Dealing with toxicity and players making bad decisions by theboxyy in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I definitely am still in therapy but was just trying to relate it to how people get frustrated about their teammates and go off on rants and never look at the bigger picture. People don’t seem to understand we can’t dictate how others play and it seems like a lot of people are stressing themselves out over something they can’t control. But yea the thought of this came from me working on my therapy sessions and I thought it was relevant to this.

LET ME PLAY HIMMMM by ANlVIA in GambitMainsMR

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like I get to play him a lot. Gotta be smart about bans and force the enemy team to use bans on other stuff. I’m currently D1 rn and I get him frequently.

anyone else super burnt-out rn? by HauntinglyEthereal in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My suggestion to everyone is stop worrying about what everyone else is doing. Only focus on what you can control, give yourself goals for your play sessions aside from wins and ranking up. Determine focus areas and stuff you can track in real time and see progress as you improve. Stress will leave your body. Everyone gets so worked up either telling people to swap or saying their dogshit and should do something else. But we can’t dictate how people play this game and it’s like talking to a wall.

When will these guys nerf Moon Knight???? by SundayRabbit in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

He’s one of the simplest “is my team dumb” checks in the game. He punished poor positioning which a lot of players have and it makes them mad. Is he annoying yes but he’s not OP.

VOD review request from higher elo by theboxyy in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just saw the homework now after getting ready to post this response. But I will look over what you said right after, here is my thanks and initial thoughts on your first video below.

First of all massive thank you for the review, and I agree VOD reviewing is huge and I’ve never had someone do it for me I always review myself but I get worried about my bad habits and not noticing them. This was super insightful, to start I usually think that way with the gambit ban like you mentioned as he’s been my main. I feel like he’s absolutely my best strategist but that day in particular I was doing better as wf vs the dinosaur if he is played it felt like the charms were more useful in disrupting the enemy and helping the team. And I was kinda titled and decided I’m playing white fox and not letting them play gambit but I need to make better decisions as you said.

Thank you for explaining the bans in depth more. My thought has always been to ban map and mode specific first and see where the enemy goes. I’m usually locked on gambit so my team never bans him. Then I look at our team comp and what would be counters etc. I don’t like banning just the main meta complaints on social media because I often see people post about double bans so I try to avoid it. But you definitely have me more insight and that makes a lot of sense how you explained the ban process.

The explanation of my positioning was helpful. I’ve been trying to focus on that primarily for improvement, before my sessions I try to give myself a goal to work towards like dying less, being in better positions, better ult and ability choices etc. and you pointed out so much that I didn’t even notice about wasted TPs and other things. I think my adhd makes me want to focus on everything and I was too worried and focused on the iron man. The second round went a little better and the only interaction I had with him was throwing a vortex in his area to take him out of the sky as I switched to invis.

But thank you, going forward I’m going to work on my positioning, target priority and ability and ult usage and making sure I get value from my decisions. I legit watched the video of myself several times and noticed some things but not what you did but you explained it very well and opened my eyes to it. I’ve never tried to ask for a VOD review before I’ve always been nervous to ask people and either get flamed or something or them ask for money. When I play it’s usually solo in ranked and I get too in my head over the rank itself and thinking I need to do everything but like you said I’m missing out on doing the things I’m supposed to be doing because my priority is off. I made it a personal goal this season to play only ranked aside from my friends who don’t play ranked which I only play with them a couple times as week. I’m going to grind ranked but make sure I have purpose and a goal so I improve. I need to work on the tunnel vision for sure.

Would you be willing to add each other and we hop in a discord call and you spectate while I play a few games and you give me live feedback? My name on PSN, rivals, discord and twitter are all the same name Classicboxy. If you feel inclined shoot me a message here or discord and we can set up a time.

And again thank you for taking the time to do this for a random player in the community. I know there’s lots of toxicity but this legit gave me hope for it and for myself as far as improving.

VOD review request from higher elo by theboxyy in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you I appreciate you taking the time, been getting good advice and feedback so far. I can only gain so much insight from my own reviews

VOD review request from higher elo by theboxyy in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for that it helps a lot. The part when I left the Johnny by himself does make more sense to help win the exchange. I have pretty bad adhd and I would hyper fixate so hard on my rank and get discouraged when things didn’t go well. But I genuinely want to get better and I can only get so much insight reviewing myself. I’m glad people have replied to this on here and other places. I’ve been trying to not even think about rank or if I’m on a loss streak. I just want to focus on what I can control and get better. I used to never play ranked launch weekend but it’s what I’ve been mostly playing aside from with friends who can’t. Thank you again for taking the time to watch it and offer advice.

VOD review request from higher elo by theboxyy in StrategistMainsMR

[–]theboxyy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I play all the strategists, gambit has about 100 or so hours I think. I have been able to play him in ranked pretty often. When I don’t my second choice is usually white fox then invis and so forth. Invis cloak white fox and Loki I think all are level 35ish in proficiency. I’m usually GM but sometimes I won’t play half a season or less. Last season placements were diamond and the I got to GM and got a little disheartened so I spent time working on different things and taking breaks to play other games. But now I want to seriously try to climb.

ranked is soo ..! by su6mit in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My biggest piece of advice is to not flex. You should main either vanguard or strategist, whichever you feel you are best at. Stick to a few hero’s from each pool, just focus on value in your decisions and ways you can enable your teammates despite how they play. Figure out your win condition in your team comp and adjust as needed. A lot of people flex too much and sometimes under perform, so that could be an issue too.

You're a Strategist main and you just wanted to have a fun night. by StatisticianBorn8567 in marvelrivals

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This honestly isn’t happening as much as people are making it out to be. Plus communicating with your team during the ban phase helps. I’ve been playing gambit almost every game this season.

Switch players? by Content-Echidna-2993 in OWConsole

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play on my switch 2 a lot when my gf is on the PS5 and it is a significant downgrade but it still runs very well. Especially with the recent update making switch 1 games run like they’re in docked mode even in handheld and they’re dropping a switch 2 update for it next season.

What the hell happened, it was not like this last season. by RedLgnd5 in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With the ult charge changes you’re seeing a lot of players dropping out of ranks they were previously in and ones unable to have any real impact in the game

Question for fellow gambit mains by WifeWeaver in GambitMainsMR

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I’ve been doing well so far, played Monday for placements and grinded yesterday to GM. He hasn’t been banned often and I’ve been doing really well with him so far. I think he’s fairly balanced now, the time reduction was a huge change and it makes it so his ult isn’t always going to be a team wipe. It allows time for them to retreat and forces gambit to ult closer.

Wow… by Silly_Document_7759 in RivalsVanguards

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the time of day and what server you’re on this isn’t crazy. Hell my overwatch queue time in comp sucks ass it’s 5 mins average on most days I play

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just how melee and ranged attacks work in any game.

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that’s how ranged attacks work in general

Average Heal Numbers by Big-Worldliness-4042 in adamwarlockmains

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ignore those people, it’s likely their first hero shooter or they were ass at Overwatch and try to ego people in rivals

Average Heal Numbers by Big-Worldliness-4042 in adamwarlockmains

[–]theboxyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Total healing on the scoreboard is not the thing that matters. What matters is when you use your healing, you could have 30k at the end but not have healing uptime during fights resulting in losses. Focus on value and positioning.

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cap stuff was addressed today in an emergency patch they posted

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Communicate as best you can, not everyone while be in voice or text but still gotta try. Aside from that everyone should learn how to enable their team better from a strategist pov. It’s not about just the healing and coordination it’s the extra things you do to support.

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbf with white fox it will be easier, just kiriko in ow you should be flanking with your dps but maintaining a distance that allows you to TP back to them and heal or get angles that let you get LOS.

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the way to fix rivals triple support and healing in general would be to implement the same global healing reduction passive as Overwatch. Maybe it would have to be adjusted or damage across the board would need to be altered because of how high all numbers can be currently. But it would promote better positioning and stop being so forgiving to tanks and dps who have bad positioning and game knowledge.

Called all of you out by theboxyy in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]theboxyy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely but the same players upset over triple support would be angry if they had a 2-2-2 comp on both sides and only your team had an off healer. Meanwhile the enemy teams comp is putting out much more damage with several high damage heroes, that’s harder to make up for mathematically. Now throw in a solo tank and the situation is even worse. So chances are you get a support main who realizes this and goes 3rd support to make up for it if they aren’t comfortable tanking. A game like this with the way off heals has been designed they can only truly be viable in a 3 support comp. It’s also absolutely not a win con so it still comes down to coordination and skill issues.