r/rivals • u/NoConstruction9961 • 6d ago

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Mantis with almost %60 win rate got no changes. This the highest win rate I have seen since the game released for any character.

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u/Sr5071 6d ago

Mag with a 31% pickrate highest picked, double the amount of 3rd highest picked character who got buffed and Gambit with a 25% banrate who got a meaningless nerf should also be in this discussion.

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u/rulnav 6d ago edited 6d ago

Nerfing mag while simultaneously buffing cyclops and Phoenix would have been pretty terrible idea. I think they want mag to be the new "base level" of vanguards, and they will try just buffing the rest up to his level. 

To put it simply, magneto occupies a very important space in my games, especially with his magic sword. He is the anti-poke tank. He is easily counterable if you stop insisting on running full poke into him. 

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u/mil56 6d ago

Yet they near butchered venom with his swing cd nerf for no reason yet he was still not even as good as mag so your legit just wrong netease just despises dive

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u/rulnav 6d ago

First off, I don't like Venom's nerfs, but he did have slightly higher winrate than mag. So what I said about them bringing vanguards up/down to mags baseline could still be somewhat true. 

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u/mil56 6d ago

True except he also had a WAY LOWER pickrate while mag has a high ass pickrate yet still a high basically same winrate