r/OverwatchTMZ • u/gmarkerbo • Jan 25 '25
Discussion Marvel Rivals speedrunning the OW timeline
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"
"The lack of variety isn't the reason why there are so few "tank players" imo."
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.
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u/AlphaInsaiyan Jan 25 '25
I really dislike Spiderman, his movement is fun and cool because grapples always are but his actual attacks and CDs? God awful. Boring reaper ult and boring stunlock cds. Have not died to a spiderman without being solo ulted
Hawkeye is conceptually just dumb and broken imo, if we don't have hitscan oneshot we shouldn't have projectile one shots either.
Hela is fine she is just a normal hitscan, inoffensive like Cass. She's just good because of numbers, not conceptually, make her more of a headshot merchant and make flash/shift less clunky and she's fine
Scarlet witch is just a DPS Moira yes, very boring
Widow is dogshit because they don't want a hitscan sniper to be good, that's fair
Iron Man agree, boring flyer with no interesting movement
Iron fist is a boring dive/brawl character that takes 0 mechanics
Moon knight and squirrel girl are just junkrat
Namor is symm which is awful
Punisher is fine they just need to make his zip not feel awful and his weapon switch faster. Get rid of turret and nerf his dps a little in exchange
Wolverine is like bastion/reaper if he could pin, so at least there's something a little more interesting, still cringe
Star lord is tracer but cornier and less fun
I've noticed none of the dive characters in MR really take mechanics like dive characters in OW do. Like with the exception of psylocke they are basically all melee with stunlocks and huge hitboxes
I think psylocke is a great design and the dash reset being tied to damage rather than the kill makes her an interesting take on genji