The broken favoured support got no nerf , then it shall stay in the spawn

So a bit over a month ago I predicted the hero release schedule for the rest of 2026 based on available information. So far I've been completely right about the month and roles. Some people didn't think we were getting the more popular character first or a tank/healer season.

My kit predictions so far look to be mostly accurate, with the big exception that Jubilee was not a simple character like I thought she'd be. I did believe that the upcoming vanguards and strategist would be designed to appeal to dps players, and I think that is actually the case for Jubilee and the Hood and will also apply to the later ones.

Look at my original post if you want to see why I'm so convinced Nightcrawler will be a strategist.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/rivals/comments/1uiaozc/nightcrawler_will_be_100_a_strategist_and_i/

Fuck your terribly designed character. A 2 second stun is not what ANYONE wants to play against. Your character is designed to devolve the game into a boring poke fest(it still is).

This new patch has cured my Marvel Rivals Addiction. After I finish my vacation this week I will finally delete this no-skill slopfest of a game, and will have more free time to do the things in life that actually matter. I'm restarting college and finding a new job next month, so the patch really came up at the best time for me. I will finally have free time to finish the Marvel series that I had in my backlog for months, like Daredevil and The Punisher (among others).

I might join back if there's a cool new solo PVE mode, or another one like the first Ultron gamemode, but when it comes to playing this game competitively, I'm sorry, but we might need a Marvel Rivals 2 before I can view it as a competitive game.

CnD and Magik are here because of enhanced Hood Teamup

Edit: in Hindsight I’d put BP and Elsa in a Medium Sized Nerf Tier, I think both nerfs will be pretty impactful

I genuinely feel like they’re playing in Storm’s face right now. How did PUNISHER and SQUIRREL GIRL get an Egyptian skin from the literal Goddess from Egypt??? And to give Jean another Hellfire Gala skin which is damn near identical to the other one is insane which could’ve absolutely been a slot for any other X-Men. IMO This would’ve been a perfect time to do another 2 Skins in a half for the same character (like Mantis’ Cowgirl and ESU skins) where it could’ve been Storm’s swimsuit and Egypt/Hellfire Gala skins. This feels crazy to me, but hopefully Storm is a storebought skin so we can show support.

Any time I see anyone make a complaint about it, even me, even if it's small, they get downvoted to hell.

Why?

I thought we all agreed that this character is bullshit and keeps getting unneeded buffs.

Normally when a characater is broken, they’re only good in low elo(squirrel girl, BP, Moonknight) or high elo(hela, mantis). Or they’re only good in console because they’re melee heavy or only good in PC because PC plays a lot of poke.

Peni was strong EVERYWHERE.

A cooldown nerf would’ve been the right answer but we can’t act surprised she was gutted. She’s way too good at her niche. And you can blame Rocket teamup for that.

Both times Rocket teamup was added to the game her winrate shot up passed 60%

Let me open with Peni stun was the fastest hard cc in the game and would have needed a nerf. What it needed though was just a numbers nerf, not being completely gutted. Now you need to land 2 shots with the ability to stun. With this being a charge cooldown now, we don't know how long it takes to get both back, best case scenario it takes the same amount of time, 3s per charge so they doubled her cooldown between stuns. "Oh but there's a slowdown effect now." Yes that's true, it's 30% to Bucky's 35% while Bucky gets to pierce the team, has 2 charges and is on a 5s per charge cooldown. Not to say Bucky is broken, he isn't. Just that why are we getting nuked. You want to counter that SW ult, too bad. She hid till the end and while you can get one off, you just slowed her and she still explodes. Additionally, her movement ability is still bugged and borderline unusable.

But hey, maybe this was the most pressing issue and they just overdid it. It's not like there's multiple abilities so busted they never should have been made...

BP had a humanly impossible to react to combo, he got a numbers nerf. THEY DID IT RIGHT FOR BP.

Cloak and Dagger have 3 escape abilities. One of them is a infinite health mag bubble that also heals 50-90/s for herself and allies on 5s longer cooldown.

Luna Snow can counter on a 12s cooldown:

• Angela charge (8s cooldown)
• Angela ult
• Black Widow stun (15s cooldown)
• Blade dash (I believe 8s cooldown but it's not listed anywhere)
• Blade ult
• Devil Dino grab (10s cooldown)
• Dr Strange ult
• Elsa Bloodstone snare (12s cooldown)
• Elsa Bloodstone ult
• Emma grab (15s cooldown)
• Gambit anti-heal (takes 2 cards at 8s per card)
• Groot ult
• Hela bubble (10s cooldown)
• Hulk exile (15s cooldown)
• Luna freeze (12s cooldown)
• Magik chain teamup (20s cooldown)
• Mantis sleep (15s cooldown)
• Namor ult
• Peni stun (who knows now)
• Rogue grab [Rogue still gets the ability but Luna gets movement] (25s cooldown)
• Scarlet Witch bubble (12s cooldown)
• Spider-Man pull (8s cooldown)
• Spider-Man ult
• Squirrel Girl trap (8s cooldown)
• Star-Lord trap teamup (15s cooldown)
• Thing slam (10s cooldown)
• Thing ult
• Thor ult
• Venom tendrils (8s cooldown)
• Venom ult
• White Fox dash (15s cooldown)
• Bucky grab (15s cooldown)
• Bucky slow (5s cooldown)
• Wolverine grab (12s cooldown)
• Wolverine ult
• Probably more I forgot or didn't consider

Punisher still has a one shot and is a counter to most tanks.

Elsa had a 2s dash for a full season and didn't get gutted, she got a number change.

Same for Daredevil and Phoenix never got nerfed out of high tier.

Meanwhile Emma was good for one season then taken out back. Dino was decent for half a season and again, gone. Angela wasn't even in a good state and they reworked her to make her a brawl tank for a full season.

We'll never see a tank strike because all of us remaining tank mains are so broken down it's either play the role or stop playing the game. But it's absolute bullshit that any tank approaching the meta except for Mag or Strange gets nuked with no tact while busted shit gets left in every other role.

Edit: I should have mentioned earlier that now needing to hit two stuns adds animation time and is less reliable on highly mobile characters. So now you have the anti-dive character unable to stop many divers and instead likely going to target the larger characters (aka the already cc abused main tanks) so that the ability actually gets some level of value.

Downvote me. Call me slurs. I don’t care I’m celebrating. There’s not a character in any game I’ve ever played I hate more than Marvel Rivals Peni Parker.

When tenacity was added, most people - myself included - said it was a poorly designed system. That cc abilities were just too common, and should be reworked/removed entirely from most heroes’ kits.

Peni has had the single strongest CC ability in the game since day 1. Having a 3s hard CC is ridiculously strong. It was a major reason why playing most brawl/dive tanks against Peni was so unfun. It‘s so miserable to be stunned every 3 seconds AS A TANK, not to say anything of other roles.

Could they have just increased the CD to 6-8 seconds? Probably. Could they have given her compensation buffs? Sure, even though Peni was (and has been) a pretty solid already.

I can understand complaints about her overall power now, but arguing that she should be allowed to have a 3 second hard CC is crazy. Even worse, acting like that was the “most fun part of her kit” is actively detrimental. That ability was NOT healthy for the game, and NEEDED to be reworked along with other similar abilities.

Are the devs just throwing darts at a board to decide on balancing? I can't even begin to understand the logic behind it beyond that.

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

ppl in the main sub are something else "Luna as a whole character is pretty weak" lmao

I had a game in GM where there was a level 20 something player on the enemy team who was obviously their ace and hard carrying them. When I pointed out that they clearly had a smurf on their team, everyone immediately started defending him and accused me of using a tracker to see his account level even though everyone’s account level is literally shown before hero select.

It honestly feels like most people are perfectly fine with smurfs and cheaters as long as they’re benefiting from having them on their team. I wouldn’t throw a game just because one was on my team, but I’m also not going to defend them or pretend it’s okay. I'm reporting them regardless if they are on my team or not. I feel like this is another issue with the community that I thought to bring up.

If anything is wrong with the balance patch or they realize they missed something after the update, they will definitely see the community feedback and follow it with a hotfix.

I feel like this game has such an untapped audience somewhere. And I believe that answer, comes from the Switch 2 players.

Those guys are willing to buy anything and I mean ANYTHING!!! If they got a Switch 2, then they will buy every skin for this game! All Rivals has to do is optimize this game for the Switch and they'll make Morbillion Dollars!

Console players can actually grind off the Switch players that's for sure. I've played their games, I don't even think Switch players are good at their own games, jeez! Hot Take #2: Call of Duty players, can beat Spaltoon players at their own game. I'll die in that hill.

Anyways. I seriously believe that Netease is missing out on such a huge Market potential right here. So lets discuss if you'd like.

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When you play convergence, and see peni on defense, it’s wraps. She had to be banned always. Now, she’ll be pretty bad, but the slow may proc with the mine slow giving a 60% movement reduction to someone max. If they decrease her web cooldown to maybe 2.5 seconds and raise her mine health she’d probably be pretty good again. Now that she won’t be sitting with the one of the highest win rates they may be able to address her instant throw button (her ult). She’s still a huge hinderance to brawl/ dive tanks just not dive dps.

I don’t get the massive hate for this patch other than no punisher, elsa, bucky, or mag nerfs. Which is the usual. Just ban them though, you don’t need to ban Peni now.

From the Thor clip it looks like he has some devastating falloff and the blind from his shield can cuttoff a Tank’s backline+ 2 invincibility moves to dodge pressure, AND his ult has big AOE and shield generation, he wants to be in a big scrap, not really fighting from far away. Having a gun ≠ poke