one argument I'll make for the sake of Peni is that little stun sure has saved me once or twice when i've been kidnapped by a wolverine once or twice. I get snatched, web him, then zip away before I get absolutely turned into ribbons xD
I've heard he can't kidnap you when your cyberbond is active. Though I've also heard that a spiderman can't knock you into the air while it's active and that was wrong, soooo. But either way, Wolverine is actually hard countered by you. If he wants to avoid dying instantly to your nest and mines, he has to use an ability to avoid/survive them. If he uses his damage reduction? He dies fast. He uses his feral leap? He's stuck fighting you in your best position. Only using vicious rampage has a chance to work, but that moves you in a straight line making your movement predictable. Even if they don't directly target Wolverine after the dash, he still has to survive long enough to try and pull her out of the nest.
@@weaverreaver4448 the cyberbond shouldn't pull you back in unless you get a certain amount of distance away, which I think is further than than the range spiderman normally knocks you up with, but with the distance wolverine can get with his kidnap, that should end up being pretty reliable against him.
He could cut down on time by not making a new list every time and just recreating his previous lists and adding the new characters/making adjustments based on buffs and nerfs.
I played against a Scarlet Witch with a Magneto and every time she ulted he bubbled her and she got some level of value out of it. Definitely a way to pay it forward for the combo.
Strange being at S tier makes sense, but hearing that flats himself saying Groot is slept on and putting him at S tier, being a Groot main never felt better.
I picked group randomly because my team asked for a second tank. We won because I just kept spamming walls in-between healers and everybody else on the enemy team
Have you seen the Thor ult tech with it? One horizontal portal on the ground below Thor, one vertical portal at the enemies backline, Thor ults, and he goes flying through it at Mach 9, one shots everything. Absolute cinema + true comedy.
@@slandergames9494 I mean, more or less? Anyways, my whole point wasn’t just ults. Fantastic suffers from a high sustain meta in which his consistent AOE damage can easily be out-healed. Any other meta and he would have much more value.
the "phase" your talking about is just any live game with patch releases. Solved games are those who've stopped getting support, like super smash bros (any of them) or tf2, counterstrike...chess
@@vigilantvigilante2582I would are it’s not that they are being live supported but that period after the patch where people are figuring it out. Also Go is a solved game but chess is not solved.
What I love about Thor that I never saw anyone else doing it, is that you can throw the hammer mid a close quarters fight, so you throw it at someone, get back the thorforce and perfectly in 3 hits you can throw it again. This makes his meele damage output so much, except for like wolverine, you can win any meele 1v1.
As a Magik player I absolutely adore the fact she is sable in B tier since the release. Strong enough to climb but also weak enough to be rarely picked or banned. Perfect state to onetrick or just main.
@@nightingale8178 these tier lists don’t matter to the devs, champs with over performing win like magic storm and raccoon will get the nerf hammer next patch
@@synsol1008 nah you say that but Mantis had the highest winrate last season and she really didn't get got. Plus they said they're focusing on buffs rather than nerfs. Magik might have a higher winrate, but she has a low pickrate meaning she is difficult to learn but rewarding, and really good magik players will win more. She isn't dominating, and they even buffed her when she had average 54% winrate. She's a melee hero with 250 hp, LESS than Luna and every other melee hero, she isn't getting a nerf hammer
I encountered a good black widow for the first time and it shocked me. She kept head shotting my teammates and I went to dive her as panther, so I hit one dash and she pulled me, kicked me, then shot me and I was dead. Absolutely shocked
Not tryna be egocentric but I love when I pick nat and people tell me to switch straight away then I get ace and we win don’t listen to other people u can be good as everyone
@@Kapow59 wolverine did get buffed he got more base health sure they nerfed the damage resistance by 10% but having 100 hp overall is better (50 hp in regular and 50 in passive)
@@mike210294 it was more of a shift, because 40% is a lot less than 50% damage reduction Before it saved him 150 hp, now it saves him 140 hp (as opposed to 175 had it not been lowered) So he takes more damage but has a higher hp stat 🤷♂️
Necros tier lists have always been bad He puts characters in D or F tier then immediately after he gets rolled by them for one match he changes his mind (Wolverine, Storm, Cap etc)
I still think people are sleeping on Mr Fantastic. His Ult definitely needs a small buff of some kind (I would say faster execution speed + bonus health rather than more damage), but his base kit is insanely tanky. Even without Sue Storm I almost never die while playing him, and when I do it’s because the rest of my team died first.
As someone who's been playing a ton of Mr fantastic and finally found a good Playstyle he's an absolute juggernaut if played right You bodyguard and shield your team more and play real slow but use the reach you got to pressure till you go big then try to get picks rinse and repeat and you go crazy
What sucks the most about his ult is that he's SUPER easy to focus every time he lands. A great player might be able to track him the whole time, but this, imo, is his biggest opening.
true, his ult seems underwhelming but its bc i feel to vulnerable during the ult, love giving shield (backshots) to the support while im escaping /repositioning
I think the main thing holding Rocket back is the prevalence of immortality ults that all directly counter his own ult. Especially when playing 2 supports, having 1 immortality ult against 2 just kneecaps your team’s ability to consistently win team fights or even force a stalemate where no one on either team can die. I always feel like I have to wait for their ults to finish before I can pop mine, and by that point there often isn’t enough of my team left alive for it to be worth it. I honestly wish there were less immortality ults in general, as they just fill the same purpose with slight variations. They’re not all made equal for sure, but I would have way more fun playing support if it didn’t feel absolutely necessary to have one.
The things is if they nerf Luna and Mantis then raccoon will be the next most played support which will lead to him getting nerfed. It's a ridiculous slippery slope
@sew_gal7340 I don’t even think nerfing either of them is the solution. I think Rocket’s kit needs a rework, or at least some more juice. The beacon especially is completely at odds with itself with the whole armor pack mechanic, and his ult is just the damage half of Luna’s ult with no healing associated with it. They’re both a 40% damage boost. It’s literally half of an ult. It needs something more, something to make it worth using in situations where you aren’t already in control of the fight. Like, I don’t know… armor for the team? Actual, substantial armor for the team???? Please???????
His ultimate could definitely use an additional benefit of some sort, especially with the prevalence of what are essentially immortality ults like you said. The damage boost on his ult alone isn't enough to meaningfully outplay alot of other Strategist ults. Though I'd like to see it provide some benefit outside of potential sustain, maybe an attack speed boost or infinite ammo like his team-up? I'm just spitballin. Side note I'd love an increase in his primary fire projectile speed for consistency's sake.
I wouldn't nerf any support, I would buff Rocket's ult. Rocket's ult should also give a healing boost, at least 40% if not more. That way a competent Rocket player can potentially heal through a big damage ult the way that Luna, Sue, C&D and Mantis can.
@@bobbyweenus The reason I want it to be armor and not healing is that he’s the only one in the game that can provide non-decaying bonus health, yet it’s the most worthless part of his kit. If he just gave a single huge armor boost when he put it down, It would give short term sustain that could also help teammates tank heavy hits that might have oneshot them even at max health. Or you could overcharge everyone’s health at the start of a fight. This would set it apart it from other support ults and give it unique strengths for both offense and defense.
Venom and Spidey are slept on because Spidey requires 100X effort to get the same DPS output as a lot of others but he is by far the best burst DPS when paired with a diving Venom
I clicked w him day 1. his shift cancels almost every ult in the game, and not everyone sees the huge burst healing and dmg with his clones if all of them hit. and hes got absolutely insane survivability.
Fellow Loki main here from back when people were putting him in B tier, couldn't agree more, so often as Loki you pull off plays that feel downright illegal
Mr. Fantastic is a misclassified low hp Vanguard. In trying to understand why he's a duelist, I've reached a point where I can defend the claim: "Mr. Fantastic without team up is more durable than Groot without the season bonus." The only problem is that Vanguards is from the same principle of why Black Panther is a Duelist, and no one is used to being a Tank+Bruiser just because of the abilities and not because of the double HP he has dps. Edit: Mr. Fantastic is only "Vanguard character" that has relativly low hp => Wovlerine doesn't work too good against him => Mr. Fantastic is anti-tank-buster tank.
Yeah I also feel like his support of strategists is heavily underrated, since you can peel and destroy flank duelists with support back up, while being able to shield them aswell. Combined with the constant passive proc, you get a character that does so much utility. I just think triple support comp makes him really poor overall. Since he does have relatively (at least compared to other duelists) low damage, one of the worst ults in the game, and he can only really tank like the conventional vanguards with passive up (granted combined with the reflect you can cycle for a good bit).
i actually think he is in the same role as Brig in OW, he doesn't have the boop but he can hit divers more easily and can shield the support being dived, in his transformed mode he can play more like a tank and zone off/pressure the enemy supports. His ult is definitely weak and should have like ramping damage after each bounce for better kill, or simply make it more a tank ult by giving himself more sustain. If anything Mr. Fantastic suffers from being put in the wrong category as he is literally anything but a duelist.
@warspite_4715 Fun fact it does, with a maximum of 6 bounces, it ramps from 50 to 100, the issue is you could start with the maximum damage, and still get outhealed by the supports or get focused down (even doing it with passive up).
He's put into the duelist category so that the devs can manipulate the fanbase to excuse them for their poor roster balancing. In other words, they put a vanguard in duelist so people would stop complaining that there are double dps than strategist and vanguard combined
Says that just because there are 1-4 or 5 good penny players that doesn’t make her good… “I’ve seen one or two iron fist players that lowkey make it work”
@@logan6232that’s… not the issue it’s the logic. He said just because there are a few niche talented pennys doesn’t make her a good pick. Then says iron fist is a good pick because he’s seen a few niche talented ones…
He also says penny is bad because she has one good thing and the other characters can do what she does but better and better at everything else. Then gives props to black widow and asks what characters can do what she does but better? A good amount of them can but she’s still slept on somehow. Idk.🤷🏻♂️
Peni is low B not a C character even for high Elo. The problem is people just suck at surviving and fighting. Also OTPing then trying to understand the other characters doesn’t help since you have no idea how those characters play/feel.
For those that don’t know, Punishers shotgun can also stop a cloak and dagger ult. When she pauses you can hit her right in the head or hit her in the middle of dashing.
I think Flats is doing this for higher elo’s, and unfortunately Peni just can’t provide consistent value up there because she’s really map dependent at those ranks
You’ve convinced me to play Cap on tank and so far, I’ve carried my Bronze teams. Thanks for sharing your success with Cap, he really shuts down Moonknight, Punisher, Hawkeye, etc. Truly slept on and great when your team isn’t coordinated. Which is often, in Bronze… EDIT: I watched the previous video Flats made where he climbed with Cap to GM, if anyone is confused about the speed of me testing out Cap. If you’re stuck in Bronze with random teammates Cap is a solid choice. Just abuse the enemy backline, harass the supports. You’re basically a distraction and usually you can bait out their ults, giving the rest of your team freedom to…well, as they say, go ham.
@@blessedfetusi believe he’s mentioned this in a couple shorts n streams, I remember him saying capt jumps people in alleyways (moon knight or hawkeye)
@blessedfetus punisher is pretty easy to kill as cap unless he is getting heals. If he pulls out the shot gun, you just hold up your shield and punisher basically kills himself.
I can't see a world where Venom is slept on at all. He feels like an easier but worse Hulk that just gives free ult charge and never actually kills anyone. His winrate compared to Hulk pretty much proves that he's ass.
@@RobBlu-d6uI think that has more to do with Hulks team up ability than the hero himself. Venom can absolutely confirm kills, especially if he has someone helping with the dive. Your comment kinda proves that he is in fact slept on. And in regards to win rates, they can be very misleading. Hawkeye has the 3rd lowest winrate in the game (only Jeff and Black Widow are worse), but does that mean Hawkeye is F tier? Absolutely not.
I love the very beginning of games like this. You get to watch as some of the best gamers out there slowly start to learn all these new characters. Watching Wolverine go from never being picked to the scariest thing a tank will ever see was so fun in season 0, and then he got buffed into season 1. People are gonna figure these characters out and I can't wait to see how the meta changes
A nice thing about Rocket's kit most people don't often use, that I capitalize on a lot is, most people just use him up front to heal, the range on his heal orbs, the bouncing around corners, his BRB revives, the jump packs your team can use, and even the fact that he can wall crawl is just so often forgotten. I always make sure my BRB is up in spawn on attack to give my normally less mobile allies the boost jump and our squishier characters a little armor boost. When in combat I find an elevated spot, out of immediate LoS from the enemy team, put my BRB just off the point and launch heals from a distance. I see too many Rocket players hugging their team. You have consistent healing from most any range, use it. If you stand back from the people you are healing, you are less likely to be targeted during the fight.
There is so many hidden techs on raccoon and you got one on the head. I've even bounced his balls straight from spawn to the payload without even seeing my team. U never ever stand in line of sight of the enemy... Those balls travel super fast. I climbed to gm just solo q with him
@sew_gal7340 bro i spent an entire round in a gold lobby on top of a panther statue, didn't move, 0 damage taken, 0 dealt, 14k healing, 5 BRB revives, and 3 ults. Utilize his verticality and you will dominate.
I love these tierlist videos u make man the way u explain certain characters in your humorous way is super entertaining and lowkey helps me learn the meta, thanks bro
Wouldn't luna work better than mantis? Since that gives Loki a better support copy, the only real advantage mantis has is her damage buff, but you already both have storm, and the thor electric enchant. Mainly cause the team is squishy.
Sure the team ups are ok but Thor himself just isn't that great. He has no tanking ability so gets shredded as a solo tank if you commit at the wrong time. His ult also sucks.
@@Lokisif34 I think the point is both Storm and Mantis can dmg boost so you just absolutely shred through the team before the fact your frontline isnt particularly tanky kills you
Yeah I'm honestly shocked flat hasn't seen any bad magiks I once won against a magiks while I was on like 50 health in melee range and the mail for reference was full health with even some overheal I think
I main magik and solo queue sometimes I get 40 kills and carry and sometimes I go like 8-9 and have a horrible game. This trick to magik is making her work with your team comp
Not surprising. Psylocke’s ult is less impactful the more number of people are in it, C&D ult only does 30dps, and Storm’s ult isn’t burst-y, so most defensive ults already shut it down.
The probably with the win rate logic is that most players are in much lower elos. A character that is very good against ignorant players will have a drastically inflated win rate overall when most of the playerbase is down there
@renutus1580 but that's the thing she's above 50 even at grandmaster and above while characters like strange are borderline 50 and before we go down the rabbit hole i do think strange is the best tank but I also don't believe penni is c
@@blackronin848 playing against her gives alot of knowledge on how good she is, and me personally i havent playede against a single good peny yet, her hitbox is so big, that it makes her really easy to shut down, and im dia rn and hit gm last season. I might have just not met a good peny player yet tho
@nicepotato5326 good ones are definitely hard to come by i myself think I'm one of the good ones but I will say this strange isn't s tier because of his kit he's s tier because his kit allows a noob to be decent of rip kind of like how playing hela can carry a player to dia then get stomped cause they don't know how to play anyone else after getting banned. But a penny you can't just pick up and expect to be good and get in the enemy back line like a strange or mag etc you have to have knowledge of her and a great supporting cast
As a vanguard main here is what I have learned today : I should really try to learn cap or at least if I have a cap on my team play thor to enable them I should abuse diving the backline with venom if I have a spider man in my team and the opponents comp allows it I should keep on learning thor and play to be more of a general annoyance Magneto and strange are characters that I must learn more about Groot should not place walls to block LOS most of the time but instead to attack / heal him I should make peni work no matter the cost to prove you wrong on your tierlist (nah just kidding i get that she is a noob stomper) but i do think it is a tank that has a great potential at stopping dive as long as you have a bit of communication with your team. I think that your fist traps should be placed in spots that your healers can easily reach in order to help them survive a dive. I will admit though that healers can definitely have a hard time playing around said traps especially against characters like spidey of black panther
I love peni, especially in lower ranks (waiting on getting a full group before climbing). I've only done like 10 competitive matches, and every time I've played peni I slaughter. Being able to hide her mines and make them immune to damage by webbing them catches them off guard every time lol.
I know it's a bit annoying to do, but I think these Marvel tier lists should always have two, one for no bans and one for when there are bans. The fact that the top characters getting banned or not changes the position of so many others is really important.
Fun combo you can do is Peni + Winter soldier. If the WS hooks an enemy tank into a few mines their health bar actually gets deleted, especially if the Peni can web them right after to keep them from escaping.
One I enjoy is actually playing support for the supports with peni using my nest to save them from dive ults while a tank such as a Thor or strange push the front and cover the duelists.
As a Rocket main myself I can answer you why we only have like 2 deaths.. We scurry up the walls and gtfo out of there. Always be near a wall, never out in the open where you have no escape. if the tanks go down and 1 dps goes.. we bail and fire a few healings back at the survivors if any and keep going.
Flats! If you see this, consider Peni playing differently. I think Peni is surprisingly good at off angles and flanks. I did it once and it worked really well, then I saw the top 500 person doing it and realized what I did for lols was actually viable. I've had so many games where ive forced teams to use ults just to force me out the angle, then not have it for the fight. Games where even though on paper (scoreboard) i wasnt doing that much, i was still canceling flanks, forcing retreats, harassing the backline, distracting their team, and in best case scenarios forcing multiple people to dive me just to get me out. And you cant ignore me because of the stuns, and mines. I think Peni is fairly map dependant yes, but as a DPS main holding down off angles with that much HP, self healing, entry denial with the mines, and the short CD Stun is crazy. On certain maps only a few characters can even force me out, I become a threat youd need multiple people to counter the off angle for.
People keep playing peni as an attack tank and saying she's bad when she's strictly a defensive area controller tank. Peni played correctly can prevent the other team from even getting close to the mission area or your supports.
@@RandoSando. She can be played on attack but not as the main tank, I like to sneak to the flank or rear position where I can make a hidey-hole(prefer a spot with a health pack so they can't get it) for myself that also lets me shoot at the enemy flank or backline, forcing then to split their attention between me and the rest of my team. Peni is deceptively mobile once you get the hang of her wall running and web "swing" and learn what kind of stuff you can get away with.
@Nuinwing yup. Peni on attack can literally be played as devoted peel tank making it almost impossible to flank supports. She pretty much shuts down any melee dps. She's just unlucky that iron man and storm are so good right now.
@@olofacosta3192As a Peni Main, I don't fear Iron Fist because they never deal with the nest. Storm can be annoying, especially with her speed buff recently.
Pretty much all fantastic four members hard counter wolverine it seems. Human torch will be a flying character, Mr fantastic can go invulnerable and sue storm just wrecks him with cc
Flats is very optimistic. Storm is probably the only real S tier character right now and that's by a large margin. If she's not target banned, the entire game revolves around her ult, and that's not even talking about how she passively buffs her entire team just by being near them.
I feel like people don't realize penni can throw her mines into the enemy backline through shields and kill squishies with them. They have such a long range
That is something I do often. Triple mines will kill any squishy in the game unprotected, so when I am in a team fight, if I don't need to set up defence, I hurl those mines into the back line and watch the backline crumple
I’m very happy Flats managed to move away from just Overwatch and still has consistently good views- usually better now with Rivals. He seems much happier, and it’s not damaging view numbers
If a Peni is "just standing there and getting shot in the head", that's a bad Peni. A good Peni will use all of her tools to harass and rattle either frontline squishies or flankers and then use her mobility to escape once things start going south. I think your putting IF next to her is fitting, but I think they should honestly both be B for that tbh because they'll both surprise you if someone knows what they're doing.
Fr like it's not a 3 seconds stun cooldown.. it's A 3 SECONDS STUN COOLDOWN..I bully people every time i can..And don't get me started on "Without the Nest she is nothing" bc u if it gets destroyed it's ok just put down a web wherever u stay to get health regen,bonus shield and fast movement..Like u don't need the nest all the time..The focus should be on u spamming mines, stuns and continuous shooting+ reposition..Also don't ever ult without the nest down.. Exceptions if u need to survive or u need to get some more time on the point.. She's soo good but many people don't want to play her more tactic..Idk but if u want to get good play her on attack on QP.. That's when u start to understand how u play her..
@@Mr_Tensaiexactly, the idea that “without her nest she’s nothing” is actually super beneficial to Peni players because 1) you can set up mines at any position where someone would be able to destroy your nest and get free kills (or put them right by the nest if their a dive character) and 2) without her nest, her indestructible webs do basically the same thing while hiding any mines you place so any diver just insta dies. Her ability to hold points on domination is INSANE when you know who to look out for and where to put the mines. Her potential is easily far greater than Cap imo
As a peni main I don't think she's bad but I'd say she's a little weak, she has really strong tools but using them against people who know how to play round her is hard, not impossible but hard.
real, got to gm last season with her. was struggling to climb in new season for a minute but started onetricking her again and am d1 already with less than 20hrs. mines can actually kill a luna in ult or even c&d as she dashes with ult which is so fun to see the reaction of tbh
The duality of man. Peni: There's always some one tricks in the top 500 that'll make a character work in any situation, that's not you. She's not strong. Iron Fist, Jeff: There's one tricks that make them work in the top 500 so I think he's slept on. One thing you didn't mention with Cloak and Dagger is with the triple healer comp she's just defacto the best choice as third healer due to the extreme value it represents with her light wall amplifying healing. Not to mention being able to use the other support ultis for countering pushes/ultis lets her just use her low cooldown ulti whenever it's up. It's the same with Jeff's bubbles but the bubbles kind of work against themselves in that area since they're big healing on their own.
Yeah Penny is super slept on. Most people don't know that her web can eat most ults in the game since it has a health hitbox. Throw it at an iron man ult and save your team on a 3 second cooldown.
it stops like 3 ults, but supports stop like 25 more ults. her ult is buns and the only time she gets value is if people don’t shoot her generator and mines
I can’t play this character I don’t get it. So I never get value on her. I have watched videos and tried a bunch, I’d rather just play another hero. I would argue we need some DPS to move into Vanguard with an adjustment, Peni I think should move into DPS and get a damage buff.
@@insomniaddictesp if peni gets a damage buff she will become instantly S tier she is unironically OP with the only thing stopping her being the huge hitbox and the low damage on main attack. peni is a very strong character if you put hours to learn her she possibly the hardest tank to learn how to get value with but she is OP af in low elo and is a very good pick vs Dive comps you just gotta make sure you are never the only tank cause peni is NOT a main tank she is a side tank that protects supports
@ghastfear78 she's the easiest other than Venom imo lol. Literally just keep your hive up and stand in a web. Literally just place mines on cooldown and stack at least 3 to kill a squishy She would be more fun if the mines did less dmg and restocked faster imo. They tried to make her too much of an artillery tank when she should work the map and grab angles more
I think a major thing about rocket is that his utility requires other people to have knowledge about it. His ult can allow his teammates to outdamage Luna ult, but when people see Luna ult they don’t shoot her with rocket ult because they assume that she won’t die to it
I main Peni, my biggest gripe with her right now is that her ult can often be super difficult to get value from. She can't climb, has no cc counter, can get body blocked super easy, and then, once it ends, you can't even immediately go back to using your standard kit; you have to wait for the animation to finish which just makes you a sitting duck.
Having a rocket on your team vs a team with 2 supports that have defensive ults is just 90% of the time gg, he's only good if you have 2 support with him
@@boneless70Absolutely dominated a team on defense side with a solo rocket teammate, bro might as well have been the wall bc no one could tell where he was and playing a bit more back instead of rushing in allowed us to get enough healing to sustain the team fight 😭😭
@@boneless70 I can't say I've had the same experience unless my dps are just not killing their healers. Rocket is generally very annoying to kill if they know how to use his mobility, and the revive he gives is very good. However he is obnoxiously strong if he is the third healer on a team.
I just started playing a week ago, and I picked up rocket because my friend told me the skill floor is pretty low and I’d have an easier time playing him Within an hour of starting the game I’d already figured out how to add a ton of value by just staying alive and occasionally picking off enemies that are low.
Penny should be b tier, shes not the greatest but shes map-dependent and great for switching if you go on defense. Magik should also be on A tier in my opinion.
half good reasoning. i wouldnt argue shes map dependent although she does thrive on some maps more so then others. then again so does literally every hero. But she is absolutely the best area denial hero, yall just dont know where to have her deny areas
It's good that the community puts so many heroes into S and A tier, every character seems to be viable if you know how to play them. The fact that one of the devs is top 2 peak rating shows that when devs understand the game that they make is a good thing. Hope, they will keep it up and do something about the triple support meta.
As a thor main who duos with a cap main, I agree in how good that teamup is. We take turns alternating who's diving and who's screening our squishes. It works really well.
I think hulk and cap also work really well, except rather than taking turns I find it best both cap and hulk dive at the same time and one simply covers the other when they need to dip till they’re healed and can get back in
Playing since day 1 and what I tell all my friends is, everything that can be summoned needs to die instantly. Groot ironwall and just putting it to the side gives so many shields. Even putting it up in the middle of the fight sometimes people ignore it until later. Didn't know ulting with moon knight was that good. Now to find a decent moon knight to play with then.
Honestly feels like the dev's did buffs based on community feedback instead of win rate and what they observed. Storm getting a GIGA buff when she had a 50% win rate or Wolverine getting a buff when he was already pretty strong is crazy
@Cacany99 wrong. There is a difference between she was not fun so not many people played her and she is not good. Storm had a 50% win rate so obviously she was balanced. Your take is a bronze player take
I recently started playing him and I can say he is fun. What is not fun is when people who don't know how to play him, they tend to completely screw over your back-line by blocking their shots and view when other team members need healing.
Yeah, I have started to become a Groot connoisseur for a while and he carries me from Bronze to now Plat 2. He does shit ton of damage and is kind of very tanky in his own specific way. His ult is one of the best ult a in the game. His left click kills. His walls whip. And has bomb to sure burst.
Only problem with Groot is that Wolverine HARD counters him, especially with Hulk. He can just get thrown above your walls, kidnap you and wreck your shit
41:20 I've been saying since my first few games of Rivals: Rocket Raccoon is this game's Mercy (and I'm not talking about the rez). Low but consistent healing through the entire fight that you can count on to never ever die because their mobility is just too cracked. They both do the exact same job, and they both have the same problem where the low healing throughput makes it a real struggle to facilitate plays.
@@skarloeythomas5172 Part of the problem is less that his healing bullets are slow and more that he's hard capped at 60hp/s per target and has no cooldowns or other ways to pump in extra emergency healing like the other supports have. The lack of big invulnerability ultimate hurts a bit, too.
@ Oh, my bad. Thought you meant his heals. Yeah I'd like to see him have better damage over range, too. His kit feels like it'd be perfect for a support like Kiriko who can add some DPS from the flanks when they find opportunities between heals.
@ Yeah I view him more as Baptiste, but the sluggish projectiles just don't do it for him unless you're up close with the tank putting in the rounds. I did that once with a Groot, sitting on his shoulder, and it works okay like that. But wouldn't want higher damage because with his mobility he never dies, and wouldn't want him to take duels easily like a Kiriko.
What is it with this guys tier lists? I've tuned in and watched every single one till the end and I don't know what sets it apart from other tier lists doing the same thing lol. Keep it up, man!
Me who mained storm last season: They called me a a madman... Now look at them In all seriousness, I love the buffs Storm got, now she's even better then before and I can rest full teams alone much easier then before
Bro same I thought she was slept on last season I was like lowkey she kinda cracked especially with the team up. I just wanted a slight primary fire dmg buff that was all. They went crazy
@@KnucklesWTD the buff really wasn’t all the crazy it’s just people didn’t know how to use her so she was considers bad just like iron man was considered bad at the start. I thought she was really good in season 0 slept on. Just thought her movement was too slow really.
@garrettjenkins6527 yeah, the movement was imo the only bad thing about her, maybe the 20 sec cooldown on the teamup to, but they weren't the worst things imo
I recently picked up Wolverine, and the amount of hell he causes teams by completely removing the tanks from the equation is insane, he outdamages most heals. And he might singlehandedly be the reason that Groot is slept on, as Groot is his easiest target, sadly.
I know your videos are good because I've been looking for counter heroes lists and can't find anything good out there, and you just give me the info I'm looking for while explaining a tier list.
Currently trying to go scarlet only. Shes actually very underrated. Her damage is so constant that shes great at pushing the other team. People usually just use her for flank but being close to the team is much better. She basically counters almost all flankers because you dont really need to aim so spiderman's etc will die pretty quickly. If you play her close to healers you can basically protect them from all threats. Her stun bubble is huge as you can stun other tanks up to 3 times allowing easy kills for your team or stunning a flanker to save someone else. If you get good on your right clicks you can also shred as it has zero fall off!, does like 80 damage so its a great finisher or to melt tanks In combination with left click. Her ult is the hardest only do it with combination of other ults and/or do it behind walls to surprise enemies as you reveal yourself at the end. Its INSANE with a storm or movement buff! Also its good when you need to make distance as people will have to focus you if they want to survive or get on point, meaning more time for the cart to push or a point to be captured.
Respectfully have to disagree. I used to struggle against Wanda when I first played the game. Then, I realized that I basically outdamage her no matter which character I play. Since then, I've almost never died to a scarlet witch. Even as spiderman, you're just too quick and hit too hard. They need to buff her intangible mode and her ult needs a massive buff.
@@olofacosta3192nah bruh her damage isn’t that bad just land her secondary it does good damage and her intangibility is op u literally are invincible in it only thing that sucks about her is her ult being pure garbage but there are combos u can do with other heroes to ensure u get the ult off
@masterkluv her secondary is good, tbf. I would just make it charge a bit faster when you suck. Her intangibility is simply too slow. Buff the speed and it'll be good. And yeah her ultimate is just ass. Literally D.va ult, except worse in every single way. Just awful and needs massive buffs. But if they do fix these stuff, I think she'll be really solid
@ Her ult just needs a small range buff to like 20m instead of 15m and make her ult immune to stuns like they did with thor's ult. Thatd make her dangerous but would still mean good positioning and timing to pull it off.
It’s honestly crazy to me that instead of nerfing mantis and Luna to every other healer’s level they just buffed every other healer. Now we have 4 ults that are uber fast to get with 3 supports and only 3 characters or so that can counter them.
They didn't know. Cloaks ult heals the same amount. The issue is it stacks on itself. Anything more than 2 stacked trails is the same. Immortal or killed by specific ults.
When I'm playing Rocket I love when the enemy team has a Penni. His primary fire absolutely eats her for breakfast. It actually gives me a good reason to use the primary in an offensive manner rather than just for self peel or clean up kills outside of ult
20:50 You could really pronounce Namor 2 ways. The MCU is the one has the same pronounciation as you say since he is supposed to be having Aztec elements but in the comics is different since he rule Atlantis
Says that just because a few people do good with Peni, it doesn't mean she's secretly good Says Iron Fist is secretly goated because a few are good with him
7:10 something to note about the Ironwood wall (and I tested this myself): the conditions for activation are that groot is within 20m of the wall, and groot is within 20m of an ally that is damaging an enemy. So it doesn't matter at all how far away that ally is from the wall, and it especially doesn't matter how far away the enemy being damaged is. All you have to do as groot is be within 20m of both and you're constantly gaining overhealth.
To add, people tend to throw the wall up into combat and it just gets gunned down. Just put it up somewhere that nobody goes or will pay attention to, but is close enough to work and it pays huge dividends.
so true..honestly these tier lists mean nothing…it’s just someone’s personal opinion and experience bro didn’t even mention cloaks dark teleportation that can save the whole team from pretty much every ult in the game… the amount of times ive used cloaks right click to protect my team from big ults it’s literally a game changing ability with a 12sec cooldown
Yeah, it's funny how he suggests that they'll don't seem to have much else, and I think a lot of that is that people healbot on dagger way too much. Cloak is insane. The stealth of played around but your team can shut down ults, on a much much lower cooldown than Luna. If your decent he's also great at anti-dive. E is 55 damage and a 20% vuln, making the auto locking LMB 90/s. Killing 250 HP heroes in ~2s unassisted, which they'll be blinded for. He also makes no footsteps, making flanking plays actually kinda cracked
@ The 4 dash change to their ult does a lot for taking pressure off of enemies too. Used to just stack it near objectives but you could really use the third and 4th dash into enemy backlines to get a support or DPS.
So something that you can do with moonknight's ult us wait for an ahnk to come back. Pop ult and then throw the ahnk in the middle. It has gravity and pulls people in
It’s crazy how day one everyone and their mother had Wolverine as the worst character in the game but the moment we found out that he’s the best at what he does, and what he does is tank busting. Immediately skyrocketed to the top tier status
Flats didn’t explain why Mr. Fantastic was so low, so I’ll try my best to why I think he’s there. He was made to be a hybrid between tank and duelist but as a result, he doesn’t excel in what either were made to do. He can’t headshot and has low rate of fire so he’s not a great duelist. And he still has low hp 90% of the time so he’s not a great tank. It’s a little like the jack of all trades, master of none situation. But it doesn’t matter, he’s still really fun, and that’s all you need.
He should be played like a bruiser who bodyguard your team instead of either a traditional tank or dps. Focus solely on being at the front to soak up damage or trying to attack all the time to get as much damage as possible are just not the way. When played right, he’s tougher than a tank and can dish out a lot of pressure when contesting for a point.
Play Mr. Fantastic as a tag team partner. He’s great at soaking damage, he can pull enemies away from each other and isolate them, he gives shields to his teammates and if the healer is good, he won’t die. I literally got jumped by 4 of the enemy team but my healer, combined with using Mr. Fantastic’s kit properly, kept me alive long enough to kill the entire team that was jumping me.
@@MaidenlessScrub Sure, but if youre looking for a bruiser then Thor fills that role far better. Venom is a dive bruiser and again is better. Reed is very good in 1v1's but you seldomly are in position to do those. He has no mobility, his reach is limited, his reflect might as well be a Namor bubble as it blocks damage but you dont do damage, his ult is weak and can be shut down with good aim. He's obviously playable, but in the higher ranks he's clearly worse than other options.
@@_aceofspades_ Thor is a lot squishier and can’t cover for your team as much, that’s why I said “who also bodyguards your team”. He also has less AoE damage to pressure grouped up enemies in a team fight.
42:45 I will try to answer this question? As a rocket player, I tend to stay really far away from where everyone else is fighting. I can bounce my healing shot of walls, allowing me to heal from a very long distance. I don’t have to be in the middle of the action to heal my team. I can see where all of them are and line up my shots to heal them. But I can also get really close if I need to.
I'm honestly really surprised at how Strong Storm is now considering on paper it looks like she was buffed only very little. Like 10 more damage on her main attack and it's a bit faster, that *shouldn't* have that much of an impact as it does.
As a storm player, I can tell you the threat isn't just her primary getting that 10. If an enemy dives your team, you press E and they get hit with lightning, plus your buffed primary and right click and you delete most squishies in less than a second now. She could melt last season too, she just needed her team to look at the diver too. Now she can just...do it.
I think scarlet witch is kinda underrated. She is noot a tier, but she is not as bad as people say she is especially with magnito. That sword is magnito with thor damage.
For me she's amazing for dealing with annoying high agility heroes. I've always wondering why people don't play her more to deal with divers. And then this video kinda made me realize that it actually does take skill to play the Witch. You need to be highly knowledgably about all the DPS to know to disrupt them. Purposely getting webbed then shifting through spiderman's uppercut killing off all his damage output, dodging BP's spear or round house kick in hopes of wasting his dash, baiting wolverines dive only to shift through it, landing at least two right clicks back to back on psylocke or starlord forcing them to run away and chase after a health pack etc etc. When played right she is the absolutely most annoying thing to deal with when diving because she dramatically cuts down on the amount of time you can actually hang out in the backline.
@@FoMScratchwell it depends. Quick play witch and gold/play witches are different. Quick play which is absolutely zero skill they just hold down shift and run at you. I’ve had some comp witch’s that were damn annoying and definitely had skill.
She’s still fairly bad. The problem is that she’s just got bad damage and unless you have a god tier Magneto it’s just better to use another DPS. She’s a casual friendly character and that’s totally fine.
She's boring to play you just hold a button and that's it...they need to change her attack to be something better it's so ugly and boring let me throw more chaos magic not just hold a button and walk it's so lame way to play
She's underestimated because her main weapon is weak. But requiring no aim and being constant and hitscan makes it great for finishing off kills. If you can get in and around the thick of battle, you can quickly make the difference in any 1v1 or 2v2 going on. Shame about the Ult though. So hard to stay alive and get multiple kills from it.
Im so glad you share my sentiment on the Thor team up. The team up for Cap is amazing for charging his ult and getting kills, and it really makes him shine.
I love him, biggest surprise character for me. I was really hyped for Invisible Woman and while I still love playing her, Mr Fantastic is my favorite right now. He’s just so unique and cool. I do think his ult needs a buff as it’s pretty weak, but other than that I think he’s good, people just haven’t figured him out yet. If all the hero designs are this good then I’m so excited for what’s to come, especially my man Thing in a few weeks.
@@therealeatzHe’s not weak if played correctly. Hes not meant to take on all enemies by himself. Play him as a tag team partner to another DPS or a Tank and he’s insanely broken. If you have a competent healer and time his reflect and moves correctly, he does not die. At all.
Mister fantastic might be D tier but he certainly been one of the most fun characters for me. Being a tank main having a dps option that feels so familiar as a bruiser is really cool. I just bully their backline, and use the reflect to disengage for heals while waiting for cooldowns, and then jump right back in.
@DevilCat19 yeah I know that I main strange in ranked but jump on him in quick play, occasionally I’ve brought him out in ranked to not terrible results just he struggles against 3 supports as they can pretty easily out heal his damage. He feels more like a secondary tank like cap and venom.
@@gambeano hes incredibly easy to shut down with ccs, and simply dosent do enough dmg to outheal triple supp, so at that point just play tank instead of him, they do what he does but better
*Reed goes in D Tier*
*Doom slips Netease a $20 bill under the table*
Doom (2099) literally made the Multiverse. Of COURSE he'd make Namor/Magnus/T'Challa stronger and Richards weaker.
I feel like people are sleeping on Reed, like a good Reed player can do so much and take alot of dmg without dying
“HE GOES IN F!!!!!!!!” -Doom screaming at his screen watching a flats ranking
@boombox1490 Just feel like his ultimate needs to be a tad stronger
Goat comment
Who else here hasn’t been as addicted to a game like Rivals in a very long time?
Swear it’s not just me
As far as team based pvp games go, dead ass it's been like 8 years for me
Big time addicted.
It stopped my wow addiction which is damn impressive. Not many games have been able to do that over the past 20 years.
Yeah between this and POE 2 I'm gonna need rehab
one argument I'll make for the sake of Peni is that little stun sure has saved me once or twice when i've been kidnapped by a wolverine once or twice. I get snatched, web him, then zip away before I get absolutely turned into ribbons xD
I've heard he can't kidnap you when your cyberbond is active. Though I've also heard that a spiderman can't knock you into the air while it's active and that was wrong, soooo.
But either way, Wolverine is actually hard countered by you. If he wants to avoid dying instantly to your nest and mines, he has to use an ability to avoid/survive them. If he uses his damage reduction? He dies fast. He uses his feral leap? He's stuck fighting you in your best position. Only using vicious rampage has a chance to work, but that moves you in a straight line making your movement predictable. Even if they don't directly target Wolverine after the dash, he still has to survive long enough to try and pull her out of the nest.
@@weaverreaver4448 the cyberbond shouldn't pull you back in unless you get a certain amount of distance away, which I think is further than than the range spiderman normally knocks you up with, but with the distance wolverine can get with his kidnap, that should end up being pretty reliable against him.
Penni is trash
the worst part about peni web is that wolverine leap gets stopped midair with it which i don't like at all
He specifically said Peni is good against wolverine but not much else. Someone skipped to the end....
I’m an old man gamer and love this game and your content. Great vibes and advice. Keep up the great work my friend!!
This is so fucking wholesome I love you bro😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️
awesome
Stay gaming bro ❤
@@Dr.Giggletouch0352naw fr tho 😭😭🙏
With how fast the hero release schedule is going to be, these tier lists are going to turn into a whole podcast in 2 years
He could cut down on time by not making a new list every time and just recreating his previous lists and adding the new characters/making adjustments based on buffs and nerfs.
@@Watermelon_Man there are buffs and nerfs though. Storm raised A LOT in value in s1
People can make league and dota tier lists, it'll be fine 😂
balance notes are gonna be government-sized documents
might be unpopular but i do wish they dont really follow trough with the 1.5 months per character thing, sounds a bit much
I played against a Scarlet Witch with a Magneto and every time she ulted he bubbled her and she got some level of value out of it. Definitely a way to pay it forward for the combo.
Strange being at S tier makes sense, but hearing that flats himself saying Groot is slept on and putting him at S tier, being a Groot main never felt better.
Like i get it. Some groots just feed but a Groot that knows how to use his walls carries the team
I AM GROOOOT... been a groot main since I started playing
I main Moon Knight and I love playing with Groots y’all are the best
Groot is honestly so good. shame that he's all i get to play due to insta lock dps lmao
I picked group randomly because my team asked for a second tank. We won because I just kept spamming walls in-between healers and everybody else on the enemy team
The new Doctor Strange teleport strat where he blinds his enemies with the sun through the teleport is super hilarious but also genius. 😂😂😂
SOLAR FLAAAAARE
Have you seen the Thor ult tech with it? One horizontal portal on the ground below Thor, one vertical portal at the enemies backline, Thor ults, and he goes flying through it at Mach 9, one shots everything. Absolute cinema + true comedy.
@@AndyNocturne ah Yes the god of rail guns
I like to place the most complex portals as possible to lag the match, making the better computer win instead of the better skill.
@@Hurricane_RPM you sir, are my enemy and we shall schedule a duel at noon on the 'morrow.
Watch Mister Fantastic become hard meta once healing ultimates are slightly nerfed.
You don't even need a healing ult to survive his ult
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His ult will probably be buffed as well, but you can certainly kill suppers with it if they don’t ult.
@@LFanimes333 you can for sure. But you can also survive without ult 9 times outta 10.
@@slandergames9494
I mean, more or less?
Anyways, my whole point wasn’t just ults. Fantastic suffers from a high sustain meta in which his consistent AOE damage can easily be out-healed.
Any other meta and he would have much more value.
@LFanimes333 has there been more than one meta? It's season 1.
“Thank you flats”- I say as I get into the car knowing I have a 45 minute drive ahead of me and seeing this upload.
My only issue with this is that he doesn't say what tier he's putting heroes in, he keeps saying "here" which isn't great for audio listeners lol
@@AdrianGK47 i mean he does explain why he is putting a hero in what rank so u will eventually know lol
Me for so many creators over the years. Content like this. Horror stories. All that good shit man. Memories.
Just don’t drift off mentally while driving the road deserves the attention not this video.
Lmao 1.5 hr drive for me. Just finished the vid
I love that phase in games like this where the game hasn’t been declared “solved”
yet and there are still things to discover.
the "phase" your talking about is just any live game with patch releases. Solved games are those who've stopped getting support, like super smash bros (any of them) or tf2, counterstrike...chess
@@vigilantvigilante2582I would are it’s not that they are being live supported but that period after the patch where people are figuring it out. Also Go is a solved game but chess is not solved.
I dunno I feel like ow is solved for me, I have zero desire to play that game with our without the release of marvels
@@sew_gal7340it’s been solved cause it’s 8 years old prob will be the same with rivals when it’s that old
Plus there's going to be 4 characters every 3 months, not to mention balance patched, meta will get shaken up at a crazy rate
What I love about Thor that I never saw anyone else doing it, is that you can throw the hammer mid a close quarters fight, so you throw it at someone, get back the thorforce and perfectly in 3 hits you can throw it again. This makes his meele damage output so much, except for like wolverine, you can win any meele 1v1.
First 5 mins of every thor tutorial
This is a very common thor mechanic, especially at higher levels
I find myself dying before I can use my abilities after the global cd. Idk how anyone can use him
As a Magik player I absolutely adore the fact she is sable in B tier since the release. Strong enough to climb but also weak enough to be rarely picked or banned. Perfect state to onetrick or just main.
She’s so fun, I’ve been playing Invuzible woman since season 1 started so much I have to relearn how magik feels tho 😂
@@nightingale8178 these tier lists don’t matter to the devs, champs with over performing win like magic storm and raccoon will get the nerf hammer next patch
@@synsol1008 we have only seen them do like one balance patch. how would we even begin to have a strong opinion on the dev teams balancing decisions
Magik combos are high-key so frickin fun, if I can't play Rocket then I'm playing Magik and just bein a crackhead
@@synsol1008 nah you say that but Mantis had the highest winrate last season and she really didn't get got. Plus they said they're focusing on buffs rather than nerfs. Magik might have a higher winrate, but she has a low pickrate meaning she is difficult to learn but rewarding, and really good magik players will win more. She isn't dominating, and they even buffed her when she had average 54% winrate. She's a melee hero with 250 hp, LESS than Luna and every other melee hero, she isn't getting a nerf hammer
I encountered a good black widow for the first time and it shocked me. She kept head shotting my teammates and I went to dive her as panther, so I hit one dash and she pulled me, kicked me, then shot me and I was dead. Absolutely shocked
Did she have a lord portrait and was this on pc or console
Not tryna be egocentric but I love when I pick nat and people tell me to switch straight away then I get ace and we win don’t listen to other people u can be good as everyone
Damn what was bros name?
She's so strong with a mantis damage buff
Yeah, the grapple kick stun gives you just enough time to headshot too. She is very capable under pressure 1v1
Storm was underrated in season 0 which is why she’s so OP in season 1.
True exactly what happened with wolverine
@@roguerex292Yeah but wolverine didnt get buffs
@@Kapow59 wolverine did get buffed he got more base health sure they nerfed the damage resistance by 10% but having 100 hp overall is better (50 hp in regular and 50 in passive)
@@mike210294 it was more of a shift, because 40% is a lot less than 50% damage reduction
Before it saved him 150 hp, now it saves him 140 hp (as opposed to 175 had it not been lowered)
So he takes more damage but has a higher hp stat 🤷♂️
"I'm pretty high on cap." - Flats, 2025
The necros v. Flat take on capt is hilarious
Necros tier lists have always been bad
He puts characters in D or F tier then immediately after he gets rolled by them for one match he changes his mind (Wolverine, Storm, Cap etc)
@@_Super17_ Storm got giga buffed so that's not a fair example in my opinion
@@_Super17_ storm literally got FOUR buffs tf you on
@@KingOfDarknessAndEvilSeason 0 Storm was not as bad as people made her out to be. She was still very solid pre buffs it’s a good example tbh.
@@nocontenthere1829 nah i main storm and i agree she sucked in s0
Everyone dunks on Mr.Fanastic until he starts rolling your backline and making his backline unkillable.
Reed main here thank you the dude can do the most damage and still have more damage blocked then the actual tanks on the team
its me, i'm that mr. fantastic
I still think people are sleeping on Mr Fantastic. His Ult definitely needs a small buff of some kind (I would say faster execution speed + bonus health rather than more damage), but his base kit is insanely tanky. Even without Sue Storm I almost never die while playing him, and when I do it’s because the rest of my team died first.
As someone who's been playing a ton of Mr fantastic and finally found a good Playstyle he's an absolute juggernaut if played right
You bodyguard and shield your team more and play real slow but use the reach you got to pressure till you go big then try to get picks rinse and repeat and you go crazy
What sucks the most about his ult is that he's SUPER easy to focus every time he lands. A great player might be able to track him the whole time, but this, imo, is his biggest opening.
give it utility imo, maybe a stacking heal debuff and slow for each bounce
true, his ult seems underwhelming but its bc i feel to vulnerable during the ult, love giving shield (backshots) to the support while im escaping /repositioning
I think bonus health on bounce would be perfect. Not too much but he’s to easy to kill in his ult it’s like old squirrel ult levels of non threatening
I think the main thing holding Rocket back is the prevalence of immortality ults that all directly counter his own ult. Especially when playing 2 supports, having 1 immortality ult against 2 just kneecaps your team’s ability to consistently win team fights or even force a stalemate where no one on either team can die. I always feel like I have to wait for their ults to finish before I can pop mine, and by that point there often isn’t enough of my team left alive for it to be worth it.
I honestly wish there were less immortality ults in general, as they just fill the same purpose with slight variations. They’re not all made equal for sure, but I would have way more fun playing support if it didn’t feel absolutely necessary to have one.
The things is if they nerf Luna and Mantis then raccoon will be the next most played support which will lead to him getting nerfed. It's a ridiculous slippery slope
@sew_gal7340 I don’t even think nerfing either of them is the solution. I think Rocket’s kit needs a rework, or at least some more juice. The beacon especially is completely at odds with itself with the whole armor pack mechanic, and his ult is just the damage half of Luna’s ult with no healing associated with it. They’re both a 40% damage boost. It’s literally half of an ult. It needs something more, something to make it worth using in situations where you aren’t already in control of the fight. Like, I don’t know… armor for the team? Actual, substantial armor for the team???? Please???????
His ultimate could definitely use an additional benefit of some sort, especially with the prevalence of what are essentially immortality ults like you said. The damage boost on his ult alone isn't enough to meaningfully outplay alot of other Strategist ults. Though I'd like to see it provide some benefit outside of potential sustain, maybe an attack speed boost or infinite ammo like his team-up? I'm just spitballin. Side note I'd love an increase in his primary fire projectile speed for consistency's sake.
I wouldn't nerf any support, I would buff Rocket's ult. Rocket's ult should also give a healing boost, at least 40% if not more. That way a competent Rocket player can potentially heal through a big damage ult the way that Luna, Sue, C&D and Mantis can.
@@bobbyweenus The reason I want it to be armor and not healing is that he’s the only one in the game that can provide non-decaying bonus health, yet it’s the most worthless part of his kit. If he just gave a single huge armor boost when he put it down, It would give short term sustain that could also help teammates tank heavy hits that might have oneshot them even at max health. Or you could overcharge everyone’s health at the start of a fight. This would set it apart it from other support ults and give it unique strengths for both offense and defense.
Venom and Spidey are slept on because Spidey requires 100X effort to get the same DPS output as a lot of others but he is by far the best burst DPS when paired with a diving Venom
THANK YOU for giving Loki the credit. So many people play him wrong, but I've already reached Gm3 with only support, and mainly Loki
A good Loki is a godsend. His clones and his healing circles are so valuable
I clicked w him day 1. his shift cancels almost every ult in the game, and not everyone sees the huge burst healing and dmg with his clones if all of them hit. and hes got absolutely insane survivability.
Fellow Loki main here from back when people were putting him in B tier, couldn't agree more, so often as Loki you pull off plays that feel downright illegal
Shredding people with his volley fire with 2 clones is hilarious. People either don't understand or don't respect how much damage that actually does.
Saving yourself from a Jeff ult as Loki by making and swapping to a clone is the best feeling in the game
Mr. Fantastic is a misclassified low hp Vanguard. In trying to understand why he's a duelist, I've reached a point where I can defend the claim: "Mr. Fantastic without team up is more durable than Groot without the season bonus."
The only problem is that Vanguards is from the same principle of why Black Panther is a Duelist, and no one is used to being a Tank+Bruiser just because of the abilities and not because of the double HP he has dps.
Edit: Mr. Fantastic is only "Vanguard character" that has relativly low hp => Wovlerine doesn't work too good against him => Mr. Fantastic is anti-tank-buster tank.
Yeah I also feel like his support of strategists is heavily underrated, since you can peel and destroy flank duelists with support back up, while being able to shield them aswell. Combined with the constant passive proc, you get a character that does so much utility. I just think triple support comp makes him really poor overall. Since he does have relatively (at least compared to other duelists) low damage, one of the worst ults in the game, and he can only really tank like the conventional vanguards with passive up (granted combined with the reflect you can cycle for a good bit).
classifying a charavcter as an "anti-tank-buster" is the type of crazy i expected from this game lol
i actually think he is in the same role as Brig in OW, he doesn't have the boop but he can hit divers more easily and can shield the support being dived, in his transformed mode he can play more like a tank and zone off/pressure the enemy supports. His ult is definitely weak and should have like ramping damage after each bounce for better kill, or simply make it more a tank ult by giving himself more sustain.
If anything Mr. Fantastic suffers from being put in the wrong category as he is literally anything but a duelist.
@warspite_4715 Fun fact it does, with a maximum of 6 bounces, it ramps from 50 to 100, the issue is you could start with the maximum damage, and still get outhealed by the supports or get focused down (even doing it with passive up).
He's put into the duelist category so that the devs can manipulate the fanbase to excuse them for their poor roster balancing. In other words, they put a vanguard in duelist so people would stop complaining that there are double dps than strategist and vanguard combined
Says that just because there are 1-4 or 5 good penny players that doesn’t make her good… “I’ve seen one or two iron fist players that lowkey make it work”
they're on the same tier tho so it doesnt really matter if he said that
@@logan6232that’s… not the issue it’s the logic. He said just because there are a few niche talented pennys doesn’t make her a good pick.
Then says iron fist is a good pick because he’s seen a few niche talented ones…
He also says penny is bad because she has one good thing and the other characters can do what she does but better and better at everything else.
Then gives props to black widow and asks what characters can do what she does but better? A good amount of them can but she’s still slept on somehow. Idk.🤷🏻♂️
Peni is low B not a C character even for high Elo. The problem is people just suck at surviving and fighting. Also OTPing then trying to understand the other characters doesn’t help since you have no idea how those characters play/feel.
I'm a Groot main in Gold I; Every time I see Peni I know she's barbecue chicken, easiest tank to beat up on as another tank
For those that don’t know, Punishers shotgun can also stop a cloak and dagger ult. When she pauses you can hit her right in the head or hit her in the middle of dashing.
Also C&D ult counter ounisher when he ults cus you rush him and kill him
@@durpasaur3052 i dont it works out that easily for cloak and dagger
@@toratalks It doesn't. Punisher's ult DPS is way too high for a C&D to just tank it with their own ult. If he's landing his shots, of course.
@@durpasaur3052well no... you counter his ult by blocking him off the second be ults, trail backwards you'll die tryna rush him lol
@@mruptownK hmm maybe just cus im low elo but it has worked consistently for me
Penni is b tier , doesnt have to reload, great survivability, ult is good for drawing attention and keeping ground . Can lock down a area on defense.
Exactly I kinda feel like he just doesn't want to have to think cause the other tanks you just hit w penni you actually have to see the future
I think Flats is doing this for higher elo’s, and unfortunately Peni just can’t provide consistent value up there because she’s really map dependent at those ranks
She's also amazing at giving free ult charge to the enemy team.
@raygonzales197 so does every tank
@@raygonzales197 that's literally all tanks and Mr fantastic
Good tierlist, and a even better job explaining it. 👍
You’ve convinced me to play Cap on tank and so far, I’ve carried my Bronze teams. Thanks for sharing your success with Cap, he really shuts down Moonknight, Punisher, Hawkeye, etc.
Truly slept on and great when your team isn’t coordinated. Which is often, in Bronze…
EDIT: I watched the previous video Flats made where he climbed with Cap to GM, if anyone is confused about the speed of me testing out Cap. If you’re stuck in Bronze with random teammates Cap is a solid choice. Just abuse the enemy backline, harass the supports. You’re basically a distraction and usually you can bait out their ults, giving the rest of your team freedom to…well, as they say, go ham.
I get him shutting down MK or Hawk but Punisher? Are your Punishers just refusing to use the shotgun and smoke?
Video came out 8 min ago and apparently you have already taken his advice and tested cap in games?
@@blessedfetusi believe he’s mentioned this in a couple shorts n streams, I remember him saying capt jumps people in alleyways (moon knight or hawkeye)
@@blessedfetus He has a 3 hour video playing cap from unranked to GM genius.
@blessedfetus punisher is pretty easy to kill as cap unless he is getting heals. If he pulls out the shot gun, you just hold up your shield and punisher basically kills himself.
Take a shot everytime Flats says "slept on" or "broken"
I can't see a world where Venom is slept on at all. He feels like an easier but worse Hulk that just gives free ult charge and never actually kills anyone. His winrate compared to Hulk pretty much proves that he's ass.
Or "low key" lol. As a fellow "low key" addict I spotted it immediately
I have been broken by alcoholism and will now be slept on.
It's cause there are a few meta characters that everyone wants to see on their team every game. That's been my experience at least.
@@RobBlu-d6uI think that has more to do with Hulks team up ability than the hero himself. Venom can absolutely confirm kills, especially if he has someone helping with the dive. Your comment kinda proves that he is in fact slept on.
And in regards to win rates, they can be very misleading. Hawkeye has the 3rd lowest winrate in the game (only Jeff and Black Widow are worse), but does that mean Hawkeye is F tier? Absolutely not.
Thor and Cap main here. So happy they are getting the love here.
I love the very beginning of games like this. You get to watch as some of the best gamers out there slowly start to learn all these new characters. Watching Wolverine go from never being picked to the scariest thing a tank will ever see was so fun in season 0, and then he got buffed into season 1. People are gonna figure these characters out and I can't wait to see how the meta changes
Yeah it reminded me of the first few months of ow
A nice thing about Rocket's kit most people don't often use, that I capitalize on a lot is, most people just use him up front to heal, the range on his heal orbs, the bouncing around corners, his BRB revives, the jump packs your team can use, and even the fact that he can wall crawl is just so often forgotten. I always make sure my BRB is up in spawn on attack to give my normally less mobile allies the boost jump and our squishier characters a little armor boost. When in combat I find an elevated spot, out of immediate LoS from the enemy team, put my BRB just off the point and launch heals from a distance. I see too many Rocket players hugging their team. You have consistent healing from most any range, use it. If you stand back from the people you are healing, you are less likely to be targeted during the fight.
There is so many hidden techs on raccoon and you got one on the head. I've even bounced his balls straight from spawn to the payload without even seeing my team. U never ever stand in line of sight of the enemy... Those balls travel super fast. I climbed to gm just solo q with him
@sew_gal7340 bro i spent an entire round in a gold lobby on top of a panther statue, didn't move, 0 damage taken, 0 dealt, 14k healing, 5 BRB revives, and 3 ults. Utilize his verticality and you will dominate.
i DIDN'T KNOW HE COULD WALL CRAWL! OMG THIS WILL CHANGE MY PLAYSTYLE A LOT :D
@@sew_gal7340 rocket Is a constant area healing, which Is great, with only One problem: my team can't aim or cover
Wait, whats LoS?
I love these tierlist videos u make man the way u explain certain characters in your humorous way is super entertaining and lowkey helps me learn the meta, thanks bro
As a thor main, I absolutely love how his team ups can make a whole team
Thor/Cap
Storm/Hela
Loki/Mantis
This comp is a scary sleeper and how OP it is
Wouldn't luna work better than mantis? Since that gives Loki a better support copy, the only real advantage mantis has is her damage buff, but you already both have storm, and the thor electric enchant. Mainly cause the team is squishy.
Storm and Hela are banned 90% of the games. And without storm this does nothing vs triple supp.
Sure the team ups are ok but Thor himself just isn't that great. He has no tanking ability so gets shredded as a solo tank if you commit at the wrong time. His ult also sucks.
@@Lokisif34 I think the point is both Storm and Mantis can dmg boost so you just absolutely shred through the team before the fact your frontline isnt particularly tanky kills you
a super charger undying team?
that's a nightmare
17:33 once was in a diamond game where our magik went 0-9 on attack and their response to us flaming him was "hero's don't kill" 💀
Lol but in the comics she kills a lot poor guy
Yeah I'm honestly shocked flat hasn't seen any bad magiks
I once won against a magiks while I was on like 50 health in melee range and the mail for reference was full health with even some overheal I think
That's actually funny, I bet they were really down on themself irl
I main magik and solo queue sometimes I get 40 kills and carry and sometimes I go like 8-9 and have a horrible game. This trick to magik is making her work with your team comp
Of course it's going to be a flex of you main Mr fantastic, that's already a given
I had an invisible women ult the other day when the enemy's storm, C&D, AND psylocke ulted and we lived through just my ult. a little crazy
Not surprising. Psylocke’s ult is less impactful the more number of people are in it, C&D ult only does 30dps, and Storm’s ult isn’t burst-y, so most defensive ults already shut it down.
I don't think Peni is meta, but I also don't believe Peni is as low as C tier if she had a positive winrate in *every* rank last season.
Yea its very apparent he doesn't play her like he has no knowledge outside of her abilities he doesn't actually know what to do with her
The probably with the win rate logic is that most players are in much lower elos. A character that is very good against ignorant players will have a drastically inflated win rate overall when most of the playerbase is down there
@renutus1580 but that's the thing she's above 50 even at grandmaster and above while characters like strange are borderline 50 and before we go down the rabbit hole i do think strange is the best tank but I also don't believe penni is c
@@blackronin848 playing against her gives alot of knowledge on how good she is, and me personally i havent playede against a single good peny yet, her hitbox is so big, that it makes her really easy to shut down, and im dia rn and hit gm last season. I might have just not met a good peny player yet tho
@nicepotato5326 good ones are definitely hard to come by i myself think I'm one of the good ones but I will say this strange isn't s tier because of his kit he's s tier because his kit allows a noob to be decent of rip kind of like how playing hela can carry a player to dia then get stomped cause they don't know how to play anyone else after getting banned. But a penny you can't just pick up and expect to be good and get in the enemy back line like a strange or mag etc you have to have knowledge of her and a great supporting cast
As a vanguard main here is what I have learned today :
I should really try to learn cap or at least if I have a cap on my team play thor to enable them
I should abuse diving the backline with venom if I have a spider man in my team and the opponents comp allows it
I should keep on learning thor and play to be more of a general annoyance
Magneto and strange are characters that I must learn more about
Groot should not place walls to block LOS most of the time but instead to attack / heal him
I should make peni work no matter the cost to prove you wrong on your tierlist (nah just kidding i get that she is a noob stomper) but i do think it is a tank that has a great potential at stopping dive as long as you have a bit of communication with your team. I think that your fist traps should be placed in spots that your healers can easily reach in order to help them survive a dive. I will admit though that healers can definitely have a hard time playing around said traps especially against characters like spidey of black panther
I love peni, especially in lower ranks (waiting on getting a full group before climbing). I've only done like 10 competitive matches, and every time I've played peni I slaughter. Being able to hide her mines and make them immune to damage by webbing them catches them off guard every time lol.
I know it's a bit annoying to do, but I think these Marvel tier lists should always have two, one for no bans and one for when there are bans. The fact that the top characters getting banned or not changes the position of so many others is really important.
Fun combo you can do is Peni + Winter soldier. If the WS hooks an enemy tank into a few mines their health bar actually gets deleted, especially if the Peni can web them right after to keep them from escaping.
One I enjoy is actually playing support for the supports with peni using my nest to save them from dive ults while a tank such as a Thor or strange push the front and cover the duelists.
As a Rocket main myself I can answer you why we only have like 2 deaths.. We scurry up the walls and gtfo out of there. Always be near a wall, never out in the open where you have no escape. if the tanks go down and 1 dps goes.. we bail and fire a few healings back at the survivors if any and keep going.
Flats! If you see this, consider Peni playing differently. I think Peni is surprisingly good at off angles and flanks. I did it once and it worked really well, then I saw the top 500 person doing it and realized what I did for lols was actually viable. I've had so many games where ive forced teams to use ults just to force me out the angle, then not have it for the fight. Games where even though on paper (scoreboard) i wasnt doing that much, i was still canceling flanks, forcing retreats, harassing the backline, distracting their team, and in best case scenarios forcing multiple people to dive me just to get me out. And you cant ignore me because of the stuns, and mines. I think Peni is fairly map dependant yes, but as a DPS main holding down off angles with that much HP, self healing, entry denial with the mines, and the short CD Stun is crazy. On certain maps only a few characters can even force me out, I become a threat youd need multiple people to counter the off angle for.
People keep playing peni as an attack tank and saying she's bad when she's strictly a defensive area controller tank. Peni played correctly can prevent the other team from even getting close to the mission area or your supports.
@@RandoSando. She can be played on attack but not as the main tank, I like to sneak to the flank or rear position where I can make a hidey-hole(prefer a spot with a health pack so they can't get it) for myself that also lets me shoot at the enemy flank or backline, forcing then to split their attention between me and the rest of my team.
Peni is deceptively mobile once you get the hang of her wall running and web "swing" and learn what kind of stuff you can get away with.
@Nuinwing yup. Peni on attack can literally be played as devoted peel tank making it almost impossible to flank supports. She pretty much shuts down any melee dps. She's just unlucky that iron man and storm are so good right now.
@@olofacosta3192As a Peni Main, I don't fear Iron Fist because they never deal with the nest. Storm can be annoying, especially with her speed buff recently.
If you play penny on attack you are throwing
Flats will for sure love playing as the thing because his passive makes him CC immune, so there's no getting kidnapped lmao
Pretty much all fantastic four members hard counter wolverine it seems. Human torch will be a flying character, Mr fantastic can go invulnerable and sue storm just wrecks him with cc
Every time i pick spiderman, even in a quick match, there’s always that one person typing “you better be a good spidey”
I think the fact the S-tier rank is so populated means that Marvel Rivals has a very healthy meta! Which is so awesome to see!
Or that flats just puts anyone in s lol
Flats comes across as a very level headed comp player to me. I don’t think he’d do that.
Flats is very optimistic. Storm is probably the only real S tier character right now and that's by a large margin. If she's not target banned, the entire game revolves around her ult, and that's not even talking about how she passively buffs her entire team just by being near them.
As much as I love Storm, I find it hard to believe only 1 character is S tier 😕
I feel like people don't realize penni can throw her mines into the enemy backline through shields and kill squishies with them. They have such a long range
That is something I do often. Triple mines will kill any squishy in the game unprotected, so when I am in a team fight, if I don't need to set up defence, I hurl those mines into the back line and watch the backline crumple
I’m very happy Flats managed to move away from just Overwatch and still has consistently good views- usually better now with Rivals. He seems much happier, and it’s not damaging view numbers
Mr Fantastic continues to be underrated
Let him. As a Mr. Fantastic main, let people underestimate just how dangerous he is
Perfectly rated you mean
If a Peni is "just standing there and getting shot in the head", that's a bad Peni. A good Peni will use all of her tools to harass and rattle either frontline squishies or flankers and then use her mobility to escape once things start going south. I think your putting IF next to her is fitting, but I think they should honestly both be B for that tbh because they'll both surprise you if someone knows what they're doing.
Fr like it's not a 3 seconds stun cooldown.. it's A 3 SECONDS STUN COOLDOWN..I bully people every time i can..And don't get me started on "Without the Nest she is nothing" bc u if it gets destroyed it's ok just put down a web wherever u stay to get health regen,bonus shield and fast movement..Like u don't need the nest all the time..The focus should be on u spamming mines, stuns and continuous shooting+ reposition..Also don't ever ult without the nest down.. Exceptions if u need to survive or u need to get some more time on the point.. She's soo good but many people don't want to play her more tactic..Idk but if u want to get good play her on attack on QP.. That's when u start to understand how u play her..
Yeah it’s annoying how this guy ranks Captain america as A tier because of the “potential” when Peni’s potential is arguably far greater.
@@Mr_Tensaiexactly, the idea that “without her nest she’s nothing” is actually super beneficial to Peni players because 1) you can set up mines at any position where someone would be able to destroy your nest and get free kills (or put them right by the nest if their a dive character) and 2) without her nest, her indestructible webs do basically the same thing while hiding any mines you place so any diver just insta dies. Her ability to hold points on domination is INSANE when you know who to look out for and where to put the mines. Her potential is easily far greater than Cap imo
As a peni main I don't think she's bad but I'd say she's a little weak, she has really strong tools but using them against people who know how to play round her is hard, not impossible but hard.
real, got to gm last season with her. was struggling to climb in new season for a minute but started onetricking her again and am d1 already with less than 20hrs. mines can actually kill a luna in ult or even c&d as she dashes with ult which is so fun to see the reaction of tbh
The duality of man.
Peni: There's always some one tricks in the top 500 that'll make a character work in any situation, that's not you. She's not strong.
Iron Fist, Jeff: There's one tricks that make them work in the top 500 so I think he's slept on.
One thing you didn't mention with Cloak and Dagger is with the triple healer comp she's just defacto the best choice as third healer due to the extreme value it represents with her light wall amplifying healing. Not to mention being able to use the other support ultis for countering pushes/ultis lets her just use her low cooldown ulti whenever it's up. It's the same with Jeff's bubbles but the bubbles kind of work against themselves in that area since they're big healing on their own.
Yeah Penny is super slept on. Most people don't know that her web can eat most ults in the game since it has a health hitbox. Throw it at an iron man ult and save your team on a 3 second cooldown.
it stops like 3 ults, but supports stop like 25 more ults. her ult is buns and the only time she gets value is if people don’t shoot her generator and mines
I can’t play this character I don’t get it. So I never get value on her. I have watched videos and tried a bunch, I’d rather just play another hero. I would argue we need some DPS to move into Vanguard with an adjustment, Peni I think should move into DPS and get a damage buff.
That's exactly what he said people tell him about Penni lol
@@insomniaddictesp if peni gets a damage buff she will become instantly S tier she is unironically OP with the only thing stopping her being the huge hitbox and the low damage on main attack. peni is a very strong character if you put hours to learn her
she possibly the hardest tank to learn how to get value with but she is OP af in low elo and is a very good pick vs Dive comps
you just gotta make sure you are never the only tank cause peni is NOT a main tank she is a side tank that protects supports
@ghastfear78 she's the easiest other than Venom imo lol. Literally just keep your hive up and stand in a web. Literally just place mines on cooldown and stack at least 3 to kill a squishy
She would be more fun if the mines did less dmg and restocked faster imo. They tried to make her too much of an artillery tank when she should work the map and grab angles more
I think a major thing about rocket is that his utility requires other people to have knowledge about it. His ult can allow his teammates to outdamage Luna ult, but when people see Luna ult they don’t shoot her with rocket ult because they assume that she won’t die to it
I main Peni, my biggest gripe with her right now is that her ult can often be super difficult to get value from. She can't climb, has no cc counter, can get body blocked super easy, and then, once it ends, you can't even immediately go back to using your standard kit; you have to wait for the animation to finish which just makes you a sitting duck.
Rocket can just exist anywhere and contribute to the fight, bouncing heals all over the place and running on the walls I love it
Having a rocket on your team vs a team with 2 supports that have defensive ults is just 90% of the time gg, he's only good if you have 2 support with him
@@boneless70having a revive with cross map heals cannot be scoffed at.
@@boneless70Absolutely dominated a team on defense side with a solo rocket teammate, bro might as well have been the wall bc no one could tell where he was and playing a bit more back instead of rushing in allowed us to get enough healing to sustain the team fight 😭😭
@@boneless70 I can't say I've had the same experience unless my dps are just not killing their healers. Rocket is generally very annoying to kill if they know how to use his mobility, and the revive he gives is very good. However he is obnoxiously strong if he is the third healer on a team.
I just started playing a week ago, and I picked up rocket because my friend told me the skill floor is pretty low and I’d have an easier time playing him
Within an hour of starting the game I’d already figured out how to add a ton of value by just staying alive and occasionally picking off enemies that are low.
34:58 not a hot take at all. Wolverine destroys tanks. And i dont think enough people understand the value of relocating your enemies.
in comp when i play tank and enemy team have Wolverine that know what he doing my life become so miserable nothing i can do against that 5'3 hobo
@@Edsama800lmao
After watching the whole thing, very good stuff here. Love this list. Game is brimming with strong heroes
Penny should be b tier, shes not the greatest but shes map-dependent and great for switching if you go on defense. Magik should also be on A tier in my opinion.
half good reasoning. i wouldnt argue shes map dependent although she does thrive on some maps more so then others. then again so does literally every hero. But she is absolutely the best area denial hero, yall just dont know where to have her deny areas
Pather being above magik is wild and I main panther.
Until his dash bug gets fixed he is not great.
@@ethanforsythe589She’s SSS on the Loki statue map. You can place her nest behind a 3 way indestructible wall with point coverage
@@zoulogist9171 yeah just like numerous other heros some maps are better
It's good that the community puts so many heroes into S and A tier, every character seems to be viable if you know how to play them. The fact that one of the devs is top 2 peak rating shows that when devs understand the game that they make is a good thing. Hope, they will keep it up and do something about the triple support meta.
The thing with rocket that people sleep on and forget is that EVERY SINGLE TEAM FIGHT is a 7v6 with his revive.
As a thor main who duos with a cap main, I agree in how good that teamup is. We take turns alternating who's diving and who's screening our squishes. It works really well.
I think hulk and cap also work really well, except rather than taking turns I find it best both cap and hulk dive at the same time and one simply covers the other when they need to dip till they’re healed and can get back in
Playing since day 1 and what I tell all my friends is, everything that can be summoned needs to die instantly. Groot ironwall and just putting it to the side gives so many shields. Even putting it up in the middle of the fight sometimes people ignore it until later. Didn't know ulting with moon knight was that good. Now to find a decent moon knight to play with then.
Exactly support is so strong, so if you want your damage to not be healed off, shoot one of the various spawnables that CANT be healed.
I main Thor and captain so I’m very glad someone else realises their potential aswell😂
Honestly feels like the dev's did buffs based on community feedback instead of win rate and what they observed. Storm getting a GIGA buff when she had a 50% win rate or Wolverine getting a buff when he was already pretty strong is crazy
Nah storm wasn’t good she clearly needed buffs not this much but yeah and also wolverine was kinda crazy but the buffs and nerfs weren’t bad
I say both. Now which one weighed in more I’m not sure, but I think they listened to community and win rates.
@@funwalkthroughs1285 storm did not need that giga buff. I mained her to gm last season. The projectile speed and ultra buff. That's all she needed
no one played storm those buffs were absolutely needed she was unplayable
@Cacany99 wrong. There is a difference between she was not fun so not many people played her and she is not good. Storm had a 50% win rate so obviously she was balanced. Your take is a bronze player take
Groots slept on since day 1, hes such a good tank, and rlly fun to play as well
I recently started playing him and I can say he is fun. What is not fun is when people who don't know how to play him, they tend to completely screw over your back-line by blocking their shots and view when other team members need healing.
@@Invader_Rin13 dude try take a shot game every time you die stuck in a room walled by your own groot...u end up in a hospital in the next day lol
Yeah, I have started to become a Groot connoisseur for a while and he carries me from Bronze to now Plat 2. He does shit ton of damage and is kind of very tanky in his own specific way. His ult is one of the best ult a in the game. His left click kills. His walls whip. And has bomb to sure burst.
Only problem with Groot is that Wolverine HARD counters him, especially with Hulk. He can just get thrown above your walls, kidnap you and wreck your shit
Every character can’t be “lowkey secretly busted” Mr Flats
38:43 yes flats, when invisible woman pops ult Starlord ult is completely shut down
41:20 I've been saying since my first few games of Rivals: Rocket Raccoon is this game's Mercy (and I'm not talking about the rez). Low but consistent healing through the entire fight that you can count on to never ever die because their mobility is just too cracked. They both do the exact same job, and they both have the same problem where the low healing throughput makes it a real struggle to facilitate plays.
Rocket can be more impactful than Mercy if his bullets weren't so sluggish. Worse than Ramattra release.
@@skarloeythomas5172 Part of the problem is less that his healing bullets are slow and more that he's hard capped at 60hp/s per target and has no cooldowns or other ways to pump in extra emergency healing like the other supports have. The lack of big invulnerability ultimate hurts a bit, too.
@ Those aren't his bullets, I'm talking about the bullets from his machine gun. Pointless poke damage due to projectile speed.
@ Oh, my bad. Thought you meant his heals. Yeah I'd like to see him have better damage over range, too. His kit feels like it'd be perfect for a support like Kiriko who can add some DPS from the flanks when they find opportunities between heals.
@ Yeah I view him more as Baptiste, but the sluggish projectiles just don't do it for him unless you're up close with the tank putting in the rounds.
I did that once with a Groot, sitting on his shoulder, and it works okay like that.
But wouldn't want higher damage because with his mobility he never dies, and wouldn't want him to take duels easily like a Kiriko.
What is it with this guys tier lists? I've tuned in and watched every single one till the end and I don't know what sets it apart from other tier lists doing the same thing lol. Keep it up, man!
Me who mained storm last season:
They called me a a madman... Now look at them
In all seriousness, I love the buffs Storm got, now she's even better then before and I can rest full teams alone much easier then before
Bro same I thought she was slept on last season I was like lowkey she kinda cracked especially with the team up. I just wanted a slight primary fire dmg buff that was all. They went crazy
Too good maybe
@@KnucklesWTD the buff really wasn’t all the crazy it’s just people didn’t know how to use her so she was considers bad just like iron man was considered bad at the start. I thought she was really good in season 0 slept on. Just thought her movement was too slow really.
@garrettjenkins6527 yeah, the movement was imo the only bad thing about her, maybe the 20 sec cooldown on the teamup to, but they weren't the worst things imo
@@KnucklesWTDshes still leagues belaow iron man i couldnt care less what flats says. Hes actually wrong
I recently picked up Wolverine, and the amount of hell he causes teams by completely removing the tanks from the equation is insane, he outdamages most heals. And he might singlehandedly be the reason that Groot is slept on, as Groot is his easiest target, sadly.
I know your videos are good because I've been looking for counter heroes lists and can't find anything good out there, and you just give me the info I'm looking for while explaining a tier list.
Currently trying to go scarlet only. Shes actually very underrated. Her damage is so constant that shes great at pushing the other team. People usually just use her for flank but being close to the team is much better. She basically counters almost all flankers because you dont really need to aim so spiderman's etc will die pretty quickly. If you play her close to healers you can basically protect them from all threats. Her stun bubble is huge as you can stun other tanks up to 3 times allowing easy kills for your team or stunning a flanker to save someone else. If you get good on your right clicks you can also shred as it has zero fall off!, does like 80 damage so its a great finisher or to melt tanks In combination with left click. Her ult is the hardest only do it with combination of other ults and/or do it behind walls to surprise enemies as you reveal yourself at the end. Its INSANE with a storm or movement buff! Also its good when you need to make distance as people will have to focus you if they want to survive or get on point, meaning more time for the cart to push or a point to be captured.
Respectfully have to disagree. I used to struggle against Wanda when I first played the game. Then, I realized that I basically outdamage her no matter which character I play. Since then, I've almost never died to a scarlet witch. Even as spiderman, you're just too quick and hit too hard. They need to buff her intangible mode and her ult needs a massive buff.
@@olofacosta3192nah bruh her damage isn’t that bad just land her secondary it does good damage and her intangibility is op u literally are invincible in it only thing that sucks about her is her ult being pure garbage but there are combos u can do with other heroes to ensure u get the ult off
@masterkluv her secondary is good, tbf. I would just make it charge a bit faster when you suck. Her intangibility is simply too slow. Buff the speed and it'll be good. And yeah her ultimate is just ass. Literally D.va ult, except worse in every single way. Just awful and needs massive buffs. But if they do fix these stuff, I think she'll be really solid
@ Her ult just needs a small range buff to like 20m instead of 15m and make her ult immune to stuns like they did with thor's ult. Thatd make her dangerous but would still mean good positioning and timing to pull it off.
It’s honestly crazy to me that instead of nerfing mantis and Luna to every other healer’s level they just buffed every other healer. Now we have 4 ults that are uber fast to get with 3 supports and only 3 characters or so that can counter them.
They didn't know. Cloaks ult heals the same amount. The issue is it stacks on itself. Anything more than 2 stacked trails is the same. Immortal or killed by specific ults.
When I'm playing Rocket I love when the enemy team has a Penni. His primary fire absolutely eats her for breakfast. It actually gives me a good reason to use the primary in an offensive manner rather than just for self peel or clean up kills outside of ult
that last part scared me im too high for that flats
20:50 You could really pronounce Namor 2 ways. The MCU is the one has the same pronounciation as you say since he is supposed to be having Aztec elements but in the comics is different since he rule Atlantis
MY BOY MADE IT TO S TEIR!
Wolverine my boy!! 😭
Says that just because a few people do good with Peni, it doesn't mean she's secretly good
Says Iron Fist is secretly goated because a few are good with him
*proceeds to put them at the same tier*
Google the word: nuance
He put iron fist on the same tier…🤦♂️
7:10 something to note about the Ironwood wall (and I tested this myself): the conditions for activation are that groot is within 20m of the wall, and groot is within 20m of an ally that is damaging an enemy. So it doesn't matter at all how far away that ally is from the wall, and it especially doesn't matter how far away the enemy being damaged is. All you have to do as groot is be within 20m of both and you're constantly gaining overhealth.
To add, people tend to throw the wall up into combat and it just gets gunned down. Just put it up somewhere that nobody goes or will pay attention to, but is close enough to work and it pays huge dividends.
"If you skipped ahead" this caught me of guard lol
The 3s cool down on an almost 1s stun is crazy broken
What character talking about ?
@@Thatboygtmike penni
Peni stun lasts 0.8s to be accurate, but true it's still strong af
@@White_Chocobo Maybe I should research before I comment
@@Thatboygtmike Penny Parker
Flats sleeping on Cloak's E for buffing/keeping pressure off. Cloak's E is a pretty free way to kill/fend off a stray flanker or a solo tank.
so true..honestly these tier lists mean nothing…it’s just someone’s personal opinion and experience bro didn’t even mention cloaks dark teleportation that can save the whole team from pretty much every ult in the game… the amount of times ive used cloaks right click to protect my team from big ults it’s literally a game changing ability with a 12sec cooldown
not to mention daggers storms are now 10 seconds! if you can utilise their kit you can literally carry any game as I’m sure you know
I’m a dog with that E, 1k damage for 10 final hits😂😂😂
Yeah, it's funny how he suggests that they'll don't seem to have much else, and I think a lot of that is that people healbot on dagger way too much.
Cloak is insane. The stealth of played around but your team can shut down ults, on a much much lower cooldown than Luna.
If your decent he's also great at anti-dive. E is 55 damage and a 20% vuln, making the auto locking LMB 90/s. Killing 250 HP heroes in ~2s unassisted, which they'll be blinded for.
He also makes no footsteps, making flanking plays actually kinda cracked
@ The 4 dash change to their ult does a lot for taking pressure off of enemies too. Used to just stack it near objectives but you could really use the third and 4th dash into enemy backlines to get a support or DPS.
I find Dr Strange can actually be a surprisingly strong DPS too. Saw one who barely used his shield but got a pile of kills with his basic attack.
Mr fantastic gang on top.
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20:00 People also thought wolverine and iron man were doodoo...
Mr fantastic is goated IM TIRER OF PEOPLE DISRESPECTING HIM
So something that you can do with moonknight's ult us wait for an ahnk to come back. Pop ult and then throw the ahnk in the middle. It has gravity and pulls people in
It’s crazy how day one everyone and their mother had Wolverine as the worst character in the game but the moment we found out that he’s the best at what he does, and what he does is tank busting. Immediately skyrocketed to the top tier status
The fact that his DPS was directly tied to FPS didn't help
He's not s tier tbh. But he is really good, although with invisible woman in the game, counter play will be a lot easier
Flats didn’t explain why Mr. Fantastic was so low, so I’ll try my best to why I think he’s there. He was made to be a hybrid between tank and duelist but as a result, he doesn’t excel in what either were made to do. He can’t headshot and has low rate of fire so he’s not a great duelist. And he still has low hp 90% of the time so he’s not a great tank. It’s a little like the jack of all trades, master of none situation. But it doesn’t matter, he’s still really fun, and that’s all you need.
A jack of all trades is a master of none
But oftentimes better than a master of one.
He should be played like a bruiser who bodyguard your team instead of either a traditional tank or dps. Focus solely on being at the front to soak up damage or trying to attack all the time to get as much damage as possible are just not the way. When played right, he’s tougher than a tank and can dish out a lot of pressure when contesting for a point.
Play Mr. Fantastic as a tag team partner. He’s great at soaking damage, he can pull enemies away from each other and isolate them, he gives shields to his teammates and if the healer is good, he won’t die.
I literally got jumped by 4 of the enemy team but my healer, combined with using Mr. Fantastic’s kit properly, kept me alive long enough to kill the entire team that was jumping me.
@@MaidenlessScrub Sure, but if youre looking for a bruiser then Thor fills that role far better. Venom is a dive bruiser and again is better. Reed is very good in 1v1's but you seldomly are in position to do those. He has no mobility, his reach is limited, his reflect might as well be a Namor bubble as it blocks damage but you dont do damage, his ult is weak and can be shut down with good aim. He's obviously playable, but in the higher ranks he's clearly worse than other options.
@@_aceofspades_ Thor is a lot squishier and can’t cover for your team as much, that’s why I said “who also bodyguards your team”. He also has less AoE damage to pressure grouped up enemies in a team fight.
42:45 I will try to answer this question? As a rocket player, I tend to stay really far away from where everyone else is fighting. I can bounce my healing shot of walls, allowing me to heal from a very long distance. I don’t have to be in the middle of the action to heal my team. I can see where all of them are and line up my shots to heal them. But I can also get really close if I need to.
I'm honestly really surprised at how Strong Storm is now considering on paper it looks like she was buffed only very little. Like 10 more damage on her main attack and it's a bit faster, that *shouldn't* have that much of an impact as it does.
As a storm player, I can tell you the threat isn't just her primary getting that 10. If an enemy dives your team, you press E and they get hit with lightning, plus your buffed primary and right click and you delete most squishies in less than a second now. She could melt last season too, she just needed her team to look at the diver too. Now she can just...do it.
Her ult was already insanely broken at wiping backlines. Now she's just consistently broken at all points of the game.
I think scarlet witch is kinda underrated. She is noot a tier, but she is not as bad as people say she is especially with magnito. That sword is magnito with thor damage.
For me she's amazing for dealing with annoying high agility heroes. I've always wondering why people don't play her more to deal with divers. And then this video kinda made me realize that it actually does take skill to play the Witch. You need to be highly knowledgably about all the DPS to know to disrupt them. Purposely getting webbed then shifting through spiderman's uppercut killing off all his damage output, dodging BP's spear or round house kick in hopes of wasting his dash, baiting wolverines dive only to shift through it, landing at least two right clicks back to back on psylocke or starlord forcing them to run away and chase after a health pack etc etc. When played right she is the absolutely most annoying thing to deal with when diving because she dramatically cuts down on the amount of time you can actually hang out in the backline.
@@FoMScratchwell it depends. Quick play witch and gold/play witches are different. Quick play which is absolutely zero skill they just hold down shift and run at you.
I’ve had some comp witch’s that were damn annoying and definitely had skill.
She’s still fairly bad. The problem is that she’s just got bad damage and unless you have a god tier Magneto it’s just better to use another DPS.
She’s a casual friendly character and that’s totally fine.
She's boring to play you just hold a button and that's it...they need to change her attack to be something better it's so ugly and boring let me throw more chaos magic not just hold a button and walk it's so lame way to play
She's underestimated because her main weapon is weak. But requiring no aim and being constant and hitscan makes it great for finishing off kills. If you can get in and around the thick of battle, you can quickly make the difference in any 1v1 or 2v2 going on. Shame about the Ult though. So hard to stay alive and get multiple kills from it.
Im so glad you share my sentiment on the Thor team up. The team up for Cap is amazing for charging his ult and getting kills, and it really makes him shine.
I got no life so 3 min gang
Same bro, but 24 for me
Mr. Fantastic is insanely underrated
Nah, he's too weak. He needs a major buff to be viable
I love him, biggest surprise character for me. I was really hyped for Invisible Woman and while I still love playing her, Mr Fantastic is my favorite right now. He’s just so unique and cool. I do think his ult needs a buff as it’s pretty weak, but other than that I think he’s good, people just haven’t figured him out yet. If all the hero designs are this good then I’m so excited for what’s to come, especially my man Thing in a few weeks.
Nah he is for real slept on i agree the ult sucks but his kits really solid and he can get his big form so fast
@@therealeatzHe’s not weak if played correctly. Hes not meant to take on all enemies by himself. Play him as a tag team partner to another DPS or a Tank and he’s insanely broken.
If you have a competent healer and time his reflect and moves correctly, he does not die. At all.
@@SuperNeos2 nah if you main him he's weak and needs a buff okay? 😉 Okay
“I know you went to skip to the end so-“
Well now I have to stay, thank you. I think I WILL sit through the whole video now.
Mister fantastic might be D tier but he certainly been one of the most fun characters for me. Being a tank main having a dps option that feels so familiar as a bruiser is really cool. I just bully their backline, and use the reflect to disengage for heals while waiting for cooldowns, and then jump right back in.
He's definitely not D tier
And that’s fine!! Fun and good don’t have to have to be the same. You can have fun with him but just know that he won’t be super strong in high ranks.
@DevilCat19 yeah I know that I main strange in ranked but jump on him in quick play, occasionally I’ve brought him out in ranked to not terrible results just he struggles against 3 supports as they can pretty easily out heal his damage. He feels more like a secondary tank like cap and venom.
@@gambeano hes incredibly easy to shut down with ccs, and simply dosent do enough dmg to outheal triple supp, so at that point just play tank instead of him, they do what he does but better
@ that’s good! Most character in this game can be good with a good enough player some just require more effort to be good.
Worried about the future of the game as the 3 support meta is taking over. It's becoming an ult meta game so whoever has better ults wins.
Warlock, Mantis, Starlord team up is INSANE.
47:44 Don't call me out like that!
I was like how did I skip straight to that part and then I realized :-|
@@Battle4theBaconskipped to that spot also LOL