u/BrilliantSpecial3413

Let me preface this, it's been a rough as hell week for me. My oldest got sick, my youngest has been up all night... so my form is nowhere near peak right now. I'm on a stupid quest to gain Lord for all the strategists, so when push comes to shove I'll be well versed in all healing roles for comp if they ban my mains (White Fox, CnD, Luna, Adam Warlock, Ultron are my top contenders). Gambit is next on my list and I am tryin so hard to learn him, to time the cleansing, to line up my ult to include everyone. My survivability is getting better, I'm dying less often... but holy shit I've had a battering these past 2 days alone. I'll win one qp, only to lose the next three, only to end up in a bot lobby and win that, only to rinse and repeat the entire thing.

I've considered cheesing it and going into 18 v 18 for the title, but Gambit is one of my favorite super heroes, he deserves the treatment of me learning and handling him properly. But with the current system it's neigh impossible. And it's really demoralizing to me. I logged out tonight not because I was tired and needed to sleep, but because I got tired of it. Out of the entire roster of strategists so far (CnD, WF, Ultron, Invis, Luna, Loki, Jeff, Rocket) that I've lorded or champed, Gambit is the one I'm struggling with the most. I'm sad, I know realistically I cannot expect to like and love and learn all of the heroes on the roster, but I'd like to at least learn instead of getting thrown into bot lobbies like "thanks for trying, have this participation trophy".

Also let me add on that a majority of my losses are due to dps going 12/12/0 or another healer pumping out 3k while I've got 10k+ going on. I could just be having bad luck and it may not even be a Gambit issue.

Yes, I know it's nearly 5 am and I should sleep. But I'm a single mom on a Saturday night while my daughter is off to her dad's. I have a heart condition so playing solo healing is kind of my substitute for roller coasters. Something about being along for the ride and keeping my team alive really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

The included video is from a really cool moment today. My Ultron set the course for the entire composition of the team. Pure flyers. It was amazing!

https://youtu.be/CcLEJEAsQQw?si=5A1XELzLITeQoH4s

and this one is my solo healing a team.. Yes, I do make an angry sound. I'm sorry about your ears.

So a few things I've noticed while on my Ultron Lord journey:

1. Jubilee and Luna mains tend to get a certain kind of tunnel vision. They won't heal you, they will stick to their tanks. Which, is fine, They have a different perspective and responsibilities in the fight, but listening to your Ultron in parties is beneficial to the survival of the team.

2. If Ultron can stay alive and keep two drones up, he has the best passive heals in game that I've experienced so far. He doesn't even have to shoot, he can drop drones and afk out of sight in range of his drones. If you've not tried it yet, do so please before the normies catch on.

3. So naturally that means in every game from here on out, there are no Variant Ultrons allowed. He is kill on sight for me.

My next journey is Gambit. I keep all the other videos on my youtube channel... but no one has quite inspired me to post paragraphs of their gameplay. Thank you Marvel Rivals Devs, Ultron is pretty darn cool to play. He could use a few tweaks for survivability and interruptions, but that is a difficult task to handle without making him completely OP.

If you read this far, thank you. :)
Signed,
A bored Mom with too much time on her hands. (Lord number 11)

Greetings Superior Models! I'm aware that you're updated and modern while I'm lagging behind as what the organics would call... negligible. I've only been in rotation for 10 levels and this team did not volunteer another meatsack to heal. I was alone, which was of no consequence to my core directives. I got the job done, I kept my team running at acceptable parameters. Do any updated models have a few gigs of data for me to chew on to help make my programming more efficient?

I'm filing a complaint: Strategist abuse, I just wanted to grind my Adam Warlock, but they requested Invisible Woman and I knew I'd be solo healing this, I've been successful solo healing with her prior. I need a joint after this, please help.

First time poster here, I only really jump on Wanda when I wanna sit back and chill. I'm currently grinding Adam Warlock for Lord, but subbed randomly. I was expecting bots, I did not get bots, I got Iron Man and Storm and Ultron trying for blood. I was determined to give my Scarlet Witch her MVP from the 5k so swapped to Luna to secure the win. Enjoy my dirty play! Replay ID: 104577107716 if anyone wants to watch it and give tips or guidance- like I said I was NOT prepared to have to fight for this win or my life so I played like a filthy bad casual, forgive me.

Hey girl, If you ever need a divine being sliding up in the backline, I'll give you all the heals you need with my wand. ;)

Hola my multi dimensional twinsies. I've been on a quest to learn and Lord every strat in the game. Adam Warlock is up next. Then my collection will need DeadPool, Jubilee, and Gambit. This match I had baby tanks or something cause the Peni panicked early on, leaving me to defend the rest of the team and myself. I love his Ultron team up and his self sustainability. It's gorgeous, with the right comp and set up and positioning he could be immortal! I have more vids too, he's been quite the greedy MvP monster for me tonight and I've only been putting serious effort into him for a few days. Anywho, thank you for having me...byyyyeee

I know the enemy team were bads, I was still white knuckling the whole time as a solo strategist on my team. I don't know why this video caught my PS5 buzzing when it hasn't before, so sorry about that sound quality!

Loki is my newest quest in my Lord ambitions and so far I adore them. Love and hugs from a WhiteFox main

So hi guys. I'm on a very silly quest to learn and Lord every strategist in the game. I've currently got Mantis, CnD, White Fox, Jeff, and Rocket under my belt, having near max level with CnD and WF. I've been playing since December. I've hit Plat I and if I didn't have real life responsibilities, I'd be well into diamond or GM. And here are my thoughts. I'm not a pro, but I feel I have decent game sense to read rooms after playing in the backline for this long.

Before you judge me, I'll tell you my ingame name is UnbotheredStar. I literally don't care. I play this game for fun, but I also can't help but also pour myself into it pretty hardcore at least once a week. Saturday nights I run comp, the rest of the week I sharpen my stats in QP. I know. I have heard it all.

My journey began with Mantis, and in the starting phases I was consistently landing MVPs with gifted healer and trusty sidekick trophies left and right. I hit my first snag in Plat II as her and swapped to Cloak and Dagger, where I felt myself genuinely falling in love with being a support. Then White Fox came in and she felt like she was made for me. I got her and CND up to about level 66 or so? Then I saw the new team ups with this season and knew there was an unlimited amount of fun and strategy I could apply to matches. So I tested out Rocket and he's got me to the edge of Diamond this season, which is awesome for me. His Groot team up is spectacular. I love surprising the enemy team with a burst damage in the face while simultaneously healing my team. They don't know how to handle it.

But that got a little boring after a day or so, so I tried out Jeff and was just aggressive with him. He was easy to get to Lord, I do love the arcade sounds, I typically play him when I want a bit of whimsy or taunting the enemy team. People don't know what to do with a bold Jeff who swims around them and runs away wagging his chunky tail without a single braincell.

And my latest is Luna. I have her at level 19 currently and I feel like she's the best healer ing the game. She's got burst damage too similar to Rocket, her hit box is thinner, she can hide behind tanks after snowballing the enemy healers, she can zoom across the map. She seems to be the one I can lean back and watch the enemy the most with. I could just be too high for all this and be crazy, so don't take my word for it.

Next is Loki and his team up is so fun, I tried him out a few times prior and the ult stealing is going to bring so much chaos. Which I seem the thrive in?

Anywho, if you read this far feel free to add me ingame? I could use friends (if my current record doesn't tell you that already :P )

Met a guy who is local on an online dating app. He was trying his hardest to win me over and checked all the right boxes until I told him I don't landscape. He dropped a bunch of reaction gifs of disgust and I blocked him.

I will forever touch support, and Jubilee was made for me (and others of course). Your negativity was completely unnecessary in the middle of the night while I played after a hard af day. Can we just let people be in QP? It's not sweat mode, let people learn new heroes. I naturally added these people to my block list... and I hang out with my boyfriend who intentionally trolls people, but he's not hateful about it!

I know this is the norm in communities online, but I was already maxxed out stressed and just wanted to learn my favorite Xman before passing out. I know the option to turn off chat, but I have met some golden people in chat before which led to awesome friendships so that alone outweighs any suggestions to turn it off.

sincerely,
Just a Journeying Jubilant Jubilee

I posted a few weeks ago that I thought my own situationship partner was ghosting on me. I was wrong. And I want to explore this dynamic more closely with someone, but I don't have any friends I can really do that with.

I hope I don't get judged too harshly or attract negativity with this. But because we're online, I'm going to try my best to protect him. He's shown me nothing but kindness and encouragement in who I am and what path I'm exploring.

I live in the middle of bumfuck Florida. A tourist town along a river with a cute beach. I don't get out much. And when I do, it's full of older citizens who don't seem to want to practise empathy unless it's on a Sunday at church. I've waited tables here and got my foot in the door with a couple places using my hospitality and catering degree. I quit to potty train my youngest when she turned 2, she was a big baby and my village couldn't handle her strength, so I enrolled back in college and started being a stay at home mother full time. Hence me not having many friends in general.

So I find an outlet- online gaming on my PS5, I typically only log in during nap times and when the kids are asleep at night. I stream sometimes too, I find myself above average in game sense when it comes to team games. I drifted to Marvel Rivals over the last holiday season and used that to pass my time between household chores, child rearing, and coursework in my University (Business Admin).

Enter my partner. I had a rough as shit day with our family bathroom's toilet backing up and flooding before 10 am. I cleaned, I got the children out of the mess, I made lunch and she had her nap. Cool. Logged into Rivals and needed some conversation, I was feeling cocky with my progress too- my confidence was at peak (and still is since meeting him honestly). I got into a PvE lobby with the Dracula event ongoing and turned on my comms. "So, did anyone else's toilet flood today? No? Just me...cool cool cool." then I hammered out my best dps output ever. My partner watched and didn't say much but his friend group invited me to play more with them. He typed out "Hey (my name) I have to ask before I court you, are you spoken for?"

And we clicked. We ran a few normal PvP matches, where we excelled and won. I had to take care of my daughter shortly after that and logged off. I came back that evening to "Hey, you probably don't remember me, but you made an impact on my life, here's my discord."

He shared his life with me (he's in an unhappy marriage, with a 6 year old daughter. I'm not here to argue about his marriage, that's his situation to navigate- honestly I have no reason to not trust him after everything we've spoken about these past few months). We talk about how she's growing in that environment, he's not respected in his house. He knows his daughter sees it and is doing his best to be mindful of her growth. We trade parenting anecdotes and offer advice to one another. I shared a big academic dream with him and he said "Does your village know you're a force multiplier?"

They don't. I've been working on an academic program involving biosemiotics and our connection to the world we're cultivating through capitalism and poor resource management and how it impacts our daily lives. It's more vast than that, but that's the gist of it.

I care about him immensely, he has shown his care through action and presence in our conversations. We tease each other, we help one another. He's drowning in IT work, I'm drowning in motherhood. We kind of keep each other afloat, and I think it's a beautiful dynamic. He's encouraged me to reach out to the scientific community with my vision, I've been instinctually holding it close to my chest. We play our game once a week and he takes on this persona of being a jester in the lobbies and roasting people and making them tilt about 1 minute left on the timer, and honestly I am loving the wit of it, the way people respond and start becoming either agitated or irate. I've not met anyone who sees through it yet, everyone takes him seriously, which makes me laugh all the harder.

Anywho, that's my tangled web of a situationship.

Hi. Can I join your club?

I've lorded Mantis, Championed Cloak and Dagger as well as WhiteFox... should I go for champion Luna now too?

And somehow I'm the bad guy for crying out in pain and having tears well up in my eyes.

Everytime I say it first, I seem to kill the relationship. I've only said it to a handful of people. I think I know what love is, I want to witness you, watch you grow, encourage you to meet your true potential, I want to be your team mate. I know that I over analyze and observe, I feel like I've got a decent gauge of the type of guy you are. I hope you'll fight for yourself and your happiness, I'll just be here, supporting you---biting my tongue.

When I play Cloak and Dagger, I use their ultimate to mark my territory and pray to the Gods that my team will follow suit and stand in it and push the team out. But, if you step out of your ult, then you are vulnerable. Please, for the love of your team, don't get baited from your most powerful aspect of your character. If this one hadn't been so tunnel visioned, they could have won the point, my team were already low, but she basically fed us another kill and an overall win of the match.

I ran into a group of randoms twice today, I was originally practicing Mantis but they needed more from me, so I whipped out Cloak and Dagger. I got their swim suit and hadn't tried the new ult yet (I love the whale sounds!) and while Spider-Man tried to nab me from the backline, I had other plans to get these lovely randoms a second win with me on their team!