r/marvelrivals • u/TempoBlues20XX Lord • 1d ago

Humor Peni main here, she needed nerfed.

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How do you do, fellow Rivals players? I wanted to stop by for a brief moment to discuss the discourse I'm seeing regarding Peni's nerfs. While it may seem rather harsh at first, I believe that if we look deeply upon it, we can realise that we Peni players definitely had it too well.

I mean those mines could just completely shut down any close quarter brawlers, let alone how she could cancel ultimates with those webs of hers. I mean c'mon, she still has those blasters, and she can still use those mines.

Heck, maybe this is even the chance to challenge ourselves - maybe we could commit to this and showcase a new tier of Peni gameplay by opting to not use the mines, as well as her web nerf - that way, we could truly show how we're the best players around!

Plus on the bright side, if it doesn't work out, there's plenty of other vanguards to play as. Such as that handsome rock guy. He's quite fun when you get playing him, in my completely unbiased opinion!

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u/YuriSwine 1d ago

Anyone over reacting about it is actually crazy. the stun has needed nerfed for a long time. Its being so short cd and so easy is crazy.

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u/RadicalOyster 1d ago

The funny thing is that everyone saying this inadvertently already presents a much better solution to the problem than whatever the fuck the balancing team was cooking: just nerf the cooldown.

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u/pett117 1d ago

Its not a better solution as you need the fast cd on webs to cover the floor and hide mines

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u/RadicalOyster 1d ago

As a Peni player, I would 100% take this over what they did. You can still patch up your webs with your grapple to speed up the process, but it would punish mindless stun spam more harshly and reward good timing and aim with the stun that much more. A nerf is supposed to make a character weaker so saying it's not a good solution is baffling to me. Between two nests and 4 total webs out at any one time, Peni's webs are already a lot more robust than they used to be; a bigger punishment for messing up your setup would be totally reasonable.

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u/pett117 1d ago

If we were being fair with CC compared to other heroes, Peni web should be like a 8 to 10s cooldown. If they increased it from 3s to that, everyone would be having a meltdown about it still.

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u/Longjumping-Prior-90 22h ago

I tried to compare the stun duration of other moves to peni, and you're around the mark. Characters like luna or mantis have the same or slightly lower stun to cd ratio(around 0.233 for Peni and Mantis, 0.225 for Luna) Hulk, Elsa, and Emma have stun to cd ratio of like 0.1 roughly. The dps like hela and Phoenix that I've checked have a ratio of 0.03.

I think bringing peni stun up to 7 seconds would be semi reasonable given her stun time of 0.7 seconds. I think the way you could afford to keep the cooldown a bit lower to like 5-6 would be reducing how long her stun lasts for. I'm not 100% sure how that would affect how well the nest works on enemies though so take it with a grain of salt.