u/FishdongXL

It is almost always the game before or after rank up too, I am so fucking fed up of this shit.

I am not even talking about people that just perform poorly, it happens to everyone, I know I was that person many times too.

I am talking about the people who genuinely fucking throw. Those fucking idiots whose character got banned and they can't play any other character from the 50 character roster. The cunts that go AFK for no reason for the whole match because why the fuck not. The losers that get diffed on their character once and switch to Black Widow. The worthless pieces of shit that somehow got to Celestial rank without ever touching any other role or character and who refuse to swap. The miserable fucking scumbags that start being toxic before our team even leaves the spawn and proceed to do god knows fucking what.

Like, out of last 12 Celestial 3/2 matches, I won 10, on PC, using fucking Mister Fantastic of all characters and those enemy teams were pretty tough, but it was extremely fun. Well, of course the moment I rank up to C2, the game goes "Nono enough winning buddy, here is a Black Panther that dies once and goes AFK for the rest of the match!".

It was the exact same thing 1,5 seasons ago, where I was just 1, maybe 2 wins away from hitting Eternity for the first time and guess what, I got 2 throwers, one of which switched to Widow for no reason and we lost and then I went on a losing streak and never climbed this high ever again because I got so demotivated.

FUCK. THIS. GAME. The throwers need to be punished significantly harder, not just get a 5 minute slap on the wrist for ruining the entire fucking match for 5 other people.

Please tell me this exact things happens to anyone else too, I can't be the only one.

I play Marvel Rivals pretty much daily, have been since launch, but I often play it out of necessity if that makes sense.

However, there are days where I am at work and the whole time I keep thinking "damn I can't wait to play Rivals today, I will actually play it for more than 2 hours, I am going to have a blast I can feel it"

And I swear to god whenever this happens, whenever I am genuinely excited to play the game, it is ALWAYS the worst fucking session you can imagine.

Either I am complete dogshit in most games or my teammates are, or both. I go on crazy losing streaks. The matchmaking always favors the enemy team, there are sweats everywhere. Whenever we lose, someone on the enemy team says some dumb shit like "thanks for the warmup, not even close, ez" or something like that. I get put into a match as a substitute 3 fucking times in a row. It just keeps going.

I am pretty sure there are great dive champions and this post isn't targeted towards them, but I have yet to see one.

Every time there is a champion Daredevil, Magik, Spiderman, Black Panther or god forbid fucking Iron Fist, they will always find a reason to be angry, it doesn't matter if it is Quick Match or Ranked.

You counter them? They start screaming in chat nonstop. You don't counter them and they walk over you? They talk shit. You counter them but they still make it work? They ridicule you. They are not performing well? They go AFK and blame teammates. No matter what happens, they always have the biggest ego in the match.

I see them so often and they don't even have to be champs tbh, even lords or no icon dive players are just cancer most of the time. I simply can't respect most dive players because of this.

It has been this way in Overwatch 2 too, where Genji and Sombra players were often just nonstop toxic. Does dive just attract the most miserable people or what the fuck?

I don't know why so many players treat Rivals like some sort of Team Deathmatch or Free-for-All game mode where the objective is just an optional bonus - if they even realize there is an objective in the first place.

The goal of the game is to capture the point or, in this case, push the payload to the finish line.

I've had multiple matches, both in Quick Match and Ranked, where we were literally 5 meters away from reaching the next checkpoint, only for the enemy team to regroup, stop the payload, and win the game because nobody on my team bothered to push it.

Recently I've been playing Mister Fantastic or Emma almost all the time - characters that are meant to play on the frontline. I shouldn't be the one sitting on the payload, yet I constantly find myself doing exactly that because, for some reason, five people decide to chase two enemies across the entire map.

Supports like Jeff or Rocket, - the characters that should be babysitting the payload in situations like this - are instead glued directly behind the tank, leaving the payload moving at a snail's pace.

I don't think people realize how HUGE the difference in payload speed is when even one person is pushing it. The cart barely moves when nobody is near it. When I am on ranged DPS or support, I always make sure to push it, unless it is absolutely neccessary to stay close to my team and help them fight.

It's even worse in close matches where every bit of payload distance matters, but your ranged DPS or supports are nowhere near the objective. It's genuinely infuriating when you ping the payload multiple times and nobody comes back to help push it.

And the craziest part is that this happens in Quick Match, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Grandmaster, and even fucking Celestial and the game has been out for 17 months.

There seriously needs to be more objective-based information on the scoreboard, like time spent capturing, pushing, contesting, or defending the objective. Those are stats that actually matter - not just raw damage dealt.

People are way too quick to blame someone because their stats don't look impressive, but the game hides so much important information. Bad stats don't automatically mean someone wasn't doing their job.

A Moon Knight player could finish the match with one final hit, while the rest of the team doesn't realize he spent the entire game pushing the payload while everyone else was busy fighting on the frontline.

I don't know how many Fantastic enjoyers are on this sub, but I am posting it anyway because it is a rant. You might think some of these complaints are weird and that some of those characters deserved buffs and that's valid, but this is coming from a Fantastic player and as you probably know, many people have considered him low tier ever since he released. We finally get buffs and it is probably the worst timing they could have chosen. At this point, don't buff Reed, nerf everyone around him.

Every single match so far has been against Devil Dinosaur, who you often can't kill unless you have like 2 high damage dps. I saw the clips of Reed dealing insane damage against him, but I seriously wasn't able to replicate this in online play or in practice, so idk whats up with that. Just because Dino is cute, I am afraid he is going to remain in a lot of matches. DIno often grabs you and throws you elsewhere and his shield is also good against Fantastic.

White Fox, the one support character that just outheals anything you do with her melee form, her teleport cancels your punches/ult and she is pain to kill most of the time? Well obviously they buffed her.

Another support that I don't enjoy going against is Loki, guess what? His healing is better.

Punisher, the character that can destroy you in like 2 shots with his shotgun? Oh yeah give him team up with the most used tank right now.

Phoenix was often able to melt Reed, so they made her primary fire even stronger, amazing.

For the last few months, I keep coming across cracked Iron Fists, so I am glad they buffed him too.

The Thing, a character that isn't that easy to kill with Reed and he disables your backshots? You don't understand how happy I am that he now has even more HP.

Emma was always good against Reed, now she is even better.

And they also made sure to buff Moon Knight and Wolverine, who are both good counters, but their buffs are not that noticeable thankfully.

I am surprised they didn't buff Venom again so he has even more HP.

Meanwhile we get minor buffs and also one nerf because we were the "oppressive" ones? Are they fucking kidding? Half the roster is oppressive against this one character.

Maybe I just had horrible luck on the matchmaking, but every match on him felt miserable, more than ever before.

We finally get buffs and it is probably the worst timing they could have chosen. At this point, don't buff Reed, nerf everyone around him.

Every single match so far has been against Devil Dinosaur, who you often can't kill unless you have like 2 high damage dps. I saw the clips of Reed dealing insane damage against him, but I seriously wasn't able to replicate this in online play or in practice, so idk whats up with that. Just because Dino is cute, I am afraid he is going to remain in a lot of matches. DIno often grabs you and throws you elsewhere and his shield is also good against Fantastic.

White Fox, the one support character that just outheals anything you do with her melee form, her teleport cancels your punches/ult and she is pain to kill most of the time? Well obviously they buffed her.

Another support that I don't enjoy going against is Loki, guess what? His healing is better.

Punisher, the character that can destroy you in like 2 shots with his shotgun? Oh yeah give him team up with the most used tank right now.

Phoenix was often able to melt Reed, so they made her primary fire even stronger, amazing.

For the last few months, I keep coming across cracked Iron Fists, so I am glad they buffed him too.

The Thing, a character that isn't that easy to kill with Reed and he disables your backshots? You don't understand how happy I am that he now has even more HP.

Emma was always good against Reed, now she is even better.

And they also made sure to buff Moon Knight and Wolverine, who are both good counters, but their buffs are not that noticeable thankfully.

I am surprised they didn't buff Venom again so he has even more HP.

Meanwhile we get minor buffs and also one nerf because we were the "oppressive" ones? Are they fucking kidding? Half the roster is oppressive against this one character.

Maybe I just had horrible luck on the matchmaking, but every match on him felt miserable.

EDIT: I played some more and when there isn't a Dino with a cracked Punisher on his back deleting me within one second and I am allowed to play the game, Reed's buffs actually feel really nice, the lower cooldown on his backshots makes his movement crazy at times and the extra damage on his primary fire is quite nice (but bugged....)