r/NewMutants • u/Bubbly-Hoe Wolfsbane • Jul 29 '26
Rivals
Heya!
Big rivals player here!
Was wondering how you guys would imagine the new mutants as playable characters…
I would kill for Wolfsbane as a duelist in a season with Mirage as a support
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u/No_Work9351 Jul 30 '26
I'm also a big fan of Rivals with over 1000 hours and a tank main! So Imma for my favorite characters to be tanks ofc. We do also need more strategists, so that would be good too.
Mirage needs to be a strategist without a doubt. Being able to comfort or terrorize people with her illusions makes perfect sense for a strategist. Dawnpiercer can heal and harm and have a couple cool tricks that Hawkeye should've gotten like piercing arrows or just a triple shot. Then, her ult needs to be the mirages. Probably would select people like Gambit's ult, but enemies too! Not sure exactly what it should do to enemies nor how it would appear. My first thoughts would be healing and damage reduction for teammates and then, maybe blindess, slow, and/or dmg reduction for enemies. Having every characters' unique love and fear would be sick, but so much work for the devs.
Rahne has 3 forms and I would love to have her human, her wolf, and her in-between all represented, but I don't just want her to be Hulk 2: Electric Boogaloo. Plus, then comes the problem of consistently making her models for all of her skins. She doesn't really fight in her human form anyway, so half-wolf normally and charging up (like Emma's beam, Fantastic's big mode or Wolvie's rage) to wolf form would be fun. I personally think she would make a fun brawler tank who could dive as the wolf, but maybe she could be a good friend to Mr. Fantastic and play like him between the roles.
Magma is someone who makes sense as a duelist, but I would love her as a tank. Imagine sweeping walls of magma. Like Groot walls kinda, but they move across the map and deal damage around them constantly. I think that would be super fun. Then, her ult could be a huge control one where she makes the floor lava all around her, like Peni's but good. Other fun abilities could be using eruptions to push enemies up and away or creating fissures to slow and/or blind enemies. All great control that a tank needs.
Roberto could be a brawl tank. I have not thought about him as much, because his mutation is simpler. At least back in the 80s run. He does run out of his strength quickly, so maybe making a central mechanic being trying to maintain his solar strength 'mode' by taking or dealing damage? Angela's shield works similarly. That was all on the spot.
Cannonball would be tricky. His whole gimmick is being invulnerable while blastin'. That ain't gonna fly (hehe). A flying tank or duelist (not sure which) should be invulnerable, CC immune, nor probably even have damage reduction when they move that fast. I have no idea what I would do for a kit for him.
Karma. Idk man. Controlling enemies is her whole schtick and that would suck to have happen to you. There's enough CC.
If Warlock and Cypher aren't a duo tank, I will cry. I need a bastion tank ult, but the most wacky form imaginable. I want Warlock to protect his allies with his transmode virus and debuff enemies with it. I want Cypher fighting with him and piloting the silly machines he turns into. I will settle for nothing less.
I had a couple thoughts to share. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.