Support players in Marvel Rivals are going on strike, refusing to play in higher ranks after some of the game’s biggest streamers said the role requires no skill.
Well, looking at the pickety line, which is hitting the high MMR matches hard, while several top players are throwing the towel on healing and deciding to DPS instead. This started to affect the matches of all the ranks, with the players doing what they can to avoid they can avoid the role.
Marvel Rivals streamer and the Spider-Man main Necros, who is the biggest name which has been put out there, claiming their support players who are the absolute worst players on the team in any lineup.
Marvel Rivals Community divided in support of Strike
Looking at the mechanical point, well, it is kind of hard to argue the stance of Necros and several other creators. In terms of how much skill is required to play the role of actual aim, it varies a bit; it the generally easier.
Many heroes like Cloak and Dagger and Mantis have lock-on heal, which is pretty much impossible to forget. There are many heroes like Luna, Adam, and even Mantiwhoch who are good to aim at and to be most effective.
Necros claims that the reason behind the situation is that when someone is doing well in Tank or DPS, they tend to get pressured into playing support by their team. Well, the role requires less mechanical skill on paper. Bogur, who is one of the biggest streamers, has spoken in support of him, but the opinion is shared portion of the community.
Ninja also gave his thoughts on this issue, where he said Necros is right in a way about the mechanical difficulty, but also he is missing the aspect of surviving against the team that is diving yat ou.
When you are goin against Necros, whos job is to mess with the healers and dive them with the Spider-Man and all do is play, it becomes a Sh*t show he mentioned, and later said many are dodging some of the best players in the world of ability many times for a fight while you are in
Let’s say if the enemy is coordinating and playing dive heroes, then if you don’t have a Magneto shielding you, where Emma Frost chokeslamming the diver trying to kill you, while the support player keeps you alive, and some form of assistance, the game quickly becomes unplayable.
The combined with an unintended effect of ranked updates, which support players earning fewer ranked points than even, has led to players fighting back. Playing support gives fewer ranked points due to being viewed as performing worse than the other, more damage-heavy roles, contributing largely to why players are abandoning the role in droves.
Necros gave a statement which was quite harsh where he stated support players as idiots and morons which is bad coming from such big voice in community. Well, mostly streamers do not get so many chances to influence, well, now we are seeing the consequences of that from one Marvel Rivals player on Reddit.
On Reddit, they have expressed their feelings by saying they are not glorified or seen as the hardest role, just because they do not think they are. Well, they even said it is kind a tiring to be said as brain dead or worthless when the stats are solid and you are just playing the role in the way it is meant to be played.
Until the support player gets the respect they deserve, they are stepping away from the to, le which is decided by their teammates and, of course, themselves.
Well, in the midst of a heavy meta, it has been a reminder to see what developers at NetEase are doing regarding this or what efforts they gonna do to ease the feelings of support players for being powerless against the dive.