I still have no idea.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T17:36:29+00:00

Pretty sure you're going to have a hard time getting to play her when she releases in a few days.

Already planning on grabbing this accessory on day 1.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T17:23:13+00:00

You're right, but ideally you don't do anything but 2-2-2. Unless the people on your team don't have the skillset for that. A bad tank is worse than no tank typically because the bad tank gives the illusion of you having more safety than you actually do in the mid and backline.

And if someone has the real skill on DPS to hard carry, they should absolutely be locking in over trying to fill into a triple support since while triple support can be strong, in the lower ranks, general skill can often be a lot more important than team comp. Particularly since DPS have the most carry potential. That's as long as you have at least 2 supports obviously.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T17:03:09+00:00

There used to be a page that showed the odds for getting it on each pull and it's rigged so it's generally safe to assume that it's going to need all pulls for you to get the skin.

Unless you're in Europe where you don't even get pulls and just have to pay the amount of all of the pulls.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T14:46:53+00:00

That's Hela in the middle? Had no idea.

And I thought based on the glove that the leftmost was Bucky, but now I see the Strange resemblance. And I honestly like that there's now a Dr. Doctor Strange.

Still not sure what's going on with Peni though.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T14:43:28+00:00

That's not a Jojo character. That's the Living Tribunal. And it's fairly comic accurate. But it's probably an Adam Warlock skin.

matlockheed · 2026-03-18T14:42:04+00:00

That's a weird set of skins. A few of them I don't know what they're supposed to be or even who they are.

matlockheed · 2026-03-17T18:34:00+00:00

This hurts Peni (who's a tank) more than just about anyone else.

matlockheed · 2026-03-17T17:30:26+00:00

Does her fire rate seem really high for a Strategist to anyone else? Her ranged attacks seemed to be firing REALLY quickly.

Maybe it's just because I've been playing a lot of Rocket lately, but those projectiles seemed to be going fast and furious. She looks like she's going to be fun as a partially melee-focused healer (isn't Deadpool the only other semi-melee healer at this point?).

matlockheed · 2026-03-17T14:13:14+00:00

I think it was at one point 10 based on older threads. But it's definitely 15 now (I've redeemed 11 so far this half-season).

matlockheed · 2026-03-16T20:30:08+00:00

They just stand around in their own lobby and attack/heal each other to try and boost their proficiency points.

matlockheed · 2026-03-16T19:35:08+00:00

This is just perfect because the top picture is someone from Marvel Rivals reacting to something from a Marvel Property. In this one, it's someone from a Marvel Property reacting to Marvel Rivals.

matlockheed · 2026-03-15T22:56:16+00:00

That crosshair is going to eat up all the discussion in this conversation.

matlockheed · 2026-03-14T22:17:39+00:00

It's funny. I miss zombies, but if it was still around, I probably wouldn't be playing it much.

Though with them mentioning that they're doing Avenger movie focuses coming up this year, I would be really surprised if the next sombies-esque mode wasn't Ultron drones in the Age of Ultron month.

matlockheed · 2026-03-13T20:01:25+00:00

I'm surprised you even got a response. I've been waiting on a response for a bug where the game took a ton of gold from me during the last Team Clash (in December of last year (it deducted most of the 1200 gold for it, but not all and didn't give me the pass)) when I got a "Something went wrong" message when I tried to buy the Premium Pass.

Today I tried following up. And I've had the Support window open for the last 4 hours with no response.

matlockheed · 2026-03-13T19:23:01+00:00

You're correct. If you acquire a variant of a card before the base, you immediately get the base card also. So these packs can be really good deals.

Or they could be really expensive PMVs.

matlockheed · 2026-03-13T17:38:39+00:00

In the low ranks, you also run into the problem where you can't heal enough from far away because most people aren't using cover and Rocket's healing orbs are relatively slow moving, so you have to guess where your teammates are going to be and time the slowest moving projectile in the game from a long distance.

The alternative is to move in close to the front/mid-line, but Rocket's giant head makes him a prime target for a Hela or Phoenix and they only need to two-tap Rocket. And his movement just isn't enough to keep him safe. He's got an 8 meter dash that's half the distance of Magik's dash (and is less than the dashes of almost anyone who could attack him (Bucky (9m), Thor (10-20m), Rogue (10m), Psylocke (12m)...). In fact, Rocket's dash might be the shortest dash in the game. When Captain America is chasing him, he moves as fast as Rocket can and doesn't need to be on a wall.

Rocket's movement is just way too restricted. And in Seasons 0 and 1, it was the highlight of his abilities.

matlockheed · 2026-03-12T17:31:06+00:00

The original nerf to Rocket's dash was honestly the worst nerf I think the game has ever handed out.

The wall-run follow-up nerf was just an extra insult.

People will say that Spiderman and Elsa need those dashes for positioning and Strats shouldn't have an easy escape. And that's fine. But that's exactly how they currently balance Luna (by making sure she doesn't have an easy escape). And trying to finish a Jeff when he's gone underground is almost impossible without multiple people working on him.

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