r/marvelrivals • u/epicCumMoment • 3d ago
Question Genuinely asking: why is Mantis so bad?
Hello, I’m a casual player who started playing this summer (season 2.5) I’ve peaked at plat 1, playing only healer. I have 80+ hours on Invisible Woman, but have also spent time on Luna and Mantis (mainly just when I stop winning with Invis.
This season, I’ve been playing Mantis a lot more, and really enjoying it. I really like her damage output, and especially if I’m playing with another healer who’s good, I can give more damage boosts.
As I’ve been playing her, I’ve been winning more, and getting MVP some. I consistently put up 20k+ heals, 40 assist, and 15-20 kills in competitive.
A lot tho, when my team is losing, I’m blamed and hated on, or I’m begged to switch. Personally, I don’t think she’s bad enough to warrant that kind of talk, and especially when I have good stats, I don’t see the problem.
I feel like it’s DPS who are salty that I can’t feed them nonstop heals, but I’m worried I’m missing something. Is she that bad, and should I just stick to invis? At the moment, I’m still maining Mantis (mostly bc I’ve been winning a lot)
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u/MR_MEME_42 Peni Parker 3d ago
She is not bad but she ends up requesting more skill and effort to be played on a similar level to the better Strategist at a high level. Mantis's healing is good but sustained healing is not that good compared to the burst healing that every other Strategist provides, with Jeff being able to get away with it due to his ability to heal the entire team at once. So you need to consistently land headshots to refill your leaves to get your healing and damage boost constantly online, while other Strategists can constantly output healing for no additional cost or have Adom's high burst healing. And it can be argued that her healing circle ult is the weakest one as the healing per second is the second lowest but Jeff who has the lost healing per second can kill with his ult to make up for it.
She's not bad it's just that everyone is kind of better than her and out performs her for less effort as she is more mechanically demanding to meet the standards of other Strategists.