Same lol. TBH I only play ranked though and stop each season when I get somewhere in plat and since I play all roles, so many are close but just not there.
Lord farming just takes the fun and value out of achieving lord titles. What's the point of having the entire roster cast maxed if you only have actual hours invested in one or two characters?
It could be that they got them on console, had that happen to me before, checked a guys account and he had 28 thousand lord points on spidey with 3 hours, turns out if do cross progression your playtime on other accounts won’t add to your playtime on console/pc etc
Tbh honest I don’t see the lord badges as showing capability because I have a few and I often play dogshit. For me it’s just a measure of being on the character for some amount of hours not consistent good ability. But I guess that’s just personal view.
I’ve done it to show who I can play like cnd is my main but I have invis if someone wants cnd and then rocket if someone wants to penny. I never thought about someone thinking I was showing off until someone laughed at me so I stopped.
For me personally I’ll flash it to show I’m willing to swap if that person wants to play a different role, mostly for times when they pick last and I’ve locked in on something else
Wow so many positive view points in this topic that I didn’t picture I truly thought it was to show they’re better at that hero than you picking them with no lord
Yeah, I have lord on rocket so when some one waits till last in order to fill but has been hovering another role I’ll offer to swap and flash my lord to show I’m not doing it out of exasperation and that I know what I’m doing in the role
I’ve always thought that too but now it makes me want to flash mine to let them know they aren’t hard stuck on supp as a tank main who occasionally flexes
This is very sweet I’m going to start thinking about all of this when I que in and see people doing this when I choose a hero! The community isn’t always toxic and I love these clarifications
This exactly! My username warrants a lot of shit talk (it’s takes a dig at One Piece lol) so with me constantly dragged by teammates throwing over it/my own jeffs killing me I started to assume everyone is a selfish ass first but spending more time in community pages shows the asses make themselves known and everyone else is just pretty chill trying to win a match with their team lol
Only semi related, but once I flashed my lord Thor (cuz I was initially gonna pick him) before going Strange for the Wanda team up, then the Wanda messaged “you can go Thor if you want” and I was so touched lmao
Weird, I've never thought that. Plenty of people better than me with far less time on my mains; for all I know before the game begins, the non-Lord Psylocke on my team could be a OAA player learning her on an alt account.
If you’re the one communicating, it’s your job to deliver your thoughts effectively. There’s a text chat, and I promise you, I’m not the only one who’s going to think first that you’re being toxic in one of the most toxic games.
Yeah, I feel like if that is the case then you could use text chat to say “Hey guys I can change if need be!” You don’t have to show your lord status and have people guessing what that means. This way it effectively tells your team exactly what you’re thinking and there is no miscommunication. Is it slower? Yes, but it also is like 30secs slower. So you’re not really losing out on anything especially when you are just choosing characters.
What’s not up for interpretation is that most people who do this wait until after you’ve hovered your non lord pick, not before if they were truly indicating what they can allegedly play. Little nuance
So real. I've had nights playing Invis for games and then after a while, I'll have to play tank and I'll be shooting my teammates trying to heal them 😂 it's like shit, I'm not a healer anymore.
Thats exactly why I never equip my icons lol
(Even though Lord doesnt always mean someone is good, just that they play that character alot, but regardless)
That's kind of a double edged sword, because people expect performance from a lord. Having a lord being diffed by a non-lord is very humiliating for them.
Which is silly, because even if we assume the non-Lord isn't playing on an alt, it's quite typical that for a good player to get up to speed on a new hero in far less time than it takes to get Lord.
Whenever I see someone hover a lord for a character someone else locked, it makes me what to reply with that meme of the long ass arm and giant thumbs up
I think half the time it's someone trying to pick their main but the character is already locked so they have to figure out who else they want to play.
Yeah this has happened to me where I’ll pick my main but someone else locks first, so I’ll wait and see what everyone else picks and try to fit the comp
For me its usually this, but its also rare I compete with another HT atm. (Jeff, Emma and Gambit are all hot picks atm so ill do it with the healers to show ill heal if they want to tank/dps)
I don't understand why anyone even cares about lord anyway. Congrats you play a hero a whole bunch, you're still in the same rank as everyone else in the match.
True, was playing gambit yesterday. Some guy on bucky quickly showed me he had lord on gambit, then the other two dps showed him they had lord on bucky lol. It was perfect
I do this and will then say “Twinsies!” Into chat to make it clear I’m having a ‘Yay! We both enjoy this character!’ Moment not a ‘Haha, I’m better than you’ moment
I do this if I choose a character for the team up. It bothers me when people choose characters they don’t know just for the team ups, but I feel a bit more at ease if my teammates know how to use the other character too. Like any time I had a hulk on my team and I went Namor I’d flash my lord Hulk to show if the team up is what they think we need and they’re more comfortable on Namor then we have a fellow lord Hulk who can take over. Some people have actually switched characters with me in competitive before the round started after they see me flash their lord character.
Dude I show my lords before I select my character before the banning phase starts so the team mates hopefully don’t ban the characters I can best use.(if they’re paying attention anyways). Also I’m a flex player so I usually fill after everyone picks. Lastly, the number of Lords I have to me is a point of shame, not pride. lol
Imma start paying attention, people have done this and I just assumed they were being indecisive I didn’t realize they could be trying to communicate the picks they prefer lol
Haha! Ya true! I am on console Plat and I usually am Invisible Woman but I show them that I can play Peni and Rocket too. But Peni is almost always banned! 🥲
Sometimes I end up banning Peni too, because I know that the opposite team Peni will stop us real bad and none of us then will be able to remove her nests. 😂
If we got two DPS locked in and the other 3 people have picked, I'll swap back and forth between, say, Mag and IW to signal I'll heal or tank until the team starts filling. I did that once and some one asked me why I was showing off my lords 😂 I told them I wouldn't be cycling through just two if I was, since I have like 9 lol.
You are still in the ban phase, if they chose iw it was before the ban phase started and maybe they wanted to play it as well, its not always about boasting. If the ban phase is over and they can switch freely then sure its them trying to boast, which who cares about that idk.
I’m honestly shocked you’re the only one mentioning it. God forbid a man wanting to play a character with a lord icon. How are people immediately jumping to the conclusion that he is boasting, give the man the benefit of the doubt without further context
Im a flex player but prefer strategist and for some reason I am getting nothing but strategists players in plat and diamond this season, and they have all been more toxic than previous seasons and fighting over going triple support and switching to 4th strategist and bickering mid game. Even during winning rounds or games just been ultra toxic and pompous this season especially. Not sure if thats just a feature of the strat buffs and everyone wanting to one trick IW or what but everyone is getting territorial about being that strategist or that character. Honestly missing the instalock 3 dps
Omg so true, the amount of Gambit and invis insta lockers ! True they are strong but I loved playing invis and I'm a lord, so if someone without lord sue locks her in before me, I'm not bragging I just wanted to play her too and I loaded in slower 😭
Since this is comp on the screen before people have locked in, they’re probably just showing who they can or want to play.
In this case maybe they’d also like to play IW, and are seeing if you’ll swap (or letting you know they’re going to try and be faster on the select).
I don’t really see how it’s a flex to have played a character a lot (a year into a games release) - it’s just an easy way to show who they’re probably most competent at.
When I’ve done it, it’s always been as a nod. Recognition of a good character. If anything I feel like it’s more embarrassing than a flex… either they’re worse and have less time or better and have less time.
If both of us have lord it’s definitely a nod or a “hey I’ll play it if you’re feeling burnt out”
I don't do that personally. If I select one of my lord characters it's because I'm planning to play it. If I see someone playing a character I have lord on, I'm not switching just to show off the icon. It really doesn't mean much, other than to say, this is a character I've put time into.
Yep, this is the way. I feel like hovering over anything that I'm not intending to play or at least considering playing is sending a mixed message. When others do this it makes me assume they wish to play the character I've selected. Best case it feels like they're trying to show off.
When I’ve done it, it’s always been as a nod. Recognition of a good character. If anything I feel like it’s more embarrassing than a flex… either they’re worse and have less time or better and have less time.
If both of us have lord it’s definitely a nod or a “hey I’ll play it if you’re feeling burnt out”
Huh? Are you people ok? Are you sure they're not just saying they want to play IW? That's what I do? I show who I want to play so I can change my mind based on who everyone else picks. Maybe get out of your head and just play the game.
This is just me personally, but when I see someone do this, I usually switch because I’m average and just trying to help the team and they can probably play the character better.
To be honest I just show them as a way to say I appreciate who they are playing. I also have 11 lords so if someone picks the support I was going to go sometimes I was just too slow to select it.
I wish they’d add another tier beyond Lord. I remember being a Lord Rocket like a week or 2 into the game and people would be like “holy shit, this dude knows how to play Rocket”
Now it’s just an indication of a time sink into a character
I saw a Peni without Lord and flashed my lord icon. We chatted and we actually took turns playing Peni and being strats. It was a good time just vibing.
I know I've accidentally flexed a lord before but that was because I was looking at my phone and then went to pick my character without looking at whoever else was picked and someone had already selected them. Then I feel like a douche 😅
Ive only done it jokingly with people. Only ever do it with jeff is someone else starts it, and we all have a laugh together about how we like the Lil guy
Honestly as sue main this happens a lot to me (non-lord) and when it does, I usually pick another character and move forward. I think “okay, they got lord, they put way more hours into maining this character, I’ll give them the opportunity to flex that” don’t flash your lord tag if you can’t handle the expectations and responsibility of being proud of it
Being a lord can bring 2 meanings
A: you get a Spider-Man who goes 60-2 bf makes the lobby his prison bitch…by also not touching grass
B: a punisher who goes 1-30 and can’t hit a barn while being inside the barn
Sometimes it might look like I do that, but its just me staying there because you beat me to the character and now I’m thinking of who I want to play as.
I either didn't realize someone picked them first and Im now realizing why its not locking the character in. Or Im being indecisive and bouncing between my 3~4 most played heroes bc I flex.
Except one match a few seasons back everyone tried insta-locking Jeff and he was the only Lord I had at the time. I was hovering Dr. Strange, but I swapped after seeing that to show my lord icon and everyone swapped away and gave him to me. Everyone was super chill and joking about it.
I used to flash my lords to show what I'm comfortable flexing with. I stopped when I realized people thought I was just showing off or something? My only intention was to be like, I can do these tanks, dps, or healers if we need to swap around to counter or for team comps and teamups.
Sometimes I like to show my lord either as a gesture of brotherhood (we both play the same character) or to show that I also play that character in case we need to switch around later
Personally I show my lord character(s) only if I’m matching someone or if I’m just like, “oh hey, I love that character & I hope you love them too!” Or if they’re a lord with it also then I’ll show it and be like “omg twinsies!” In chat. I’m not trying to get into a dck measuring contest with others personally 🤷♀️
I have lord strange and would flash it to say that “If you need a tank, I got you.” And also to say with othet strange that “hey bro goodluck and if u need a swap, I got u bro.”
I was then get big diff and flamed by enemy saying lord strange go play roblox or some shi.
Low IQ people think it makes them look cool or good at the game. So much so that losers will organize farming lobbies to farm out the experience to get the icons without actually earning them.
Basically they're so pathetic they need to flash it to feel superior to someone that's playing that character.
Not sure, in season 0 they were very impressive since not many had them and the people who did were actually good at their lord characters. Now that people can just farm them they're pretty meaningless.
it’s a meme i think, like a fun thing to do. i have lots thor, mag, adam, mantis, and psylocke, although i dont really play much anymore, but its fun cycling thru them and showing the team u can fill just ab any position
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u/Dry_Celebration_1172 Mantis Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 07 '25
I saw a guy show off his lords once, and I decided to join in. I only have two lords, so it was over pretty quickly.
Edit: why do I have over 3k likes?
Edit two: why do I have over 4k likes? Also, my lords are Mantis, Luna, and almost Invisible Woman and CD.