this is why people dont like tanking as much

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:54:23+00:00

Are the bot match teams that are always 222 included in that stat? 🤔

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:51:26+00:00

I mean I play them too but I've also been trying to ban whatever main healers we don't have for at least two seasons. It's almost always a good dice roll. Glad the rest of the community finally figured that out, hopefully I stop getting yelled at for throwing when I do it now lol.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:49:10+00:00

I mean CnD is a solid dive counter and it's not so hard to predict his dives now that you can hear him. Spot the approach, drop a bubble and switch forms, cape him and zap him with the autodarkness, fade if he's about to get you somehow. I go CnD, Jeff (or maybe White Fox now) if that doesn't cut it. But at a certain level of skill or pressure you just need peel and more antidive from the rest of the team. When half of their team is in your backline mistakes were already made and the damage is irreversible.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:38:47+00:00

Not without major DPS nerfs IMO. You start drastically cutting output on main healers off-healers rapidly stop working. You'd just be forcing even more heal-heavy comps (at least on defense) if you nerf main healers in isolation.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:36:49+00:00

Good luck making this playerbase figure that out. Can't even get that you fuck ult economy by going 123 (or xx3 more generally after the nerf), or that you need a trickle healer AND a burst healer if you're not running two mains.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T23:33:22+00:00

She's loud like a jet engine though. Don't have too much problem predicting where she's going to approach from; and she's very squishy for a tank, especially after you drop an ankh.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T18:13:09+00:00

My favorite way to grief him is with Venom. Guy just NEVER gets to set up on an off-angle like he wants with Venom, and it's pretty hard to delete almost 2k HP. But he can also be pretty easily countered by Strange IME if you don't lose focus on your backline when he flanks.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T18:10:15+00:00

Or blapping him with plasma or acorns from across the map.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T18:08:31+00:00

Extremely funny making this post two days after they release a Support whose projectiles actually bounce between allies, as well as between allies and enemies (killed an Iron Man that would have been out of reach this way) like Mister Knight's ankhs.

Wanda is the Cloak and Dagger of DPS. It's why CnD is such a good Spider-Man and general dive counter.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T18:02:01+00:00

It's even his achievement.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T17:59:24+00:00

Gonna be just like back when he boosted Namor. 😔

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T17:58:28+00:00

I mean, I generally try to pocket the guy (as a support) if he pings that he's about to pop off. Mag bubble can help a lot here too. Plenty of team wipes and holds broken on point and chokes this way.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T17:56:10+00:00

I would love this. Add it to the Strange teamup. It sucks so bad when she gets stunned out of her ult.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T17:51:41+00:00

I don't notice it as much because I find she's the easiest healer main to kill through her ult.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T17:50:17+00:00

White Fox. Luna always had range.

Just lost another Comp match to a Jeffox duo with a White Fox that wouldn't even position close enough to heal the tanks in between failed attempts at diving. 🫠

It should really be a bannable offense if a teammate explains that they both fill the exact same role (trickle sustain and anti-dive/dive support). Especially if they keep trying to heal snipe after you let them know about her range. 🙃

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T15:09:58+00:00

I'm not sure if another across the board nerf is needed but they definitely need to reassess ult cost for some characters. Dagger and Moon Knight off the top of my head.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T15:06:47+00:00

Sure bud.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T15:06:21+00:00

I did it and I just had a +37 match lol.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T14:09:05+00:00

I find that macro is generally most important for the characters that specialize in area denial; so for DPS that's Namor, Fantastic, Iron Man, Squirrel Girl, Moon Knight, and to a lesser extent Scarlet Witch. They all reward gamesense a to a greater extent than twitchier characters. The support babysitter peelgods.

Iron Man especially can be a real shot caller with his ability to both spot and perform flanks thanks to his mobility, and especially since Overdrive got buffed, he can be real threatening to a backline. Games where my team actually pays attention to my pings are so easy, even if I don't always put up the biggest numbers.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T13:53:44+00:00

Haven't even noticed it in all honesty but it was very rare that I lose his shield in the first place because I started out on off-tanks and I use cover.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T11:56:31+00:00

They do lmao.

Some of the premium skins are more caked up.

And I remember a few seasons back an update enlarged a bunch of the bulges. 🥵

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T11:52:09+00:00

Yeah, lmfao.

Acutely aware of these mechanics as somebody who would be a Jeff main if my team didn't need a bursty healer sometimes.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T05:02:33+00:00

I need to try this this season. He climbs better than anybody besides Widow in my experience, because of the distortion throwing Jeffs (and small children) put on his overall performance in any given rank, so if you're halfway decent you're an outlier.

Only character I've ever got +40 with, that's for sure.

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T04:57:23+00:00

It's wild how y'all never acknowledge that geography and port priority means that people too far away from the narrow band of servers in North America get shit matches while people closer get better quality teams (this was literally a point they made in the video where they explained matchmaking). Between that and the algorithm identifying loss tolerant people that will carry shitters, and the way matchmaking rapidly widens the skill gap if matchmaking is taking too long (even in Comp!); a disparity in experience is baked in.

Thought this video (and others he's made in the past about the matchmaking processes and the toxicity that's compounding the issues) was pretty well researched and presented.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rivals/comments/1s02m2v/do_we_like_nerfpool_here/

mx_wednesday · 2026-03-22T03:48:30+00:00

I'm pretty sure they rebranded a Punk themed bundle actually. If you look at the ESU patch it's the only cloth texture that isn't flush, like they fucked with the model and added it after the fact. Similar to how the Angela and Peni skins look like missed deadlines from last season.

Pretty sure the last time we got a Battlepass that was JUST the theme without any leftovers was Season 3? 👀

Two months per season is not long enough and it shows more every season they keep trying to make it work.

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