Sidewinder (Seth Voelker) 4*

@KGB said:

@entrailbucket said:
He's insane.

I haven't figured out all the details of how his match damage boost works, but oh man does it ever work.

How are you able to get covers for him already? Is there a store I missed (I assume you can't cover swap for him yet).

I presume the damage works as advertised. If you have his Yellow at 5 covers you should be getting 1500% bonus damage (15x) which on 5 star characters (esp 550s like yours) should be hitting well over 100K per match 3. If it does, it likely signals the end of MThor because you'll be able to down her on turn 2 at worst if you boost TU.

KGB

Just to put that particular narrative to rest, it won't signal the end of m'Thor, for a couple reasons. Leapfrog is one -- a 100k+ single target hit, even a fully passive one, is just worth less now than it's ever been, because the enemy dodges it and goes invisible.

The other reason is that m'Thor is already sorta bad on defense and everybody still uses her anyway, because she can trivially beat any opponent of any level on offense. Having 100k match damage on your defensive team is cool and seems strong, but it's totally meaningless if you never get a turn.

Now let's not talk about m'Thor here anymore.

Am I reading it correctly that there is no 3* feeder for him?

Why are his arms so massive?!? Dude looks like he has been put together from other people's body parts.

@meteor0905 said:
😉😁🤣😂😤 lol.....

Also what's going on with his leg? His pants have a bordering on offensive crease

@rainkingucd said:

@ThisisClemFandango said:

@meteor0905 said:
😉😁🤣😂😤 lol.....

Also what's going on with his leg? His pants have a bordering on offensive crease

something something snake something something

Badger badger badger badger... ?

Noticed during the 1v1 shield training event that his Blue passive covers himself as well as allies (I would have 1 shot him with 4 star Carol's Black but he went away to avoid being downed).

That means you don't have to bring Leapfrog to cover him. Or bring it anyway and give your team even more ways to avoid nukes!

KGB

P.S. That match damage boost is indeed crazy. In the right mode node on day 1 I used 4 star L370 Juggs as my only character choice and was seeing numbers like 24K damage. I just obliterated that node in a handful of moves and I presume on the next 2 days I'll be doing the same to the Riri and Things nodes.

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
If you asked me what property this character was from solely based on his visual design, I would 1 million percent tell you Masters of the Universe. Not a comment on the art, just on the fundamental design.

Interestingly (?) Sidewinder predated He-man toys by about a year or so.

One thing that is good is that while he is away, his passive won't send his allies away. Basically, in PVP, you really need two moves on your first turn. Move one, hit him and send him away. Move two, target one of his allies and hope you can do some damage.

I will say that without supports in PVP, this would be ridiculously harder. It is hard enough as it is though, and this is with "baby" Sidewinders.

@dianetics said:

@entrailbucket said:
For this guy I'd say it really depends on how exactly he interacts with other match damage boosts. I haven't tested yet to see how that all works.

In general I agree with you about these types of characters, but this seems to be what a lot of players do want.

I think this is what player don't want. They will use them because they feel like they are forced to. The upside to a character like this is too high, and him being able to send stuff away is a mini bonus.
His boost invalidates the entire roster. Turn 1 match 3 team up ap and boom it is delete worthy boost.
It doesn't matter who you bring with him, he can bring them up.
So Col5 and 4uggernot (because they are match damage reducers) have ANOTHER partner to push down the rest of the roster.
This is flat out bad design.

I'm not the right person to make this argument, but I guarantee you will get massive pushback from lots of folks if you argue that anyone is too strong.

This is where the game is going and it's where a majority want it to go.

@Blackstone said:
I don't mind being forced to pick Namor 3 because he's strong... Because I expect him to be...But Aunt May in a silly iron man costume wielding a frying pan? And some low tier villain that looks like molecule man played an April fool's joke on Thing?

This is a common gripe for a lot of comic fans. The better (meta) characters in the game are not powerful entities in the comics. Not sure that can ever be rectified unless we get MPQ 2 which ain't gonna happen.

The best we could hope for is actual rebalances but there seems to be no interest from the long time community in doing that because of LONG ago nerfs being way over done so there is massive resistance to any kind of nerfs no matter how tiny or potentially good for the game.

Regardless, different people are going to want different things. I don't think there's any real data to confirm what the majority wants... But the majority of those accustomed to sitting on top of their elite "win or you get kicked" alliances likely want want faster and faster ways to win and care little about trivial matters such as character or real choice. They just want faster ways to win.

I suspect lots of players are quite happy just mashing a couple of buttons, winning and getting rewards.

I was watching my teenage daughter play Marvel Rivals last night on her PS5 with her boyfriend. He was complaining that all she liked to play was Squirrel Girl. The reason being she is considered the most OP character in that game because she doesn't need to aim or learn to do anything to win, she just releases squirrels that apparently randomly move around damaging opponents. Meanwhile he is learning and playing all the other characters for better or worse. She said she loved how Squirrel Girl plays and is happy winning like that. He isn't interested in the least in that game style. In a way that encompasses what goes on here in MPQ with some players just wanting the most OP thing to win in the easiest way possible to get rewards and others interested in trying out all the different characters and possibilities.

Note that he did say there are plans to nerf Squirrel Girl in that game. So unlike MPQ, Marvel Rivals at least plans to do nerfs to characters in a reasonable time frame.

Or a new mode that doesn't require speed, but neither of those feel likely.

We had this. It was called Quandary. It didn't go over well. They also tried a couple of very limited Heroic boss events and those didn't go over well either.

KGB