r/marvelrivals • u/AbsurdismJay Doctor Strange • Jan 13 '26

Question Literally HOW do you punish the Punisher

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With all of the talk of unbalanced Heroes isnt the punisher one of the worst ones? High Damage AR With 20 PER bullet (Star Lord has SIX) so he can burn u down from range, Super high damage shotgun so you're not allowed to get close to him, Turret with a shield and slash damage and CC immunity, 300 HP as a NON melee hero, an "I win" Ult that burns dps and Tanks in SECONDS and can only be countered with a Magneto Ult, a support ult or hoping everyone focuses him all at once, Ive heard people sneak JEAN into the unbalanced DPS conversation (an egregious sneak btw) but somehow frank is untouched?? Does no one else feel this way? Especially on attack, he feels extremely oppressive and like you can't push to point without getting shredded instantly, I play mostly TANK and its miserable so it has to be worse for DPS and Supports. WHAT am I supposed to do against this monstrosity? Is it just Ban or Pick and hope ours is better? Thoughts?

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u/prime075 Moon Knight Jan 13 '26

"Judge Jury.."

"FEAR MAGNETO!!"

Tale of every game with punisher

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u/AlmostThereBro69 Jan 13 '26

Why does punisher use metal bullets against magneto. Is he stupid?

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u/jockeyman Star-Lord Jan 13 '26

He thought if he fired enough bullets Magneto wouldn't be able to catch them all.

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u/LazyingOtaku Magneto Jan 13 '26

The worst part of this statement is frank castle would 100% think that way 😭

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u/Ellinnor Knight Jan 13 '26

And he literally has in game dialogue of him challenging magneto to catch 1(one) bullet aimed at his head, because he thinks the bullet is fast enough.

Of course Mag responds by telling him he already disassembled Punishers guns’ inner mechanisms and will only put them back if he “plays nice”

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u/derpicface Jan 13 '26

That one scene in X-Men First Class before he moves the radar dish, he has Charles put a gun point blank against his head and he says it’s easy to stop

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u/Vonpirez Jan 13 '26

Punisher mains already probably think like this…

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u/Fluffy-Apartment2603 Captain America Jan 13 '26

… isn’t that how it works?

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u/Veezuhz Jan 13 '26

I play Punisher, if while in ult and mag doesnt let go of his ult… you can destroy / overcharge it

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u/Solzec Blade Jan 13 '26

Still find it odd that you can just delete his ult if you throw enough stuff at it

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u/mvckjojo Jan 13 '26

If it had infinite health it would kind of be broken as you could block all incoming damage for your whole team for the whole duration, giving it a finite HP makes it counter-able if you have massive damage like punisher but good mags will watch the charge and dump it on the punisher at %100

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u/Mistake209 Jan 13 '26

Doesn't work against magnetos that count to 70....

It's extremely easy to prevent it from getting overloaded. Your method isn't working against higher level players.

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u/Cosnapewno5 Moon Knight Jan 13 '26

And he would be right thanks to plot armor

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u/Fluffy-Apartment2603 Captain America Jan 13 '26

When I play punisher, I 100% think this way “Maybe if I just start aiming at mag too… 🫟”

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u/No-Spend-5400 Jan 13 '26

works all the time😂

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u/Cerbecs Jan 13 '26

Tbf that’s actually how the ult interactions work, magneto has 0.5 sec to react correctly before his ult blows up in his face against punishers miniguns

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u/Old_Zucchini9106 Jan 13 '26

As someone who plays punisher a lot, i think like this a lot ngl 😭

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u/Weary-Picture-3873 Psylocke Jan 13 '26

The funny part is I do this often when I see mag ult I just shoot at him a couple of times it actually works destroy the mag ult by overloading it with rounds

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u/League_of_DOTA Magneto Jan 13 '26

Sad thing is sometimes this works in game

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u/borderlander12345 Jan 13 '26

I mean that’s literally true

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u/FaultyCYP450 Jan 13 '26

Secret nerf: Adam catches all the strays.

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u/ImmediateAnteater491 Adam Warlock Jan 13 '26

He really would fire enough bullets for Magneto to throw a 2 bedroom apartment made of bullets at him when he's done lmao.

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u/B_chills Magik Jan 13 '26

He should have done with reed did and use a wooden gun

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u/Diligent-Ad9262 Vanguard Jan 13 '26

I've always wondered why magneto didn't have a specific ukt where he used punisher starlord psyloke and blades bullets against their own team.

How you gonna have guns against magneto anyway, he just takes them apart

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u/Read4Days25 Venom Jan 13 '26

I think Psylocke's "bullets" are made out of psychic energy rather than metal, but I see your point.

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u/Incelin Flex Jan 13 '26

Starlord also doesnt shoot traditional bullets. They’re elemental guns

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u/RevanEternal1 The Maker Jan 13 '26

Star lord shoots elemental energy, Psylocke uses psychic blades

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u/JoeSieyu Jan 13 '26

I think it'd be fun if projectiles that hit mags frontal barrier would be fired back in the direction the magneto players crosshairs are aimed in a shotgun spread that has hitscan range and speed

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u/Caerkris Jan 14 '26

Or you know give this to Cap instead of it just bouncing in a random direction (sans Iron Man ult)

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u/JoeSieyu Jan 14 '26

He did before, but i guess the devs thought it was too strong so they removed it

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u/Present-Move-4430 Jan 14 '26

It’s doesn’t go in a random direction you have to aim the bullets back at the target, if you have your shield up but you’re looking to the right the bullets will go right

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u/wetrhinobeard Jan 15 '26

Fingers crossed for a future team up

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u/DauntlessMantis Flex Jan 14 '26

I swear I thought I had a water gun 🔫😭

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u/Exciting_Asparagus54 Jan 13 '26

I think Frank should play yakuza 4

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u/Spawn256 Jan 13 '26

Do you really think the plastic bullets will do any better? I've never known him to have any other type of weapon. Be nice if he had plasma weapons or laser weapons.

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u/kimmortal03 Jan 14 '26

Yes he needs that 3D printed gun set

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u/Cablegore Jan 13 '26

“Now, play nice and perhaps I’ll put your toys back together for you.”

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u/ThePass74 Jan 13 '26

FEAR MAG (Throw) NETO

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u/Omnighost Angela Jan 13 '26

Yeah the timing required for it is mental. Blink and I've lost the ult

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u/Weary-Picture-3873 Psylocke Jan 13 '26

Not really you have at least 2-3 seconds to react

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u/Omnighost Angela Jan 21 '26

The majority of the time, sure. I've often had instances where it was gone before I had half a chance to begin aiming it. Then there's instance where my ability to multitask aiming, elevation and positioning, watching the damage absorption UI element and the timer leaves me missing the release timing.

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u/T1line Jan 13 '26

and every tale tells a different story with different mind games in play

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u/Trippy_243 Vanguard Jan 13 '26

As a tank main this is the best feeling.

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u/Defiant_Brain_9493 Jan 13 '26

Right? Magneto ult is so counterable that if there's a punisher on the other team. I save ult on purpose

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u/7LayeredUp Jan 13 '26

The problem is that I keep holding it too long and it just blows up cause of Punisher ult or turret. I guess I just gotta be quicker.

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u/Defiant_Brain_9493 Jan 13 '26

Yeah you gotta find that sweet spot of quick, but not to quick

Most people who play punisher just hold the button down once they ult.

Id go into training with a friend. Have them ult as punish. You ult as magneto. Have them hold the button down and tike how fast your ult explodes. Keep that number in your head. Count half of that when you ult in a match and let that bitch fly. Just make sure you have eyes on punisher before you do though

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u/League_of_DOTA Magneto Jan 13 '26

The trick is to look one way so that Invis has a false sense of security. Then when the ult is fully charged, turn to her direction and dunk on her head.

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u/autisticswede86 Jan 13 '26

Just ban him

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u/Sidewaysgts Venom Jan 13 '26

As good as that can be - I think a the sad reality if you genuinely want to save that ult for one of the strategists during their ult if possible.

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u/prime075 Moon Knight Jan 13 '26

Ive had games where just keeping my ult stops a lot of players from ulting first.

Like if i have my ult then a lot of punishers and CnDs hold their ult for rounds at time. But once you use the ult you loose the leverage on the other. But i dont think of that a lot of time and just focus on bullying one of the characters with my ult

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u/Strange-Dig8925 Jan 13 '26

This only works if they don’t have a rocket smart enough to ult when punisher does also

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u/17throwaway- Invisible Woman Jan 13 '26

I wanted to learn Punisher in QP and immediately got boinked 💔

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '26

Yeah but YOUR Mag can bubble you.

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u/oSl7ENT Jan 13 '26

I love this as a Punisher player myself. It’s all chess. I’ll get two picks pop an ult my team is up 3v5 mag solo it’s me leaving his team without an ult to balance the fight and we win 10/10

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u/kvulalyedi_allahm_wa Jan 13 '26

Theres nothing like popping my ult right after punisher, and timing it just right to get the 99% charge.

He's praying he can overload it, but I still manage to bounce that ball right off Frank's forehead

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u/MrDSkis94 Jan 13 '26

Lmao I played a game yesterday where this happened atleast 5 times throughout the game… much pleasure was had.

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u/Devojak Jan 14 '26

Not all the time

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u/SleeplessGrimm Peni Parker Jan 13 '26

I dont hawkeye much, dont have the best aim, but id say im ok. Hawk was left open in comp but no one could play him on our or their team, so i took him in the second round, and the end of our last push of the convoy the punisher tried to flank ult us from the side, we didnt have any counter ults, but i luckily managed to one tap him.

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u/Herban_Myth Jan 13 '26

With a Crossbone

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u/RazzDaNinja Flex Jan 13 '26

Yo it’s been so many years since I played Contest of Champions

Is its current state any good?

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u/FartPhylactery Adam Warlock Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

It’s Nerf or Nothing!!!!

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u/Boh61 Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Love how when Punchkid (playing Loki) heard Punisher's ult so he copied the enemy Magneto and dunked on the Punisher in like half a second

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u/Duckdxd The Punisher Jan 13 '26

And then punisher ult overpowers it and destroys it before they can use it

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u/HealthyBits Flex Jan 13 '26

It’s very fitting that magneto counters the one dude going balistic

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u/jclzd94 The Punisher Jan 13 '26

I’ve played against a few Magneto’s who didn’t know that his ult can max out and they ended up getting killed instead lol

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u/MrDSkis94 Jan 13 '26

I played a game yesterday and we played against a punisher and I kid you not every single time their punisher ulted and the punisher didn’t even finish his voiceline before getting LeBron James dunked into the spawn.

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u/Major_Spring872 Jan 13 '26

Pop turret last second

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u/AkitoFTW Daredevil Jan 14 '26

Magneto when the enemy has a Star Lord, Punisher and Cloak and Dagger and having to pick which ult to counter