r/TheThing_Mains

Hello, I am a Groot main spreading my roster out farther, and wanted to come here in my travels to see if there are any tips for learning The Thing. Brawling, while definitely fun, I am not as good with, and so here are some of the things I do know:

I have Hold to Sprint on, so I can tap to slam my arms down.I can jump right before slamming my arms down to reduce the knock up so enemies are easier to hit. I can avoid CC using his sprint. I can charge a Haymaker, and jump to an enemy before it's released so it hits them with the damage vulnerability.My issue I've seen is one, poke, and 2, how to get in close without dying. I am aware Poke might counter Thing, yet for closing distance, I still am learning. With Groot I play cover, with Thing I feel I'm just out of range when playing cover. I haven't gotten to use the Hulk Team-Up yet.

Also sesperate question:

If any of you also play hulk, is there any aiming difference when throwing Wolverine from Hulk to The Thing? Just wanted to know because aside from Hulk Leaping before releasing a Throw, I don't think there is? Could be wrong but thought I'd ask.

Nonetheless, thank you for your time reading this, Incase it helps I play on PC.

When ever I try to antidive as thing, I guess my biggest issue is I never know where the dive is. Unless I just stick with support the whole time. But I get kind anxious in that scenario, because in the front, my team is trying to push and needs help, but when ever I do, my healers get dived. Dive players are sneaky and I am sure they wait until I turn my back before they dive for that reason. Sometimes people will ping a spot, but when I get there I never see them because they ran away. Sometimes I try to look around other locations too, but then my healers get dived because the divers were healing somewhere else from where I was looking. To be honest, especially with all the other chaos going on it's a bit hard to keep track of my surroundings too.

So yeah, I can try to guard my healers, but it means I just have to sit there essentially. Leaving my team down a tank in a 5v5 doesn't feel good just to help against a dive dps. Not sure how I can support the frontline and backline at the same time.

I really think thing is gonna counter Dino simply because Dino has so much health and thing will shred thru that health and Dino dmg might not do so well against the shield thing gets, just my opinion but I wanna hear y’all’s opinion, either way really excited.

Seriously, how has the tenacity bug not been addressed yet? It’s making it almost impossible to use his alt properly. You line everything up, commit to the play, and then the bug just eats the value because the interactions are completely broken.

I was really hoping to see a fix—or at least some gameplay tweaks to help counter the issue—in this latest patch, but there’s absolutely nothing. No changes, no mentions, just vibes while one of his core mechanics stays bugged.

It’s exhausting trying to main a character when the devs don't seem to care about game-breaking bugs that have been around this long. Is anyone else finding a way to work around this, or are we just benched until they decide to do their jobs?

I am so sick of the new tenacity system ruining my ults. Either make some adjustments to the system, or give Thing some sort of compensatory buff. But right now it's just ridiculous. His ult already isn't that good. It's much harder to get a team wipe with it in comparison to something like Strange's ult. Combining it with Yancy street charge used to give it a bit of skill expression. But now it actually punishes you if you do. So stupid. Now I feel lucky if I can get even one kill with it. Please Netease, don't do my rocky boy dirty!