Spider-Man has become every Marvel Rivals player's worst nightmare

Marvel Rivals Spider-Man
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There's only one word to describe witnessing someone on your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Rivals team instalock Spider-Man a split second into the start of a match: dread. It's not that Spider-Man is a bad character; if anything, the webslinger can be an absolute terror in the right hands. Yet chances are, a competent Spider-Man only ever seems to spawn on the enemy t🔜eam. If the friendly neighborhood superhero graces your roster, though, you're probably going to be stuck with a Peter Parker whose only talent is feeding your opponent easy kills൩. The Marvel Rivals phenomenon is so indisputable, the phrase "Spider-Man switch" has become a rallying cry for desperate players.

Spider-Man is a duelist who is designed for maximum mobility. Players can swing around entire maps within seconds, which makes Spider-Man a pesky opponent. He can quickly deal damage and find shelter🉐 before you even know what's happening. A good Spider-Man will thus have you – especially if you have the misfortune of being a fragile character who hangs out in the back lane. Heck, a good Spider-Man can kill you without ever throwing a punch: all he has to do is pull you off the map with a well-placed web.

Web-slinging woes

Spider-Man suits webs in a temple-style size in Marvel Rivals

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Spider-Man's deadliness, combined with his mainstream appeal – he's one of the most recognizable heroes of them all – make picking him tempting for nearly anyone trying out Marvel Rivals for the first time. The hero shooter also offers some of the highest number of skins for Spider-Man, which include excellent costumes like the one where he wears a paper bag over his head. This would al🤡l be well and good, except Spider-Man also has a high skill ceiling; the game rates him as one of the more difficult characters to master. As a result, people who are nowhere near ready to try Spider-Man are flocking to him, much to the dismay of their teammates.

for it.

"I had a couple o𝓀f games where I'll lock [Spider-Man] in and have people immediately ask me to swit♚ch," one bewildered duelist main remarked on Reddit. The top response? "If he's on your team, he sucks. If he's on the enemy team, he's a backline killing god."

Adding insult to injury, Spider-Man also enjoys a team-up with Venom that gives him an extra ꦫattack. You know, just in case he didn't immediately kill you with his basic arsenal.

When you can't force a teammate to switch, the next best thing you can 𓂃do is have a laugh about it. Unsurprisingly, the trials and tribulations of players who have to suffer playing with or against Spider-Man has become a fantastic meme within the community.

"Healers working a double shift with no break," reads one of the top comments on a TikTok about nonchalant Spider-Men who won't switch even as they've netted 0 kills and 15 𓆉deaths. Then again, you could argue that this is m๊erely Spider-Man following his ideals: like Batman, the .

Even when your Spider-Man doesn't suck, he's likely still . "Had someone get mad I picked Spidey and I proceeded to get MVP with 20 kills 6 deaths," remarked one player on Twitter. Pour one out for the other team. You'd think things would be better in Ranked, but no. People still com🍌plain . As someone who is currently learning how to play the character, I now begin every Quick Play match by apologizing to my entire team.

"Any time I see him on the enemy team I know I'm going to have a bad time," a Redditor complained in ▨a thread breaking down . "Yes I know I made a post like this before, but this guy is really really getting on my ne☂rves and I can't stand him," they confessed.

But if it's any consolation at all, the new clone Marvel Rivals mode–where everyone plays the same character–is about to give a bunch of Spider-Man mains a taste of their own medicine. For everyone else, clone mode will be one of the few havens safe from the t𒉰yranny and disappointment trailing the infamous webslinger.


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Patricia is the former editor-in-chief of Ko🧜taku, where she spent a decade writing and editing. Prior to that, she served as the Culture Editor at Polygon, and as a reporter at The Verge. She specializes in offbeat internet culture stories, along with reports on unbelievable player triumphs.

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