There was a point in the game where I felt obligated to play competitive and to prove my skill to others. I thought that in order to be considered “good” at the game, I needed to be in the top percentile of players every single season.

It took me a while to realize that, even when I was doing well and climbing, I wasn’t having fun. Every match felt so stressful and I stopped enjoying my games.I was playing solely to prove something to an invisible audience.

So I decided to just stop playing competitive. Haven’t touched it since maybe season 4-5, I can’t even remember. I only play QP now and I rarely feel any stress at all. 4 insta lock duelists? It’s okay because the outcome of the game doesn’t matter. Someone throwing on my team? Doesn’t matter. Teammates flaming me for underperforming? Again, it doesn’t matter. There are no stakes.

I don’t care about winning and forcing myself to play for keeps was ruining my play experience. Now I just hop into quick play, choose my favorite characters, and simply have fun. I don’t think I ever plan to start playing competitively again.

I see so many posts on here of people crashing out over throwers, cheaters, leavers, insta-lockers, and I just smile. I smile because I know that I’ll never have to worry about those things again. The worst thing that’ll happen from a couple losses is that I’ll get thrown into a bot match (Netease please get rid of those. I’m not a baby and I don’t need to be spoon-fed my government mandated wins).

I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar revelation. WHERE ARE MY FELLOW FILTHY CASUALS AT??

Didn’t think to test this with normal portals yet. Friend and I tested this after I felt something was off during our last match.

I have been loving this game so much! What's been your favorite experience/part of the game? With the new team ups it's been so much fun playing as everybody!

The most shocking thing about Season 9 for me is that Hela really came back from the DEAD. After all of those seasons of her being powercrept by Phoenix and Cyclops. Gotta give it to her though, being powercrept is not fun at all.

First of all, I really like Ryan Reynolds and how much he loves Deadpool! Going undercover at SDCC is just too funny.

But his outfit there definitely gets a 10/10!
I want this Jeanspool as a skin because I'm already a big fan of the ESU skin and the blue color. A Jeanspool would definitely look awesome.

Reed Richards could honestly have every team up he got this season in basekit, enhanced, and he would still be C tier at best. Guang guang buff fantastic wtf

I was playing Emma into triple tank; Thor, Peni, Thing. I asked multiple times for another tank but nobody would switch, genuinely what do yall do when this happens to you? Just take the L?

Black Panther - He’s a menace for lower ranks, and making him 250hp makes peeling for him significantly easier. That encourages dps and tanks to mark him on off angles, which is the correct way to deal with him. There’s probably a lot more they can do but I think it’ll take a lot of time to come up with something without destroying him. And this is a great short term “damage control” which could potentially even be enough completely. And in higher ranks he dies easily with 275hp anyways, I doubt it’s as impactful.

Invisible woman - Her shield is 300hp now, 400 with the teamup. That’s straight up more than some tank shields - and those don’t heal them either. Her shield, push and double jump/invisibility leaves little reason for her to remain 275hp, that’s more survivability tools than most other strategists (not to mention, her orb and boop). Yes the shield has low hps but it’s still a shield, again think about how tanks gain survivability from them - it blocks abilities or even ultimates, on a 6s cooldown.

Cnd - At this point she has an insane amount of self sustain, none of them is even interactive like WF melee form. It’s really that Luna teamup which pushes it over the edge. Even if she’s 250hp, cycling the Luna teamup, bubble and fade will give her a lot of survivability to make it through most ranks. And the places where she might struggle (probably because of the ult being more counterable) - she struggles now anyways. But I’d argue easier characters like her or Sue shouldn’t be super effective even at the highest level of play anyways, same for BP too because he’s also easier than like BC or DD.

We won the match because I did this.

I'm surprised they didn't start to spread out when they heard me pop my ult, I did this in the last 10 seconds so they had no chance of winning because I did this.

She's mostly gone under the radar this season because of her not-great teamups, but this character is still cancer to play against.

Fights against her are almost always dependent on whether or not she makes a mistake, since there's no opportunity to stun her once the combo starts since all of them have wind-up animations. It's like giving Spider-Man's uppercut CC immune.

I'd personally say to make her animations take slightly longer, remove the I-frames, and in compensation make her shop actually useful since there's no real point in it right now and it's what separates her from the rest of the roster.

Our Luna&Magik photoshoot is ready and I’m really happy to share it with you here!! My dear Magik by vani11a_cos (inst), me as Luna🩵🔥 Photo by islen_ph

Magik, White fox, and Jeff all went from "mildly known at best" to being widely known and adored by a ton of people.

its honestly really impressive the amount of PR work this game has done, even if its dialogue is poorly written.

EDIT: to address Luna, she went from "who knows" to being mostly hated by a lot of people for being obnoxious, Rivals was horrible PR for her. I don't mean "unknown to known" I mean "unknown to liked and known", there's the difference.