Title. I’m a tank main and probably had collectively less than 10 mins on mag until season 9.5. I just started playing him, and also just started really playing comp, and I am wayyyy too good with him. This is typical for me. I usually find overpowered characters and climb pretty high with them until they get nerfed. Same thing happened in overwatch. I like to consider myself a decent player, but I can tell when I’m performing TOO good. This character will get nerfed. This is all in competitive btw.

Strategists across the board: healing to energy efficiency is decreased back down to 60%. Some strat players here are gonna hate that but it’s necessary for the long term health of this game

Cloak and dagger: cooldown of dagger storm is increased to 12 seconds and and the cooldown stars as soon as the duration of dagger storm ends

During Frozen Haven you can’t be healed, and if you’re on the payload during frozen haven, it won’t count as you actually being on it (like hulks transformation

Phoenix: Cosmic Flames base attack damage is decreased to 35, and can no longer apply sparks. Only headshots can, and it applies one spark. Spark expansion damage is increased to 60

Elsa Bloodstone: base attack no longer critical hits.
Max bonus health you can get from Helix advance is decreased to 55, and bonus health health you gain is decreased to 20

Blade: any enemy caught in your ultimate is slowed by 35%

Gambit: no longer has healing overtime during his ultimate.

Ultron: targeted healing to ally is increased to 50/s, and 40/s for allies within range, target distance increased to 35 meters

Rogue: Defensive Stances frontal damage reduction is increased to 80%

Wolverine: All of his health is regenerative health (Green health Bar)

Black Cat: She can be attacked during Phantom Pursuit. And max pounce target distance during calling card is decreased to 30m

Idk if It would have been the best ult but they always do things like this, at least once a game. I think he’s just designed to annoy people more than thing somehow.

cred to freekpool on TikTok

I ask this because I actually haven’t been able to play them that much in competitive and would like to hear your thoughts on how tanks have felt to play this season. My experience personally on Plat/Dia (console):

Strong: Mag, Venom, Hood, Thing, Groot

Neutral: Emma, Strange, Hulk, Angela, Emma, Thor, Peni, Tankpool

Weak: Cap, Rogue, Dino

Frequent Bans: Peni (by far), Thing, Mag

More personal thoughts:

I think the Hood has a lot of carry potential if you can play aggressive and are mechanically good.

Strange is not worth playing most times (as much as I like playing him) since Mag just does a better job at pressuring backline and for protecting teammates.

Rogue w/o the enhanced teamups just can’t keep up. Dino gets erased if one person on the other team has a half competent SG or Punisher.

Thing can be played into every (at least in my lobbies) comp because he just vomits out damage and subsequently overshield with the HT teamup. Playing double shield into Thing just… isn’t a good idea.

Hulk smash divers, but couldn't save strats. :/

Even got them to swap off dive partway through round 1, but my team was still gapped.

The American flag has *50 stars and *13 stripes (*7 red stripes and *6 white stripes), take note as we'll use these numbers. I'm not American nor live in the US but I'm such a huge fan of Captain America's round shield and shield moves.

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^(*the abbreviation for meters per second is m/s)

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Cap's basic attack shield throws move so slow at 60m/s projectile speed. If you don't know what it is, you punch someone twice and you'll get 4 shield throws that do the same 45 damage like his melee punch.

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For comparison, Magneto's basic attack moves at 80m/s projectile speed and he's already considered slow.

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In the Beta before Season 0, Cap's basic attack shield throws bounce once and I remember using Voltaic Union in Season 0 it also bounces. Note that it doesn't do a second bounce to a foe already hit like Moon Knight's moon blades.

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Captain America default stats:

1. his punches deal 45 damage
2. his basic attack shield throw also deals 45 damage and moves at 60m/s projectile speed
3. why is the shield throw travel speed slow when it needs to return first before you can do another shield throw?

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Captain America's nigh indestructible shield should at least:

• increase his basic attack shield throw damage by 5 so 45 damage + 5 damage = *50 damage

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• becomes 2 shield throws instead of 4 shield throws but increase its projectile speed to 70m/s

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• bounces to a nearby enemy once but the bounce deals 45 damage (like his melee punch)

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• increase the duration from 5s to *6s and Cap's melee each punch should renew the duration instead of it going to waste (the shield throw count will still get used and not renewed)

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• push with Liberty Rush and not get body blocked by puny Bruce Banner or a random Rocket Raccoon who happens to dash in front of Cap

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Captain America's team-ups:

1. What is wrong with Bucky's team-up? The jump speed to an ally is sluggishly slow, please add +20m/s to its jump speed. Enhanced version also adds +20 bonus health to the area bonus.
2. Thor's team-up is extremely weak, let Thor cook with his Thor Force, imbues Cap's shield and armor with the lightning of the god of thunder:
   • becomes *6 shield throws that deal 55 damage with a duration of *13s
   • obviously if all *6 shield throws are spent, the team-up is gone
   • bounces to a nearby enemy once but the bounce deals *50 damage

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• projectile speed is increased to 80m/s like Vibranium Energy Saw (shield throw ability) as it's been augmented with the lightning of Thor Force

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• if you don't know this, when Thor activates his Awakening Rune near an enemy, his area lightning actually deals 15 damage per second. When Cap activates his Thor team-up, you can see a cool lightning burst VFX out of Cap's armor, let this deal 15 damage once on activation (like Storm's goddess boost activation in her lightning stance).

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1. Thor's Enhanced team-up:
   • add a mutual ability, Mjolnir shockwave or Mjolnir baseball shield hit shown in the Age of Ultron film
   • bounce damage fall off removed, the bounce still deals 55 damage
   • on activation, Cap gains *7 green health regeneration per second even when receiving damage and *6% damage reduction even if he spent all *6 shield throws, the team-up will only be gone when the 13s duration ends

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Team-ups gave supports new powerful abilities like CnD frozen form (she has 2 escapes now from Magneto's dunk) and that frozen form enhanced with a Luna Snow teammate legit outheals a full Storm Ult when Luna Snow also continues healing and withing the area of CnD.

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P.S. Juggernaut is very different from the Thing, he can use magic with his knuckle dusters and head dash, he is agile enough to do kicks in the pixelated fighting games, he can even tore open the fabric of space-time.

Even the old 2005 X-men Legends 2 game has Juggernaut with magic sigils. If you are creative enough you can refer to Dr. Strange, Magik, Scarlet Witch, Black Cat and the Hood for Juggernaut abilities. Magic symbols on the ground, floating alchemy signs or portal punch impact, you get the gist.