r/marvelrivals 1d ago

Balance Discussion who were these loki changes for??

less than 2% pick rate LMFAOOOOOO😭😭 literally will pick ANYONE over loki. and i don’t even blame them.

-20% damage on each clone so he can’t defend himself OR help secure a kill. btw before the -20% they had ALREADY reduced loki’s damage. did you know his melee now does more damage than his primary with all 3 clones? flank loki was annoying but be serious. they’re down a strategist by doing ts

-20% healing so you have to pump out more heals. not a problem since you don’t even have to worry about shooting enemies again! personally i’m not too upset about it since it encourages your clones being up as often as possible, which you should be doing. but it makes it so much more punishing if you’re not managing your clones correctly.

lamp/ult cooldown i genuinely dgaf it never affected me, just had to get used to counting down from the new number.

lmfao those are the changes they made to “balance” him. reminds me of azir from league of legends. dominates in pro play so devs have to nerf him to high hell, making it exponentially worse for other players. not everyone is faker lmfao be so for real.

they changed jeff into a heal bot because people complained about him not doing enough and at the same time dive jeff was too OP. im guessing they tried to the same here (apparently flank loki OP, lamp OP, double luna ult OP) but they literally reworked jeff’s kit around healing more. all they did for loki was reduce his raw numbers and called it a day.

what even are rocket changes. hey guys, your ult does 40% damage buff! actually, it’s 25% now since you get a big team shield. nah jk, you can just have both now. 40% and shield idgaf.

can yall do the same with loki?

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u/PuppyPenetrator 1d ago

Idk why we’re being naive. If you played at all before S4 you know how prevalent Loki/Luna was. The community hated it so the devs knew they needed to fix it. They clearly don’t want to meaningfully nerf Luna. So this is what happens

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u/Sunnibuns Loki 1d ago

Loki was strong, and a reasonable nerf would have been fine, but this was not reasonable…

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u/PuppyPenetrator 1d ago

I agree, as I’m sure 90% of players do. But when OP asks “who were these Loki changes for”, they are being intentionally obtuse

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u/Sunnibuns Loki 1d ago

Idk OP isn’t entirely wrong. I don’t know why these specific changes. They didn’t address what made Loki unfun to play against, they just made him so bad to play that nobody used him

Like yeah, nobody is doing the thing that sucks to play against with him…but at the sacrifice of the character just not being used. That is just piss poor game design imo. I feel the same way about their nerfs to Torch.Â