Feast Your Eyes On Some of the Worst Patch Notes You'll See

[Borko]

https://www.marvelrivals.com/gameupdate/20250108/41548_1205103.html

Hela gets a teeny tiny slap on the wrist that does nothing.

-25 health (wow!)
-5% to her seasonal bonus. Meaning seasonal bonuses remain after the season. They're SEASONAL but they remain.

Jeff gets a compensation buff to his already amazing healing because they nerfed his ult a little bit.

Scarlet Witch is the new Moira. Expect her to get continuously buffed in every single patch from here on out.

Magik is buffed.

Loki, who is good at literally everything, gets no changes at all.

Luna Snow and Mantis get teeny tiny nerfs that do nothing about the real issues they introduce.

[Mayo]

I didn't bother to read anyone's points after the first three comments, so I'll say this:

There were some changes that will help the game, such as giving Thor CC immunity during his ultimate. Slightly nerfing Doctor strange, fair enough. Squirrel girl getting her ultimate changed to work better? Hell yeah.

Here is the big problem: Seasonal buffs shouldn't exist. You mean to tell me that Hulk and Venom will lost 150 HP at the end of season 1? That's insane. Other characters will lose damage buffs, healing buffs? It's nonsense. If the devs wanted to actually balance the game accordingly, they need to not rely under the guise of "seasonal buffs" and just outright say its experimental buffs to see how certain characters perform.

They nerfed Hulk's shield, which to me made no sense. Hulk getting nerfed? Only because he's chosen a lot in competitive right?... Oh wait, its mostly for his team-ups with other people because by himself Hulk is not good. He just isn't. You're better off with a Groot or even Magneto over a Hulk 90% of the time. Go look at high level competitive and notice how boring Hulk's playstyle is.

These patchnotes are from a dev team trying to be very careful about their next steps, BUT have made it obviously clear they don't quite know what they're doing, and a lot of changes are based purely off of competitive. It's a scary way to balance.

My hope is that seasonal buffs will go away and they'll just end up having a PTB of some sort to get proper numbers with buffs and take in feedback. I have my own doubts though. Say Hela turns out to be horrible once season 1 is over without her damage buff. Now the meta shifts drastically over something that barely lasts over a month.

[SoloQ]

It was definitely surprising not to see a Loki nerf of some sort and to see a Jeff healing buff.
On top of a rocket healing buff. The 3 arguably strongest aoe healers just got better.

But I will say too, I'm not complaining about that 33% size increase to C&D's ult. It was already an amazing push and point holding tool. Now it's even better because you've got that extra dash to use for positioning.

[Bramuk]

Автор сообщения: Mayo

I didn't bother to read anyone's points after the first three comments, so I'll say this:

There were some changes that will help the game, such as giving Thor CC immunity during his ultimate. Slightly nerfing Doctor strange, fair enough. Squirrel girl getting her ultimate changed to work better? Hell yeah.

Here is the big problem: Seasonal buffs shouldn't exist. You mean to tell me that Hulk and Venom will lost 150 HP at the end of season 1? That's insane. Other characters will lose damage buffs, healing buffs? It's nonsense. If the devs wanted to actually balance the game accordingly, they need to not rely under the guise of "seasonal buffs" and just outright say its experimental buffs to see how certain characters perform.

They nerfed Hulk's shield, which to me made no sense. Hulk getting nerfed? Only because he's chosen a lot in competitive right?... Oh wait, its mostly for his team-ups with other people because by himself Hulk is not good. He just isn't. You're better off with a Groot or even Magneto over a Hulk 90% of the time. Go look at high level competitive and notice how boring Hulk's playstyle is.

These patchnotes are from a dev team trying to be very careful about their next steps, BUT have made it obviously clear they don't quite know what they're doing, and a lot of changes are based purely off of competitive. It's a scary way to balance.

My hope is that seasonal buffs will go away and they'll just end up having a PTB of some sort to get proper numbers with buffs and take in feedback. I have my own doubts though. Say Hela turns out to be horrible once season 1 is over without her damage buff. Now the meta shifts drastically over something that barely lasts over a month.

Seasonal buff is changed to anchor buff and they will never change any synergy after each season, they will add some for new character and that's it

[Borko]

Автор сообщения: Daddy

Seasonal buff is changed to anchor buff and they will never change any synergy after each season, they will add some for new character and that's it

Sad... That means Rocket will stay with the worst team-up in the game. Riding on Groot's shoulders just gets you killed and is not useful at all as tanks are meant to be in the frontline, which gets Rocket focused hard and he dies in like 3 seconds.
Jeff also has this team-up but Jeff has another synergy with Luna that gives him stronger attacks.
Rocket has no team-up that directly benefits himself at all.

[lacres181]

Автор сообщения: Borko

https://www.marvelrivals.com/gameupdate/20250108/41548_1205103.html

Hela gets a teeny tiny slap on the wrist that does nothing.

-25 health (wow!)
-5% to her seasonal bonus. Meaning seasonal bonuses remain after the season. They're SEASONAL but they remain.

Jeff gets a compensation buff to his already amazing healing because they nerfed his ult a little bit.

Scarlet Witch is the new Moira. Expect her to get continuously buffed in every single patch from here on out.

Magik is buffed.

Loki, who is good at literally everything, gets no changes at all.

Luna Snow and Mantis get teeny tiny nerfs that do nothing about the real issues they introduce.

cool story bro. if it bothers you THAT much. stay away from this game until season ends or a another "balance patch" comes out ya?

[Borko]

Автор сообщения: lacres181

Автор сообщения: Borko

https://www.marvelrivals.com/gameupdate/20250108/41548_1205103.html

Hela gets a teeny tiny slap on the wrist that does nothing.

-25 health (wow!)
-5% to her seasonal bonus. Meaning seasonal bonuses remain after the season. They're SEASONAL but they remain.

Jeff gets a compensation buff to his already amazing healing because they nerfed his ult a little bit.

Scarlet Witch is the new Moira. Expect her to get continuously buffed in every single patch from here on out.

Magik is buffed.

Loki, who is good at literally everything, gets no changes at all.

Luna Snow and Mantis get teeny tiny nerfs that do nothing about the real issues they introduce.

cool story bro. if it bothers you THAT much. stay away from this game until season ends or a another "balance patch" comes out ya?

Thank you for your meaningless non-contribution, I'll make sure to add it to the garbage pile.

[Cursememe]

Автор сообщения: Kitt 🌟 Stargazer

Автор сообщения: Monkey P DOOFY

Yeah totally not like they are adding 4 new character that could change stuff up.
Totally not like they mentioned its the update they are doing for the 1st half of the season which means they are doing another balance pass halfway into it.
Totally not like some of you people can't be bothered to actually try playing different and are just whining like clowns.

Would be funny if one or more of the new characters will make no one want to play Hela again lol.

Hela is factually one of the most broken character's in the game deserving of nerfs, you cannot give a character a 2 shot combo with a headshot into basic with HITSCAN that destroys squishes an escape option, a stun, and an ult thats literally a free escape tool and a screw you towards enemies cause literally only doctor strange can engage into it or mantis or lunas broken ass ults
Her dps output and skill lvl is soo low compared to the results that she pulls makes her one of the most deserving of nerfs characters

[Borko]

Hela is literally just if they combined Cassidy and Widow from Overwatch into one character.

[Unknown]

I never found Hela hard to deal with myself, any kind of coordination and she melts. But I don't mind her being even easier to deal with.

[Shifue]

Автор сообщения: Borko

Автор сообщения: Daddy

Seasonal buff is changed to anchor buff and they will never change any synergy after each season, they will add some for new character and that's it

Sad... That means Rocket will stay with the worst team-up in the game. Riding on Groot's shoulders just gets you killed and is not useful at all as tanks are meant to be in the frontline, which gets Rocket focused hard and he dies in like 3 seconds.
Jeff also has this team-up but Jeff has another synergy with Luna that gives him stronger attacks.
Rocket has no team-up that directly benefits himself at all.

While I can agree with few things said in this post there is some that I can't. I was hoping to see more done on hela as well. However I would rather see small changes then huge nerfs then character become unplayable. So that has to be considered with the other changes. As well you have to remember with the 3 classes they are not all transparent. Not every vanguard is a Frontline tank just like not every strategist is a heal bot and not every duelist is Group fighter.

[The Rizzler]

Whats this ♥♥♥♥?

No spider man buff?

[HowlingWolfLord]

That extra healing for Rocket is going to be pretty good, my main complaint for him was that his healing felt a little lackluster.

His survivability and B.R.B are already pretty great, and his team-up with punisher and bucky can be game changing, so they don't need to be changed.

[侍Kage]

25 hp is actually huge. In this game many people escape with 2% hp which is lower than 25hp. This will make it so she won't survive with 1hp anymore. You have no idea about balancing, i would recommend you to shut up and dont talk to anything you have no idea. Also her 5% nerf made is so she can't hs + body shot anymore she needs to do one more shot.

[Slaanesh]

Автор сообщения: Borko

https://www.marvelrivals.com/gameupdate/20250108/41548_1205103.html

Hela gets a teeny tiny slap on the wrist that does nothing.

-25 health (wow!)
-5% to her seasonal bonus. Meaning seasonal bonuses remain after the season. They're SEASONAL but they remain.

Jeff gets a compensation buff to his already amazing healing because they nerfed his ult a little bit.

Scarlet Witch is the new Moira. Expect her to get continuously buffed in every single patch from here on out.

Magik is buffed.

Loki, who is good at literally everything, gets no changes at all.

Luna Snow and Mantis get teeny tiny nerfs that do nothing about the real issues they introduce.

We get it.
You suck at the brain department a LOT

[Sledge]

Hela losing 25hp is reasonable for the time being, means she's easier to poke or push out of engagements and can't hang around as long, also possible that you'll finish her before she can attempt to use her escape tool.

If she's still oppressive, they'll tune her further. Not sure why people always advocate for a "bring the hammer" down approach to balance passes. People will continue to pick her in said state and we'll see how the win-rate fluctuates.

It's plausible that they'll go for range fall-off next as opposed to blanket nerfing damage. Gutting damage on a precision character isn't the best choice, better to fine-tune over multiple smaller passes to get them in the right spot.