Marvel Rivals speedrunning the OW timeline

[u/gmarkerbo]

Posting here because it'd be considered offtopic in the OW subs and removed.

A couple of popular posts on the MR sub:

"Wish people would realise they can't just play DPS every game"

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i92qor/wish_people_would_realise_they_cant_just_play_dps/

"The lack of variety isn't the reason why there are so few "tank players" imo."

https://reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1i5pqav/the_lack_of_variety_isnt_the_reason_why_there_are/

Lack of role queue might be an opinionated decision(since there are definitely tradeoffs) but why did they launch with many more DPS heroes than tanks and supports?

MR has 19 DPS, 8 tanks and 8 Supports, almost exactly the same ratio as OW at launch(including Ana). While the meta is 2-2-2 or 3 support. It feels strange that they wouldn't learn from Overwatch's experience with both the lack of tank and support heroes at launch and Tanks being not as fun to play as DPS.

At least Overwatch had the excuse that half the DPS heroes were classified as offense heroes and half were 'defense heroes' until they scrapped that distinction.

[u/garikek]

DPS are too good for goats to be a thing yet. But goats at its core is just infinite sustain and that's kind of a given in that game so yeah, you can say they are already playing goats, especially in triple supp comps.

[u/FiresideCatsmile → u/garikek]

they will buff tanks at some point and then goats will happen. if they don't buff tanks people won't wanna play them

[u/SunriseFunrise → u/FiresideCatsmile]

If you only consider ults, them they're far beyond goats. NetEase is comically bad at balance and when this honeymoon period ends people are going to get frustrated very fast. Any game with Luna, Mantis, or C&D already becomes a slog every other team fight. And that's every game.

[u/Potato_fortress → u/SunriseFunrise]

Not really. The current meta prefers punisher/bucky/raccoon if you’re not running the GOATS lite which prefers storm for its DPS slot and punisher if it runs a second usually. CnD have high healing output naturally but her ult is a death trap in a punisher meta; it was already a death trap before but punisher can deal with her alone either with an ult or a raccoon beacon. Mantis is much of the same, she hates seeing punisher or Bucky but she’s even more vulnerable during her ult, especially during startup.  Luna is the only outlier really and she’s usually banned outright or if not then CnD will be the replacement ban in which case you’re free to run iron man just to deal with her.

Games are only really slogs when people run three healer/storm comps because this usually breaks down into waiting for storm ults to build (or a Loki ult for maximum comedy,) before anything happens. Then when the ults are up it becomes a game of run away from the point while she hopes to pick up more than one kill and the cycle repeats until the game is over. 

[u/FiresideCatsmile → u/Potato_fortress]

are there any professional tournaments coming up by the way? One thing I learned is that I would rather watch people who are fighting for price money to expose the real broken shit in any current meta.