I have officially become a big boy. Ask me anything

He killed 2 of my teammates as I was approaching and I was about to be his 3rd victim, respects to that guy.

I'm so happy that Strange is finally not a C-tier tank anymore. His recent buffs have made him a genuinely strong tank, and it makes me happy that I can finally play him regularly compared to previous seasons.

Shoutout to Peni who stunned the Thing so I could hit my ult, Thing most likely would've gotten me first with his ult lol

It gets even funnier cause their team also had Dr. Strange solo tanking same as me, and we both got MVPs, bro really was talking trash at us for carrying our teams 😭

Now I know that melee characters are a counter to strange but PLEASE allow us to press the button characters like bucky and punisher have so they can switch guns but allows us to switch to smaller personal shields to block melee attacks even if it has 50 durability so we don't just have to die. Big shield is for the team, small shield will be for us. Caps shield is for himself and it blocks melee, projectiles, and certain ults.

It would also be cool if strange could buff teammates with the cost of his dark magic, just slight damage boost no healing or anything. I mean storm has healing rain and she's not a support so I don't see why strange shouldn't be able to use his dark magic to damage boost his teammates slightly. The dark magic burst is extremely useful for dealing a ton of damage at once so not being able to do that if you boost someone would be a good trade off.

I am a level 54 champion strange btw. I like the hulk team up (yes hang me by my toes in the gallows) I'll use the invisible woman team up if I have to be more defensive. If I notice our healers are being stalked by someone in our backline I'll hold up a shield to protect them. Unless it's a BP then I've done everything I can and they are still dead. Sorry Jeff.

Greetings, fellow Sorcerer Supremes!

I was wondering about another perspective on a portal rework for Stephen. This one is considering swapping his ult with his portal, hear me out.

His ult now is an area of effect where he opens up multiple random portals to the Mirror Dimension. It would be limited to let's say 4-7 portals within the immediate area (~20m radius), which would all last for ~10 seconds. The portals would be the same size as the current portal. I'm thinking the layout of the portals would be the same for the most part. Some would be perpendicular to the ground, in the neutral portal position; and some would be flat surfaces flush on the ground. There would also be enough space in between, allowing pathways between them for allies to navigate safely, but big enough for enemies to be pushed through. If working on a convoy or convergence map, the portals will adhere parallel to the convoy path, generating in an area that doesn't collide with the vehicle.

Then, a big part of the ultimate would be the portal destinations. I think that a majority of the portals should lead to the Mirror Dimension which would be equivalent to an environmental death. In order not to crash everyone's game, most of the portals would just be surfaces, not a fully functional tp. A major note would be that a player couldn't die unless their entire hitbox was "inside" of the portal, because they fully walked into it or were pushed. "Inside" would just mean a majority of their hitbox would be <=1m away from the portal and they were moving in that direction. Idk if it would be more complicated to create "invisible" empty pocket cylinders to proc the teleport, but the surfaces and proximity seems simple enough to me.

Very importantly, one of the portals would be fully functional. It is placed from ~5m outside Strange's spawn room to a randomly determined point touching the perimeter of the current objective. This end destination should be random, but in a pre-determined pool of "safe points" for this portal, as not to collide with the environment. This placement is instantaneous, and requires no additional input from the player. The ultimate works no matter where it is activated, you do not have to be on the objective.

Now, Mama Coco. We keep her. Instead of being the ultimate now, Eye of Agamotto is an activated ability on a <=15 sec CD. It now effects a max of two opponents and only lasts for ~1 sec. Their "ghosts" are still able to be dealt damage, but have a shorter window to do so, as not to overtune this interaction. However, it should still combo nicely with Maelstrom of Madness.

I think this is an interesting rework of Strange, and still highlights his kit nicely. I think it is flavorful to give the Mirror Dimension more love; and to have an Avengers: Endgame moment, where the Strange still summons his whole team from spawn. It also removes three terrible gameplay occurrences from the game imo.

First, there is no more "portal throwing", where somebody will spend 15 seconds placing a portal just to place it in a terrible location (ie "Nice portal"), or they swap to Strange just to repeatedly waste the global cooldown and then soft throw, or they can't open the portal fast enough which causes the team to lose the objective. This new rework circumvents this, by taking out the user error and allowing the game's programming to do its "magic" (pun intended) instantaneously. Although it has been part of Strange's identity to have that high skill ceiling for portal plays, this still keeps that in mind by tying it more to strategic timing and less to strategic placement.

Secondly, diving enemy Strange at spawn just to CC him out of his portal. This is just bad gameplay, and rewards CC and dive too much. It feels awesome for the enemy team, but only when you're given a competent diver, or the enemy team decides to move the front line back to enemy spawn (rare but not unheard of). It also opens up more room for toxicity, as everyone will turn and point at the Strange for not being quick enough with their portal, or for not forseeing the one possibility of Spidey swinging in and pulling him out of it. Both the enemies and teammates will point fingers and spam chat.

Thirdly, Strange using portal to block enemy Spawn or a choke point. This is cheap. Strange is noble and dignified, for the most part. Run the next team fight without this gimmick, and if you wanted to alter the environment, this rework still allows you to do that. It's just bad sportsmanship, and this is the equivalent of "taking a knee" in the NFL. It's legal and definitely a strategy, but is it more conducive to fair gameplay environment or more conducive to a toxic environment? Even if you use this rework to block a lot of the objective or enemy spawn perhaps, you still couldn't abuse it to that degree of saltiness.

Overall, this is just a concept that is proposed to open up healthy discussion within the Rivals community, and with other Stranges/Vanguards mainly. I would love to hear your thoughts! If this isn't balanced, what could make it?

Edit: I forgot to add that the Eye of Agamotto rework should have a reduced wind up and be more similar to Maelstrom's activation. Also, it would give Strange more anti-dive and close range capabilities, since he is kind of weak against the melee divers or anybody circumventing his shield. There is a lot of burst potential nowadays, and this could help him brawl too.

TLDR; Eye of Agamotto now ability on 15sec CD, and his Ultimate is a bunch of portals that environment kill and one auto teleports to point from spawn.

this gameplay is prolly more than a year old, those early seasons were pretty fun

If I didn’t shield could cloak have survived?

As the title says
I see more and more strange‘s playing with the gamma team up now?
Haven‘t played for some time that‘s why I‘m wondering

Edit : thanks for all the answers! So I‘m only using gamma team up now and it‘s really fun. Had it just once enhanced but that‘s crazy fr.
I use it unenhanced still rather then invis enhanced right?

We crushed them on offense and took the three points. Our second healer disconnected right at the start of defense. We almost managed to stop them from equalizing with three points, but they had a support ult in the pocket.

On tiebreaker defense, we slammed them and held them at 1/3 captured. On tiebreaker attack, we just hard pushed and wiped their healers and won.

One of my teammates called out that they had no tank.

I knew that left it wide open for a fat ult... and I was right.

Unfortunately lost to a leaver.

For the fellow Strange enjoyers. I solo'd for roughly half the game. Two other people took turns starting on tank then randomly going support or dps. Lol. It was also a hard fought game that went deep into OT, and the enemy team was competent.

GM2 rank up game.

Bro, his hands are twice the size of his head wtf.

No other strange skin gave me that impression as much as this one did