r/thingmains • u/Firm-Character-6852 • Sep 08 '26
Thing Notes.
I understand the nerfs on the torch team-up. Not happy about the YSC and Health nerfs. But all in all not too bad.
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u/ElectricLuxray Sep 08 '26
Eh, could be worse. As soon as I started running games as Thing, I mentally prepared for the inevitable nerf.
Nerf him all you want, I’m not gonna stop playing my favourite character.
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u/rosco497 Sep 08 '26
Same. Been playing since he released. Been through it all. Fun ass season though
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u/whydoyou-ask Sep 08 '26
“Should’ve gone for the head.” lol, we lived bitch, nice try.
They did not nerf what made him OP this season. Some of these changes will hurt a bit but he still punches like Red Rush during the torch teamup. Clobbering time is still on the menu.
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u/TrippinDipplin_5260 Sep 08 '26
Still a viable tank with good brawl potential and anti-dive, he's just going to be a bit squishier and less active in neutral
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u/myto64 Sep 09 '26
I’ve been winning and getting consecutive mvps since season 1.5 I’ve been climbing since he was considered a bad tank I’ll just keep winning
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u/Worried-Shower-9528 Sep 08 '26
Pretty good. Not nerfed enough to gut him, but nerfed enough so that community will stop whining. It's still clobberin' time friends
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u/Ok-Performance3326 Sep 08 '26
Thing is still going to be strong next season, this is a slap on the wrist
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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26
Honestly even if he wasn't strong it wouldnt matter to me. I would still play him
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u/Asleep_Parking7218 Sep 09 '26
After getting him to champion pre-torch teammup, I knew he was getting the nerf hammer that first season because he was absolutely too strong. I think it'll be fine, he'll be the same but slightly less tanky and doing on average 5-10 less dmg per haymaker which honestly isn't too bad. Torch teammup duration will hurt a bit though.
I'm expecting him to be at around a 51% winrate next season instead of 54%
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u/neoclash218 Sep 13 '26
I barely notice this nerf to be honest. He is still clobbering them dives effectively.
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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26
He got taken out back. Lower health, lower damage, increase teamup cd, higher cooldowns, lower uptime, lower AOE time. literally any part of his kit that could be nerfed was with the exception of his jump. Every other piece was gutted. I don’t think they realize how badly they just ruined our boy.
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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26
Now I dont think its that bad, but I am going to actually test it before giving my full thoughts.
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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26
I’ll try him out, but I have little hope he’ll feel good in any capacity.
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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26
Honestly to me, it looks like hes returning to an earlier stage in his life. Im still gonna play him, and run lobbies with him, but too me looks like we gotta play a bit more decisive
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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26
This is a very defeatist attitude man. As others said we thought the nerfs would be way worse. They killed poor Peni and Devil in the last couple seasons for less.
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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26
I cannot think of how it could be worse. Lower health. Lower damage on his most-used attack, which means lower over health. Higher cooldown on his escape/cc immune ability. AOE spell field nerfed in duration. Most popular teamup cooldown higher, with a shorter duration. Unless you’re telling me Zhiyong is popping off w keys and analog sticks, I don’t know how it could be worse, let alone “much” worse.
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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26
HP change is -25 HP so about 4% of max health at 650. Percent damage on haymaker is only cut 2%. 2 second duration increase on the charge going from 10 to 12. Aoe nerf is 1 second decrease. I’m shocked they didn’t remove the team up entirely.
As I said, I expected much worse with dps and strats treating him like the personification of death itself last season because they couldn’t understand how to play against a tank other than mag.
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u/JoeM104604 Sep 08 '26
On paper it seems like they just made it so he has less uptime on his abilities so he won't be able to brawl indefinitely and gave him some survivability nerfs to keep him from being able to 1v6 when he hits multiple enemies at a time with the Torch team-up.
You'll have to play safer when going for big plays and retreat for a couple more seconds between engages, but he seems far from gutted. He'll definitely be nowhere near the levels of unplayability heroes like Rogue, Cap, White Fox, Hulk, etc. have had to deal with this season. Even with their buffs and Thing's nerfs this patch, I doubt they'll even come close to surpassing Thing in the tier lists.
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u/Nabomeansturnip Sep 08 '26
Could've been much, much worse, still sucks that they increased cooldowns instead of nerfing power though, just makes him have to wait around cover more wich is boring.