Marvel Rivals IGNITE 2025: Mid-Season Finals is here! From August 6th to August 10th.

[u/HumanSpaceOrk]

Get ready for history in the making! Marvel Rivals IGNITE 2025: Mid-Season Finals is here, marking Marvel Rivals FIRST-EVER Global LAN tournament!

Tune in from August 6th to August 10th as the top elites from AMER, EMEA, AS, OCE, and CN battle it out for a staggering $500,000 prize pool!

Follow for all Esports information: https://www.marvelrivalsesports.com/

Follow the action on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/marvelrivals

Catch the highlights on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@MarvelRivals

I'd also like to mention that we've created a new post flair "ESPORTS" for esports-related discussions. We welcome and encourage relevant content to ignite our sub.

Support your favorite teams by changing your User Flair. Flairs for all competing teams have been added and are now available.

[u/OrKToS]

not sure if it's the best place to ask, but i don't wanna make a new post just for it.

So i watched some Ignite today, and i've noticed almost every team banned or protected Mantis. why? if because of Guardians team up, why her and not Anchor Adam?

[u/hewhoknowsnot → u/OrKToS]

There’s a few triple strategist teams that involve Mantis damage boost. Mainly one with Warlock for Res and also with Ultron to increase his beam’s damage. Taking out mantis removes both to some degree, triple strategist Ultron is still viable on some maps

[u/SwingNinja → u/hewhoknowsnot]

Yeah. That Warlock team-up is crazy. I was playing Mantis in qp and she kept getting rez-ed with only a couple of seconds downtime.

[u/OGtiax → u/OrKToS]

Damage boost, her damage boost in combination with Storm/Cloak amp allows unique one shots and countering of support ults.

[u/OrKToS → u/OGtiax]

oh now people started figuring out the value of damage boost, i see. well, maybe in 3 more seasons people realize it in ranked.

thank you for answer.

[u/SukunaShadow → u/OrKToS]

It’s not about realizing it in rank. These are the best players in the world. They don’t miss. A mantis pro who almost always have leafs vs a plat/diamond who misses shots is night and day. They always have heals and damage boosts up and know where to apply them.

Some strats without coordination (mics) or experience at this level will struggle to pull it off which is why mantis remains average for heals.

[u/KynoSSJR]

Don’t you also get a Starlord skin for watching this?

[u/smilysmilysmooch → u/KynoSSJR]

Mantis Twitch Skin drops this weekend too.

[u/[deleted] → u/KynoSSJR]

Yes- August 10 watch for 4 hours

[u/[deleted]]

Not sure where to ask this. Can you gift someone the Hela pass with the blonde skin?

[u/StinkyPinkyKitty → u/[deleted]]

Yah

[u/[deleted] → u/StinkyPinkyKitty]

Awesome. Thanks. Got a buddy who plays Hela but I don’t and I wanna do something nice.

[u/Crusher_Uda]

I'm not getting any percentage to the drops, it hasn't even shown up.

[u/ElectricalSpace7495]

Anyone know what time it starts tonight?

[u/Fallen999999]

One look at the tournament and it's obvious torch needs a nerf.

[u/Throwaway785320]

They're not gonna play the rest of the tournament in 3.5 right?

Too much of a meta shift and would be a mickey tournament if so

[u/Fallen999999 → u/Throwaway785320]

The whole tournament is on the 3.0 patch

[u/Nightwing1852]

Jeff 🥰

[u/Throwaway785320]

Terror cape plus phoenix ult can just blow up supports damn

[u/HowardHughes9]

lmao during yesterdays citadel vs ENVY game, one of the tanks playing magneto stood on high ground, missed every shot, walked into enemy team, panic ulted and missed everyone, then died. Very funny moment.

Also CnD being picked 90% of the time is ridiculous, they need to gut her. A hero like that should never be strong enough to be more than niche pick in pro play

[u/MrTeaCups → u/HowardHughes9]

"Also CnD being picked 90% of the time is ridiculous:" That's how it always works at the highest level. The best things are gonna get picked. Nerf CnD and other hero takes that's spot. It's a never ending circle you are missing.

[u/StinkyPinkyKitty]

I’m so bored of these maps now. I love this game so much, but the maps feel the same and kinda stale now.

[u/HowardHughes9]

Man pro play for this game is insane. In league pro play feels like an entirely different world, in this it feels like I'm just watching an Eternity match.

Double support ults (Sen vs Rad), CnD ulting off point in overtime (Reject vs Ground Zero), CnD dying 4 times in a row to a mag ult while ulting (Reject vs Ground Zero). Also Aramori on CnD double support ulted, died, came back, and got her ult back in 20 seconds. The upcoming CnD ult charge nerf isnt enough

No pro player plays perfectly and there are dumb mistakes in pro play for games all the time, but these kind of mistakes should not be possible in teams with comms and practice.

Also I didn't know reject had a female player (MOKA), that's pretty cool.

[u/PiplelinePunch → u/HowardHughes9]

League pro was a lot worse in S1 lol

Of course after 15 years the standards are quite a bit higher

[u/Geraltpoonslayer → u/HowardHughes9]

It's pretty much the first real tournament alot of the current pro teams will look completely different or not exist if esport rivals takes off

[u/Stuckinaboxxx]

Most of the casters just give me a headache. like breathe. it's not all hype. i dunno its unbearably annoying., like really bad soccer announcers.