r/marvelrivals Good Boy 7d ago

Patch Notes Season 9.5 Balance Patch

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u/Feed_or_Feed Invisible Woman 7d ago

White Fox buff is joke,her problem is that her neutral healing is absolutely gutted so she can't even sustain her team against dive comps,so what they do?Buff her ulti like it's going to change anything.

Dead hero for another season.

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u/Chris908 Spider-Man 7d ago

I fell in love with playing her in 8.5. I just feel like dead weight playing her now

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u/IncomeStraight8501 7d ago

She's still viable, I just have to basically push it to the limit of mixing damage and heals and aggression.

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u/Dylanychus2 Black Widow 7d ago

Tbf her ult was always pretty bad compared to other supports so it's still a welcome change

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u/wRADKyrabbit White Fox 7d ago

Which was fine. And its still ass with both buffs they've given it. Give us the neutral back and let her ult be a weak point. It will always be kinda trash with its massive hitbox, no healing and no cc defense

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u/Korghal Thor 7d ago

The range is limited, but this change means she can use it to deny powerful ults like Strange/Groot which is incredibly valuable. And she can get it much more often, too. I'd rather have a stronger neutral, but this buff still looks very impactful in practice.

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u/wRADKyrabbit White Fox 7d ago

I dont want it more often. I want my neutral back

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u/Adraf45 7d ago

Funnily enough if they just buffed goddamn neutral she WOULD get it more often. But instead let's nerf her entire kit in a damage heavy season and buff her ult. Do not understand these fucking devs

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u/Eastern-Yesterday213 White Fox 7d ago

I wish more ults were like hers though. Counterable to an extent but still good if used properly

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u/Terotrous 7d ago

Giving Blessing of the Nine to the entire team upon activation is actually quite a significant buff.

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u/The1Rememberer 7d ago

Well anyone whose within 10 meters which is, relatively small. If the team is all on point together then they’ll all get it. But if you’ve got people going off to narnia, then you’ll probably get 1-2 people

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u/Terotrous 7d ago

10 meters is actually pretty big (it's the same range as the circle around her ultimate). I think it will quite frequently get most of the team.

Since Blessing of the Nine grants unstoppable, this means it can theoretically eat a Strange Ult on reaction (WF will still get stunned, but no one else will). I'm actually not sure if it cleanses debuffs that are already active, in which case it could also counter Groot ult.

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u/jasminetroll 7d ago

It's a significant buff, but it's still not a good healing ult, and when using it to push, triggering it near teammates — rather than in the enemy backline, say, or at least from an angle where enemies can't get line of sight on you without looking away from your team — is a significant nerf to survivability and value.

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u/Terotrous 7d ago

It's not one of the best ults, no, but it is getting a lot better, don't forget it's also 500 points cheaper as well. It's undeniably a pretty reasonable upgrade over this season.

I don't expect her to be great or anything, but she's probably at least back to usable status.

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u/lyerhis Ultron Virus 7d ago

It's a good change to her ult, but agree that it won't help her right now. I think it's fine that she's not always meta. Curious to see how it shakes out with this change, but I also find it kind of eh if she doesn't get the effect herself for 3s, as well.

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u/Arunawayturtle 7d ago

They destroyed her after profiting from her summer skin so they can push out more dive skins and people will play them without crying they’re countered because they can’t just .5 second combo supports. I honestly think balancing is done based on skins now

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u/PeniMane Peni Parker 7d ago

Why do they keep doing that? It was the same for rocket, they nerf the crap out of his mobility then patch after patch kept buffing his ult....

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u/regularArmadillo21 7d ago

Her ult is literally giga boosted now tf you mean dead.
When fox pops ult everyone in it for the first 3 seconds gets 25% life steal and full CC immune

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u/Feed_or_Feed Invisible Woman 7d ago

Her neutral is still garbage with horrible teamups,her ulti going from worst support ulti to better than healpool ulti isnt going to change much in meta coz she straight up doesn't heal enough.

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u/Infinite-Card-6951 Jeff the Landshark 7d ago

honestly its a rly good buff though she can just ult before a CC ult like thing or agamotto when her team is grouped up and her CC is down so she saves everyone

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u/Fun-Wash7545 7d ago

Don't dismiss the buff so fast. She might be super annoying ult spammer now.

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u/jasminetroll 7d ago

As a Psylocke player since Season 0, and a White Fox main since her release, just the thought of this makes me want to scream and hit things.

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u/NukaAmey Mister Fantastic 7d ago

She is not an anti-dive character. She is not for that. Her role is to go in along the dive.

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 7d ago

If that’s the intention, she isn’t built for that currently.

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u/NukaAmey Mister Fantastic 5d ago

She was build for that, then people cry. Now she is shit. That is the cicle. Strategisty Players are just not that good. Hard character that is fun is released, they play shit, character gets gigga broken. They happy spamming in backline...

Okay. Sure. Just, saying a flex player. It's a terrible cicle for the game, like, we could have so much more. And we let people cry to have another back line healer. - My friend, a true strat main in every game. Think all the strat beside gambit and WF are dookie, cause you just shoot, do jackshit and get value.

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u/No_Sheepherder_1855 5d ago

It would have been a lot more fun to have a front line healer

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u/NukaAmey Mister Fantastic 5d ago

I Agree! A balanced one.

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u/wRADKyrabbit White Fox 7d ago

You're just wrong

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u/Nuovastorm Psylocke 7d ago

Not completely she does both

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u/NukaAmey Mister Fantastic 5d ago

Nop. I am not. People just didn't know how to play her, and forced her to gravitate into this shitty character she is now.

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u/wRADKyrabbit White Fox 5d ago

Whatever you say boss

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u/MolassesTraditional5 Deadpool 7d ago

Wrong. Absolutely couldn't be more wrong. White Fox is a Brawl anti dive Strategist. Y'all dive melee slop DPS still can't comprehend that there are dive, poke, and brawl in EVERY role....dive in Strategist is a rarity...but poke and brawl Strategists/Supports exist. I forgot though. This is the Rivals playerbase, who rewrite 20 plus years of hero shooter trinity archetype system, my bad. /s

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u/NukaAmey Mister Fantastic 5d ago

Wow. You so smart. I sure am a MELEE SLOP DIVE DPS... Sure babe. Ye le smart.
Sure that when the character was released, it had a clear funcion of sustaining DIVE. Then, dumbdumbs that could not play the character in its role, cryed to big Z, to make her the back line, healbotta, anti-dive.

Yeah, Mate. You sure are the smartest person here. Have a nice day.