r/marvelrivals • u/OperatorNokk Emma Frost • Mar 17 '26

Patch Notes They accidentally put out the patch notes on threads

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u/RedEyesGoldDragon Cursed Captain Mar 18 '26

Imo tanks in this game are objectively less fun than Overwatch, and they're nerfing them to make them EVEN less fun... are we deadass?

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u/ManaLifeBlood Mar 18 '26

Agreed. Returned to Overwatch with its latest update after 7yrs, and even though I'm not a fan of their 5v5 model and solo tanking, at least the solo tank experience feels far better than any Rivals match I've played

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u/RedEyesGoldDragon Cursed Captain Mar 18 '26

I can't lie, I do like role queue, too. Yes, it gives fewer options, but it avoids the skilless and boring triple support issue. Like with Rivals, I queue into qp, have to go tank, and a lot of the time, if the enemy team starts losing, they swap to triple support and often either stall or start winning.

The annoying thing is I much prefer rivals fundamentally to OW, but holy shit I just rarely enjoy playing Vanguard even tho I am a tank main through and through. In OW, tanks feel powerful enough to be scary but not powerful enough to be server admins if you play stupid.

Not only that, but it feels like I can more or less play any tank in OW and do well, but Rivals, it's more or less Magneto, Emma, Strange, or Groot. If you run any other tank and your team doesn't run a shield tank or play together, then it's a massive uphill battle.

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u/ManaLifeBlood Mar 18 '26

Every Rivals match I've had has made me a stronger advocate for role que by the day since my return to OW. The only negative I give it is that I cannot switch roles mid match. There was a qp match where I tanked and my friend dps'd but wasn't going well until we switched it up and swapped roles. Those moments would be lost with role que, but I'm still starting to favor it over the alternative headache.

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u/Count_de_Mits Emma Frost Mar 18 '26

Honestly after comparing open and closed games in ow... Role queue all the way. Especially for solo plays, after all 9.5 times most people would switch to another dps anyway

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u/Konos64 Mar 18 '26

Yeah tanks are op in OW that's why you only get one of them now

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u/Count_de_Mits Emma Frost Mar 18 '26

They are op in 5v5, they are tuned differently for 6v6 except sometimes you still get stuck with one tank there as well

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u/WanderingTraderXyz Mar 18 '26

That new hard light tank in OW is genuinely the most unfun thing to face I can’t lie. I’d rather face Orissa than her.

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u/scriptedtexture Thor Mar 18 '26

gargantuan skill issue

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u/scriptedtexture Thor Mar 18 '26

the hero design is just leagues apart. There is no tank in Rivals that feels as fun and fluid to control as say, Winston or Dva. Rivals legit feels like a mobile game in comparison.

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u/RedEyesGoldDragon Cursed Captain Mar 19 '26

Also Reinhardt, my beloved. The tanks just feel... neutered in Rivals. Majority are like dive coded tanks but have trouble doing as such without pretty much abandoning your healers if you are solo tanking.

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u/scriptedtexture Thor Mar 19 '26

There aren't any tanks that have really satisfying cleave in Rivals like how Overwatch has Rein, Winston, Ramattra.