new niche SL teamup use
it's hard to react in time sometimes when a good kidnap target walks out of spawn here. Problem solved
good news everyone
we got our custom weapons & wings back ! yay
i know you wanna do the Angela twitch skin so bad netease come on give her to us
terrible mock-up by me
new Angela bug just dropped lmao
all her skins got fucked up. Her wing, axes, and sword are now the default gold on every skin. Her spear is also the default model across every skin but for the Ace of Spades and Doom Angel skins it got the alternate texture just painted on top of it
that's the fourth? new Angela bug this season. Who needs skins when we get all this exclusive content 😊
Ragebaiting dive dps is one of rivals' greatest pleasures
imagine when we get the earthbound teamup >:)
Can confirm Angela's blue teamup does NOT inflict Grounded. It's Earthbound, much much better
Grounded is what Thor's bubble does. It disables flight and nothing else. Which would have been very bizarre for an ability that requires you to slam into the ground
Earthbound is actually good. It disables all movement abilities, just like your ultimate. The teamup only applies earthbound for 2 seconds but that's not nothing, Bucky's old fist ability only had 1 second of earthbound and that was already annoying
so, both Angela teamups are actually good. One (not this one) is probably much better & more useful in most situations, but it's not as imbalanced as it seemed. Even just the chance to ruin a black panther's day is enough for me
Angela and Loki teamup potential
I have a lot of ideas from Angela's new CC missile of doom and despair. Feel free to share more of your own. Angela is undeniably S tier, and I am suspecting she'll be banned a lot for how much more annoying she'll be
- Ranged environmental kills (obviously)
- Ranged threats of environmental kills, forcing out crucial abilities from safety before you clean up for free
- Ranged threats of kidnaps, baiting out crucial abilities before diving yourself (essentially you get half the benefits of diving with a partner, even while solo diving)
- Ranged portal cancel/backup when your charge is cancelled or you whiff
- After kidnapping CnD out of their ult, you can further push them out of their bubble
- After kidnapping CnD out of their ult, you can push them back out after they use their fade (finally able to counter-ult them when they ult as cloak)
- Push Sue out of her ult without suffering the slow yourself (teamup push her out & then ult her while she's in danger, ult followup to chase without getting stuck) (requires her double jump to be on cooldown)
- Obnoxious 250hp combos depending on how much you're able to weave between your primary, teamup, and your own charge (if you can do a charged poke & cancel it into a teamup push, Rocket is dead forever)
- While being chased, turn around & use the teamup to send your attackers far far away
- Block phoenix ult with someone else's body for once
- Cancel ults that are out of reach (Wanda, Iron Man, Rogue, Ultron)
- Try to cancel ults that are risky to go for (Strange)
- Additional body to nullify Psylocke's ult damage
- Attempt to stun Jeff out of his ult (while he's spitting his teammates out), without wasting your own charge, so you have an extra attempt
- Destroying structures without having to go there yourself (good for certain high ground positions)
- Kidnap Peni out of her webs without risking the drones/mines shredding you to pieces
and finally, Angela can kidnap enemies a maximum of 20 metres, plus around 5 metres of them continuing to move backwards from the inertia when the grab ends. While Loki is on your team, you get 2 charges for your clones, with a brief cooldown between uses. Use your teamup, then your own charge, then your second teamup charge, for a >60 metre kidnap. This is the maximum, but even 30 to 40 metres of displacement brings absolutely insane potential
Edit: new ideas
- Pushing enemies off of the objective without risking a C9 by charging off of it yourself (be careful, the invisibility most likely prevents you from contesting while it's active)
- Charge at an enemy to push them into a pit, and then push them directly downwards with the teamup to guarantee their death (instead of needing to correctly-time the charged primary)
- Push peeling enemies away while you deal with the person you're fighting
- Push an enemy back for extra time when going for a back-cap (sometimes you just need an extra second or two to finish capping, or finish getting a tick on convergence)
evil and sinister kidnap combo
ignore the ping spike i was having a terrible time
Hear me out: biblically accurate angel skin for Angela
Biblically accurate Angela (specifically a cherubim because they look the coolest)
How on earth would you adapt something like this into marvel rivals? I have no idea. Would I love nothing more than to hear Angela say "Be not afraid"? Of course I would!!!!
no skins at all for season 8 😭
the buffs/dino nerfs are great but like :( i hope this isn't the start of a trend.
If the gallery card teasing next season is anything to go by, there should be a Horsemen of Apocalypse skin set coming up next season. Hopefully Angela can sneak in & take Archangel's place as the horseman of death (she is the former queen of hel, and a fellow angel, it fits)
cool and awesome ability idea
Angela is not really an angel, but it's no mistake that she's been given a close relationship with the afterlife. Everyone knows Queen of Hel, where she ventured into the afterlife & staged a coup to bring Sera back to life. What less people know is she also became the Faerie Queen of Earth 311, just to bring Sera back to life, because that's what she does. And just to top it off, Wiccan once accidentally glimpsed into an alternate future wherein Angela became a Queen of Hell AGAIN, except a different hell, ruling alongside Satana. It's a neat consistent thing about her, like her only real weakness being lightning
So what if this was reflected in her Rivals kit? Angela's ult is very multipurpose as-is, so what if throwing it in-range of a fallen teammate could revive them on the spot? Weaker than Adam's ult because it's limited to just the area of her ult, but good to quickly bring someone back from an early death, or even multiple people after a good groot/elsa ult
This is 100% inspired by the one-winged spear & shield-wielding warrior in Elden Ring Nightreign whose ult is a big spear slam that brings people back to life. Wouldn't that be cool for miss Queen of Elysium?
just finished the game and i'm confused
I was a little disappointed when the game just ended because I thought I got the default ending, so I googled how to get the other endings to see what I did wrong (assuming I had accidentally locked myself out of something a while ago). Turns out I got the ending with the most steps (dream's sweet deceit), but everything I've seen says one of the steps is beating the "Demon of Obsession"? Looking at the trophies for the game, that's the only boss I missed. How?? When was I meant to fight them?
I did the other steps, I fought the elder, I combined the samsara rings, but the demon of obsession just never came up. Are they just secretly optional? Where do you even fight them? Everything is saying they're in the same area as the samsara ring bit but I never saw an arena there or anything
this game is so funny
i knew it was probably over with two "Knocked Down" characters chasing me to the edge, but i thought my rocket back-capping point would be a safe chance to get out. I could not have picked worse timing
everybody give it up for Tenacity 🎉🎉
at least it tried
putting on glasses so nobody knows where i'm looking
i got stuck in a domination match for 18 minutes IN QUICKPLAY 😭
this was just insane. 30k damage blocked as Angela. Everyone else on my team spent at least two of their lives playing support. Insane number of swaps across the board, with multiple people on either team playing 5+ characters throughout the match. My team in shambles complaining about whatever (again, quickplay). Getting hunted down by daredevil & magik together moving my head irl to dodge attacks, which does work btw
but despite everything, Angela reigns supreme. A scripted loss beaten against all odds