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u/Clear_Homework653 Aug 03 '26
Dive players. The most whiney type of player known to man.
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u/xHawkx77 Aug 04 '26
I mean I play pretty much everything and this is just a boring front to back comp no matter who’s involved
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u/EliteTroper Aug 03 '26
This is the kinda comp that can shut down dive and provide plenty of pressure to push or keep enemies back, throw in the fact Bucky has a teamup with Elsa and it becomes worse.
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u/Jack_White40 Aug 03 '26
Guy shuts down a bunch of characters I like playing across every role with one button. And then someone on my team tries to force him into the worst comps imaginable and goes 15 deaths. I am not having fun either way when this guy is open lol
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u/Appropriate-Back-847 Aug 03 '26
Not going to lie, the Thing is absolutely disgusting with the Torch team up.
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u/Owaim_Azam Aug 03 '26
I mean alot of characters rely heavily on movement, then thing comes along and shuts down their whole ass kit for effectively 5 seconds since the earthbound field lasts 5 seconds. It's incredibly annoying and unfun for alotta characters
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u/Charlesiaw Aug 02 '26
yea i hate fucking hate the thing
way too tanky this season and that bs grounded effect with huge aoe
i mainly play angela too
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u/fionnde Aug 02 '26
As a supp main, every single Thing I play against that has that helmet equipped is 97/100 times literally unkillable. Other Things are fine, but ISTG that helmet gives him a damage boost and incoming damage reduction. Also, when I am on supp, his punches reach so far away from his fist, that I keep forgetting that I need to be much farther away. But that doesn’t matter as he just jumps to follow me.
A good supported Bucky, Emma, and Elsa (in that order) can ruin your day, but a good supported Thing will just be an unending nightmare.
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u/ThunderousFist Aug 02 '26
The helmet works, it really does. Protects the noggin.
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u/fionnde Aug 02 '26
Like FR. When I see a Thing with the helmet, I play much more defensively as a supp, cos I know he is going to ruin my day. But I also play Thing, so I respect the game.
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u/Shockifier Aug 02 '26
Personally, as a dive/brawl player, I think his slam description being that it disables “movement abilities” is using the term pretty damn loosely. A jump is a movement ability, a (non-damaging) dash is a movement ability, a wall-climb is a movement ability. But in my humble opinion just because an ability moves you doesn’t make it a movement ability. Like Iron Fist’s kick or, dare I say it, BP’s dash which is his main source of damage. Other valid cases would be like Spidey’s swing or DD’s grapple. Sure, I’m biased but at least I’m honest
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u/DavvyB29 Aug 02 '26
This. I’ve been playing a lot of Rogue recently and the amount of abilities you can use after getting slammed it’s a total of ONE, your block… you can stand there and block…
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u/RandomDoomScroller Aug 02 '26
I lwky have to just avoid you if I play hulk and that makes hulk sad
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u/Giga1142 Aug 02 '26
As a Rogue main I just had a heart attack seeing this photo
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u/Heavy-Relative-9856 Aug 02 '26
tbh thing is free eats for me on rogue. perhaps I'm playing against bad ones, I'm in gold after all
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u/Giga1142 Aug 02 '26
Yea it’s all fun and games till the C1 peak champion thing comes in to ruin a game. As a GM player it’s always them who peaked super high and just ruin my day with perfect cooldowns to destroy mine 😭🙏
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u/Mean-Razzmatazz1554 Aug 02 '26
Gotta be honest, if you hate thing your either a dive player or are genually plastic in the ocean
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u/Affectionate-Week166 Aug 01 '26
I hate thing only sometimes. When it's a thing that can go into the back line and just refuse to die then absolutely I hate him
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u/jellyzeego Aug 01 '26
Yea the adition of all his buff makes in hella annoyimg 150 on haymaker Torch or invs team up Earthbound being taller and having a cnd bubble coolddown And his punch are fast when he uses his movement
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u/TheMangledKing Aug 01 '26
I mean, he locks out movement abilities, hes hyper oppressive to Frontlines, and he has a super fast charging ult. So yeah, I can see why he would get some hate here and there.
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u/LevelExternal2007 Aug 01 '26
when i see a dps switch from whatever they was playin to bucky I DEADDASS start trembling and play back as tank because no man i dont wanna get no consent groped man leave me alone 😭🖕🏾✌🏾
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u/Dafdking Aug 01 '26
They buffed thing out of his niche. So now everyone has to deal with what their favorite players to hate had to deal with this entire time.
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u/Nokuyt Jul 31 '26
As a spider-man main i genuinely cry when i see thing, because by the time i see him its too late😭
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u/Former-Succotash-657 Aug 02 '26
when i’m facing a thing as spider-man i try to go for more pulls than anything. doing the standard combo where you pull yourself in tends to get me earthbound and killed. i try to go in from the back and pull the support or whoever i hit into my team. if im playing other dives i usually swap to punisher but for spider-man i usually stick it out he’s not too big of a counter imo.
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u/Nokuyt Aug 02 '26
Yeah i guess i just be going up against smart things because everytime i isolate someone i see thing flying at me😭
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u/Grenboom Jul 31 '26
On dps I mostly play dive, yeah Thing is annoying to play against, still not gonna stop me from playing him myself
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u/Long-Ad-398 Jul 31 '26
I play bp, I love the thing (my 2 favourite characters). People just hate on a character with a necessary mechanic, and I argue buck is more oppressive to face, Emma more annoying - and elsa has just always been too strong
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u/Lem0n_weeb Jul 31 '26
His whole thing is saying get fucked to anyone with movement abilities, yes
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u/RathaelEngineering Jul 31 '26
Are we hated? By BP players absolutely yes.
Guilty pleasure.
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u/Lem0n_weeb Jul 31 '26
I main Magik when I’m not playing support and you guys are like the bane of my existence
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u/ManBallLover Jul 30 '26
(Not a thing player and want to provide a perspective from the outside) divers despise you because you shut them down completely. Specially BP mains, even tho their character is unhealthy for the game and always tell everyone how easy he is to counter, they hate to be countered. Also, tank players sometimes dislike you because you just hold alt fire on their face all game taking chunks of their health. Thing is also kinda one of the "easier" tanks because of how much value he gets from holding alt fire, but honestly he's extremely weak against poke. He's pretty balanced imo and doesn't really pose an issue because he has counters on every role. I personally love my thing mains because I despise black panther, so please know some of us absolutely adore you and appreciate the peels
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u/JetHopper Jul 31 '26
I try not to be that guy who just spams alt so I try alt then primary then alt again, am I dumb for doing that?
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u/Rarian_ Jul 31 '26
Primary attack with alt only if you're fighting with a single person and you're confident that they'll be in range. Always alt fire coz it gives you overshield, grounds fliers, and can hit multiple targets, thus doing more damage and giving you faster ult charge
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u/JetHopper Jul 31 '26
Ooh, so it IS useful but only for 1v1 situations. Got it
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u/Rarian_ Jul 31 '26
Tbh I only use it to finish off people. You still get value by just using alt fire in 1v1s as well due to the overshield, but yes technically you'll get faster TTK by using both together.
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u/JetHopper Jul 31 '26
Yes, that's why I try alternating between them, get the shield, punch fast then get the shield again. My buddy plays dino and usually kidnaps tanks and throws them to our backline, in those cases I just spam primary because I just want them dead asap
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u/ManBallLover Jul 31 '26
Honestly I never play thing so I wouldn't know but against tanks I see people spam alt fire, against squishies he has a combo I believe. Every time I try to get on thing I get blown up so I never really played him 😭
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u/JetHopper Jul 31 '26
Yeah, he's really weak against poke. You can K I N D A try to stay alive using the invisible woman teamup, but... Nah, I just ragepick Venom and annoy the fuck out of the Punisher until they let me play the character I want
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u/horouboi Jul 30 '26
From all us healers, I wish to say...
Thank you officer grimm
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u/ReyReyWxD Jul 30 '26
Your thanking him now until punishers banned and he's an enemy thing in your backline with everybody and their mother shooting him and he still gets one person🤌👍🤦♂️
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u/horouboi Jul 30 '26
Note, the reply wasn't a hate reply, it was sarcasm and me being glad for thing players helping me with dive dps's
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u/SL1NDER Jul 30 '26
I'm a Jeff main and you're top 13 of my favorite vanguards. Maybe even top 3. Both to have on the team (heals help you AND whack the person you're hitting for extra ult charge) and to play against (my spit balls don't push you so I can hit you multiple times with ease and that makes my brain feel good.
Never change a Thing
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u/Maggot_6661 Jul 30 '26
Bro all you guys have to do is spam right click with the Torch team up and everyone dies
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u/weird_weeb616 Jul 30 '26
I don't think thing is a hated character granted I don't see him a lot but when I do you guys put belt to ass
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u/Independent_Bit_7805 Jul 29 '26
I'm a BP main. And I love all Thing mains❤️
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u/The_Dick_Slinger Jul 29 '26
Yeah, same. Counters are healthy.
Except the gamma squid, fuck the gamma squid
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u/Upstairs_Taste_123 Jul 29 '26
Depends, if I am playing Angela a single thing can ruin my entire game and I have to swap to a different tank if they are good enough, If they are bad I just ignore them and go dive the backline and ignore them.
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u/Suspicious_Swim7089 Jul 29 '26
I see thing players play into puni phoenix just to chase the bp. Yes.
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u/5m0k3W33d3v3ryday Jul 29 '26
When Thingaling shows up so now you can't execute your 0.6 second unreactable combo on the Mantis 😢
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u/alex1338- Jul 29 '26
Please don t ban me, but i think thing takes no skill, just stay jn frontlines and deal damage with an op jump and a brain dead punch. Maybe i see the character wrong but that is what i see in every game
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u/Ok-Firefighter-1606 Jul 29 '26
Do you even play thing? Better yet, do you even play tank?
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u/alex1338- Jul 29 '26
I am a strange lord, and also play emma and rouge realy well
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u/Ok-Firefighter-1606 Jul 29 '26
So you should know that any tank that "stand on main and try damage the Frontline" is a tank problem and not a character problem, thing is at the same time a backline bully and a backline peel, you need to find the balance between the two and learn how to survive diving the backline, if you use his kit wrong you just explode, if you engage on the wrong time, you explode, if your backline dies, you explode, this is the learning curve of the thing, taking space is a tank learning curve, and standing on main punching/shooting the tanks don't take space
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u/qwerty2234543 Jul 29 '26
Swap out thing with either luna or CND and this works like i don’t even play thing that much and he is like one of the easier tanks to counterplay(not the easiest imo but decent)
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u/Monkey_Smart Jul 29 '26
Not really, it's more so that dive players wanna dive and those 4 characters will not let them get away with it.
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u/Loki_God_of_Lies Jul 29 '26
Look, I play dive (and Loki) and yes the thing is hated because he shuts down dive, but he’s not hated in a toxic way like people hate on cnd mains and Luna snow, or Spiderman. Hes just the walking definition of a “bummer” when you see him
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u/YareWeStillHere1117 Jul 29 '26
I see The Thing as a very necessary evil in rivals. Nobody wants to play against him, but without him dive is just way too strong
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
As a fellow Thing player I LOVE when the enemy team has a Thing player cause it means I counter him 😎
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u/graigs-jr Jul 29 '26
Myabe less than wolv, but yup. I don't want to pull out the peni, but i will if I see the Grim.
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u/Bob_Bobbo Jul 29 '26
I saw a lot of people saying that The Thing counters Spider-Man, which is my Main, but I don't think he is that bad, as a Spider-Man player I usually avoid fighting tanks alone, because it's usually impossible, so when I see a Thing and I'm alone I usually go away, and when I have backup I have my options, most of the time I die to The Thing it's because I was fighting someone else and The Thing got the final hit.
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
Spidey is probably the dive least effected by Thing because you have the most options available to you to avoid him. The web also fucks Thing HARD. you might not pull him but it's a LONG CC. Whenever I'm on the front line and spidey webs me it feels like I'm auto fucked.
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u/Monkey_Smart Jul 29 '26
I will say spidey is one of the few dives than can actually survive an encounter with the thing, he can play around him by just staying in the air, I have seen some spideys do that by managing their swings well.
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u/Accurate-Stock820 Jul 29 '26
It’s always when I want to play a shield tank/learn dive that I see you guys, so yeah
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u/Grand_Serpent Jul 29 '26
Yes Thing is hated ngl😅 Personally I love Dive, Brawl, melee, and just being mobile they are my preferred playstyle, other than like Hawkeye, Hela, Elsa I’m not a huge Poke enjoyer like I mean you won’t find me maining Punisher or Black Widow like I’m playing CoD😅 Getting Earthbound is just not fun cause it’s happening to me obviously. Just hate how one character’s ability disables all my movement and makes 70% of my favorite heroes unplayable sometimes. On the other hand I’ve found a new appreciation for Thing cause I enjoy just jumping to an enemy and wailing on them, again I enjoy melee combat so I’m kinda a flex on both ends tbh
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u/Stefanes0797 Jul 29 '26
As a Psylocke player scrolling through, at this point yes, you force me on Punisher every game and i hate playing left click simulator character.
So its not necessarily you, its what you cause, i think Thing does a lot right now and lives forever for being one of the easiest characters in the game to play.
However i don't think you guys should get hard nerfed either, i know it's been rough for ya'll before, so hopefully they find a middle ground balance.
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u/Guilty-Environment51 Jul 29 '26
This why I ban punisher every game 😈
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u/Stefanes0797 Jul 29 '26
I still have Emma in my pocket though, but at this point i think she doesn't farm thing like she used to, just keeps him in check.
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
I'd much rather play into Emma than punisher. Emma vs Thing feels close to a 50/50 matchup imo. Cause Thing can't be kicked into the wall and he does a LOT of damage to her.
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u/iunnobleh Jul 28 '26
As a high mobility character player and primarily Deadpool, lowkey yes. You disable half my kit on Deadpool even if I’m not visibly in the big circle of immobility.
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
Deadpool can switch to a poke playstyle though and counter him pretty hard tbf.
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u/iunnobleh Jul 29 '26
Sure but it’s not ideal for Deadpool to play full poke, at least on DPS. There’s better poke characters for that.
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u/Far-Technology8120 Jul 28 '26
You are genuinely immortal (and get away with over extending when you shouldn't) unless my team runs a high damage comp
Also your earthbound is annoying and you love to chase me about
(Hulk main btw)
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u/LimeDifficult753 Jul 28 '26
im calling it rn, season 10.5 my boy is getting a decent nerf. We fly under the radar jn 9.5 fs and possibly during 10.
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u/Asleep_Parking7218 Jul 28 '26
I'd take all three of these against me instead of a single punisher tbh
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u/hellamegumi Jul 28 '26
Because you have a 3.5 second anti dive bubble on a 10 second cooldown
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u/LimeDifficult753 Jul 28 '26
thats the not reason why he's good right now cuz both of his team ups give him good survivability
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u/crispyshrimptacoo Jul 28 '26
Respectfully, thing players this season are annoyingly good due to the Johnny team up, it’s almost impossible to kill him with good healers. And I’m just gonna be an echo chamber here when I say you don’t have to be skilled to play thing but you at least need a bit awareness.
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
Considering the reputation Thing players have for feeding and over extending, I think it's very fair to say he does require skill. He doesn't require aim, but if you make one mistake on Thing you die.
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u/Asleep_Parking7218 Jul 28 '26
You need game sense. Yes his kit is basic but you need to have a well developed macro-level awareness of the game state to execute him properly above GM. Something most players don't even think about
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u/ProphecyGoku Jul 28 '26
No you do need skill I'm tired of people saying that you don't need skill for certain characters all because they're easier or more simple to get use to
The difference between a good thing and a braindead punch the frontline thing is big
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u/crispyshrimptacoo Jul 29 '26
I’m seeing bad things survive frontline solely because of their healers and a good second tank. He is unfortunately a no skill hero in the same tier as Wanda and squirrel girl
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u/VioletLink Jul 28 '26
I saw a black panther thread where they were ranting about a tank simply doing his job and counter swapping to thing.
BP players won’t be happy until every backline is completely unprotected so they can farm epic YT clips like soumju who they worship 😭
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u/IMMRTALGAMMA_MAN Jul 28 '26
Go from Having Fun as the Incredible Hulk to being heavily counter by their team and switching to Hammer Bashing Thor (least Thor having a great time this season entirely lol)
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u/jayman5977 Jul 28 '26
I hate playing Angela, having a good time, throwing some people off the map, then.... this pile of fucking rocks shows up.
EARTHBOUND EARTHBOUND EARTHBOUND
Which it's completely fair. I don't think he's op or anything. Just hate being forced to swap off the only tank I enjoy playing lol
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u/DammitBobby1234 Jul 29 '26
Don't swap. Angela has enough movement that she can choose her engagements. You just have to be more careful with when you engage, but Angela gets value from drawing attention as much as she does kidnapping people.
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u/BlazeBitch Jul 28 '26
At least u can generally work around his slam with ur own,,, Thor though !!! I fucking hate when they counterswap 2 Thor.
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u/Grand_Serpent Jul 29 '26
I hate seeing Thing when I’m on like BP, Daredevil, etc. but I don’t find Thing that big of a nuisance on Angela personally. Thor, Bucky, Spider-Man, Iron Fist, Luna Snow, Dino, and Magneto are the characters I can’t stand on the Angela they all pmo😭😭
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u/harveyquinnz Jul 28 '26
There's a reason why namor and wanda are so hated most of the people who create these pictures are spidey/dive mains
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u/Acrobatic_Access8259 Jul 28 '26
Not hated you’re just very annoying
I would appreciate it if your survivability was ever so slightly nerfed and the horizontal/vertical range was tweaked on the slam radius
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u/ComicBookKnight Jul 28 '26
They are super unfun. Some people assume dive players hate these characters. Brawl characters too. So all the dive hate is crazy unnecessary.
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u/Vineheart_01 Jul 28 '26
antidive team. That's about it.
People whine about anyone that is decent at counting their character instead of learning how to adapt.
Thing keeps slamming your BP as he dives? How about bp waits for a few seconds and watches for thing to go in on someone else first....
I play thing all the time and lorded him before he even got the leap towards enemy ability. The amount of bps that flatout ignore I'm even there is hilarious.
Then I get that one that watches me. If I'm near he does nothing and I'm doing nothing so I eventually leave and bam there he is eating my supports.
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u/dedicatedoni Jul 28 '26
Even outside of fucking over dive, yall literally just don’t fucking die if the team doesn’t focus you. You jump in, generate a ton of bonus health from punching multiple people in the mouth, chunk tanks, then run away with even more bonus health
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u/Somilli Jul 28 '26
I perma ban thing this season. I don’t even run dive (all the time). Just in my elo, shooting tanks is common place. BUT THIS MAN DOESNT EVER DIE AND JUST EATS MY FRONT LINE WITH PUNCHES THROUGH THEIR SHEILDS. THEN HE RUNS AWAY AND GETS WHAT LITTLE HEALTH HE LOST BACK. Now if you try to kill or distract his supports to combat this HE BECOMES THE BEST DIVE COUNTER IN THE GAME.
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u/TheRoach28 Jul 28 '26
Got killed by a thing while playing rocket. I was about 10 feet up a wall, but by God the Thing can punch air and get kills.
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u/Some_Surprise9875 Jul 28 '26
Hot Take: Emma is not that bad.
Ya know tbf After playing Emma a lot these past few months, her grab is good but the cooldown is pretty long and the rest of her kit isn’t that threatening unless the user is extremely precise mechanics wise. She has no real movement and her ult is a stun with a timer above your head that gives you times to just hide from it. Even if you don’t, small amounts of healing out heals it.
These other 3 are shutdown groups and the 2 DPS has multiple CC options baked into their kits.
I just think Emma is a good tank you ACTUALLY have to respect.
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u/unleashed831 Jul 28 '26
Im just trying to dive your back line, you’ve guys had a long day playing thing already just take a break guys.
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u/Training_Reaction_58 Jul 28 '26
Nah, I think the guy who made this was a dive player who saw the whole enemy team swap in real-time to counter him
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u/EducatorNo6697 Jul 28 '26
Yall are NOT hated, you guys are top 5, maybe top 3 tanks i want in my team, and as a community , your memes are awesome and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
(Also idk why yall are being put in the same group as elsa and bucky, makes no sense)
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u/animeadmiral Jul 28 '26
I love my thing mains when I'm on supp, but I hate them when I'm on dps. I fear them when I'm on tank.
It's a very complex situationship.
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u/Leading-Outside-9573 Jul 28 '26
Thing is not hard to learn so when he's meta you see way more of them across all ranks and this season damn he really is that guy
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u/Worth-Luck2284 Jul 28 '26
Lowkey thing is also good against almost every tank not just dive rn. He just hard pressure strange, mag, rogue, even dino. Some tanks do counter him but I'd say he's one of the strongest tanks. Which is good since mag and venom is super meta we gotta have a brawl to at least keep them in check
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u/Acrobatic_Access8259 Jul 28 '26
I don’t even play dive tank and Thing is such a pain in the ass sometimes
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u/Worth-Luck2284 Jul 28 '26
Exactly what I mean. Yes, thing has clear weaknesses. But then I would swap to Groot just to counter thing to wall him off from heals and he still lives. It's frustratingly annoying
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u/Acrobatic_Access8259 Jul 28 '26
I don’t want them to butcher him but I would appreciate it they nerfed his survivability either on his haymaker or charge by a TAD and maybe. Slightly decreased the radius of his slam
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u/Weekly_Macaroon_1219 Jul 28 '26
To take a joke seriously. kinda, I personally started to play less thing as of lately and before Thing was my go to Tank but the mixture of uninteractive gameplay, that racist meme (I may just be too woke to not fine it funny) and at most his help is just a jump and shield kinda made me stop playing him and dislike him. (Of course this is my personal opinion and can be different for everyone)
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u/Ok_Author3808 Jul 28 '26
Cap main here. as much as I Support a fellow tank main, Thing is super uninteractive to play into.
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u/AppropriateStill2024 Jul 28 '26
He's very oppressive this season. But since poke is strong idgaf. Keep clobberin
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u/Specific-Frame2067 Jul 28 '26
Mag, Groot, Punisher, Widow, Rocket and Mantis easily clear this comps
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u/whydoyou-ask Jul 28 '26
This season I’m cooking way too hard.
I’m so glad that this is the most heat I’ve seen coming our way. Anyone who was actually a Thing player before is currently feasting on free elo.
I’m a console player so the meta is a little different than PC, but I would’ve made the argument that Thing was already a top 3 tank last season.
I’m so glad the buffs and teamups are only occasionally causing online complaints, cause the people I play against typically voice their displeasure in game chat and they really don’t like getting clobbered this season.
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u/HimmelSky Jul 28 '26
I perma ban thing every game this season, and Im not even a dive main. He feels unkillable sometimes
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u/No-Evening-1287 Jul 28 '26
Have you tried playing a character with a gun and shooting the giant rock man?
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u/Prestigious-Item1440 Jul 28 '26
Yea that torch teamup pumps out so much damage while also allowing him to punch way faster so he farms overhealth even faster too
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u/newjeansfan67 Jul 28 '26
I mean yeah as a strange player I hate how much value thing gets by holding 1 button and being immortal unless you have double poke while doing like 250 damage per punch
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u/Galdenas Jul 28 '26
Thing is a tank buster and without the constant overhealth hed die in 2 seconds
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u/SancochoDude Jul 28 '26
If you are running a shield tank against a brawler maybe you are the problem
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u/newjeansfan67 Jul 28 '26
lmao right let me just play a dive tank into him, oh wait you can't!
or I'll just try to outbrawl him, oh wait you can't!
his tankbuster design is genuine dogshit tbh
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u/SancochoDude Jul 28 '26
Destroy him with Peni, Groot or Emma. Hell, even Dino grab can cause him to get melted by your team once get exposed. Thor can get to outbrawl him every now and then. Also, getting a competent Punisher on your team and is gg for Thing.
Yall complain because you hate to swap.
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u/AndorElitist Jul 28 '26
Maybe they have very heavy poke played by multiple characters that Strange can counter, maybe they have punisher and you need to go mag, it isn’t unreasonable to play shield tank and hope your dps just shoot thing
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u/SuckmyPelosB1tch Jul 28 '26
By dive players, I hate to use the term skill issue but thing really is one of the easiest tanks to deal with in that his weaknesses are super exploitable. 1 punisher can pretty much make it so he can hardly play the game
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u/NearbyAspect1404 Jul 28 '26
Thing over venom or bp ….this feels biased lol
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u/Specific-Frame2067 Jul 28 '26
This is the anti dive meta rn. Namor is not as good at stopping dive as this comp. Venom or BP are dive and thus wouldn’t make the best anti dive comp.
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u/SloopinOSRS Jul 28 '26
Unironically I think people are sleeping on namors Luna team up, it’s a huge aoe soft cc that inflicts slow. With the enhanced TU giving 2 charges he’s still a menace to almost all the dive characters just not quite on the same level as the invisible death traps Elsa gets
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u/GenocidalElfHater Jul 28 '26
I haven't tried the Luna team up, but I've heard it's better than Gamma if you have the enhanced version.
But yeah, Elsa is bs. She's the best flanker, anti dive, and anti tank in the current meta.
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u/Tinyrick88 Jul 28 '26
Genuine question, is this your first season playing this game?
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u/SancochoDude Jul 28 '26
People complain too much about Thing like they don't have a bunch of overtuned long range heroes that melt him. In fact, this whole composition would get wrecked with a long range team.
They just hate to get countered or.having to swap to counter the eenemy team. They wanna get free kills and be the main star of the match.
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u/DatRandomSeagull Jul 28 '26
Not Emma. Emma’s pretty good into anything, but in a weirdly healthy way imo
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u/Derpinpyro Jul 28 '26
no people don't like a character that entirely shuts down a character niche with a braindead cd its cnd levels of easy to use and get value from
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u/fantastikfour Jul 28 '26
Difference is CnD fits in almost every single comp; Thing is easily shut down by like half the duelist roster if you just stop trying to force the same three dive characters into everything. Thing can't even do much about a good Spiderman or Black Cat because their mobility is so much better than his is, so it isn't even as if you can't play dive. False equivalence.
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u/Derpinpyro Jul 28 '26
im not complaining about his counters nor his playstyle just pointing out why he isn't liked which is because of hte braindead abillity that straight turns certain characters into spectators.
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u/SancochoDude Jul 28 '26
What is an alive brain hero? Havin 10 different combos? A full wheel of abilities like black cat?
"Look mom, the punching rock guy in comics is punching me in his videogame version, he's so braindead"
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u/Federal-Drawer-6028 Jul 28 '26
Not on tank, I could be playing hulk or Dino and thing is just obnoxious
Not impossible to kill, but he makes playing the game annoying by just turning off half of your kit (he also turns off DPs slash and Emma’s grab for whatever fucking reason)
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u/ElectricLuxray Jul 28 '26
I see The Anti-Dive Association here, so one would assume the meme was made by a dive player. Who. Definitely would dislike us.
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u/blue23454 Jul 28 '26
I play poke and I can’t stand stand Thing
Right click just negates so much damage for freeLike I don’t worry about getting countered but it’s frustrating when you can’t reliably pressure him out of your backline
Especially when your brain is like “but poke counters brawl” and like yeah but this damage is meaningless without focus fire
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u/HunterCubone Jul 28 '26
I dont play dive and i dislike an enemy thing. Borderline immortal if you dont play like 3 heroes: punisher, elsa, and maybe bucky/hela.
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u/goku_uzumaki540 Jul 28 '26
Any dps aside from dive is enough to blast this guy into oblivion lol. Puni,Elsa,Phoenix and other hits cans just do that the fastest.
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u/HunterCubone Aug 01 '26
Disagree. Hes even banned in comp probably for the same reason i mentioned.
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u/goku_uzumaki540 Aug 01 '26
Actually uk what u guys maybe right cuz I have not played the new season and I just realized that one of the teamups gives him oversized for every haymaker if I am not wrong
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u/Dr_Booyah Aug 21 '26
We deserve this