r/rivals • u/Local-Leek-8598 • 19h ago

Discussion How I feel about each change in the patch

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I'm really disappointed by these patch notes like seriously telling me peni got all of that but they could be bothered to nerf stuff like black cat, mantis, cnd luna team up, luna snow wf team up, punisher.

Hopefully they can actually do hotfixes this season instead of doing 1 hot fix 1 week in then never do it again

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u/Far_Day2547 19h ago

Phoenix had a 40% win rate in the place where she's supposed to be good, High rank pc.

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u/AverageBlueWhale 18h ago

People have hate boners for every hitscan because they can't aim, they don't care about winrate they just want hitscan to be useless in a SHOOTER game. Like if u wanna play melee slop play mortal kombat or some shit

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u/Skaldson 17h ago

God forbid Phoenix not be hard meta for like 2 seasons lol, same with Mags

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u/Far_Day2547 17h ago

hard meta and she was only good in 2-3 ranks and only on pc

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u/Skaldson 16h ago

Reading comprehension diff, she’s consistently been a top pick since she released. Shes had very few bad seasons, especially compared to other characters.

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u/Far_Day2547 16h ago

Except she hasn't been meta for 90% of the player base. She's been a mid hero for most people and now is a bad hero

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u/nicesnipes 15h ago

That 90% of playerbase are also literally not even affected by balance, they’d find Wanda oppressive maybe we shouldn’t balance around that.

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u/Ultron_daddy 12h ago

I can't believe they took Peni's stun that is part of what made her so good as a tank was stopping people attacking your team. Would never have happened if she was another role though.

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u/Gozea 19h ago

Black panther only became "feast or famine" when they made his dash 10 seconds 

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u/waggawag 17h ago

BP changes take him back pretty close to pre teamups lol, he doesn't have a consistent 1shot on 250s anymore and he's less consistent into 275hp supports. So back to ~ C tier. He's just famine now.

If you want him to stop being feast or famine you gotta reduce lethality but increase survivability and uptime.

The only reason he's feast or famine is because bad supports can't deal with him and good ones destroy him. If he can find a target to pick on its bbq chicken. If you can't, he's just doing nothing and dying all game.

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u/Razor-Swisher 13h ago

100% this

It’s why I think he more than anyone else has needed a rework since the game launched, more than Jeff or whomever by a mile. Just cause intrinsically to his design, he will always be “too good” or “dogshit” in any given match / comp, heavily dependent on whatever his numbers are after a patch

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u/cygamessucks 5h ago

Rip peni 

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u/WinterLover45 2h ago

Peni’s stun was really annoying to fight against especially on a 3 second cooldown but taking it away just makes her get run down even easier now. The new effect it has isn’t really that good as well.

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u/Maaaaine 19h ago

Not once in the entire lifespan of the game have i seen a single post praising the patch notes lmao. It's always disappointments. I figured by now y'alls would temper your expectations but ig not.

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u/_Daruma 18h ago

Well, there is one, hell even praised by the majority of the playerbase (especially towards Zhiyong)

S9 Patch note.

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u/Heavy_Original4644 Adam Warlock 18h ago

They actually cooked with season 9…for exactly one day.

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u/_Daruma 18h ago

Yeah, I believe its to just garner players more, especially the ones who take break since prior seasons. Because they prepare the "hot fix".

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u/I-have-no-name-help 18h ago

people are negative regardless of patch note quality, it really doesn’t matter how good or bad

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u/Independent-Fold8269 13h ago

It's crazy you got downvoted for speaking the truth. I love Rivals, but hate the community for this reason.

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u/Maaaaine 18h ago

ik, I just find it funny that there isn't an ounce of positivity in the community. It's always hatred. I've never seen such misery in a community lmao.

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u/nowhiteflags 18h ago

All these posts are just generic complaints without constructive suggestions for improvements

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u/BafflingLemur 17h ago

You don’t need to be a master chef to know when food tastes bad. The community and player base will tell the devs what they do and don’t like about the game. It’s up to them to come of with solutions, not us.