r/ScarletWitchMains

Hello Guys, I started playing with Scarlet Witch a few days ago. Can someone give me some advice when to use her powers properly?

Edit: I play on PS4 pro

As we all know, Wanda is one of the worst duelists in the game.

She’s “anti-dive” but not really. She “counters” Spider-Man and BP but not really. If the melee dive/brawl characters are good and fast, you’re dead because you don’t have the sustain or over-shield to compete with their high burst. They purposefully bait out your fades.

If the poke or projectile characters have good aim, you lose because you either can’t compete with the range or deal damage fast enough with your bursts. Also, the 4 missile ammo recharges so slowly, you have to be close to recharge your bursts so you’re at a disadvantage.

You have to constantly make sure you get the upper hand in almost every fight if they are a good player in a 1v1. Not to mention, all strategists out damage her and have self-healing.

It’s really weird how so many of us are split down the middle about Wanda. ATP, it feels like this page is made up of half Wanda Stan’s and half undercover Wanda haters that don’t want her buffed.

If you look at characters like Hulk, Mr. Fantastic, Blade, they were given buffs based on feedback. Actually, LOTS of feedback and complaining. If you look at Sue, Elsa, Gambit, they were nerfed based on an equally large amount of feedback.

Wanda needs a buff. It gets to a point where her auto aim beam shouldn’t be the reason she isn’t getting meaningful buffs to compete with other duelists. The Thing has been buffed like crazy and he’s SO easy. Moon Knight is SOOO easy and he does insane damage. Squirrel Girl is literally so easy but she does hella damage. I literally get so much more value from these characters and so many more over Wanda.

All in all, we need to complain MORE to get ANOTHER ability added, OR faster projectiles with more damage, OR some damn over-shield to deal with how close we need to be to make an impact.

Like can we please stick together like all the other rival main subreddits?

I'm not a Wanda main, I'm actually a Spidey main, and I wanted to know what you guys think about the character's abilities in Rivals. I hate Scarlet Witch (im the game) because many times when I'm playing, she just holds her primary and deals damage, and I decided to test her and the character doesn't do much more than that. Do you think she could have more varied and creative abilities or should she stay the way she is? 'Cause Black Cat is just a thief and has more abilities than Strange and Wanda.

It's just a question because I think some of the characters in gameplay is missing something or they don't match the comics.

D. Dino - shield
Black cat - iframes
White fox - charm/tp shield
Elsa - glartrox (sure its an ultimate)
Deadpool - tankpool’s bubble shield
Rogue - absorption

They seriously need to give her something
:—(

Wanda's teamup ability with Strange NEEDS to be part of her default kit at the very least imho. Then teamups can either add a modifier to the skill, or give her a completely new ability.

If the devs are confused about how to properly rework her, this is one of the easiest ways to give her more value.

The potential for her hex abilities are limitless and they could have done something like they did with the Black Cat "shop" if she was a recently released character, but alas she's stuck where she is.

I have noticed this trend on almost every social media platform where people either want to just completely dunk on Wanda and Wanda players, or Wanda players (especially content creators) spread narratives that she is unusable because they can’t just hold M1 and go 20-4 like they could in season 0-2. A lot of discussion of buffs and reworks (which I also felt she needed for a long time until it started to fully click on just how far you can actually push her value) and generally just what she is missing in her kit.

I currently have 700+ hours in the game, and started in Season 2 shortly after Emma released. I am currently Champion Wanda, and have played her consistently throughout my Rivals experience. I have over 100 hours on her alone between ranked, Doom Match, and warm-up Quick Plays. So instead of focusing on what she’s missing, I want to remind the things that she DOES have that nobody else really does.

• Starting with the most obvious strength, and the powerhouse of her kit: REALITY ERASURE. She can wipe an entire team with nothing more than good positioning, timing, and just a bit of luck and team support. Wait until you KNOW Emma has used her diamond form, wait until you KNOW Luna has either used her freeze or is stuck in ult, wait until you KNOW Peni is stuck in ult. Using her ult more defensively rather than constantly trying to make offensive teamwipe plays will also increase the value of this single ability tremendously.

• 3-second total invincibility and free-flight with MYSTIC PROJECTION. Probably her only ability I would argue that genuinely needs a buff, or rather, revert the nerfs she got to it in Season 2. With how much mobility is in the game right now, I do think this is kind of slacking in comparison to a LOT. HOWEVER, being completely invincible for 1.5 seconds at a time while also being allowed to be healed and move freely through the map is nothing to really sleep on, either. If you can manage her cooldown cycles on Mystic Projection, you will find it does have an incredibly high value. I think the best use for it is using it to reposition in team fights, especially to get yourself in the air, because it’s rare that if your team has enough pressure that enemies will be able to track you for that long. In general, though, this is her best way of getting in the air and I think that’s one of the best places for her to be for MANY reasons.

• Triple stun with DARK SEAL. Despite the general opinion that Wanda sucks, Dark Seal is something I hear people having a lot of issue dealing with when it comes to a good Wanda who knows when and how to use this thing. It can be used to shut down SEVERAL ults, you can stun DPS and supports to essentially cut off healing or DPS from the enemy team for a good while, you can choke off and entrap tight spaces and necessary pathways, you can open a TON of opportunities for team plays. In reality, I think personally that Dark Seal is currently the most important part of her kit and play style.

• I think the most underrated part of Wanda’s entire kit overall is CHTHONIAN BURST. It does just about the same amount as Hela primary, if not THE same amount, and trades critical hits for burst AoE, which I think is a fair trade off. Unlike Hela, however, Wanda doesn’t have to reload her Bursts, can recharge them EXTREMELY quickly with weaving in M1 damage which is ANOTHER thing Hela cannot do, and can burst down most squishy supports and DPS with just 4 consecutive bursts if you can hit them all.

• CHAOS CONTROL. You have all heard it a MILLION times. Auto-aim, no-skill, blah blah blah. It’s there, we use it, it’s not great, we all know that as much utility and pressure that it can provide, it’s overall the most useless part of her kit outside of recharging her M2 and applying pressure. However, I think this ability QUICKLY becomes more valuable when playing her as anti-dive or in 1v1 scenarios.

• Wanda’s MELEE ATTACKS are actually extremely underrated. She attacks in a pretty large cone in front of her, and has the highest melee attack damage in the entire game to my knowledge. They don’t recharge her Chthonian Bursts, but I have DELETED entire Magik’s, Blade’s, and Iron Fist’s with it. Still not sure it provides MORE value than her M1/M2 attacks, but I do know that most don’t see it coming and don’t always know how to react to Wanda melees.

• The Strange team-up with SORCERY SURGE I think might be a bit unfair to add to her base kit simply because of just how much more pressure and area control it gives her, especially when it comes to higher-skilled Wanda players. I know this is generally the most requested change for her, but I genuinely think it would give a fair amount of Wanda players an insane advantage.

Overall, Wanda is an EXTREMELY versatile character with a LOT working in her favor once you understand the full extents and how to play around your “counters.” She can play dive, anti-dive, she can play poke somewhat, she’s really good at helping tanks apply consistent pressure and make space for your team, she can apply consistent pressure to the most mobile, annoying-to-deal-with characters like Black Cat, Spider Man, Black Panther, and Starlord. Her ult, while being entirely high-risk/high-reward, can make some of the biggest and quickest plays in the entire game. She requires a lot of micro game skills to be as useful as she can be, but the minute you understand all of the niche, unique things that Wanda is capable of, you’ll stop dismissing her as a weak starter-level character with no skill ceiling.

His whole kit is a massive shield, grounded secondary (this also means no more phase too…), and a grab. This season is going kinda suck for us, even more so than almost every character somewhat being able to take us out of the sky… they really need to make the ult unstoppable, at least for a little while.

Not a Wanda main, but have been playing lately to learn more duelist and farm proficiency. I primarily play vanguard and strategists.

The amount of hate I get for playing this character is far worse than any other character I've played.

Are we losing? Hate.

Are we winning? Hate.

Am I carrying? Hate.

Not using my ultimate enough? Hate.

Using my ultimate to much? Hate.

Some combo of the above? You guessed it; hate.

It'd be one thing if it was just the opposing team trying to flame, but I get it almost as much from my team.

Where does all this come from? How do you all go about it as Scarlet mains? It's crazy.

I honestly don’t understand some of you. Whenever people say she’s one of the worst characters in the game, the response is always “but I get a lot of kills with her” or “I’m good with her.” No, you’re not proving the character is good — you’re just playing in low elo.

And honestly, I hate that. It’s depressing seeing my favorite Marvel character basically become “unplayable” once you reach Grandmaster because she’s treated like a troll pick, yet some of you actually celebrate that. So it makes me wonder: do you guys even like Wanda?

I’ve also looked through several Reddit posts (and even made one myself), and there are so many people against Wanda getting either a skin or a buff. Like… what exactly is the problem? Gambit got a Hellfire skin within like three weeks. And I really don’t understand the argument that Wanda already has “too many skins” when she’s been in the game much longer. Meanwhile Jeff keeps getting skins season after season.